skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also generally means you have no warranty from the manufacturer, as they generally write the agreement to be non-transferable.

As a consumer you may have some rights even with gray market, but it's not like a US court is going to be able to force a UK company to honor a warranty they never offered in the first place because they never sold directly into this market.
Think of all the virtue signaling you are missing out on!
I usually research any product where it comes from, who owns it, what is the angle of the company. In a way that is convenience to me nowadays. Recently I bought a 3d app, and I first checked what the company did, how did it treat its customers. What does its actions look like? This is kind of my standard procedure these days.
"It's hard to believe that you can use a mobile phone with a high resolution screen and get 8 hours SOT with a varied workload."

Dunno what SOT is but I dont think my >2y old Pixel won't last an our with browsing.
Recently I have started comparison shopping more and I almost always find Amazon is the most expensive option. I have Prime as well. For example I was shopping for dishwasher detergent and found Amazon was more than double what Target charged, and Target offers free shipping if your order is at least $35. And yes, I was comparing unit prices.

I also find Amazon prices with free shipping almost always end up being a tad higher than other places when you add in their shipping costs. ie item is $8, shipping is $4 at some competitor, where it will be $13 with free shipping at Amazon.

It's gotten to the point my wife and I pretty sure we are cancelling Prime and no longer shopping at Amazon.
Framerates are averaged over much longer periods than two frames. Rendering 45 frames in 20ms each and then having a couple take 25ms just doesn't matter mostly, and addressing that is the kind of extra "nice to have" (and even then not for every kind of game). Yeah it's nice to have consistent frame times but less important than avoiding individual frames getting very slow, and a framerate drop certainly won't be treated by the engine as a critical failure that causes e.g. a crash or restart.

On a hard real-time system like the Dragon, failing the deadline once is a critical error just like a game engine being unable to talk to the GPU.
I imagine it's because it makes the app look amateurish.
The dumb part is the amount of effort it took to make, i.e. none
I agree so much with that first paragraph. All these "women geniuses snubbed by 18th century sexism" are aristocrats (which makes sense because all the men geniuses are also aristocrats). The lack of discussion of people who didn't have the opportunities that, for instance, Ada Lovelace did, is a pretty big misstep imo.
You can get free licences for Open Source projects from Jetbrains. Babel would likely be eligible.
This is not an example of the definition of a word changing.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/harm
My cheap ass mustang uses button snaps. It's not just "companies like mercedes" implying only luxury card brands do it.
If Discord suddenly stopped working for me, while it wouldn't be catastrophic it would be quite bad. I use it as my main channel of communication with many contacts, and I use it for work. I have secondary contact channels for plenty of people (twitter, email, etc), but not all.

I can imagine a person having more of their life exist on Discord and if it suddenly became unusable for them due to these changes, it would be a catastrophe. Some people literally can't pay rent without Discord, since they use it to prepare content for work or to collaborate with their team.
It’s become harder to justify Chauvin’s actions after a murder conviction, so the next best defense is to deflect and blame the lügenpresse, holding them responsible for people being upset and try to shift the narrative, from “why do cops have no accountability” to “why is the media conspiring against cops”.
I could not even understand what the site did. :-(
It is international news any time a Tesla crashes. This is not the case for any other manufacturer.
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What? They made the already bad UI worse? I complained about the total lack of contrast years ago. Who is the designer there? Shame on them.
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Ads are not primarily about making the user consciously _like_ a product. They are about making the user _know_ a product or brand. Once they are in the mood or need of buying something, product X "feels" vaguely familiar. This is supposed to give them more confidence in the potential purchase.
harm
/härm/
noun
: physical injury, especially that which is deliberately inflicted.

Nobody is inflicting any harm by choosing a bad color palette.
If I've got more resumes than time slots to call back on, its necessary to filter them somehow.

When the word processor that the person used is flagging things as misspelled, or grammatically incorrect - the person didn't use the tooling available.

I've had resumes where one section was indented and bulleted, and the next section was numbered rather than bulleted... or indented without bullets or numbers (just a tab - that has a line wrap go to the left margin rather than the tab stop like the bullets and numbers in the other section).

Many of the things I've seen aren't an accidental oversight but a deliberate choice in the formatting of the resume that is wrong or inconsistent with a very short glance.

