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Great, if we will take software engineers to task over their ethics, let's form a professional regulatory body that licenses them and a union or advocacy org while we are at it. Tech companies have benefited tremendously from the way the profession is currently setup. I'd love to see how they respond when they can't make SWEs dance like monkeys in their interviews to get a job. Suddenly, outsourcing the work would become a lot less possible too.
Press and hold on that, and it'll expand to show the labels and two more buttons: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...
I would assert that usability and clarity are very much a difference.
Uber does background checks and car inspections, and charges 30% I think, which is within a margin of error of your expected 10-20%.

Source (random cities in US):
https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/charlottesville/inspections...
+1

The issue gets even harder when the code is proprietary. Had a situation with one of VMware's products that was being provided to us by a SAAS provider. It was a far amount of effort to a) convince the provider to file a bug with their vendor and b) then provide enough data to the VMware engineers so they could understand the value in prioritising a fix.

In our case, we identified the issue during a proof of concept so our vendor pushed VMware pretty hard because there was a sizeable contract at stake for them. Most engineers aren't as thorough in my experience.
>Clearly every person deserves a baseline quality of life and benefits.

Whenever I read this I translate it to "I don't want poor people to live near me." That's fine, but let's not feign nobility about it. The global median income is $10k/yr. Nearly half the planet lives on less than $5/day. 1/3 of people on the planet do not have access to clean drinking water. What, exactly, do you mean when you say it's incumbent upon you to provide a baseline quality of life and benefits? And are you really willing to bring yourself down to that baseline so that others can be brought up to it? These Amazon warehouse workers you're so concerned about are quite rich by global standards.
While I think these affiliate sites ruin the internet, I can some value in this technique.

What is you are doing something truly amazing for the world? What if you are providing some amazing value? But, no one knows you exist because you do not know how to market your site.

Here is where I think this method could add some value to the world.
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I've run into an application, used for monitoring, that had that exact type of bug, albeit not with a dot file.

A customer of my old business had built a little monitoring system for their compute nodes mounting a parallel file system. Their integrated test had every compute node open a particular fixed path and file name (of course the same on every node across the system) for read and write.

This "monitoring" script meant that they could have up to 2000 or so simultaneous IOs going to the same file, with no read/write locking. The tool read/wrote some number of bytes to get a performance read.

The end result was 1) lots of contention of course at the metadata layer, 2) often times spurious and incorrect reports of the parallel file system being offline (it wasn't).

We tried helping them on this, but they insisted they were doing this correctly (they weren't).

This is less about libraries with potholes per se, and more about critical applications (to a degree similar to libraries providing critical functions that need to be correct in semantics, implementation, and in error generation) that are broken due to a misdesign/mis-implementation somewhere.

With regard to her commentary on CPAN, one of the more annoying things I've dealt with in many libraries is their choices of error return. Some will throw exceptions. Some will return real errors you can process in-line. I am not a fan of throwing exceptions, and when I build larger Perl apps, I tend to insert some boilerplate exception handlers specifically due to the burns I've encountered in the past when modules do dumb things.
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Replying to my own submission.

What annoyed me about the CEO's stance is that he only considered the ergonomics of developers when working with data.

However extracting insights from NoSQL database like Mongo has been in my experience a hell.

So yay for developers but nay for data consumers and analysts.
You’ve totally glossed over the fact that there was an additional slide in the rankings after the site owner went public with this story. And what about the app being banned from the App Store?

Why would someone go through the trouble of compiling extensive research for free? Ads pay for things that people want but are unwilling to actually spend dollars on. That’s the state of things, whether we like it or not. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Since you mention Flashman, let me recommend Fraser's memoir of WW II enlisted service, Quartered Safe Out Here.
Well fine but then:

1. Congress should pass a law

2. Companies from China should not be singled out by name, but rather selected by fixed criteria.

3. The law should be conditioned on specific conditions in China such that if those conditions change, the door is automatically reopened.

4. Perhaps, have a way Chinese companies to own foreign subsidiaries that keep the data outside of China, and provide some way to audit all the feed prioritization. Maybe that means banning foreign-trained proprietary neural networks, if they are hopeless mess that makes everything plausibly deniable. Oh and slap on a huge confiscatory tariff so this option isn't too rosy.

