skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s unclear from the description, does this break sandboxing? Otherwise, how is this any more dangerous than running javascript at all?
iOS derives from OS X.
Is this true even post-Quantum? I thought that was a major rewrite.
I'm not a customer so I dont have skin in the game, but is ProtonVPN really considered sketchy? [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608041
Any examples that aren’t old enough to have finished high school by now? And were not a major public scandal, that cost the people involved their jobs?
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/white-liberals-presen...

White liberals are racist.
Absolutely: A major one is that you can skirt all kinds of financial disclosure laws that apply to public companies. The world doesn't get to know your volume, your profit margin, or which of your divisions makes most if its money. This means your competition has a lot more trouble competing with you than if you have to provide public quarterly statements. I have seen examples of well run companies that just happened to be private, and then see industry reports that made hilariously wrong guesses regarding those key metrics that the competition would love to know.

At the same time, it's far harder to provide great compensation to your employees if they can't sell their shares in the market, and at some point, your investors might be screaming for liquidity. But staying private as long as you can get away with is a good idea: It's just that few companies planning to be huge can.
carbonbrief.org has interactive comparison between 1.5C, 2C and 3C. https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/impacts-climate-change-o...
Facial recognition: It’s time for action
Microsoft Edge Goes Chromium (and MacOS)
This, and especially perf profiler is lacking in every way compared with Chrome
I got a similar impression from ReactNative: it felt like a hack, and the hack came apart at the seams if you tried to debug it.

Similarly, Flutter felt much more like a cohesive solution compared to RN.
We use it in our distributed team and it works wonders for pair programming.
I still see zero benefit to me, today, to recycle.
Key difference:

- "No shirt, no shoes, no service" is a rule that applies to all customers, same with blocking customers that develop toxic behavior.

- Specifically targeting and dropping service for someone who launched a different competing service, for that reason, is anti-competitive.
The most expensive part of training AlphaZero is creating the training dataset by self-playing tens of millions of games.
Safari got a reputation of being "the new IE" a few years ago because it was lagging in standards support. However there's been a lot more progress recently - coinciding with when they started releasing Safari Tech Preview builds.

edit: As an example, Safari is 2nd after Chrome in this ES7 support comparison: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es2016plus/
> Seems so sad that Mozilla is literally begging people to give Firefox a try.

Your security matters. Google recommends using Chrome, a fast and secure browser. Try it?

https://i.stack.imgur.com/0zXc4.png
Allow me to enlighten you a little bit.

"The family link between OS/2 and Windows NT"
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/54138.html

"Follow-up: the family links between DOS, OS/2, NT and VMS"
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/54464.html

There's a citation in that 2nd blog post. Well, there are lots, but the IT Pro Mag one goes into detail about the OS/2 and VMS connection.

Enjoy.
getting even somewhat accurate values for that is a rather big problem, as you can't just take average emission values for a country as a base but rather need to look at the daily and weekly recharge distribution of different types of electric vehicles and then look at what the typical power generation structure is in those hours (which also varies seasonally). Its a huge project in itself and I think maybe you should just mention somewhere what values you use to calculate it.
If we're looking at kernels, there have clearly been substantially rewritten kernels that launched in the 90s; they succeeded by maintaining backwards compatibility with userland software written in the 70s/80s.

If we're looking at userland, the only successful general-purpose operating systems in the last 30 years that started from scratch with no apps at all are iOS and Android. (Even there, arguably their killer app was backwards compatibility with the desktop web.)

All others, including Windows, OS X, and Linux, had solid backwards compatibility facilities supporting software written for DOS, System 9, and Unix, respectively.
Nowadays most enterprise and bespoke intranet apps are targeting Chrome as a platform, not "the web". It's a re-run of the IE6 situation in the late 90s / early 2000s, except this time Microsoft is the victim, not the beneficiary.

Whereas it used to be that big IT departments would nix the installation of any 3rd party browser, nowadays almost all accept the use of Chrome. And if you're selling an app into a big company, you always tell them to use Chrome, and never advertise IE/Edge support except as a last resort.

If Microsoft want to sell their cloud services into these companies, they need to support Chrome-based apps. Edge won't do. As such, they have little choice but to fork it and build their own browser, tied into their services. I'm sure they recognise the potential problems and downsides, but consider it the least worst option at this point.
+1 for a great tool.
To be fair, one of the most useful features of rustfmt/clang-format in my opinion is reformatting things that go beyond a maximum line length, which also seems like one of the harder parts to implement in a way that's useful. At leas the last time I used it, gofmt punted on this issue.
Well, hard disagree on your hard disagreement, I've never ran into a situation where VSCode did better than Intellij/Webstorm :)

Often, the problem is the order of suggestions, it was magically almost always right on Webstorm and not as good on VSC
>I want to add that China is an amazing place everyone should visit at least once in their life and I hope the author does not let his fanatical political theories get in the way of what could be a life-expanding trip.

