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A lawsuit is one thing but I’m hoping for a congressional inquiry and better consumer protection laws.

Imagine how many people are walking around right now with Android phones that are more than 2 years old and no longer receiving updates.

It’s such a sizable portion of the population that at some point an attack like this on Android will become a national security and economic issue.
Hah, yeah. I've certainly had to explain why a seemingly simple request would take a while. And I have also looked like a genius more than once when I whipped out something I'd developed years ago that took me a month, tweaked some parameters and other simple changes, and had it a few hours later.

Unfortunately, the more of the later you have, the more people seem to get frustrated at the former.
No, that's not the point. On an individual basis knowing for sure that a person who has symptoms has cancer, especially what kind of cancer, is a positive. On a population scale knowing that people without symptoms may have cancer with an 0.5% false positive rate and an 18-50% true positive rate is quite possibly a negative.
But that doesn't contradict what cletus said. Even if they wanted to be ambitious, with such a large scale there simply is no way there isn't some way to carve out a coherent core to deliver early and then iterate on.

I've done some ambitious things in my engineering career... nothing like Star Citizen in absolute scope but relative to the resources I had they were ambitious. But I always made sure there was some core I could show off before the project was complete.

If nothing else, Agile (by which I mean more the orginal manifesto rather than any specific thing like "scrum") recommends this sort of approach for a reason. The more parts you develop in isolation in your "ambitious" project, the higher the odds are that when it comes time to put them all together, they won't go together. Games have the extra problem that they can both technically fail to go together as expected, but they can also artistically fail to go together as well, making it even riskier to do this in gaming. Many is the game where the obvious fault lines between the various pieces are plainly visible in the final product. (Heck, The Ubisoft Game™ that they keep remaking and just slapping new skins on is all but a game structure designed to make this approach possible, which is basically why they keep remaking it over and over; it's not that they're artistically committed to it, it's that they've probably structured their entire game making organization around it and the rest is just Conway's Law.)

I still see little reason to expect Star Citizen to ever be anything like the hopes and dreams. I still expect that whatever finally comes out of this process will be profoundly disappointing. The process just can't work.
That has to be dealt with. If the city buys the building and reach a fair agreement with McDonalds, I still don’t see risk of moral hazard.
There is much hostility against Huawei. In the email, the message title was really offensive and even assumed something about KPI, as if the Huawei engineer was inventing patches in order to count as more contributions.

Even the editorialized subject of the post on HN is polemic.

What is this problem with Huawei? It is the US government that is doing the economic war against China and because of that, decided to cripple Huawei.
Sale of ad data has upsides too, greater products and targeted advertising. The greatness is kind of asymmetrical, similar to the scenario you describe.

Marketing drugs better isn’t exactly saving lives. Researching drugs should be done through IRB and include patient consent. Of course, there’s great benefit to bypassing ethical controls, but they are still worthwhile.
I can't believe we're just glossing over the fact that everyone who has been compromised probably has an intruder still sitting on their LAN, or at least a big hole in their network somewhere. The request came from somewhere, and most people don't willingly forward ports to these devices.

You're all worried that the data is gone, maybe you should be worried that someone might have taken it.
It was true for Brooks, but Brooks worked on one of the first big software projects.

IBM never had a cohesive vision of a "mainframe operating system".

Until VM (bare metal virtual machines) was developed by academics, IBM never developed a single operating system that satisfied all the needs for mainframes. In fact, many important applications, such as CICS, ran on bare metal without a general purpose OS.

VM came in through the back door and became that 'one ring to rule them all'. Mainframes since 1980s are running several different operating systems for different purposes and it is all OK.
That's an interesting case. BMW knew about that back in 2012 but covered it up for 5+ years before finally agreeing to a recall. They perhaps are covering their butts against lawsuits due to thirty negligence. And they wouldn't want a new fire triggering extra attention to an old fire, and also they want to burnish (ha!) their brand image, unlike WD who has practically no competition.

https://www.forensicdjs.com/blog/bmw-hvac-blower-wiring-reca....
For a small bed like the one in the demonstration, surely that's more simply managed with a drip hose and maybe a timer?

Drip hoses are also better from a water consumption point of view since it goes straight to the soil— you don't lose any to runoff or evaporation.
Maybe I'm missing something here (tell me), but after being initially amazed by the architectural concepts, I tried demos of a similar tool (https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/) and was eventually disappointed by the result. Why? Because the resulting UX is not comparable with a SPA at all.

With a SPA, you instantly get a visual response when you click something (even if this response is a spinner) while with this kind of tool, there is a small bu weird delay (because of websockets) that makes the whole experience laggy, and pretty weird to me, especially after being used to SPAs.

