skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Tell me about the weirdest bug you had to deal with" is a good way to cover this, and more. But really, you find out more about communication skills with this question than anything else.
1917: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchanan_v._Warley
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Need to point out in particular that that best Haswell i5 was FASTER than the best i7 for single-core workloads, so this might be a factor in OP post.

And also that is the reason why I use such processor on my own computer, it was already "outdated" when I bought it, but since one of the things I like to do is play some simulation style games that rely heavily on single-core performance, I choose the fastest single-core CPU I could find without bankrupting myself. (the i5 4690k that with some squeezing can even be pushed past 4ghz, it is a beastly CPU this one)
Really not unusual. In Debian, while dpkg is in C itself (and still be for the foreseeable future), more and more apt tools are rewritten in Python.
> The increased number of multi family dwellings drives up the price of single family houses.

Increased demand for single family homes drives up price of single family homes.

People moving in drives up price of land and dwelling units, obviously because people need a place to live.

The only thing that can move price down is demand decreasing (which will not happen if people are migrating in) or supply increasing sufficiently to accommodate demand.

You obviously live in one of the most in demand places in the US right now, and so almost no amount of supply will keep up with demand to cause prices to stop going up. But at the end of the day, price is always a function of supply and demand.

> Consequently, avoiding new construction either results in depreciation or merely delays the same pattern even by up 15 years.

Places that are not desirable to live in simply do not have construction. Why would people want to invest in areas that they predict will depreciate or stagnate? There is no construction in Cairo, IL, but they are not avoiding construction to prevent prices from increasing.
"And why is the USA trying to take him into custody? "

Because Assange was ostensibly helping someone steal classified information. These allegations are well known.

"How about a little goddamn proof? "

They literally have text messages of him encouraging and ostensibly helping someone to steal information. This is also well known.

"How about a valid legal case that follows the laws of the USA?"

That's what's happening: they are extraditing him so that the evidence can be put on the table and we can see what's what. This is well known.

"Give Assange his freedom. "

He has his freedom. He's possibly comitted a crime, which is why he's going to court.

I think your comment implies an general ignorance of the situation.
Interesting detail (swedish language) https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/global-utpressningsattack-bakom-st...

They are victims of a ransom attack, it's spread through the software in the checkout tills.
There is a message on the client, for example on the till when you log in.

This sounds a bit weird, but..
I'd honestly wait a year or so for Alder Lake and just get it with DDR5 RAM.
Hope this doesn’t suck so I can stop paying Google for a gsuite account that gives me less consumer features than a free account.

I’m aware of alternatives, none really justify the switching cost for me.
There's no custom syntax, they only use existing HTML language features, namely element attributes. Custom syntax would be something that is not already a syntax, i.e., language feature, in HTML.

And why exactly should this not be checkable at build time?
The attributes are defined, their use too, it's as checkable as any JavaScript framework.

If you're using TypeScript, or the like, then you'll naturally get much more things that can be checked, but those are type checks and not syntax checks, i.e., something completely different.

Don't get me wrong, personally I'm all for static typed, and schematic frameworks but that's completely orthogonal to using (custom) HTML attributes, and has nothing to do with syntax checks. I mean, if syntax could not be checked it couldn't be parsed at all...
Let us not use Germany as an example of a place that justifies regulating speech. That particular quirk of German jurisprudence has so much baggage behind it, it really isn't worth bringing to the conversation.
Suppose you wanted to become as fat as possible, as fast as possible? How would you pull off that trick? You might stop to think about your answer before continuing.

One way that happens all over nature is to gorge on fruit, just like bears and other animals do every fall before they hibernate.[0][1]

An old article from Ken Hutchins entitled "So, Your Ambition Is to Become a Circus Fat Lady?", is essentially a TRIZ failure design for fat loss.[2]

[0] https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson/

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fat-Switch-Richard-J-Johnson-ebook/dp...