Well, having to buy a cheap chromebook I'd throw away/sell after the trip is a bit of a drag. Not being able to bring my mobile is a drag. Worrying that my public history of being pro-democracy, pro-free speech, and pro-Tor may result in harassment is a draq.

I had a lovely time when I went to Tokyo, without any visas, special electronics, or other considerations beyond the usual "don't leave your phone in the hotel room untattended" and "use a VPN" type opsec I always use traveling.

Why should I give my tourism dollars to a state that will at best tolerate and at worst actively harass me?
Cool, Obscure programming languages
Sorry to be a grammar right wing populist, but it's "pore over".

To pore is to think deeply about to something, to dwell on it.

A pour-over is a type of coffee.
And I don't think anybody wants the ads they have added to the home page.
Maybe something to do with hardware accelerated h.264 decoding? (Assuming YouTube serves VP8-encoded videos to Chrome users and h.264 ones to Safari users.)
> Yes, I openly admit I do not know python's package management/virtualenv stuff well enough.

And still, you are here trying to measure the length of your "commands" with others' "commands".

> My opinion, of course, but shared by the dozens of people who upvoted my OP.

Ah great, engineering by acclamation. That usually ends well. That's how we got pipenv, btw: a popular developer stood up and declared "I'll fix it!", to general acclaim from the Powers That Be... and then things broke harder, and here we are.

> for each javascript package management task that needs accomplished you need 2-3x as many

That's precisely the perspective that led us to the mess that is pipenv: "npm is the model, we should all be like npm". Except npm fundamentally serves only a few specific needs, and was built on the lawless prairies of an ecosystem with limited aims, no stdlib, and without 28 years of accumulated legacy practices; whereas python has been pulled in every direction for literally decades, and now has to herd all that legacy into something more coherent, slowly (because this or that constituency will be ready to scream about breaking compatibility, as we've just had to endure for about 10 years with py3) and correctly - to avoid ending up in situations like the periodic breakage that happens in npm because this or that package has misbehaved.

> In what way is --save counter-intuitive?

"I've already told you to install, why should I repeat the concept? Are you really so dumb a 'manager' that you would ignore what you just installed?"

And btw, Stack Overflow says --save is actually obsolete since 2013 at least [1], so it looks like you don't know npm very well either. Maybe we should just give up and build an AI that learns development from SO, and find ourselves more meaningful jobs.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19578796/what-is-the-sav...
>Electron is the future of apps

Lol.

Nevertheless, I hope they go all-in because a gimped JS Office would finally let other players to innovate in the word- & spreadsheet processor niche without the MS .

Fingers crossed brother, finger crossed!
Oh, cool, yep. I didn't know that's what they are. I have basically been wondering if all matter is variations of those.
They had blocked Twitter itself from searching for friends on Facebook in 2010:

https://www.adweek.com/digital/twitter-facebook-friends/
Don't forget when they sent your data to Cliqz.
Arena’s Postgresql Client Library, PGX, at the NYC OCaml Meetup
For those who might prefer less story, and more 'meat and bones'.

A little known fact: Many of Australia's roads were originally mapped out by Aboriginals, who used songlines (/the stars) to navigate. This means many of Australia's main roads are 10's of thousands years old. (Admittedly, the roads didn't actually exist, even though the pathway did)

Research by Ray Norris (of CSIRO) is very interesting:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02215

His website on Aboriginal Astronomy: emudreaming.com
And there's the previous backdoors they got into BitBucket/Github/Gitlab/Mercurial/Perforce/etc. And,no doubt, the
"LEO Portals" that FAANG and FAANG wannabes already have which they'll just hand over to Australian authorities (probably including local councils and the taxi commission, based on evidence about how the metadata retention powers have been used...)

After the first few times they use these new powers, the people who're gonna come asking are 99.9% likely to know exactly who the person who will write, commit, and code review the backdoor they're demanding... And their direct manager, and the management chain all the way to the C suite...

I think I need to quit this entire industry, maybe take up boatbuilding or something...
Watermarking Photos with ImageMagick, Vapor 3 and Swift on MacOS and Linux
Show HN: The Magnum Opiate: a story of mystery, and intriguing
I actually really enjoy using Safari, and I am not alone. The dev tools are great and the main extensions I use are available. Perhaps you can elaborate a bit more on your experiences with Safari?
And of course finally it went FOSS: https://github.com/SymbianSource

I'm surprised nobody has even attempted to pick it up, AFAICT. A very good OS in its day.
https://react-etc.net/entry/microsoft-office-rewrite-to-reac...
Facebook Still Doesn't Understand What Privacy Means
I now use FF at home for one simple reason. Two people at home using two different Google accounts and need to switch between them. In Chrome it decides one of those is the 'logged in account' and the name shows in the browser bar. It is then the default every time you open say a new GMail etc. That is so annoying. This doesn't seem to happen in Firefox!
While we're on the subject - not that many people are aware of it yet, but VS Code has a debugger protocol similar to LSP for pluggable IDE-agnostic debuggers.

https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/

https://github.com/Microsoft/debug-adapter-protocol/blob/gh-...

