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Engineer by education, now analyst.

I think HN is a great and simple looking resource for keeping up to date on various news in tech and business world.

Admittedly, I have little interest in some of the topics that pop up - that goes into the politics of open-source software, controversies surrounding some of the languages and tools, etc. But there's so much different stuff here, so it's cool.
They also used to be a regular sight here in Ontario... I think I saw one last year.

Now the only bees we see around regularly are big ol' carpenter bees. Honey bees and bumble bees that used to be common are now rarely seen around my city.
Good catch. Actually, we were talking only about economic recovery.

NYTimes had a great writeup on the uneven recovery of the employment sector but I can't find it.
And they have very good longevity.
I can only echo your enthusiasm and passion! I've been following and using ScummVM for nearly all of the two decades I've been involved in the open source community and it's been such a joy to see it grow and scale, and the quality of the conversations on IRC and in the forums. The territory it treads on is an amazing confluence of plain-neat hacking and the noble purpose of preserving these works for the future. What an outstanding pursuit in terms of what the engineering profession is all about - assembling the substrate culture and civilization transpire on.

Cheers from the board of the KDE foundation. Incidentally we have a (25th) birthday coming up as well this month. :-)
"Editor's note: Facebook is among NPR's financial supporters and since publishing her book, The Art of Screen Time, Kamenetz's husband took a job with Facebook. He works in an unrelated division."
>the myth that they exclusively prey on young birds and rob their nests

Sparrows do this. They are an invasive species and overtake native songbird population. Never seen anyone hate sparrows.

Magpies, people do hate them, not sure why but they are a type of "trash bird" near population centers.
Your account was created 37 minutes ago. This is the only comment you've ever posted. Hi, Apple.
Not being a big user of YouTube, I just kind of assumed that the AppleTV client was broken due to some tiff between Google and Apple. If I manage to get it to play a video, and that’s a 50/50 proposition at best, some bug will pop up eventually, after which I either give up or AirPlay it from my phone to the TV. So I basically don’t use YouTube on ATV.

But parent comment is saying that it apparently works, but is just broke in a lot of use cases. Based on my experience, this…surprises me.
Note: while it is based on MariaDB, it replaces InnoDB (the MariaDB/MySQL storage engine) with MyRocks (which is based on RocksDB), and as a consequence it is missing some features (such as foreign keys[1]) that prevent it from being usable in many applications.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6/wiki/MyRocks-limitatio...
Classrooms where already an issue before Covid. Concentration goes way down when the air starts to get thick and same goes for meeting rooms. How many times have you entered a meeting room where the air was so thick you felt it as soon as you stepped in?
Thanks, but I don't bother with podcasts.
Nostalgia and a game that did a lot right when 3D was becoming mainstream. Few if any of its features were firsts but they were polished and combined to make a package that played better than most other 3D platforms of the day.
Trying to sort through what's real and what's being spun. Even here on HN, the thread[0] for a related article is being discussed much more. Maybe it's because of the ragebait headline that was used for the original post, I dunno.

My daughter is getting to the age where some of her friends are starting to get smartphones, so I'm trying to sort out what will actually be best for her long-term development. I don't want her to be socially stunted, but I also don't want her to expose her to something that could be detrimental to her mental well-being.

In an ideal world, these kinds of networks would be based on open, federated platforms a la Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. As it stands I don't feel comfortable trusting the advertising industry to determine how these things should be run.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28812310

Edit: As pointed out by another poster, FB pays NPR, even further muddling the waters. Aaaaaggggghhhhh
> they are just resetting your old settings silently

That kind of behavior bis frowned upon in this establishment
Reliable chain of trust combined with hardware bans is a pretty high entry barrier, though. You need to change most of your PC hardware to not be banned again, and HWID spoofers are also cheats that have to squeeze through the same filter.

So no, it's not a completely invalid idea. At some iteration, it will make the anticheats even better, and they already work pretty well (regardless of players' oversized perception of cheaters running unpunished). A proper chain of trust + hardware signing of mouse input + kernel hardening + hardware fingerprinting will make most cheats irrelevant (including the ML-based ones). You'd have to mod your hardware to be even able to run cheats; which is also preventable, just ask console manufacturers.

The only downside is, this would turn your computing device into an appliance remotely controlled by several companies. And the gamers will be perfectly happy to have it at that, because everybody hates cheaters, and even talking about that is stigmatized.
I still use Atom as my daily driver. There are bugs, yes. Some are more annoying than others (looking at you, TypeScript plugin). But I enjoy the app's experience more than VSCode. I wish I had time to contribute to it, because it's still a solid editor, and I hope it lives on a lot longer. Also surprised there hasn't been a popular hard fork of it yet since the acquisition of GitHub.
Ecology is a science.

> Does the sum of all the joys of billions of people mean nothing to everyone who denounces modern agriculture?