[2] https://nebula.wsimg.com/e2e6c217edf4c5dd64bb0486df430804?Ac...
Another project could be to modify the caddr verilog to match the LMI hardware, they have a slightly different MMU. The LMI software stack is complete and can rebuild itself.

I chose to emulate the OpenCores ethernet controller in the CADR software emulator to make it easier to move images between software and FPGA implementations.
How would we know? Because OSHA is at _best_ a minor player in looking for vaccine side effects. I personally had no idea they were even doing that. That's the FDA/CDC/HHS's job. VAERS isn't going anywhere.
> I don't understand why the author leaves many words and phrases untranslated

Because they are effectively proper nouns. You cannot translate them, you can at most explain them. For example, grande école has its own page on English Wikipedia and which is called grande école, not translated to big school or something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_%C3%A9cole
> We will reach our target of 1 million electric cars by July 2020, which everyone thought was unattainable

Classic Peter. Nobody was thinking it was unattainable, they were thinking it wasn't going to be attained by a government asleep at the wheel.
In Sweden pretty much everything is done online in these kind of businesses. And I don't think you can do it in another way since it is a bit of franchise model.
It's more of a 'result' variable, because the result can be a return or a throw. If you throw, it clears the return, and vice versa.

I had something like this in the article originally, but then you also need to say that `catch` also does `_result = undefined`, and it felt messy.
When using the Julia REPL I regularly use KittyTerminalImages [1], which is awesome because it fits perfectly with other plotting packages.

[1] https://github.com/simonschoelly/KittyTerminalImages.jl
> You do realize the implication given by step 2 and point 4 are a contradiction in itself :-) ?

Absolutely. Microsoft is a mess. I could go on for hours about how Windows networks are fundamentally insecure, and cannot be fixed without a massive psychological shift. Sysadmins love it though for some reason, probabally because it gives them way more power than they should ever need over their users.

I love hearing war stories from people who worked offense at places like Google, with almost zero AD footprint. Even the most basic attacks take SOOO much more effort. I would love it if a ChromeOS centric Zero Trust model actually became a thing, but it's not going to happen naturally. Maybe if we let all these ransomwared companies fail spectacularly, and refuse to bail them out, then the only companies that will be left will be those who care.

Unfortunately telling people not to use Windows rarely goes over well. To that main point, as bad as Microsoft is, there are so many companies that are so much worse. This Kaseya thing is essentially a rootkit with shitty authentication. Installing this thing on endpoints is a fundamentally flawed concept, yet here we are.
Compilation Strategies as Objects (1994)
I don't trust them. Apple's privacy efforts might be admirable, but I don't trust them to deliver a reliable service in the long run, especially on platforms that aren't their own or in platforms they declared as deprecated.

For example, most parts of iCloud are missing on Android, and their iCloud client for Windows has been broken for months or even years. Its log complains about launching iCloudDrive-AppX.exe while the install directory doesn't contain any executables with a "-AppX.exe" suffix. So no file syncing for me on Windows, I guess.

Having client site updates tied to major macOS/iOS releases is also sometimes causing strange issues if I still want to use older versions of macOS and iOS.

The happy path is only using devices from Apple and always staying on their latest OS release. No idea how attractive this new feature is for people who already use custom domains because they don't want to be tied to a single provider.
Doesn't Visma have pretty good security in general?

They are big on intigrity att least.
Not sure if that’s what you’re asking but my personal site does serve content using JSONfeed.

So yes, someone on HN is using it.
Replace Your Home Address with Plus Codes
So, now you have one hardware key that you have to manage either for all networks and therefore is both a single point of failure and constraint on availability, or you need to manage multiple keys with the ensuing chaos. Kaseya was hacked through a patch so the type of protocol does not matter and you are trading convenience for management overhead that you have to deal with because all of your clients and likely many of your employees are not in your HQ.

I have the bad feeling that this achieves security through unavailability.
Reminds me of The Late Mattia Pascal romance
This article omits getting into try-catch-finally semantics, and it's not really that mysterious when you think about it (although, yes, please don't ask people about this in an interview):

- A catch block is only executed if an exception is thrown in the try block.

