skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're competing with the government of China, then capitalism isn't really the rules of the competition.
What are the indicators that replacing them is neigh?
> Japan itself has a homegrown industry of claiming it is utterly different from all other nations.

Pretty much all countries have this sort of narrative about themselves, at least among each country's patriots.
A survey conducted by the Harvard Kennedy School found that satisfaction with the central government in China rose from 86.1% in 2003 to 93.1% in 2016: https://ash.harvard.edu/publications/understanding-ccp-resil...

Is the US government's abysmal approval rating by comparison a sign of our free thinking and freedom, or do you think we'll have a revolution here soon?
You cannot blame CBs. I despise the current monetary policy as much as the next person but this is a function of society. We have stopped believing in “no pain no gain”. We think that everyone should be gifted a painless utopian existence in which nothing bad ever happens.

Darwinian forces always win.
1/3 of Basecamp employees accept buyouts
> Where you can't beat them though, is starting in timer mode, so you have freshly baked bread just ready for breakfast.

Don't many ovens have timers for this and/or for getting dinner started early? Or does the dough not do as well when left in a larger area such as an oven for an extended period while not cooking?
My old job 401K was shifting into the new job 401K, so for a week or so my $ was in a check in the mail between companies, and I think I missed like 2% gain. It's semi real $. It's annoying.
Rg3d (Rust game engine) adds WebAssembly support
Very unfortunate but predictable that people here mostly defend Apple on this
>Why is it that even slightly old systems are so buggy that they are trivially hackable for a moderately well funded group?

Because there's not enough money in making things bug-free from the start. It is possible (see seL4 and They Write the Right Stuff), but the incentives aren't there.

Some kind of liability or minimum standard (similar to building code) would help, but I'm not sure just how it would be best implemented.
How is that a logical conclusion? It's just one conclusion.
I've actuated almost every keyswitch under the sun, I've dabbled in chorded keyboards, I've designed my own layout and keyboard circuit boards....

After so many years I've come full circle and I just use a Magic Keyboard too :)
What's #ruby-lang?
These kind of submissions tend to bounce back and forth as flags and upvotes fight against each other. I've been on the front page 3 times in the past 10 minutes, and it was there the first and third time.
Agreed, but culture and mindshare matter. You can be big like node or big like Perl. Losing cachet can be like going out of business: slow then sudden.
Security patches, for one thing, right?
I wasn't. But then I've literally been working on engines since i was a little kid.
> Same goes for hotel room safes. I would certainly not store anything very valuable in there. But to lock away a couple hundred euros, some equipment and your cards, which you don't need to carry on your person it's good enough.

For stuff like that I usually just try and find a good hiding spot.

The hotel safes are trivial to open (most don't even bother changing the factory master password...) and that's the first place anyone is going to look for stuff to steal.

It's kinda like if the hotel room had an open wicker basket with a sign saying "STORE VALUABLES HERE"--you'd probably keep them literally anywhere _but_ there.
For beginners Linux Journey is a good resource, even if it is incomplete and slightly dated https://linuxjourney.com/ but it isn't outdated like tldp
For all the DD you do, there is no predicting the future.

Plus there is a very real incentive for companies to do shady things, e.g. Volkswagon or Enron.

Are you sure those companies you're holding aren't lying out of their ass? Can you prove that? Like, unless you're in the accounting dept. at those firms -- or someone who can otherwise get those numbers -- you can't.

At that point it's gambling. It may be akin to counting cards, where you can make probabilistic guesses, but best case is still uncertain.

Otherwise you're rocking a very special secret, or are manipulating the market. But for the rest of the us stock plebs, is effectively gambling.
I'm cautiously optimistic, I've been following Louis Rossmann's efforts and Massachusetts recently passed their right to repair bill (https://youtu.be/8XN98T0KLGI).

If other industries can do it why can't we?
> you’re effectively saying that iOS is worth $10/mo, which is a gross underestimate

Windows costs me way less than that, why should iOS cost 500$?
They're going to remain in control of the mainland population, by giving them a big patriotic victory. (And by delivering on what they said, over and over, that they were going to do.)
Most Covid-19 tests also test for the flu.
The 11th Reason to Delete Your Social Media Account: The Algorithm Will Find You
If anyone is looking for a hands on educational model, my 6 year old and I put together a model V8 engine [1] (made by Haynes of technical manual fame I think) that does a pretty reasonable job of capturing the essence of the main parts of an internal combustion engine. It kept him (and me) thoroughly engrossed for a few hours.

[1] https://www.themotorbookstore.com/build-your-own-v8-engine-m...
KVM is a Linux kernel module. ineedasername says they were using QEMU on Windows 7.
Découvrez le nouveau jeton HamtaroBSC – Qu'est-ce que le Hamtaro Token?
HamtaroBSC est un jeton déflationniste basé sur la chaîne intelligente de Binance. C'est aussi un jeton dirigé uniquement par sa communauté.
It helps that they are abundant (in the hundreds of millions units produced), have been in use for decades (since the mid-50s), and are simple to work on (as evidence by the OP randomly learning to machine one).