Seriously, everyone is acting under a false choice of "neoliberal turn the other cheek" and "stoop to China's level". Those are both shit choices. We should:

1. Find a way to use TikTok to give Facebook some long overdue competition, while keeping American data safe, while giving China some actual incentives to change their behavior.

2. Channel this new fear into understanding that the US fucking you over due to surveillance and censorship is only slightly better than China fucking you over for those reasons.
Lol I love this analogy. It's pretty much like Darth Maul's lightsaber. Yeah, it'll cut through anything; even stuff you aren't looking at
Wow, I never thought of seeing the 560E on the frontpage of HN. I still have mine to play old win9x and DOS games. Runs Windows 98SE perfectly, on its original HDD and is still just a joy to use. Had to transfer most of my old games to it via IrDA, long before i finally bought a USB PCMCIA-Card. Never had the external floppy drive though...
Well most Billionaires have more cash in their bank than they have usable cells in their brain. So it takes a while for most of them to work it out.
The parentheses here aren't actually "extra", without them the meaning would change - since && binds tighter than = without the parentheses the left hand side of = would not be an lvalue and compilation would fail.
Somebody posted it to hn
I added a correction for usernames with Capitals.

They are now published at "the tilde"

as in

https://jtbiggle.net/~MyCapsUsername
> Due to the time suck of fighting Google's penalty, this site is not yet served via SSL

You probably should get onto enabling SSL/TLS as soon as possible. It supposedly effects search engine ranking.
Nop, apparently he likes the shape, texture and weight. He never saw it working.
Maybe also compass and step counting (accelerometer) data?
This blog post makes the opposite assertion:

http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/08/why-qemu-should-move-from-c...

Most security bugs in qemu have been C programming bugs, like a NULL pointer dereference.
Pointer to type "struct Bark".
Magna Carta has nothing to do with democracy. And what are those previos examples?
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Ask HN: SIM Card for a “Digital Nomad?”
Hello HN,

Following up on my another Ask HN. I am also looking for a reliable SIM card to use in roaming for things like 2FA, and use as a main portable contact for official business.

Lot's of people have recommended ELISA prepaid for a long term roaming. At first glance it's very good for quite certain terms on when they terminate your SIM due to inactivity, and explicitly tell that they look for permanent roaming users, on other hand they have no option to top-up other than SEPA. Imagine yourself in a situation when you need to top it up in a rush.

The Three was brilliant until they started to drop non-resident/foreign address users.
Antitrust doesn't violate the first amendment, so clearly limits on corporate scale aren't unconstitutional, so the legal defense is insufficient and the moral question stands.
Just as an indicator, you can get up to 5,000 ppm with two passengers in a car after an hour's worth of driving.
FM Ford's The Fifth Queen is well-written, fairly short, and includes some of the same personnel as Mantel's novels.
I am very interested in Solar but only have a cursory understanding of wind power. I would love to see some tests and numbers, like how much power can this get you, can it withstand serious wind, some more introduction for clueless people like me so we can appreciate it fully.

Like if I wanted to replicate this, what would it cost me, as the most rough estimate?

Also do you recon some parts, like blades, could be better served with traditionally manufactured parts, like carved out of a single piece of wood and basically hand-carved? Or does this not make much sence?
> Such was the game for all of human history until the 20th century

It hasn't stopped, it just stopped being blatant.

See Confessions of an Economic Hitman for the US approach, or the Belt & Road Initiative (and all if it's hidden enforcement measures and implications) for a Chinese implementation.
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I would say that now it's a weird mix for power projection: Economic prowess and Military Strength, and Cultural Propagation
Humanity might have been safer without nukes. I think it's more accurate to say that humanities safety would have been less variable without nukes. No chance of nuclear war, but almost a certainty of WW3, and WW4, and...

