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> Alternatively, you can set the scrollbars to be visible at all times by setting System Preferences -> General -> Show scroll bars to Always.

Hidden scrollbars recently caused me an extra day of work. I was documenting all options in hundreds of html select boxes (dropdowns) on a legacy product being rewritten.

Many of these dropdowns were vertically scrollable, but macOS using Chrome did not display a scrollbar. I had no idea they were scrollable and missed many options in my documenta3.

I could not look at the html for it as it was minimized and not easily searchable.
Why take a similar attitude towards the after, though?
Just because I do not care about the past event does not mean the future event is not something to worry about? I don't care about the past event as 'I' did not start to exist at that point, but now that I exist I enjoy all the parts of life.
I keep trying to think of a good metaphor, like: "I stubbed my toe years ago, but I didn't care that much then, but I still don't want to have it happen again." but that doesn't entirely fit with reasoning about nothingness.
I am not freaked out by the 'before' as I did not exist then, and while I won't exist after my death, I exist now and can fear the end of my own existence.
No. They can choose if it's a minor-enough update and not blow a fuse
You are ignoring millions of people in rural Asia and Africa who don't have internet connection, or a spotty 3g/4g connection for internet. Satellite internet is legitimate use case for these people. Starlink might be too costly for most of them, but some other satellite internet company might cater to them.
1. Salary

2. Clearly stated what would day-to-day look like. Not a list of 25 things one should do ranging from reading log files to configuring scalable systems.

3. Writing anything that may be red flag. For example one would be the only IT guy there, mandatory oncall during nights, mandatory overtimes, etc...
"Individuals cannot accept interviews without government approval." [12:06]

Does anyone know if this is a law?
I had that happen with UPS at my last address: One of my relatives put the wrong address on a box, and then UPS decided to deliver the next 5 boxes to that same wrong address. At least it was consistent and I knew where to look.
> Also, does this label apply to the United Kingdom or Canada?

Why would it not?

It's not like the head of state wields power in a parliamentary democracy. We cut the head off the last monarch to try that 1649, more than 100 years before either the French or US revolutions.
Apply 90–90–1 Rule and You Don't Need Motivation
> Facebook has apologized ... and promised it will do its best to invade their privacy on other platforms.

Fantastic irony. As much as I dislike The Register, this sentence made me smile.
This is what I do too for my site and app. Its soooo flexible
To 'master' C is actually realizing C itself is not as simple as it looks from its syntax. It's an old language and the implementations are by no means straightforward. I'm by no means a C master but I have worked with people who are, and they know nuances of the language and the way it compiles down to various platforms in ways that shame me.

But in general I have gone for for generalist not specialist in my career.
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As a start, you can buy goods from non-Chinese owned companies, even if they're manufactured in China. Also, you can start paying attention to the manufacturing location, so at least you are able to make a conscious choice. It's not easy, but possible.

For example, I'm planning on building a computer. I'm going to aim for components from Taiwanese and U.S. companies as much as possible. In terms of laptops, I won't buy a Lenovo, but would consider an Apple or HP, even though they're all at least partially made in China.
I loathe the fact that scrollbars are now hidden. I'm constantly looking for it to either

a) find out how big the page is
b) scroll more precisely

I don't even understand why they would remove them? Who ever complained of a scroll bar?
Maybe time to watch The Good Place. Wont solve your issue but will give perspective.
I remember being on a tour in Romania in 2019 on a bus and in the middle of a forest in Transylvania and a colleague called that they have some issues at work and if I could please look into it. Then I just tethered my LTE reception (sometimes it dropped to 3G but was still usable) to my laptop, SSHed in and fixed the issues for them.
In Germany, even being on a quite populated beach some 500 meters away from the promenade of a popular vacation city (Heringsdorf) is a hit or miss in regards to a usable mobile reception not even talking about LTE (this is on O2 Deutschland, in August 2020). There are many parts of Germany, that are more or less white spots in regards to a usable mobile data connection. I mean, sometimes my phone would just use the polish signal from Świnoujście even though Heringsdorf is about 10 km from the border.
those are still end users.

what if a colleague told you "network down" and you had to ask

" can you ping google.com? how about 8.8.8.8? can you ping gateway? can you tracepath with port? how about telnet? "
?

another version is "what does tcpdump say?"

yet another version(when the complaint is "website down" instead of "network down") is "whats the http response?"
They have a ton of data, and they certainly get some value from it. But unlike Facebook, profiting from the collection of data isn’t an existential issue for Apple. They could lose all of the data tomorrow and still be an extremely profitable business. That’s not true for a company like Facebook.