As cool as 2-atom thick plasma transfer wire arc cylinder liners are, that's not something which will ever be available to a layman.
1/3rd of your employees so far. Would like to see how many stick around having to operate in an environment where a third of your coworkers just walked (based on past experiences when this occurred due to layoffs).
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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied
Is this going to be pinned to the front page? Or added as a menu at the top?

Adding as a menu at the top will mostly ignored by all except by a select few. Having it pinned to the front page as the first post would be a good way.
I'm a little confused about why you're responding to me. I think I agree with everything you're saying, but I'm not sure where the comparison with PHP hosting is coming from. Are you sure you responded to the right thread?
Didn't Coinbase do something similar and only have 5% take the buyout option? How is this so different from what Coinbase did?
Especially during the pandemic it would be nice to have something that facilitated online communications with people I know IRL. I've never understood how to use it, whenever I go on I see someone's post and like it maybe go to comment only to realize it was from five days ago. People talk about getting into huge discussions and spending tons of time on there, I mostly see a handful of semi-stale posts, a handful of fresh ones, a handful of comments on a few of them. Maybe it is my friend group that is the problem? Maybe it is my infrequent usage? Maybe you have to use it a lot to get anything out of it?

The other problem is that I would not have the same conversations with my conservative relatives as my liberal friends, and it feels awkward that everything is visible to everyone.
I wonder how exchanges know each other's addresses? Don't they tend to use a new address for every incoming and outgoing payment?

Do they have private API's to verify addresses?
They try to do completely different things, it would be more meaningful to compare wasm with asm.js (let's try to improve a dynamic JITted language as a compilation target with simple semantics) and Java with Rust (let's try to make a language you could write anything in).

Java/JVM is a strong compilation target but it is mainly a language and an ecosystem, wasm is building an impressive ecosystem but it is mainly a compilation target designed to be easily embeddable anywhere.

Essentially the only things they have in common is the "run everywhere" slogan.

To actually answer your question with my opinions:

- wasm has a stronger sandbox and will (likely) never have any runtime reflection capability

- wasm is primarily meant to be easily embedded/interpreted

- wasm is extremely small

- it offers no new functionality that isn't already present in javascript (this will eventually become false)

- wasm lives within the sandbox of the browser

- it is standardized together with javascript inside the web platform, not as a separate entity
> One thing I gained an appreciation for was how CHEAP cars and engines are. There's probably nothing else with as precise machining that is as inexpensive.

Not to denigrate the amount of engineering that went into car engines, but literally, what about chips? Devices that contain billions of transistors, arranged precisely on the order of nanometers. Yet they cost only hundreds of dollars.
> I can buy a cheap trim router at Harbor Freight and it'll work as well or better than many of the top brands at Home Depot.

Generally buy cheap first. Odds are it'll will get the job done for what you need.

If you do actually manage to work it hard enough to break it, then you know that it may actually be worth spending a little extra.
> EVs don't need a catalytic converter, so that's a big thing in their favor.

I feel there is some sort of scam going on with catalytic converters for the last few years. I actually worked in a small family owned auto shop in the early 2000's. If a car came in with a clogged cat, we'd first fix the source of the issue (usually a mis-firing cylinder allowing raw fuel into the exhaust) and then we'd cut out the cat, and weld in a universal fit one that we'd get from the auto store for $20. Then charge the customer $200-$400 for labor. I still see universal fit ones[0] although they are $80 now. But still, if you aren't dumping raw fuel or oil into your exhaust, cats are basically good for 300k+ "normal" driving miles. I assume they are expensive now because they are all mostly specially made/custom fit since all car manufactures keep cramming bigger and bigger engines into smaller and smaller spaces.

And while I'm ranting, there's always a negative for every positive and no doubt for the catalytic converter. For a catalytic converter to convert "greenhouse gases", the engine has to be burning fuel at a perfect air:fuel ratio of 14.7:1. While cruising down the highway, an engine could easily save fuel by running a more lean mixture, but this would cause more "greenhouse gases" to go out. So choose your poison I suppose.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/7X0sPlk
> My experience comes from the opposite side. Usually I identify the line of code causing a bug, it makes me go "wtf, what is this even supposed to be doing?" so I do a git blame.

