skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A New Lab Is Brewing Microbes to Create Makeup and Medicines
For the things that make a smart phone smart. We expect people to be able to find locations without directions, access arbitrary information, receive email, use eTickets, access calendars, etc - on the go, at any time of their day.

Smartphones aren't really about phone calls or sms.
DIY OpenJDK Garbage Collector
The Reason Tech Struggles with Algorithmic Bias
It's a good practice to have a way to compare objects anyway, and it should be standardized, like __hash__ in Python or hashCode in Java.

Even a basic comparison between two nested arrays is work in JS, so we need articles like this for things we use day to day. It's weird that the orgs building the standard think that a common promise API is a priority, but a decent namespace system or a way to manipulate builtin datastructures without 3rd party lib isn't.
Earth is unlikely to ever become less inhabitable than Mars, even under the most pessimistic scenarios.
Java Futures: JFokus 2019 Edition by Brian Goetz
Sorry for the laymen question, but, is this language independent or only for English?
Why is "affording to be able to buy a home" should be our definition of living standard.

It seemed to me that we have chosen to increase the cost of living by spreading ourselves out and requiring cars and making homes investments.
In the Nevada desert? Pretty much the same as they are today: uninhabited.
AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform–Call It Mirrorworld
I would like to thank each and everyone for their response. I will go through the suggestions and see how I can incorporate them in my app and post an update later :)
I have a fond place for QBasic. I started to teach myself programming (as a 14 year old in the 90s) with GW Basic because my dad's older computer had disks and a manual. I quickly learned that if I upgraded to DOS 5 I could get QBasic and I did so along with a book from the library on QBasic programming. I tore into that book. I think I renewed by checkout as many times as they let me. I never stopped programming everyday from that day until well into adulthood. Now I have had some days where I haven't programmed in the last 25 years. QBasic was a life changing moment for me.
Right, just break all contact with the 5th largest world economy. That will show them...
30 grand is not that difficult to come for a middle class person [1]. Someone working a normal job with some sacrifices could save those money in like 5 years. Heck, people spend as much on cars. In fact, if you're so certain you will "make it big", take a 30 grand loan.

Still, few if any of them create a 50 million dollar business (or even an 1 million dollar one).

So there's that.

You think the only thing between you and "making it big" is 30 grand?

(1) (well, what americans call middle class, not what the British bizarrely call middle class, which means upper class very rich just no royalty)
> There are vast tracts of uninhabited land on earth, notably in the American West. Colonizing those would be vastly easier than colonizing Mars, and yet no one is even talking about that.

I think the principal problem here is that those places aren't on Mars.
If you want the quickest Android updates, you'll need either a carrier unlocked Google Pixel, or an Android One device. These are devices where there are fewer hurdles between a patch and your device.

If, for example, you have a Samsung device from Verizon, it goes something like this: Google releases new source code containing patch. Samsung takes a few months to roll it into their updates, and sends it to Verizon to Q&A. Verizon either pushes back or accepts it after some time. That whole process takes far longer than it should, partly because they are mixing security and features in the same updates.
Where is the line?

Breaking into concerts?

Breaking into homes?

Assault?

Murder?

Assassinating politicians?

Overthrowing elected governments?

People breaking rules is what makes society collapse.
Is that 15.5mph limit only for motor output on flat ground? I routinely hit 40-50mph downhill while commuting on my non-motorized road bike.
+1 for Florida. You can buy a 3 bedroom home on a barrier island within walking/biking distance to a pristine beach for $500k. Even less for a nice condo.
You should consider writing dialogue for Reagan-era action movie satires about muscle-bound heroes bravely fighting the red menace.

"China will never accomplish something that dramatic economically."

What China's accomplished in reducing extreme poverty, given their starting point under the Mao regime, is nothing short of miraculous. It has far wider reaching lessons for developing countries than Japan's post-war boom does.

"China's giants mostly can't leave their own borders and never will. The regressive command economy straight-jacket..."

When you have a billion + people, it makes sense to focus on that market first. Anyway, the US wouldn't be warning partners about Huawei if their equipment wasn't a key part of most nations' telecom infrastructure already.
Crypto Detective Firm Chainalysis Raises $30M
Thing is, as a teenager you're way more likely to take risks than when you're older, probably because you don't perceive the probability and consequences in the same way.

So whether you can describe this as "morally bankrupt" really needs to be taken in the context of his age at the time.
And they do. But what exactly is that line. Prurient content that empowers people? Banned. Content that literally allows control over non-consenting individuals based on their gender? Accepted.

This is like a serial killer who campaigns against littering. They have a line they won't cross, but we shouldn't accept it.
Just capturing might be possible - it doesn't have to be in form that can be easily used to generate energy.
I agree strongly regarding the book recommendation; it’s a really really good book.
VFEmail, a cloud email provider, hacked and all data destroyed
> I'm pretty sure we've managed to colonize a tract of uninhabited land at least a couple of times throughout history.

