skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree, most users (excluding developers/power users), still default to Google. The default search engine can also quickly be changed if you wish.
> For example as a merchant you don't have to trust PayPal with your money and trust them to process credit cards from the buyer and then send it to you.

> You can just accept payments digitally directly like if they gave you cash in person.

You're just moving your trust around. You have to trust that the cryptocurrency system was implemented correctly and without bugs, and you have to trust your wallet to be implemented correctly and without bugs, and if it's a hosted wallet you have to trust the hosting service, and if it's a local wallet you have to trust your local system to ensure you don't lose your key or get hacked. Also since we're dealing with a different currency now you have to trust that the currency will actually act as a stable store of value. Or if you use something like Coinbase to accept bitcoin but immediately turn that back into USD, you're now trusting Coinbase to process these transactions.
They must negotiate very well because as an iOS user I would be disappointed to not have Google as default (like when Firefox switched to Bing).
I can see that happening: "the deployment was a piece of cake".

What says the project about security?
"Only rudimentary input handling. We would not be running this on a public machine."

What will the hipsters say? "time to market"
You can't run unsigned apps on an iPhone. No, not even your own.
You can't generate a certificate for an iPhone app longer than one week, and even then, the certificate you generate only lets you run code on an iPhone physically connected to the computer where the certificate was generated.

EVERY OTHER way to get a certificate, including for internal development and testing through testflight, requires the app to go through review. Every. Single. One.

It's not simply for putting the app on the app store, it's for running the app at all.

Enterprise certificates were supposed to be a way for a company to avoid shipping their internal tools to Apple, but they turn out to be a way to actually run useful code on an iPhone, even if it's not something Apple wants you to do.
Monosyllabic isn't quite precise enough. It's more than all the Chinese digits are CV only whereas in English, only 1 is (two).
Hope it helps - good luck!!!
To put that back into relatable numbers, there are about 1B installed iOS devices. So Google is paying $9/year for each device to be the default search engine.
Did you balk at it? In my experience car dealers tend to both appeal to authority as a first line of defense ("It's out of my control. That fee is mandatory."), yet also will do anything they can to close a deal. I'd be curious if walking out would get it removed.
I thought Firefox switched to Yahoo
I mean it is resolved, and your two options kind of show it. The resolution is very low and slow inflationary economics, to match the growth rate in the economy. This should prioritize a
safe level of saving and investment.

Higher and lower rates of inflation can be enforced (via central banks) to help fight recession or demand driven inflation (price level increases). However constantly tweaking inflation rates to get the exact right level for the current period of countries economic cycle (debt/savings levels, price levels etc...) is quite difficult. So yes we do know "how" to balance an economy in a general sense, in the same way we know how to build a web application in the general sense, but there is always work do be done in the details.
Apple had previously used Bing as the default search in certain areas, such as Siri and the Search bar.
Are you talking about not having free time or not knowing what to do with your free time ? These two are very different issues.

For the latter, it's mind blowing to ask this question in this day and age. There are so many interesting things to try out and do today, you could last 10 life times and not run out.

For example, I love video games. There are endless number of amazing games on PC and console. And enough variety to never really end. You could try that. Sometimes I get FOMO thinking about all the amazing games I will never be able to play due to lack of time. There is a game for every person type and it always keeps life exciting.

You could learn a zillion skills or engage in creative pursuits. Music, rubik cube, programming projects, start a reddit community or participate in one. You catch my drift.
If he bought an Android it's because he doesn't care about the security of his phone.

Not trying to be snarky; Android has been around for over 10 years and we all know how irresponsible all OEMs are, including Google. He had the information when he made his purchase.
>Drivers mostly hit other things when there's too many things demanding their attention

And this is exactly why humans shouldn't be driving. Hopefully human driving will be banned before too long, as machines can do it so much better.
Or just buy some plants. I bet they would look prettier, too.
Which brand? I will be in the market for a new car soon, and avoiding that brand will speed the decision-making process.
interesting, that is the price to stop apple create its own search engine.
No one really. I believe the GP comment is confusing that with sentiment against SF costs and culture, as well as sentiment against the value of unicorns in general.
Maybe it was my configuration, but the reason I switched from vim to emacs, was that I was debugging some large log files that made vim choke. I read a comment praising that behavior and I was surprised to see that it was the case, more so as I was in the belief that emacs had a lot of bloat.

Which editor would you consider that is better with large files? Not really interested in switching, but really curious.
How does this flow work for desktop based e-commerce transactions, where a camera is not as easily integrated as mobile?

Edit: Actually it is quite trivial to request access to the camera via desktop now:

navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ video: true })
Wouldn't this be the case for any class that supplies an auto grader or test suite?
> I think the argument is contrived because loop holes for murder don't exist for a reason, which is that the electoral connection -> legislative process essentially leaves zero room for there to be such a loophole.

