skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They outsource. And if you think Accenture is expensive, try an army of lawyers at double the rate billing 60-80 hours per week.

They have to do this to get specialists and many top experts work at firms. (Vs generalists who work in house)
I feel like I have a fairly solid backup system for all of my important files. They are protected against elementary disasters and cyber attacks alike.

However the only thing I struggle with are my phone photos. I recently caved in and started using iCloud Photos due to the convenience of having all my phone photos alwas available, searchable and tagged, even if the library size exceeds my phone‘s capacity.

Does anyone know a reliable and automatable way to back up this iCloud photo library on a self hosted server?
You're attacking a strawman here. Nothing that was marked as misinformation was about the economic effects of lockdowns. If those effects concern you, you should be concerned with vaccine misinformation prolonging lockdowns, whether those lockdowns are government-enforced or due to individuals concerned about risk.
It's not their site, it's not the topic that relates to the title, and it's a discussion that this website has had hundreds of times before, equally as fruitlessly.
He claims to have revealed too little information in his reporting for it to be possible to identify the complainants. The court disagrees. Really I just see his word against theirs.

I'd like to see some more specific details so I could form my own view, or at least hear the view of a disinterested third party that's seen the relevant posts.
I've been a Xamarin.Forms developer for a while and I'm a big fan of the framework.

The author has a point that Android support has always lagged iOS support, but I've not had problems to the point that they have. Xamarin is great for business apps, and can definitely be performant on both platforms.
Someone editorialized the title.
I never programmed it but there were legitimate things that people didn't like about it, instruction density, extremely large architected register set (which has downsides beyond density), register windows, from memory. Which have their reasons but also have very real problems.

It did have some "interesting" things like advance loads and associated speculation support, programmable branch predictors, rich prefetching and cache hinting, highly predicated execution. Which were intended to all combine and make out of order execution unnecessary.

In practice they were very difficult to use well, didn't solve all deficiencies of in-order execution, and were often inefficient and difficult to implement. Itanium remained stuck at low frequencies and performance was tied to things like heroically fast (and therefore unfortunately tiny) L1 caches.

And if you do have an out of order design, then many of those interesting aspects of it were much less useful.
Dealing with Discovery in corporate lawsuits can be extremely labor intensive. Defendants especially like to dump huge amounts of evidence in discovery that the law firms have to sift through. A recent example was Remington submitting tens of thousands of pages of cartoons in discovery for the suit against them by Sandy Hook victims' parents [11]

[1] https://www.thewrap.com/gunmaker-includes-thousands-of-rando...
I went camping at Pondalowie as a kid. I’m used to flies, but the flies there were like nothing I’ve seen in the 40 years since.
Why New Yorkers pay $15 for 'sad desk salads'
I agree that neurodiversity is ultimately a good thing for humanity as a whole, long-term[1]. Just to expand on that with a quick example: one way of thinking about people who join groups vs. loners is that, most of the time the "joiners" will do better, overall. However, if there is an event that kills off that group of joiners, then the loners are still around to keep going and recover from the loss.

[1] I'm thinking of evolutionary-level time frames here. There are certainly problems on a shorter-term, individual level, which most of the comments address.
I wasn't familiar with this movie until now. How much does official marketing material mention Amanda Knox? From a quick look up, she doesn't appear to be in the official synopsis on e.g. Rotten Tomatoes.

Because, hypothetical thought experiment here:

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Let's say Tom McCarthy had the idea for a screenplay while watching the Amanda Knox trial. He doesn't know, at that point, whether she is guilty or innocent, and it really doesn't matter—the case is just inspiration for a fictional story, which can play out however the author wishes.

So he makes that movie, and it's in production, and one day in an interview a reporter asks "Where did you get the idea for this movie?" Maybe they even ask "This story seems kind of similar to the Amanda Knox case, was that an inspiration?"

At this point, does Tom McCarthy need to lie, or decline to answer? Should he not be allowed to share his creative process with the world?

Or, perhaps he just never should have made the movie in the first place... but that seems wrong, doesn't it? Creatives get inspiration from all sorts of odd places, and I don't want to limit them!

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Again, I have no idea if the real situation played out like this at all, and in fact, I'm just going to guess that it was far more egregious. But it's what I was thinking about when reading this piece.
Yes. If I recall correctly the midseason positivity rates of flu tests is something like 40 percent, which suggests doctors are performing a legitimate differential diagnosis before prescribing flu tests. At no point ever have positivity rates been remotely close to this with coronavirus, even though it was far more prevalent.

