skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the actual absurdity going on is that we are keeping pre-COVID expectations during a pandemic(crisis). I’ve used this time to really reevaluate the things my area is responsible for and trim the fat. We all know people have things that will come up, so we all need to be more Agile. Been pushing Kanban hard in my area now because we offer so much work flexibility. So I’ve been prioritizing work and making sure it’s there for the team to take on. If only one person usually does certain tasks, make sure they train others. And I’m there to protect them if upper management takes issue with their output. I feel like I’ve been cold hearted or just methodical but it’s only in regards to the work not the people. Work is just that, work. It isn’t life, come to work get your work done and if life gets in the way, fine let me know. I mean what the hell is the point of a team if one person (or many) have less availability and it all falls apart? Get the highest priority work done first and maybe that lower stuff isn’t actually that important.
How much of that goes on rent? And is that rent paid directly back to the city?
> I'm not convinced that Google intends to maximize the automation and decentralization value of that kind of verification.

This seems like the core question/hypothesis you have as to why you might suspect this particular technology. If you have other specific concerns or fears or misuse, please let me know, but I have not identified anything else I can speak directly to. I dont understand Google nor their incentives, but I do understand the IETF drafts for this technology fairly well.

As to this specific question, the validation for Signed HTTP Exchanges (SXG) is the same validation that happens with any web page you would load via https://. This is not a perfect system, but one we have lived with, & SXG introduces no new complexities to it.
Sadly. Former reporter here, we did exactly this. Harried for time, little pay, just crank it out and move on to the next day.

This was 15 years ago, I imagine it's only gotten worse.
I tend to agree with him (well, for me 95-2004 is the golden era) for the reason that it's mostly "been there, done that" nowadays. In addition, you have a lot of bad business practices such as microtransactions, lootboxes, terrible DRM (Denuvo, Steam etc), release of unfinished products and you can't even buy the games physically anymore. Apart from some indie games, nothing really seems worth it. As someone who started playing PC games at the beginning of the 00s, I'm mostly playing ones released in the 90s and early 00s. The main issue with older games is typically the UI and controls. Apart from that, they feel a lot more "fresh" due to its content and often times experimentation. In contrast, a lot of games these days stick to the same things and at best combine two genres into one (roguelites for instance). Or they take old ideas and just build on top of it. Very rarely you get something like "Return of the Obra Dinn".
Wow, the really brings me back. I'm certain that my old WP floppies are gone at this point... is there a place to get a safe (from malware) and preferably legal copy of WP for DOS?
On the first one I was like, wha... but by the second and beyond I was getting a good chuckle. Great satire.
<strikethrough>western governments</strikethrough> all governments
What road would that lead down to? Seems like users could enjoy a whole new app store where developers preferred dealing with facebook instead of Apple.
I worked on this. The quote is true, in all honesty. Same as downloading and running applications from the web.

We do our best to make sure the scenario listed doesn't happen. For instance, on Windows, after a writer is closed, we apply the Mark-of-the-Web, apply SafeBrowsing checks and finally call a system API which may trigger an anti-virus check.

On the Mac, we apply the equivalent of Mark-of-the-Web. You may have noticed that when you open the file, sometimes it asks you to ensure the provenance of the file?

Basically, it's a similar procedure as for file downloads.

Edit:

I forgot to say that "sensitive" directories are not allowed.
Think C:\Windows, etc.

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:c...
> One thing I wish I could make my childless peers grok is that THERE IS NO VACATION when you have young kids.

As a childless person who has nevertheless helped a lot with childcare while growing up in a different country, here is a simple family-based solution – ask your family's older members to move in and help with childcare if possible, or move close by. Or ask a cousin or an aunt or a sister to move in with you or close to you, because you need help because you are overwhelmed with your kids.

I bet you won't, because "it's weird" or "it wouldn't work out" or something like that. Yet this is traditionally exactly how parents have distributed the pain of child rearing.

Now think about it – if you can't expect family to help you, why do you expect help from your coworkers in this situation?

The nuclear family in the US is an experiment that has been generally quite stressful, and COVID has thrown it totally out of gear. This doesn't mean it was working too well in the first place.
Of course. The trails must run their course, data must be reviewed. I’m just horrified that CDC and FDA are being pressured by the orange clown’s administration to cut corners. This is a sobering reminder why this must not be done.
On an Android phone I can just use F-Droid or install an apk I downloaded from anywhere. That's not the case with an iPhone. Not sure about consoles.
Andrew Hargadon: 7 Questions to Ask a Potential Parnter (2007)
Right, in Russia or China he would have just disappeared. Save your judgement for the trial.
Windows once used a similar fuzzing technique[1] to mitigate a video driver bug.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040211-00/?p=40...
This is shockingly performant on an iPhone 11.
This x 9000.
Alternative view:

“Although Apple portrays itself as a modern corporate United Nations, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to get a cut for the tremendous value it partners derive to their platform.”
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24415282.
I'm a low empathy technocrat because:

(1) I chose not to have children, and

(2) I find it unfair that I'm expected to work longer hours for the same compensation/work profile.