Loopholes do exist for murder: for instance, self defense. The Trayvon Martin case is an example of this. The loophole exists for valid reasons, but it's often taken advantage of to circumvent the spirit of the law.

> In fact, concepts such as the intended meaning of the law mean that even if you hacked some edge case in the written law, you'd still go to jail.

Can you provide evidence that this applies only to murder and not to tax evasion?

> Conversely, tax law operates under a general regime where the expected and encouraged behavior of firms is to do their best to avoid paying taxes.

I'll agree it's expected, but I think you'd have a hard time finding a politician or member of the working class who would say firms are encouraged to avoid paying taxes.

I agree that it's not a perfect analogy, but I don't think it's fair to dismiss it entirely.
Assessed value which is usually lower than market value.
Unless you want remotely objective results for searches about US politics. Here's a good experiment, search for "Kamala Harris" in DuckDuckGo and Google, then compare the results. It makes me think spreading Google's influence is about more than just helping users find the "best" search engine.

Edit: Try to search Google anonymously to get somewhat consistent results, and for an added challenge see how many pages you have to go through to see an article about her and Willie Brown.
Earnest Gann's Fate is the Hunter is a must-read for aviation buffs which flies under the radar in discussions on the great books on flying.

I worked in the business and I'd never heard of it until a hardware engineer (with WDC) told me I had to read it. He was right.

It's a nail-biting, seat-of-the-pants diary of the author's career during the early days of commercial aviation. So good.

Highly Recommended.

(me: aircraft dispatcher in my previous life)
Author here!

Currently, not at all practical. But that's why we think it's important to make education a part of the initiative. The idea is that we can make relationships between computation and design to have architects understand design as part of a larger family of analytical tools, and people from machine learning/software development understand how those tools can help with creating a physical thing that is distributed across time/space/etc.
If you actually look up sport you end up with something like:

“an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.” The first thing google returns. Which does not support your argument. Saying some arbitrary dictionary is enough is not evendence when they don’t actually say what you want.

I could go off and find quotes relating to the NCAA vs professional sports saying thing a like ~”Rules define the game, different rules different games.” But doing so is a waste of time when they don’t counter an argument.

As you need to be specific before I can counter or there is no way to move forward. Specific examples like the overtime rules are never going to counter your vague and baseless assertions so it’s pointless for me to keep responding to someone either trolling or just rather confused.
Click the X in the corner of the popup and continue reading.
Good on Newsom for spending some political capital this. It was a bad idea, badly executed; the state will be better off for having cancelled it.
Similarly, the intellij plugin for Rust will reveal implicit type annotations.
Privilege Escalation in Ubuntu Linux (dirty_sock Exploit)
> sometimes it's about sending a message

Important rhetorical question (spoken kindly, despite word choice): Whose message? As in, who gets to send this message that's alluded to? It will be a certain sort of person, with a certain sort of capacity, and anyone else who wants to send a message can get f*cked. The resulting state of any system will reflect this asymmetry.

(Not implying that you were saying the above was fair, just wanted to draw out this aspect for others that the "message" line might resonate with :)
Not to make it sound simple, but all you’re doing is running a small neural net on device to identify multiple card formats. What prevents a payment gateway like stripe to do the same thing inhouse? Doesn’t sound like a very difficult thing, especially considering that tools to do on device ML have proliferated.
Emotionally manipulating people for profit, harming them not just by annoying them but also by impairing their ability to make rational decisions, is always wrong. And that's what advertising is.

If you sell yourself into slavery, you don't become a slave. If you use a product "in exchange for ads", you don't lose your right to protect yourself from them.
There's an interesting relationship between will and intelligence. I've often seen people that aren't Geniuses, but their will motivates them in certain fruitful directions. Darwin is the prime example. I'm strongly convinced that there's an artistic side and mathematical side to all intellectual endeavors. The artistic side is the vision, which is formed by the unique will of the individual. The mathematical side is the capacity of exploring the space of that vision. The more of it you have, the more swiftly you can move through that space; however, if your vision puts you in the wrong space, intelligence alone is useless.
Yahoo is just Bing wearing different clothes.
Libpurple is not used.

Only official APIs.
Why hasn't someone made a Go and Forth combination yet?
I ran the numbers for here in CA. Even just comparing Gasoline pump cost vs Electric charging costs, the electrics are roughly equivalent to a car that gets 45mpg. Maintentance is of course cheaper for electrics because they don't need oil changes or timing belts or spark plugs but that doesn't mean electrics don't have expensive maintenance plans attached if sold as Teslas.

