skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even adb backup isn't possible: it's been deprecated for years and I've never ever gotten it to work even with root and the right dev settings.

It starts creating an image of a couple of GB (takes a couple of hours, lol) and then just bugs out and stops. There's no error checking or anything and when it bugs out it means you have start all over again.
Did you think to ask what suspicions Snowden had in 2009 in Tokyo? Or why he had them? He stated he read an unclassified report with evidence of illegal activities and significant abuses. The classified version confirmed his suspicions.
> It's super easy for a company to make up additional overhead above and beyond gross profits to disappear everything. (including money spent on stock buybacks, dividend payments, and CEO perks).

Share buybacks and dividend payments are uses of cash, but do not reduce net income. (They are not an expense.)

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/112013/impac....

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/090415/are-dividend...
Patience. RISC-V is an unstoppable freight train but it isn’t yet up to speed.

RISC-V is not yet ready for the high end needs that Apple has. RISC-V doesn't yet have the single core performance nor the ability to scale to many cores like ARM does -- or at least I haven't seen it.

I think that when RISC-V can do this and is competitive with ARM, Apple could look at it. Apple isn't married to ARM forever, remember it used to be Motorola, then IBM PowerPC, then Intel x86 and now ARM.

Given that Apple just did the transition to ARM, I do not expect they will look around for the ARM successor for a while. But a decade from now it wouldn't be surprising for them to consider RISC-V, at that point its capabilities should rival ARM if not exceed it while also being much more easily customized.
I went through the hoops recently for a technical support role for a large company that makes NAS appliances.

I was given an in by a friend already working there as she personally had my resume forwarded to her manager and joked "he's used Gentoo for 15 years, he can do this"

Despite years upon years of experience, the final hiring manager round believed I "wasn't interested" in the role because I "didn't ask any questions about the company"

During said interview (a forth round of interviews) I had admitted that I'd either asked everything I wanted to know either to the employee who referred me, or the managers in previous rounds.

As an absolutely neurodivergent person I was quite surprised by this response. In my own mind I would have thought "I've been picking the brain of your employee for weeks" would have demonstrated quite a high level of interest.

Sadly as they say I "didn't play the interview game" and thus have come up short
Another GGML model port that I'm pretty excited about is https://github.com/PABannier/bark.cpp.

The Bark python model is very compute intensive and require a powerful GPU to get bearable inference speed. I really hope that bark.cpp with GPU/Metal support and quanticized model can bring useful inference speed on a laptop in the near future.
Or you could... use any other chromium based browser that doesn't do this.

Might I suggest Vivaldi? It's nice, lots of built in features that you probably are running extensions for currently.
Fantastic project. For a second I thought it was a terminal application.
I would argue the offering is actually very clear. A nice demo is included. If you’re not using any REST clients it might be a bit harder to understand but I doubt you’re the intended target group
> going back to your argument

...?

I don't even know if I made an argument .I was merely expressing my observation. If I had an argument that would've be "interoperability is not for granted".

By the way sockets are not globally unified. So yeah web, an interoperable standard across billions of users, is quite a miracle.
Here's a video of Jim Cramer (now CNBC) likely high on coke (source: my own judgement, take it with a grain of salt) basically openly admitting/bragging that this happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyaPf6qXLa8

The video is from 2006
I hope people are smart enough to not not volunteer being in a database of neurodivergent people, to be sold to the highest bidder, if not today,whenever the current owners make an exit.

I will never understand how people are so trusting and I like to think I am more trusting than most lol.
1 vote every 5 years for a town is acceptable. It’s only 3000 decisions. And you can have an impact on your city through other means.

1 vote every 5 years for a country barely is; 1 vote for a continent is nothing. We have absolutely no control on what happens in Brussels. It’s basically an autocracy with occasional buy-in from citizen.

Even when we vote “no” when asked, we stay in Europe. And even though France was asked in 2005, and said no, they stayed in Europe. The same risked to happen in UK when they said no in 2015, politicians didn’t want to implement, so the people had to vote out TWO governments until they actually implemented the brexit.

Politicians will ask us again in France or elsewhere once there is an overwhelming majority of yes. That’s why they don’t ask currently.
If you are on AWS, there is little reason not to use the S3 backend. If Hashicorp insisted on using their backend only, they would be as popular as Pulumi now (which will be another player to gain from this battle).
I used to work for the Insee, the French public statistics institute. Eurostat is small, and more about coordination and harmonisation, whereas most of the production of survey and statistics where handled by the statistics offices of each country. And most of Eurostat specialist are delagated from countries' stat offices. So first, get a job there, then move to eurostat.
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So I’m posting this way late and I doubt anyone will read the comment. But I did a hardware startup once and was surrounded by other hardware startups in the space we were in.

