skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much cash a corporation holds should be a matter for the corporation's CEO, board, and shareholders to decide.

If the shareholders are comfortable with the company sitting a on large amount of cash as a rainy day fund, or a reserve that can be used for large acquisitions, significant new research efforts (maybe Apple wants to build cars, and self-driving ones) etc., then who's complaining?

With $195 billion in cash reserves, Apple couldn't e.g. buy a semiconductor company like TSMC outright (market cap $623B), but one could imagine that there are plenty of companies that Apple might like to have the ability to buy that are in the several-to-ten billion dollar range.

If a substantial number of shareholders are unhappy with Apple's cash hoard then a large enough coalition could force a vote to distribute a portion of the cash as dividends, or use it for a stock buyback; or pressure management changes at the company, etc.

So far, the fact that Apple investors appear to be comfortable with its cash reserves suggests that Apple investors believe that Apple will either (1) lobby for policy changes that enable it to bring the cash back to the US without paying considerable taxes, at which point it will distribute them as dividends or stock buybacks; or (2) they believe Apple will use that cash for investments/acquisitions that will generate more returns than the investors themselves would generate if the same cash were distributed immediately to shareholders.
Right, they are not held to account by lawsuits but by elections.
I've been using laptops with TPM for a decade now. Never enabled the damn thing because if it failed, I'd be completely locked out of my computer. I'm not a CIA agent, I'm not a threat to any state, I don't even work for some big corp, why do I need that level of security?
Yes. Walmart.
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There's now FDA guidance on cybersecurity risks, but in a nutshell, it says "you must consider cybersecurity risks in your risk management plan." Manufacturers were (usually) doing this anyway but the probability and impact have been reassessed since the various lawsuits.

I don't work on pacemakers, specifically, but I'm confident you can no longer say "it has RF remote and nobody can buy the programming interface, therefore it's secure", because that's what went wrong before.

Instead, the risk management plan will look something like:

1. "magnet only with big disclaimers" (because you need the emergency cut-out switch; 'patient died because malfunction' is a worse outcome than 'maybe someone put a big-ass magnet on someone's chest and they got mostly non-life-threatening symptoms')

2. optionally, some form of 'secured' RF interface. Don't presume SSL. This is risk management, remember, so it's probably enough to say "hold a magnet on and then we enable unencrypted unauthenticated comms". Or maybe they do use SSL and just put way bigger micros in there. I don't know.

(edit: someone below who knows more than I do says "use Bluetooth", possibly triggered by magnet taps. Makes sense to me.)
If you told a compiler guy about an optimization that would speed up code 0.3% he would be pretty happy.
It's crunch time, need to hit a critical milestone, severe bug. We need to bring in the team over the weekend to get it done. "Well, I think that working over the weekend goes against 'World's Best Employer'".

"Yeah, but success brings the responsibility to work over the weekend. Plus, being the best employer means helping employees grow, and you'll get plenty of time to grow Saturday."

These sound like banal corporate platitudes to me. Maybe an attempt to put an imprint on post-Bezos culture.
Deng intended limited attack. And the incursion was limited.

>It was even referred to as an embarrassment internally

The theory was Deng, new in power intentionally wanted to embarrass powerful PLA brass to consolidate power. He was successful in that regard. It embarrassed the right people, by design.

>and directly led to modernization of the PRC military.

PLA modernization was in response to US stomping Iraq in Gulf War later. Anemic PLA was sufficient for Vietnam if they chose to press on with campaign. Poverty navy was enough for SCS against Vietnam (the other Sino-Vietnam war). Vietnam had very little influence on PLA modernization.

>because they lost

Categorical success in retrospect. PRC set back Vietnam development by 10+ years, forced CPV to dump resources into defense spending while wrecking enough of the country that Vietnam missed out on FDI that went straight to modernizing PRC. Current boom in Vietnam could have happened decade+ earlier during a period with greater potential to capitalize on offshoring before automation.

Common thread in these events is that PRC focused on / won political victories, i.e. war is merely the continuation of politics with other means. That said politics as alternative to war still realistically involves bullying.
I have a Samsung and it’s slow but not that slow. It’s a 2014 I think and I probably get picture (DVB-T) in around 10 seconds.
"...send someone to jail because they played a couple seconds of a song, in a public street, on their phone."

