skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nevermind the clever writing but the issue has been known for years—and beautifully exploited with the selfhostable ready-made solution WhatsSpy Public since Feb 2015: https://gitlab.maikel.pro/maikeldus/WhatsSpy-Public/ It's not actively maintained anymore but Maikel deserves some credit for it.
Windows 8 "metro" UI caused an uproar for many reasons, some of the biggest ones being:

- the start menu covered the whole screen

- applications could only run full screen, even the simplest ones. You literally couldn't have 2 applications on the screen at the same time.

- it was hard to close applications

- it was very difficult to find the shutdown/reset/etc options

- the metro versions of "default" apps looked bad and were vastly inferior to the "old" versions. A lot of system settings ones had this problem, too (not relevant to the average user, but I use a VPN that is impossible to set up to work in the simple "metro" VPN app, but if you find and start the old win7 app which still exists, you can set it up correctly and you can even connect to it from the "metro" VPN app after that)

- a lot of computer games that worked on 7 didn't work on 8 (likely unrelated to metro UI but still a reason for many people not to update)

Some problems were fixed in Windows 8.1. In Windows 10, most of these things are fine (although Win10 gets hate because of its update system and because it installs unwanted apps, but it seems to have much more acceptance overall).

Windows 8 basically offered nothing to the average user except annoyance so people didn't want to update. It had a very nice improvement for developers in the form of Hyper-V, which is the only reason I upgraded, and only after 8.1 was released.

The root problem with Windows 8 UI was that it was clearly not designed with the intention of being a better desktop UI. It was designed with the intention of forcing users to get used to the Windows Phone-style UI on their desktop computer, in hopes that they will then buy Windows Phones out of familiarity. Basically desktop Windows had to "take one for the team". We can see here how much that helped WP.
> "Regurgitated" came across as snide so I apologize for that.

That's the thing, it didn't just come across as snide, it made it sound like I repeated the number uncritically, when in fact I made it clear to the reader where it came from and that there was disagreement.

> If there isn't actually any disagreement and the figure is unsubstantiated, why is it not baseless FUD?

The fact that competent experts could be unfamiliar with Zcash's crypto to the degree that they could disagree on basic facts like that is a sign of concern, precisely because it's yet another strong sign that the crypto is quite new. If this were "tried and tested" crypto, there wouldn't be any disagreement. Note that Zooko himself was unsure of the exact strength due to a recently found attack - tried and tested crypto wouldn't have recently found attacks.

> BTW I notified you of this error in your blog post some time ago but never heard back.

Where did you notify me? For that matter, who are you anyway? I probably know you by name from elsewhere; I don't by handle.

> I also don't believe some kind of one-and-done audit of the software/deterministic builds would satisfy either of us.

Well, I was just discussing the trusted setup with Matthew Green, and I think there's some fundamental disagreement on what kinds of vulnerabilities exist and what the risks of them are. So I really need to write a blog post on it.
And if you don't agree, you don't get hired.
That's probably a component of the right answer, but you'd think that the suppliers of the less valuable patterns would adjust quickly and emulate the more valuable ones.
Quick lookup of other sources all state figures between US$2billion and US$3 billion
Both Amazon's and Facebook's attempts were modifications atop Android. You could throw Samsung's skinned Android into the same comparison and call it a success.
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What "toxicness"? I don't see any in this comments section? Did HN delete most of it or did the community down vote those entries into oblivion? Due to a few comments in here I did some digging on the compensation they calculate publicly. Honestly, I can actually see why they are getting negative feedback from it. Paying people 221k in San Fran for the same job they would pay max 102k for in Minnesota, regardless of the city, seems quite unfair. Minneapolis is actually quite expensive. Why not pay for the value a developer provides independent of location? Plus, if someone moves to a less expensive location, they lower the pay. Looking at all their compensation rules, I would never feel secure about knowing how much I might be paid month to month. It seems they can make new rules as they go along. Might they want to reduce my pay if my average monthly grocery bill goes down after learning to cook?
Yes, that's the other option. But secrecy is contractual, fragile (see other reply above) and only really protects you vis-a-vis the sampler, not the wider world.
Does it have something along the lines of building your own RDBMS from scratch? (If not, any recommendations?)

edit: google search has potentially promising results, https://www.google.com/search?q=build+your+own+rdbms
Thanks, but despite the page loading this doesn't seem to be working. I found my employer and even after clicking the radio button for the result, it then tells me that code is not found, which makes no sense, obviously, unless they have disabled it without putting up the maintenance page.
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In measurements it is often worse:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-coffee-lake-i7-870...
Predicting the output of Micali-Schnorr Generator knowing the factorization
I think they were asking the opposite. If there were protections preventing that data from being given to the reporting companies in the first place.
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I initially read that as the tour costing $2 billion. Seems a bit steep!
I rely on the simple operations to be pretty reliable.
Most have some way to get to the actual SQL that will be sent to the DB though, so you can check that if you're suspicious.
If the yellow fish complained that red fish were getting a free meal at feeding time, you'd have an analogous example.

