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When you're poor you buy cheap ground beef. When you're rich buying $8/lb grass fed fancy beef seems like reasonable use of money. Governments are the same way. Only "rich Europe" can afford/justify carpet bombing their infrastructure with sensors so they're the only ones the data covers.

You see this incidental data bias in lots of fields. "Corrupt seaside Europe", "dashcam videos and good vodka Europe" and "I Can't Believe It's Not The Middle East(TM) Europe have bigger more immediate fish to spend their dollars frying than collecting data for the sake of maybe finding some utility in it later on.
If you're so old it's probably time to learn that the things that resonate with other people don't necessarily resonate with you, and vice versa. And that's ok. It's cultural diversity. You may at some point "get it" and start to like Billie Eilish (I'm mostly indifferent). You may not. But believing that nobody possibly could is the mark of an incomplete theory of mind.
There's also experiments going on in Chrome, but nothing is for sure yet.
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Wondering why this isn't the top Comment.

Personally the only metric I care about now on HDD is reliability.
If you work in more traditional Windows-based IT, you know Progress. But yeah, they're not startup-y, it's unsurprising if the Silicon Valley crowd isn't familiar.
What do you mean by JIT tooling?
Okay, do you care to address the core point of my comment? These are two examples of anti-competitive behavior. The details might differ, but the core idea of what they did and how they did it is the same (abusing their dominant position to anti-competitively disadvantage competitors). Yet Google gets a pass because "capitalism".
I dread updates from google for there apps they break and change stuff that majorly upsets my workflow all the time. The worst I can remember was the no longer unlock screen with google assistant updates like a few years ago. I was at the hospitable in the morning after that update and many sad handless people could not use their life lines because of a fucking update.
There’s some, obviously, especially in companies in chemicals and materials. I think the push in the 80s-90s to remove slack from corporations to reward managers and shareholders killed a lot of basic research they were doing for posterity.
All they are doing is voiding the warranty, so you're not exactly "leasing" the car.

Change it all you want, but don't expect Tesla to fix your car once you've messed with it yourself. And don't expect to sue them when autopilot kills you, because it's not their responsibility any more.
While the point about business alignment is true when done right, it can also be a net negative when done wrong.

I used to work for one of the biggest publishers of AAA games. They have their own engine which all their studios must use. It's been a big source of issues because that engine was in many ways behind others on the market and the team in charge of it did not feel the necessary pressure to address issues since all their "customers" were required by management to use it.
False positives are exactly why certain elements of society love this sort of thing.
Exactly. Haskell has explicitly been run and planned around not being successful because real production usage and success will require the maintainers to limit breaking changes, for example, which defeats its purpose as a language for experimentation and research.
It would be easier to just make all computing systems use Internet English, if a word ends in "s" and doesn't have an apostrophe before it then add one.
This man’s entire argument is completely terrible for two reasons:

1) The example he uses is The Epoch Times, a questionable source even on the best of days.

2) What he refers to as “spam” is a paywall. He is literally taking away from business opportunities for this outlet that produced a piece of content he wants to draw attention to, but he does not want to otherwise support.

He’s a taker. And while the Wayback Machine is very useful for sharing archived information, that’s not what this guy is doing. He’s trying to undermine the business model of the outlets he’s reading.

The Epoch Times is one thing—it’s an outlet that is essentially propaganda—but when he does this to a local newspaper or an actual independent media outlet, what happens?
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I usually don’t use the App Store unless it is the only option
A lot more goes into writing a song than a chord progression. Writing pop hits is an art few people master. That’s why so many hits are written by the same people. See Max Martin for example.
100% agree. Every time I've been unreasonably confident about something it has come back to bite me in the ass.
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I'm not sure that's entirely bad. I met up with my cousin (nearly 20 years younger than me) and one of her first questions was "Show me your playlists! Music is how I get to know people." We spent ages talking about genres, recommending bands to each other, scrolling through each other's Spotify libraries and offline MP3s. I was thrilled that she was interested in a wide range of genres, across several decades. Far more diverse than when I was the same age. It's still social to be recommending music and trying to find new bands your friends will like.

