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I mean, the same can be said about T-Mobile, which to my knowledge offers neither of those things (unless you count the free Netflix).
I've never interpreted that saying as a justification. It's a warning. Like, "Beware, if they're not charging you, then they're selling you".

It's not bunk, it's a good reasoning.

The reason it's "increasingly...bunk" now is that the implication--that paying prevents this--is turning out to be wrong.

You're the product, even if you're paying.
Neville Ray is great too and is probably the C-level that's been there the longest. Unlike Sprint, T-Mobile has usually made fairly pragmatic technology choices and usually beats their build-out estimates (unheard of at any of the other majors). He's also nice on Twitter and I've had a few exchanges with him like asking if they were ready for the last leap second, and he once dispatched a COLT (cell on light truck) to support the network when we had a large festival some summers back after I asked.
Ask HN: Is a Master's in CS worth it?
So I'm currently a chemist with a B.Sc. in Chemistry. I've been programming as a hobby for ~2 years now. I started off with Arduino, realized I knew absolutely nothing, then went down the rabbit hole by learning how to code in C++, followed by Python with some SQL. I've written some hobby projects for my portfolio but nothing too special or difficult.

I've gotten a few software developer interviews through networking, but ultimately nothing has come of it. I still feel like I know nothing. I am very much interested in software engineering, focusing on the Virtual Reality field. I'm only now looking to start learning about GPU programming, and graphics in general. Hopefully in a few years I'll be able to start my own business related to this field, but that's an aside.

Given that background and my goals, does it make sense for me to do my M.Sc. in CS? I recognize that there are other options but bootcamps seem to mainly focus on web development, which I have zero interest in. Similarly there are college programs that I can take, but I'm not too sure about those... It would be nice to hear from someone that has attended a CS/SE program in Ontario. The M.Sc. would probably take ~3 years as I'd have to take some undergraduate CS courses as well.

Note that I live in Ontario, Canada. I'm currently on a work permit but I've applied for PR which will come sometime in the next 12-18 months. I was an international student and I'd rather not pay international fees again, so I would wait until I actually got PR to attend university.

Any feedback welcome, thanks in advance :)
Cloudflare? Wonder if any were pointed at their lava lamps ;)
It's the lack of resources and assistance that makes it bad. Even the lowest margin industry jobs have a proper feast of resources for the use.

Whereas anything that someone has in academia has been hard won after years of paper wrangling, and you need to show something for it immediately.

That means you're stretched thin as a supervisor, because you need to not only wrangle your paperwork, but supervise students who all have to be showing positive contributions at every step.

When someone isn't, it's generally easier to torture them to death than it is for them to find their legs and right the ship, or realize this is a bad fit for them and leave.

After a while, that's the default, and not the exception.
Some companies are trying to move manufactured homes from the lowest quality rung into housing with better quality/design, like:

https://www.palmcanyonmobileclub.com

Granted, these are marketed toward retirees, which is why they are in Palm Springs, but it nonetheless shows that with a little investment in design and materials (which doesn't have to be very expensive), the format of manufactured homes can be separated from their historical associations with low quality.
There is an important aspect of how we interact with each other in the work place and this is indicative of a poisonous anti-human agenda to control those interactions.

Unfortunately I didn't really start it off too well and apology for being somewhat inflammatory.
> Don't you think that once that dystopian future comes - when that info might be used against you - we'll have much worse things to worry about?

Maybe you should read some dystopian fiction. You can see just how much we have to worry about, even in a "paradise".
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> Nothing says a company can't make a reasonable business decision to leave money on the table.

I say if you make the decision to leave money on the table, you'll be fired and replaced with someone who won't. If you own the company, you'll eventually sell it to someone who got the loan to buy you 100% based on a promise to immediately pick up the money you've been leaving on the table.
But there are no popular review websites that allow business owners to pay to remove negative reviews. So the inductive approach you advocate favors my position.
I've used Dvorak for 35 years, and I generally agree with this author. I've always been a quick and accurate typist, but I suspect that has more to do with early touch-typing lessons than the Dvorak layout. Dvorak certainly hasn't hurt, and I've never wanted to switch, but there's little reason to believe I couldn't have developed the same facility with QWERTY if that's where I'd started.

If curiosity about Dvorak is the hook that gets you to learn proper touch-typing, that's a win - use of Dvorak creates a certain discipline, after all, since there's no choice but to touch-type when the labels printed on the keys are meaningless! If you already touch-type fluently, however, I doubt you'll find much benefit.