Simple fact: There are more men in the industry that have experienced this practice than women. It's precisely because there are more men that it's absurd to say this practice is unique and favoring women.
Haxe, hashlink, heaps... This stuff is just amazing and if it would have been backed by a large corporation, it would be a top 3 ecosystem.
Here is a sample scenario that blocks me from doing certain development actions:

--- Steps to Reproduce ---
1. Launch VS 2017
2. Create new UWP blank app
3. Build it
4. Go to project's bin\Debug folder in File Explorer.
5. Find app's .EXE file and double-click it

--- Actual Results ---
.EXE file cannot be launched. Error: "This application can only run in the context of an app container."

--- Expected Results ---
.EXE file is launched. Main app window appears and it works as usual

>Double clicking an .APPX installs it.

Just checked that. Nope, this is what I get for my freshly compiled app when I click on corresponding .APPX file: "[Window Title] How do you want to open this file? [Content] Look for an app in the Store [OK]"

Any solution to this? These files should be consumable at the OS level.
Why does ZCash get shilled so much on HN compared to every other altcoin?
That's a per-country thing. There are countries where Whatsapp is the de-facto standard for passing information.
Or even better, the original smileys such as:

:)

:D

;)

...and my favorite :3

These are gender neutral and timeless.
> 1v1 has always been a proof-of-concept for us.

I understand this is a perfectly reasonable early test, but there are so many complaints about "it was just a restricted subset of the game and 1v1".

This is like complaining that Google doesn't release first-pass code (with minimal unit tests and no stress testing) to their production sites across the world. Everything that loops starts with the first iteration.

Also, keep up the good work, OpenAI! And please remember Asimov's 3 rules.
Erlang, for instance? Picking up a new shiny thing and complaining that it's
not something with a proven track of backward compatibility is not a rational
thing to do.
Agreed - and in fact my decision wasn't taken so lightly.

I guess another way of seeing what happened is this. I imagined a watch that could work disconnected from the iphone, which is a drastically new product. Beside making calls and paying, and beside the "watch-specific" uses such as activity tracking, I was under the impression that music streaming could be there. And I was wrong (and, as pointed out elsewhere, I could have read more).
Looked at their site the other day and saw they got string interpolation backwards from the shell (“” vs ‘’), how is that possible?
I think Rick is a recovering nihilist. Since he can travel between infinite dimensions, he sees all life, even his own, as cheap. Nihilism isn't enough for him emotionally, but every time tries to crawl out of that hole, his mind yanks him back because deep down, he knows, with a capital K, that there isn't a higher order to the universe. The tension between the arrogant asshole, and the broken philosopher is one of the things that make Rick an interesting character. That, and the fact that Rick is hilarious.
Ok, so I wasn't able to find any of my employers there, and after looking more at the site, isn't that service something similar to companies like ADP who take care of doing payroll that employer voluntarily signs up and provides the information?

Because mine initial impression was that this site uses credit information to disclose every person's salary.

In that case I guess the main issue here is just that the information is not well protected, especially after recent leak.
Personally, kind of wishing projects like QupZilla had more devs/maintainers/releases:

• https://www.qupzilla.com

• https://github.com/QupZilla/

The concept seems good, but the software gets so few releases it's unlikely be safe for use as a daily browser. :(
Black. Three to five 12-oz cups per day, when I'm working.

Very rarely, I'll have a cup or two when not working.
The best thing a new phone platform could do is essentially create an App building framework like React Native that allows developers to build apps targeting the new platform and the existing platforms at the same time(maybe not as a first class citizen initially, but those platform devs and fill in the blanks). That's about the only way that, as an engineer, I"m going to give a shit about developing for your app platform. If I care, and I make cool apps, then the user base size doesn't matter, I'll still target it because it makes my life better as a developer.
Is it? How much have the recent floods experienced in the Americas cost?
What you say is true right now, but in the long term, the gp is correct unless we hit an AI asymptote which prevents AI from approaching human StarCraft capabilities.

Just from a pure economy standpoint, any computer process has quite an advantage from just optimizing action queues and keeping idle workers working.
The Supplemental Update took ages to install on my SSD-equipped 5k iMac (it's only about a year old). In fact, I'm quite sure it took longer to install than High Sierra itself, which is quite an achievement because the High Sierra install involved upgrading my filesystem to APFS!