The thing about that is that the story isn't over yet. Yes, billions of people owe their lives to the Haber–Bosch process (et. al., I'm obviously simplifying here) but if billions of people die due to ecological and economic collapse, is it really all worth it?

As a concrete counter-example to modern mass agriculture there are ecological systems of food production that result in high yields while increasing fertility, biodiversity, and biomass (such as Permaculture, Syntropic and Regenerative agriculture, etc.) So we can have our both well-stocked grocery shelves and healthy ecosystems.
The lack of a home page and an about page is a bug, as far as I'm concerned. And nobody posts here without hoping to go viral.
Qualtrics gave engineers RSUs in 2015 when they were still private.
Love how media consistently ignores male struggles with body dysmorphia even though it is just as big an issue for them as for females. Just look at how many men know take steroids nowadays, and the sad part is most people aren't aware that these people are even taking steroids and think it is naturally achievable body type. I have had conversations with people who are unwilling to believe even the Rock is on something. Lets keep watching the suicide rates climb for the lost boys as we cry about the slightest affront to women. Boys are held responsible for the oppression of women, which they weren't even alive to remember, and inherent none of the privilege or benefits. Male dysmorphia is ignored or supported (i.e. big dick energy), Male on Male rape is a joke (don't drop the soap), Female on Male rape is sex (look up snl Pete Davidson & Rounda Rousey), Female on Male domestic violence doesn't exist (Duluth model), Mens rights is sexist, Male virginity is toxic (incel), Male exclusive groups or friendships are boys clubs, Male perceived sexual failure is to be mocked (cuck), Male feminity is a weakness (soy boy), and a Male's duty is to protect females.

Sick and tired of this world. Hope somebody else has the energy to fight, because I know I don't.
"The species has completely vanished from eight states, including Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Oregon, Ben Turner reports for Live Science."

How exactly is North Dakota the highest honey producing state in the Union?

Also, a bit of a dispute of this study https://www.beeculture.com/bumblebee-decline-claim-in-disput...
Approx 20K employees, and I think this probably only happens <10x a year. "Commonly" is in the context of employees that are subjects of our formal threat assessments. These are individuals that we have recommended that they take medical leave in lieu of separation, but opt not to.
Anecdotes can be useful in aggregate, where they can validate or give reason to question a claim. There is a lot of sloppy science and reporting on environmental subjects like these - look at the stuff about feral cats being a danger to songbirds estimating annual predation levels higher than the regional songbird population.
There is a cubic design that people have been doing with HEPA filters (4 sides and a cardboard bottom) that solves the airflow issue.
> Have you lived any length of time in Canada?

Yes, I am a Canadian. I lived there for 25 years. I have Canadian citizenship. Most of my family still lives there. I also ended up stuck in Ontario for most of COVID. I have family in Ontario, in Quebec, and elsewhere in the country. I don't think Ontario had a very good handle on COVID. It's also no secret that Canada is suffering a major staffing, and funding shortage in the healthcare sector right now.

While most of your reply is about dentists (I'll get to that later), I see you're comparing Canada's healthcare system to the USA. I'm not. Compared to other systems in NA, yes, it's much better since it's free and somewhat fair. But that's the problem. Canadians should be looking to other developed nations with public healthcare. Not to the United States which operates on a completely different paradigm. My comment that you're replying to is entirely contrasting Canadian healthcare with EU systems, not Americans.

> dental office reopened

The majority of dentists are private entities, and are not subject to the same funding rules as hospitals. They're not licensed through the same entities, funded, or managed in the same way at all. Likely why they were able to adapt so quickly. See: https://www.cda-adc.ca/stateoforalhealth/servicescanada/

> [..] they checked vaccination status and accepted the mask she walked in with.

I'm not really sure what you're getting at here, this does not really relate to funding, or anything I'm talking about really. This is more about safety policy, not funding, which is what I'm trying to discuss.

Don't get me wrong, I've had some good experiences with the system as well, but that does not mean it shouldn't significantly improved.
You're Not a 10x Programmer
As someone who's worked on multiple power-user GUIs professionally, telemetry can be genuinely useful for improving the product. You can discover features that are never used and should be removed so attention can be focused elsewhere, and others that are used frequently and deserve more attention, and others that users may frequently have trouble with and should be fixed or improved.

I'm not saying this justifies dark patterns, and I have no firsthand knowledge of whether Microsoft is exclusively using this data for legitimate purposes. If it were me I'd enable it by default but make it clear and easy to disable for those who care. That said: I don't think the knee-jerk assumption that this is a wholly evil thing is justified.
The ROC also 'vows reunification' with the Chinese mainland. It's a standard line in the One China diplomatic framework which both states follow.

