skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A larger portion of Microsoft's revenue is build around the business side where 5 years of security patches now buy a new device either wouldn't fly or wouldn't make sense. For home users the revenue is based around subscription services tied to using Windows (O365) not selling users on the Windows license itself which is now free assuming your device is new enough to work with subscription services that might be sold to you or the business you work for.

For Apple I'm honestly more surprised the MacBook lifecycle isn't shorter but it's also not their main money maker.
It seems kind of crazy that the incredibly distorting effect of consistently low interest rates, quantitive easing and other central bank policies - mostly to the benefit of existing capital owners - is seen as almost a-political in the West.

We argue about other things - like tax rates and social security, and meantime our central banks carry on with their mission almost unchallenged. Central banks have managed to create an aura of science over what they do.

Mean while the cumulative policies of the last decade have created incredible asset price inflation, mostly to the detriment of the young. Is this healthy for society? That doesn't seem to be a question the (mostly baby boomer) people making these decisions are asking.

The central banks try to paint themselves as mere lever pullers, reacting to inflation and economic growth with their interest rates. But the system is so much more complicated than that - all these other unseen effects rippling through the economy and affecting people's lives.
Fuck :( Do you know what happened to her? I’m guessing nothing happened to the cop?
I think the article is missing some essential pieces of information.

After a high profile case of a MET officer kidnapping and murdering a woman through the use of his status, the MET has decided that all plain clothes officers will work in tandem. So you should never be stopped by a lone plain clothes officer.
I did a short stint in the automotive industry ~10 yrs ago (on the software/safety side) at one of GM’s brands.
The lack of forward-thinking was absolutely horrible, as was the constant insistence that anything new would never work (you remember the constant doomsaying about tesla?).
I got out as fast as I could, I seriously think that being in that environment might cause serious mental impairment…
So, not in the least bit surprised about this. Just nice to hear that the world is moving on whether the big auto brands wants it to or not.
I actually get phone support with Google for the rather reasonable price of $1.99 per month, with Google One.
"Apple cargo cult"
Well, if you want _really_ low latency comms with somewhere approximately on the other side of the world, all you need is a very big particle accelerator, and a neutrino detector :) (or two of each, really).

I'm sure the high frequency trading people would love it...
There should be no plainclothes officers in duty.

An officer uniform should be easy to identify exactly to prevent confusion in cases like somebody being arrested in the middle of the street.
Further context for those who may not be aware: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/30/sarah-everar...
> it's just too easy and morally dishonest

Again, we're back to this being less about fixing the problem and more about controlling behavior.
> I can only imagine a world where Windows 2000 simply kept receiving security and driver updates. sigh

Everyone wants this, funny how Big Corp works. Its supposed to be giving the consumer what he wants. Economists can't comprehend.
It would not be a safety issue indeed only until the replacement part includes some mitm hardware that tampers the face id authentication flow. And this can be planted into the genuine looking replacement part as well.
I think there’s a specific condition where this advice applies, FTA:

"It would be extremely unusual for an officer in plain clothes to be working alone. If they are, they should be calling for assistance with other officers arriving very soon. This is standard practice.”

So, don’t run away from uniformed officers, don’t run away from multiple officers.

To your point, I’m reminded of Nicole Harper, whose vehicle was flipped by an officer’s pit maneuver as she continued down the road lookong for a safe place to pull off the highway, hazards flashing, just as the police department’s own “drivers license study guide” advises.

https://jalopnik.com/cop-flips-pregnant-womans-while-she-tri...
If you’re in the US at least then you are pretty much guaranteed to be a daily, habitual law breaker.

You just don’t habitually get the law enforced on you
The kind of people who even know this is happening are the ones who have a vested interest to keep it there in the first place. People are selfish and greedy.
Oh, I so wish us to have standards! There won't be any of them anytime soon, sadly. Even when you have unquestionable benefits going from a dynamic language to a statically strongly typed one (as was shared by a team moving from JS to Rust in the last few weeks here on HN) people still bikeshed and pick apart any word and sentence to hell and back just so their pet idea and favourite language magically happens to be the end-all be-all of programming.

(Let this not be read as if I am a zealot for static strong languages -- when you have to prototype stuff, the dynamic languages are a god send!)

Truth is, a lot of us the software devs are divas -- and I've been guilty of that in the far past as well, and I am very ashamed remembering every minute of it.

