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Wow so there are a lot of comments here but uh can I just point out that every post on Dell's support forum is either 404 or 403 this morning, so I doubt it has anything to do with big conspiracy.
I don't think I’ve seen a non-CCTV’d store in the US for years, especially not a convenience store/gas station, so that's not a difference.
I think those are horse-chestnuts, different tree and not directly related to the American chestnut. We used to make little figures and animals out of the nuts and some matches in kindergarten.
The secret to Dell is you need to buy “ProSupport”. It costs like $100 more.

I had an issue that was known with certain Dell universal docking stations. We had the elevated support and got a hot fix in a few days. A colleague with the same laptop, same dock has the same problem and got nothing - they refused to acknowledge or support the dock connection, claiming that they only support “hardware” and not windows drivers. Eventually the driver was released a few months later.

Other OEMs like Lenovo and HP don’t fuck around with stuff like this. Just price Dell like for like with the equivalent support offering. Dell’s pricing is usually very competitive, so you’ll probably find they will still win some comparisons, and when they do the “pro” offering is better.
Also the Ethereum unregistered security fraud.
Well, the authoritative answer to "which types are contained in this tuple-like type" is std::tuple_element(_t). That's exactly what the std::apply machinery relies on, which is why it's pretty convenient to build things around that.

Your suggestion fails for e.g. std::array, which is also tuple-like:

https://godbolt.org/z/qYhdfjrY3

User-defined types can also specialize the required templates to opt-in to tuple-like behavior. In fact, doing so enables structured binding support, so it's not unlikely to see something like

Vec3 getCoords();

auto [x, y, z] = getCoords();

(where Vec3 specializes std::tuple_element etc.), and you wouldn't want your tuple printing code to error out when given a Vec3 either. In fact, Vec3 might not even be a template in the first place!
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Yes absolutely… my fault, should have been more specific. I was referring to the S&P500 index.
Let me play the devils advocate here:

Why does it matter that what she did was a "simple" hack that didn't require exploiting fifteen CVEs at once?

It's akin to pulling away the seat of a teacher who wants to sit down.

Everybody is technically capable of pulling the seat away, it does not require any special skills.

You still get in trouble if you do it.
While I do have some experience, that's not really that relevant. I'm not saying this because of my own experience (which would be anecdotal evidence). It's based on actual market data, which is what is actually important for making a generalization like this. Many statistics show that overwhelmingly, active investors underperform indexes. And that is especially true year over year because a lot more people can get lucky a few times but they cannot consistently reproduce those results.

One example of some data that shows this is the SPIVA score cards. Here's a nice page that explains it and presents some of the recent results: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/SPIVA_scorecards

There is tons of other information if you just Google for it. When it comes to actual evidence of performance, the facts are pretty clear!

How about you? Do you have any objective data to show otherwise?
Apple really is asking for trouble here. First off, they say that in order to get out of the requirement that everyone give Apple 30% of income, they say that those using an alternative payment method still must give Apple 27% of income. Then they say that app developers have to produce an entirely new app. In effect they are trying to create a situation where it is irrational for any developer to try to escape their payment system, which is exactly what the courts have already ruled that they must allow.

They are risking having the EU as a whole slap them down and impose tougher restrictions.
I'd like to see links to the personal attacks you claim we're tacitly ok with. I can only think of one user who I carve out occasional exceptions for (for reasons other than you'd expect, and not someone very-high-profile). Other than that, I'm pretty confident in saying: no, we don't do that.

All this has zero to do with "SV ideological purity tests". If you follow the moderation here, you should know that we have no such "tests" and couldn't care less about "purity". Unfortunately, one consequence of that is that everyone with strong ideological passions ends up accusing us of being enforcers for the side they don't like. It's clearly a cognitive bias and probably hard-wired in all of us: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Is this in response to the recent WSJ article about Apple's green bubbles for Android texts and its impact on young people?
> I mean, this is Real Life we're talking about here - your instructor's "office hours" are basically never (ever) going to be at a time when it's actually possible for you to go even if you wanted to.

Why would it be hard to go to office hours? These are schools where most students are full time students who live on or near campus and will have largely similar schedules. It is not hard for an instructor to have office hours at a time when most students in the class will be able to come.

> And if you do go, is your instructor going to be capable of explaining things in a way that makes sense anyway? How many of us have known math teachers who are simultaneously A. perfectly competent to solve a problem and B. completely incapable of explaining how to solve the same problem to somebody else?

If that is the case then how likely is it that it would have been helpful if the instructor had provided a written solution with the problem in the first place?
There is philosophical mismatch here.