I totally understand that the balance between the tasks to achieve and the end result is very good, but this techno does not look like a replacement of SPAs to me.
I think I've spent more than enough time in this thread going out of my way to explain things in as clear and simple a manner as I know how to and if have offended anybody then I apologize for that, it certainly wasn't my intention.
Land price increases. The problem is that land isn't taxed, and property is. A one family building taking 100 square metres costs £3k a year in council tax. A 50 flat block on the same space costs £100k a year.
> If you sell me a HD/IoT, and say it does X/Y/Z and then no longer want to provide X/Y/Z, I should get my money back.

This is my takeaway from the whole Peloton fiasco. If you spend thousands of dollars on a product, and after the purchase the company bricks the product, the company should legally owe you a full refund.
yes, 2 of these WD My Book Live's would have assured data integrity.
Oh, wait....
It’s interesting Proton is featured instead of Fastmail … especially given that Vivaldi (who is featured) has a close partnership with Fastmail.

Off topic: I wish Fastmail provided SSO (IdP) services. I want to move my small business over to it but lack of SSO is a blocker. I guess I’ll just continue to use it for personal.
So isn't this illegal? In the same way that a website can't send you their newsletter if you don't check the box at the bottom of the form when you register for something? Is that just a Canadian thing?
There's never been a better time to find work as a dev.

There's a lot of jobs, but there's also a lot of work to do for every application. Applying takes effort.
Functionally equivalent to my countries debt counter.

It's there to be pointed at but achieve nothing
Agreed - though the numbers in the Thiel Roth aren't at that level of scale. Therefore having more money to invest in the market allows for an advantage.

From your statement I can't tell if you think that having more after tax money is a benefit or a drawback for Thiel's investments.

Also at higher AUM VC you have the Softbanks (and now every major VC firm that needs to compete at that level or be left in the dust)
Right? I am not really sure I see the problem. It seems to me like Huawei is just submitting clean-up patches and the maintainer has higher expectations of what patches they should be submitting. Granted I am not a developer not a maintainer of any project so that might be why it is not obvious.
> Send property prices soaring even more, which means even higher rents!

Not neccersarilly. There's a cap on rent, that being what people are willing and able to pay.
And often founders underestimate how long a business can run even after it is “irrelevant”.
I had no special circumstances, I just made a choice to put years of savings to work for myself immediately instead of in the uncertain future. I sold everything and lived simply. Not everyone could do it, but many could who think they can't.
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Not sure I would consider this cheating. At most if I was reviewing a resume from the person I'd think "coder reused old code, built on it to fulfill a new set of requirement. okay"
It’s pretty easy. If blood test says “liver cancer positive. Colon cancer negative.” you check the liver for cancer. No need to check the colon for cancer. No need to scan the entire body for lumps.
Oh I'm sure there's a lot more fine grained data and that Asch's experiments were a rough prototype for future experiments.

Asch was interesting to me because he showed that a significant proportion of the population would just go along with ANYTHING the group did.

This has a lot of implications.

A lot of advertisements use this technique to try to position their product in the ad as a 'mainstream' and 'normal' product that them majority loves even if it's a stick of cancer that will kill you.

If propaganda can infect enough people, then many others will just cave and quit critically thinking and go along with the majority.

It's just fascinating to me how many people will just cave to the majority to fit in.
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Well, almost everything on Stadia matches that definition. You need to create an account and buy the game ( bar the few free games like Destiny 2 and a demo for Hitman WoA), but it's basically accessible via a link, playable in a browser and multiplayer when the game is.
You is historically plural?

I knew it could be applied to a group in certain cases, but only when referring the group as a single unit, really still singular. Or when speaking one-to-many, where each recipient is meant to hear you to refer to themselves, though the speaker spoke to a group.

"you 12 come with me" is really still referring to a single unit to me, the group, not the individuals. IE, it conveys no more meaning than saying "you come with me" where the object might be either a person or a group equally.

It's interesting, I don't think English has a way to distinguish "me singular" vs "me a member of a plural", other than by adding other words like "you all"
Common research methods have significant limitations. Web crawls, for instance, usually don't realistically simulate user activity and experiences. Lab studies often involve simplified systems that don't generalize to the real world. Surveys yield self-reported data, which can be very unreliable.

Rally studies, by contrast, reflect real-world user activity and experiences. In science jargon, Rally enables field studies and intervention experiments with excellent ecological validity.
Are these alternatives even worth adopting if you're using an Android phone?
Star Citizen becomes http://progressquest.com/ 2.0 ?
“Organic content” baby.