I’m not saying that Apple occupies any kind of absolute moral high-ground, but their business model lets them safely and publicly take this kind of posture on privacy.
There are various levels of reporting in about what's happening in Xinjiang. I'm curious which ones of the following people here on HN believe are true.

A. There is forced re-education, forced de-radicalization, and forced political assimilation (to fight separatism). Some camps are indeed for voluntary vocational education, others are for forced re-education. The number of people who are forced into camps, are a lot less than the alleged 1+ million. No killing/genocide; no erasure of Muslim religion, artefacts or buildings; any brutality in prisons are incidental rather than policy. All people who are forced into camps eventually leave them.

B. Like A, except that there are no voluntary vocational camps: all camps are forced. All people leave them after a while.

C. Like B, except that people aren't supposed to leave them. Masses of people are imprisoned indefinitely. The alleged 1+ million number is true. Erasure of Muslim religion and artefacts is true. Brutality within camps are true. But no killing/genocide.

D. Full killing/genocide ala Nazi Auschwitz, on the full population, everywhere in China.

E. None of the above. Would love to hear what you think is exactly going on.

Which of the above do people here think is true?
Sure, so, you'll want to use some AWS (much of which can be within free tier), some of your homelab with CloudStack, etc., and some Terraform (etc.), and learn heterogenous hybrid cloud.

Using a homelab for learning isn't somehow mutually exclusive with having your own AWS account for learning.
Use of "mindful" in the title is suggestive that this is softcore productivity porn. (No actual climax)

That word drives me nuts. I know a guy who can't go more than a few sentences without using the word "mindful" who is always crashing into things and walking into open pits.

Now maybe the neurotypical with "no inner life" has a desperate need to feel "full" but I've always been anxious and emptying the "s2t" out of my mind helps me feel better and be more productive.
For upwork you also have the option to pay per deliverable. Unfortunately this opens you up to the risk of your time estimates being off by a lot, thus lowering hourly pay.
I'm tangential to the indie comics scene and it's interesting seeing a personal (not portfolio) site revival in those circles in the last six months, particularly with NSFW artists getting booted from patreon/instagram/twitter. Being able to host your own works on a place that'll never be taken down according to whims of legislation is ... massively reassuring.

Set up a links page for a few of them, if anyone's curious in a personal site scene that's different from tech: http://www.kradeelav.com/link.html
For some reason I'd associated it with trunk, a word for the human torso.
That’s just it. I don’t have to “find work”. Work finds me. I would have never found my latest job - working for BigTech in the comfort of my own home on the East Coast - if a recruiter hadn’t contacted me out of the blue. Every job I have gotten since 2012 (5) has been through a contact who found me through LinkedIn. Why would I reduce the ways someone contacts me?
A "sufficient amount of flaggings" does not suggest that "hackers do not find this interesting." It suggests that some percentage of users find it un-interesting, or want all of us to avoid it, which is not the same thing.
This sounds too good to be true. Suppose they deliver this with the scale to be used any place, we could see a truly wireless world, even the tv could come with a battery that would last a lifetime, no power outlets would be needed anymore. What are your thoughts?
They are NOT using Stripe. Stripe has a no porn rule because they want to go public at some time and everything needs to look clean, also on their customer side. Also their (Stripe) backend banks don't tolerate porn.

Also there is not only Stripe out there!

Btw. you are in the wrong forum. Look on gfy.com forum for example
Maybe you have a setting in EFI that the clock is in local time, but just shifted it to show UTC?
Automate GitHub for more than CI/CD
80% of the time would be probably software development/integration. Some tasks/requests would look like this:

* We have a working robot now, and this robot will need to perform very repeatable tasks by driving through waypoints. Let's design a state machine that would do that.
* We need to make a system for outdoor mapping using a LiDAR. Can you suggest off the shelf LiDAR and localization system that we could use and then integrate everything in ROS?
* My robot has misconfigured local navigation and it's not listening. Could you have a look?
* The rangefinder we are using on the drone is not performing well. Can you look through the logs and help us troubleshoot it?

Quite often the work requires me to integrate existing software. ROS (Robot Operating System)is amazing for this, as it has lots of open source packages, where some of them work really well out of the box.

I rarely add anything to off-the shelf robots. Most of my clients are making their own robots and want help with architecting/programming these systems. I don't design any components (I don't have almost any experience with electronics). I can do some simple CAD design if needed but my clients are better of hiring someone for CAD anyway.

I'm not sure what do you mean by robot designs from scratch - if you mean robots that you could build and program yourself then yes, there are plenty! I've listed some of the ones I liked the most in Awesome Weekly Robotics (https://github.com/msadowski/awesome-weekly-robotics).

Currently I don't think I would try to compete with someone like Roomba. It would take huge amount of money to create robots like these at scale for the low price of these units. Also all the electronics need to be certified (at least with a CE mark, but I expect something else would also be needed). Rarely one person can pull something like this off from A to Z.