Without a connection to existing civilization, and without a source of easily accessible water provided by nature? No, we have never done that.
What do you make of this?

“Are You Ready To Consider That Capitalism Is The Real Problem?” https://www.fastcompany.com/40439316/are-you-ready-to-consid...

“Don’t Be Scared About The End Of Capitalism—Be Excited To Build What Comes Next” https://www.fastcompany.com/40454254/dont-be-scared-about-th...

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I have no time for ideologues (from whichever side of the aisle they come) who present capitalism and socialism as mutually exclusive alternatives to all sorts of problems real and imagined.
I used to work for Andrew and, although the story of the £30k wasn't common knowledge as such, we all knew the fact that he (and his friend Alex) started the company while at school and then Andrew made a great success of it.

The parties were real; I went to a few of them.
Thanks, so I gather it's normal to expect significant delays in security patches for most Android phones, with some exceptions.

People are talking about how _old_ phones don't get patches at all, but even most _new_ phones have "zero-day" vulnerabilities (cause zero day lasts for months apparently) for significant periods.

What a world! How is this okay?
Didn't they ban Infowars?

Conspiracy theories: not ok
Treating women as property: ok
Ah, I see. I was hoping there was an archive to download somewhere. Thanks!
The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska - Fairbanks offers an ongoing Aurora Forecast [0]. The site also includes a handy faq (scroll to the bottom).

[0] https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast
Remote work also enables low-density and rural living, which is far more carbon-intensive than urban environments. You may just turn someone taking the subway to work into someone taking their SUV to the grocery store, and heating/cooling their far larger house with four walls exposed to the outside.
Exactly, literally every place that is now inhabited was once an uninhabited tract of land that humans colonized. Humans are very good at living in almost every environment on Earth.
Google did not "plan this on purpose" - if anything, they managed to deal with the general crappiness of ARM hardware somewhat better than other Linux-on-mobile efforts did, which is why Android became dominant in the first place.
It's a hard topic.

On the one hand, we have the fact that tech is dominated by white dudes, who impose their culture on it. Many non-white-dude people can't work with that.

On the other hand, we have people who condemn DDD as an exclusionary acronym, because it could be interpreted as a bra-size. Many white-dudes think this is ridiculous.

Both sides have their idiots and we should not use them as a strawman to mark the bigger cause as dumb.
There's no hard line. All of those things, at different times, can be hugely beneficial and take society forward.

Many revolutions involved assault and murder (from the French Revolution to Cromwell).

May 68 was all about "overthrowing elected governments".

In the punk era "breaking into concerts" was routine -- and a way for poorer kids to afford seeing some bands they liked.

(There's a very nice scene in Cinema Paradiso for how kids/teenagers would also break/sneak/into cinemas to watch the film free -- or watch more adult films, a huge part of the old Italian culture, also common in other European countries).
Yeah apparently treating women as property doesn't violate Google's terms. Weird.
if BMW decided to limit their cars to roads approved by BMW, that’s their prerogative. Who are you to tell a private company what products they’re allowed to make? The correct solution is for consumers to buy the product that suits their needs.

It’s worth pointing out that the BMW approved roads have much better fatality statistics than the unapproved roads, and there’s almost guaranteed to be an approved road that goes within minutes of where you want to go anyway. Oh and some of those approved roads are exclusive to BMW and they’re really well made.

Or you can get the Jeep Cherokee, which drives really well on that dirt track.
Yes, I think this counts IAP subscriptions. Note that Netflix just stopped accepting payment that way, though, so for 2019 Apple's results will no longer include Netflix subscriptions.
There are parts of some jobs where perfection is required. People working at height don't drop anything (and there are cases where safety lines aren't possible). Surgeons don't get to just say "oops, my finger slipped" when holding a scalpel near your heart.

In "From the Earth to the Moon" [1], someone explains that the main problem of the Apollo 1 fire was that nobody thought to label that test "hazardous". Sitting on the ground was supposed to be safe.

We should expect perfection when writing C code, but we should also be clear that writing C is a hazardous activity, and not to be taken lightly. My surgeon is a human being, so I don't expect him to never make a mistake, but he's also a skilled and careful professional, and I do expect him to never make a 101-level mistake while holding a scalpel.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_HZr2otkg4
https://github.com/actix/actix-web/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=u...
> It’s still trivial in the grand scheme of things to avoid using Google/Amazon/Apple without breaking the laws. Good luck refusing to pay into the US government as a US citizen.