As for knowing the same songs, I made friends through genre-related social groups - the goth/industrial nightclubs, and the Eurovision fanclubs / events. It's nice that generally everyone knows the same Max Martin songs, but there's deeper friendships to be had at clubs where everyone knows your obscure niche - whether it's arguing that Euphoria is still better than Heroes, even if Mans & Petra are the best hosts. Or if it's goths bitching over the shared experience of falling down the stairs trying to get onto the goth club dancefloor before Dero from Oomph yells "Gott Ist Ein Popstar" or "Augen Auf, ich komme"....
We don’t “need” any movie. Anyway, I liked the live action one. Nothing groundbreaking of course but what movie is these days?
They do. Microsoft people were largely responsible for the improved default focus ring and input elements. There have been other notable contributions.
Meh. Everybody ran Windows too, until they didn’t. Software moves too fast. Even the hegemony of Android and iOS which is even more bothersome to many, will be broken before long.

Also, Edge is not Chrome. So, you can always run that if you don’t like Safari or Firefox. And I really don’t see Edge Safari or Firefox going anywhere so double meh.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24406926
> A language is a tool. Is special-casing the U u to prevent a single case of profanity worth it?

It was important enough that Douglas Crockford entirely removed the letter U from his system except as one of several choices for a check digit. I opted for the same tradeoff for Base32H; if anything, keeping U/u as a separate digit would be the major change. V and U look close enough together (more so than I and L, especially in real-world conditions where legibility is poor) that it didn't seem unreasonable for the latter to be an alias of the former.
Oh, they make WhatsUpGold? That actually gives me more confidence in them - it's been a simple but reliable monitoring tool that I've seen in enterprise use for many years.
> You advertise yourself more than the content.

I'm pretty sure that's a "feature" not a bug.
Now can we stop pretending that if you don't die from COVID you're a-ok? We have acquaintances that contracted the disease months ago, they did not die, but they are far, far from ok.
That's only Stage 1!
Tried now and the .5s delay that happens sometimes already kills this for me...
Ya, the few I clicked on look like this is a random collection of ideas, tips, and tricks. Not falsehoods and logic

Clickbait with a lot of effort but poor delivery of title and expectations
There were several examples of access being granted to professors, a lobbyist firm, a drug treatment center, random private citizens, etc.
They can seize all the property for sale like they do when they see someone driving a car they want.
NixOS seems to be quite interesting, an OS with declarative provisioning baked right in.
Sorry to say, but this was the completely wrong approach and I’m amazed the business let you do it.

Some poor bastard is going to have to undo all your mess down the road, I hope you buy them a beer if they ever track you down. I mean, at what point do you make the call that writing your own in-house copy of _DOCKER_ is a smart move? Let alone Jenkins.. The ‘magic’ abilities you describe this platform as having are utterly standard features and are yours as soon as you install e.g gitlab...

Of course, you actually have to spend some time and learn them and how to use them properly, but that time is VASTLY less than learning how to implement them badly and minuscule compared to the amount of time it’s going to take to migrate off your in-house pile..
Depends on the growth rate. If it’s flat growth, it’s not cheap at all.
Disclaimer: I cut my teeth on Progress 4GL back in the 80's, which is now called OpenEdge. It tickles me to see them still around, and to have bought Chef? Well, that's just sugar.

Basically, they're a business apps technology provider, and have been around since 1981, providing app development tools for enterprise scale applications. Progress 4GL was a database-backed application environment, quite widely used (albeit quietly) by big businesses all over the globe to build apps, and has transformed into OpenEdge.

As the Web evolved, Progress seem to have embraced all of it, and - as you say - somehow seem to be using smoke and mirrors to describe what they do - but actually their tooling is pretty awesome. Write an app in OpenEdge, deploy it on any web server. They were doing big relational database stuff on cheaper hardware (PC's, minicomputers) in an era when "big database" meant investing heavily in "IBM" or "Relational Software" (now: Oracle) resources.

Its pretty neat to see them still around. I had a lot of fun with Progress 4GL back in the day, but haven't touched it since mysql/postgresdb was released ..
Presumably this is changing somewhat with so many people working from home.
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Our civilization--our contract with each other and the government--includes a reasonable expectation of privacy and of freedom from unreasonable searches: basic human rights. A court would be needed to violate privacy. It was sufficient in the distant past to use that kind of language before tech.

With tech, you have a massive data wake as you go about an ordinary life, largely open source for anyone to buy, share, and aggregate. Nobody needs to tail you or subpoena your records. The aggregation from widely disparate sources allows connections and inferences as well as allowing inverse searches: fishing expeditions.

Remember how Target was figuring out who was pregnant before they even knew? That was 2012 and it was only one store. Now you can add in many, many aggregations like license plates and face rec and credit history, assistant devices recording every utterance, browsing and lingering behaviors in stores with cameras. All corporate assets. It's in the government's interest to buy and sell along with the retailers.