Maybe I just found myself more annoyed than usual because I clicked "try later tonight" for the supplemental update prompt when using the computer the day before, and then when I tried to use the computer in the morning, it went about its installing business which featured 2 backwards-moving progress bars and took at least 20 minutes, while I sat around twiddling my thumbs waiting to use my computer for what should have been a simple task.

I'm not sure if this is normal behavior when you postpone an update and then wake from sleep later, but I've never seen what effectively turned into an un-prompted forced install before.
> Every news website, and every other random website out there is asking users for permission

Maybe we can dial back the hyperbole here. I agree that this (which is the Notification API, not the Web Push API) is being abused, but I can't recall having seen it on any major news web site. I actually see it far more on stuff like tech blogs that are also obsessed with converting me to being a newsletter reader.

But yes, it's infuriating. Safari is probably the worst as it presents a modal popup - at least in Chrome it doesn't take focus. The solution seems very simple: make it only work in response to a click event. Which is something browsers already do for a lot of stuff (like opening a window) and I'm mystified as to why the browser manufacturers didn't factor this in when implementing in the first place.
I agree with your recollections in that VM/CMS had culturally more in common with Unix, even though technically they had very little in common at all. In the 1970s through 1980s, VM/CMS saw a lot of use as a research computing platform, there was a lot of scientific software available for it. VM/CMS was used as a development platform by many groups within IBM, when some other platform was the target–for example, developers writing the AS/400 operating system, OS/400, wrote their code and compiled it under VM/CMS and then transferred it to AS/400 for execution/testing. (Later they moved to AIX instead; OS/400 is somewhat unusual in being an operating system that has never been self-hosting, never been able to compile itself.)

VM/CMS tended to get new features added to it organically, because some user or team felt the need and just implemented it; the product direction of MVS was much more tightly controlled by IBM management. So VM/CMS was the birthplace of IBM's mainframe email products, peer-to-peer networking (used for the BITNET academic network), the REXX programming language, pipelines (inspired by Unix pipelines but different), etc. Many of those features were later ported to MVS.

In the early 1980s, IBM planned to ship workstations running VM/CMS, hoping that academic/scientific users and developers used to VM/CMS on a central mainframe would like to run it on their desks. This plan never really took off, in part because a lot of those users were already moving to Unix, and Unix workstations had a better price-performance ratio; if Unix wasn't around, maybe IBM's plan would have been more successful.
Cool, I like them. The mermaid and rock climbing ones are good additions too.
I read that you don't output fillable form, but you can. May I ask what you have in mind? I was working on a similar project but I could not figure out a way. Ended up making a XDP file...
While this is a seminal work, I definitely wouldn't approach this like I would approach a textbook: it's definitely not meant to be friendly introductory material. That said, once you have a bit of background, it's a goldmine of a survey. You'll notice that each section is a short, few-page long introduction, but the bulk of the material is in the papers themselves, which can be significantly tougher to read. Though it's great that the summaries are friendly and help you contextualize the papers. My tip is to read papers starting with the introduction, and then the conclusion, and then decide if you want to dive into the rest of the paper to track down the evidence for specific claims.
I honestly havent put it to together yet. On paper, it should be similar performance to yours, though. I designed it so that I wouldn't have to get a new CPU for _years_, and am not really planning on OC'ing it until later on when it needs that extra 'boost'.

To add to my GPU choice -- I have been bitten before by AMD software that supports their cards. Not going that route again, ever. Had to run an open source graphics card driver a few years back instead of using the proprietary drivers from AMD because the proprietary drivers kept shutting the card off. This was easily 6 years ago so it may not be so bad now.
Would it even work I think is the more meaningful question. Last I heard we we having trouble with electrons tunneling across the gates as we got smaller.
I have a copy of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0130402648 and while I don't think it'll win any "best textbook ever" awards it presents all the basic concepts in a straightforward if somewhat simple way.
Separating the CPU and the baseband is going to be a challenge when building this device and impossible on any other device. But, if you want a libre phone then you must because the baseband will be a black box that's unavoidable.
I've recently started adding L-theanine to my morning coffee every day, but I feel like I don't feel the effects after a few days, so I go a day without and then it feels normal again the next day. Have you ever had this?
couple of thoughts:

1) If the value of the individual damages related to this breach are in excess of the market cap of the equifax company, all company stock should be seized and distributed equally among those affected by the breach.