The result of any individual test performed on a healthy asymptomatic person as part of a nondiscriminating mass screening regime is pure noise.
I used to make little movies on our Gateway 2000 with PowerPoint 97 using clipart and slide animations.
Is /dev/zero to bypass the FS?
I don't think so. No way people gave up.
IBM/Lenovo and Apple are the manufacturers I've had the best luck with -- despite the crappy keyboard on my 2015 15-MBP was failing and replaced and issues on my 2019 MBA. They are the only laptops that still feel mechanically good after 3-5 years, no creaky, failed or sloppy hinges, sloppy lids and parts falling off. Actually, my Google Pixelbook is also still decent after all this time.

I still have a 13-year old 24" iMac from 2008 that is working fine and used to let kids watch some Netflix, I only jsut retired it because streaming sites dropped support for the OS and browsers.

I have a 2010 Macbook Air on its original (but limping) battery that I used to use for serial comms and electronics stuff, still working fine. Besides the failing GPU, my old 2009 and 2011 iMacs run well (and some amazing folks figured out how to replace the MXM which I did, baking also worked).

My Samsung, even Microsoft Surface Pros, were pretty creaky and sloppy after about 3 years.
I work for a large computer hardware company who I consider to have crippling amount of unchecked technical debt (with no payment plan). Recently I managed to ask the CEO a question in an all-hands meeting. More or less:

"What are your thoughts on managing technical debt across the organization?".

His response:

"I don't know what this technical debt you refer to is".
Then he proceeded to answer the question as if I had asked about financial debt. This is the same person that allegedly said "Coding isn't hard, it's just typing!" according to some of the graybeard sources that worked with him when he was still a technical contributor.

I agree with the premise of this article that top decision makers at a company need to be familiar with and actively monitor technical debt (or whatever you want to call it). It can have disastrous consequences for the company. I see it every day.
>I genuinely do not know who I am supposed to have identified or which phrases I published are said to have identified them, in combination with [details] in the public domain.

>How I genuinely do not know who I am supposed to have identified or which phrases I published are said to have identified them, in combination with [details] in the public domain.

How on earth is that open and shut?

Open and shut would be if he published the names, which nobody claims that he did.

Conveniently it is also impossible to verify if the crime was actually committed without naming the individuals. All that is required to convict is one judge's say so.

If you were to pick a convenient politically motivated prosecution this ranks up there with navalny skipping bail by dint of being in a coma.
Haha. Is that a reference to Google's DNS 8.8.8.8?

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns
This is a good insight, I hadn't thought of that perspective
I recall Wikipedia saying one of them (I tend to confuse the two) was popular in RAID controllers, so that sounds plausible.
> This new medium doesn't wait for clicks. It doesn't need computers. It means personalized experiences not bound by a page - think of a how-to origami video channel or a 3-D furry-muckers VR space. It means information that cascades, not just through a PC, but across all forms of communication devices - headlines sent to a pager, or a traffic map popping up on a cellular phone. And it means content that will not hesitate to find you - whether you've clicked on something recently or not.

Sounds pretty much completely accurate.
C# is pretty similar to Java, so the jump isnt too far if you know that.

C# also comes with Visual Studio, which can be used in the free version with teams of up to 5.

I myself barely used it either though, most of my development is in java, JS/TS and python.
You are generally correct. One is more likely to land a job while they are studying SoftEng than their CompEng counterpart (my experience and observation).
Yes, this has been a common experience:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28264/w282...

20% of kids were disadvantaged (-0.4 standard deviation on tests), 20% were advantaged, 60% mostly unaffected. Strongly correlated with household income.
It seems the article was submitted by the author, so I don't see an issue here
> I work for a bank. Applying your analysis, one could argue that banks offer zero intrinsic value. After all, all they allow you to do is to move money around back and forth between different people.

What I meant was that it's the bank shares that capture the value you describe, not dollars. And because the bank does create the value you describe, the shareholders of that bank are rewarded by and increase in shareholder equity value.

There's no reason for the intrinsic value of dollars to go up because banks exist beyond their value increase attributable to a growth in GDP as a result.

The role you describe here maps to miners, which are in fact the third party that in aggregate facilitates bitcoin transactions. They are rewarded via block rewards for this service which similarly increases their shareholder equity. Bitcoin doesn't enable people to move bitcoins between wallets, miners do. Bitcoin basically unbundles the services banks provide, but it doesn't internalize them or capture the value they create.
Sure, not their site, but their choice to publish there regardless? I think it is a valid line of criticism and distinct from the rule you quote, which I understand to be more about stopping off-topic nit-picking.
> Or crawling under a woman's desk to test an ethernet port

You are Roy from "The IT Crowd", I assume?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPXv6QCUMyY
Latvia. To give you some perspective, my current net salary is around 1500 euros per month ( the national average is a bit under 1000 https://tradingeconomics.com/latvia/wages ).

