skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the Oracle lawsuit showed that Android and Google Play are both quite profitable. Contrary to popular belief, Android is not free. You can download and install AOSP for free, but "full" Android including the Google apps, Google Play Services and the Google Play store cost real money. And Google has sold billions of those. They might not charge much, but when you multiply by a few billion it can still end up being a big number.
Maybe I'm too bitter and jaded to fully appreciate the joys of the status quo, but I'd add at least one adverb between "Ad" and "pays", and remove three words between "ur" and "internet" before agreeing with the sentence.
A better way would be to download the app and reverse engineer the binary.
Database Security in the Age of Cloud Native Apps
Thanks for that.

And just to clarify, I didn't mean to sound negative. I actually think it's a good thing -- I've picked up several really good courses on real estate investing, machine learning, and other stuff.

A few misses at $10/pop come out in the wash when you also get courses that can add tens of thousands of dollars' worth of knowledge to your life.
Sales is, by definition, revenue. In this context, sales=revenue (although there is non-sales revenue, which is why the two words mean two different things).

I think you're getting at what is sometimes called "cost of revenue" and "net revenue" for businesses where it's important to report on sales channel costs.

Google doesn't break down the Play Store revenues this way, but for advertising there's a similar dynamic at play where it's "revenue" and "traffic acquisition costs"
Yeah the design is really great. It's simple but still has enough color to have somethings stand out a bit.
Off topic, but just looking through TechCrunchs GDPR options, they list at least 50 'advertising partners' who they work with to personalise your ads.

I don't work for a company who runs sites like these, but is that normal? How do you maintain a relationship with 50 different ad vendors, or do they actually just deal with 2-3 and then there's a whole graph of others on some sort of affiliate scheme?
When you're at an interview, the company just gets a sample from your knowledge as a programmer. As it has a variance, and people have multiple chance to interview at different companies, the companies have to set the bar for the sample higher than the real programmer they are looking for.

In short: you probably just didn't have luck, and you should apply to multiple companies at the same time.
> Using subresource integrity "random-js-library" hosted on a 3rd party isn't "arbitrary code execution", as the useragent will refuse to run the script if it's hash changes in any way from what you provided.

That's true, but SRI is still rarely deployed; and no surprise there: the official Google docs don't use SRI in their "paste this into your code" examples: https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/

Also, Edge still doesn't support SRI.

So, yes, for some UAs this specific problem (resource integrity) is a solved problem, but like I said, it's far from the default.

The other issues - lack of necessity, load time, degraded visual quality, giving user data away for free to an advertiser etc. - remain untouched.
OpenStack Summit Vancouver: Automating the Data Centre
> AdBlockers are just too important.

I mean you can still install them from F-Droid, especially if you prefer open source.
Anecdote:

I know of someone who built a fake "chatroulette" (before Chatroulette was a thing) as an internal April Fool at their company.

It would record the user to the server, the idea was to make a compilation of people getting pranked. It displayed a prerecorded video of a woman that then faded into a bunch of text and "April Fool!! We got you!!"

...

Well, things turned sour when people started to open the website with their pants down, ready to show the goods to the ladies. Fast forward a few days when the developer opened the folder with videos... to see a bunch of naked guys.
Okay, so, specifically, which passes do you think clang/llvm should not run that it's running now in -O3 ?
>NH makes most of its revenue from property taxes and property taxes there are still smaller

How are you defining "smaller"? NH is #2 and VT #9 at http://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/property-tax-by-state
Side-channel attacking browsers through CSS3 features
New Hampshire also has higher ACT scores as well. Is there any metric that shows Vermont's education system beating New Hampshire's?
> Any why don't you want to answer the second part?

Because I think the answer is obvious. BTW I did not see the Stack Owerflow part, that is the exact kind of compensation for tge greater community I was talking about. Thank you for that.

For the other paragraph, well, that's how I read you comment in its context, and I maintain my interpretation. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
60k is not small potatoes. This is on top of an order for 20k Jaguar ipace suvs previously announced, for a total of 80k.

Based on data collected from their early rider program currently running in the Chandler area of Phoenix, Waymo estimates a typical robotaxi will do 50 trips per day. 50x80k, that's 4 million.

4 million trips per day. For perspective, Uber and Lyft do 170,000 trips per day in the Bay Area.
(Notes wifi is "off")
(Notes GPS is "off")
(Notes Location sharing somehow got turned on)

Hey, we need your help! How was $eatery_you_ate_at_last_night ?

Can you give us direction how busy the $Business_you_parked_nearby is?

And, this https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?hl=en&authuser=0&pb

Google shouldn't even be collecting this. But they are. We know not how they use it. But if you have the data, of course you're using it!
If everyone dumped their excess tracking JavaScript, but added locally-hosted fonts, the net difference would still be far superior performance to what the average user is used to.