To me, if you can get qualified workers for $2/hour, that's all you should pay. End of discussion.

If people accept the job offers, you are, by definition, not underpaying. It clearly helps the local economy, lifts people somewhat out of poverty, and is a classic win-win situation.
And Flash. Don't forget the days of Flash only websites.
and everyone assumes you're a cop.
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If you want to use Firefox you should get an Android smartphone. Apple forbids other browsers engines on iOS.
I agree, but I also think it's also an issue (particularly with the popularity of social media) that people are often trying to keep in contact with many more people but also interacting a lot more than in the past.

For instance, I know people who were part of the greatest generation that would have decades long pen-pal type relationships with people they hadn't seen in person in years. It was pretty common for them to send several long hand written letters to several of these friends every year, for 30, 40, 50 years. But I don't think I've encountered anyone in younger generations who would do that.

15-20 years ago, I had a number of e-mail acquaintances who I'd send long e-mail to every few months, and they'd send another long e-mail in return. This went on for years, but with the increase in popularity of social media, these exchanges dwindled into nothingness.

Likewise, I remember when almost everyone I knew was on AIM. But that became old fashioned, for some reason. Not for any particular reason; people still can and do communicate with text messages, and it was no extra effort to keep an AIM client running in the background. But when something new comes along, there's usually an exodus from the old.

Up until recently it seemed that Facebook was the platform to communicate, and it had a very specific, shallow form of communication sent to everyone. Though now even that seems to be dying down.

Mst people are driven by social trends at large. If you sent a handwritten letter to an acquaintance at one point in time, you'd get one in return. Likewise with a friendly e-mail talking about your life. Nothing we have now is really a replacement for e-mail, but it's more trendy, so the old form of communication gets completely neglected.
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I suspect there's a technical reason for that, rather than pure incompetence.

The PS Vita likely devotes most of its power to its CPU and GPU hardware. Its screen resolution is also relatively low, so it doesn't take very many cycles to render.

A smartphone has a tighter power budget. For one thing, the battery is significantly smaller to keep the phone thin. It has to power the cell modem constantly. The display resolution is significantly higher, so there's one or two orders of magnitude more pixels.

The PS Vita menu is probably getting re-rendered at 60Hz in a loop that's also sampling for input events. The menu is just another "game".

The smartphone menu is probably getting indirectly rendered through an abstraction that allows the framebuffer to only minimally be updated as display elements change. Events are likely coming in asynchronously rather than being polled. The rendered image looks the same, but there was significantly more code in the path vs. the game console.

You could eliminate all that complex code and make a phone UI feel snappy like a game, but the power consumption would shoot up and drastically reduce on-time for the same battery size.
So they tried to "overthrow the government" by filing a petition to call for early elections? That's quite a stretch...
It's a great book! I really liked how it guides step-by-step, always having something working building up to the full interpreter for Lox. I haven't yet gotten around to the 2nd part of the book (the C based interpreter/vm) because I got carried away with adding extra features to my Kotlin Lox implementation (including a JVM backend)! https://github.com/mrjameshamilton/klox
Can confirm this is very hard to do. I was able to create my own 2d text rendering primitive from scratch (for fun), but it has the following "features":

1 font
4 font sizes
16 foreground colors
2 background colors
Support for a generous subset of ASCII characters
Text wrapping which succeeds as expected in ~50% of cases
DPI "agnostic"

The only thing that I could ever got any traction with was rasterizing every combination of font/size/color into some texture atlas and then using a dictionary of coordinates & dimensions around each for lookup & calculation. Clearly, this approach falls flat on its ass once you involve non-trivial requirements (i.e. beyond a subset of ASCII), or a variety of fonts/sizes/colors which create adverse combinatorics. That said, when you can reduce any problem space to composition of basic 2d images, things get really simple to think about.
they sure do. kinda sad that they mostly use functionality from the foss ecosystem created by the minority that doesn't.
The comment section is full of one Tolkien quote in different languages:

"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good" - J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm not sure if this is bot spam or real people. Either way it's heartening.
> When even your biggest fans think you are being petulant and foolish, maybe it’s time to reevaluate?

Has there ever been a situation where a public company has valued consumer trust or goodwill?

To me it seems like it only matters when consumers actually have a choice and you need to convince them to give you money - once you've locked them in (because of contracts or anti-competitive practices), it doesn't really matter and you can (and should) milk them out of every dollar until you can't (as in competition or regulation disrupts the status-quo).
I had a couple of similar problem under Linux, but I believe these are purely software issues and thus unrelated to the windows ones. and also not specific to Dell AFAIK.

