skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an unserious comment responding to an unserious discussion. You've provided a bevy of historical knowledge, which while interesting, in no way resembles what software engineering licensing would be like in the present day. For one thing, corporate power is so entrenched and regulatory bodies so enervated in this space (as everywhere), there is absolutely no possible way the licensure dystopia you've so vividly conjured could exist. And nobody on this forum calling for licensing is asking for some onerous top-down governmental bureaucratic licensing regime, so you've basically created a neat '90s cyberpunk retrofuturistic setting that has little to no relevance to the discussion at hand.

If anything, people are calling for industry standards, something akin to craftsmen guilds of olde, overseen by an existing professional association of engineers such as the ACM or the IEEE [0]. Alternatively, perhaps it could arise as the end result of Triplebyte or some other private solution trying to be the Collegeboard of this industry. Speaking of which, academic exams such as the SAT, the ACT, or AP tests have no legal binding, but most higher academic institutions (until recently) choose to use them as standards. So it's more of a widely-subscribed informal standard.

In practice, such a license wouldn't hold too much water anyway, certainly FAANG would ignore it for the most part in favor of their higher standards, but perhaps it could at least be a Leetcode replacement for smaller firms [1]. That would save both applicants time in having to run the LC gauntlet over and over again and every single company they interview with, and help those smaller companies avoid their hiring woes of cargo-culting FAANG interview practices and accidentally filtering out every applicant along the way. None of this would forbid the practice of programming by non-accredited practitioners, as the licensing regime bogeyman you fear would have absolutely no teeth for enforcement.

Finally, if formalizing the engineering nature of software engineers means that American engineers can be like their Canadian counterparts and wear iron rings [2] to mark their achievement and profession, then that is infinitely more cool than the status quo and more compelling than any number of fantasy dystopias, or evocations of the state of the art of '70s computing, or Operation Sundevil, or the goings-ons in... Iran.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30616114

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30493041

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

> We should be thinking about how to make civil engineering more like software engineering, with rigorous version control, automated testing, automated builds, rapid improvement in the state of the art, and safety features that minimize risk to humans in case of failure. Not vice versa.

Have you seen the state of software engineering? I'm not sure if this field is in any state to be acting smarter-than-thou towards other engineering disciplines.
Use seller data to figure out which of your competitor's products are the most profitable, copy their product, short-sell their stock, buy-back your own stock with the cash, sell a bit of it when it pops to pay your Yacht/Jet/Hooker bill.

Some guys just have it all figured out, huh?
Your RSUs should also be split.
What about charge backs? What protections do I have?
The actual term for that is the wonderful word "teledildonics"
The press release doesn't say much of substance, but plenty can be found on Brian Kreb's site:

- https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/sodinokibi/

- https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/revil/

In particular, for the individual named: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/revil-ransom-arrest-6m-s...
Why is "Avoid placing equations in the middle of sentences" strange advice?
Thanks, that's a great point.
It made me think we could probably do this programmatically - perhaps as part of a script to carry out the full scan? Add the folders of interest, scan, then remove when completed.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/defender/...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/defender/...

Or, even just run said folders as a custom scan!

`Start-MpScan -ScanType CustomScan -ScanPath PATH\TO\FOLDER-FILES`
What on earth is wrong with pip? I've used it in some of the most constrained environments possible, and it has been fine except for one small window where trusted-host wasn't possible.
Objection. Counsel is leading the witness.
bezos selling to "cover" the buyback doesn't produce money. In fact, if he did that, he would lose out to transaction costs and gain nothing!

Buy back doesn't create value (nor destroy value) - it just shifts the dollars from the company to shareholders, who could decide to sell to retrieve the money at a later date.

Of course, buying back at a time when the share price is lower than expected (given a company's inside information) means they actually do gain value (lost from those shareholders who did the selling at the time of the buyback). Market participants who believe Amazon not to be irrational would also start buying as soon as they hear the news, assuming that there's inside info that the company is acting on resulting in such a buyback.
If this is seriously a $143 part then this could turn things upside down. For anyone who haven't yet clicked through and read the article, the CPU is by far the cheapest one featured in the benchmarks, is usually middle of the pack at worst and frequently beats CPUs that are $250+
Buybacks are not necessarily awesome..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28535516
> Being ok with expending your limited time and resources raising unrelated offspring is a self terminating trait.

I don't know about that. I know at least one family that has six children, two of whom are adopted. That's somewhat rare, but not totally unique.
Yes. Ok, we've almost looped all the way back around. In the context of talking about high end phones, this question was posed. (by you)

> I can’t understand why people are so attached to cords.