I would find it easier to move countries and change citizenships than to avoid the tech giants.
If you don't have any routing to deal with, component state is all you need. You can still move your business logic out of the view components and use lifecycle methods and event handlers to coordinate it, but the use case you are describing is the ideal case for vanilla react.
C++ CLion Docker Development Environment
Developing in a container with C++, CLion and Docker

https://github.com/loosechainsaw/clion_docker
It was much easier to get large credit facilities in those days, or indeed prior to the financial crisis (which was really a credit/debt crisis).

Round about the same time, my father had a credit limit of around £50k, across 3 different cards. He was a contractor earning around £100k/year, and given he was terrible with managing money, likely didn't have a great credit history.

Now in 2019 I earn around £100-150k a year, and my credit limit across 2 cards is £10k, with an immaculate credit history. I'm sure my card providers would increase it if I asked, but certainly not to £50k or even £30k.
OK, I"m a German investor with a board seat, and I insist that Reddit block subs featuring Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi content from appearing for users with German IP addresses. We still good?
Man those documentaries were crazy. I could almost have believed he'd just gotten over his head (in a too full of himself but not actively malicious way) until the end where he's pulling the same idiotic ticket scam from Magnesis while he was awaiting trial for Fyre Fest!
On the other hand, any argument which proposes that we should explore space because we are unable to solve problems on Earth is entirely foolhardy and fantastical.
Home and land ownership has been one of the main ways that the working class can accumulate wealth.

It's the average man's tried and true method of investing.
Those on the left (e.g. Owen Jones) think it is a pillar of The Establishment and those on the right think it is has a left-liberal bias.

I guess it is doing something right!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#21st_cent...
Plus Smart Speed is fantastic. I can listen to podcasts more quickly without actually speeding up the speech.
I don't think anyone is arguing that programming languages need to _keep adding_ features. I don't even think anyone is arguing that Go isn't successful already.

The argument is that the programming language should have the good features. Maybe that's an unwise stance, but it doesn't seem to be the one you're arguing against.
UK Firms Drowning in Breaches
Lots of shade being thrown at Microsoft, I don't think it's wrong to do that, but I also think that the real problem is being completely ignored -- corporate IT departments that demanded (still demand) IE due to some kind of "security policy".

A few of the places I've worked at had very strong policies about what software was installed on the corporate boxes, and IE was almost universally pushed due to "security reasons" even when it was widely known to be significantly less secure than any concurrent competing browser.

The thing I think about here is that the reason these enterprise websites are broken is not that they're compatible with IE, but that IE wasn't compatible with web standards, and thus sites were hacked at to fit within IE's brokenness. And now the entire world has moved to better conformance with web standards and organizations are stuck with what was an unsecure web browser years ago, and is getting even more unsecure going forward.

Corporate IT Security departments of old get the blame in my book. If they had simply said "nope, IE is not secure, it is not permitted on our systems" the world would literally be a better place. Instead they sent a strong demand signal that Microsoft simply fulfilled.
I strongly recommend Branko Milanovic's book The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality as an overview of poverty across millennia.
Good luck Remy, sounds fun!

Among other things, Remy and his family run an excellent front-end development conference in Brighton, UK (although I'm simplifying it a lot by calling it that) called ffconf (https://2018.ffconf.org/)
The “messing around” quote is from the interviewer, not the CEO.
Custom crawlers, API implementations and lots of automation. Like most search engines, it's not flawless, but it's getting better every day. :)
I think the original point was that you can practice and fine tune various techniques critical for Mars right here on Earth first. Makes sense to me. Let’s still reach Mars but let’s also make the best use of our resources here so we can minimise the failures over their. Not eliminate, but significantly reduce.
The details of the report say that games spending is more than 50% of in-app spending... so yes, it's game IAPs thus whales.
when I stated my argument I was accused of being ad hominem, making sarcastic, content-free snarks on barely related HN posts, arguing against enums is as stupid as arguing for null pointers (which ironically exist in golang too!), it's not minimalism if you don't have enums, it's intentionally lacking an elementary feature that does exist in almost every other modern (well, in even old) language, you can argue with "deal with it" just like it was the case with package management, error handling and many other features, that wouldn't be as bad as derailing the argument to "enums are not necessary"

also, I feel strong about getting rid of cancer, should I write a treatise about the importance of getting rid of cancer since you may consider that not very important too?
Most VPS hosters "share" CPU time between users on a host server (Which mean CPU type/speed doesn't mean much).

So it would be great if you could filter for that on serverhunter to paint a fair(er) picture, because a few hosters give dedicated cores by default.

When we tried benchmarks on the Hetzner Cloud we found that some servers had as low as 10% max CPU on a crowded host server, which makes sense as to why they charge 8 times more for dedicated CPU cores.
It's worth remembering that Microsoft had an explicit strategy to abuse standards in order to undermine competitors [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
I would hate to have to debug a scenario where this type of comparison gives an incorrect result.

I seem to remember the early days of Java where hashCode for string only looked at the first few characters - which had amusing results when storing URLs.
OK, but why?

