skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it really does exist, the backdoor can simply be inserted during the last-minute compile before release. It would be invisible in the code repository, the vast majority of internal developers at Microsoft won't even see anything unusual. Also, I heard anecdotes that Microsoft already allowed governments to audit the source code of Windows under NDA on multiple occasions in the past.

But if you cannot guarantee the correspondence between source and binary releases, such a review only helps a little. Reproducible build is crucial for auditability.
What throughput can you get with audible sound?
> For device-dependent rendering, we have HTML.

Say that to those who create PDF files for things that should be web pages. That behavior is not going to stop anytime soon.
Reality check is that real world martial arts are not taught like that. While there is repetition, focusing on few exercises and doing repetitive unrelated tasks will make you slightly better beginner. Then you will stop improving.

Karate kid is fantasy of getting victory with easy effort solely because who you are. (It is also fantasy of having sudden role model treating you with kindness)
Note that when using docker-compose you don't need any manual docker network calls with my solution as well. The systemd-network and docker-compose files suffice.
It's sad that people fall for the "privacy first". I recently got a new Macbook and opting out of the cloud services was a real hassle, and sometimes the settings pop back on updates. Apple wants your data, they just don't want anybody else to have it.

I buy some of my devices from apple because I like the hardware. The walled garden is annoying and has nothing to do with resale value. The resale value is high because of continuing updates and nice hardware - you'd factory reset everything you buy second hand anyway.
Technically yes, but in practice, you can obtain a Jobseeker visa[1], which will give you an additional six months to search for a job. This can be applied for inside of Germany at the city government offices.

[1] https://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/visa/kinds-of-visa/job...
> Having taught mathematics to many computer science students, virtually any mathematics course in which students need to write a proof is invaluable, regardless of content.

Discrete mathematics also makes it easier to introduce rigorous proof. Calculus courses are not even "proof-based", compared to real analysis which is the actual level of proof you'd get in discrete math.
Wow this sounds very funny and pretty interesting. I can't find anything about it from some cursory DDG/Googling. Would love to read about it if you have any links.
"They chose that route for a myriad of very significant reasons relating to user experience, usability, privacy, security, safety, brand & reputation, performance, and accountability."

This is incredibly naive.

They chose it to be this way for the purposes of profit.

Android is testament to the fact that high degree of quality and security and consistency can be maintained without any of the most iOS aggressive restrictions.

There is no material difference between security on either platform, they're both generally fine, apps are great on Android and people are not falling off the side of the earth because of 'scams or fallouts' regarding Android.

The existence and relative quality of the Android universe renders most of the arguments for iOS walled garden moot.

The term 'monopoly' may not apply perfect, but it's reasonable in the discussion, the anti-trust issues are obvious and have many historical parallels.
I love the descriptions.

> School Computer Class, general atmosphere in pre-fabricated room, with hum from computers, keys clicking, occasional background speech, T.V. whistle from monitors & people moving around.

Like did it make a big difference if the classroom was pre-fabricated? Perhaps it does to a BBC sound recorder!
It's not that bad, I've stumbled across that particular article just 1 or 2 weeks ago because I wanted to check what kind of functionality of function builders I can use now for my DSL. It's probably more illuminating though to just try out for yourself... For example, while the article mentions "if let", does that mean "let" also works now?

And yes, I wish Apple had proper and up-to-date information on this somewhere.
Don't do it!

This is a good point and something I consider every time I bring it up.

I don't have a perfect response though sorry.

I try to put people of this particular method by noting it's painful and takes a long time.

Do you have someone(s) you can talk to? Support people?
Can you share a bit about why it's so good? I found it kind of basic and underwhelming.
Can we please stop giving human names to devices and services? It may not be as popular as Alexa as a real-name but it will just repeat the bully cycle for even more people now.
Thiel point again "It's inevitable" vs. "We are harmless". Truth is in the middle.
I think these were recorded before the decline of insect populations worldwide.
I'll reply with my own doubt myself:

There's a possibility the leaked files are tampered from the original code anyway, i.e. backdoors were removed before being initially leaked. Rationale being that Microsoft / government wanted to control the situation long-term by letting something tampered be what leaks out underground instead of the 100% full thing.