But you can't just pass wisdom and tell the younger devs: "STFU and listen to experience and follow established good practices". We all walk our own road to wisdom and sadly that takes a while and in the meantime we can ruin some businesses. :( And/or the job of the next person after us.
It genuinely does wonders for mental health to disable notifications for social media apps. Definitely agree there.
If they make desktop search suck a bit less I'll jump at Windows 11.
I mean, have you read anything about Roundup? If so, how can you say that?
It seems like there are some practical difficulties with that :)

If you have a video of somebody who managed it, please share the link!
For a well dressed white person it would be sensible advice but I’m not so sure how well it would pan out for a black guy at 3am in Tottenham or even a white kid in a shell suit in Castlemilk for that matter. You almost certainly wouldn’t be killed, but you probably would get chased and tackled to the ground and it would be up to the interpretation of the police officer, prosecutor and ultimately judge or jury as to wether it was a reasonable thing for you to do or if you were just trying to use the Everard case as an excuse.
It's a good question and it's one that can go either way depending on the pentesting company. In my first Security Startup I founded, we took most contracts large and small with only standard questioning. We found that while sometimes we made less upfront, the clients that were more in sync with solving a known or suspected problem and were using the pentest as part of moving forward.

There are tons of companies looking for simple check boxes, or affirmations. Tons that don't acknowledge their issues. I can say first hand that I had a project I was involved with that identified a substantial breach at a company under acquisition for an obscene amount of money. Most M&A seem to skip technical diligence beyond code review. Long story short there were actually three separate issues / actors within the network. They even had one authorized access by a competitor that a salesman had naively setup under the guise of a collaboration. They paid for the onsite investigation then realized that it was going to create a PR nightmare based on our findings. It would have been a huge exposure that would counter the obscene amount of marketing they were doing
for the tech acquired. Their response was to not only ignore us (i'm assuming they eventually fixed things) but refuse to pay for the investigation performed and basically said.. we're a billion dollar company what are you going to do, sue us? We got stiffed with probably a quarter mill in work because they were right. Worst part is we called them to let them know originally because we found EXTREMELY sensitive source code and documentations of a crypto nature. Incidentally we saw some 0-days later on that leveraged undocumented functions that were curiously documented in our findings.

So yeah.. you see it all. That's why I love working with startups, make less, but they're appreciative and long term relationships are more worth it for us.
Pretty sure that browsers loads resources in one dedicated thread just like complicated games do. It is a solid and simple technique to implement in C++, there are many good tools to handle that. That isn't the hard part of making a browser, the hard part is implementing all the different file formats/videos, rendering and scripting engine, security etc.
Google better hope that it sucks less at this than it does at UI and branding.
Complete agreement with this comment.

What should a founder do? Focus on their product, the better they become more scamers will attract, but is for the user to use some basic logic.

Otherwise, should they tell people that there is no such thing as Nigerian Prince? Because Nigeria is a Republic but some people don't even check the basics, they tend to just refuse their responsibility.
People disagreeing with my comment should realise I’m not saying that anything you could do would save you from the fate that Sarah Everard suffered. A determined rogue cop can still kill you. Anyone can kill you. The Met’s advice isn’t helpful. But moving to a busier area as briskly and unprovocatively as possible could save you.
Yes it takes a lot of money to succeed in the auto biz, but that doesn't mean any companies spending a ton of money will automatically succeed.

Retail investors/ Media do not have access to critical information it takes(or skill) to evaluate a early stage company like Rivian the kind a VC/PE would have.

They are effectively pointing the problem of very early stage companies without revenue or production going for IPOs.

Rivian is not even the first large one in the auto space doing a pre-revenue / pre-product IPO, tuSimple did one in April at $8.5 B valuation.
A bunch of them don't even have Delete keys, which is fucking stupid.
That's why you see posts like this all around the Internet. They have to keep the new investors coming in.
I have found the arm chrome books to be way better than the intel ones.
Conventional pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers are more effective and sustainable. Conventional products require less of the substance to be applied and less frequently. If the concern is about the impact on the environment and humans, then the logical choice between the organic method and conventional is conventional.
yes, it's not an independent body, but one of many from which to triangulate a reasonable position. hopefully it was an obviously neutral recommendation.
If you are going to make such unequivocal statements you should back them up with sources, otherwise you are just adding more noise than signal.
I can't use Google meet with Firefox.
> a remarkable resurgence of what was written of as terminally wounded after the fall of the Soviet Union - socialism and communism

Genuine question - could you tell me more about this "remarkable resurgence"? What are you referring to here?
Only reason I have my local account linked to my Microsoft account is I actually use Xbox Live on Windows. Other than that the only time I got asked about it was during install.
If your product is B2B SaaS do you really need to put ads inside your app?
Even that can be deadly. One screw up in a game of Simon Says with an unhinged cop and you're dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Daniel_Shaver
> Email address, Facebook and Twitter registered in May 2021

Their Youtube is from August 2018, 2.5 years ago just like they claim in the post. Maybe they just got a new marketing person in May instead of it being a "smoking gun" of some conspiracy

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWD2aHKFeC_rxDv3d49GOKA/abo...
As someone else pointed out in a different thread, it depends a lot on what your product is. If you're selling something aimed at a highly tech-literate, "elite" audience, ads will likely be much less effective than if you're selling, say, decorated cupcakes.
If you're new to Gollum, it's the software that powers GitHub's wiki tab in the repo view.