Besides, how much does typing speed matter to a software developer? I spend an order of magnitude more time reading and thinking than typing.
Mexico on the verge of passing landmark cannabis bill
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Bit of a tangent, but: it’s absolutely possible to learn a relatively simple card-counting system and play with positive expected value in a casino. You can easily run simulations to prove this.
Plenty of companies are valued at more than 5x their assets. Tesla for example is valued at more than 10x their assets. Besides, immorality doesn't really enter into it. The SEC requires public filings to ensure investors can make informed decisions. The rest is up to the investor who presumably would be betting that the company's prospects will increase, at least partly as a result of avoiding bankruptcy an having enough cash on hand to buy some breathing room and recover. Of course, they may be wrong. But immorality only enters into it if there is deliberate deception.

Further, in the case of a company doing what you describe, they would in fact be ensuring their current shareholders, pre-$5b stock sale, don't lose all of their money.
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What is the default license/freedom for work found on GitHub if it doesn't contain a license?
My point was less that those were good solutions, but that a company I contend "shouldn't exist" likely has a different customer segment, like Tesla and Cloudflare.
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The Trojan angle is pretty solid because EncroChat was at one point fighting malware on the phone[1]. Not so much for the insider angle so I was probably thinking of another case. Too late to edit unfortunately...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat#Infiltration
Unfortunately, T-Mobile's probably the "least bad" of the Big Three. Maybe one of the smaller carriers running on the Big Three's towers?
> Paranoid? Unnecessary? Sorry, that's a cruel thing to say to those who were contaminated.

And it’s cruel to move thousands of people by force (and some of them died in the process). This is just an appeal to emotions, please don’t do that. There is already plenty to discuss about the effect of low-level radiation and risk assessments. Everybody is contaminated with radionuclides, there are numbers you can use to show that this specific contamination was more important than different background levels. Looking at those numbers show that the exclusion zone was vastly over-estimated.
I still think that needs to be opt in. I am an organ donor because I don’t care what happens to my body when I die, but I know a lot of people that do care and it should still be their decision.
If we scale up nuclear by 10 times, so that all power generation is handled by nuclear power plants, and we are extremely unlucky that we have 10 Fukushimas every year, and even if you count all the 1700 (non-radiation-related) death/Fukushima, we are still at 17,000 death/year, which is significantly lower than the number of death caused by fossil fuel power generation. (A quick Google search yielded 8.7 million/year).

Hell, even if you count all the people that have to evacuate for each Fukushima, we are still only at 4 million people moved/year vs. 8.7 million people death/year with fossil fuel power generation.

There are three more things to keep in mind:

1. I don't think we will have anywhere near 10 Fukushimas every year.

2. A lot of those stressed related death and evacuations are due to overly precautionary measures.

3. Death is much worse than having to relocate.

Yes, nuclear power generation does kill. However, the point is, it is significantly safer than fossil fuel.
Depends on what hardware they put in their cameras? I assume they aren't just using random IP cams, but deploying their own design? They could sneak in a cryptocoin ASIC for good measure.

Of course they most likely aren't doing that, but it's not out of the realm of possibility (and thus a missed opportunity to make this debacle peak cyberpunk).
If they wanted to end "surveillance capitalism", helping the company that supply these systems secure them better would not help their goal.

Or maybe they can collect the millions, and publish the compromising material anyway? Although if they had given you money, they'd have your law-enforcement compatible personal information.

Edit: ah I thought he was^W^W they were being anonymous, his^W their twitter point to his^W their website...
> I was a little astonished at how ham-fisted their messaging was

I'm just waiting for Amazon's last-ditch appeal to actual consumers... "Don't let these dirty poors around rural shittown America result in Amazon Prime yearly subscriptions going up $10 and products costing an additional $0.17!"
Skipped to 12:45, still talking about voting. Something about voting by party vs by candidate and that being why the math with percentages didn't work out in the earlier example, which seems to be context I'm missing from the previous 12 minutes.
Isn't "Whale" a derogatory term used in mobile games for a user that pays a lot of money? It doesn't seem like a great name for a paying user.
Any known security issue with Wyze?

I am very impress with their features. I am planning to buy couple of them, but I would never point them inside the house. Probably will put them in their own wifi network.

I built a home grow solution with RPi + Webcam + Google Drive with some python script. But the performance to upload Pics to G Drive was slow and the way viewing the pics uploaded to G Drive was not very convenient.
and in california, removal of the insanely high permit/building fees. that would be a great start.