If the commit message is something like: PROJECT-TICKETNUMBER Description, you can you know... see the ticket/issue along with full details and discussions?
welp, TIL of /lists. thanks dang.
Sure, they claim that. Try traveling from one to the other (either direction) without crossing border control. Or, try to find the common point of authority in the command structures of their respective militaries. They're two countries, no matter what they say they are.
This is awesome! I guess more likely given the title of this post, but still pretty cool that the author of a library is here in the comments.
Again, no one is making Spotify use apple. They don't have too. They choose to because they ll make money. They just want to make more money by going to court and demanding a cheaper service. Why should apple have to, just because they happen to be in the same business?
Indeed - I think Windows Defender dabbled in offering this as a feature. I at least recall seeing programs prevented from creating files in the Desktop or Documents folders.

A rate limit, with group-policy controllable "automatic response" would perhaps help - you need the GPO integration though so that an IT admin can say "never allow file system rate limit to be exceeded".

If you enforce a rate limit locally, and on the network, and move to copy-on-write filesystems, it would be a whole lot harder to cause straightforward harm (at least while migrating to a newer, safer OS architecture paradigm, where code doesn't run as the user).

In the post-Covid world, I think MS and others have a whole host of these kinds of issues to think about - Windows in an AD environment is still (as far as I know) not something really geared for working off-prem. It still relies heavily on LDAP and CIFS etc. A re-write to get a desktop OS ready for the "web first" world (where everything is sent to the AD domain TCP/443, using HTTPS, with client certificates rather than passwords, stored locally via hardware-backed secure storage, and trusted CAs used by the DC) would be a big first step towards this. Yes, I know you could use Direct Access or whatever MS has butchered into the system, but in a world moving to zero trust, MS needs to move to zero trust.

Rate limits would be a great starting point, as would some proper platform-level protections around preserving shadow copies, using copy-on-write, and locally preserving versioned user files as a priority. As soon as a ransomware attack touches the network, IT should be able to handle it, as their backup regime should take effect. At that point, if you don't have backups sufficiently separate from user-writable files (or you never validate them, and thus don't realise you're backing up transparently encrypted ransomware'd files for months), you're on your own!
I won't have a great answer since I have no experience in the area. But I would probably ask them to repair something, leave them alone and come back in 2 hours. Pick the mechanic that repaired it the best. I would not stare over their shoulder while they worked.

For the music teacher I would have them record the piece, and send in the best take. I wouldn't demand they get on stage and play the piece.
How was he "caught" if thats the term?
I was super bummed when I realized the blues I bought were similarly fake. I loved the old buckling springs, and wanted that certainty. But the click lies! If I trust the click a speed, I get mis-types.
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Things that are exposed to an adversarial environment are usually engineered with that in mind. Locks are (usually) designed to be hard to pick, for instance.
agree. tldp combined with the tinkering necessary to make a basic system function were a fantastic resource for learning back in the day.
1/3 of your company choosing the buyout is way more significant than 5%
Regular Expressions: Now You Have Two Problems

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I’m starting to think it may just be minimizing cost. Theoretically that just means “maximize profit”, but I suspect in practice it means a whole slew of bad behavior and design choices. I.e. Pay for the part that’s .0001 cent cheaper than another option, despite the cheaper part possibly being a fire hazard.
Note to replace copper wiring with aluminum, you have to go up at least one gauge size.
A better title: Google is experimenting with post-pandemic designs for its work spaces
The letter [0] explains it better than I could:

> Crucially, an essential requirement for research to be considered as “human subjects research” (and thus within the purview of the IRB) is that it involves collecting information about human subjects themselves, such as age, blood pressure, or related. No such information was sought or collected here. [...] Importantly, even if one believed the study did involve human research subjects (perhaps due to the interactions and the incidental collection of email addresses), the study would clearly be exempt from IRB oversight pursuant to 45 CFR 46.104(D).

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z3Nm2bfR4tH1nOGBpuOmLyoJVEi...
Some years back, I was on a jobsite where radios were allowed, and we rotated through the crew, everyone playing deejay for a day, so everyone's taste got represented. Some guys would bring in a stack of CDs, some would just play the radio. It meant I listened to a few stations I don't normally listen to.

And the density of payday loan ads, on some stations but not others, blew my mind. I don't think I ever heard one on the classic-rock station (their stock in trade was testosterone ads, apparently), but they were at saturation density on the R&B station.

Payday loan places have always been scum, but that really opened my eyes to the deliberate exploitation aspect. This is targeted.

It's good to hear that there's financial training for the Navy. I wonder if there's anything similar out in civilian life that we could support?
Not everyone can leave their job at the drop of a hat, even with a big severance package. You don't know their motivations or plans.
Well met! Have a great day too.
I have Vastly different and Very fond memories of Motels from my teenage years: firstly with my future soon to be ex-wife; and later some of her "surrogates". Just sayin.
You can see the ads sneaking in bit by bit over the last few months...