- A finally block is executed always after a try(-catch) block, if an exception is thrown or not.

> As a side-effect, returning from finally clears a thrown error:

Exceptions aren't "cleared," they are "finally-d." Because that's how finally works[2]. The final block, if evaluated, always overrides the result of the previous blocks. A slightly more interesting example of try-catch weirdness is how catch blocks are one of the few constructs that create new scope (technically augment scope):

function F() {
try {
throw "error";
} catch (err) {
err = {
"hello": "world"
}
var hoisted = "foo"
console.log(err)
} finally {
return hoisted; // works, since this gets hoisted to the top of F
return err; // breaks, since err is spooky and only "scoped" in the catch block
}
}

[2] https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ecmascript-language-statem...
I don't have Twitter but I really want to warm the person... I had the exact same problem with Lowes about four days ago.

Unrelated, but Carvana too. Logistics everywhere seems to be cracking

Honestly, if you need it, take matters into your hands. I'm jaded at four sequential problematic deliveries in a month
I’m surprised there isn’t any one-the-shelf solution for sorting Lego. As you said, it’s the first step.
I forget you added that sometimes, but I did love finding it! What I am missing is the experience of looking at that curve/smear of a graph that is the table of the isotopes.

Keep up the good work, probably sums it up best :)
Downvoting on Hacker News literally silences the posters. Not only are their comments hidden, they can't post more comments for some time (say in response to what people are replying to them).

Downvotes are supposed to be a tool for filtering out spam, off-topic comments, links to malware and scams. They're used to cancel people for having an opinion that differs from the group.

In this case apparently the group disagrees what the function of melanin is.
> Sqlite inc

Minor nitpick: technically, the primary company that supports SQLite is an incorporated partnership named Hipp [ed note: yes, that's Mr. Richard Hipp], Wyrick [ed note: Hipp's wife] & Company, Inc. dba Hwaci (https://www.hwaci.com/).
> Governments can stop a lot of those breaches if they applied financial and criminal (i.e. imprisonment) penalties to executives for failing to secure their systems

And how do you codify that? It’s possible to be breached when following best practices and doing everything right..
Android Pentesting Lab Setup Guide
Paris is usually cited as a beautiful city and it definitely has undergone some serious transformation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann's_renovation_of_Pa...
I use regularly UnicodePlots.jl for Julia when connected through ssh to HPC servers. It has boosted my productivity!
I remember when Google Reader shutdown and I was outraged. Found RSSOwl and migrated all subscriptions tediously. Then YouTube shut down its RSS feeds and all I had left was basically slightly smarter bookmarks to a scattering of blogs. Then Firefox removed RSS. At that point, why bother trying anymore?

Entirely replaced by link-voting sites now, like HN.
Based :) Alpine doesn't use dash by default, does it? :(
s6 is sweet but openrc is good enough for me. I won't use sysD on purpose anymore. I'd like to hear more from people using alpine on bare metal.
For what its worth, the BSDs do have their own "make"[1]. Its just not compatible with GNU makefiles so for building 3rd party software you often need to install GNU's make on the BSDs.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?make(1)
the former Apple execs designed the M1? impressive
Working through the IoC, I see these lines

copy /Y C:\Windows\System32\certutil.exe C:\Windows\cert.exe & echo %RANDOM% >> C:\Windows\cert.exe

Why append a random number to a copy of certutil.exe other than to change the file signature?
"The report amounts to a giant shrug. The evidence is "largely inconclusive", it says."
The article claims to know how the future will look like because technical reasons and market logic mean it's unavoidable.

But the first paragraph starts with "Congress" and the last calls for government to pay for it. Which is it - does this really make sense, and if so why don't people who find it useful simply pay for it?

To be honest, it looks like American socialists and crony (telco) capitalists are jointly campaigning for government handouts.

