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Let me chime in: just bought a T14s. Could be a dream machine but the shite 1080 panel (Windows recommends a hilariously crappy 1.5 scaling. Kidding me?) the pesky trackpad and the awfully glitchy Windows 10 (yah, probably the drivers but the platform enables this horror) destroy the value of this otherwise pretty solid device.
There are tons of expensive monitors available that cater to the professional market. The whole premise is not based in reality. Apple simply has the highest mindshare among average products.
My perspective on things:

If I jump to another company that "looks better" in the press, in Twitter circles etc... it's more likely I've gone somewhere which just doesn't allow employees to complain about things.

Every company has demons as bad as, if not worse -- the only difference with Google is employees aren't afraid to openly share the skeletons from the closet, and things like Maven/Dragonfly got cancelled as a result. Many other companies would've just fired half the workforce.

I don't like everything that happens here, but at least I get the impression that stuff is out in the open.
Raiden is doing that for the ethereum network, if you count the fact that each node can be a mediator for multi-hop transfers. https://raiden.network
I bought a set 7 years ago for $80; it's cheap not just in price: it's basic; but it works.
Our society has turned into a competition between different organizations and communities to out-bribe and out-corrupt each other... I think it's a matter of time before all hell breaks loose.

This trustless, lawless environment is ideal for cryptocurrencies.
If you're using it powered all the time, have you checked out the existing plug in "fake battery" options? Here's one example: https://www.amazon.com/Glorich-Replacement-Adapter-Cameras-F...
The Rosetta 2 translation is very impressive.

The $2600 32GB 2TB Intel-based Macbook Pro 13" is only $300 more than the $2300 16GB 2TB M1-based Macbook Pro 13", though. If you could spec the M1 with 32GB, it would probably cost the same.

As pointed out, if you go with 1TB, you save $400. As per usual, the upgrade prices are (in my opinion) crazy!
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Yeah, but it was a super niche term back then. After 2010, at least, bare metal was used a lot more for: "running the OS we need (+ app) directly on a physical server".

This usage has been, in my experience, a lot more widespread.
Search for successful hardware kickstarter postmortems (is it still called post mortem if it succeeded?). I think Bunnie might have done one for novena.
The CEO was not a fraud and given the genuine fully-established and world class credentials of his technical reports in previous engagements, entirely unlikely that he could have faked it with that crowd. No. It seems he had adjusted per prevailing and current norms of SV.

Beyond that clarification, I think it irresponsible to name names. This wasn't a case of "fraud" - Peter Principle ruled the day. Both CTO and DoE had in fact lead a successful very large scale internet product company, which is the reason they were tapped. It just happens that this domain was far more nuanced and complex than the domain of their previous victory tour.

Also, as expected, they (including the super enthusiastic junior engineers that kept pushing for "microservices") have all moved on.

This is just how the industry works.
Among others, those aren't the only contenders.
>We somehow survived without it 60 years ago.

60 years ago we were putting way dumber contaminants in our bodies.
> Is this worthy of social outcast?

Yes, it is. Go do something worthwhile with your life.
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And, coming from the other side: recent years has seen the pro offer less and less in terms of ports and user-upgradability (two of the solid reasons to buy a pro in previous years).

Point being: the air and the pro seem be converging to a single point and the air is already there.
India’s digital payment systems can transform the creative economy. A post-advertising-only internet is emerging and India has all the building blocks in place to be a leader. Our argument here -
You are lucky - I hate my nation now - my place of birth I have Native American ancestors they were not any better really I do envy people born in Canada or even Poland because I could move to Germany I do love the weather and when I can get high enough to forget about the republicans I like it I like that we have the Grand Canyon and New York but if you are stuck in a job for a pension and health insurance and can’t leave it sucks - yeah fuck being American it sucks deep inside
It is whack-a-mole, but you just keep doing it. Similar to what happens when the big guys go after the spammers. Anytime they become organized and identifiable, you take them out.

I heard once of a strategy called "mowing the grass", you want to keep your opponents unsophisticated and always regrouping.
I'm not annoyed, I just wonder if it looks somewhat normal in other countries/cultures. It does not feel inappropriate, just completely coming out of nowhere.

It's like having a regular interaction like "hey, at what time do we meet up?" "at 10:20, because 2010 is the year justin bieber relased his first big hit and justing bieber is the best artist I have loved in my life, he is the best among all." The way I read it it's out of place to the point where it sounds creepy/makes me wonder about the mental state of the person making that connection.
> The best way to help them is to avoid introducing unnecessary restrictions.

But that's the other side of the exact same coin. How do you know if a restriction today is good or bad for the future? Restrictions prevent misuse and unexpected behavior, in the good case.
Sounds like MS, Google and FB has just confirmed that they store in their database information allowing "surveil" on people. Good we have that stated clearly.