1. Linux kernel "mem-sleep" mode default [0], which determines what actually happens when systemd-sleep "suspend" is called. The default value is "s2idle" for many distros which is as good as leaving your computer running with processes paused... when what most users expect is some kind of suspend-to-ram ("deep"). Obviously this burns through battery pretty quickly but at least it shouldn't overheat.

2. I found this systemd infinite hybernate loop bug [1] (now fixed) when swap is smaller than RAM... although you only would come across this is you accidentally under-provisioned the swap partition on install like I did - but the failure mode was spectacularly bad, because it will retry over and over swapping and compressing the RAM which obviously ramps up the CPU, get hot with the lid closed, make short work of battery and SSD.

Anyway the common issue is #1 which you just have to know about otherwise your computer doesn't really suspend at all, and since most machines are very quiet these days you won't notice unless you dig.

[0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/538541/suspend-to-r...

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19550
Is this an issue with Dell, or an issue with Linux...?

If the system shipped with Windows, I don't really think it's dells issue if Linux doesn't do proper thermal management.
Even worse, it's immunity to a spike that hasn't been around for years now. The vaccines were developed for the 2019 strain. The idea that people who got it and recovered two months ago have less immunity than a vaccinated person is based mostly on statistical biases in the way public health agencies measure effectiveness, that can create the appearance of (temporary) effectiveness in water.
If smartphones count as creation machines because they can take pictures and perform some basic editing, then my DSLR or Polaroid camera also counts. Even my pre-smartphone candybar from 2008 would count.

Unfortunately, smartphones, due to their form factor, don't actually allow precise editing or manipulation of content - which is what is usually meant by the idea that "smartphones are devices for consumption, and not creation".

The same applies to text, to some extent. Yes, you can author a novel on a smartphone, but it's gonna be an excruciating process if you want to do any fine text manipulation at all.
Or, alternatively, they're giving you a polite "out" and enabling mutual forgetting. I've been on the wrong side of this dynamic too many times and I think that when the other person claims not to remember, most of the time they're telling the truth - of course they didn't ruminate on that-thing-you-did as much as you did - but sometimes, I think it's intentional amnesia to avoid the social overhead of addressing the event head-on.
No they weren’t!

People protesting BLM didnt get scratched as America got together to condemn police brutality.

Antifa, who highjacked the protests and torched cities, got arrested. But most were released by sympathetic DAs.

In fairness the BLM organizers are getting arrested. For fraud.
That sounds suspiciously like the "true communism has never been tried!" bit I have heard so often.

I don't particularly care about capitalism, myself, but the endless shallow attempts to tie whatever woe is being discussed to it is terribly reminiscent of how I used to hear about problems being the inevitable result of our nation turning away from Christ or whatever.
Thiel funded Trump early in his first presidential bid:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/11/peter-thi...

His company Palantir also threw one of their employee's under the bus, when it was published that this employee helped Cambridge Analytica with database development work. The work was to sort and query there psychometric data (harvested from Facebook) for people who scored high on a personality trait for neuroticism. These people are often highly addictive, and easy to influence with basic memetic warfare. Twitter, Facebook and Reddit are highly susceptible to influence operations of this type, and were the target of the Trump campaign. Christopher Wylie's book: Mindf%ck, is a great read on this.

After the election, Trump appointed Thiel to his presidential intelligence advisory board as quid pro quo for his campaign funding, furthering his access to secrets.
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Thank you. I went to the web site again and finally noticed the button to touch to popup the videos. Maybe I've been the only one to miss it but I feel that an important video should be embedded directly in the home page, possibly with no autoplay.
Are you arguing in good faith? Do you think moderating text on this site is equivalent to what is described in the article?
> We need more trains, light rail, subways.

I'd argue we simply need more walkability, and to place shops and destinations closer to people. Public transit is great, but is not an effective way to fix our auto-centric land use.

In Strong Towns this is discussed. Transit should come to enhance and solve the transportation needs of already great, walkable places. Transit should not be created to try to induce great places.
When the fines are equal or higher than the money they currently make from these anti-competitive practices.
This is sadly true.