On the assumption that you wanted to understand some reasons people like corded headphones, I provided some real reasons. I use my headphones for things other than my phone. But it would be nice to use them with the phone also.
If you work for the company you should keep your shares and vest as much as possible. The split has no impact on you in reality. If you work there you are in for the long haul and you’re going to do well given the current trajectory.
It would still exist. The difference is the artificial scarcity is gone, so customers aren't under time pressure to purchase them. They are free to do so as they are reasonably able to afford it.
Yeah soak the motherboard in one of those static-factory nylon storage bins, great idea.
I'm not sure I feel great about gating feature A behind completely unrelated feature B just because manufacturers like feature B. Even if feature B is concretely pretty good (which is debatable for https as it exists now), this seems bad on principle.
RSU shares are sort of "parked" and have some value total X - let's say 100k.

When a split happens the parked shares also split and now there are more shares parked but still at at value of 100k.
What is lovely too is how content comes and goes depending on licensing deals and where you physically are.

Want to finish that tv show? Too bad! We didn’t bother telling you, but we lost the deal.
Cast iron FTW. Haven’t checked if an enamel dutch oven is naughty or nice. Slow cooker’s pottery glaze is unknown.
The glaring question here is why your native industries don’t patent your native herbs if it’s profitable.
For many people those are two different kinds of privacy, not to mention that many of us bought minecraft before it was even associated with MS.

Minecraft also has many versions that don't run on MS OS'es.
I wrote the first comment or at least there were none when I started writing it, I'm not talking about this comment section
Enhanced Small Disk Interface
> it's really fantastic how closely competitive they all are currently

Which says basically that most of these gains are more likely to come from fabrication technology, not architecture.
Why Hybrid Grapes Could Be the Future of Wine
Elevated risk of cyberattacks due to foreign meddling.

https://www.cisa.gov/shields-up
The funniest part is actually specifying "Enter CTRL-F and type in (company name)". For what role would you hire where the applicant won't know how to do a search in a browser?
I’m wondering what this all means for the upcoming Mac Pro.

Apple mentioned that the M1 Ultra is the last member of the M1 family. So how is the Mac Pro going to scale?

Will Apple enable “traditional” scaling by allowing multiple M1 Ultra chips to be combined in one system? Or what?

Further, how will an Apple Silicon based Mac Pro be made expandable; something that has been a corner stone feature of Mac Pros in the past?
What sort of argument is that. Government require all sort of things without supplying them. They don't supply seat belts for example, even though you are required to wear one.

Or take the "no shoes, no shirt, no service" signs common in the US, should the businesses supply you with shoes or a t-shirt?
My small modular “PC” running Linux
i just discovered the FreeCAD addon repository and parts libraries: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/External_workbenches
* Move away from browsers. They are bloated operating systems.

* Content-oriented operation rather than name-oriented. First bullet point helps makes this more feasible since it's helps enable p2p distribution. Browser vendors will fight to maintain their centralized monopolies.

* Simpler protocols, such as web assembly and markdown. Inspired by things like Gemini. Make it easier for people to build clients.
> Fly them through Poland

That means Ukrainian MiG-29s crossing into Ukraine from Poland.

If Poland had simply handed over the planes to the Ukrainians in Poland, the result would have been... Ukrainian MiG-29s crossing into Ukraine from Poland.

If Poland had instead handed over the planes to US troops in Poland, without moving them, and the US had then handed them over to the Ukrainians, the result would have been... Ukrainian MiG-29s crossing into Ukraine from Poland.

So you get exactly the same result in all three cases. What Poland doesn't want is Ukrainian MiG-29s crossing into Ukraine from Poland.

> or through Romania

Yes, that's what this is really about.
You’re right. I talked with the sales team and worked out a deal. They’re interested in user adoption.
The burden of proof in cases like this is actually carried by the mountains of emails, product design documents, and all other forms of internal documentation. Only the e-mails get regularly purged.

This isn't a dope dealer growing weed in his car and having his buddies sell it for him. These sorts of operations produce a lot of paperwork. As an employee who is actually tasked with building/working with all of these systems/processess, you don't get inducted into the secret conspiracy with a nod, wink, handshake, and a secret decoder ring.
I don't like such thing, but I don't think it should be banned by law.
For Authz solutions targeted at HN audience it is way overpriced.
These are the people in power - the people with influence. They're for the most part assholes. You simply don't get to these positions being a good human (yes, there are outliers) - it's a fundamentally broken cultural system of reward. I don't know how or why it works, but it seems that's the way it is.
> start writing your notes in the speaker notes and leave the slides blank, instead of the other way around (which is kind of what PowerPoint's UI pushes you towards). Only create the actual slide content after refining your speaker notes once or twice.