I mentioned in another comment that I've seen a resume where various keywords were bolded (annoying, but common). Among others, the word "Java" was bolded. "Worked on Java microservices using Spring Boot". Ok. However, Java was also bolded in "Used NodeJS to write JavaScript backends" - "Script" was left unbolded.

The accuracy of the proxy is less of an issue when you are able to find at least the number of acceptable resumes as there are time slots for interviews.
They've been known to leak memory ...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...

>This sparked an interesting memory for me. I was once working with a
customer who was producing on-board software for a missile. In my analysis
of the code, I pointed out that they had a number of problems with storage
leaks. Imagine my surprise when the customers chief software engineer said
"Of course it leaks". He went on to point out that they had calculated the
amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time
for the missile and then doubled that number. They added this much
additional memory to the hardware to "support" the leaks. Since the missile
will explode when it hits its target or at the end of its flight, the
ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention.
The chance of actually getting the data back are not that good https://www.msspalert.com/cybersecurity-research/71-ransomwa...
The point is that Tesla can do over the air updates, which means (in theory!) that the experiment could be gamed because it would use a different version of the software.
Sort of. It depends if they are actually fixing the specific problem or just taking advantage of talking about it to be woke. Most companies aren't offering scholarships to minorities to go get a CS degree, or anything to really make a difference. At the same time, their positive press is allowing them to ignore things they have more control over, like pay, hours, review processes, etc.
I guess I could've just opened discord, but I went looking for an example of what had changed: https://i.redd.it/l6sluq2o8hy61.png
the constant proliferation of control registers is vexing

You may want to look at the AArch64 "system registers" space... or the instruction encoding, for that matter.

I think 32-bit x86 made the most sense and was well thought-out, but the 64-bit version was definitely not extended very well.
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You know I meant the HMRC match and the tax treatment - not the statutory employer one.

You get tax relief at your rate of income tax, which is much better for higher rate tax payers
The first book you self-published or practically gave away to the publisher will be a book, if not a bestselling one.
On the other hand the first movie script is vanishingly unlikely to get turned into a movie, and the fact you've written movie scripts that weren't developed won't help you get your next script taken more seriously.
A second poster replies that elements are slightly harder to read.

I don't have terribly good eyes, but I'm happy to say I don't feel like I've suffured permanent eye damage from the discord UI :]

When OP says incredibly harmful and catastrophic I think they're just describing their feelings and how important it is to them.
I don't really have a good solution. My gut reaction is that having a system that rewards the same companies that pushed for infinite copyright duration, rather than removing their hold over our shared culture, isn't a good solution. That isn't the most pragmatic of me, but I'd rather not reward Disney for breaking the public domain.
Ah, thanks for the link; yes this is the one I was referring to. I had thought it was by Bjarne since it was on his site, but either way, it's an interesting read.
you know, now that i think about it, all the tears shed on conference calls i've been on have been from either senior management or directors. The pressure at the level is pretty intense, everyone is nipping at your heels to expose any weakness and take your spot.
Yeah, I was wondering that, too. UX can cause harm, for example, certain kinds of contrast and lights for folks with epilepsy, but I'm not sure that the complaint here rises to that level.

If you can't use something, you could argue that it causes "harm" to your well being or job prospects or something.

But I agree that "harmful" should probably stick to more significant, mostly physical effects.

But, of course, here we are on HN discussing it, so it had its desired effect...
I’d expect pretty much exactly the opposite. The first world is rich, developed and full of knowledgeable people and more competent governments. There’s so much more capital to cannibalize to get something working. Anywhere dependent on international trade or aid to feed its people would be fucked by even a two month hiatus in international trade. Starvation and war within two weeks and peacekeepers are busy at home dealing with their own countries’ disasters. Most of Africa is not self-sufficient in food.
And this is why I'll be buying a MacBook Air over an iPad Pro. I'm not even going to complain - it is what it is and this article simply illustrates some important differences between the two platforms. I'm not even going to say iOS is bad - I love my iPhone and my wife absolutely loves her iPad Pro.

Apple has targeted iPadOS to casual computer users who mainly consume content and require light content generation and editing capabilities, and as it turns out there's a HUGE market for that. But it's not for me. I'm a developer by profession and my hobbies are music and photography. All of these push the limits of what iPadOS is capable of delivering - but MacOS delivers with aplomb.