Big Guys, solution is simple: just delete or anonymize those data, so it is not possible to surveil people, you will not have to fight legal battles and NSO will not try to break into your database.

In addition you will avoid temptation to surveil people by yourself!

And you will not need to hand over these data to parties that are able to force you do this. Be that Chinese government or FBI or some other 3 letter agency.
The unfortunate catch is only two thunderbolt ports, otherwise agree. I absolutely loathe the Touch Bar, and would pay extra for a pro without one.
And I want the name generator. IMHO a name generator like this should be built in every system that requires you to choose a username. Perhaps an IDE should also have it and let you generate temporary names (for projects and, perhaps, for classes too) you can auto-refactor once you actually write some code.
Yep! Still using the "Auria" monitor that I purchased at Microcenter back around 2012. Cost maybe $300-350 for a 2560x1440 IPS monitor at a time when you were easily looking at $500-800+ for a similar panel from a name brand.

Now, if you were a professional, that quality control and warranty (not to mention better ergonomics, etc.) were easily worth the added cost, but for just "some dude who liked playing video games and doing some photo/video editing", it was a great bang for the buck.

I still use this as my main monitor and haven't noticed any dead pixels (if there are any, they're so hard to see that they may as well not be there). It's not the best monitor out there and you can probably get a better 2560x1440 display for less now, but at the time it was a big improvement over the cheap 1920x1080 display that quickly got demoted to secondary (and has now been loaned indefinitely to a teacher friend who needed a second monitor to plug into her laptop for online classes).
It makes her post less credible, since it significantly raises the likelihood that she got fired for being toxic at work instead of whatever reason she didn't even mention.
All of these headline companies already sell backdoors into their products to the NSA, according to Snowden. Is this just them defending their exclusive contracts? Preventing competition?
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Wasn't here on HN like a month ago an article how to setup a Raspberry Pi as an USB camera? With everything in it (software on github, BoM, wiring/PCB. Can't find it now.

The price would be around $200 sans good audio, not that it matter anyway since in a conference I always ask for headsets. Also the setup was so good that the RPi would've been recognized as an USB camera by another RPi directly - plug'n'play.
same, I tried for my test environment server but there were too many undocumented configuration steps, eventually just went with a single node minikube and that was that, I'd love an article with all the kinks worked out.
Ken Biba (long ago CEO of Xircom) wanted a token passing mechanism for 802.11
direct link (in the article, but kinda buried): https://blogs.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/5/...
> In the same way that it's Facebook's prerogative to spread misinformation on their website, it's the user's prerogative to understand that they shouldn't trust what they read on Facebook.

The asymmetry between Facebook users and Facebook users is enormous. One has the power to spend vast sums on advertising to attract new users, maintain a clean brand image with PR, monitor non-users' actions across the internet and beyond and algorithmically manipulate the emotions and beliefs of its users, etc.

What power do you or I have to justify splitting the moral responsibility with them 50/50? More education is always a good thing, but it's too late to tell 1.62 billion daily active users (Q3 2019) "You should know better". Facebook has become too good at what it does.

I don't know what the answer is. But whatever it is, letting Facebook carry on doing what it does and expecting society to change around it isn't going to work.
Maybe I was not able to make it clear - what I meant was "if you can inject arbitrary code in disabled fields and the system is using those JSON data elsewhere, it can lead to injection attacks"

The whole idea is validate the user inputs - be it disabled fields or normal inputs
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Username checks out ..

Have you ever heard of search bubbles?
I think this is accurate, but thrre is great educational value when you can see several physical computers working in a cluster, scaling pod on CPU, etc.

I used to have 3 low-power Nuc-style computers, and after playing around for a few months I did the same thing as you have - replaced them with a single beefier machine, and its a lot more practical.
It doesn’t matter, you can have the best lighting and audio ever and still look like a garbled piece of stuttering pixel shit on an end user’s machine because their connection can’t handle the streaming. Unless you’re a cam girl don’t even bother with a sophisticated webcam setup.
> What are good reasons for not having this right by default ?

The good reason is that someone or some company paid for creating all those hundreds of hours of footage, so they get the first and final say over who gets to view and/or use it.
In short: DDD - Domain Driven Design

That's also the most useful thing i learned with doing microservices at work.

Note many good articles/videos about practical domain boundaries/designing AggregateRoot though. Does anyone have any tips? I feel that i'm lacking somewhat in designing them.
The problem with this is that it's almost entirely based on prejudice and people saying things that turn out not to be true ... Caster Semenya [has] high natural testosterone

Caster Semenya has XY chromosomes and internal testes. Semenya has "high natural testosterone" as a result of having male anatomy and hormones. The specific regulation Semenya has been fighting is explicitly "limited to athletes with ’46 XY DSD’ – i.e. conditions where the affected individual has XY chromosomes."

