skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who also works at a bank (though not a large national one) I get the same feeling, though I understand it to an extent. Not complying to bank standards means you get dinged if you get audited. Getting dinged means you will most likely get your budget cut by an amount next quarter. Or get the group "reorganized".
Releasing React Native 0.59
It's a fantastic service and I'm glad to see it leave the experiment stage and become official. Highly recommended.
WebSQL is an interesting case: I like the capabilities it offers but it wasn't standardized more than “whatever a particular version of SQLite does” and that lead to things like https://blade.tencent.com/magellan/ because the attack surface was broader than anticipated.

I'd like it to come back but also in a more considered form with some API improvements — exactly the kind of thing you'd get out of it going through the standards process with more than one implementation.
Sending Commands to a Particle Electron with Programmable Wireless and Laravel
Pocket is owned by Mozilla.

But you're right, it does include support for Google search, by default, which is a third party. Not that that'd leak your financial details.
All banks are unethical?
P.s: I think people are confused. This isn't a fork? Basically AWS should have came out and said. "Hey folks we created brand spanking new OSS plugins with sepcific funxtionality for Elastic" and you can use them!
Someone decided we needed a pingpong table .. in an open plan office. Imagine trying to work with that noise.

There was a war of words for a few weeks between the pro and anti factions until someone discovered silent pingpong balls!
The corners on the windows did have a fairly large radius. Just not large enough (hindsight being 20-20). I think they knew about it and thought they had more than enough margin for safety and then never thought twice about it until aircraft started falling out of the sky.
How do the results change if you use multiplicative error rather than additive error? That is, rather than |x-p/q|, you use max(x/(p/q), (p/q)/x). This is sometimes useful when trying to approximate rationals.
Definitely interested in this. I had my genome sequenced at 23andme and they say I am at a higher risk for early onset Alzheimer's (My parents and grandparents were/are fine) because I have the two mutations they test for.

Just last year I was diagnosed with glaucoma, at the ripe age of 32. So I go to the eye doctor somewhat regularly now. Wonder if this is something I can start keeping track of, for science, or something.
I wonder which cloud service they are using to store the files.
> Is the interest on Debian dwindling?

On the contrary, the project is growing in terms of contributors, packages and internal projects.

https://reproducible-builds.org/ mostly came out from Debian (see https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds )

Despite the name "leader", the role of DPL is close to an ambassador with no power to tell other people what to.
The DPL appoints a handful of roles, then hand-on work is delegated and done by other people.

The drama on blogs and mailing lists is in no way representative of how most DDs feel about the project.
First and foremost, you have to be healthy, mentally, emotionally, and physically (yes, physically). If you are not up to par, get these out of the way, first. Go to the gym, sleep well, eat well, don't consume mind-altering substances (for me, even caffeine has been shown to hurt my performance), don't be in an unhealthy relationship that is a constant distraction. I like to think of mental performance as a racing engine. You can have a dirty fuel filter, and not notice it because the air filter is plugged, and the spark plugs are misfiring. Only once everything else is fixed, do you begin to feel the horsepower from all cylinders firing.

Another thing that has helped me immensely, is listening to Jordan Peterson. If you can get beyond his political bent, you realize that he has a lot to teach to motivate. The main take away that has helped me become motivated, is the realization that you must be working towards something that is both difficult, and will significantly change your life. Listening to his lectures has helped me go back to working on a project that I had stalled for a year, and I have been working 40+ hours on it each week for months now (In addition to my 40 hour regular job).
I'd hope not. An organization like the Wikimedia Foundation or Apache would be a better fit.
Radical plan to artificially cool Earth's climate could be safe, study finds
Debian is all over the place in embedded. It's pretty much the de-facto distribution (you see Yocto, Arch, Ubuntu server etc too) for consumer boards. Not sure what the distribution is in private industry, but typically manufacturers provide Debian images at a minimum. This is a problem for embedded systems because you're relying on a company to provide hardware-specific patches. While those are typically kernel patches (and so somewhat distro-agnostic), most people don't want the hassle of compiling their own kernel. That means you're likely going to be using Debian.
Security and stability, independence from financial interests of an owner.
It's almost as if it's not so much the language and the ecosystem, but the developers and their attitude that makes the difference.