Not only don't you need a court order to look into someone's mind, but it's a valuable commodity now.
It sounds like it wasn't really novelty, then, right?
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cool open data! (I used it as an answer here: https://opendata.stackexchange.com/q/1767/1511)

for other traffic related datasets, check out this list: https://github.com/graphhopper/open-traffic-collection

and for "borrowing" the live data from TomTom, check out this mini tweet thread (from me): https://twitter.com/philshem/status/1241739025624567813
Progress acquired Ipswitch/WhatsUp Gold in 2019 (https://investors.progress.com/news-releases/news-release-de...).
>Amazing how a few sentences can do more than entire blog posts sometimes.

A long form article is more likely to try to make many points at the same time, some strong, some weak, some wrong ones.

Comments are usually short, making only one point. Furthermore they're sorted and filtered by popularity. This means that strong, pithy statements are displayed much more prominently.

Likewise this article could use some editing.
Very cool and digestible paper! Followup question: Is it possible to fold the shade into n loops for every odd value of n?
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If the logs were in a nice, user-readable form, tamper-evident, and the user was in control of if the car connected remotely to Tesla, and could examine what is sent, or was at least informed of it, you might have a point.
I've read that both represent early push towards truly multithreaded engines, especially on PC, and including graphics part. It's also supposedly why D:E is Vulkan only, as it supposedly goes even deeper with multiple threads sending commands to GPU etc.
They are very well and truly entrenched in the enterprise application industry. I know a few medium-sized businesses that have maintained their Progress 4GL -> OpenEdge code for decades now.
You should keep snap and offer other options if you want, the noise you hear is not a majority, snap works very well for many people and they don't have posts that reach top of HN.
Just to clarify, that would be buying a company with "$70 million in annual recurring revenue" [0], for the price of "$220 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments" [0].

We don't know anything about the profitability or the growth. I can imagine that their growth is flat or even declining.

[0] https://investors.progress.com/news-releases/news-release-de...
They did, but they also did add it suddenly, without notice, two weeks after the game launched (after return periods of day one sales expire). Pivoting to save face does not nullify that bad behavior. They’ll do it again and will only back out if they get caught.
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I doubt governments would refuse to pay 1USD to solve global warming.

This is an absurdly reductive take.
I think it's important to be wrong and have the humility and confidence to be wrong. Throughout school and, in particular, university I would often try and avoid discussion with teachers/lecturers/seminar groups etc. for fear of being wrong and for whatever judgement would follow that. Part of that was anxiety/impostor syndrome, but also condescending lecturers and teachers.

When I got to my first job, I was hugely fortunate to have colleagues that wouldn't judge anyone for their views/opinions, whether right or wrong (technically, obviously they were expected to be respectful). As such I found myself learning and growing so to such a greater extent, and quicker, in those first couple of years of employment.

It's something that goes both ways, if you're respectful and positive of colleagues who may be wrong, you'll help them to learn and develop, which in turn will contribute to a better team overall, more collaborative and more competent. I think it's especially important to try and include the quiet ones, again they may be wrong, but as long as you impress that it's fine to be wrong and work with them to improve their knowledge and understanding, that bit of extra effort will go so far.
So it can be deleted too?

Or so there is no engagement at the source?
Doesn't Nigeria still have lots of slavery?
I'm digressing from this specific case, I too am a strong critic of the US being globally handsy, but I instead want to focus on the public discourse.

There's nothing ironic or hypocritical about it.

You can appreciate earlier leaks about governmental/agency misconduct in the pursuit of transparency.

Then wikileaks (if not Assange specifically) took it upon themselves to meddle in elections, selectively leaking DNC hacked data and not the RNC equivalent, antithetical to transparency.

Public opinion didn't do a 180, wikileaks did.

https://apnews.com/ce9a4541f903109079900528d9f0a9e7

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-senate/s...