The idea that testosterone confers physical advantages of strength/speed is not "vague biological determinism" it's one of the most basic facts of our existence. It the primary reason sex-segregated sports exist in the first place.

"To say that an XY human can’t compete in the women’s category of professional sports unless they lower their testosterone below 5 nmol/L — a figure that is still 7.5 times the value of the average woman competing at the 2011 and 2013 track and field World Championships and a figure that not a single healthy woman born with XX chromosomes, ovaries, and producing estrogen at puberty can reach — isn’t a huge human rights travesty. It’s a protection of women’s sports."

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/05/what-no-one-is-telling-...
Do MacBook Pro 13 and xps17 have the same weight? Doesn’t seem pound to pound.

Comparison with xps13 would make more sense.
Yeah it's not so much sponsorship (see other reply on donations) as "affinity". GOOG/FB employees lean D, and R's have historical beef (e.g. Google could have stopped the whole "santorum" thing). R's are still upset about that [reliably comes up in my meetings w/ R staffers] and the perceived "suppression" of conservative speech.

The cynicism is justified, but the second clause of the sentence should be, "when the consumer harm standard is the driving force behind antitrust enforcement." Unless the new brandeisians/"hipster antitrust" people pull some kind of Jedi mind trick that carries a case all the way to SCOTUS, we are all out of luck. It is difficult to overturn 30 years of case law.
How stable do you see it ? What's your cluster size? How long has it been running? Any tips for how to approach starting such setup?
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None of them adopted by Id or Bethesda, and representative of possible lost sales.

If it wasn't for Carmack it wouldn't ever have happened.
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True, though Intel isn't looking like it's going to catch up in the next 5 years, so it seems that it'll be generations behind for the foreseeable future.

Basically the reason why Apple abandoned them.
Likely zipf distribution at play: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fCn8zs912OE
If the need / opportunity to abstract something is highly subjective then it is best left to the team lead / senior architect. For all other obvious cases having a policy as outlined above strikes a healthy balance between autonomy and uniformity.
Didn't that post just prove that Google hired hundreds of students from minority colleges?
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So what is their current business revenue?
If Japan were not doing enough testing, you would expect to see a high positivity rate on PCR tests. But positivity rates have been relatively low. Well under 10% since April, and even under 5% for much of the year [1].

A 5% positivity rate or lower is the WHO’s recommendation for when countries can begin to loosen restrictions [2]. Currently the rate is above 5% in Japan which is a concern. We are starting to see the government take measures to curb the spread, by suspending “Go To Travel” subsidies over New Years for example. And they have said they will do more if necessary. And fortunately growth seems to at least have leveled off a bit in recent weeks.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/positive-rate-daily-smoot...

[2] https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/covid-19-testing-und...
^this*100

it's also not lost on those "professionals" that if you can diagnose enough kids with various unfalsifiable "medical conditions", you're set for life with a steady supply of paying customers in the form of easy-street "patients" you can "treat" without ever having to provide any "cure"

and anybody who questions the validity of a science not based on logical reasoning is obviously autistic themselves and thus doesn't count - real people have this emotional intelligence that you simply cannot understand, silly; you're just thinking too logically and thus you're wrong and if you don't shut up and obey we might have to put you in an asylum (for your own good, of course!) because we're so caring and understanding that I'm almost fainting just from thinking about just how good of a person I am
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I replaced a 2017 MBP with an M1 Air (until the 16" Apple Silicons come out), and agree completely. IMO, the MBA best showcases what this initial M1 rev can do. No fan, completely silent, cool running, thin, light, long battery life and fast. It's pretty amazing really. And, coming from a 2017 MBP, everything is much faster.

For example, a large java app's test suite takes ~7 mins on the 2017 MBP and ~3 mins on the M1 Air. I never thought an MBA could work for me day and day out, but here we are.
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My whole office only has a single 5W LED lamp! I thought that was enough.
"Jeff Bezos received massive handouts" is not a feeling or a personal choice. It's a fact. I live in a fact based reality. I can't glean any meaning or value from your paragraphs of rambling about feelings.

It would be completely idiotic if someone beat me in a marathon by starting on the last mile and then I look at that then say to myself "hmmm, I guess that guy just runs really fast."
People want to feel empowered to choose. If there are so many options that choosing is hard, then it's just another source of stress. Research indicates that the ideal number of choices is four, with anywhere from three to seven being good.