Ughhhhhhhh operating system updates, internet issues, test kit from China that we had to use a specific version of cracked Windows XP and still do live support in broken English at midnight.

Hardware is hard - Never again!
I run pihole, my own DNS resolver and some other stuff and I get the cloud flare checking your browser page on every single site using cloud flare.

Fortunately I haven’t seen the longer blocking you mention.
It's a very good news for security and also for 99.99% of the Android users. But get me wrong, it would be nice to support power user, they just need to add a feature to easily add a chosen CA and it would be perfect.

Currently CA management was very dangerous because it was not updated (as stated in the article).

New CA were not added so if you kept your phone long enough you would see insecure warning popping up. People would take the habits of accepting without thinking: very problematic behaviour. One solution is to used Firefox which doesn't use the system CA unlike Chrome.

Another more problematic one: untrusted CA were not removed (the author give the example of TrustCor but they were other examples in the past like DigiNotar). Who knows what happens to private key of old untrusted CA ? If they end up in the wrong hands people could get MITM. (Personally, I had to remove DigiNotar for my old phone.)

And of course as the author said: it's also problematic for new certificate authority like Let's Encrypt which at a time needed the complex cross sign certificate to ensure the certificates work for everyone. [1][2]

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/2020/11/06/own-two-feet.html
[2] https://letsencrypt.org/2020/09/17/new-root-and-intermediate...
Ironically the leet warez often are more well behaved pieces of software than the average crap app on the store of popular mobile OS manufacturers.

People had standards at the time, which wasn't that long ago either.
Because feature flags often intersect with segmentation and AB testing.

So it's not just a byte in memory, but often also correlating the status of said byte with a users identity and then tracking and summarising user behaviour based on that relationship.

It's become fairly standardised and requires engineer time to setup and maintain the services behind all that, so it's valid to go third party for less than the cost of said engineer time, if all you want is standard.

Edit:it's also hard to always predict when a standard flags going to become part of a test, so just integrating for every flag and making that a standard process for your teams becomes the simplest approach.
> How does that matter ?

It matters because words have meanings and using words correctly facilitates effective discussions.
If I meet a guy with no legs and my first reaction is to highlight the strengths of great parking spaces and saving money on trousers, he might see that as me failing to acknowledge the reality of his situation.
Once you get more than two hours from London the prices become reasonable. The trouble is there isn't so much technology work outside of London.
I want to provide as many human beings as possible with value by distributing my processing power fairly between them. If I get DDoS:ed by a botnet, I won't provide anyone with anything other than optimistically an error page.

If I had infinite money and computing resources, this would be fine, but I'm just one guy with a not very power computer hosted on domestic broadband, and even though I give away compute freely, it just takes one bag of dicks with a botnet to use it all up for themselves, and without bot mitigation, I'm helpless to prevent it.

Oh and I actually do provide an API for free machine access, so it's not like they have to use headless browsers and go through the front door like this. But they still do.

Serves me right for trying to provide a useful service I guess?
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That's very much the worst possible spin on people's feelings with a framed poll and National Post reporting though.

It could equally be argued that 27% of Canadians do not agree that MAID should be restricted, the poll question was preambled:

At this point, only an adult with a grievous and irremediable medical condition can seek medical assistance in dying in Canada ...

and went to list other conditions (povety, homelessness, disability, etc).

One extreme interpretation is that all those replies indicate support for culling the weak.

The other extreme interpretation is that all those replies support the self determined right to seek assisted suicide regardless of conditions.
There don't need to be complicated rules.

1. Manufacturers must maintain a VDP. 90 day common fix committment; 180 days for medical devices and certain other "loss of life" critical equipment that may be quite more difficult to update than your standard IoT device; 30 days for security equipment, incl cameras that have a physical security application.

2. GDPR level of fines, liability extending to directors. Window of liability is a "security warranty" lifetime of the product, minimum 1 year.

eg Jeep has a vulnerability that allows remote control of the vehicle. As we score this CVSS 10.0, they must fix and deliver a fix to all users within 90 days. We don't consider this a medical device, even though a vehicle malfunction certainly can lead to loss of life. Failure to have a fix available in 90 days results in 0.5% revenue fine per month after 90 days.

eg Vulnerabilities are found and announced in St Jude Medical pacemakers in August. St Jude Medical sues the disclosers and refutes the claims. In October they release an update to fix some of the vulns. In Aug of the following year they fix the remaining vulns. Because the remaining vulns are CVSS medium, a fine of 0.25% per month is levied against Abbot, the new owner of St Jude Medical, for the 6 months beyond the 180 day window that the medium vulns were not repaired. No additional penalty is levied for suing the disclosers because the vulns were not responsibly disclosed. If instead, Abott never bought St Jude Medical and St Jude Medical had to declare bankruptcy, the fines are transferred to the directors.

