skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably need plain-text access so that messages can live on the server rather than the device. It is a common desire for users to (1) use more than one device; (2) sign in a new device and have access to message history; (3) message search to work. You can probably put these together in an end-to-end encrypted system -- can apple access old messages on a new device? -- but it's very complex.
There is a bug in human beings, and this is universal. Our expectations from the rest of society and others on ethical and moral issues are gigantic but we just can't give.

We 'empathize', we relate, we cry about suffering in the movies and in the arts, we root for the victimized, but on a day to day basis it all breaks down and we simply do not want to make any sacrifice to make a more humane society come true.

The worse we become the more shrill and desperate our posturing, to try to convince others, but maybe ourselves.
Well, it's all pretty much there--the formation, the template, the reason the goalposts keep moving further out, the reason the ladders all got pulled up, all of it.

I know from my early career that Boomers absolutely hated my generation--I was treated like shit on early jobs run by Boomers. I came to resent them, even hate them. All of them! Recent years have been easier as more of my generation has permeated the workforce and taken over. My manager is a couple years younger than me--he doesn't have the same attitude as the Boomers. He's far more sincere and interested in my personal growth, among other goods.

The problem is that for me, the damage is largely complete. My career has been a mess for years due to the early dissonance and from being held down so hard. I keep trying to break out, do something entrepreneurial, and I keep falling on my face. They say I'm negative, but can a guy who has tried six or eight different times to start a business really be anything but an optimist? The problem, of course, is that I'm just not quite talented enough. I have to live with that. What was all but handed to others, I have had to strive to achieve.

There was that Baby Boomer meme about a kid who saved all summer to buy his first car--a Corvette!

The guy in the article went to Yale. It's now nearly impossible to get into Yale for all but the most connected people's kids.

As far as the US goes in the macro, it's nearly over. We're parasites living off a corpse. Just look at California--it's like a 3rd world ghetto with rich and massive poor and not much in between. That is the template for America going forwards. The walls around houses, bars on windows, no public spaces. The cities of South Africa are where we are headed.
Interface to manage and centralize Google Alert information
Troll blog?
How do they compare with the typical smartphone camera picture? That's what they're aiming for here. Building an automated DSLR would raise both the price and the ML difficulty substantially.

Given your stated preferences, I am going to guess that you are not the target market for this. People who post on Facebook or order photo books from Shutterfly are.
So if the app were open source and the maintainers decided to abandon it, are you going to download the code and keep it updated? If it is forked are you going to trust the new maintainers? Are you going to audit the source code?
Smooth for whom? Not the one beholden to a bunch of non-paying "customers" I'd wager.
I don't have the numbers here, but I'm pretty sure the same idea applies for serverless. If you have a predictable load, you can always find a much cheaper alternative once you pass a certain threshold. The cloud is never about cost, it's about flexibility.
Front end is what customers use although curiously ui code is rarely where anything of business value/differentiation is produced.

As to second part - serverless - well, as a developer, I don’t really care how you call servers where code runs from - as long as it can run it and I can still access my databases/search engines (and not key value stores). And also not lock me to being an AWS slave for life.
If you're running everything serverless at high volume, you're getting raked over the coals on compute. Dev time is expensive, but not that expensive.
What's wrong with trials? A lot of developers have two version of their app: Trial free one and Paid one (or Free trial which unlocks into Paid with in-app purchase). I don't want to pay money just to try app and find out that it's bad. I want to download few different apps and compare them and then buy the best. It works fine on PC. It works now with different apps, it's just not convenient for user or developer. AppStore explicitly supporting trial mode would make a better experience for user. I know that I didn't buy some apps just because they lacked trial mode and I'm not ready to throw money based on some screenshots.
If you care about speed aprs isn't your boat. 1200bps in almost all cases, zero FEC, bandwidth rapidly disappears depending on how many digipeaters overlap.

It's good for brief beacon based things but most of the RF tech around it is still stuck in the 80s.
But as a general principle, you sue for actual damages here in England, and thus you would normally need to demonstrate the real harm that has been done in order to be awarded compensation accordingly. We also tend to have a loser-pays default when it comes to costs. So unless this all goes south and winds up being like our infamous defamation laws (see "libel tourism") it seems unlikely that the GDPR will create a lucrative hunting ground for ambulance-chasing lawyer types. After all, if you were being sensible about privacy and security anyway, one would hope that actual damage to anyone whose personal data you held would be little if anything, even if you're in breach of the technicalities and paperwork requirements under the GDPR.