In an ideal world, we would have artisans that could craft high quality bespoke items for a fair price, and a small selection of popular items that suit most people.
The world of school software and educational materials is a dystopian and dysfunctional nightmare. Nearly all a re badly designed, sloe, confusing and built with accidental and intentional backdoors, spyware and software sxpliciftly intended to cripple your PC (no screenshots, no copying, phone home functions)... And all of them are deeply designed for 'lock in' - nothing more profitable than a guaranteed multi year contract with tens of thousands of unwilling students. 98% of features are broken and just exist on fancy marketing documents to make sure some lying middleman can push them through a procurement process.

I remember being at an EdTech conference ~ 7 years ago and even then i was not just stunned by the amount of false claims (AI, ...) but also generally where the focus lay (anti-fraud, student control, web filters...).

The whole ecosystem is just massively broken with students and teachers at most as an afterthought. Neither the entrenched companies nor startups seem to understand concepts like PEDAGOGY, TRUST or student-teacher RELATIONSHIP and instead consider students somewhere akin to criminals to be monitored, controlled and indoctrinated and teachers as nothing more than passive vessels that need ready made solutions and no freedom whatsoever.

In the end your average functional school probably gets some of this software but most likely would fate best with its own install of Moodle (for all its flaws - reliable, lots of community support, and cheap) and then various web apps.

With the current ecosystem most students and teachers fare best with just nothing than with any of this. School districts/owners should invest into teacher training and maybe generic moodle instances, and to get laptops near the classrooms. But please don't buy any of this evil crap.
Back in the early 2000s the community wireless network in Perth Australia “WAFreeNet” made a token passing system for WiFi to solve the hidden node problem (obviously not for mesh networks like this): http://frottle.sourceforge.net/

My favourite quote which can still be found in the slashdot comments “ There was nothing new about the concept - polled systems and token rings are common knowledge in communications and networking. It wasnt difficult - it only took me a weekend, and that included the time spent learning perl (it was my first go). It was even operating at the wrong layer - using UDP control messages to schedule IP traffic. Regardless of all it's limitations, it worked, so I got the other WAFreenet members involved with testing and development.”
Right? Like "is this for home use, office use, or gaming?"

I guess I understand where they're coming from, when most potential customers would likely glaze over and click away if presented with a long list of specs and product numbers.

Still, it's always nice when they at least have a "show all products" link that takes me to exactly that. I want a full list that can be narrowed down with filters.
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I'd like to know why the title was changed too...
I'd start with a cheap camera focused Android phone, they start at £200. Plenty of apps to turn them into IP webcams too.
The security of having an audit trail with no way of reversing the transaction and the freedom to get ripped off by a shady exchange?
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Same here, but I wonder if Biden's pushback won't be more like mid-90's tech opposition (Piracy! Pornography! "You wouldn't encrypt a car, would you?"). We'll see what kind of hamfisted weirdness shows up in a compromise 230 bill in the next Congress.
I think you raise a fair point here regarding the unproven harm/benefit. The same default to "it must be bad" happened with mobile phone radiation. If people are going to be in business of unsubstantiated claims then that one always struck me as rich: you could just as easily imagine a scenario where the extra heat improves blood flow thus enhancing cognitive ability! (to be clear I'm not seriously suggesting this)
It's reasonable to discuss this with an open mind even if the vast majority of human environmental impact have been negative for life (eg pesticides, lead, CFCs etc)
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> It's a simple solution to a minor class of threats.

The threat models it addresses are (1) "evil maid without time to download a keylogger", (2) "cloud leak of your password database alongside sites that aren't using any 2fa" and (3) "cloud leak of your password database alongside SMS-based 2fa and a desire to go through the trouble to SIM-swap you".

All of these threat models are handled with TOTP-2FA. (1) is rare. (2) and (3) require your password manager to be compromised but not your application's password database.

In practice, virtually all threats to online accounts are phishing or password stuffing from database breaches. This system does not change your posture against these threats.

People will only follow so much security advice so you need the specific small set of things that you recommend to everybody to address the most common threats and you need the set of things you recommend to more targeted individuals to actually address a wide range of threats. Introducing additional systems that address a subset of meaningful threat models just introduces confusion.

"Use a password manager with autofill to generate unique passwords" defeats credential stuffing and most forms of phishing. This system is worse against phishing since you personally type in the password. "Use a password manager with autofill and a yubikey" fully defeats credential stuffing and phishing. It also defeats the situations addressed by horcruxes.

> My issue was that the "whole solution" to the problem proposed by the parent relies on idealised password manager usage which I don't think is representative of real-world use.

I do agree with this.
Ironically, plastics and other hydrocarbons now substitute for many of the uses of lead: pipes, paint, gasoline additives, etc. So to say we should have moved slowly to plastics would probably mean lead would have been around for a lot longer.

I'd happily take the wager that removing lead from the environment around us was the right move. I might lose the bet, but I think it's a reasonable position.
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