skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No surprise to be honest.

What rather surprises me are the comments claiming MSFT is suddenly going to go bankrupt because there is a pre-install spyware.

Have you ever worked in a Fortune 500 ?

Do you know how hard it is in those company to get anything done that has not been budgeted and planned years in advance ?

Do you seriously believe Fortune 500 using MSFT are going to suddenly migrate ALL their Azure workload somewhere else like some kind of startups run by 3 devs ?

Yes Azure VMs have spywares builtin , but last time I checked all Europeans companies that are using American Cloud fall under the « Cloud Act » legislation which « legally » requires cloud vendor to hand over ALL the data the company is currently hosting.

I’ve worked in some of the largest insurances in Europe they LOVE Microsoft and Azure , even if there is this spyware issue , they will pretend it doesn’t exist and do business as usual.

Im pretty sure everyone will forget about this news in 1 month or so.
Would your argument still stand if this hypothetical corporation had no employees but the owner?

That is, do you take issue with the fact that one person, employing many, profits much more than the people he employees or that he profits much more than his fellow man on the street?
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ExpressVPN CIO among three facing $1.6M DOJ fine over Project Raven
In the UK at least, there is a separate minimum wage for people under different ages. Teens have a much much lower minimum wage precisely because of what you just said.
Hey HN, author here!

Lately I've been fascinated by websites like http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com and https://gofuckingdoit.com by @levelsio and decided to hack something this weekend

First thing a weekend project needs is an idea. It has to be original, funny and simple
So I went to have a quick shower.. and had my idea:
A Wikipedia alternative governed by free market: dunno what's gonna happen

How does it work?
Search for a word (or multiple together). If someone bought the page they can edit it and that's what you're gonna see. Become the owner of the page by buying it. Every page starts at 1$ and every time is sold at 10x it's value.

Where does the money go?
70% goes to Wikipedia and 30% to me to pay for my living expenses while building my startup https://creators.so

But why should I buy a page?
Oh well... I totally skipped the product market fit strategy. I went with the shower fit: if it sounds good under the shower then it has a go

paid.wiki is for people that:
Want to have a personal page and can't on Wikipedia
Want to bash on a company (just buy its page)
Want to market their own product on competitor's page
Want to make the internet a funnier place

And here's the technical summary:
Bought domain paid.wiki for 65$
Coded everything in 2 days
Using NextJS & Prisma

Let's sit and watch how internet is gonna behave from now

https://paid.wiki/open
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> Have you seen what it takes to get a PhD?

In the worst case, the extreme willingness and patience to waste years of your life on writing a thick paper that has a high chance of never being read by more than a handful of people and then pile on dust in the closet — and choosing that path over creating tangible real-world solutions in the same time.

Not discounting the hard work that goes into a PhD thesis at the slightest and the fact that I know brilliant PhDs with game-changing papers that went on to excel in their jobs, this framing might still give a clue on why, after having hired over a hundred engineers and seeing them develop, I have yet to see a positive correlation between academic performance and job performance.

Same goes for removing impediments. Having gone greater lengths to remove impediments for employees early in my career than any other manager I know, I can attest that even that doesn't motivate certain personality types to "flower". If anything, it motivates them to find more impediments. All the while the employees who just removed the first few impediments themselves are already crushing the next task.

"Whoever wants something finds ways, whoever doesn't want something finds reasons."
- Götz Werner
Doesn’t change the point I’m making unless you’re saying this is a manager you’d be reporting to. In which case your stance is justified. Otherwise my point stands.
Is that an official statement?
This is the exact framing that's worked to get things across to friends that have gotten confused by some fear mongering propaganda using the personal finance metaphor. It naturally leads into explaining how potential deflation needs to be address in a way very from being thrifty personally.
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary [0]:

>5 : the position of a craft (such as an aircraft or spacecraft) determined by the relationship between its axes and a reference datum (such as the horizon or a particular star)

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/attitude
Amazon does do the same from what I understand, their official AMI's contain a management agent - I don't believe it's required though.
Not very refreshing, considering the 100 total visitors this site will ever receive are likely highly paid folks in the software and technology industry, but it’s a nice gesture at least.
> I am not a native English speaker (and I don't work at Gitlab) but I am curious and interested in using proper terms, as I think as developer that naming is a very important skill.

That is it for me too and why I think this change is so annoying.

WIP means something is being worked on. [0]

Draft can mean the same, but it also has a bunch of other possible meanings. Note that if you search in both of your sources, you'll find "sketch" as an explaination. It can mean the same, but it can also mean a bunch of other things. It's a strictly worse name.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WIP
> The idea is that people got rich in part due to all the nice infrastructure we have, and so we could tax some of the income they made off that infrastructure to pay for it all.