It's so tempting to hope that the right language will make everything better, but it never does.
I wonder if they're running some malware scanners plus do they have to comply with DMCA takedowns? Based on what I see, the files are hosted on their servers, so they kind of have to, no?
Does air pollution kill nearly 9M people each year?
This would be unnecessarily harsh even if it were true.

It’s not, though. I know a data scientist who studied Arabic language. And software engineers who studied music.
Laszlo Bock (ex-Google HR Chief) has a whole section on his Work Rukes! book about this. It is always the bean bag, the hipster coffee, the ping pong table.

But are they copying you submit your own promotion case? Can any employee submit questions to the C-suite every week? Can you send a couple hundred dollars to anyone else at any time? Do they have ERGs?... and many more other things.

No, not that. So at the end of the day companies will copy the superficial visual easy stuff, while the things that really make the culture of a modern tech company are ignored, on purpose.

PS: Google is just an example, as some of these practices. Consider the whole before nitpicking one practice you don’t like before replying.
believe he'd like a s/part/party/ in there.

That said, it's more realistic they're delaying it because they don't want the bad press of the 737MAX to bring down the announcement of the new plane.
I've been using send.firefox.com for months and so far the only downside was the 1 day expiration. Very glad you can now opt for 7 days.
I'm with you on this one. I don't think it's any more cordoned off than before (in general—not commenting on certain countries' practices here). Any use of those larger services is completely optional—though I do feel a tad let down when the only offering for some content is a FB page or video.

There is more high quality content online than there ever was—if you know how to look for it. There's also a lot more crap.

I gather the perspective on the internet/web might be very different for people who were introduced post-Google, post-Facebook, etc. For many people those are the introduction, unfortunately. I'm glad Google is featuring some bit of history there, but those large services seem to like to promote that you stay within their walls. In that way I can see the disappointment.

To quote Billy Bragg— "You've got to take the crunchy with the smooth, I suppose"
Maybe this will reduce my spam rate. Also, this has increased my trust in ProtonMail.
I think GP interprets the quote as meaning that supporting standards was the primary goal of Firefox, rather than just something they did instead of supporting Microsoft's implementation.
Did you get the HTTP status code joke at the end? I was rather proud of that!
Unless you want to make a game...
Video: First Look at Ghidra (NSA Reverse Engineering Tool)
I think that refers to standard pro rata rights, which gives the right to invest in subsequent rounds of funding to maintain their ownership.

So they would have to invest their pennies :)
Developers didn't, Product Managers did.
What doesn't Brave render correctly? (Asking out of curiosity, not provocation.)
Radicle: A decentralized alternative to GitHub built on IPFS
Certain regulatory projects can be a lot of fun and interesting. I lead a stress-testing project for a big asset manager (a SIFI) and this was fun because stress tests force you to do 100x what you'd typically do once or twice.

Implementing stress tests drove us to

1. Massively scale infrastructure

2. Create elastic infrastructure to allow spikes

3. Re-do our models away from ad-hoc towards parameter models

4. Invest in more interesting compute models
They could also offer a realtime webrtc solution like snapdrop.net . Although i m not sure that works, it didn't work between my phone and desktop.
At maximum 200 downloads and an expiration of 7 days I don't think anyone will bother to be honest.
Haven't streamed before. Need some time to prepare
PayPal now lets US users instantly transfer funds to bank accounts in seconds
How "private" is it? Do you store metadata? i.e. if I upload a file and it expires, do you also delete any trace of me, including my IP address?
If they're committed to users' privacy how come there are so many FF "privacy tuning" scripts?

Nice service but how is that better than posting encrypted files on one of established web drives (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Keybase, etc?)? I can't imagine it's better and privacy-wise it's likely about the same.

Important fact: google is probably best at monetizing this crap, so FF likely can't squeeze more dollars out of the same amount of data, which is why I think this service will ultimately not become popular.
I can't believe that there isn't a simple service to transfer data between my cellphone and my computer without going through the internet. iTunes is terribly bloated, MTP is a mess, and Bluetooth is slow and frustrating.