Or you could just use a selection of common system fonts, and not host any fonts at all.
Its for sure a motivator for not being homeless. How many homeless in greenland / laponia ?
Don't run off so quickly.

You can install either:

DNS666: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/

or

Blokada: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.blokada.alarm/

from the F-Droid store: https://f-droid.org/en/

And achieve system wide ad blocking, without worrying about Google's selfish policies.
Apple WWDC event is coming, and here’s what we can expect
The only reason it made sense to transition to digital is the workflow. Its more efficient to shoot weddings on digital so you can turn out a product faster.
This is completely tangential, but adds to the sort of vision of the world on that stage. Specifically your reference to how hard the world can be for some people.

It's a brilliant and beautifully photographed documentary about the people who ride the cross-Saharan train, sometimes as the core of their livelihood, and the people who rely on this older technology just to be able to eat.

It's titled The Mauritania Railway: Backbone of the Sahara

https://vimeo.com/225516052

edit: I just can't recommend it enough. Just watching a few moments already has me sucked in

To me, the whole present situation seems much closer to the story line in Elysium. I've worked in factories like the protagonist. It's not as distant as it can seem.
I have used Udemy for programming and music courses. Some programming courses have been mediocre or outdated for sure but I have always looked back and noticed that it was my fault for not reading more about the current state of the subject and referenced that with the course description.

I've also used Coursera but i'm just not a fan of the online classroom approach nor do I care about the certifications but all the courses I have taken were awesome material-wise.

What I do know is if I ever meet Stephen Grider or Maximillian Schwarzmüller in a bar I will be buying them a beer.
Easy to not have ads on a theoretical phone.
"More than likely in my experience, the people who think lowering taxes is good think so because they view the government as an inefficient, third-party spender and believe the money could be better spent more wisely elsewhere."

People say that, but then they privatize functions of government, and if they're lucky, they end up with the same level of service. And then now there's a middleman involved who needs to get profit, meaning wages and service get cut.
As far as 35mm systems it's pretty much just Leica and Nikon at the moment, though I would imagine that Nikon is close to discontinuing their F6 flagship soon. Thankfully many 35mm cameras from the 70s and 80s are engineering masterpieces that will likely keep functioning well into the second half of this century. I just hope that companies will continue making film stocks for them.
People who are quitting Google because of maven must be at least a dozen. Out of a company of 80,000. They are a rounding error.
I love Go specifically for this purpose. I wrote a simple server doing exactly that with Twilio: https://github.com/dang3r/jenophone/
That article appears to be somewhat out of date; Adguard Pro is still available:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adguard-pro-no-ads-popups/id...
Why is Google not answering that they do not track IPs ? it is likely they are tracking them, so are they tracking the IPs for security reasons or they mining the traffic.

Someone that knows more on how this work can you answer if Google can see more then your IP? like user agent or cookies ?
6 UX principles for designing blockchain apps, from a Consensus Hackathon winner
Microsoft is now worth more than Alphabet. Fixed that.

Alphabet includes Google but also all their other companies. I wonder how many of these included companies are not profitable entities at the moment but future investments and dragged Alphabet's value down a bit.

I don't know. I'm just sayin'.
The AI will make it worse. AI will be able to write reviews indistinguishable from humans by other AI's.
Nation-scale face surveillance is easy
Like any good futurist or cyberpunk novel, the lines between "government," "corporation," and "individual" are blurring.

Imagine how much power Comcast would have if it silently went rogue and threatened to expose the pornographic habits of a few key senators? Or if shell, Chevron, and BP formed a cabal and declared an oil embargo on the USA, refusing to dock their tankers until they were given tax breaks or until the USA put tariffs on competition.

Right now China is reminding the world that governments still are the sovereign powers. I wonder when the scales will tip?
And how much does the studio charge to luscence the movie? Surely you didn't expect that was free?
You understated the constraints and missed the most important one: almost never, ever kill anyone. Driving around is relatively easy. Driving around and almost never killing anyone is much harder.
Death of Suburbia
At my highschool we read all of Shakespeare plays. Not one paragraph a class. Not one play a year. We did a play in a week or two. We also had reading lists for summer and Christmas breaks. We were expected to read constantly. Reading is good. Forcing kids to read something they don't like, or perhaps do not fully understand, is good for them. Being able to sit down and read a hundred pages is the more useful thing anyone can get from school. And it is the thing that is least taught in modern schools.
Ferrari doesn't matter market-wise.
The success of Sensetime and Alibaba's (affiliate of Sesame Credit) large investments truly lead me to believe this is a big step towards enforcing the physical aspect of the Social Credit Score, so its not surprising that the government would be all in for helping them along.