Is that it? ... No, that's not it. Your position assumes that:

(1) Child-rearing is some a-priori, guaranteed good, and

(2) That it apparently should be subsidized by employers,

(3) and (both implicitly and explicitly, from you and others) at the expense of their non-child having coworkers.

Am I getting something wrong, or missing something?

I absolutely think parents should get a break during the pandemic. I think everyone should. The work people are doing here to act like we should worship the ground parents walk is easily the most shocking thing I've witnessed.

Honestly, it's not at all a stretch to say you basically insist parents get extra compensation (in the form of extra paid vacation). Call me whatever name you want, but people are well within their rights on this, of all places, to raise an eyebrow.

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The other generous interpretation is that there is some base assumption that we ALL (parents and non-parents) should running ourselves at 90+% capacity. And that children are an accept caveat since parents are usually at 100% capacity. What a terrifying dismal way to look at life. I hope that's not it.
"For years, Epic took advantage of everything the App Store had to offer. It availed itself of the tools, technology, software, marketing opportunities, and customer reach that Apple provided" - I laughed quite hard at this one.
> I look forward to hearing an argument about how game consoles are nearly as important to society or as ubiquitous, as smart phones.

I look forward to hearing an argument about how iPhones == all smart phones, or why the millions of users (including developer) who love the single-curator nature of iOS should be forcibly deprived of that.

(Sorry for the snark, just continuing the mimicry chain)
Epic uses very strong words too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic
But the irritation is at the outcome, not at the action. the OP has no irritation regarding the smoker, or the parent. It's at the irritation that certain actions are treated differently to others by the employer and is indirectly costing OP.
Why Bayesian Stats Needs Monte-Carlo Methods
You mean develop a new phone, mobile operating system and compete with the 2 largest companies in the US?

Why didn't they think of that? /s
I don't know. On one hand there is no choice, on the other hand there is illusion of choice.

I would say that no choice is more honest. The illusion of choice is a bit like the fake buttons on traffic lights, it's there to make you think you are in control of something while you are really not.
Really? Epic should build their own OS? Even Microsoft was not able to compete with Android/iOS.
I prefer cview, it has added many fixes and PRs not in tview.

https://gitlab.com/tslocum/cview
Haha well, 70 of those slides are appendix slides.

The way our design works, the modular weights are autonomous on a track. So we don't have huge cranes above ground. We just have a track above ground that also runs a mile. That track can be partly or fully buried if desired. It will be enclosed protecting it from weather, and solar can be installed on top to save real-estate.

But yes, these installations are enormous. They might cost around $150M and could provide about 200MW.
I can’t really see it as spyware if it’s your own product, though.
In Islamic societies and in some Indian societies, dowry is actually given to the bride when they get married. If there is a divorce or separation, the husband has no claim over any assets she brings in or is gifted before the wedding. Maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea.
pcem or box86 with freedos, for somewhat accurate experience.

dosbox-x or dosbox-staging for playing games specifically.

These are both forks of dosbox, as that is dead and has been for a decade or so. They've had releases, but no real progress.

They're actively hostile to outside collaborators (thus the forks), and basically censor the vogons forums they moderate to hide the existence of forks[0]. Scummy.

[0] https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/issues/217
If I may ask, using what motherboard? The problem of EPYCs being locked to a certain vendor platform should not be a problem for you if you're buying a factory new Supermicro or Tyan or competing board. And a new set of individually purchased EPYC CPUs.
After my wife and I were done having kids my work rolled out 90 of paternity and/or maternity leave for each child. That’s a lot of “vacation” time I missed out on (seriously, we had 5 kids - so 450 days of vacation). But, I’m not bitter. I’m happy for others who can take advantage of this.
We do! We don't have one open right now but are always open to connect with bright students and see if there would be a fit for next summer. You can have him reach out to resume@kipsu.com if he's interested.
Oh I'm not surprised at all. I'm guilty of this at my job as is everyone else where we work. What is our problem, what is our customers problem is always a hard question.

One of my big goals right now is to figure out how to extract problems out of customers in a useful way. (I seem to be heading more and more to product manager/product owner skill set).
I did, and unfortunately it didn't make any difference :( I guess my $20 USB sound stick is not backwards compatible.
You could have some crude region locking if SGI US signs with a different key than SGI EU, and US servers will only run on 60hz power supplies and EU servers only run on 50hz (some pinball machines use this to reduce transatlantic resale) it's not hard to measure, but it would need an extra power supply pin and a zero crossing circuit. DC systems would have a different signing key. Japanese systems wouldn't be able to move across their 50/60Hz divide, etc.