I also wonder how many of these real estate firms are backed by Chinese investors too.
I'm not sure if the author is correct. I have this setting enabled. My iPhone died, it's my only apple device. Apple replaced it, I logged into iCloud on the new phone and all my Messages restored (along with everything else, it was like my old phone). How is that not a backup?
The US replaces dictatorships with dictatorships in the name of democracy all the time. It has also replaced democracies with dictatorships in the name of democracy.
I absolutely loved "If on a winter's night, a traveller" -- it's in the rarefied company of scant few other works of fiction capable of conjuring such vivid, surreal, and dreamlike worlds -- I can only think of Neuromancer and Paprika off the top of my head.
Isn't the whole point of announcing security patches so that people can update before they're exploited?
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Yeah, I wonder if the hackers had the same feed used to generate Cloudflare's randomness... that could be a vastly bigger security breach on top of this one.
The HackerNews algorithm uses velocity (I don't know the exact equation) to rank posts so a post with 20 points acquired in a 5 minutes span will generally outperform a 400 points post for which the points are only trickling in.
>If a student finds a particular method or approach easier to comprehend, shouldn't the teacher adapt to that rather than forcing you to use the "correct" method?

your school leaving exams or next school will probably not care

and they will test whatever they want, so why take a risk?

you can be challenged by a task which is doable in both methods, but "recommened" approach needs 3min in order to get this done,

meanwhile your's solution needs 15min. I mean here that standarized tests aren't some kind of trickery, they just tend to test how many various approaches do you know.

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also how many times can it be done? (deciding that it's ok to use other/easier method instead of "state of art" solution) once? twice? thrice? very often?
Humor is often the most efficient way to communicate/accept the truth.
> That is common tone, isn't it?

I think you meant, "That is a common theme, isn't it?"
Yea, there is a reason gambling was originally banned and we get to learn that lesson all over again.
That would indeed be one reason (aside from sheer time) I've avoided doing it fully.
At this rate, the saying might as well be "if you don't own the company, you're the product". I can't imagine this sort of scumbaggery would fly with a carrier that's, say, a customer-owned cooperative.
What’s happening is that the masses now have access to do the same absurd gambling that the “experts” have been doing for a century. The only way out is to remove the gambling functions from the market.

But then that would require that traders go get actual jobs, and produce actual value. I think these people would rather see the US burn than do that.
That high ranking MP is currently the leader of the opposition National party.
Are you a member of an organized crime syndicate?
Regarding the relationship the US has with the ICC, see the American Service-Members' Protection Act.

> ASPA authorizes the President of the United States to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court". This authorization has led the act to be nicknamed the "Hague Invasion Act".

> The act prohibits federal, state and local governments and agencies (including courts and law enforcement agencies) from assisting the court. For example, it prohibits the extradition of any person from the U.S. to the Court; it prohibits the transfer of classified national security information and law enforcement information to the court.

> The act also prohibits U.S. military aid to countries that are party to the court. However, exceptions are allowed for aid to NATO members, major non-NATO allies, Taiwan, and countries that have entered into "Article 98 agreements", agreeing not to hand over U.S. nationals to the court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
Oh but there is more, a lot more. I've mostly been a Android owner but some years ago I got an iPhone instead. The glaring UX issues everywhere are hard to ignore. I just started documenting everyday, so I can share it in the future. But there is definitely more than just one issue with Apples UX and UI.
d/ld roblox yesterday, it's impossible to play some of the popular ones on a tablet, no idea what's going on with pigs running around hitting people on the head, uninstalled immediately
I’ve been burned by Apple Notes on iPhone many years ago.

Toggling on iCloud sync copied my notes there, but I then toggled it off seconds later and my local copy of hundreds of notes got deleted.
If people are choosing to buy the stock, why does it matter if the seller is the company rather than anyone else in the world? The purchasers are getting the same deal. If it's perfectly fine for a purchaser to pay a random investor $2.58 for a share of Hertz, it should be fine for them to purchase the exact same share for $2.58 when the counter party happens to be Hertz.

If Hertz had been dishonest or misleading about the situation then that would be a problem, but they were completely upfront about the risks.
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What you are describing is 'owning your own home can be a good long term investment' which is generally true.

However, that is not really a good description of the property investment the OP was referring to.

The OP was describing the situation where one individual owns many properties for the sake of investment.

It is that scenario it is the investor demand for properties that is driving up the property price making them unaffordable.

What's worse is this situation is self-inflating.

As a property investor with a handful of properties, you're in a good position to go to the bank, get a further loan to buy yet another property.

That then drives up the property price, which drives up value of your existing property assets, which then allows you to get an additional loan for yet another property.

This also means, people without that collateral backing have a much harder time getting their first property and when they do they pay a much higher price.

That bubble will continue to grow while interest rates remains low.
Care to share even 1 or 2 of the most egregious off the top of your head?