This sounds solid until you realize that country B next door has lower taxes, better public services or in some cases - both. Does the GP question make sense then?
ExpressVPN CIO Daniel Gericke, as first reported Tuesday by Reuters, is a former US intelligence operative and one of the three members of Project Raven who worked as mercenary hackers for the United Arab Emirates, helping it spy on its enemies. ExpressVPN said its trust in Gericke "remains strong."

The agreement comes a day after ExpressVPN announced it had been sold as part of a $936 million deal to former adware distributors Kape Technologies, a company cofounded by an ex-Israeli surveillance agent and a billionaire previously convicted of insider trading.

At the behest of the UAE’s monarchy, the Project Raven team hacked into the accounts of human rights activists, journalists and rival governments, Reuters reported.
Yes, it is completely crazy.

I have no idea who is the retarded in charge of their security but it clearly makes no sense:

In the end, instead of a password, it asks me what is the name of my favorite animal to connect...

En even for the password, it's useless to have a long one because they will never ask you anything else than the 4 first or last chars. I'm also quite sure that because of that, they have to store in clear text your password or have to store multiple hash for each set of 4 letters in your pass. That would also be stupid...
It wasn't. There's definitely an extinction-level event near the rumored asteroid but the evidence is not overwhelming. asteroid hits are very very time specific one second you're fine, the next an asteroid is supposedly killing more than half of all life on the planet. yet 'some' reduction in species is rumored to have happened before the impact which negates the asteroid theory
>Even if we abandon looking at it as as a strictly energy in energy out situation

There is no reason to abandon looking at it that way. Eating healthier will not result in you losing weight if your caloric intake remains the same. Feel free to continue eating $1 burgers, just eat fewer of them.
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In internet, in most places I've seen "draft" as being something that is not yet published. For example in a lot of blogging software like WordPress, you can save your post and it will be "Draft", but only will be visible to others when you publish, so it's not thrown away in most contexts that I know it being used in the Internet.
GCP does allow you to sign into a service account using OIDC credentials. Docs: https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/access-resources-oidc
There is no real doubt that the Chicxulub bolide impact occurred, caused shockwaves and tsunamis, and ejected a bunch of hot material.

Eg, quoting https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/116/17/8190.full.pdf, "The KPg boundary ... is distinguished by impact-related debris, including a distinctive iridium anomaly, shocked minerals, ejecta spherules, microkrystites, nanodiamonds, and occasionally unaltered impact-melt glass."

(That paper is about the amazing Tanis site, where a ∼1.3-m-thick deposit records events which occurred minutes to hours after the impact, and includes pterosaur fossils and perhaps dinosaur feathers and a hip bone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanis_(fossil_site) )

Even if non-avian dinosaurs were killed off earlier by consequences of the Deccan traps, we know modern snakes survived, so their ancestors must have survived the Chicxulub impact.
A lot of people will never understand you, so don't waste your time. You should instead try with a red light, say I'm not a slave, and drive through. The light won't understand you either, but maybe you finally will.
You are 100% within your rights to do so.

And the rest of society is free to decide that’s a selfish position and ask you to stay away from their homes and businesses.

The rest of us sheeple will just have to make do without your enlightened slaveless presence.
For games, one compounding factor is that you need to estimate how long the next frame will take in order to know how much time to simulate. If the variance is greater, the prediction will be worse leading the perceived game "speed" to vary from frame to frame.
I will not contest that a lot of new UI things have been figured out, but making desktop interfaces touch-friendly was a mistake.
This backdoor is present on all vm providers. Qemu has one as well. I did wrote about it three years ago: https://raymii.org/s/blog/Linux_on_Microsoft_Azure_Disable_t...
Ive always heard the small ones called “Lebanese cucumbers” , much nicer indeed than the “Dutch cucumbers” you usually see

There are also the provencal cucumbers, which are larger but shorter than Dutch cucumbers, have a thicker rougher skin, and a much stronger taste
Did anyone download this and confirm? Quite some news if this is all real
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There you go. Vigilantism is OK only if it doesn’t affect them. But when it does, the outrage is everywhere. To them, it seems that unauthorised access and leaking personal information even if innocents are involved is suddenly OK then?

That activity seems very extreme doesn't it over just reporting directly to the authorities.

This is best left to the authorities to deal with such issues rather than resorting to such extreme and illegal activities, no matter the cost or innocents affected.
Maybe it sounded a bit elitist. I myself am not a game programmer, and I would indeed be among the 95 struggling to get out of the starting blocks. I do like low-level stuff, however, and I choose to be impressed by projects like this!
Feedback. React Native Android Currency Formatter:)
Meh, GitHub pages is free
thanks for the source will need to read this up.
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The salted butter we use today is actually “Demi-sel”, “half-salted”
It's the problem of diminishing returns.