It makes zero sense to go to Mars if we have enough uninhabited land available.
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Uber integrated with local payment processor Paytm and they are doing excellent. Apple may be "in their own world" to accept paytm terms, feels more of arrogance issues to me.
I don't say it's equivalent in safety, I say (and defend it with my example) it is even safer. Feel free to provide me with an example where C-style enums are more type-safe than the equivalent go constructs.

Readability-wise, this is disputable, the go version is a bit more verbose, but I can't imagine a developer not understanding what happens there at first sight.
The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
I just wish we could get all of our customers on board the "browser with non-security updates" train.
Also ironic, 15 years ago what we were worried about all the content our browsers couldn't handle. Now the problem is all the content our browsers can't not handle.
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The whole problem is that you only need one mistake in all those billions/trillions of LOC's, and your systems get 0wned. I'm pretty sure that "our standards for C programmers" don't include "programmer is guaranteed not to make any mistake, EVAR", whereas that's an entirely appropriate standard for automated, language-based security.
I think the problem is not just lack of dead tree removal but rather the combination of fire suppression AND lack of dead tree removal. Also of course, the encroachment into the forest by development / housing. A "natural, thriving forest" has regular fires but that isn't compatible with human housing / development.

I'm no expert, just what I've gathered from paying attention to the news.
your examples are weird - and ill try to explain if i wasnt able to.
I'm not saying that the blog is bad and you are explaining why the blog is good.

I'm saying it is hosted on blogspot and there is another main site which is a pypy.org . People dont think the way you do. Try it out - ask 10 people if they would open this blogspot page and ever click on the donate link. Pypy's blog is not shady - blogspot as a free hosting service is shady.

your examples of mozilla, etc blogs are super orthogonal - they are hosted on an authoritative domain. Again, I'm repeating - it has nothing to do with pypy. Its about blogspot.

You are again attacking my suggestion of static site - the reason i suggested that was because it was a python based site generator with a CMS. you can try to do a wix site or whatever. As long as its an authoritative domain.

Its not about me - its how people thing. You should go and check.
If your plan is to go to Mars, and you end up in Tacna, AZ, you're going to be real disappointed.
No, but "click to play" for javascript would be a good start.
Facebook allows users to post links into a feed, how does that make them a news publisher?
"Because when any politician gets on their hind legs to bray about rational actors and efficient markets, they sure as hell aren't talking about "utils" to the taxpayer, are they?"

Do you even mean this as a serious argument? Can your favorite field survive politician's (politician, from "polis", city, and "-tician", "person": 1. professional liar 2. scumbag 3. one who professionally holds office) handling of their terminology?

Nor can I find it a terribly serious argument that "common people", i.e., people who aren't in the field and don't know the definition, don't know the definition. That's just shy of begging the question, except there's a small sliver of people "in the field" who don't yet know the definitions, called students.

I'm trying my best to unpack your words into some sort of actual argument but I can't find it.
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Xiaomi Electric Scooters Vulnerable to Life-Threatening Remote Hacks
What use is equity if the company never goes public or never gets acquired?

Tokens can on the other hand have value even if none the above happens, and you get a liquid market much earlier. If the monetary policy of the token is reasonable, and the market cap shoots up for one reason or another in the future, you'd make a big buck.

But would you make any money on your equity of the market cap of the token would go up? Not necessarily.
https://appmaker.xyz/pwa-to-apk/
Is there a test to see if my device is vulnerable?
Ask HN: What types of independent software development have you tried?
So far I've identified:

Mobile (Android, iPhone)
Wordpress plugins
Your own web app (SaaS)
Gaming (Xbox, PS marketplace)

I'm self taught and I'm thinking WP might be best because competition is less and promotion easier.

Obviously, my own app would be the dream but that is really hard to pull off.

Anyone have any insight?
This might help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting#History,_society_and_...
Mimblewimble Compatible Lightning Network
ESP32 without a devkit is just a surface mount chip. It would be more fair to compare that with the RPi’s SoC alone.
The less-obvious difference between Mars and "anywhere on Earth" is that no amount of environmental (even tectonic) damage done on Earth is going to affect Mars. I'm not arguing that Mars is orders of magnitude harder than Nevada, but it covers the risk of "we fucked Earth".
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I simultaneously feel like, in this particular case, neither are the corporations themselves the cultural and moral enforcers, nor is deciding on where to draw the line on which norms to enforce relevant.

The former because the rights groups which criticize the corporations are the ones driving the supposed change and enforcing their own morality. Rights groups are probably better moral arbiters than corporations, on account of there being less conflict of interest. And the latter because, while the line can definitely be very hard to trace in various, more ambiguous situations, I really don't think this specific case is one of those. It feels like a slippery slope argument to me, specifically: "If we enforce this, what else are we going to end up enforcing?"