Every time I see a comment like this, I get a jarring reminder that some people don't have uBlock Origin installed. Probably unavoidable on a "device", but like you say the PC is eternal.
Then why do the hackers keep asking for BTC?
This is meaningless. Taiwanese can still access job posting sites or be contacted by recruiters from Mainland China. There's no language barrier and they can simply buy a flight ticket to Shanghai and start working wherever they want with full Chinese citizenship.

The brain drain is serious and I don't see how it can be solved unless Taiwan can offer competitive salaries against first-tier cities in the mainland, 10% of Taiwanese population is now living and working in the mainland.
The wired black MS ergos with membrane keys are still available

edit- Holy shit, I guess they aren't. $500 new?!?!?! Glad I have a spare...
With core Rails team members apparently resigning as part of this we may very well see a leadership shake up in the Rails community.

Despite people claiming "Rails is dead!" for the past 10 years, it's continued to be huge at pretty much all levels of development (introductory, hobbyist, contract work, startups, small, mid, and large size companies). I don't really see this changing that significantly.

If we start to see an exodus off of Rails in the next few years from the big players like GitHub, then I'll start to get worried.
No, the bar for adding things to the front page needs to be super high. I think the right home for /pool is https://news.ycombinator.com/lists, which is linked from the footer. I suppose we could link /lists from the top bar, but I'm not sure it would do much good.

Pinning things to the front page in some new way would be the sort of UI disruption that users hate, and we kind of agree with them.
depends. it (used to be) a tough job to get. i've heard vague indications that their profit sharing would have been extremely lucrative. but i dont know exact numbers.

but just on a numbers basis if you made 1m a year profit sharing but a normal job outside you'd make 200k, you'd have to really hate working there to quit purely for the 6month payout.
> Crimeans don't want to be a part of Ukraine either, yet the "international community" pretends they do.

I don't think the international community pretends any such thing. It just doesn't oppose it strongly enough to start a shooting war with Russia.
Some times the way to make the company happier is to fire all the unhappy people.
He also apparently never lived in the same place long. He’d move instead of cleaning anything.
Perhaps the editor was using some poetic license; since "Mystified" sounds like mist, it could be a play on the spray coming from the wave.

That's probably being generous though.
You left the same comment on my post, but at the time I submitted there was nothing in the topic in the front page, nothing in the new queue, and the url had not been submitted.

In a system like this, duplicates are not the fault of the submitter, they are an inevitable consequence of the system.
Colloquial definitions of monopoly do not matter when it comes to antitrust laws[1]:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power.

--

> Apple phones make up only 13% of the phone market.

iOS has 60% of the market in the US[2].

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

[2] https://deviceatlas.com/blog/android-v-ios-market-share
How is it? How's the noise compared to blues? I need something quieter for zoom.
I agree with what you are saying, but calling it a people problem makes it harder to solve. If you organization is large enough than your users will always click on phishing links and download sketchy malware toolbars.
You should also expect to an lesser extent that your internet facing infrastructure will have vulnerabilities that will be exploited before you are aware of them.

These are facts of life and need to be expected. Not saying that security training is wasted money, but it is in no way a solution to for example phishing. Accept that you will have compromised clients and internet facing servers and start making a strategy with that scenario in mind.
WTF Twitter?

I clicked on the story. Clicked the back button. And Twitter had a big giant popup on THIS page suggesting that I install the twitter app. That had no obvious way to be removed.

I have no idea how they did that. But I really hope that the advertising spam industry doesn't start abusing this to place invasive ads all over other people's pages.
Basecamp to Rebrand as Bonfire
Coinbase employees are probably "hodl"ers.
If not outright dumb, it at least seems pretty ill-informed. Surely no one would intentionally craft a policy to nuke a third of the company? Did they do any research into it before announcing it?
Reading the thing about the "small council" made me think, hmm this must be a huge company, but its 60 people.. I wonder how many of the people on the small council that got disbanded quit. Sounds somewhat like there were a number of employees who probably feel like they previously had a lot of say in the company and now maybe don't -- so yea hard to say who's right here, but big personalities sometimes do make things hard if there isn't some order to the chaos coming from the company leaders.
I see this as a third of the employees were more interested in taking 6 months salary than in keeping work conversations professional. Those aren't really people you want on your team.
For those willing to stick by their principles, we should also see if they stick their landing.
That might work if this were a property tax. That would only for prices though, and that annual tax would still be passed in to renters.

The real estate tax they are talking about here applies to the net gain when you sell a property. People price things for what value they want to get out of them (and what the buyer is willing to pay). If you have a 7% tax on profit from a home sale (or appartment building) theybwill be priced higher to make up for it. That cost will be put on the renter in the form of slightly higher rent to cover the owners mortgage or target return.
How do apple "screw" users. Anyone buying Apple products is making choice: keep my money or spend on a thing I find beneficial. I think anyone would be forgiven for calling this a first world problem. Getting screwed usually means having money stolen. Here it just means demanding someone else's services cheaper.