If I'm ever to start a company I would like to try to grow it organically. If I ever get a really good idea I'll definitely give it a shot.
>you are actually testing the safety of a combined human+software solution which had better be better than just a human alone otherwise the system actually reduces safety.

That's the entire point. Comma AI is a level 2 system. It is not intended to, nor will it ever be fully automated. It is a tool to augment and enhance human driving capabilities. Full autonomy at Level 3 and above is a 20+ year pipe dream at this point. Anyone advertising such a system (Tesla...) is just fraudulent.
Why so aggressive? I’m just speculating on why people might flag.
The U.S. actually does do this! The FCC alone spends more than $2bn annually subsidizing telecom infrastructure in rural areas. There are a number of other similar programs, and Ajit Pai (current FCC chairman) recently proposed another $20bn of spending on subsidies for rural internet connections: https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-204-billion-rural-...
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I use email aliases to sign up to services for this reason exactly. There is no way to link the aliases, and so tracking is limited to the registered site only. The Log In with Apple solves this more elegantly
> `I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.' --- Umberto Eco, quoted in the New Yorker

Loved this quote from Umberto Eco. RIP. (died in 2016)
Troy Hunt: Is cloud security too easy to screw up?
I love how this page has links yet isn't even HTML. Let me introduce you to 1993 :)
Another one of such thing: please try to scroll on your site using a mouse wheel from time to time, even if you're normally using a touchpad (from your laptop or an external one)!

Lot of fancy homepage with scroll animations are awful on anything that isn't scrolling as smoothly as a MacBookPro touchpad.

Example: https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/ is horrible to use on anything that isn't a mobile device or a Mac.
If you are saying AGPL's virus like behavior is much more severe than the GPL's virus like behavior, I am not professional on this aspect. Not sure.

If I understand correctly, the open source action is only required when you "re-distribute" it. So, if you play it only by yourself and never give your modified software to anyone else, it is OK for you to keep all code close. If you work on it together with other people in your organization, it is fair enough that you open the source code to those people for them to work together easily. But all the code are still kept inside your organization.

Only in a step that you want to re-distribute the software (or the service) to people (like external user or other company) who you don't want to show source code, you are facing violating the AGPLv3. But generally speaking, in this step you already have a plan to make money out of external people (like user or other company), so fair enough to pay a fee for commercial license.

"free software" or freedom zero is good, but how engineers/companies who develop free software make survival? Donations? If I am already a billionaire, I totally support your point.
SpaceX has absolutely taken steps to reduce the albedo of Starlink satellites. New satellites have sunshades that drastically reduce their visibility. It's just not as simple as changing the coating, a modification that has huge thermal implications.
> cut them out of the global system; that requires a widespread effort from the top several dozen economies, it can be done however.

The problem is that many of the world's economies already depend on China - either as a source of cheap products or, and that is an increasingly successful threat, for money. China has been buying up, building or financing construction works especially in South Europe (Italy, Greece, Croatia, Serbia come to mind), and are involved across Africa.
>Logistics: already done via gps receivers and low bandwidth spot style satcom

Imagine being able to see live video, or AI enhanced video (movement detection, etc). A lot more bandwidth will open up many areas for innovation.

Imagine being able to get real-time data of patients being transported in planes or ground vehicles.

>Real Time Weather: already done by satellites with the required features.

But there is not much data about wind patterns, directions, barometric pressure, etc. Satellites can observe on a macro level. If you can combine that with micro level ground data, perhaps predictions for weather would be more accurate.

>Real Time Video: again, there's no way you're getting animal scale images out of a starlink scale sat.

Perhaps, but periodic photos, would be possible, and that would be enough for many innovations.

>I swear people have taken the usual Elon hype

Even I have the after taste of Hyperloop. However, this is different because there are billions being spent to send actual satellites to space. That is not hype. I would not cast aside Elon's vision so easily, especially if he has committed and spent so much on the idea and is actually building out the infrastructure.

>This is not a star trek communicator.

But Imagine if you could have one.

>Is your hiker really gonna be hauling around a giant freakin' dish?

Would it be too far fetched to think that those can be shrunk down, perhaps to the size of a suitcase or a backpack?

>It's going to be a premium priced broadband service for rural customers and institutions that can afford it. If you know anything about the market you know DoD is gonna be the customer they focus on.