Joking cynicism aside, I think it was well done. I read the post to the end even though they gave the answer up front (good practice despite what’s”growth hackers” will tell you) and their mentions of the company seem authentic (i.e. they don’t tell you what they do, just that it was his main focus and made some legitimizing progress).
It's so good to see the Discovery servers still running after all these years.
Update: the 8th gen and up is a soft requirement. The Health Check tool will tell you that you are not compatible, but the installer should let you in with a warning.

Caveat: The install tool bypass has not been verified yet.
>70% of the area that was proposed for the Jewish state was used to create what is today Jordan.

Do you have a reference for that?
Hard drives are a mediocre example, but I have exactly such an enclosure sitting around that I use as cold-storage because I know better than to connect it to a network. If I want to get data off it, I set up an isolated segment in RFC3927 space.

As a result, I've bought a new NAS-type device which does have supported software and which I can put on a live network with only minimal worry. (I still take backups of course, but not as thoroughly as I should.)

That's a direct waste impact of the device being out of support. I like the form factor. I like the capacity. I wish I could just run Openwrt or something on it. (It's a Marvell SOC inside, so that's the likely target if I had porting skills.)
Not op, but I've used ddg for years. Imo ddg and brave are currently pretty much a wash. I've found that for some queries brave performs better, and for other queries ddg/bing performs better.

With both of them, i've found that in most (but not all) cases, if the results are bad, google's results are also bad.

I'll need to retrain my muscle memory to do "!d" instead of "!g" on unsatisfying brave results. I suspect that would let me drop google usage to basically zero.
The US companies are hiring, just like everybody else.

Multi-nationals now seem to post most jobs as “remote” which means global. A smaller number is “US-remote”. Usually this is not for tax reasons but for business or security reasons if dealing with the US government.

Hiring remotely is easy for these companies as they usually have a subsidiary already in country.
But even if not, there are now agencies that take care if things like taxation etc. I believe remote.com might be the one most known but it is certainly not the only one.
1x annual profit is common for businesses that are really just a consultantcy.
Exactly 3 things: smoke weed, jerk off and play games on my Xbox. In that exact order.

Sorry for my honesty, I have no filter.
never have I seen anything like that that wasn't an appliance. as in vendor-managed.

so, even if you COULD upgrade to Windows 11 on something, don't, because you'll break it. I can't even think of a good reason to consider it.

if it needs to be on the network, isolate it, and let it do its job. it doesn't need to be fiddled with.

I'd also be having a long conversation with the vendor about using standard expansion interfaces and why soldering to the motherboard is a good way to end my relationship with them as a customer.
Read the Vice article, that says that the local manager himself lead the "revolution" when "McDonalds" decided to close the restaurant. The more details emerge, the less revolting the whole thing sounds. McDonalds closed one of their locations, manager and employees said "fine, then we'll take over for you", the French way.
Even without Carroll's history they look sort of creepy. Kind of a prison art feel.

I vote for a John Neil/Aubrey Beardsley sort of look.
Then maybe you have.
I guess having lived all my life in the Middle East means I'm "indoctrinated" and thus unable to understand the situation here as well as someone who lives in, say, Iowa and read a few posts on Reddit.

But Wikipedia is open to us all:

Previous to the Arab armies invasion of Israel, it was a civil war between Jews and Arabs, with no clear. Jews lost %1 of their entire population in the 1948 war. Ultimately, the area that ended up becoming Israel contains about %20 Arabs. In the area that ended up under Arab control, no Jews were left. Arab nations then moved to deport nearly all their Jewish citizens. So maybe read up on what Ethnic Cleansing means while you're at it.
Dark patterns aren't a line in the sand that's for sure. At what point does a newsletter pop-up become a dark pattern? There are some concrete examples, but it can also be pretty nuanced. I think newsletter pop-ups are always egregious, but a business owner can have a very hard time grasping why. They can think they're building stuff people like, and they can often act like they're simply herding sheep. Users are ephemeral zombies to some, and from that lens, it's totally fine to capture them with sneaky tactics.
> "You're being divisive!" has long been the cry of the status quo. The arguments made against BLM and Defund - including the "it's communism!" stuff;

Just because a complaint has been heard before doesn’t mean it’s wrong, indeed it could just as easily mean it’s being said again because it is valid.

Dismissing people who have a valid criticism as ‘the status quo’ to be ignored, is by definition divisive.

It is the literal opposite of inclusive behavior.
https://code.firstlook.media/the-death-of-sks-pgp-keyservers...

"The SKS keyserver network is dying. This has been a long time coming. The nail in SKS’s coffin came in late June when someone abused important public keys that people rely on." ~ 2019-08-20
You say "utterly wrong" and yet you clearly have no idea what you're talking about and have never even approached the field of health policy. Screening has to PROVE that it makes people live longer or better, just like any other intervention. It is not the case that screening is automatically good, otherwise we would be giving 20 year olds colonoscopies. Just because you find something, doesn't mean you've helped the patient, as anyone with a modicum of understanding in this field knows.