The big punitive fines people are talking about are the ones available to the regulators via a separate mechanism. As far as I can see, they do potentially apply to technical breaches as well, but that's quite a different context legally speaking.
If it was a matter of OS compatibility, I'd certainly be able to do it for iOS or macOS. Security, less so, but with luck there would be others to do that work, if the app had enough users. Surely it would be better than just implicitly trusting some company with a profit motive?

I'm not expecting anyone to do the work for free, by the way. You could still charge money for cloud sync or even app extensions and still keep the main repo open. Maybe the code could be a few revisions behind to incentivize people to pay.

In any case, from looking around, it seems that KeePass and possibly Bitwarden fit this bill.
The pie has become gigantic but their share of the pie has reduced to pretty much zero% from close to 100%.
> Cars and houses are both heavily regulated for the exact reason of information asymmetry.

Not really. I've bought and sold houses and cars while knowing relatively little.

The real difference between cars, houses, and educations is that the first two are collateral and lenders do due diligence to avoid foreclosure.

Educations can't be forclosed on -- there is no collateral, and relatedly the loans are non-dischargable.
Have a link to some of these exercises? I'll have to give this another shot. :)
Instead of an electrical fridge, use the solar heat directly to boil the refrigerant, as with a gas-powered fridge (once common, now rare due to widespread electrification). The power loss of solar->PV->motor compressor is quite large while a gas refrigerator has no moving parts: https://home.howstuffworks.com/refrigerator5.htm
Storing on your own hardware will always be cheaper (Backblaze has a great blog post on explaining why they built out their own data storage nodes at rented colo space because of this).

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-...

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/co... (Cost of a Petabyte by service vs DIY)
I knew The Onion had branched out into ClickHole, but they are expanding into tech parody sites too?
Without backend guys who actually understand this stuff you will burn through your investors money very, very quickly. Please, carry on!
I’m not saying “God is the origin” removes all the unknowns or difficulties, or is sufficient to explain every detail. Quite the opposite: it adds another dimension of unknowns and mystery, because it allows “why?” to be a meaningful question (speaking of ultimate meaning/purpose, beyond natural preconditions and mechanisms) in scientific inquiry, in addition to “what”, “how”, etc.
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also don't forget the strong historic connections between mathematical logic, number theory, and philosophy.
You have a really good point there, the situation is not really indicative of a free choice to give up anonymity but rather of a somewhat forced choice between a 'law-abiding' service versus an 'outlaw' service model that has less restrictions but gets harassed by the authorities.

However, for the majority of people, obeying local laws (including AML/KYC regulations) is simply a part of their normal not-being-a-criminal life, not "bending over for the establishment"; they don't need anonymity and payment-censorship resistance and have no problem if their service provider complies with the law, so if the main advantage for some means of converting fiat to cryptocurrency is simply avoiding these regulations, then that provides no added value (and possibly negative value i.e. risk) to them, and they would reasonably not choose that.

There could be all kinds of non-banklike decentralized means of converting fiat to cryptocurrency, but there's some self-segmentation - if some seller would be obeying AML, KYC and IRS cash reporting regulations, then they might as well be banklike, since they'll be competing with banklike institutions, and if not, then yeah, that's a crime and would naturally be attacked by governments and avoided by a large portion of honest citizens. There are certain niche markets for whom it's important to be beyond the reach of the law, but that's not a need for most people, for most people even a decentralized solution would have to obey all the relevant KYC and other laws if they'd be comfortable in using it. A professional buyer/seller on localbitcoin is very much comparable to a smaller version of Coinbase with less reputation and thus needs to offer some advantage so people would pick them instead of Coinbase, and I'm struggling to see what that advantage would be other than evasion of regulations. It's clear that decentralization can help with that, but can it help with something else, something that a law-abiding consumer cares about?

One can argue about the details of regulation and licencing, but even if they would be relaxed to facilitate operation of small decentralized players, in any case the "above board" market will have to ensure that KYC (anti-anonymity), AML (filtering) and tax reporting for any large volumes, that is not negotiable; and the "underground" market that avoids that won't be attractive to most customers because of the risks involved by, as you say, governments attacking it and jailing operators.
No that is not the case. But EU is a special kind of union that is "united in diversity". Wide consensuses and vetoes exist to ensure that populism does not destroy it. It works well for as long as the integration is not too deep.
What's the issue with their charter?
The buildings are certainly spectacular, but the pictures in the article show an awful lot of building with a small bookshelf here and there. My notion of a great library is a space packed with books :-)
> JasonParser

you had me actually looking for something called JasonParser for a few moments. :P
The Mozilla Foundation is a US 501c3, all their finances are public record. I believe the most recent filed financial statement is for 2016 [0]. See also the summary document, the 2016 State of Mozilla Report, for higher level information [1].