And now thanks to Catalyst if there's some must-have iPadOS app I want to run then I can run it. The MacBook Air may be the most versatile machine Apple has ever made for users like me.
The Ringers 'The Watch' podcast did a Lonesome Dove podcast read along last year if you are interested in having a virtual group to read along with.
That might be our best bet to get to other systems. But it’s still pretty much a fantasy. The engineering challenges behind that project just seem insurmountable unless we work on it as a planet, not just NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, etc.
Apologies, just someone who recently had a customer try to convince me I should rewrite my FPGA code to handle his one or two off product (but very expensive) product for free :) so I understand why developers can't target every user haha.
The question is not the distance travelled but how quickly you need to react. If you're gimballing a rocket engine, this is not going to be a device that can do much movement within 20ms.
> To what degree is it a gray box though? Or is it white box?

Its fairly gray. Immunology is something we've been studying for over a century at this point, and the amount we understand it truly amazing. But at the same time, our bodies are such complex systems, that there is still so much we don't understand. It's certainly not a black box, but I definitely wouldn't call it a white box either.
I honestly didn't think there was that kind of money in NZ. What kind of company are you working for?
The very next sentence of the article:

However, the "restraint control module," which stores data such as whether seatbelts were in use, how fast the vehicle was going, acceleration information, and airbag deployment, although damaged by fire was recovered and turned over to the NTSB's laboratory to evaluate.
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I knew a person running one of these in the UK. It was basically a massive con, where the investors took all the risk and he took all the profit.

So buyer beware.
Yeah, historically men more than women have contributed more to society's intellectual progress because institutions literally didn't let women get an education.
> "We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for other our motives," the group reportedly wrote. "Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society. From today we introduce moderation and check each company that our partners want to encrypt to avoid social consequences in the future."

We truly do live in a simulation.
I don't believe for a second that data is subsidizing anything. It's a revenue stream, sure, but prices haven't gone down as data collection went up.
If that's the case, it's not clear to me that it shouldn't crash the app (versus the alternative of likely corrupting data) in release builds. I guess this is similar to the "assertions should/should not be turned on in release builds" debate, which IMO has good points on both sides.

But maybe there's an extra complicating factor of TSan causing significant performance penalties making it impractical for it to be on in release builds?
I have never heard of this happening ever.
> Yes, but hedonic adjustment is basically an attack of the bottom line of inflation as an useful metric IMO.

The underlying premise makes sense though. If your country got richer and everyone started buying high end variants of stuff, and the low-end variants got discontinued, is everyone suddenly worse off?
220k is sweet as in NZ even if you're living in Wellington or Auckland.
A person who uses Discord posting on the Discord forum about how the changes (in their opinion) make the product worse to use is not exactly a good comparison to a "bad tumblr post", unless what makes it a bad tumblr post is that it's a downer or you feel it doesn't meet your quality bar for Good Forum Content.

By my reckoning, the post clearly enumerates their complaints with the new design, it provides some references that they believe support their argument, and suggests a remedy (revert the design). There is no cursing in it and it does not contain any personal attacks. It doesn't contain any conspiracy theories or memes or sarcasm or other markers you might associate with "bad posts".

It's kind of baffling that you are willing to decide that the poster is some sort of tumblr reject based on not liking how they argue their points when you haven't even used the product.
So let me get this straight, you were selling thermapens on amazon, and therefore have a dog in the fight?
We have different experiences. Group Policy is a tool that I'm confident, in virtually any engagement, I can use to automate nearly all the goings-on of a Windows Server environment. Third-party software may not play well, but between the GPP CSEs and scripting, as necessary, I can get the job done. That's been my experience.

I'm not sure what to say re: "execute me that script that does the needful". That's going to hold true in any environment, Windows or Linux or whatever. If you've got third-party software that uses unique configuration persistence mechanisms, or doesn't work-and-play with the OS-provided management interfaces (Service Control Manager on Windows, systemd on Linux, etc) then you're going to have to script one-offs. Most real sysadmin work, in my opinion, involves leveraging or creating code and infrastructure to handle automating assemblages of software. Scripting is often how that's done. Configuration management tools add some formalism to the process, but it's still "glue and tape"-- albeit fancy.
- Expensive shipping