There is basically no value in a general medicine doctor that i can see. General health issues can be handled by a nurse practitioner, they can see if you have an ear infection, are sick with the flu, and proscribe you the antibiotics, or other controlled medicines just fine. They could easily switch to a model where the General Medicine doctor acts as like the staff engineer over the senior devs, and just does a quick plus one on their results and makes sure no mistakes were made. (this is how most doctors visits play out anyways)

When there IS something seriously wrong, they almost always send you to a specialist who can actually treat your specific issue. Have a really bad ear infection / something is lodged in your ear? Here is the ENT referral! Pay me for telling you to go see the ear doctor when you had ear problems.
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What these all have in common though, is encouraging shared mutable references, they don't do a lot to make effects in a system explicit, don't encourage a clear organization of code, and many fundamental concepts (functions as values) were missing early on or still are (discriminated unions)

I agree that pretty much any 15 year old code base is going to get rough, but I think these languages have some clear footguns that aren't doing them favors either. I work on a codebase that isn't more than a few years old, and there's complexity issues from simple things like the language lacking good semantics for transforming data immutably, and that complexity spirals

I can attest that writing messy processes in languages that do address these concerns is absolutely possible, I've done so myself, but the mess is contained to a particular area and it's not as hard to follow which pieces of a system feed into another. Things as simple as making immutability the default and mutation explicit like Rust, and requiring modules be organized into a hierarchy like F# are huge wins. As much as I've gotten annoyed with F#'s project files hierarchy requirement because it requires some extra work/considerations for codependent types and codegen, it's amazing how much easier it is to jump into a new codebase where you can clearly see to understand behavior you start with the bottom of the file list, and to understand core logic/patterns you go to the top of the file list
An open Linux-based phone that could spawn Android VMs for each such closed messenger would be awesome. It wouldn't solve the underlying problem of having closed protocols to being with, but nobody would use the open phone if it doesn't do what they need right now.

In many countries you're forced to use closed apps to log in to government services, banks, and whatnot. If those could run in VMs it would also be rather nice. (Some of them actually try to detect if it's being run on a real phone or not).
I had the same experience; "trick" websites like that got me so excited to find out what was possible. It's still kind of amazing that browsers let websites do all the things they do, considering the potential for abuse
>> At least with crypto, the chain of ownership is transparent and can't be faked. So validation is cheap and easy to do.

In theory. The devil is in the details; does everyone know how to validate the chain of ownership, even the most non-technical of users who must rely on the system? If not, you either will never be mainstream, or you're reliant on a trusted agent to validate on your behalf (sorta like a title company!).

And if you screw something up with crypto, there is no way to address it. The complaint of "dealing with lawyers and trying to get someone to pay for it" is a feature, not a bug. Worst case, it's no different than the crypto outcome; best case, you have recourse.
The title here:
> “Black Hole Gives Birth to New Stars Rather Than Devouring Them”

is misleading. The black hole is still devouring matter, in fact it must have been to cause the outflow that triggered star formation in another region.

Removing “Rather Than Devouring Them” would improve the title, but better would be to simply use the title from the paper.
Usually you get this after two or three alerts, not the first one.
Unless you were an independent entity that could do most of your work over the phone with only occasional in-person meetings (e.g. certain kinds of salespeople and some artists), it was very rare.

It only happened in this instance because the person in question had a newborn baby and I guess maternal leave wasn't a thing at Pixar back then.
Does the program also work for bigtech employees?
Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
What would you do if you were in charge of Mozilla? How would you save Firefox?
I've seen background checks at most of the mid-to-large sized tech companies I've worked at.
I don't trust all these mainstream games journalism sites anymore. Seems like they give good scores to heavily marketed games, mostly. These sites have direct financial incentives to giving games good reviews. I will wait to see what YouTubers such as GameRanx and GameXplain have to say before I decide.
We never hear about broken and worn-out products. Pretty much all gear nowadays is baseline ok, it’s the negatives that really set things apart.

For once, let's turn it all upside down:

We should build a collection about how things break - review broken and worn-out products to teach how to identify cheap products. That's why I built failscout.co

It's simple: You upload your broken products and quickly describe how long you owned them, how often you used them, and where they failed.

Everything breaks eventually, but when it does, can you easily repair/fix it? That's why users can suggest a fix to a broken/inconvenienced product.

What could we do with all this data?

- Identifying the common failure modes of product

- Collect fixes for common product failures

- See if a product's quality has changed or gone down at some point

- Add a simple JSON API so other sites and projects can leverage our data.
> True, but its much harder to dox this number of people if all you have is a big list of Bitcoin addresses.

This is also true of any other mechanism: if this was just a list of credit card transaction IDs, it'd be hard to do much with it as well. The problem is when you combine those with other metadata and it seems highly unlikely that anyone would spontaneously stop collecting that information.
wouldn't take state sponsored hacking to do this to most startups, probably just a few people using open source tools to look for basic stuff

people love to dunk on companies in situations like this but probably 95% of startups would get hacked like this if the MSM put a bunch of attention on them and made them a target. Even huge companies get pwned due to basic security issues