I hope this takes off. Between it and LSP, pretty much any text editor can be an IDE with little effort.
I am not sure if you meant that the other way around. In 1998, Microsoft was the larger company, with the more evil reputation, which seems to parallel Uber.
By far the quickest way I got K8S running for quick local experiments.

Convenient to install additional features like `dashboard`, `registry`, `istio` via the `microk8s.enable` command
I haven't noticed Firefox being any slower than Chrome on MacOS. Then again, I only use Chrome to browse facebook.com, so who knows.
I would assume this is coming out of their worker's comp insurance.
I wonder how soon we will get to filtering content by the browser from here.
No mention of cljfmt, which I’ve used for a few years via lein plugin (‘lein cljfmt fix’).
Did I read right that a $66m investment netted $40m this year?
The whole Google ecosystem is slow on any platform, including Google platforms (Chromebooks).
i feel like it's quite sensible today to offload comments to the various platforms that exist mostly to provide comments on articles. i, for one, usually go for the HN comments even before reading the websites own.
Oddly, it's always been the reverse for me. Especially after a month or so has passed. Both of them are pretty light, Chrome definitely gets perceptibly slower after some heavy usage, but only Firefox manages to become unbearably slow. There's still some kind of design about Firefox that causes it to bog down after daily driving for a long while.
it really depends on how much you drive and how co2 intensive the power you use is (which depends not only on your locale but also the time when you charge your car typically). However one thing in the overhead costs which is often ignored is that a used car battery which might not be suited for a car anymore because of 20-30% capacity loss after a few years can be reused in stationary battery systems, so over the full lifetime of the battery the overhead costs in most calculations are overexaggerated.
> Those Lithium Ion batteries that haven't changed in decades?

I mean the basic chemistries haven't changed in decades. Li-ion batteries were understood and experimented on long before they became commercially viable.

The basic chemistry is the same as it was back then. There have been various improvements in packaging and chemistry/anode tweaks that have maybe resulted in a doubling of capacity in that time.

> I feel like people have a hard time seeing that a curve is still exponential when it moves at ~4% a year, as batteries have for the past century or so

It is actually a hard problem to see if something is exponential at very low growth rates. Like the economy used to grow at 5%, then 4%, then 3%, now 2% - is it really growing "exponentially" or are we trying to fit an exponential curve to something sub-exponential?

After all, if you take the measurement of anything at times T0 and T1, you can calculate the rate of growth in % terms, which by its very units implies exponential growth, but it may not be.

So if Li-ion batteries keep dropping in price by say 15% +/- 5% for the next five years, you won't really have enough info to say who was right. You can fit other curves to that data. Only when you have many years with a high enough growth rate, like Moore's law, can you really be sure exponential is the only curve that fits.

> The battery revolution is in full swing.

I don't disagree - batteries are everywhere and becoming cheaper and better in many respects. It just won't look anything like Moore's law long term.
Really this. All these stories stand on their own. Together they form a narrative. Facebook is terrible because they say they are doing one thing, but they are doing something else, but really they are doing even more than something else while releasing PR pieces and thinking the public will just absorb them and absolve Facebook of their wrong-doing.
We use Erlang for a high availability of nine nines, so long as we remember to renew our certs.
$425K seems delightful here in Silicon Valley, where the bottom of the non-condo market is about $1.3M and the bottom of the condo market is roughly $900K.
"An IPO isn't a bet, like at a racetrack, the money raised is actually used to further the business"

Is it, or is it just used to pay back the early investors who want to exit?
Great suggestion. It now shows front_page/ShowHN with over 5 points from last 2 days. You can also see your historial posting position: https://hnify.com/leaderboard.html#Fudgel
Support the EFF, go to their events, get informed and inform your family and peers. Support the effort to ensure that Australians get a Bill of Rights.

https://www.efa.org.au
this is a false dichotomy people use as an excuse to do nothing.

individual action and forcing corporations and governments to change are not in opposition, they are a feedback loop.
Nah, those were available for years and never reached anything close to iPhone/Android levels of adoption. It's possible that Android (the "better Danger" version, not the "iPhone clone" version) would have still happened, but it may also have languished without the iPhone to pave the way.
Yep, can confirm that FF is still killing my 2014 MBP.
I've been trying to use Firefox at work for years. It doesn't work well in my company's intranet (lots of Sharepoint). Random pieces of the the company website do not show up and I get way too many certificate warnings. Chrome, Edge, and IE work fine. Firefox hasn't worked through 2 iterations of our intranet over the course of 10+ years.
Wow, this is interesting. Thank you!
Offering market research / insights help. Interested?
I have some down time while I interview for my next job.