eg TrackingPoint smart rifles are found to have a vuln where the hacker can change the aim of the rifle. TrackingPoint goes out of business before the 90 day window is up, for unrelated reasons. The company has no assets so liability goes to the directors. However, in this case there is no liability since the repair is easy: disable wifi. The wifi function is not essential to the operation of the device so this is deemed an adequate repair, even had the company survived.

eg Vulnerabilities are found in TRENDnet cameras, commonly used for security/surveillance application. The window on this is 30 days. 27 days later, TRENDnet announces an upcoming fix and 3 days later releases an update fixing the vulnerability. Liability is zero.
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Self-explanatory. There has to be a solution to this problem or a reason why it hasn't been solved.

Political mailings, marketing advertisements, etc.

I know there are some projects like SOLID that are meant to somewhat address this, interested if they went anywhere.
If their "business model" is screwing over workers, then maybe it's not a good one, no.
is it not just private debt is the difference you’re seeing? Debt obviously isn’t income but its first order effects look similar from the outside.

Inflation adjusted income - purchasing power - is in the ballpark of 20% since 65.
Like Brave browser?
Micro, the CLI editor? Does it have a debugger? How is the IntelliSense equivalent if any? Is the language server protocol support any good? How smart is the autocomplete?

I suspect there's a catch somewhere, but trying to set up a CLI editor for feature parity with VS Code seems like hours of plugin tinkering, so I don't have the experience to know what it is.

VS code is so big I'm not actually sure I know the full set of features I use off the top of my head, making a list might be a similar kind of challenge to listing all the physical items around the house I use regularly. With really subtle UI features you might not think of it till it's missing, or you might never miss it at all, or you might even be glad it's gone.

Is it actually possible to know a priori if a tool is viable without using it? One can sometimes easily tell if something is not a tool they want to use, but there's lots of stuff that might be ok or might have hidden issues, which might or might not matter depending on what features you need.
I think you misread GP's comment pretty badly.

They're saying that misrepresenting the UAW demand as a 45% increase is disgusting, not that the 45% figure is itself disgusting.
Please, do not use Vivaldi or any other closed source, secret codebase browser.

Can you imagine signing into your bank with a closed source browser.
> how do you explain having 15-20 years experience as a software developer with no career progression?

by deleting the old information on your resume and online profiles, and keeping it at just the last 6 years

everyone hiring 8-10+ years is thinking you have a mythical level of capabilities, not just "coding professionally for that many years"
A question that I am not quite smart enough to figure out. The fast inverse square root works via a giant hack. hand waving a bit here but it has to do with because floats are stored as an exponential structure bit shifting one does magic math things to it. however note that bit shifting a float is not an implemented instruction. so you have to hack it by casting to an int.

Anyway the question is. If you implemented fast inverse square root with out the hack. (i don't know, perhaps packing your own bits, or it might be screwball enough you only assembly could do it.) would it be as fast?
Or these things are mostly tangential?

Why every time when someone points out the fact that tech workers in Europe are severely underpaid in relation the US someone always sees it as a personal attack.

How does that in any way justify lower salaries pretax?

> With these institutions in place life looks qualitatively different at any salary.

I’m not sure it does. People who earn above the median rarely have access go welfare (unless its child related). Also working for an American tech company you’ll have decent insurance and can save another 50k per year just in case anyway..
Half of first time buyers in the UK get help from their parents.
Funny fact is that in Russia it is not considered poisonous. There is a special category of “provisionally edible” or “conditionally edible” mushrooms - those that are poisonous if eaten without preparation
Yeah, I do that too but since I'd never really owned a 35mm camera, I thought I'd give it a go ("how hard can it be?" "very if your spool is wet, you fool") and I've enjoyed the experience of taking my PEN-EE around and developing its weird little half-frame outputs.
The game is old and recreating the tool chain required to rebuild the game might be a massive work investment.

It probably is even less save, because the builds differ and perhaps behave differently and you might even need a full QA cycle. The likelyhood of an old crack working more flawlessly is higher.
Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668525
> Monthly health insurance premium: 20 minutes of my wage per month

Presumably your employer pays much more than that? Which still technically money you earn, you just don’t see it
It's not that I consider samples better, but what the term 'chiptune' actually means.

