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Didn’t see that plot twist coming!

Well, luckily China does not control the language used on HN or in the world in general, so stole it is.

Ouch!

That felt like a longer-than usual list of bugs, especially the memory mgmt bugs leading to arbitrary code execution. And a sizeable number of remotes (if you include webkit in that category.)

I honestly don’t know what to feel; ”great that they fixed so many!” or ”yikes, there are probably millions more like this :(”

666 comments, I won’t fall for it.

Anecdata, but I did a master’s in bioinformatics a few years ago, and as part of that I spent about a year in a human genomics lab.

I fully agree that the software used is really bad in general, but what is worse is the level of IT literacy among the PhD’s and post-docs from the biology side. (Also statistics, I guess a lot of p-hacking is the result of authors simply being clueless…)

After finishing my thesis, I was offered to stay and work at the lab. After thinking about it, and accepting, I was told that funding wasn’t secured yet, but that it should come ”any day now”…

Thanks, but no thanks.

Anyway, I fully see the need for professional software engineers in this field, but job security and even job availability (aside from the low salaries) in academia is abysmal, so I don’t think the current situation will change any time soon.

Yes!

Now I know what I’m doing tonight.

As someone who uses `jq` almost daily, this looks like a great tool I didn’t know I needed. Thanks for the tip!

I had a CTO like you once.

Totally destroyed morale, made the best people leave, and created a toxic work environment where there was no trust in management at all.

If that’s your goal, good work I guess.

Heh, same here :)

I guess a fair percentage of HN commenters live in Switzerland.

How many EU beaureaucrats got their training in East Germany, I wonder? Or is it rather that they are too young and do not know about/remember what constant surveillance does to trust in a society?

Looks neat!

The documentation does not seem to have any examples of the generated docs, though. I think that would be a good addition, because it’s a good selling point for the project.

(I.e I don’t think I’d go through downloading and running it just to see if the generated documentation is ”good enough”.)

I wonder about the psychology of the people (researchers) working on "innovations" such as these (other things also come to mind, e.g. face detection in crowds, optimizing fragment distribution from bomb/granade explosions).

Are they just extremely myopic, and cannot see the consequences of their work at all? Or naive, in that they only can imagine the positive use cases?

...or (to simplify) are they evil and fully understand and welcome the terrifying outcomes?

Off topic, but please consider using the correct tense when talking about people. E.g ”Uses” instead of ”used”, otherwise you are implying that the person in question is dead…

(After reading your comment I went to wikipedia to check that Bruce Schneier hadn’t unexpectedly passed away.)

Yup, typo!

It’s just a great internet provider, which very much caters to techies. They supply the plug in the wall, you provide your own router etc.

I guess the key is that they _are_ actually more expensive than the competition here, and they provide less ”value”.

But less is very much more in this case, since you don’t have to use a locked-down provider-specific router. I guess they save money that way too.

This is the ISP that I’m using, and they are insanely great, imho. I especially like that you get a static IPv6 /28 for free, something that has finally made me learn IPv6 in depth.

Still only on 1 Gb/s fiber though, because I havent found any router that is 10 or 25 Gbps that I’d really like to have at home. Are there any good consumer-grade 10 or 25 gbps routers?

Also, what is up with all computers _still_ having 1 gbps ethernet ports? It’s been the standard forever, feels like. Why arent there more computers with 10 GbE as standard?

I went way down the rabbit hole on this one. Seems that they are still made and used, fascinating!

It seems there has to be some amendments to rules about releasing raw, anonymized trial data when the state is sponsoring development of the drug. Also, how can Pfizer claim that their "study" ends in 2023? Several hundred million people have already received their vaccine, unaware that it's part of a study where the clinical data is not even accessible to their doctors...

IIRC, this is basically a U.S-only phenomenon. In Europe and most other places of the world, there is the understanding that a grave will not last forever.

In most parts of Europe, the grave is actually "guaranteed" to still be yours for quite a short time (~40-50 years) before the lease is up. If you want to keep it, the family has to pay to keep it.

I decided to have a quick look, and this caught my eye: —- zx_cprng_draw() terminates the calling process if buffer is not a valid userspace pointer. ——

”Terminates the calling process”? That sounds different and interesting, do you know more about this aspect of Fuchsia?

3 kids, max age 5. Watching children’s programs on the iPad, twice a week, about half an hour. Always with one parent watching with them. FaceTime with friends and extended family once in a while together. Other than that, no screen time.

I did a short stint in the automotive industry ~10 yrs ago (on the software/safety side) at one of GM’s brands. The lack of forward-thinking was absolutely horrible, as was the constant insistence that anything new would never work (you remember the constant doomsaying about tesla?). I got out as fast as I could, I seriously think that being in that environment might cause serious mental impairment… So, not in the least bit surprised about this. Just nice to hear that the world is moving on whether the big auto brands wants it to or not.

Thanks! So, given the recent license changes to Oracle’s distribution, why would anyone use it? ”Support”?

I’m slightly confused as to what the relation is between OpenJDK and Oracle JDK. Are they based on the same codebase? I was under the (apparently mistaken) impression that OpenJDK and the ”official” (Oracle) JDK were totally different implementations, but seeing how Oracle’s JDK just hit 17, and apparently OpenJDK did at the same time I guess they are derived from the same source. Could anyone enlighten me?

From the article: ”Often they have not even bothered to do basic troubleshooting, things like read the documentation on what the error message is attempting to tell you.”

This has been the bane of my work happiness for a while now. I keep having to tell junior devs to actually _read_ the fine error message, just in case it actually _contains information about the error_, you know. Not that it seems to help much, it’s like they can’t get the concept into their heads.

This is 100% a problem with younger, bootcamp-”educated” devs, in my experience. I know the common wisdom on social media is ”no one reads text anymore”, but if that includes aspiring developers, it might be tough to replace the current workforce when that day comes…

I got a /48, and I think it will take me a while to put all those addresses in use. I'm using 9-10 now, so while I've certainly started down the path, the end is not in sight just yet.

:facepalm:

Why didn’t I think of that?

How would this even be theoretically possible?

I mean, if you know someone’s personal details, they per definition has lost that privacy towards you.

Great :) I’ve been wondering what equipment to get when I upgrade to the 25 gbit connection too. Maybe a custom build is the way to go after all!

I don't think it's that "niche", actually.

At least from my anecdata, a lot of people who want to do some basic sound editing without buying an audio editor (those are often quite expensive) at least try using Audacity at some point.