No one is saying this. You are leaving out a lot of crucial details that have been brought up.
Twitter lets users disable SMS 2FA and use only security keys
fwiw https://matrix.org/docs/guides/moderation/ enumerates the current moderation approaches in Matrix, which are relatively comprehensive. there's still stuff we can do though (e.g. ability to set rooms to text-only)
This has been evident to me personally in two areas especially: car repair and gardening. I routinely look up repairs for my vehicles on YT and often find they are more approachable than if I’d just relied on a chiltons guide. The “tacit knowledge” of things like “you got to reach around from this angle to access the oil filter” or “when it makes this sound, it’s often this part” is incredible. And it’s struck me before that it really is a new phenomenon that all this detailed knowledge video is available instantly.

Gardening reveals a gotcha that I’ve thought I’d like to solve with my own content though. Often content is presented with no followup. Ie “top 10 ways to get rid of squash vine borers” regurgitates the same things as lists online, with very little I’ve seen saying “these worked, these didn’t”. Since it’s often a longer term endeavor with lots of variables, there’s little content that follows gardening techniques through. I’ve thought if I started a garden channel, I’d like to do time lapse videos following real random controlled trials with various techniques to see and demonstrate what works. Maybe a way to have a very boring channel, but it’s what I’d like to see.
As I remember, at least as a narrative, it is clear that having speed limits reduces traffic jams, congestion and accidents, and will actually help get people faster from A to B. Of course, no speed limit is part of the "brand" Germany, but I guess this could be maintained by some work-around. Happy to revise my opinion when presented with evidence to the contrary, but to me speed limits are to Germany what gun control is to the US.
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Is the ternary conditional just for the syntactic ease or there are some performance reasons for this?

I understand there are conditional assignment instructions, though optimizer could likely choose these already. Also branching prediction may take care of such assignments as well.
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Sure, but in this case all the elephants are still left standing in the room. And it seems pretty clear that buy-in from the general public is not an infinite resource, so these kinds of changes with minuscule impact but significant public perception of the downsides might not be the way to go. I mean, would you be happy about a 0.3% speed improvement for your compiler at the cost of requiring every source file to be < 4 KB? Especially when the compiler doesn't even inline functions yet?

(Disclaimer: I have nothing against paper straws or reasonable speed limits. But I know that other people do.)
States normally don't share data with each other or the feds.

As an example, CA might use The Work Number to check if you are working in NV but not claiming or under reporting that income on your CA medicaid application.
Note that this is pollution as measured by a few specific pollutants and explicitly _not_ CO2. While this is definitely a problem, if you care about climate change the cars are still a big deal.
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I'm in the bottom 50% of the population money wise, but you're right, HN is definitely full of people in the top 10%, and so literally shortwire in their brains when I say something like "it's bad enough to where cutting ones nose to spite the face is starting to make sense"

Because from your position it seems absurd.

From mine it seems like the only move left to make.
> The Razer Synapse program you use to control the keyboard RGB is annoying, it'd be a good weekend project to replicate its functionality in a free app

It's already been done: https://openrgb.org/
According to your single exit poll of 15k people. Over 159 million Americans voted in 2020.

56% of Republican and GOP-leaning voters are ages 50 and older, up from 39% in 1996.

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More like the JTS of...
This is not about increasing tax revenue it is about preventing multinationals from evading taxes. It's similar in concept to the Alternative Minimum Tax, which was designed to prevent an ever-increasing web of exemptions and loopholes from allowing some people to pay little-to-no taxes.
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Am I crazy or could it be read that the money is being more or less extorted from the payer?
Get a laser projector, it's life changing.
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One could look at this and say that with higher mobility over the last 30 years people will increasingly select to live in socially cohesive communities.

We know this to be the case in other areas.
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I asked this above and every response avoided it. OK, do you want to add "political affiliation or belief" to the CRA64? Do you understand the potential negative effects of that on people's Freedom of Association?
I quick search yields that the best answer is "no-one knows because the proposal remains too vague and too much in-flux to provide an answer".

The CBO has not yet weighed in. That's usually a good starting point for any legislation that's getting seriously close to consideration.
Sure but something else will come and replace them. Selling shovels is always a smart business move.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation

For defamation, you need four things: a false statement of fact made to a third party causing actual harm, that demonstrates at least negligence. For public figures, the "at least negligence" rises to "actual malice"; I believe the intention is to prevent public figures from abusing defamation suits.