It's not quite as much of an unalloyed good as you're suggesting.
Have a look at John Williams's Augustus for another view.
Do you just oppose the use of tax dollars to support anyone or anything other than what you personally happen to use and like? What do you think about Medicaid, food stamps, the child tax credit (especially if you don't have children)? Assuming you aren't a student, do you oppose tax dollars going toward financial support for students? Do you oppose UBI?

Do you vehemently oppose the US federal electric-vehicle tax credit of up to $7500 until the day you decide you'll buy a Tesla, when you'll switch to staunchly demanding that it be radically increased? (https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/taxevb.shtml)

These all represent your taxes going to support things that you are unlikely to benefit from personally, after all.

If you remove the impact to other people from the calculus of where you'd want tax dollars to go, then I think most people would opt to enrich themselves rather than not. But that's just not how the world works. The reality is that any given person's tax dollars are used on all kinds of things that will never directly benefit them, or even their families or even socioeconomic class.
My understanding has been that Apple's orientation toward protecting privacy has been rooted in the fact that it makes most of its money from hardware sales, and therefore doesn't need to track people for ads, or to sell data (at least not to the same degree as companies whose profits are based mostly on such things). But if Apple starts selling phones at a low price, how will its motivations be different from, say, Google's? Maybe it can have the simple model of selling App Store access and other services, without resorting to the "your users are your product" model. But it seems like the the line will be thinner and the temptation greater. In the end, Apple's behavior will probably be determined purely by how much marketplace advantages it gives them to be able to tout such advantages. And my impression is that the average person really doesn't care that much, even if HN readers do.
Thankfully the neighbour did freelance networking, so the domain being handed out to DHCP clients on their network matched the business name. It turned into quite a friendly relationship with them, I hadn't previously known that they were in the tech world as well.
PPE manufacturing had to be 24/6 the last decade to prepare for an aerosol virus, which COVID happens to be.

We are lucky that we don’t have a U-shaped fatality curve like the spanish flu.

Also, states need testing regimes and plans in place to handle millions of tests per day.

tl;dr: We are learning a lot! Lack of preparedness is not a <5 year story.
Thank you! That's interesting and it makes sense.
I agree with other replies that this is just a matter of perspective. Here’s an alternate one - if you hate Walmart and/or you hate the idea of unskilled workers in lower paying jobs, why do want to make them solely reliant on big employers like Walmart?

A better safety net, in addition to achieving the same immediate outcome of workers living with better conditions, also means workers have more options. It might lower the supply of potential Walmart employees and actually also increase their wages or working conditions. But more importantly it would mean they could leave Walmart and still get by. Or they could work fewer hours without worrying about things like losing their employer sponsored health insurance. More people could live more fulfilling lives rather than being so reliant on their job at Walmart.
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Ireland is probably better framed as (mostly) entrenched religious discrimination and subjugation on that basis (for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_Laws)
> Copyright infringement. What's the difference really here?

Upthread, the user “errantmind” asked you to provide your legal basis for it being “theft”. It’s obviously not legally speaking theft, since no physical object has been taken. But let’s be a bit charitable and assume that you meant “copyright infringement” instead. However, you have not made the case for it being copyright infringement either, since Google’s copying (which you do describe in detail) did not, AFAIK, infringe copyright (at least in the US, which is where the investigation referred to in the document is being held).

If you want to argue that what Google did is illegal, then please specify what actual law was broken.

On the other hand, if you instead want to argue that what Google did should be illegal, then please, go ahead and present your case, but this was not the original topic.
Isn’t the hint in their name?

I’m sure NSA has an important role in managing the cyber risks of US citizens, in addition to the offensive ops.
I always imagined that the air and its thermal mass was insignificant compared to the ice cubes and frozen steaks and frozen pizzas. The mass of the air must be less than 1% of all those things, no?
From a startup perspective, I've always thought it interesting that more people in Europe/rest of the world don't take chances to create companies because of the great safety net there--at least its not as highly publicized. For whatever reason, the US is still the place to be and everyone wants to come to the US to start a company--my current company included (We have Canadian founders).