At that point, you might as well extract those notes into a proper technical report—which is the _actual_ conclusion that Tufte came to:

> Attempting to have slides serve both as projected visuals and as stand-alone handouts makes for bad visuals and bad documentation. Yet, this is a typical, acceptable approach. PowerPoint (or Keynote) is a tool for displaying visual information, information that helps you tell your story, make your case, or prove your point. PowerPoint is a terrible tool for making written documents, that's what word processors are for.

(Aside: Did anyone actually click through and read Tufte's original "PowerPoint Does Rocket Science" (that this piece borrows liberally from—and then perverts)? This piece amounts to middling-quality reblog spam, except worse—because it comes with the added downside that it injects some synthesis about the slide in question (containing "a huge amount of text") being described as too long. Anyone following up and checking sources will see that not only is this not supported by Tufte's work, but it wouldn't be a stretch to say that what is presented here as a summary of the work of Tuft et al runs counter to what they had to say.

It gets truly bizarre when you start reviewing the samples that Tufte provided. It turns out that the slide pictured in this article is not even the slide that was "in play" during the relevant incident. If this blog post were a serious publication (instead of a grey area, slightly scummy, content-marketing afterthought that it is), it would constitute academic fraud...)
The commercial tapes for the most part had Macrovision. The VCRs had a built in “circumvention device”.
One country can’t just unilaterally give itself a legal right to invade another. That’s just their policy.
Are unvested RSU grants irrevocable in general?
Whoops, I read your question as being about the value of buybacks.

Yes, RSUs are updated in response to a stock split the same way already issued existing stock is treated.
Anyone know what the backend for this is? Is it zxing-cpp or similar?

Edit: guess it depends on the browser and OS.
> Surviving nuclear armageddon is comparably easy and only boils down to a combination of luck

Luck, and not being murdered for your supplies by your fellow post-nuclear wasteland survivors…

I always see people claiming surviving a nuclear holocaust is no biggie, but they never address the violence that would occur.
I'm not a browser developer, but to wager a guess, it probably has something to do with the inertia of existing solutions being native, rather than in WebAssembly, which is still quite new as standards go.
It's super important that removing their internet services etc does not remove the propaganda, and Russia was passing laws prohibiting these sources of actual news from publishing said reality in Russia.

The purpose of the sanctions is to reduce support for Putin from the people he actually needs to support his regime (russian billionaires, the government, the army, etc), and to cripple its ability to support its army.
The URA target needs to be bumped up to 25%. Churn and burn.
It means absolutely nothing technically, but it does cause a short term spike in value because companies only do this when they are doing extremely well. So it is a confidence check. Small investors can now buy individual shares of the stock and there are some small changes as a result of companies that are part of the Dow Jones, and other stock groupings.

In the short term the volatility will likely increase, expect single digit up/down fluctuations every day for a bit.

This is all my experience, thoughts, etc.

AMZN is a great stock. Most people are not aware of the key assets of the company.
Thanks again for pointing this out. As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, this is a product experience defect, and is not intended to be deceptive. We made a few quick cosmetic updates to mitigate until we can re-work our dashboard more meaningfully. For example:

1) We changed the data broker dashboard title from "Websites exposing your personal information" to "Websites that expose personal information"

2) We changed the data broker dashboard subtitle from "Discover where your personal data is exposed..." to "Explore where your personal data might be exposed..."

3) Within the data broker dashboard subtitle, we added the text "Links frequently lead to empty pages" with a "learn why" link to the post on our Help Desk titled "What if a "View" link leads to an empty or not found page?" that goes here:

https://help.optery.com/en/article/what-if-a-view-link-leads...

We have several more changes we're working through to address this issue. Thank you again!
Resolved in 7 mins. Can you do better?
Nitter.net is the way around this. Make bookmarks for those tweeters that you enjoy.
Also, if you care about the environment, don't have children. And, really, best to off yourself as well. Might want to take down a few less enlightened folks with you when you go.
Right. Incredibly few corporate leaders and rank and file employees have any clue about real diplomacy or how to relate internationally. Sanctions that target the right people are hard enough. Just like the missiles and shells, popular sanctions hitting military and civilian targets should be thought of quite differently.

These companies, and by extension the brands of the countries they represent, are losing the peace/aftermath that will follow, I expect. Obtaining the enmity of the Russian population that does play a role in selecting their next leaders is not a great idea. And this war will end someday.
It's shocking to see such a statement so far into the pandemic. This is solved and known already, and while complicated, we've figured it out for some time. We can easily see the massive amount of deaths when we look at excess death numbers. Covid deaths are, if anything, undercounted. To believe anything else at this point is to bury your head in the sand and avoid all scientific evidence and medical consensus.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-are-covid-19-d...
I mean... should people not be able to like things?
Followed by “We do not promise to renounce the use of force and reserve the option to use all necessary measures”
zxing-cpp has a Python wrapper that should work for that.
Still applies here in my opinion.