0: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Au...

1: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2016/
What about maybe technically illegal money moving not otherwise tied to criminal enterprise?

The model example for me was someone in the U.S. sending money to their grandmother in Iran. Although perhaps that’s become legal again now.
"post-soviet EU member"

Poland was never part of the Soviet Union.
Rust is a good counterexample, yep.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii...

Simcity supported in Win95 by allowing a use-after-free bug (if i am reading it right) to continue working.

You get something similar in Linux by how once a userspace facing API is in the wild, the API stays, bugs and all, in case something, somewhere, use that specific behavior.

A newer API will be introduce alongside the "broken" one however, with future code highly incentivized to use the newer API.

Sadly that level of stringent API behavior is seen not as a virtue but as a burden by higher layer devs. Often to the point that the refuse to work with Torvalds after being berated for their lax attitudes, and dream of the day he retires...
What color is this proof: Einstein or Penrose?
> The cost of an additional take is small

Exactly my point!

> the reward of a better shot greatly outweighs that cost

My point, too, the "better shot" being the improvement of the lips and voice matching the movement and action. Consider that the English language market is most of the world.
as on-prem admins and engineers actively pushing back for fear of losing their jobs.

The funny thing is: those jobs already went years ago outsourced to “smart hands” in the DC. You still need people to plan and operate all this stuff. SAs who make the jump willingly have nothing to fear from cloud.
I think that’s an interesting thought. My perspective is that many industries will break up into backend/frontend where each part requires a different kind of people and operates on different margins. The backend will be an efficient machine whereas the frontend will be where the cool end customer facing stuff happens. Both will have their value, but operate very differently.
I am not predicting anything, this is how it has been implemented. You are aware this law is already in effect and thousands have been deleted/banned?

But this debate is pointless because you clearly neither speak German, understand German law, nor are interested in revising your opinion that this is anything other than a fight of the righteous against the bad. The law is likely unconstitutional, widely overreaching, and does in fact delete these things:

https://verfassungsblog.de/das-netzdg-und-die-vermutung-fuer...

https://netzpolitik.org/2018/die-meinungsfreiheit-und-das-ne...

https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2017-03/heiko-maas-gese...

There are countless examples, e.g. Facebook censoring satire accounts:

http://meedia.de/2018/01/03/netzdg-twitter-sperrt-account-de...

You are celebrating authoritarian censorship because you think it targets the right people. You are calling me out for something you have no firsthand knowledge or expertise on because of tribalism. Stop.
Semiconductor fab timelines are notoriously overoptimistic. It is undeniable that Intel's fab has been struggling for a few years, but you can't take a Fab at it's word on when it will begin production. More critical is when it reaches high volume maturity at a given node.
(Mostly academic) high performance computing (HPC) has clearly different needs from what typical cloud computing services can provide. The setup and operation costs of a medium size (~1k nodes, ~25k cores) university computing centre in Europe costs at the order of 1MEur per year, not even speaking about the large national centers with with 10-100k nodes and 100k to 1M cores. At these level of computing it is quite sensible to do it in-house, especially if the engineering challenges are welcome scientific research topics on their own (such as energy efficient HPC, research on distributed file systems or job queueing systems, usage of accelerator cards).

By the way, at one point, in science, there is already such a kind of computing cloud: We call it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing
Even better!

My solution was a link element with a data: URI. Yours is much more elegant. And works!

Thank you very much!
Customers may not care about your backend and probably never have. However, your company needs to do "something". A front end is not a "something".
Far too expensive vs dedicated servers for our infrastructure. Bandwidth alone would cost more than all our servers combined.
I attended a symposium on North Korea's cyberattacks and organized cybercrime in Seoul a few months ago. One of the guest speakers was a Bangladeshi economics professor, heavily networked into the country's financial institutions, talking about the banking system hack. I had dinner with him and the organizers later that night. They're pretty serious about it all.

I didn't read the linked article.
> 32bit version only since of obviously needs the 16bit subsystem

And afaik, MS only retired the 16-bit subsystem because AMD64 can't switch between 64 and 16 bit modes. You can either run it in 16/32 or 32/64 modes, but not 16/32/64.
> <Something> suggesting the next step to language and reason is the right path and easy is the rhyming history of AI for sixty years.