If one is at rock bottom then working hard and being productive can get them to middle class lifestyle. It works. Helped billions of people in the past few decades.

But starting from middle class and working hard won't make riches. Think of it physically. A hardworking person can build a house compared to a drunkard who will be homeless. Yet the same hard working person can't build million houses and get insanely wealthy.

To get truly materially rich (millions+ usd, servants, yachts, etc) one usually needs to be evil and screw over other people. Productivity, in the sense of a machine making houses in the millions, would make the inventor fairly rich. But this is the exception rather than the rule. Most riches are arrived at immorally as parent comment mentions.
ok and in an open democracy it’s not for you to decide that 55% taxes are too much. The public discourse determines that ;)
No, he was talking about "minimizing" c/c++ dependencies.
Forest guards edit OpenStreetMap to remove some trails
What would be the right way to do it? A plain old Python C extension?
> All that aside though- forcing fat people to get skinny isn't a valid comparison to forcing people to take a vaccine. One takes a couple minutes and the other is something requiring an hour or more of dedicated time per day for potentially years

The issue with being overweight is not so much the extra weight itself, but the fact that it is correlated with metabolic dysfunction. "TOFI" (thin-outside fat-inside) are just as unhealthy.

Metabolic dysfunction can be resolved in a matter of days to weeks by abstaining from high glycemic index foods and in general fixing modern-day malnutrition. This is with a more aggressive regimen often described as a "ketogenic" diet, although the term is abused by people who don't understand that ketosis is more of a side-effect of a species-appropriate diet that allows for healthy fat burning, and not simply hitting macros.

Again I stress that if public health officials had a clue the pandemic would have never happened, it was evident early on that this disease disproportionately affects the malnourished, people with poor blood glucose control, sedentary, and immune compromised. These all go together, although oftentimes the immune dysfunction is deliberately induced by pharmaceutical treatments to mitigate autoimmune disease.

See also:

[Only 12 percent of american adults are metabolically healthy](https://www.unc.edu/posts/2018/11/28/only-12-percent-of-amer...)
Yep sure - you can upgrade at the pre-order rate.

E.g. if you pre order the basic package at $49 but later upgrade to the complete plan, the additional cost would just be $26
Huh, I’m genuinely surprised! Thank you :)

> Get up to 80 hours of battery life in GPS mode[1], up to 300 hours in max battery mode[1] and up to 65 days in smartwatch mode with solar charging[2].
A curated list of sustainability jobs for devs
Cosmic rays are a solved problem. at most you will run out of backup computers. asteroids, you just hope you'll not win the cosmic lottery of collisions.
That's exactly what happens, though. Many countries in Europe enforce collective contracts with very little wiggle room, and the main complaint here is how everyone is paid the same.

Of course it's hard to quantify skill, and of course meritocracy is not perfect. But when you take meritocracy out of the equation, you're left with seniority.

I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.
That person linked his personal blog on his HN profile. I'll just say that I was not surprised by his photograph.
I have no idea why the workers of, say, Uber would know how to decision make for tech infrastructure and strategy. unless you mean “give them board seats”, which is rather different.
Very few unhealthy people will ever cost as much as a Methusalem getting pensions and health care. So should we introduce forced euthanasia?
Please don't do that... Elon Musk's son is named "X Æ A-12", don't follow his steps...
I see you've had some other answers about the meaning of 'attitude' in this context, so I thought I would address the other part of your comment:

>a google search reveils no alternative meaning

A Google query that worked well for me to learn more about this was 'attitude orbit'. Including another word from the knowledge area (borrowed from the article title) helped Google understand the context I was searching within:

https://www.google.com/search?q=attitude+orbit
About memory allocator:

Sorry for the possibly silly question but I did not understand if Zig has a Rust similar concept of "borrow" for pointers, of it is based on static analysis of allocator?

Zig seems to me easier to use than Rust on this respect, but I cannot understand the difference (because I do not know them very well)
The problem with Java applets was not the use of bytecode or a VM. The problem was that it was slow to start so you looked at a grey rectangle for a long time before anything happened. Flash was much snappier, which is why it won out over Java. Flash also had better development tools targeted multimedia and games.
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Let's put it this way: Consuming dairy products was historically seen so beneficial that we evolved the ability to digest lactose not just once, but multiple times in history.

It may not be as critical today, but at some point in time, being able to digest lactose was an evolutionary advantage.
Why aren't more low cost Medical devices available easily and cheaply? Given the power/price ratio we have achieved with cellphones, why can't the same be done in the field of Medical devices?