Last week Cory Doctorow wrote a bad article on this topic, now the EFF simply rehashed it. Doesn't the EFF have other things to do?
Disagree. It could be seen as one very long hurl? Or you know, stages of them?
That's OK. I have great faith in the huge community of hackers and tweakers that mess around with Windows - there will inevitably be a PowerShell script or Registry tweak for getting around it.
> one of the places where computer science has gone backward, preferring more clunky systems and less elegant paradigms

I respectfully disagree. Smalltalk has had its time. OOP has had plenty of investment and exploration, but it's fundamentally non-compositional and is a poor fit for modern hardware. Other paradigms, for example statically typed functional languages, are just as expressive (the expressive parts of Smalltalk were functional features anyway) and have much more to offer in terms of building reliable software that does not crash and is secure.

Programming is hard, there is no silver bullet, but computer science is moving forward.
What is a the Coop store and why is it bad?

Edit: I really think I am surrounded by huge arrogant morons sometimes. Why do you downvote a fucking question? I got that this fucking shop is the hero of the story, but I do want to know about the concept. Fucking idiots - at least comment when you vote.
Map tile, geocoder, and routing services in a 12 MB dependency-free Linux binary
For what it's worth I was a pothead in my youth, but then again you have it easy in Germany since you just need to go to a club or to a park (every city has at least one hotspot) to get offered all kinds of stuff on the streets.
The reasonable justification is government builds public infrastructure like schools, highways, and subways based on assumptions about use and population density. It’s much harder and more expensive to have reasonable infrastructure if you can’t make accurate predictions.

The de facto justification is indirect negative externalities exist like traffic congestion. Also known as F U I got mine.
Maybe it's just me but "execs" here makes it sounds like they're talking about sales, operations, or marketing.

They're talking about the founders of Nuvia, the startup chip company, that Qualcomm acquired recently.

> The startup was founded by three former Apple engineers who specialized in chip design and worked on Apple’s A-series SOCs. Those founders joined Qualcomm, and it’s apparent now that they’ll be focusing on making chips for consumer computers (though the company wouldn’t turn down the chance to license its tech to data centers, according to Reuters). Qualcomm hopes to start selling Arm laptop chips, powered by Nuvia’s designs, next year.

Also, while they were clearly execs at Nuvia as founders, were they execs at Apple? Or is the article title just being confusing.

More on the founders:

> First is the story of the company’s founders, which include John Bruno, Manu Gulati, and Gerard Williams III, who will be CEO. The three overlapped for a number of years at Apple, where they brought their diverse chip skillsets together to lead a variety of initiatives including Apple’s A-series of chips that power the iPhone and iPad. According to a press statement from the company, the founders have worked on a combined 20 chips across their careers and have received more than 100 patents for their work in silicon.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/15/three-of-apple-and-googles...
Sorry if this is a dumb question.

>a new gameserver instance.........Windows licensing was 50% of our costs on GCP.

Are there any reason why the gameServer part is on Windows? And if this is a norm in Games industry. I always assumed the Server part would be a Linux stack.
Opening a chicken farm or leather tannery in a residential neighborhood sounds great.
> Earth is not overpopulated

Beg to differ. Exhibit A: climate change. Your solution would not ameliorate climate change. In fact it would likely exacerbate it. We need as much of the land as possible to be rewilded(left alone to maximize CO2 absorption and heal the planet). And stop having babies. Do you really want to bring a child into the nightmare we are barreling towards?
> The irony is that without the GPL, most likely those folks would be stuck with the commercial UNIX clones many of us used during the UNIX wars.

386BSD (of which FreeBSD is based) is an independent lineage to GNU and was released under the BSD licence. Thus also independent to GPL. In fact for a period in the early to mid 90s, it was BSD which was used as the free "UNIX" with Linux seen largely as a hobbyist platform and Hurd little more than a pipe dream.

Linux might have since become the dominant POSIX server platform but to argue that GPL was the saviour of open source is a gross misunderstanding of the history of open source (and UNIX).