Back in my hacker day I used to have an SSH server open on my cellphone and use it to transfer files back and forth with my computer. Why isn't there a mainstream service like that?
On a fairly broad-interest site I just checked, Safari is the second most-popular browser behind Chrome. Even if you exclude iOS, which doesn't make sense for most sites, it's in the same range as either Internet Explorer or Edge.
>what exactly it is the person wants to do (Analyze Data? Build an Analytics Pipeline/Architecture? Write Software/Services? Be an Analytics IT person?).

But you realize that the vast majority of businesses in North America need someone to solve all of those problems. They aren't going to hire and cna't afford an experienced data team of specialists.

This is the point of the article. Getting the 80% is far more valuable than having some PhD optimizing the hell out of features. Silicon Valley tends to overthink things.
Neat!

How do they handle abuse though? Like, people using it to host, say, pirated TV shows? Maybe a max download limit that makes it impractical for that use case?
There's also a command line interface somewhere
Huh, is'nt Brave built on libChromium?
That's a shame :(

FWIW I'm on 65.0.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 18.04.2 and have had no major issues. I use Firefox exclusively and use my browser heavily all day long.
I've used this before to send sensitive documents to my attorney, who would have otherwise just wanted email attachments. It worked great.
Firefox has been rock solid on my Linux box for the past 6 years or so. Are you downloading it from Mozilla, or from your distro’s package manager?
this doesn't seem that impressive technology wise, but maybe i'll remember to use it.
Free tool to test any Android application security and privacy
The future of work is distributed
...Yes, It did. The dialer was proprietary but it fully initialized the network stack on the OS. You just had to leave it open like you would any PPP or SLIP client. IP? winipcfg

Maybe your friend had some ancient Win95 build without a full TCP stack installed by default?
> What is your point exactly, that developers use new features of APIs/libraries?

Exactly. We use whatever new standard makes our live easier. If Firefox or Edge don't support that standard (because they are always lagging behind), there's not much we can do (except going the hard way and implementing workarounds for each browser, which is a no-no most of the time, because of lack of manpower/time). "My website requires Flex support" is pretty much the equivalent of "My game requires DirectX 11".
I could keep throwing money into my stock portfolio, did I make it better, or worse?

The only metric that matters here is ROI.

Did YC increases its ROI and produce a higher percentage of successful startups during Sam Altman’s time? This is the question to answer, and the one upon which he shall be judged. Everything else is pure vanity.
npm orgs are free, but the org has to be created before you can publish to an org's scope.
Why not Canonical/Ubuntu ? After all they are presumably the most affected by the state of Debian. Just a couple of days ago I made a comment along these lines in a different thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353816

> While this is sad and painful to read, I can't say I'm surprised.
>
> The problems listed are precisely the kind of problems that Redhat
> strategically supports fedora with, in terms of investment of resources.
> For all the hate Redhat receives it has consistently been a good
> community member by being willing to help fedora in areas that it knows
> are hard and yet not 'cool' enough to attract volunteer contributions.
>
> What has Ubuntu done for the debian community along the same lines?

To further contrast this difference, here's what Redhat does for fedora and OSS in general:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions

https://getfedora.org/sponsors

versus:

https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi

https://www.debian.org/partners/

https://www.debian.org/mirror/sponsors

Of course, that doesn't stop 'em from throwing in lip-service:

https://www.ubuntu.com/community/debian

https://www.canonical.com/projects
Only when they moderate people they don't like.
It's already been established however that if the pilots follow the original checklist then they would be disabling it as part of those steps. With the first crash it was decided that they quit following the steps and kept fighting the stick until it was too late.
Good question, but I don't know and haven't really done anything substantially related that might even give us a hint.

Hopefully someone else chime in on this thread. ;)
I seem to remember that there was an app on android that allowed you to access your files via a webserver you could turn off and on. I used that a lot before I got nextcloud.
I can't really post what I wrote. The "Ctrl and Enter" info is easy to miss, as it's in the 2nd line of the hint, and it disappears once you enter the first character. No other clues are left on the screen from then on. This isn't great UX. And it doesn't work anyway: it doesn't seem to do a thing on neither Firefox nor Chrome. (I'm on Windows 10).