Right now Electrics still cost about 10K more than their gasoline counterparts.

Overrall, I still think a Toyota Prius with 55mpg will be cheaper to run overrall than an Electric, taking into account total cost of ownership.
It is the privatization of justice, similar to the push to privatize public education.
Being very careful not to start a flamewar, my armchair analysis is the opposite: JS has seen a large influx of serious backend developers, who generally have no time for silly arguments against static typing.
Market response of raising pay is always slower to respond if there are other mechanisms to try first.
| Tourists and social media influencers do not positively contribute, IMO.

Also see: Fyre
Fun talk, I watched this in 2014.
You've contradicted yourself in your own statement.

You can't have 'not enough investment' and then 'debt trap' (i.e. taking on too much debt) at the same time.

Which is it?

They can't access debt?

Or they're taking on too much, so much they can't service it?

Countries usually wantonly and willingly approach the IMF/WB for loans - not the other way around. The reason is because they can get better terms than anyone else will provide. The IMF/WB are sources of capital wherein none else would even exist.

The IMF/WB are not really profit centers for anyone. If it were highly lucrative, then lenders would be lining up to put money into these amazingly profitable funds! But of course this is not the case.

The reason these countries end up with problems, is the same reason they are not able to 'catch up' to rich countries: they are dysfunctional, corrupt, lacking many of the institutions and systems necessary to make use of the money.

Corrupt leaders often take a hefty chunk off the top of the loan, hand out sub contracts to their idiot friends etc., and things fail or fall apart. And then the lender is blamed?

There's a lot of money floating out there and made available for rational infrastructure investment - on very good terms - it's just that the money often can't be turned around into some kind of productive gain. This should give a hint as to why the countries are poor in the first place.
https://lgtm.com/

LGTM recently came by my project offering to integrate with GitHub. It's found a decent number of bugs other linters and my test suite didn't find, and it didn't require any setup at all; you just open your project on their website.

Their staff also reacted really quickly when I asked them questions or reported bugs.

For the most part, their only false positives are things like unreachable code, which I sometimes used to leave in for future-proofing, but I eventually did things their way, because it does make sense that it could be confusing to a third party.

The only alert I've ever suppressed was a string search for "example.com", which could have matched "example.com.untrusted-attacker.com". It was just code for displaying a reminder, not anything security-critical, so I didn't think it was worth fixing.
Fun talk, I watched this in 2012.
I love postmodern software
> If the service in question was directly accessible from a public network and its source code known and published, it would be attacked in less than 5 minutes.

You just keep going with the non-sequitur, but now you're also moving the goalpost. Your original statement didn't contain anything about "directly accessible from a public network" (which I assume isn't the case) or "source code known and published" (which you said wasn't the case).

And it is still a non-sequitur. Why would anybody expend non-trivial resources to find exploitable flaw in an open-source codebase to actually bring down emergency service? There's no reasonable way to profit from that. If you're some foreign hacker, you might want to find the exploit, but you wouldn't attack right away. Again, I'm not saying nobody would possibly do it, but one does not automatically follow from the other.

Heartbleed really is the best example on how a critical piece of software infrastructure (including a lot of government regulated infrastructure) had a publicly visible flaw that went undetected (and presumably unexploited) for several years.

> That is how employment works in the wider world of Internet Widgets etc. but not in critical government regulated infrastructure like emergency services.

I don't know man, I'm here arguing with this guy who doesn't seem to grasp a basic concept in logical reasoning, yet he's working on critical government infrastructure.
This is a surprisingly difficult concept to express... I've taken a stab at it before on StackOverflow [1].

One angle is that Chisel (or some hardware DSL) gives you the ability to access software engineering constructs that Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL do not have. E.g., with Chisel or similar, you can use object oriented programming to describe hardware. No synthesis vendor supports object oriented programming in SystemVerilog as far as I'm aware, even though the language has it. Unfortunately, this explanation of "language power" is exactly what Paul Graham describes as "The Blub Paradox" in his "Beating the Averages" essay that shows up on HN frequently [2]. Summarily, a standard C programmer understands they can be more effective in C than assembly, but don't have the requisite knowledge to see that C++ has advantages over C. A good Verilog engineer likely has no exposure to Haskell and there's a huge skills gap necessary for them to grok the utility of functional programming.

Relatedly, Chisel (or similar) is trying to describe highly parameterized hardware generators NOT one design point. If you want to hit one design point and one design point only, then the advantage of using something that supports a lot of parameterization may not be as beneficial.

Another angle is that Chisel and it's hardware IR FIRRTL forms a hardware compiler stack. This let's you automate difficult processes that shouldn't be hard, but are. One example is adding state snapshotting to a hardware design. FireSim [3] lets you do this automatically because you can add transforms to the FIRRTL compiler just like you can add transforms to the LLVM compiler. If you want to do this with Perl and RegEx on Verilog it's intractable.