Rent in an average small flat is around 300 euros, though could also reach 400 euros or more with heating expenses ( https://m.ss.lv/lv/real-estate/flats/riga/all/fDgTeF4RAzp4FD... some of these adverts list daily prices though ).

Regardless, 7000 USD is around 5900 EUR, so 5900/300 = almost 20 months of rent covered. This also assumes no shipping costs, which might add a bit more.
I had a bad fever for one night.
I don't think I saw it articulated, but I had the sense that there was a wide belief that the Web needed a new, original language of it's own; that the existing languages would impose too much framework and worldview on totally chaotic evolution. Jskirpt sucked, but it was at least in a position to evolve and become better, which was the main thing that was desired of it right then. Anything else that was invented near its time and purpose invariably had even more suck and less feature.
Student designs compact lifesaving drone for beach rescue teams
Can confirm, I once tried to setup a community on discord and got my account banned without any possibility for appeal and without ever having idea of what went wrong, never again
All fair points, but still, don't you think it's a little surprising that browsers never supported perl client side? That seems like the obvious one to me given all the cgi scripting written in it.
lesson to whistleblowers of all kinds and agendas: if you want to keep blowing the whistle, do everything you can to stay undercover. live to fight another day.
Yes they do. I used pen drives for backups after I found one that was like 10 years old and still had my old cv on it. I stored my backups on two identical pen drives I stopped doing this when I went to backup and discovered one of the pen drives was corrupt and lost all its data.

They are super cheap and fairly reliable but not quite reliable enough for backups.
To be honest, I am in better shape than I have ever been in my life, but that's cause I'm 43 and rock climb regularly.

IMO, core strength has been the big change in how my spine feels.
Afghan Warlords: Back to the Future?
They really would have done her service if they would have just left her name out entirely and just said "the movie stands on its own merit". They could have handled this so much better if they would have just talked to her from the start rather than near completion/release of the movie. Particularly in promoting it.
Yes they throttle themselves, and will shut down before burning a hole in your bag. If it's shutting down due to overheating it's possibly a bad thermal sensor. I've usually only seen this on systems that have had Liquid damage or a device that was previously repaired.
Flutter is probably the better bet for the future
No idea where Rowling lands on what I'm about to say (haven't followed it), but it reminds me:

Sometimes I think when people are arguing their opinion X, and that opinion has any overlap, actual or perceptual, meaningful or incidental, with a demonized opinion Y, rather than distinguish X from Y, they will apparently purposefully either leave it ominously unmentioned, or even implicitly lean into the comparison, even if Y is demonized for a good reason and they ostensibly agree with the demonization. I think they do the former sometimes because they obstinately think, "of course I disagree with Y, I shouldn't have to say it", and yes, audiences frequently make unfair comparisons, but many times a comparison is so obvious that it's misleading to say nothing. As for the latter, I think that is a result of either self-destructive frustration (they've given up on arguing and are just provoking), or evidence that they do agree with Y, but don't want to say it out loud. In any case, 100% of the time, it's all unnecessarily provocative and it's destructive to understanding and therefore to the conversation.

The one Rowling Tweet I know about off the top of my head falls squarely into this dynamic: The one where she said something sarcastic about how women menstruate. Sarcasm and willfully ignoring colloquial semantics to fall back on "objective facts" devoid of context are very common components of the behavior described above (well, they're common to bad-faith arguments in general).
> The problem is when policy transfers wealth from people who do work to people who don't.

Why is it that this line is brought up when it might be a poor person getting a hand out but never when it is a rich person being given a hand out? You'd think the focus would be on stopping the ultra-wealthy from draining the rest of society with their out-sized influence, not weighing the hearts of the poor against a feather.
Strict memcpy() bounds checking for the Linux kernel
Interesting. I write CSS with absolutely no overrides. I compose at the JSX component level, so there's one Button component used everywhere, not a btn class that gets applied to random <button> components. I usually need to reuse more than just a style, so why not encapsulate it at the component level? If I _do_ want to compose individual styles, I use Sass mixins.

And I find that looking at a single media query over semantic classes to be far easier to understand than utility classes scattered over multiple elements. Looking at tailwind responsive classes hurts my brain.
True, but Apple were running Macbooks on power back then I think. I know windows was even more dominant then than it is now so perhaps large numbers of powerbooks was never on the cards.

But in the server space the story might have been different.