Gollum was one of the first Markdown wikis and still is a fantastic choice for running a Git Markdown-powered wiki. I ran a number of technical documentation sites on Gollum, and one of the things that set it apart was hackability. It was easy to modify it to do very custom things based on our site's needs.
Yes, that the hn headline does not have 'officer' in quotes (as the linked headline does) is quite misleading and a violation of hn guidelines. Is there a way to page @dang :)
Apple also contributes plenty to LLVM, more than Intel actually, naively based on commit counts of @apple.com and @intel.com git committer email addresses. This isn't very surprising given that Chris Lattner worked at Apple for over a decade.
The lines in the video look very comparable to tape lines. Would need to see very close up to be 100% sure but it looks promising.
I couldn't agree more and will add that such slanting and rewriting of history per say, only does harm in the end as enable hate upon the left to miss-focus and equally enables the right to use facts with such articles to then enable any actually facts to be dismissed via association of all the twisted facts.

Heck, they can't even get the company name right and with that, best read the wiki before reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Slavery_and_child_...
I think a lot of 90s and early 2000's idealist movements have been disbanded or migrated to smaller groups that are equally unable to change things. I remember when copyright reform was the biggest thing with Lessig and that's entirely dead. Douglass Rushkoff went from famous intellectual to nobody. Cory Doctorow also entirely ignored now. I think a lot of these people realized that if they can't fix politics then they can't enact their agenda. If your nation state and electorate works against your ideals then you'll eventually fail. You have to fix the electorate first and that took a big step backwards by watching social media turn into conspiracy right-wing media and radicalize tens of millions of americans towards sociopathic, pro-death, anti-prosperity, pro-faith, and anti-intellectual views. None of which lead to utopia, but to further corruption and victimization.

I also think these people were relatively young and now have families and mortgages and retirement accounts to pay for and the wind was taken out of their ideological sails when they realized the system will punish them if they don't assimilate into the status quo. Many cypherpunks just write code for big companies and writers have moved onto chasing literary fads to make rent. Its either that or be thrown them into poverty. The system you want to reform has built-in anti-reform mechanisms and your needed paycheck, especially tied to your health insurance, is one of those mechanisms. This is also why so many famous reformers were either old-money types or had ideologically aligned patrons to fund them. These grassroots groups don't often have
that so they fail.

Successful peaceful reform movements are actually shadow-funded and shadow-politicked for by the elites. Elites against other elites and using people like this for their own ends. Elites won't sign on to anything that potentially hurts their wealth or power, which all these idealistic reform movements would do. Short of a popular uprising and violent revolution, we can expect the same lack of progress on utopian thinking in the future because utopia is attainable, its just the resources that's needed for it are controlled by people who don't want to give them up.
GNOME never had a Unity interface. That was Unity; Canonical later developed a bunch of extensions to replicate Unity in GNOME for the default Ubuntu desktop.
In practice law enforcement requires tens of minutes to respond. Watch youtube videos of thieves in Walgreens to see the result; nobody is afraid of getting caught.

You are there, it's your stuff. You should be able to defend it.
Severance, in the US, is not a given and is not a mandated thing. If a company is in financial distress, why does it seem that money to pay severance is magically available when they don't have the money to pay wages? Are you suggesting the writing on the wall should have been seen earlier so that they could have made the decision to dismiss the employees while the bank account was flush enough to cover severance?
Falling != death.
Can't the federal gov just lend the local gov forever? The U.S has about $26 t debt and people don't seem to care much....

>> Nor has the credit rating system kept pace with the growth in Chinese capital markets.

I don't know why people still talk about the credit rating system when we know that the credit rating systems(i.e. Moody's) failed completely when it mattered(i.e in 2008).
And then inform on the humans if they don't do what they're told.
> How many officers are doing this in the UK?

All of them? It's UK -- guilty until proven innocent.
We probably won't kill cancer through one miracle cure, but probably through death by a thousand cuts.