Torrent poster also discusses that possibility: https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/iz46du/the_windo...

Nonetheless, it's interesting if anything plausible is found.
Calibre is much more than an eBook reader. It's more of an authoring / reading / management suite.

It can manage eBook readers' libraries either natively or via plugins. It can work with my Kobo eReader for example. I use Calibre to convert standard epubs to kepub (kobo enhanced epub) and push to device and extract highlights from books mainly. It's also a very nice ebook library so I can search and push/read/modify what I want.
Ask HN: Are there warning signs if a company will be laying off their people?
If yes, what is the common signal.
That's so sad that we have to waste time implementing bug-compatibility with the proprietary software.

There should be some law about interoperability.
They’re $4 or so.

I order mine 2 dozen at a time from https://www.alldaychemist.com/. Ships to the US, no prescription needed. Takes a month or two to arrive.

$600 Advair is like $60 on there, too.
Form my experience, mostly government and state-owned companies, which account for a big part of China's paid software market. Even some Shanghai government systems support only IE6 to 8, some only love IE11.

Most state-owned banks too, popular browsers are all duel-engine. There's little to no incentive to change what's working, and customers experiences don't really matter.
Estimating systems with napkin math (transcript)
That's a very reasonable explanation.

Do we know what stature albinos had in Maya culture? Were they venerated or seen as outcasts?
It is easier for developer but risky for end user. Docker runs as root and you have to trust application developer to use latest security patches for all dependencies.
Industrial equipment control computers mostly - the computer is part of the machine and cannot be upgraded. You see this quite a lot outside China too.
Nah, it's just a bunch of access points all wired to the internet, so all nodes are essentially 2 steps away from each other (node -> internet -> node) akin to a star topology.
This. Just because your standups are inefficient (and not actually standups) does not mean the process/practice is inherently bad.
It really isn't as clear as that. Most youtube videos are not monetised, but the status could change years later. Further, in an hour long video, using a 5 second audio clip with an advertising revenue of £0.10 is considered commercial and a payment?
As a hobby musician, I can sample them and work them into my music.

Only need to license it if I decide to release it on Spotify.
Windows 10 telemetry, secretly turning on auto updates even after you turn it off and correct me if I am wrong, even if you disable the update service or add the urls to the hosts file it now "mysteriously" undoes that stuff over time.

Windows 10X will probably have some more goodies.
Not sure I would call something requiring me to install Java as lightweight
I chose the most literal definition because it's complicated. Debian calls it "free software," but that has its own issues because there's "freeware" where source might not be available and the license isn't permissive. Then there's the JSMin "no evil" (unless you're IBM, its customers, partners, or minions) license.
I think all of these are available on piratebay. When I was into sound production, I found lots of high quality dumps there. There's way more than 16k floating around on piratebay, more like 500k+. And the quality of some of them is amazing.

Never used 'em for commercial applications, obviously, because hobby. But it's a lot of fun remixing them.

Another interesting source of sound effects are pirated games. Last of Us in particular has wonderful, stunning, horrifying sound effects, example of which I wish I'd saved.
I go months without needing to reboot windows, and have for over a decade. Typically if I need to reboot it’s due to an update or software that requires a reboot to install.
weighing in at 45MB.

That's the packed size though, which is indeed pretty small. Unpacked is 540mb which is roughly the same as mingw-w64 which comes with MSYS2, just with added make/boost etc. Installation is (a bit) simpler than MSYS2 though, the possibility of just downloading/extracting/usbale is really nice. Though for actual longer term applications this could get annoying quickly with respect to updating (just downloading again?), installing additional packages (not possible?).
Projects often have many parts. One of them gets blocked and you work on something else for a while. Maybe you shoot off some emails and wait for replies that never come. If you get distracted, you can be in this state for a while.