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks...
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So in your universe it hit the judge and he got disqualified? Oh no, I jumped into another reality again.
The sea levels surprise me. At some point, Norway and Spain were nearly the only dry land in western Europe.
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> Legal observers and Constitutional scholars point to a number of potential legal implications raised by public-private partnerships in policing. These include concerns over privacy and the lack of oversight and judicial review of policing activities when undertaken by the private sector on behalf of public police agencies, but also extend to worries that the privatization of information gathering by police might result in the privatization of public law enforcement priorities and practices. Do corporate retail interests, at least in part, determine police priorities in Albuquerque? The BlueLeaks documents suggest this may be the case.
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This is the most sound argument for electing Trump again I have ever seen.
There is not a single person on this planet the press harrasses more than him.
That always seemed like fair game to me. If only we could have the one big warranty split into smaller warranties for each part of the car, so tampering one part of it doesn't void the entire warranty.
Damn that’s scary. A world where no one has anything in common. I’m in my 30s and my friends and I reference songs from our childhood all the time. Shows and candy and all sorts of things.
Ironically, even though he loved books and the pursuit of knowledge, when the British envoy first presented him a printed Bible, he was not impressed by it and is said to have commented that his calligraphers could create much better looking books than such ugly ones! The Mughals cared too much about art and military to realise how much the printed books would revolutionise the world.
Strange. I just did it (on desktop) and the steps I had to follow were as listed in the article (Delete Account twice, no Change Password).
There are easier ways to attack the problem.
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Everyone must first get over the terminology confusion. Convolution in DL is actually cross-correlation, not convolution. In practise it does not matter, signal is just flipped, but it can be very confusing when you try to learn and go trough examples.
I spent hours getting all the stupid redirects working from different hosts, domains and platforms.

People still use rss to either steal my stuff, or discuss it off site (as if commenting to the author is so scary!) or in a way to make me totally unaware of it happening as so many times people either ask questions of the author on a site like this, or even bring up good points or something to go further on that I would miss otherwise.

It’s a shame ping backs were hijacked but the siloing sucks too.

Sometimes I forget for months at a time to check other sites, not every post generates 5000+ hits in an hour.
Wasn't the guy probably dyslexic?
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What means YIL in this context?
Even more pithily: my goal in an argument/debate is not to be right at the beginning, but to be right at the end.
It's almost like you're asking the police to investigate crimes and gather evidence to prove the items are stolen.

But no, that's too hard. They've got their hands full choking people to death for selling loose cigarettes.
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It isn't a nuanced take at all. The supposed intelligence infrastructure targeting the US is not supported by evidence. Even mentioning Trump and hinting to alleged hypocrisy is pretty laughable and betray the author.

> in addition, the allegations of involvement in Russia in all this are well-founded. The folks involved in the LulzSec chatrooms now incorporated into Assange’s CFAA charge acknowledge there were Russians there as well, though explain that the whole thing was so chaotic [...]

Unsensible. We may find law and you can nail him on intricacies of it and extradite him, but I doubt it leads to justice for showing evidence of an illegal war of aggression. He basically just released info to the public. If that is a crime, the judiciary might be in deep trouble indeed.
> We also had Second One Billion in early 2000s. Also no public catastrophes.

Thanks for the reminder! We had a small fun party to celebrate!
Canvas is video (or spyware). If I don't want autopay video, I don't want autoplay canvas.
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I was surprised when digital.com got purged

Then further dismayed that the utzoo Usenet archives were purged.

Archive sites are still subject to being censored and deleted.
Upstart browsers are not in the position to tell websites what to do; they will just throw up a "your browser is not supported" banner and forget about you. That was where Chrome was in its early days (you were supposed to be using IE 6), and that's where Firefox is now.

We never let economics solve this problem, because nobody pays for web browsers with money. If there was a $10 "sorry, The New York Times violates standards so we don't support it" and a $100 "we'll work around any bug large or small to make it work for our customer" browser sites would be spending money to let the $10-browser-owners see their ads. But, every browser is run as a charity, so nobody gets to pay the actual costs of the workarounds (except maybe in terms of more security vulnerabilities, higher RAM usage, etc.)

I'm not saying this is good or bad, it's just how it is. Browsers are free and will be blacklisted by sites that don't like how they behave. So the incentive for browsers is to do what the sites want, rather than to strictly conform to standards. Shrug.
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>With the modern interior design of Apple stores I feel the designers are actually so out of touch with the rest of the society and so firmly in their own bubble that they're accidentally designing something that looks extremely tacky without realizing.

Have you seen modernist / brutalist / modern / post modern architecture? From 1920 to today? There's nothing ugliest and more unlivable (in the pretenses of "high brow" BS concepts) than 99% of it.

In comparison, the Apple stores are a breath of fresh air. Tacky? Hardly...

>Honestly couldn't believe how tacky it looked when I walked past the main Apple store in London.

You keep using that word, tacky. I don't think it means what you think it means...

This is the "unbelievable tacky" place, because it has trees inside?

https://cnet3.cbsistatic.com/img/LDehHb_uk995yFKthCDfgOhboH8...