This family you know had 33% fewer biological children than they could have had. That means their DNA will be ever so slightly overwhelmed by families with the same desire and capacity for children who chose to have 100% biological offspring.

Having said that, there certainly is some debate on whether genes are actually greater than memes when it comes to this kind of psychology. It could be that the human brain is general enough to be loaded with this kind of DNA self terminating software (meme) such that it continues for longer than you might otherwise expect, because the unrelated offspring still inherit the memes that motivated the decision to not prioritize your own genetically related offspring.

However, given enough time and generations, there should still emerge a mutant human brain that is more immune to these kinds of memes, and that genetic lineage slowly out competes the one that is more accepting of raising unrelated offspring.
Many armies do that sort of thing. Australian troops in Afghanistan flew the Nazi flag

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-14/photo-shows-nazi-flag...
It was just written earlier you shouldnt wear a mask for longer than 4 h. So even if you walk around for 24h that's 6 masks, they take up literally less space than your phone. Are you comaining that it's impossible for you to carry your phone or wallet around with you? This is clearly getting ridiculous, its too difficult to carry 6 masks on you?
Let's say my company has $50 in liquid assets, the overall company is worth $100 (making the EV, "enterprise value" of the company $50, if we treat the liquid assets as being worth their face value, $50), and there are 50 shareholders, each holding one share.

In this naive model, one would expect each share to be worth $2.

If the company spends all its liquid assets buying out 25 shareholders at $2 apiece (prices respond to demand for shares, of course, so this toy model doesn't hold at these ratios, but ignoring that for a second), we now have 25 shareholders, each owning 1/25th of a company that's now worth only the company's EV of $50, i.e., each share's still worth $2. So no value was created, it was a waste of time.

In practice, many many companies' cash holdings are not valued at par by the company's existing investors. That is to say, if the company spends their cash on something that isn't value destroying (surprisingly difficult! Many an acquisition is value destroying!), they can actually increase the value of each share by spending the money in a way that investors like.

Share buybacks thus have the counterintuitive impact of raising the value of each share not by transferring money to the remaining shareholders, but by reducing existing shareholders' risk that management will misuse the company's liquid assets on some ego-driven vanity project.
'But why should healthcare coverage providers be forced to provide coverage to people with pre-existing conditions? That's unfair.'
They made an inside joke outside. Innocent mistake, harmless except that HN sometimes punishes attempted humor.
As the FAQ of the proposal mentions (https://github.com/giltayar/proposal-types-as-comments/#FAQ), we believe adding runtime type checking would be untenable. This stems from both performance concerns and concerns around evolving whatever type-checking would be built in. For that reason, not only do we not expect engines to perform runtime checks, we would specify that these type annotations have no runtime effect.
Shot-scraper: automated screenshots for documentation, built on Playwright
It still works. The people who know Russia is the aggressor know the truth, and eventually people less susceptible to propaganda do regain power.
> I’d be willing to bet my life that the kernel’s more than a decade old and globally deployed XHCI implementation is not the cause of his USB issues.

I wouldn't, because I've found and fixed bugs in the kernel's xHCI implementation, and I still regularly panic or oops my kernel with dodgy USB devices, which is by definition a kernel bug (and a security one at that). USB is an overcomplicated standard and extremely difficult to implement properly.

> Is it technically possible that usbmon will say that it sent proper data to the device when in fact it didn’t due to a bug in the kernel XHCI stack? Yes it is. Is it likely? very much not.

As someone who works with USB regularly, I very much disagree with your assessment.

> Usbmon was invented for this exact use case: debugging usb issues under the assumption that there is no fault in the kernel’s usb stack.

Usbmon was invented for debugging USB issues with a single device, under the assumption that there is no fault with the kernel's USB stack and the controller. Once you're having controller-global issues that could be caused by either of those, usbmon is not useful because that assumption no longer holds.

> Basic intuition tells us it’s a hardware issue, either controller, hub, or device.

We clearly have very different intuitions here. I would absolutely split my bets on it being a controller or kernel issue.
Real numbers are much more intuitive -- It's easier to find a buyer for $500 for 1 share than $3000 for one share. (And extremely low prices are subject to non-trivial rounding error in per-share prices) That's why companies try to keep their stock between $10 and $500, using splits or reverse splits.