If evolution can be taken as a successful search through the space of what is possible, language and reason are on the path from curve fitting. But calling this "easy" is far from my point. If evolution is any sort of guide, deep neural network architectures are where the real work is needed before language understanding is possible (contra Pearl, Marcus).
Not sure how you run an entire website under a "serverless" architecture having used Azure Functions that sounds awful and not like what it's designed for at all. I still see serverless as mostly useful for cronjobs but that's just my experience with it I suppose. Anyone else care to chime in? The marketing Buzz for serverless died to me with the time limits on Azure Functions. I wanted to process some data off of them but it became too time consuming.
Ignoring cost, security, etc, the biggest issue with a cloud platform is that if you need a feature (custom networking arrangement, custom hardware, custom kernel, custom software) and the provider haven't implemented it yet, you're dead in the water. Dedicated, colocated, and virtual private servers are harder to set up, but being able to treat them as normal computers saves you in the long run.
> People aren't rational agents. They suck at making decisions about their long term well being.

Sure. But I'm missing your suggestion here.

Others aren't saying "people should know better" to pontificate, but just to say "there isn't a solution outside of personal responsibility."

Do you believe there is a (worthwhile) institutional solution? If so, what?
Fabs are all about margins, Intel has probably invested more in EUV than any other company at this point. Intel practically saved EUV at ASML by investing in ASML.
It's not just big companies, it's the Media that make politicians electable. You won't see the same publicity around Bezos or Gates. Let's say it is a self-serving theater from both sides.
It sounds like you feel like you underpaid. Then the solution is for them to charge more or charge for more of their products, not a subscription. A subscription basically forces you into paying for upgrades.

The only thing a subscription model is good for is it wrestes power from the consumer.

With the traditional model if they decide to stop updating the app, you wouldn’t buy the next version, and that would be your leverage. With a subscription model, they can decide to stop deivering updates, or deliver lower quality updates, and you’d be forced to pay perpetually just to keep the existing software operational.
Sure, but is there some structural reason AWS can’t have an offering tailored to requirements like yours, or have they simply not bothered to start one yet?
This does beg the question: why aren’t the popular schools expanding to meet demand? My guess from other comments is that the center city location is often the driving reason for the pick, so the cost of acquiring similar real estate is prohibitive (also meaning that the the students selected for those schools are “unfairly” enjoying a high imputed income by enjoying that location)

An interesting feature of the US charter school system in my area is that because their funding is directly tied to headcount (I believe there is bonus money for special ed students too), they are typically always looking at how to expand. Each school runs its own lottery, and being over-subscribed is looked at as a signal they need to expand their offerings.
I've been vaping it for 3.5 months now, paid €30 for the vaporizer, and €30 for 10ml liquid with 100mg of CBD (quite low concentration, others might need more). 1-2 puffs per day are perfect for me (there seems to be an individual optimum dosage; I feel quite anxious after say 10 puffs), and I think the bottle will last 6 months in total. It's a godsend, seriously recommend it to anybody. I'm slowly getting sharper every month, to the point that difficult programming tasks and musical pieces don't bother me at all anymore. I can/could work 30% longer every day without feeling terrible at night, and my musical hearing has improved SO much. I also have my first healthy tan since age 18 or so, and way more freckles (lost those over the years) - people keep telling me how healthy I look.

Regarding GERD - I don't have it, but the reason why it helps might be that it suppresses acid production a bit. Or maybe because it's anti-inflammatory (GERD has been linked to increased cytokine production lately).
Because cost of "serverless" is 10X of that of a more traditional solution for anything of any significant scale?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/997482408973922305.html

for increased readability.
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Because frankly, the serverless/backendless(such as Firebase) movement is just turning Frontend developers into fullstack developers who are completely dependent on vendor lockin.

I believe, wholly, in frontend-first design and thinking. Talk to customers, understand their problems, build toward that and have the code adapt to their wants and needs.

But with vendor lockin, sometimes you have problems that they genuinely can't let you solve, or you can't solve in a performent way.

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Also, it strikes me that in reality, a serverless architecture is just functional programming without the ability to share code nearly as easily. If you're worrying your head off about how you're having to pay for servers that are always up- you're absolutely solving the wrong problem. Even the cheapest junior developer's time costs a fraction as much as what you'll waste in time developing for serverless instead of a traditional solution- and it's not because serverless technology isn't there, it's because even in the ideal, serverless will always be a harder solve. It's inherent to the problem itself.
Yes, with untrusted parties I mean developers of third party apps.

And yes, I don't use browser extensions either.
Basically yes, that is exactly reasonable.

The banking institution which created, offered & services the financial instrument you’re describing has about 1 trillion times more data on the risks and the possible outcomes. They should absolutely have the responsibility when offering 5-6 figures to 18-year-olds.
It's sort of like "quantum computers plus a little magic (but only a little!) can solve every problem quickly". — While the regular physical kind still don't. :-)