Edit: Thanks all. I have to disagree that "Apple's no better than anyone else when it comes to UX" -- I think they are better but also make a lot of annoying mistakes. UX is hard, doubly so when you have such popular devices that try to cater towards so many different groups (children, techies, common folks, older non-tech savvy, etc). No one makes nearly as many popular devices and software under the same brand that comes close to this high of a standard. The reason all of these things stick out is because the expectations are so high.
I've had a terrible handwriting, and we had 'calligraphy' in like 3rd-4th grade or so, where I consistently received 1s and 0s, sometimes 2s (of 12), switched few schools, and the only person who cared enough about teaching me writing, instead of "grading" it, was my math teacher in high school, maybe it didn't become perfect, but it became readable, and for that I'm grateful to her.

Even though I'm mostly typing now, it helped me in university and it helps me sometimes when solving problems on paper is easier than with computers.
Yep, and this is in fact the type of bankruptcy Hertz is pursuing. Re-org, not a chapter 7 liquidation.

But to clarify, not all investors get screwed. (or at least not completely). Stock owners, unless they're of a class with a higher claim than normal common stock, will usually (though not always) lose everything. However, many bondholders will receive some of their money. How much is determined by many factors, including the type of bond and how senior the debt associated with it.
>If you delete a message, it's deleted from all your devices immediately, and it's gone forever. Delete an entire conversation? Gone forever.

This is expected behavior on 2-way sync. Presumably backups made before the message was deleted will still have the message but will delete it out once network connectivity is restored.
Does anyone know why her property taxes were not escroed into her mortgage?
Well that and probably the pricing psychology of paying what would be your LTV as a subscriber up front.

That’s also why I don’t agree subscription software is categorically detrimental but more of a trade off. The benefit is there for both parties: for the seller it’s easier to convert people because you’re only asking for the one month or one year price, for the buyer you’re at most out that same reduced price if the service doesn’t work out.

The negative is of course that you don’t own it outright, but it seems a lot of people are happy with the trade off. Apart from HN.
I don't think Zig is going to be better than Rust at preventing other bugs. I don't know. No one knows. Software correctness is a very tricky thing about which we don't know much more than we know. UB are a cause of many bugs, and Zig eliminates many kinds of UB; Rust eliminates more. But Zig is also better at things we also know reduce bugs: simple semantics with simpler analysability, and shorter turnaround, which means more tests. In formal methods research we also have an analogous choice of approaches: more soundness at the cost of higher complexity and effort or vice-versa. There is no point hypothesising about which works better because even the experts have no idea, and it's certainly possible they are about even. The only thing that can settle this is empirical research.
Easier said than done. Read the "Key distribution" section of that page.
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Now that would be funny. However, would this not be fairly obvious to one of those sites doing tear downs? Then again, if found, would the PR one of those tear down sites could generate slow the sales down enough to make it a losing prospect for the manufacturer?

Non-techy people are willing to look so so far the other way in trade of convenience. Showing them "facts" about how much electricity their cameras are using would not impact the vast majority of the users if they feel like the service they are receiving is good enough.
Year ago I've published full disclosure on similar case with Chinese IP cameras, DVRs and NVRs: https://habr.com/en/post/486856/

Interesting thing is super-user account was discovered earlier, but vendor swept it under the rug few times, adding trivial obstacles on each occasion. My article describes latest case, breaking encrypted challenge based on hard-coded secret key and homegrown 3DES variant.
The balance of power is shifting as SpaceX is developing a cost effective way of building infrastructure in space. Russia probably is well aware of this and is re-aligning itself with a competing power.
I was really happy with Republic Wireless, and would still be using them, though am currently on ATT due to circumstances.
True. But on the flip side, technologies like virtual machines and containers have gone a long way to solve that in a better way.
If what you say is true then yes, but it doesn't sound logical. Why would the French government take taxpayers' money, put that into nuclear facilities, then sell the surplus to other countries if it's such a clear loss of money? Wouldn't it be more economical to either have other types of energy production facilities or import the power instead?

I'm going to need sources, preferably Wikipedia or something similarly peer-reviewed (not a random blog or opinionated organisation), for this to make sense to me.
Non-specific virtual signalling.
That would be a really interesting direction for recommendation engines:

"If you didn't like this book, they should absolutely stay away from the following list of books."
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IIRC, HMR in webpack has an issue when you add/remove/possibly reorder imports in JS; the imports are cached in memory by their index (or something like this), so when you remove a fifth import, suddenly the previously-sixth import statement will refer to the wrong module after HMR.

Took me a good while to understand the issue is with HMR and not my code. I restart the dev server many times a day just to be sure or when things inevitably explode.