2) In the future, if a company controls this amount of sensitive data, they should have mandatory breach insurance. This means that they are covered for a government mandated amount based on the legal liability if all their data was lost. This will mean that the insurers will do in-depth audits of the data security of the company, and they will be incentivized year-to-year to ensure their security practices are top notch. The present system incentivizes each CEO to have a head-in-the-sand approach to data security where a hack is considered a long-tail event unlikely to happen during the ceo's 3-5 year tenure and therefore is not really worth paying attention to. In addition, it would ensure that if the potential damage done if data is leaked far exceeds the value of the business storing the data, the insurance will be prohibitively expensive and the company will not be able to continue with this line of business - as it should be.
This is an announcement for construction of a "5 or 3nm fab as early as 2022." So, five years out, minimum, and the node size is a moving target.

The title is a bit clickbaity.
Nice and very well written article,most of my friends use whatsapp and would be mortified if they actually understood most of this.
Nice tool. I suggest showing the script beside the window so it can easily be cut-and-pasted. Browser downloading is a hassle especially with tmux on a remote server.
None works. Unaffiliated also works, or you can make something up (e.g. Ministry of Truth if you are Gilad Bracha).

Submission management platforms are pretty generic, no one (in their right mind) rolls their own, so I wouldn't take the way they work as signals of intent.
A similar indirect way can be used to extract information out of Google's database. For example, launch an ad-campaign for any product, directed at people who love cats. Now if people click on the ad and buy the product, you know they must love cats.
What is honestly going on in this comment section? First guy is confused by a perfectly good caption saying that the facility cost $2 billion to build and was completed in 2006. And second guy said he somehow thought that meant that taking a tour costs $2 billion (which would be obviously expensive just for a tour). And you have somehow misinterpreted the comment about the tour to be saying that the facility is expensive.

Come on, guys. Read before you comment. Jesus.
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True, and the functions in which inlining is most effective are small non recursive functions that don't lose any debug info from omitting the frame pointer.
I trust they did their research but separating the baseband from the CPU will be a major, major PITA.
Don't confuse the lack of modern mobile apps with any mobile apps. There was a thriving ecosystem around mobile apps at the time. Not only Windows Mobile and Blackberry but Symbian too, which I believe was the largest, and Treo.

There were many companies living on this stuff. Mobile data was still very expensive, which didn't change for a few more years, and touchscreens were small and crappy. So the market was mostly business logic and CRM apps because they were the ones that could afford it.

That changed when mobile data and big screens became cheap enough for consumers, but I think Apple was as confused about that as everyone else given the state of early iPhones.
polkit is so obviously a system intended to replace Group Policy. But people have been doing this for decades and still not achieved widespread switchover from AD. You still have to piece it together yourself.
The problem is that outsiders aren't going to have a clear picture of the actual state of each implementation.

The CA DMV autonomous vehicle reports of accidents and disconnects are the closest thing available to objective data right now. Waymo is way ahead on disconnects. Cruise is getting rear-ended a lot lately. Google used to get that a lot, but they seem to have gotten past that.

(The main compatibility problem with autonomous vehicles so far is being rear-ended. The typical situation is that the autonomous vehicle advances into an intersection, detects some good reason to stop like cross-traffic previously occluded, stops, and gets rear-ended. The accel/decel profile for entering occluded situations may have to be made more compatible with human behavior to get the human drivers behind to behave properly. This isn't a big problem; damage in those collisions is very low.)
This course does, has lectures on youtube http://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2017/
I may not understand the scope of this project, but when I read the $2 billion, my thought was "wow that's cheap!" Consider the Big Dig or the current Seattle tunnel, at $14B+ and $3B+ respectively.
Slack and the law of conservation of clutter
A "success" for this group might look something like "5k devices sold", compared to a "success" for Canonical or Mozilla being larger, like "5+% of the market" or something similar.
Hurricane Katrina was estimated to have over $200 billion in losses—if that's true, it seems like there should be more investment in this type of infrastructure.
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Maybe it's time to just make tax returns (and therefore salaries) part of the public record.

I think that transparency could make for a more fair process and also level negotiation since the compensation would then be about the role and how good someone is actually rated, rather than about how much they happened to have been paid in the past or how good they are about lying about it.
Why not try it? Isn't SV all about "experimentation" and "innovation", after all?
I can clearly imagine how s-exprs can replace html, but I don't understand how s-exprs would replace css. Would you show a toy example?
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I always have a cup in the morning, and if I have a meetup/workshop/project to get to after work, I'll have a small cup around 5-6pm. It's also nice to have a cup at work around 1-2pm but I just have to hide it from that one coworker who loves to tell everyone how unhealthy it is.
This book is more about different types of tradeoffs you can make in terms of your system design. I'd recommend looking at grad databases courses instead, e.g:

- http://db.cs.cmu.edu/courses/
- http://daslab.seas.harvard.edu/classes/cs165/
- http://daslab.seas.harvard.edu/classes/cs265/