My question to your question is, what exactly are we trying to compete towards? I keep reading article after article how China is beating us in AI, but they never explain what that means for us everyday citizens, except for what I can see happening to China. From my perspective, this seems like a frantic push towards omniscient presence in the every day lives of their citizens, which for me completely wipes out any honest benefit AI could provide.
I agree there are talkers and there are do-ers, and very few who are good at both. They do exist but they are rare. This is true for many professions, not just programmers.
We lack even mediocre parents- when you talk low SES you mean kids living in cars, parents in jail, kicked outside all night because mom wants to party with her new boyfriend. Not all of them, of course, but enough in those types of situations that no amount of classroom management or enthusiasm is going to overcome it.
There's also Cursive if you're doing Rust stuff.
Witten: An Intro to Quantum Information Theory
>In the case under discussion, Cloudflare established the president that they could terminate service to customers based on what they say.

Cloudflare didn't establish a precedent. It's standard boilerplate for any web service to reserve the right to terminate any account any time for any reason, as well as to alter their terms of service in any way at any time, for any reason, without notice.

Reasonable people can disagree about whether or not Cloudflare should have exercised their rights in this case, but they didn't upset the applecart of free speech by doing so.

>We have already decided as a society that we do not want the government to have that sort of power. Why are we now insisting that private companies must have and use that power?

As a society, we believe that government should be limited in scope to only those powers explicitly granted to it by the people. The people meanwhile enjoy the full scope of rights not granted to government, and those rights are considered inalienable and irrevocable.

Private entities like Cloudflare have and have always had greater power than governments to choose what to publish, and what not to publish, with whom to associate and not, merely by virtue of being private entities.
Define "expensive", especially as many of us on this board are in California, and have a certain view of expensive.
Note that "professionals" still use film, particularly in the high end art market with large format and 'view' cameras in particular. One might think that's "niche" but there are a lot of them out there.
> Except that a shared CDN which everyone uses results in better performance.

This is thrown around a lot, but very rarely with hard numbers to support it. A cold DNS cache costs at least one roundtrip, a cold SSL session cache costs several, a new SSL connection (presently) costs at least 2.

Meanwhile, all the above is necessary to talk to an origin site anyway, and networking performance for the best part of 10 years has been dominated by latency (i.e. roundtrips) rather than throughput.

Hoping the user had an idle connection to the Google CDN when measuring cold request start is wishful thinking

Meanwhile self-hosted reuses all of the above and enables assets to be combined into a single transaction, which vastly improves the behaviour of TCP cold start
Npm: Missing package versions after apparently successful publishes
It's not like the information has gone bad in the meantime.
Here's a counter anecdote to yours: the organization I work in has around 1000 people, I'd say about 30% easily know what 'rooting your phone' means, and at least 5% (probably closer to 10%) do it. Also an international organization here. Your sample group, like mine, is not good enough to come to any conclusions.
Stowe has co-working spaces. Hudson County NJ doesn't have those (not really).

Crazy.
I read the Wikipedia entry and I immediately thought of Sibyl. It's horrifying and quite sad knowing that many people predicted this long ago and we did nothing but rejoice for the literary excellence of their works (e.g. 1984)
AI Winter was referring to how the potential of current AI methods is limited, and aren't going to naturally evolve into artificial general intelligence. However I don't think it matters in this case. There are still many untapped applications of the AI technologies that work today. Deploying recognition technologies at scale in China to strengthen the government's control over the populace is one of them.
…so it uses the VPN API, just like the apps that have been banned from the App Store/Play Store/Appstore. Adaway requires root because it modifies /etc/hosts.
Title should be "GAE is an example of serverless developed in 2006" ( year might be wrong)

Actually, as well known, nothing is new in computer science. Ubiquitous computing grid computing and many other ideas I am not aware of, are all rather similar to server less in the sense of granting application developer the least friction of accessing computing resources.
Ahh that sounds so amazing! Perhaps Stratford, ON will give that a shot someday.

I can't imagine the original productions clocked in much under four, what with vendors selling pasties between each act and the occasional dancing bear. It points to a different concept of time: a modern Brit wouldn't dare describe a four hour affair as "two hours" but someone from Southern Europe might...
That should bias it downward, compared to only college-bound students taking it.
The reason why AF for film is hard is because AF tends to move around the point of best focus and moving a lens is terribly slow compared to the inter-frame time. So you simply don't have the time to figure out what the ideal focus is while shooting film, especially not if camera and/or subject are moving, which is sort of the whole reason for shooting video to begin with.
There are a lot of reasons it made sense: getting to see your photos instantly instead of waiting for (and paying for) film development, the ability to change the white balance after photos are taken, not lugging a bunch of film around, not worrying about airport x-rays ruining your film, getting a digital copy of your photos without using a scanner, and many other very big advantages.
I feel much the same. A big chunk of Oregon is federally owned, and a non-trivial amount of that is the national forests directly east of Portland. The idea of that all being privately owned makes me shudder. I love being able to go out and enjoy the wilderness without having it chained off an inaccessible to people not rich enough to buy a chunk for themselves.
Gnome 3 Might Be Too Resource Hungry to Ever Run Nicely on the Raspberry Pi
The alternative to the GDPR was endless and increasing harm to users. The "invisible hand of the market" couldn't find a solution. So now we have regulation.