Used SGI to not pick a real vendor.
Yeah I don’t think this rises to Q levels. You’d have to be pretty naive to think Assange will get a fair trial anywhere at this point.
US spy planes flying near china is definitely not new, nor limited to this administration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
Good for you. If you think it’s your duty, there is no contract with society that others should subsidize your dutifulness.
2 wrongs don't make a right.
I thought those were auto-generated somehow. Never suspected that people actually put effort into them!
1. How well do you know your partner? Ask tough questions up front.

2. What strengths and weaknesses do you both bring to the partnership? A good partner will complement your skills and assets.

3. Do you have a shared vision?

4. What type of partnership will you form? Begin by writing down expectations (and agreements) about profit-sharing, ownership, and how decisions will be made.
control going to be determined?

5. Do you like this person? Make sure this is someone you like enough to want to weather
through adversity when the going gets tough.

6. If your partner is a friend, how strong is your friendship? Decide ahead of time if your friendship can withstand the inevitable disagreements, downturns, and
even dissolution of the business.

7. What is the exit strategy?
Android has the ability to side-load, as well as install other app stores.

IOS has a complete monopoly on their mobile vertical.
That makes me feel better if true.
The port was so perfect! Not the Corel ones, but the one from SD Corp. I'd love to have that running again.
I'm thinking this could still be useful as a distraction-free word processor for writers today.

It runs under DOSBox perfectly, saves Word .doc files to the underlying file system (which could well be a Dropbox folder if cloud syncing is needed). Or Google Drive even, which makes it interoperable with Google Docs.

And because it's a completely text-based UI, there's no temptation to mess around with formatting (except maybe bold text).
I thought this type of system would provide a way to revert to factory defaults with a side effect of erasing all keys. So the processor would no longer be secure, but would at least still boot. Maybe this clearing can be done through the BIOS/UEFI on the original Dell system.
Many non-Apple users are sick of Epic's wolf-crying too, and companies bigger than Epic have tried smearing Apple before (see Samsung).

Meanwhile, Apple is enjoying hereto-unseen levels of financial and critical success.

The only things the majority of regular people are paying attention to is when the next iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods etcetera are going to drop.
Reasonable argument....then you lost it with the "vigilante doxers," the Reason story, and especially Fox News.

Complaining about Facebook optimizing for rage clicks and then...citing the OG practitioners of rage attention optimization...

Was that deliberately meta or just completely un-self-aware?
I think on some level Apple is happy to have this lawsuit at this time. The App Store revenue has become more significant and also presents big opportunities for growth. Especially with the arrival of ARM macs, the future points to a world where the “Apple Tax” might be a literal 30% cut on all transactions conducted through an Apple device. So for Apple it would be good to get some legal clarity before they make such moves. Sure, it would be painful if they lost, but it could be much more so later on. According to a study cited by Apple, they took a cut on only $61B of the $519B of total sales generated by the App Store. They’ve got to be salivating at that latter figure. If they could get 30% of $500B+, it would be more than half of their current annual revenue.
While shitty, if this required pre-programmed OEM CPU’s it would be one thing - but knowing I could put a several thousand dollar boxed CPU into a branded motherboard and have it perpetually locked to that OEM is horrible.

Quite frankly this should be an optional security feature I can flip off with a physical switch on the board - go show an alert on the BMC for all I care, but as is this is total bullshit.
You have to use on-die fuses to get most of the security benefit vs someone in customs who has a few hours alone with your server, as jumpers can be trivially modified to look like they are set/unset when they are not.

The header pins can be varnished (or other techniques) so they do not conduct, but they still look normal. To set a pin, 36GA wire between the plastic of the header and the PCB would do the trick. If the adversary had a particularly high budget, they could fabricate and install a header that would even pass inspection by a multi-meter's continuity check by making the outer part of the pins be electrically isolated from the inner, except where it contacts the PCB, where the attackers choice of conductivity is made.

I don't think anyone has come up with a good way to downgrade the CPU from secure operation to insecure without also creating a way to bypass it for an attacker. The only way I can think of is if there was a revocation of secure mode that put the CPU serial number on a public list, then after a week, the CPU blew a fuse allowing it to boot in insecure mode. It will allow enterprises to be assured that the computers they are sending all over the globe are untampered, but still allow people who don't care to get them second hand and not be stuck with the rest of the computer. The hard part is making sure the CPU can only blow that fuse after it gets an ack that its been a week. Ideally, there would be some way for the CPU to attest which mode its running in so secondary audits of the CPU's state can be performed.
> IOS alternatives

this got me to thinking of the alternatives. Android. that's all i could come up with that are viable.

out of curiosity, has anyone attempted to install Android on a jailbroken iPhone?