Read this and learn something: https://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.h6080
Doing as many patches as you can may make the approvers fatigued and more likely to approve something that is bad or malicious.
> There is no early detection for pancreatic cancer

The third paragraph of the article says otherwise. Do you have some knowledge about this test not working?
One KPI in which Linux dominates: drama.
I am a huge E:D fan, but they really botched the last expansion, to the point I no longer play at all. I get the feeling they are starving for programmers and designers.
Does anyone know which tests are availabe today excluding CT scans. For men (which is relevant to me) I know of:

Prostate,
Skin,
Colon
> Sorry, that is a bit over the top.

It really isn't.

I've been spending a lot of time doing home improvements and have often been frustrated by how difficult it is to get past marketing and spun content to find the information I need. Similarly I've struggled when researching some of the gnarlier aspects of leadership and the challenges that one has to deal with.

I'm sorry but whilst, yes, Google can perform some superficially impressive parlour tricks, it's simply not that great when you're looking for in-depth information, and it's particularly bad when you're looking for information that's not that far outside the mainstream but just enough so that what you need is buried in the midst of irrelevancies. Also frustrating when it keeps feeding you results that are from the "wrong" perspective (by which I mean not the perspective you're looking for, not that there's anything inherently wrong with the content being served up).

It is not magic at all: magic would yield better and more useful results.
Why not do something useful with the space like FileCoin or Arweave?
> Everyone

As we subconsciously blend anecdata from HN into our mental models, remember that we self-selecting to visit here commenting are already extreme outliers.

Weight our in(group)sights accordingly.
I had quite a bit of fun many years ago making an Arkanoid clone that included gravity and a tilting paddle that would react to the impact of the ball. Only two people ever played it: my brother and me.

And I’ve lost the source code, but I recall it being very easy to make in Love 2D.

It was fun, at least. And I’m a huge fan of this kind of mass low-grade creativity.
> They wont be paid if he doesn't sell before 60. This will be completely untaxed.

I do understand this. I just disagree on this being an abuse of the vehicle. Active option trading from within the vehicle is separate and does seem like an abuse.
Are you literally trying to be this guy as some kind of parody?

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
This happened quite often in openstack too. Since any contributor with a merged change a few months before the annual conference got a free entry ticket, you could see people doing trivial formatting fixes at a certain time of the year.

Similar to the issue with Digital Ocean and Hacktoberfest https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/

People are always going to try to game metrics.
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I'm sure every police force takes that into account along with other factors, there are always laws that become outdated and are arrested for less, prosecuted less and convicted of less over time. And in common law jurisdictions precedent can impact the scope of existing law and change how police will enforce it.
> If Star Citizen could actually deliver everything it promised, it'd be a damned near perfect game for [...]

The thing is that this can be said about many games, but something that will always hold true is that "potential", "vision" and "promises" are not worth much (basically nothing) when it comes to games. The loop of overambitious (or false) promises -> failed execution and delivery is as old as games themselves.
Is there anything going on here that suggests this is not a routine maintenance issue?

The Kernel maintainers have a lot of people who want to submit code to the kernel, and have to maintain standards. I'd imagine there are a lot of emails like this one.

Good on Huawei if they are incentivising open source contributions. Shame on them if they are wasting OSS maintainer time. Presumably well done Qu for promoting some order in a chaotic world.
I know, right ;)
I first noticed this grammar format on the "json grammar on the back of a business card". It always impressed me. I appreciate its minimalism.
This test probably needs a lot more blood than a single drop.
Northern Sweden is on the very fringe of Europe, though, so still far away.
> I am 100% on your team here, but I do want to point out that what is important to developers is rarely considered important by the business, more that it's a cost of working with developers.

Well, IMO constant churn of developers who change jobs every 2 years is very adversely impacting quality of the product. When people know and expect they are most likely to be leaving in 2-3 years tops they are not going to stand for what they believe and will be much more amenable to pressure and taking on debt that somebody else is going to be paying.

Now, churn can be easily measured, but its impact on the product or how developer satisfaction contributes to it cannot be easily linked.
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> And also, yes, I expect a 5 year old operating system to still work. Windows 10 does and it came out in 2015.

but the windows 10 you run in 2021 is super different from the windows 10 you installed in 2015, there are ton of (sometimes fairly breaking) updates :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history

running an up-to-date win10 is basically equivalent to updating to every ubuntu release, LTS or not. Kernel is different, libc is different, system APIs implementations are different, everything is updated every few months - even the start menu pretty much changes all the time.