- 3rd party customer service that has no power to do anything

The fact that companies are paying / making me pay retail for logistics is the dumbest thing ever. The whole value of a "store" (i.e. a place that holds stuff) is the logistics and customer service. If you just want to be a manufacturer that's totally fine power to ya but then get your products to distributors and stores.
“Encryption”
shh, they're busy signaling the virtue of not virtue signaling
I was thinking it would be interesting to send a stream of them out in one direction (or many streams) with the idea that they could serve as a relay/mesh network, allowing us to communicate with the probes (and vice versa) for longer. Not sure how valuable that would be scientifically.
Going only off personal experience can really skew your perceptions. If I'd've been living away from home at the time, and thus avoided catching it, it would've completely changed the colour of our experiences:

* Mother, 50s - metallic taste for two weeks, loss of appetite, some fatigue
* Father, 50s - sore throat for a week
* Sister, ~20 / Grandmother, ~80 - both had similar symptoms of fatigue, body aches, sore throat, feeling hot/cold, some change to taste
* Grandfather, ~85, multiple pre-existing conditions (COPD, heart failure, prediabetes, history of TIAs) - only reason we knew he had it was due to a positive test

Going off those alone, it seems unpleasant but not too dire. Then you add me in:

* Me, 30 - same symptoms as sister/grandmother for about a week, then ten days in the ICU after my O2 sats dropped to 78 overnight (and remained in the 80s on oxygen). Narrowly avoided ventilation as I responded to CPAP.

Suddenly it seems a lot more serious.
Rural life never looked so good...
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I always thought aviation design by committee was designed to avoid these kind of issues...I was wrong
I don't know the saying, but it makes sense - it might take 10 years of Azure runway over a few years to pay developers to remake something made in ASP.NET into a static binary that can handle 10x the number of requests on the same processors. But at that point, businesses aren't going to spend time making it faster if they can pay more to have a faster development cycle and get cheaper talent in the long run.
The word "harm" means many things. Just google "consumer harm", for example, and the top result is a government agency using the word harm to describe non-physical injury:

https://www.fdic.gov/resources/supervision-and-examinations/...
Companies have a lot of money, and a lot of it to burn. OSS doesn't.
That's still far from "not that much". You're not gonna be buying a jet anytime soon, but it's far and above the 20-30k many developers outside of city centres get stuck on.
I think they are worried. When the USA puts their focus on a single thing, usually they can crack the case. See Ross Ulbricht / Silk Road.
how much do y'all believe this was a "hacking group" and not state sponsored?

(imho it depends on how sophisticated the attack... given the typical lameness of SCADA defenses, one can't assume...)
At what point is a business making decisions for its own interest not a problem?

We always criticism big companies for their market position. Where is the line drawn between big enough to be successful but not big enough to be unfair player using existing business to leapfrog into other areas?

It seems we are quick to point a finger but its never qualified. We just think "x is big, x is doing y, x is being unfair."
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Curious if the software on Dragon conforms to aviation safety critical safety assurance standards: i.e. DO178C, ARP4754
It would be easier believing you if you didn't spend all your time on this site defending China...
You’re conveniently skipping over the secondary definitions, which includes “actual or potential ill effect or danger”.
Anandtech has you on that, hell, that's not even how the M1 works, when at full use the M1 uses all 8 cores pooled.

The M1 is a quad-Big core, quad-little core Chip with a roughly 30W TDP at max use, (that's the Performance/Watt number to work off, Mac OS reports it at 5w per core + 3W for the little cores combined), this is including it's GTX 1050-class GPU. We have the numbers, we know where things stand.

Fact of the matter is that Ryzen 5000 is just 7nm chips and the M1 is 5nm.

For a ULV chip, it is shockingly competitive and superior to 5000-series chips in single threaded (Most GP computing is still threadlocked.) and lightly-threaded ( up to four core use) tasks. A critical thing to realize about the M1 is that it lacks turbo modes, so single-thread performance scales with cores unlike most x86 Chips that slow to handle more than 1 core at full use.

5000 series chips with more than four cores have advantages in massively threaded workloads but that is absolutely not a reasonable comparison with the M1 in the first place as they are much higher wattage chips in a very different market and comparing a 45w chip with the M1 is a joke to start in the same way you just explained above. The M1 is a sweet spot chip that is not better than everything at all wattages but in a lot of cases is much better at most things. I think a lot of the praise has driven some untrue claims of how 'amazing' the M1 is and made some people think that it compares with threadripper or such in multicore when it's not true and that has driven some unfair skepticism against the M1 as well.
Watt per watt, core per core, the M1 is faster and cooler than anything AMD has, once you let cores increase and wattage rise, you will find faster multicore performance.