I quit my job and thanks to the insurance changes in the US a few years ago, I was able to stay on my parents health insurance for a meaningful amount of time. It allowed me to take the chance of starting my own company. Unsure if I would have done the same, had circumstances been different.
Uber Driver here:

Drivers (well, I can’t speak for everyone) enjoy the flexibility of driving. We also hate the prospect of not driving and not being able to pay bills. It’s truly a catch-22 situation.

However, as someone who admires tech, I find that Uber’s biggest problem is not in the way it treats her contractual drivers (that’s a symptom of a larger cultural problem) But in the way Uber handles technology.

The teams that handle the driver and the rider apps are totally separate. Each of the apps have slightly different nomenclature within the apps and extremely different interfaces. This makes it difficult from the get go to pick up passengers and to safely get them where they are going.

If Uber focused more on creating a great user experience and did the right things to ensure that both riders and drivers were on the same page they would begin to increase in market share.

“ A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. “ -Hebrew Proverb

Uber has failed publicly to protect itself with bizarre scandals and shortermist business practices. They’ve failed to distinguish themselves from Lyft.

In 5 years I don’t think Uber will be in the rideshare business.
Don't see where parent is saying anything about Labor from a central org. He's just saying Uber has to up their bid in order to win the services of said Labor.
Since the parentheses are required due to precedence, then they are not there to show "I intend this assignment to happen". That would have to be:

if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && ((current->uid = 0)))

As an aside, note that this particular case also has the problem that the assignment expression makes the entire test expression false, which is suspicious. If an assignment expression occurs in the controlling expression of a selection or iteration statement, such that the entire expression is always true or false as a result, that should probably be warned about no matter how many parentheses have been heaped on to the assignment.
I wrote an eBPF security monitoring tool for an endpoint protection solution that is surprisingly similar to your proposed solution of walking the dentry tree for obtaining the command path.

It basically takes a block of memory, and splits it in a static array of arrays, and then walks the dentry tree, copying each portion of the path into it.

It then follows and decodes the mount path in a similar way, and it's fully recomposed in user space into a single path.

I could have done the mount path in userspace too probably by just passing some identifier.
Yes if you compare the code base size and the core components. Microsoft still hasn't open sourced it's main consumer operating system and neither has Apple.
I think you are conflating various parties and ignore the simple fact that we are explicitly not in Obama administration ( the "machine" comment notwithstanding ). If there is one thing, one should have learned from the past three years, that executive powers has been largely consolidated in the hands of one person.

Now, I do think you have a point about entrenched bureaucracy and China 'planners' ( but the same is true for Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and a number of other advisors trying to push their pet agenda ); they may be a part of the branch, but the president, for better or worse, is its head ).

In a sense, US has gotten really 'lucky' with Covid. Here is a good propaganda reason to get people and the world against China. And yet, notice how varied the reaction was to the president's approach ( also for varying reasons ).

To say it is all part of a long term strategy is to ignore how chaotic it has been thus far.
An _average_ steam turbine plant is nowhere near as efficient as a big enough single cycle gas turbine.

A top tier boiler plan of course may well be approaching a smaller/cheaper turbine.
Very true. Due to the penalty, the site gets less and less traffic every year. Enabling SSL/TLS might help a bit, but I have to face facts: the site is dead.
I guess having a good stock of malt vinegar and plenty of jars around would be helpful so you can make a lot of pickled fish.
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> But their history shows tech giants are structurally unable to defend American interests and should never be trusted with that task.

That sounds suspiciously like the tech giants are private enterprises in name (and profit) only, and are essentially part of the state, tasked with advancing the country's/state's interests on the digital front. It's rarely explicitly laid out by a proponent (who's just disappointed that it allegedly didn't work). It's usually marxists criticizing it as stamocap while everyone else says that it's completely baseless, private enterprises etc etc.
What a blast from the past! Anthony was the head sysadmin during my undergrad (circa. the last update of this page) and this page was pretty famous. I was part of a research group and built a bit of a rapport with Anthony since I was bugging him to install/configure random things like Perl::FastCGI.

On the odd chance you're reading this, Anthony, I'll never forget you granting my request of the now-defunct $firstname@cit.griffith email address when I joined "staff" as part of the research group. I doubt you would remember that, but I thought it was cool as fuck so thanks once more.
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