I do appreciate nice SIDs, AYs etc. as well, being a kid of the eighties.
Yes and then you'll have old source code that still uses the old names to indicate time-zones and newer source code that refers to all the newest names of time-zones.
And people insist spreading Chrome via Electron.
> It doesn't end well for the United States unless public policy changes toward immigration and public aid competition to gainful employment.

You mean COMMUNISM!
> The answer is that China and Russia behave dramatically differently than the US does.

yes. they are open about what they do whereas we do it covertly

> why most of the global community views them differently.

citation needed

"most of the global community"

you mean the west, which is not even a majority of the global community.

but even if it was a majority, again, because we do it covertly, we hide it and everyone only sees the good things until someone like snowden comes along and leaks our dirty laundry.
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>The only thing that affects housing prices is the supply of houses.

Interest rates have a massive impact on how much people have available to spend.
Or, stick to Firefox.

In the long run I want a browser that has a solid community or base behind it, with a mostly-good record (no point chasing perfection here) of privacy and security. The Mozilla Foundation has done a good but not stellar job (remember 1.1.1.1?). I also don't want to change browsers because someday Vivaldi - hypothetically - gets acquired by Evil Corp, or has some vulnerability that remains unpatched. I just want to get my work done.
> DOM bindings in WASM would be awesome. I would be a happy nerd if I could do all of my web dev in OCaml.

DOM is not enough for that. You almost certainly would like to be able to communicate with your backend ;)

Here is a list of the "usual" web APIs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API
And everything that needs network access or access to local resources (file system in the worst case) will never happen to WASM because of security considerations.
Zurich and Switzerland in general is probably better. It’s just a much smaller market.
Your post makes no sense. Maybe reword it so people can understand?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401864 has the direct source (the NATS article & report)
This is a very nice combination of sounds, and I like the opinionated collection of patterns. I've got the clave going like elevator music while I'm up randomly in the middle of the night. :-)
LastPass will remain dominant until someone else with similar functionality offers a free tier. 1Password is similar functionality, but you have to subscribe after 14 days and that drives alot of people away even if they can afford it. And so LastPass has most of the mind share, and thus most of the sales.
That's for the people who actually change them out.

Then you're going to have the guy who loves Smart Thingies, fills his house with them, and sells it to someone content to use the Smart Switch as a switch and the Smart Stove as a stove even if they're >10 years old and none of the smart apps are supported anymore.

But they're all still sitting there soliciting incoming connections.
Ditched Chrome years ago.
Please don't post like this, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. It's completely against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you know more than others, that's great—please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... But please don't post putdowns.
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I see. I respect that.

The bot detection won't come without cost. It will centralize power in the hands of Cloudflare and other giants. I think it's only a matter of time until they start exercising their powers. Is this really an acceptable tradeoff?

If we do accept it, I think the day will come when Cloudflare starts rejecting non-Chrome browsers, to say nothing of non-browser user agents.
So you're sating that users complain that they have to download hundreds of egs of Electron per each app, so your proposal is... to download hundreds of megs of app over the browser anyway.
Modules that can be called chiptunes have samples that are just one waveform cycle, so the length counted in bytes, at most hundreds.
On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations - the NSA celebrates the hard lesson they learnt about compartmenting their internal networks. No other lessons were learnt. Infect it seems like the real pivot was just to get Internet companies to pick up the ball on dragnet suverliance so they could feed of those instead of doing it themselves.
> If you're going to meet to try tactics, against a group of boys that don't even play like the women's Russian team

That's not the point of trying out new tactics, though - it's to see whether your players can cope with the systems and being played out of position. The opponent almost doesn't matter because when you're playing unfamiliar tactics and out of position, you're likely to lose against
whoever you play.

Much like getting a Bridge team to use a bidding system they've never used before - doesn't matter if it's Omar Sharif and Pierre Zimmerman, they'll probably lose against mid-level opposition AND IT MEANS NOTHING.
Is there an Electron based on FF tech?
Is apple going to ban direct FedNow transactions between users and developers? Do they ban cash payments currently?
A device that is installed in my home but which I do not own is an increased liability on me.
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Its 2023, how have we come so far with this nonsense. I would have thought Firefox would be king of the browsers by now. But nope, people love their data being sucked up and used by the big G.
SMIC's 7/5nm use ASML's Twinscan NXT:2000i deep ultraviolet DUV. According to SCMP, SMIC can import them until 2024 as the new restriction in the Netherland/Japan doesn't kick in until then.
Why use chromium based browsers at all? Google largely has control of the project and they seem determined to keep adding anti-privacy/anti-user features.
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Sadly, as long as Chrome remains the default in Android, the vast majority of people (read non-technical folks) will continue to use Chrome.
Please don't do personal attacks or flamewars on HN.

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