I take it intel were planning "Mobile Itanium" at some point?
Again, you are not understanding the point I am making. It has nothing to do with living healthily.

An obese person is more likely to have a communicable disease. Coming into contact with them can cause an infection. This is no different than COVID.

Are you for banning obese people from public spaces? I fail to see the difference.
Communication points are a bottleneck. Smaller teams help, but the ideal team size for accomplishing a task is 1.

Putting engineers in a war room or open office is only going to irritate the ones who want to spend their time doing deep work. And those are usually the better ones.
HP had PA-RISC and Alpha.

HP bought Compaq 2001, Compaq had bought DEC earlier.
Confirming research done by Jerry Seinfeld in 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK9rbwM3omA
It's showing a little age, but this list from Tech Solidarity gives you an intro to (1): https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm
I got given a 5% increase, but only because there's been an exodus and Management are terrified of losing critical mass.
> That being said, humans need heuristics and shortcuts to aid in decision-making. I hope the fact that rsync.net has been doing this work since 2001 is helpful in that regard.

This is implied by the 'blindly' part. Searching "cloud storage provider", seeing rsync.net listed and picking it with a thrown dart would be blind. A quick search to see that it's been around for a while and doesn't have any crazy horror stories attached is part of becoming informed.
Building Japan's Quantum Future with IBM Quantum System One
A Conversation Between Bob Coecke and Stephen Wolfram
My pet peeve: structuring their UI to match their database schema.

This is one of the most common issues for developers who build UIs or forms – anything that takes user input – and both one of the most consequential and difficult to address.

You'll often find forms that closely match the structure of the underlying database used to store the data being entered. This leads to incomplete lists of titles or countries, form fields that don't accept non-ASCII or long or short names, that have constraints on fields that don't match real-world inputs, and more.

The user interface should be built for the user first. How you structure your tables is none of their concern, and neither is your database schema.
- Getting myself to do stuff. I couldn't get diagnosed with ADHD because I only started experiencing symptoms in adulthood.

- Getting over messing up my education. Had an opportunity to go to a top university and instead I went to a pretty mediocre place and study something weird for the sake of "following my passion" or something of that sort. I can't help but think that I wasted some great opportunities and this isn't really something that I can fix now.

- Having tattoos that I don't like.

The last two are basically trying to get over / live with the dumb things that 18-20 year-old me did.
You claimed the algorithm is responsible for increasing virality of dumb thoughts. Yet my counterexample is that it reduces it. I believe removing the algorithmic feed alone is not going to solve the problem of misinformation.
Your comment surprises me.

App Engine 2 has nothing compared to App Engine 1. At a previous job we relied on App Engine 1's, task queues, user management, NDB, blobstore, memcached, image resizing, and I hope I'm not forgetting anything. We had to change our code to use, cloud tasks, our own user management, a new NDB(more on that later), GCS, Redis and no resizing.

This took around 2 years!

on NDB, the issue was that it had a major overhaul and needed _a lot_ of work. we started updating when it was in beta, i.e. stable logic with an unstable API. But I found some major issues with it, a couple with transactions; one instance was, when using the cache, transactional deletes don't work(!).

I do need to give a shoutout to the NDB dev team here who relentlessly debugged everything I posted. That was good support.

Point being, as a developer this took away a lot of trust from me for GCP. And I thought how well this behavior aligns with Google's product killing yolo energy. Hopefully this new initiative will prevent my children from suffering from the same divine test of patience.
Here's an in-development audio framework which uses JS. I haven't used it, but it looks interesting.

https://www.elementary.audio/
I’m the same. Everyone was told not to reveal identities of the victims, he was blogging about the case and was deemed to have published info that could’ve doxed them. The news is understandably vague on the subject (lest they repeat the offence) and the posts are down. So it’s hard to know what to think. Just remember that there’s a lot of very strong feelings about Scottish independence (which is kinda wrapped up in this) and the
SNP (the dominant party in Scotland) so anyone speaking definitively for/against him who was not directly involved in the case are likely drawing more from personal feelings and other grievances than the actual case itself
I suspect that, being such large name companies, they are aware of the power of name recognition and chose deliberately to stay away from it -- perhaps because it would not be a help to the new merger. Rather, it might be a hindrance to the type of business that merger is trying to do.
“ The fire happened during testing.” - you think that’d be in the title, or the main bullet points, not hidden in the article.

How is any journalism taken seriously anymore? There is always an angle.
I will sacrifice my freedom no more. If a some very small part of population will die even after two vaccines, then it shall be so.
You are correct. They can definitely have an intersection. Some companies actually do some good in the world AND make profits. They don't have to be "mutually exclusive"