Note that "lying", saying something that you know to be false or with "reckless disregard" for whether it is false, is pretty much the definition of "actual malice" in this case. You cannot lie without repercussion.
Looks like it needs a wash and some detailing.
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Not going to happen. Adding an hour to every road trip is not going to be popular with many.
> Other is full recording of what happened from the officer's point of view.

Ironically, the security cameras on people's private property that cops are choosing to put tape over before possibly committing crimes are closer to "full recordings" than what body cameras offer.

Body cameras are sold with features that cops and their bosses like, like features that exist for the purpose of keeping the public from accusing cops of violating their rights or worse.

That means that many body cameras are designed to only record short 30 to 60 second segments of video after a cop feels that "something bad" might happen to them. Many of the cameras also come with convenient on and off switches, too, and some come with features that allow cops to delete videos.
Hyperloop - snake oil

Crypto - snake oil

Colonization of Mars - (hilarious) snake oil

Starlink - (subsidized) snake oil

Tesla stock - snake oil

Mini rescue submarine - snake oil

Tesla cars from an ownership perspective - snake oil

etc.
> the more important it is to get server-to-server federation un-blocked with matrix.org, the more that can be taken as a sign of centralization

This was my point. We never blocked server-to-server federation with matrix.org. We published a blocklist of the abusive servers, and blocked them from the rooms which we manage on the server. There was never any centralised control applied, and there is no mechanism to do so (unless room/server admins opt in to using the blocklists we publish, but they are very welcome to use their own).
You shouldn't -- it's decades old. Use Fortran, which is how it's written now (though your conforming FORTRAN77 will doubtless still compile).
No, you are not. You shouldn't suddenly move to a lane left of you without checking that there is no faster traffic oncoming though. And you might move right, if possible. But it is not a special danger.
or shutting down a few lignite mines?
Ubuntu is not Linux. On other distributions secure boot doesn't work out of the box and requires some manual tweaking, like generating a CA, signing kernel and stuff, installing the CA key in the firmware, etc.

I don't like Ubuntu, in fact I consider it the worse Linux distributions (it was good in the old days, nowadays is full of crap like snap packages and commercial stuff).

Also, secure boot will have implications, for example with secure boot enabled you cannot load unsigned kernel modules. That depending on the situations can be a problem (for example a lot of third party drivers, for example the NVIDIA one, works by building a kernel module, you cannot install them, the distribution must provide a binary signed module or you won't be able to use them).
Personally, I don't take anything coming from HR as gospel.
For God's sake, please make it 60 mph this time so I can do the mental math.
It much depends on the traffic volume. On 3 lane segments, the speed often is higher, but in the typical commuter traffic it is quite slow.
Personally, I would welcome a speed limit on the Autobahn. OTOH, I don't own a car, so that's very easy for me to say since it wouldn't affect me.

However, I don't think this is going to happen anytime soon. Outlawing music or the Internet would be more popular in Germany than a speed limit on the Autobahn. Every couple of years some politician floats the idea, and inevitably, the public backlash is huge, so nothing happens. Nothing will happen this time, either.

Anyway, I have a gut feeling that moving all that cargo rolling around on the Autobahn every day to trains would have a bigger impact, but after decades of giving cars and roads preferential treatment and minimizing investments into the rail network, this would take at least a couple of years of intense construction work, which I don't see happening, either.
This is new and may not be used much, but it is possible to use part of Kata with part of Firecracker. https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/wiki/Initia...
Yes! Lots of fun could be had on old DOCSIS 1 networks, before everything was encrypted. Putting your NIC into promiscuous mode and using tcpdump or wireshark/ethereal/etc could yield a wealth of information about your neighbors.

My favorite:

If you could manage to have a capture running while someone (re)booted a cable modem you could easily grant yourself faster internet access. The process worked by capturing an example of the DOCSIS config file that the modem uses to provision itself on bootup. The modems would request these configs from a cable company TFTP server with a certain IP address.

So if you got a neighbors config file and that neighbor paid for a higher service tier than you then you could fairly easily upgrade your internet speed by simply hosting that config file on a TFTP server in your local network using the same IP as the upstream _real_ TFTP server the cable company managed. Reboot your modem, watch it configure itself with your config file, profit! :) ..."good ole' days".

I might be misremembering this slightly, but it really was fairly trivial to upgrade your service in those days.
Would be hilarious if they ended up on the other end of a short squeeze.
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