On verification... yes, this is a hard problem. A common criticism of hardware DSLs is that they're solving the wrong problem of design and not verification. However, most of the Chisel devs think that the verification problem may get easier with the right software abstractions and a hackable hardware compiler. Improvements to verification are a work-in-progress and the Chisel developers are starting a working group related to this.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53007782/what-benefits-d...

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

[3] https://fires.im/
When that trust turns out to be misplaced, there is no recourse. If your bitcoin exchange gets hacked, you lose all of your money. If your bitcoin wallet gets hacked, you lose all of your money. If you forget your login credentials, you lose all of your money. If there's a bug in the code of your smart contract, you lose all of your money. If someone successfully hacks the blockchain security, you lose all of your money. In many ways, trusting technology is harder than trusting people. Would you rather trust a human legal system or the details of some computer code you don't have the expertise to audit?

Most of these things have nothing to do with "blockchain" or Bitcoin. Exchanges are outside the scope - entirely. They are merely one kind of merchant. "Wallets" are also outside the scope, because the protocol only knows about scripts. Login credentials play no role whatsoever in Bitcoin - that's an add-on provided by third parties.

Bugs in contract code are a problem. That's why you don't trust it. You verify it - just like you read any contract you sign.

"Hacking blockchain security" is another matter. What Schneier is referring to is the Ethereum Classic majority hash rate attack. That's a well-known limitation of all block chains. Satoshi's white paper deals with it extensively and quantitatively. It's not like Schneier has stumbled onto something novel here.

These four elements work together to enable trust. Take banking, for example. Financial institutions, merchants, and individuals are all concerned with their reputations, which prevents theft and fraud. The laws and regulations surrounding every aspect of banking keep everyone in line, including backstops that limit risks in the case of fraud. And there are lots of security systems in place, from anti-counterfeiting technologies to internet-security technologies.

The nativity here beggars belief. Does this man not remember 2008? Does he not remember HSBC? Does he not know that the individuals responsible for the most egregious bank fraud have never been punished in a criminal sense? Does he not remember the vast amounts of sensitive, personal information leaked by these institutions? Has he never heard of the massive, unconstitutional civil asset forfeiture problem in the US?

The best you can say about the banking system is that laws/regulations may inhibit, to some degree, some forms of theft and fraud.
> div soup

At my last job we called it "divarrhea"
Quite a cost to pay for a generation of people that don't know how to set a default search engine.
The Math of Vaccinations, Infection Rates, and Herd Immunity
I used to think Vim and company are only worth it when you work with structured text (like programming languages) most of the time.

I'm not so sure nowadays. I had to work on big prose document in Libre Office. I hated every second of it. It might be because I used to modal editing. It felt like typing with one finger when you are used to touch typing...

I got question. It here anyone who learned Vim editing model and decided it's worse than „traditional” Cua, mouse oriented editors[1]?

I can't remember seeing any blog posts like „I used Vim for X years but I switched to Cua editor”.

[1]: well, I switched to Kakoune from Spacemacs but that's another modal editor (not Vi clone tho) so it doesn't count ;)
Has Google (or any tech company) ever had a post behind "An Update on X" titles that was good for their consumer or hobbyist customers?
Do you refer to this one? https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term

Do you have a link about them killing the terminal client?

Thanks
> .. but I still want to give other people's value systems a fair trial?

Why?

That's a moral judgement like any other ("we should exercise fairness and take seriously any system of values that operates within a recognized national boundary circa 2019"). It would suggest you are committed to that principle above other ones, like "the right of women to self-determination". If that's a decision you want to make, knock yourself out, but it leads to rather strange situations.

Note that I made it sound extra absurd by limiting in time and to national boundaries; but conversely I could take off that limit and have you giving Aztec human sacrifice fair consideration ("strokes beard... well, actually, given population pressures... ummmn... ").

You're still flailing around looking for neutral principles: considering "intentions and outcomes" doesn't get you out of trouble as who is to say what intentions and outcomes are good?

A homophobe in Uganda or Russia might claim that their intentions are "save our young people from the gays" and their desired outcomes are "now all the gays are dead or hiding" as a Good Thing; they would not recognize your principles ("don't harm innocent people for no reason") as valid.

In the end it just comes down to 'fighting your corner'. There is no magical conjuration trick that will make our values objectively better in some way that stands outside our values. Who cares?
Chapter 11 bankruptcy is probably the single most factor at the forefront of American entrepreneurship and how the US propelled to be the strongest economy in the world. I have a feeling GP is talking about the lack of expertise in China to handle it correctly.