That and we probably need to repair the immune system. The incident of cancer increases with age, after all.
It's defined to work on a 2x2 grid called a quad. If you're the top left pixel, then dFdX(v) = v(x+1,y) - v. If you're the top right pixel, then it's dFdX(v) = v(x-1,y) - v
Vista maxed out at 5.9, Windows 7 bumped the upper limit up to 7.9

It's gone from the UI in Windows 10, but WinSat is still there (for some reason), and the range now goes up to 9.9.
Are you coming to my home to tell me what I can do to my seafood?
Do any of the U.S. carriers not do this?
One could spend a lot of time plumbing the depths of such a contemptible statement. But all I'll say is this: if your organisation is ever even tangentially party to some act of evil, don't do this. Do the other thing.
The best OS and UI upgrade is the one you're already comfortable using.
Sure, and when we get there the calculus will change. But for now and the near future, gas will continue to be more convenient.
Why is Microsoft so bad at software for microcomputers? They are truly a testament to the power of compatibility and enterprise sales.
Developers are less likely to put up with crap because they will go and program their own competing product that is better
Many (most?) traffic stops are pointless and create unnecessary risk on both sides of the encounter. If it's just moderate speeding, a tail light is out, rolling through a stop sign, or another low-level infraction, send a fine in the mail--with perhaps a little blast of the sirens to inform the driver. Stops should be reserved for grossly reckless driving or clear signs of intoxication.
If it's the one I know about he was fired (eventually), and she won her lawsuit for emotional distress. Thankfully she didn't file for any physical injuries.

There's other similar cases with less ideal outcomes but they're not as obviously unreasonable as the popular one every one mentions.
seems the most recent article is June 24, the state is backing up the officer:

“ The 15-page answer to the suit by Rutledge senior assistant attorney general Jennifer Merritt states that Dunn did nothing wrong and further asserts that he is entitled to immunity under the state and federal constitutions.”

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/jun/24/troopers-tra...

there is no accountability for cops in USA
Unity had nothing to do with the GNOME project, it was built by Canonical for Ubuntu.

GNOME has been moving in the right direction for a long time in my opinion, their concentration on making it easier for developers is really starting to pay off too.
The address was prominently displayed on their play store pages.

eg https://ibb.co/mFTpzCC
Orion beta user as well, built-in vertical tabs is also a big UI win for me. Still use Safari for eCommerce/banking and it doesn't support the complete WebExtensions API without issue but it supporting uBlock Origin and Dark Reader are good enough for me.
I have the Insider Beta or whatever enabled and the update I installed last night seemed to cause some kind of severe memory leak. Chrome kept freezing up and was generally unresponsive. Something related to the taskbar or OS kept restarting, which I assume was because of an out-of-memory issue.

I am wondering if it's a bug or if somehow my Omen laptop doesn't meet the requirements and they just sent me the update anyway. But as it is I think I absolutely have to revert to a previous version.
Plus it seems like folks are willing to vote in the authoritarians on purpose, as long as they are my authoritarians and not your authoritarians.
I always was told this too but I've never had the courage to actually do it. I'd be afraid the cop would be angry and treat me more harshly when I finally do pull over. There was recently a case of a pregnant woman doing this and the police performed a PIT maneuver and flipped her car.

https://www.news10.com/news/national/pregnant-woman-sues-ark...
I expect that at least one of these things would have to be true:

1. The MITM hardware could be installed into the screen that's already paired with the iPhone, so the serial check wouldn't help

2. The MITM hardware would make the screen look non-genuine regardless of serial, so the serial check wouldn't be needed
We should put such suggestions (and indeed so should any other jurisdiction) on a statutory footing if we are serious about them. This means, minimally—

1. use of bodycams

2. to record the furnishing of identity

3. when requested

should be required before any power exercisable only by police may be used (self defence, arrests of persons in flagrante murdering people and so on are I think not really limited to police), and no offence of obstruction &c. should be committed if the requirement above is not met.
"The Mountain is a digital community for commentary and news written for the left-wing of America. Our writers include Progressives, Social Democrats, and Democratic Socialists. Despite our clear differences in the nuances of politics we are all committed to the idea of starting tomorrow today."

This is not (nor does it claim to be) journalism. It's a shame on a site like HN this is what we get.

EDIT: notice they state "written _for_ the left-wing of America". At least they're honest in their agenda and predefined narrative.
There are legitimate cases for officers to be working plain-clothed — crowd monitoring and investigators needing to keep a low profile for example.
Vista went up to 5.9, Windows 7 raised the bar to 7.9: https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-experience-index-in-wi...

Edit: ninja'd!
> I've enclosed the term "organic" in quotes in some context because the word is absolutely meaningless when used to describe foods. All food is organic. "Organic" is this context is a marketing term and nothing more.

I think you mean "natural" not organic? Everything in the universe is inherently natural.

Cynicism about "organic" labels used to be grounded, but at least in the USA, use of the term is now regulated by the USDA and it has a very specific definition.

I used to have similar cynical beliefs about "organic" food. And i think even 10 years ago that cynicism was justified, but not anymore. I encourage you to update your knowledge and to keep an open mind.

Having said that, i think the anti-GMO movement is nonsense. There's nothing wrong with GMO produce as far as i can tell. In the USA, i do not think GMO crops make the harvest non-organic. In other words, GMO status is not related to organic status. I think. Of course thats unlikely to be true in the EU where GMO crops are demonized. Please correct me if wrong.