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Prefer to meet in person (San Francisco) if its a good fit. While this is primarily about staying sharp, I am also new to the city and want to explore.
Giving Mono Souper Powers
I've spent about 10 minutes reading this post and the marketing website and I am still not really sure what this does, except that it's an "empathetic experience".

The animation that shows the app is so fast that I can't read the text and don't understand what's going on.

The value proposition is very abstract. "Discover your strengths" or "Feel amazing at work" doesn't really tell me what to expect.

All I can do on the page is sign up with my email address, but I'm not convinced enough to risk getting another drip email campaign for a product I don't think I need.

Maybe I'm just not your target audience.
I'm not sure this is the conclusion of the part you italicized above, which I read as - space continues to expand but matter holds together (it counteracts the effects of expansion in that the matter doesn't drift apart - but that doesn't mean that space stops expanding around the object - it merely means that the object isn't slowly pulled apart by this expansion, because it is held together by forces that are stronger).
And if big web properties like Youtube, GMaps and Gmail etc. don't work properly, are slow or missing features on Gecko then the dominance of Chrome will increase further anyway.

The market of web browsers has become "who gets to set the default search engine makes the moolah". Bing marketshare and revenue is driven by how well Edge works and how it can stop the bleeding to Chrome. Changing the engine to Quantum does not solve the problem they were having in the first place very well.
That really needs some sarcasm quotes around it. Technically true. Practically, no.
>Safari has about ~5% percent market share on desktops, but 15-25% on mobile, including tablets.

Depending on Region, it could be up to 15% on Desktop and 60% on Mobile, including tablets. Most people don't realise the devices usage market shares from iOS is actually much larger than they thought.
>What am I missing here?

game templates for the ocean of wannabe game devs like you make the monies that almost all of the actual games veeeeery probably won’t, so make a lot of game templates / content as a shovel & bucket company instead of full games as a studio
pretentious[1] != pretending[2]

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pretentious

[2] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pretending
First game is cheap :P

Subsequent games are expensive because scaling becomes an issue
It wasn't much of a rewrite (at least of the underpinnings) and embedding was always fragile even when it worked. A lot of this is XPCOM overhead which can't be completely eliminated.

I think the lack of embedding has hurt Gecko showing up in more projects. Their solution was XULRunner which inverts the model by embedding your app in Gecko instead of the other way around, and they don't even support that anymore.

I'm hoping GeckoView takes off on Android and makes its way back to desktop, but I'm afraid that will happen too late for people to care about it anymore.
Indeed so.

And NeXTstep isn't a 1990s OS. It's a 1980s OS. v0.8 first demoed 12 October 1988 when the NeXT cube was launched; v1.0 shipped 18 September 1989.

NeXTstep influenced the Windows 95 UI in some ways -- the shaded 3D look, the idea of a fixed panel across the screen which could be both an app launcher and an app switcher.

But NeXT probably got that from Acorn RISC OS, which was shipping before NeXTstep was ever shown.

I've written about that, too: https://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2013/06/03/thank_microso...
> I would probably choose Go for core infra for being able to move quickly as a developer

At the company I used to work at it took nearly a 1000 lines to replace an 80 line bash script. So I can't help but laugh at this statement.
quacking like a monopoly

acting with the knowledge that they can stem the growth of a competitor and flipping the switch
It is not good news, but I don't think it is that bad. Microsoft is big enough to assert influence over the direction in ways other contributors cannot. It might even make Microsoft more relevant in the web space, and for the future of the web it could be a good thing (while certainly it was very bad in the Balmer era)
Can content blockers block wasm? Can't find a related defaults flag, but even then, it would apply to all sites. I'm thinking of something more fine-grained.

(It's awful that Apple has made it impossible to create something like uBlock Origin for Safari, and it will eventually stop working)
I Tried Predictim AI That Scans for 'Risky' Babysitters
> All the Amazon employees were covered by employer-provided healthcare
To be fair, kubernetes itself and most distributions are quite secure by default. So with kubernetes it's not the same as it was NoSQL databases that didn't have authentication that were bound to the internet.

I'm not familiar with enough distributions to know if there is a popular distribution that totally disabled authentication by default, but in my companies distribution, kubeadm clusters, and I suspect all managed clusters (GKE/EKS/AKS/etc), the vector outlined in the article would only work if an admin specifically disabled the authentication.

In gravity (my companies distribution), we even disable anonymous-auth, so someone would have to do real work to allow API access to the internet.
We had the same bug about random crashes in production and surprisingly we found that the problem was caused by console logging. There's a babel plugin that can help to remove console logging only in production, something like remove-console-log