For example, i was looking for a all-in-one monitoring device for an elderly patient and came across "PM6100" made by "Shanghai Berry Electronics" (https://shberrymed.com/products/patient-monitor-pm6100) Low-cost but still more expensive than many cellphones. These things should be commodity priced. It almost feels like there is some "organized cartel" preventing the invention and marketing of low-cost medical devices.
okay so if nobody can have personal control over $100M how do $5B infrastructure investments (tens of thousands of which you personally benefit from, like chip foundries or joint city infrastructure and pharmaceutical ventures) or billion dollar company investments (again you depend on many ... apartments, factories, agriculture)
> Understadingly people didn't just say "let's suffer them for 10 years until the hardware catches up to make them tolerable".

It’s funny because that is essentially what happened. Other than flash (which suffered essentially from the same shortcomings as applets, but at least had a productive environment to create them), there was nothing that replaced these technologies for many years to come. Canvas rendering came much later and only with much more recent browsers did it have acceptable performance. It is not accident that many people long for the old web which was strangely more interactive in some cases than what we have today.

Don’t get me wrong, java applets were shitty. But we sort of threw it all away instead of fixing it, which in hindsight seems to have been an easier road (since the JVM has always been the state of the art runtime, and JS engines had to catch up from zero). DOM integration into an object oriented language would have been much easier than what webassembly does through JS bindings, and lack of security was frankly more of a mindset back then, and the jvm could have been sandboxed just as “easily”* as js engines are.

* it is a hard thing to do, but it happened to JS engines because the money was there. Integrating the JVM with proper sandboxing would have required less money/energy.
Do you know if there's anything similar in GitLab?
And it is written in Go. I think it is generally a safer choice.
> Was pay bad and didn’t Apple want to increase compensation

A frustrating feature of large silicon valley companies is that if you leave the company and come back later you will typically have better compensation than if you had stayed.

I could also imagine that the M1 team felt they weren't adequately rewarded after hitting a huge home run.

Moreover, it's probably the best time to switch jobs, because their market value is highest and at Apple they would just be expected to repeat the same success every year. Not to mention the benefit of gaining equity in a new "startup" which is almost immediately acquired at high valuation.
I would hold off on assuming that Apple gave their all to the iPhone chips. They still have the MacBooks and iPad Pros to announce.
> Peevish attitude -- as if getting a vaccine is a deep personal choice.

Bodily integrity is a deep personal thing. “My body, my choice” isn’t it?
> which has connotations of throwing the draft/sketch away to build the final product

I think it's only software developers who urge others to first write a draft, then throw it away and start working on the real thing. Usually, a draft precedes the "real" version and it's a status attached to something. Eventually, a "draft" becomes "published" or something similar.

Authors, scientists, email writes, report creators, movie/music producers all create drafts that (maybe) eventually become the real thing, I don't think many of them throw away the draft but rather work on the draft until it's not a draft anymore.
Because any company other than Apple spends only a fraction of the money on innovating and developing hardware for their computers. They mostly buy internals from other companies and wrap them in a plastic case. Yet they charge similar prices for their products. If your budget is only 1% of that from Apple the outcome is inferior.
Probably the proposed wire-mesh design, it won't be a solid reflecting surface. Total exposed surface would be comparable to orbit telescopes.
Or some of us might be aware of the paradox of tolerance and correctly conclude that unlimited tolerance of intolerance is not the only alternative to authoritarianism.
you don’t want pharmaceutical plant workers and accountants voting on whether the company should invest in mRNA tech in 2013?
Notably, Linux support for Shockwave was missing.
Most likely the rename is in order to get more people to understand what it is without having to look up abbreviations. "Draft" is clear to most people who know English, while "WIP" puts a lot more burden on the reader in terms of what they already need to know in order to understand.
No more so than driving drunk.
are you just replying to argue with some one? Im using your comment talking about 2000 calories.

Were also smart humans that can learn how to control our selves, thats education about food. How to eat filling food and not over eat. that all goes into education about nutrition
> I've never seen that weighing or justified anywhere. Do you have any sources on that?

You have to be kidding. The difficulty and invasiveness of different interventions for covid alone has been constantly under discussion.

> Mandating overweight people lose weight is not more invasive than mandating people undergo unwanted medical procedures. Forced medical procedures are actually an incredibly serious and problematic issue with a long and dark history.

You're being vague on purpose.

When you replace "unwanted medical procedure" with a much more specific "approved vaccine shot" that stops being true.

> The problem I have is not any one particular procedure, it is the idea of coercion, and the bullying and excluding of people (disproportionately disadvantaged, non-white, etc too, I might add).

You can't take a hard-line stance against coercion unless you're asking to abolish government. Any reasonable analysis takes the particular coercion into account.