Edit: can we get the title changed to "Xi vows 'peaceful reunification' with Taiwan"? This better reflects the content of the article:

BEIJING, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to achieve "peaceful reunification" with Taiwan, and did not directly mention the use of force after a week of tensions with the Chinese-claimed island that sparked international concern.
Very helpful. I looked up the 2 species and the American Bumblebee[2] is noted as having an increasingly southern habitat, with borders denoting their former range/habitat.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_impatiens

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_pensylvanicus
> As imperfect as government is, it is the only power that we have over giant corporations.

I don't think this is exactly true. There have been many words written about the effectiveness of technological countermeasures vs. regulation, but I think the proof is in the pudding: Facebook wouldn't go nuclear against Unfollow Everything if it didn't work (i.e. tilt the balance of power back towards the end-user). Google wouldn't be trying the whole manifest v3 shenanigans if they weren't concerned about content blockers.

But here, as Doctorow points out, _regulation_ stands in the way of these effective technological countermeasures. I think that the apparent slowdown of technological disruption and creative destruction you reference has at least some grounding in the increasing use and chilling effect of applying IP law against adversarial interop, rather than some inherent limit of attention or hardware.

So, I agree with the parent in bring surprised by the combo of Doctorow's insightful analysis around the Unfollow Everything debacle and a call for additional regulation via existing agencies. I'm not as hopeful as you that younger staffers will bring some kind of renaissance of enlightened regulation - consider how popular the "let's make Facebook ban the nazis" take appears to be across generational divides.

To sum up, I'm afraid that anything we pass now is going to be a lot closer to the DMCA, in terms of how it protects corporate interests over individual rights, than the sort of utopian wishlist that is usually quoted as an ideal.

On a positive note: I've recently been interested by some of the electoral successes of the Czech Pirate Party (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Pirate_Party) and wonder if the way forward for internet rights is to tie the idea to a broader campaign for transparent, effective, and highly democratic governance.
sshfs? Then the solve is outside the editor.
Again, putting aside money to meet the obligations you will incur for having an employee today is funding. It is not prefunding by any stretch.

I haven't seen any mention of setting aside money for people who don't work there yet, including in your link.

Asking to be treated like the government so that you can hire someone now, with promises of future payments, then pull in those payments based upon the revenue produced by future employees is analogous to a ponzi scheme. The federal government gets away with pay-as-you-go because they can set taxes, devalue money, change payment plans, etc...

How much the government should be investing in providing a quality mail system is a different discussion entirely. But this discussion is basically "should pensions be funded or not". Calling it prefunding is a rhetorical device only, and doesn't stand up to actuarial scrutiny.
Schlage and Yale both have Zwave and Zigbee locks.
Payment Handler API
The ad networks will likely provide a framework to serve and cache those on the first-party server, so you'll probably see the same level of untrustworthiness in the code.
I don't see how the other cars are randomized at all.

Does this evolution park a car only if all the other cars are in those precise spots?
Good point—personally what I'm thinking of are cities where I can work remotely but still participate in the local tech culture through meetups and events, and hopefully connect with other founders. Raleigh and Minneapolis both seem like great examples. I visited Minneapolis last week and was impressed by their downtown and art culture. I'm not very familiar with Portsmouth or Portland ME, but I'll look into those.
If we're just guessing here then I'd guess there'd be some considerable fraction of Assembler. Especially when you're very constrained. If your total code footprint is 16 kilobytes, suddenly it doesn't seem daunting to think about the actual hardware instructions - there's only a few thousand of them after all.

But people also seem to be merrily using special-purpose high level languages for their domain e.g. P4. What I couldn't find much of was C++. If you had numbers we'd be looking at them, right?
I tried and failed to bring unikernels to my former work when I was at Visa. Specifically, LING. There just wasn't enough of an ecosystem of support for the technology to place big bets on it for what we needed to do.

That said, at my current company we recently open sourced[1] some work we did a couple years back which is more or less an attempt at the basic foundations for blending the seL4 microkernel with fairly normal no_std Rust application development and assembling them all together to make a purpose built OS/application to deploy directly to hardware or within a VM. We have some work to do to keep building it up as a foundation for broader use, but we're looking into partnering with the seL4 Foundation (now under the Linux Foundation) to iterate on it further with some of our other mutual partners. The developer experience is much closer to that of developing for an RTOS than it is like typical general purpose computing development.

I'm of course biased, but I think there's a lot of room to innovate in the space of use case specific software stacks where the domain and constraints are well understood and too many degrees of freedom are actually a hindrance and a liability, not an advantage. Unikernels or otherwise.