Sure, that would be one revenue source. But many innovations in the world are made possible due to what is available. Would an app store be possible without the iPhone? But, when the iPhone was made, the app store, as a concept was at best, a theoretical idea in Jobs' mind.
muy interensante.

we often theorize about / present a threat model of an insider becoming malicious in exactly this way. rare that we hear of it actually occurring.

the number used in such threat modeling scenarios is typically $1MM. maybe we need to up that to $4.5MM. (per TFA)

note the simplification in the headline: the $1MM was merely the insider’s share, not the proposed ransomware amount.
“People are really emphatic about not being tracked and that’s annoying. Therefore they are somehow wrong.”

Great logic.
Btw, desktop youtube redesign is atrocious: it's slow and wastes a lot of screen space. People have to work on browser plugins that use hacks to redirect to the old page. The old design page is thankfully still served, but it can't be accessed without magic and constant breakage.
I anticipated comments like yours in-thread which is why I posted my initial commentary.

I have no romantic attachments to Apple in particular, after all they were the SOBs that provided IDFAs and set the initial policy, which is why this was a “friendly reminder” on what this policy going forward is and what it isn’t. What appears to you to be a “scary dialogue box” appears to me to be an adequate and accurate description of what IDFAs are used for and why Apple provided IDFAs in the first place. Tracking users and across apps and websites from different companies is IDFAs working as intended.

Now you can be as cynical or romantic about why Apple is doing this now as you want, to me it’s a half-step towards correcting a mistake they initially made, and to others it is clearly something else, but let’s not kid ourselves into believing that just because Apple stripped the paint off of an advertiser’s favorite toy that this is somehow going to be the death knell of user tracking and the app-based advertising industry is doomed on iPhones and iPads. Facebook and Google are big boys, they may not like this new change, but they’ll learn to adapt around it because adapting to new situations and facts on the ground is just another cost of doing business. Business plans aren’t set in stone since time immemorial, sometimes they need alterations to remain relevant and operable.
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You lost me with "in history" did you just forget the last 200 years?
The secretary does all of that, I'd guess.
I don't have any particular examples in hand, but the question you're asking is one that's tough to answer because the languages that might be as ergonomic as Haskell in that regard and are also low-level are significantly more complex than either Haskell or Zig, and so I don't think we have a good point of comparison (I think Zig is revolutionary). There is definitely a price to pay for being a high-control/low-level language, and it certainly requires that you spend some of your "complexity budget" on things that high-level languages like Haskell or Java don't have to. But I think Zig shows that you can be both low-level and reasonably "expressive" without also being so much more complex than most high-level languages.
No need to protect the passengers if there aren't any other people on your flight!
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That headline ("alarming") is just not helpful. Standard epidemic science indicates once a virus with R0>1.5 grows past 1% community transmission, eradication through lockdowns and full test and contact trace will be futile and a tremendous waste of resources better focused more productively.

If someone is not in an at-risk group (elderly/frail, immuno-compromised, multi-comorbidities) nor a medical provider or care-giver to the at-risk - as long as they remain asymptomatic, there's no reason to test them. They should simply stay away from the at-risk and monitor for symptoms.

It was odd to me that the CDC changed their guidance on this a few months ago from standard best practice. Now they are just putting it back to what it was.
Ah, I was wondering which anime they were referring to with this...
You mean, a "solution" in search of a problem, and unsuitable for anything touching privacy or security?
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What is the license of your project? Many licences don't require the original programmer to be credited, or they require only to keep the name in the source code.
I think it is fair to call it propaganda. It is funded by U.S. Agency for Global Media [0], their first principle is to "Be consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States" [1]. That means they cannot be considered free independent press since they won't be able to take a stance that goes against the US government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Agency_for_Global_Media

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191215131808/https://www.bbg.g...
To add emphasis to this: they changed the default branch name for new repositories.

You can opt-out of this change of the default. I don't know why I'd read that as changing existing repositories unless opted out.
How dare people go where 50% of the market is because they care about silly stuff like food and shelter.
Seems like something between B-D. Some people leave, some people don't, some people are murdered.
The real harm of it is that it creates a legitimacy gap. When people are exposed to a chorus like this that goes on for years they start to think that maybe the Gates Foundation is like the Aether foundation -- that evil is structural to it.

By doing the above Gates is working full time to elect Donald Trump and whoever his successor is going to be. And the worst thing about is that the kind of people who are involved in these efforts will deny the self-destructive nature of their activities to their last breath.
Even the word "pornography" is ill-defined.
> I don't even understand why they would remove them? Who ever complained of a scroll bar?

IMO it's all part of this push to combine mobile and desktop UI. On mobile there is a legitimate case to be made for removing them because screen real estate is so precious. But desktop gets clobbered as an unwanted side effect.
That's a good question, since Stripe backed out at the VERY last minute for a customer of mine who sells alcohol over the internet, despite repeated assurances it would be fine.
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Here’s another relevant Wikipedia article regarding censorship/absence of map data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satellite_map_images_w...