Often these issues just linger until you finally talk to your manager or team about them. Having a regular opportunity to do that can speed up the process.
EDIT: Look at my second edit... END EDIT

Why not provide a stand alone binary copy2kindle (or sync2kindle) and let me use that? Instead we need to accept that in order to do a single task the tool needs to first re-organise the world.

EDIT:
That doesn't mean that one can't also create a tool that manages the library on top of the various binaries. In fact if one architects the app fairly reasonably it would be very little additional effort (or could be done by third parties).

EDIT 2:
WOW! Calibre has done exactly this... There is a whole range of ebook-* commands. (Thanks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24587793)
Both ReactOS and Wine are open sourced, Microsoft engineers and lawyers look at their code. That's not a hypothetical situation, it happened in the past, the most recent news event on this was: https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/03/reactos_windows_resea....

With the risk of copyright infringement you want to be sure that you're taking active measures to defend your position in case you're facing legal charges.
And all forget that 8 even existed.
Wait, so is this something new, or just a re-release of whatever was going around on the net for years that was called the WinXP source?
For comparison, see the prices and licensing of the General Series 6000 library from Sound Ideas:

* https://sound-ideas.com/Collection/2/2/0/The-General-Series-...

The Sound Ideas licence expressly prohibits the use of any of its sound effects "as mobile telecom audio content such as ring tones, ringback tones, soundscapes, multimedia messaging services (MMS), voice messaging, audio enhancements, greeting mail services, or other content applications now known or which shall become known".

* https://sound-ideas.com/Page/Sound-Ideas-End-User-License

That's not the only restriction in the Sound Ideas licence. You may only use the effects at one address. You may not sell or throw away your computers or disc drives if you don't wipe them. You may not put sound effects into firmware.
There is no technical tradeoff here. PostgreSQL could add a batched, vectorized and JITed execution engine, and ClickHouse could add "relational features". Either one would of course be a significant engineering project, but there is no fundamental breakthrough required. A small matter of programming as they say.
Have you tried Konsole, the KDE terminal. It is absolutely terrific. It handles RTL and multibyte characters perfectly, works with tmux, has monitoring for both activity and silence, renamable tabs, horizontal and vertical splitting, bookmarks, scrolling, colour support, on-the-fly font resizing and colour scheme switching, keyboard shortcuts that do not conflict with any *sh, copy and paste shortcuts for both the normal clipboard and the X11 clipboard, supports the mouse, search functionality, I could probably go on. If iTerm has any feature that I'm missing, I'd love to hear about it.
> So... what type of question or blocker is so unimportant that it can wait for a day to get resolved, but at the same time is so important that we need the whole team to stop working and discuss it?

A blocker or unforseen problem that you have already overcome but a) have been delayed by and b) might be of interest to the rest of the team to learn from, even if it is just for curiosity.

An example might be "this has been delayed because I discovered the underlying service is a mess and needed a good deal of changing to support the function we thought it already supported. That's now done - grab me after for details if interested - and I am now back to implementing the stuff in the story but it's been a full day of unexpected extra work."
The whole website looks broken to me, even disabling all adblockers and tracking protection.

EDIT:
it's broken on Firefox.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562253
Go to a zoo with hornbills. Are you watching them, or are they watching you?

I once went to a crocodile park in SE Asia ... where they didn't feed them apparently. You haven't lived until you hear 100 crocodiles thundering after you, as you run for your life. Closest thing to the James Bond scene in "Live and Let Die."