[1] https://github.com/auxoncorp/ferros
I wouldn't be so quick to claim its apple, there were others with this same profile but on the other side of the argument. That's just HN.
Ouch. I missed this when I was reading it. Ugh, trying to navigate what is factually based and what is (potentially manufactured?) knee-jerk outrage is getting exhausting. Then there's the possibility that this piece is a manufactured wet blanket trying to douse the dumpster fire of negative reporting surrounding FB.
*and one for the caps lock key
> once again the US has decided this is the hill it will die on.

Wat? If it's too much of a pain to prosecute somebody then they should give up?

> nearly every major news outlet and journalist all see Assange as a journalist, not a hacker. .

So is he a journalist or a hacker? It would sure be nice to know. If he is a journalist then I support him, if he is a hacker then I do not. I'd love an answer to this.

I'd like to see what comes out in court that is not public right now.

I'm tired of everybody presupposing that a trial must be unfair therefore people like Snowden or Assange have a license to do whatever they want.
It's a lot of factors. It was a lot of peoples' first 3D game experience, it's old enough that a lot of people who were enchanted by it in their childhood are old enough to dig into it now, it's an early 3D game with relatively simple and primitive techniques that were state of the art for the time, and it's had a ton of time put into decompilation, and a few major leaks to help understand how everything fits together.

It's also a very good game, and the controls and mechanics are more responsive and smooth than you'd expect for such an early 3D game.

Mario games have all had a lot of effort put into understanding the way the code works under the hood. The NES Mario games have also been heavily broken down and analyzed, but there's not as much stuff you can do that's as exciting as what you can with Mario 64.
Doing this is great marketing for them. Companies like Apple are insistent on locking down their hardware. Microsoft could use this as a marketing tactic to say how they’re environmentally friendly and shit on the other tech companies. It would generate goodwill, and allow them to push their proprietary services on their hardware more easily since people can maintain it longer.
Spybot anti-beacon is also good. It also stops MS Office from "phoning home"
Updating our ads and monetization policies on climate change
8 bit show and tell is absolutely brilliant for any c64 fans out there ( down to assembly level ), plus a
little more besides.
Don’t forget Basecamp.

They have a $100B valuation.

https://m.signalvnoise.com/press-release-basecamp-valuation-...

EDIT: why the downvotes? Are people not getting this is a joke post by Basecamp.
So long now uses strings instead of integers for year? That seems shortsighted.
All they have to do is keep doing what they are doing - and anywhere he is becomes a prison to him. And they’ve been very successful at that.

Would it be a feather in someones hat if he actually got arrested and extradited to the US? Probably.

Honestly, it would probably also open up a giant can of worms legally and result in exposure of even more embarrassing details or BS that has been pulled. It’s actually working out pretty well for them as-is.
This is fascinating! If MERV 13 filters 60% with each pass, can we put 5 in a room to increase the circulation/filtration and eventually get to 99% filtration?

Also, I found this article which I found informative. Judge it as you please:

https://www.iso-aire.com/blog/what-are-the-differences-betwe...
Can't access usb hardware.

I do a lot of things that use usb rs232 adapters or things that look like them, and I support both linux and mac effortlessly (and even freebsd and any other unix) and none of it is possible under wsl2.

If all you want to do is write web services, there are native windows versions of all the scripting languages and web frameworks.

If you have some reason to actually use linux, then just use it. It's free and well-documented. Nothing's stopping you.

If MS actually cared about supporting developers, then they would provide a 1st class form of Wine, so that windows apps could be run from within linux.

Since they don't do that, this exposes that they don't actually care what would be convenient for you, and so, you should decline to work with people who don't work with you. That's how you can see through bullshit.

You should reject their products and sales pitches until their behaviour actually changes, and disregard all the lip service, "gifts" with strings, and excuses for dark patterns. Use their stuff when you must, but under duress and seeking other options at every turn.
Folkhack,
You’re simply wrong. Stop arguing when you don’t possess firsthand knowledge.

(I see you’ve added a new culpa, no worries! We all learn new stuff)

Wanna go down a rabbit hole? Remember that spectrum sale in the 2010s? What if I told you the FBI had their own microwave network that they divested of around that time?

Interesting stuff!
The various ZKP approaches are considerably more complex to implement properly vs the trivial approach of a client side hash. There are obvious tradeoffs, of course, but I wouldn't fault someone for an additional hash step on the client.
Kinda... but Elon has a controlling class of shares that would maintain total control even after an IPO. Still a hassle and subject to shareholder lawsuits though.
I doubt Spain would be doing an investigation into the case and arrest people if it truly was properly coordinated with Spanish intelligence networks. And even if they did coordinate it still wasn't seen as legal by the Spanish justice system as the case has been going for years and it is still making progress.
One could even argue that many of the deaths lessened the demand for things like geriatric care. Thus it could theoretically even increase labour pool.
The Mind Has No Firewall (1998) [pdf]
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Removal of this feature from Windows 10 has secured the future of Linux Desktops in the University where I work, as we are years away from Windows 11.