This is the world we live in. When the market fails to protect users, eventually there might actually be consequences.

So constructively, how do we solve this CDN problem while causing the least harm to both businesses and users? Perhaps identify assets by cryptographic signature rather than URL?
> Japanese people really have a fundamentally different view on tech, tech is always a tool. We Westerners love the classic Terminator plot, the classic Asimovs laws gone bad plot (I, Robot). The Japanese use* tech, they sit in battle robots, they use it connect their consciousness directly to the internet. I love it.*

I think your conclusion is correct in the sense that the Japanese use tech enthusiastically, but very wrong in the assumption that the reason is that they just view it as a tool. If anything, they seem to anthropomorphize a lot more than Westerners. I once attended a lecture by a Japanese professor researching robotics who basically seemed to live by the idea that if his robots looked and appeared to behave human enough, they would magically "be" human. It made it look like the anthropomorphization of robots its perfectly normal even on academic levels over there. Also, note how until Boston Dynamics, the majority of (research) robots that resemble humans or animals came from Japan.

But paradoxically, I think the reason is that they view tech less like a tool - all things have spirits in Japanese Shintoism, right? Perhaps therein lies the paradox: maybe due to this, the idea of AI becoming self-aware is less scary - objects are already treated as having a "spirit" anyway!

I think the story of Roujin Z contains a very interesting example of this[0]. An old man becomes (unwilling) part of an experiment for robots designed to take care of the elderly. The robot then becomes a rampaging AI, which turns out to be because it's secretly a government experiment for re-arming Japan. Due to uploading the voice of the wife deceased of the old man, the AI also takes on the persona and becomes a caring (but still rampaging) AI.

Let me emphasize: only the old lady's voice is uploaded - which important because it implies anthropomorphized magical thinking: like Zhang's dragon coming to life when he gave it eyes[1], giving the AI the voice of a sweet old lady magically made it a sweet old lady.

So if we go back to generalising, I think the difference is that Westerners fear tech, with stories of AI turning against us, while Japanese people consider it a potential new friend. Making them much more enthusiastic about new technology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujin_Z

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Sengyou (yes, I know, China is not Japan)
With the new tax bill, there's a cap at $10k that you can deduct.
"That said, the fact that they're looking to import talent instead of retain local talent is what annoys me. There's plenty of STEM grads who don't want to leave northern New England but feel forced to in order to make money."

Totally - I always felt frustrated and even shocked there wasn't any organized/concerted effort to do so!
In general, wealthy higher-tax states subsidize the poorer, lower-tax states.

The argument for the deduction, which has always existed, is to prevent people from being double taxed. A higher-tax state may tax its citizens to pay for infrastructure or services, whereas a low-tax state relies on the federal government to pay for the same stuff. There are tons of people in poverty in a lot of southern lower-tax states. Who do you think pays for all of the government services these people need?

The tax plan was specifically designed to harm blue states and to make residents of blue states pay and even higher, even less balanced share of tax receipts in the country.
Or, you're projecting your ideology and expectations on something that hasn't even been around long enough to see how it's working.
But we will create AI's to read the reviews on your phone and make a recommendation based on the probability that another AI wrote the reviews. Eventually a robot will be dispatched to the place under review, and will provide a ground truth. But of course the place under review will detect robotic reviewers and dispatch robotic service personnel to provide fake service to the robotic reviewers.
I use only one product of Microsoft,
Visual studio code
But I use many products of Alphabet Inc ,
Google, (servers)
Google docs, (servers)
Google drive, (servers)
Google keep, (servers)
Gmail, (servers)
Android, (client)
Maps, (servers)
YouTube, (servers)
Tez, (servers)
Play store, (servers)
Google translate, (servers),
...

Many people don't realise it because almost all of them are available for free.
Google products have very market.

Incase of Google, they have cost of maintenance almost for every product they develop.

But in case of Microsoft, they have less overhead.

Windows (client)
Azure (servers)
Xbox (client)
Visual studio (client)
Visual studio code (client)
SQL (client)
MS Office (client)
...

Microsoft also needs to push updates but, less than that of Google.

YouTube consumes too much of bandwidth,
Same is the case with Play Store.
How is that a response to GP’s point?
Its dying because the mechanical mirror in the DLSRs is not needed anymore with todays tech. So mirrorless cameras will make the game once ppl learn to not miss the click sound. They will simply get replaced with less complex and cheaper cameras.
you extract value from fat protocols by owning part of the protocol itself, then influencing the direction of the development by being part of the community.