I've seen one over 20' long, Lolong, that had its own pool:

https://crocodilepark.ph/philippine-star/
If it is for "the police" to decide, I think you will find that "the police" will continue to assassinate the character and then the body of anyone politically inconvenient.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579498
this is probably how my wife describes me
Unpopular opinion but: telemetrics help developers prioritize stuff and triage bugs. From a user’s point of view, isn’t that a substantial benefit?
i've been doing a SDK for quite some time with the libs & compiler I need for https://github.com/ossia/score - features statically-built Qt 5.15, Clang/LLVM 11, ffmpeg and a few other related to audio (so quite bigger). Only way to stay sane with win32 development. If anyone is interested:

https://github.com/ossia/sdk/releases/tag/sdk16
Ah, you don't recognize the plot of an episode of Father Ted. It's titled "Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep".
Previous discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579498
Funny enough win2k was the first to have a somewhat decent multi-language management, in particular you didn’t need a dedicated CJK version. So that’s where the nostalgia loop would stop for a lot of us (and it was buggy as hell, of course)
I'm going on a stretch here but it was probably implied all NSAIDs have side effects which are all severe. Stomach bleeds, reduction of blood clotting or other problems related to thrombosis or kidney failure depending on the type. Highly unlikely when used by the book but deadly in overdosis or prolonged uses. Just like paracetamol.

Taking away people's pain medication is not a winning move I'm certain of.
I share your frustration at the modern reluctance to use the filesystem properly, but it’s not a perfectly good abstraction for this problem. Users often want to browse and sort movies or books according to multiple metadata fields (eg. title, author, date). Hierarchical filesystems are not good at this, hence the metadata that is available is often low quality, and users need “library managers” to help them collect and display it.
How? When I last used Windows it forced a reboot to do updates once a month. If I let it pick the time it was often a bad time.
Can you actually buy a license from the BBC for these?
Think of the standup-time as the upper-bounds on how long a problem will block someone before everyone knows about it instead of the lower-bound on time-to-cure.

If you always know who can solve every problem for you, then you’re either not doing very interesting things or you’re burning that person out, and Management (including the engineering team leads) needs to know this.
To FOSS projects, leaked source code is highly toxic and infectious. The FOSS community's attitude on leaked source is similar to the corporate world's attitude towards GPL in the early 2000s, but unlike GPL, this is not just exaggerated FUD - the dangers of leaked, unauthorized or proprietary source code is real. Once leaked sources found its way to FOSS projects, the entire project may become illegal and face potential lawsuits (see the history of how BSD was almost killed by AT&T's lawyers). And once leaked sources found its way to your brain, it's not 100% safe [0] to work on FOSS anymore and the best option is banning yourself from participating similar projects, it's almost a memetic virus.

Projects on reverse-engineering and reimplementing proprietary technologies are the most vulnerable. A decade ago, ReactOS's development was suspended for years until the codebase has been reviewed.

[0] It's not illegal. If you can absolutely guarantee your work is not a derivative work based on the leaked source, but just a reimplementation, it's fine to proceed (the clean-room approach is not always needed, it simply offers the strongest legal guarantee). But for a big project with numerous contributors, the risk is high.
Still active? Yes, the Type I (cypherpunk) and Type II (mixmaster) remailer networks are still active as of September 2020. http://echolot.theremailer.net/mlist.txt

You send an encrypted email #1 to relay A. When A decrypts this, it finds the message "Dear A, here is another encrypted message #2 which I want you to forward to relay B." Relay B decrypts anonymous message #2 to get message #3, which it forwards to relay C. Eventually the last relay is told to send the result to a destination email address D, which is the actual recipient. Relay A never knows that the message was going to D, and relay C never knows that the message came from you.
Do you know if there is source code for classic Windows apps like the Calculator, Notepad or Paint? Would love to recreate those simple apps and chuck the lousy Linux/Mac equivalents.
What I pieced together from the referenced “dark forest” article, ethereum cryptocurrency allows you to upload programs (smart contracts) that specify under what conditions cryptocurrency changes hands. If there are bugs in these programs, the money can be stolen. Fixing the bugs after the fact is only possible with new contracts, and there are bad actors constantly scanning the newly uploaded contracts, copy them while making themselves the beneficiary. This is fully automated. To bypass this they gave the contract directly to a miner, so it is only publicly visible after it is run/completed. I can imagine the appeal of working on this, it is really a specialized type of unpaid white hat security researcher.
IIRC OSI didn't make it up. OSI was created to codify the existing use of the term
1kg of coke becomes 3kg of crack ... I seriously doubt that. When you cook crack you wash any impurities out of the coke (and convert the salt to base). If anything it should weigh less (I think?).
You're almost certainly using the TPUs wrong. It's very easy to use them wrong, unfortunately.