Edit: quick search makes it look like it is possible on certain devices. i haven't followed through them yet to see success rate, but if you don't like iOS there you go
Even in countries where a second wave is happening, it’s a wave of infection only, not deaths. There is not reason to be scared of a disease that don’t kill. International travel restrictions should be lifted. We don’t need to wait for a vaccine that might be more a dangerous than to virus it’s supposed to fight. Current practices in East-Asia have shown to be enough to handle the thing.
I wish there was a mandate that companies had to register sourcecode, e.g. with the Library of Congress, so that it could be released as Public Domain after a couple of decades. We are losing quite a lot of our software heritage when companies bury projects like WordPerfect or milk older games for a few more bucks. We could have a thriving, open-source ecosystem around the sometimes excellent software that is currently locked away.
I think you misunderstood the meaning of the word ‘mandatory’
Big Sur is already a big improvement, even in beta, over Catalina.
Yep, CK3 is in the top ten games on Steam, hitting almost 100,000 simultaneous players most days:
https://steamcharts.com/app/1158310
I haven't yet purchased used server gear, but I do a lot of window shopping. Most of the servers come with CPUs, but not all of them, and there's always a lot of loose CPUs for sale. Very occasionally, I've seen new-old-stock server motherboards for sale for not too much.
I understand. My point is that epic has a very high valuation. Their money is of course focused on gaming, but they could branch into the mobile market. When the iPhone came out Apple had, what 5% share of the desktop market and no phones?

Yet they managed to dominate the mobile market. Nothing in this world is static.
I would pay for a gaming smartphone (and peripherals) from Epic that uses a fork of Android OS.

Would use it initially as the perfect portable gaming device, which alone is enough to get Epic 100mns+ of distribution.

Epic can subsidise the cost of the smartphone as they would make money from apps and games. They can set their example by taking 5-12% commission.

And after hitting Epic scale and by practicing the principles it preaches Sweeney can show the world a better way.
I agree here. Literally never have issues with having separate phone app or bridge on PC. Most of these complaints are the typical over engineering stuff that gets built into things and takes up time and resources and less than 1% care about.
Cloud vendors should be using coreboot, not UEFI.
Browsers having unfettered access to users files is something which should be mitigated against on all platforms, not fleshed out into an ill-conceived feature, it goes in complete contrary to browser sandboxing efforts in Chrome itself for different process types (renderer/gpu/utility), but also work like OpenBSD has done with pledge(2)/unveil(2).

On OpenBSD, all processes of chromium, including the main browser process are tightly pledged and unveiled by default, write access to the users home directory is limited to only a few paths (~/Downloads), and a few config directories. As a consequence, users are rather forcibly taught safer usage pattern of copying files into the unveiled paths when uploading, which as Bob Beck alludes to in his slides below, is a reasonable compromise to every website having access to your ssh keys.

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan2019-unveil/mgp00022.ht...

https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/www/chromium/fi...
You should repost this as a Show HN and add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a good direction. See these links for more explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638
> ...Meier reminds us that the bestselling games of 1998 were Civ 2, Warcraft II, Myst, Command & Conquer and Duke Nukem 3D. Aside from the last, all require more thought and engagement than the Candy Crushes or Fortnites that dominate gaming today.

It's no Myst, but Candy Crush?!
it was actually pretty shocking how good my high school CS program was - this was Ontario in the mid-80's. I learned boolean logic and basic CS theory as well as getting to work on a full-fledged UNIX system (QNX). I even figured out how to write my own login prompt emulator to phish for other people's logins. What more could you want?
> One thing I wish I could make my childless peers grok is that THERE IS NO VACATION when you have young kids.

This was often overstated prior to the pandemic, but much more true during the pandemic.
Precisely. You'll also gain the ability to update your apps cheaply (via the web) and bonus security points by not being beholden to Electron updates.
Exit to Community
As an apple customer I would love nothing more than for the IOS walled garden ecosystem to cease to exist.
15 minutes well entertained. Feels cyberpunkish and makes me want more.
There's a massive difference between right wing and alt right
> let's refrain from whataboutisms here

For economic sanctions to have their intended effect you need participation from a lot of countries so this doesn't feel appropriate to dismiss as a whataboutism
Somehow you all think everyone is american because here in germany there are many taxes levied on me or rather not levied on families with children.
Are you saying my phone would be like a PC? That is what I have always dearly wanted.
To be honest, we have decided that lowering the cost of building software is the best priority so we choose more and more abstracted software that requires more resources.

The javascript cascade from hell starts when you add a single ad. We wrote a test param to remove ads and the page load went from 35Mb to 1.2Mb... all of it was JS and ad tracking code.