The reason Linux "won" was ironically because it was seen as more of a hacker OS. It was used more by kids because it was more fun to hack around with. Those hackers then grew up, got proper jobs in IT and continued to use what they were already experienced in...Linux.
I do watch major networks in US and the coverage on CNN and FOX amounted to 'Russia did it' or 'Russia prolly did it'. There was no meaningful coverage of impact or what the Solarwinds hack amounted to. To be frank, compared to coverage of a hurricane, it got minimal necessary coverage. I agree with parent's assertion that it was snuffed out.
I’ll second this. Reeder is great and the latest version does let you use iCloud to sync feeds across different devices.
How does wikipedia "ban" you from forking their articles anymore than any open-source project that doesn't volunteer to host your fork of it?
In practice though, physical clocks can actually provide such good bounds that you can start to not care about the distinction. That’s why you see Google using GPS clocks for their global database to really great results. NTP doesn’t cut it. Atomic clocks could be even better but they have distribution challenges that GPS drastically cuts down on.
https://archive.is/yRrPH
You can't hack flow. You definitely cannot aim for mindfulness. All these are classic cart-before-the-horse conditions. Such flawed notions may sell books, but they don't resolve inner conflicts.

There's a paradox at the heart of this that is difficult to grasp but is true nonetheless.

Joshu asked Nansen: What is the path?

Nansen replied: Your everyday mind is the path.

Joshu: How does one attain it?

Nansen: When you try to attain you fail.
I gave it a shot with a small sample of my kid’s legos and it seems like it did pretty well, even with a bunch of technix mixed in.

Tho, I’m not sure how well it would really work for approx 10k pieces, as there’s not really enough flat space in the house for them to be spread out.

Anyway, he’s off to play with the app for a bit.
My recollection is BitTorrent encryption has mostly nothing to do with real security, and almost everything to do with the cat-and-mouse against ISP middleboxes. Plaintext BitTorrent traffic was highly identifiable and blockable, but even simple obfuscation was enough to avoid them, so simple encryption was adopted.
That's an extreme form of simplification. Simplification is not performance optimization at all; it's removing non-essential complexity. You can still have abstraction and layers, monads and features. The thing is not to keep adding them when a refactor makes them redundant.

Like I say, our designs are ancient and lack features; we need to add more stuff to the code. But that will enable us to remove abstractions that were added only because our previous designs were crap.
REvil: Not only 1 victim paying the ransom will be enough to decrypt all victims
Honestly a gsuite competitor would make a solid startup if anyones brave enough. Everyone complains about all the current options. Its definitely a spot even I feel is missing. The only real alternative is to just pay Microsoft monthly for their version which is quite competitively reasonable.
My dog (who spent about 3 months in a shelter) sometimes "talks in his sleep", making sounds like he is scared/stressed about something. Other times he makes happier sounds while sleeping. It seems pretty clear that he's experiencing a range of emotions in his dreams, but I don't think it necessarily means reliving specific events.
How to pack professional-grade map tile, geocoder, and routing services into a 12 MB dependency-free Linux binary? Read our new blog post about the technology we've been developing for the last 20 years. It's technically about WEB mapping, but you'll also learn a lot about Mireo's programming culture and development principles.
The Whitewashing of Rome
The way I think about it:

`return` and `throw` set the function's result. `catch` automatically unsets the function's result. How `finally` works can be explained from that.
It is not a debilitating phrase in the modern world. My doctor does not show up at his clinic before 8am, and that is a good thing.
No, there was no agreement. Putin offered it up knowing the US Gov’t could never accept it.
There is a good book employing the TRIZ mindset for self-improvement called "How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use"[0]. Although some of the outcomes the book lead you to can seem banal, if you approach them from the perspective of how to optimize misery, it can give you a new perspective. It certainly did for me in some areas.

CGP Grey also made a video based on the book, called "7 Ways to Maximize Misery"[1] that may be easier to digest.

[0]https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25898044-how-to-be-mi...

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o
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