When you use them right, a TPUv3-8 gets equivalent perf to a cluster of 8 V100s.

I was astounded. I trained StyleGAN 2 from scratch at 1024x1024 in 2.5 days. nvidia took 7 days for their official model. Granted, I used a v3-32, not a v3-8, but performance seems pretty similar.
Or: Humans possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily animal attribute. That would be better, less anthropocentric.
Like I said, "simple infection model (the SIR model)".

Which more rigorous models have the area under the curve as roughly the same, as you describe it?

I believe any model which has herd immunity, where personal immunity comes after a period of infection, must have the possibility of overshooting the minimum heard immunity density when the infection rate is high enough. As in the SIR model.

Lower the infection rate and there's lower overshoot.
In many parts of Europe, they actually do: if you study maths or even something related like CS or physics, you'll basically see proofs from day one. The split between "calculus" (non-rigorous) and "analysis" (with proper proofs) seems to be mostly a US thing.
This is just not true. Salty popcorn is very normal in both Europe and Latin America. The artificial butter component is something that is more American and rarer outside of the US.
You’re you’re talking about the behaviour in C. Other langages are not C and can and do define other behaviours.

Overflow is neither wrapping nor UB in Swift, it’s an error. Overflow is never UB in Rust but it might be wrapping or a panic. Overflow doesn’t exist in Python or Erlang. I think overflow is IB in Haskell.

You get the point: that signed overflow is UB and unsigned wraps in C has no bearing on what other langages do.

Swift traps on overflow, regardless of signedness.
Even if the standup is short and concise, I still think the meeting negatively impacts a team’s ability to do deep work.

Why? Because no matter when you schedule a daily meeting, it will be in the middle of someones deep work hours, and they will have to context switch for 15 minutes just to tell “No impediments”.
> instead of xlst we now have a dozen javascript or server side solutions.

And not one of them is harder to work with than XSLT. I'm all for declarative transformations in theory, but XSLT just sucks so bad if you actually try to use it.
Friendly reminder to use a VPN in the hypothetical case where you would want to download such a leak for _research purpose_.
Is It Really Two-Factor Authentication?
This is pretty accurate. I wrote it to tweak songs to my speakers when I'm streaming music. I wanted something very fast, no configuration, pleasant graphics.

While probably not suited for production work, the design is based off of existing production tools that I am very familiar with (Channel EQ from Logic Pro X, Parametric Eq 2 from FL Studio).
And honestly I blame Rocket Internet on the shitty state of SEO in the german markets. They hire dozens of juniors to do fake work, like linkbuilding and writting stupid SEO text below the actual content and then use stupid SEO tools to create management p$rn good looking charts to justify the spendings.

These people leave rocket internet and go to other companies and spread the toxic fake work approach.
Ask HN: Accounting Bootcamp or Degree?
Between school and work, I've been programming for 10 years.

I'm in the process of launching a startup with my partner who is
solely focused on the artistic/creative aspects of the business. I'd be responsible for the operational aspects of the business including managing the books.

I've also been planning an overseas move where minor variations in the timeline have drastic tax implications. I really enjoy and engaged with researching tax laws because it feels like "hacking" around a set of defined rules much like software systems.

Are there bootcamps for accounting? Would it be worthwhile to pursue an evening degree? Are there programs that is distant-learning centric?