Other than that, I don't want to sound mean, but I fail to see much point of the whole "digital toilet wall" thing.
To put it mildly. For readers not in the UK: cashpoint machines do not give out £50 notes so if you want to get one you'll have to visit a bank and ask specially. Visiting a bank is rather difficult these days unless you are unemployed and live in a city centre and even then you might find it boarded up after the latest ram raid.
2.5GB file limit is a bit small for good quality TV shows (and especially movies).
UK has grounded all Boeing 737 Max aircraft
Read the letter, the same angst that really has nothing to do with the web other than highlight it made it easier for the bad actors in society to affect more people faster. you are not going to fix his list of issues until you fix mankind. worse is that not everyone will agree on all the items listed, some may be absolutes but others are far more often a product of where you are in this world.

so yeah, we have a problem, the web just puts it in the face of everyone at once
You're making discussion about 350 lives lost potentially due to design failures into discussion about statistics. Such a cold-hearted approach won't find you much support anywhere.

Clearly most people react very differently to this topic compared to you, even purely for-profit companies start to do so.
> people come and go

Given the murkiness of GP-level VC economics, it’s often tough to evaluate departing managers. Altman, by running YC more like a company or institution than traditional VC firm, offers a unique opportunity to examine that part of Silicon Valley.

I also think his tenure raises valid questions of what early-stage investing should look like and aspire to be. Operationally limited and difficult to access but de-centralised, i.e. friends & family and angels? Or involved and more accessible but centralised?
AWS Intends to Fork Elasticsearch
Ask HN: How to do this? Substituting a general word with a random particular?
For a pet project I need general words substituted with a random particular.

Example, if I write [country] [color], it could give out: Argentina Green or India Blue. Or anything random from the set of all terms having a country name followed by a color name.

I have looked into wikidata, but results haven't been satisfactory.
Gateway to the Moon
There is end-to-end encryption, so unless they have homomorphic virus scanners I don't see how they would do this...
The files are available up until they have been downloaded (from 1 to 100 times) or until a certain timeframe has elapsed (from 5 minutes to 7 days). See the screenshot at the article.
Queue Management System and Customer Experience – RSI Queue
It'd be great to understand a bit more about how you'd like to see this working. The WAF product team report into me so I can get a discussion going with the right people if you'd like to email me: david.mytton@stackpath.com
Sprint steps up fight against AT&T’s “fake 5G”
Even single episodes?
I must say I am disapointed.

I thought this would be some cool realtime system to send from browser to browser, using WebRTC or something. Something that doesn't involve them paying for file servers, by the way.

I believed in Mozilla ! But no, here we are and I just don't see the difference between this and Mega.

EDIT: except for the auto-deletion trick that addresses the piracy problem. But still...
KDE connect works without internet access. I haven't used it on Windows, but it works fine for me on Ubuntu.
In the Apple ecosystem, there's AirDrop which uses either Bluetooth or Wifi. You can quickly share files between any iOS and Mac devices very simply.
Number of requests don't really matter anymore with HTTP2 which also means you only need to include the SVG images you actually use of each page. You can use SVG sprite sheets if you really want them in a single file.
You can search for "B38M". The top two are the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes.
It takes a whole lot more to build a business than technical chops.
What about https://syncthing.net/?

EDIT: I know you said without going through the internet. Syncthing can be configured to only transfer over specific networks (e.g. home LAN/WI-FI)
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Not even getting everything else right works, you need ALL of it right, including the backup email address, when the account was created, last password, location, some captchas, and the backup phone number.

Once one of my Google Accounts was taken over by a hacker (I had reused the password on another site, which was hacked around that time), and even although Google warned me that someone was trying to take over my account, and told me someone was logging in from Russia (I always logged in from the exact same IP address from which I tried to recover it), and even though a friend at Google submitted an internal request to get me the account back, and even though I sent them a photo of my ID (with the Google account having that exact name in it), they refused to help me.

Google support did try to reach out to me, as I later figured out, but they had instead contacted me via the hacked email account, I only found the "thanks for your support chat" mail in the account after I regained access.

Which I was only able to do so by talking to the person who now owned the phone number I had used a decade before for that account (the ISP had long recycled it).
So... which is it? I don't know what "pro rata rights to follow in their agreement" means. Are they "locked in" at 7% regardless of other funding rounds or do they have the option to buy in to future rounds to keep 7% ownership?
Tangentially related - I've always thought it's dumb that I can't just plug my iPhone in to any PC and have it show up as a removable storage device.

I'm sure people who know more than me will give me a list of great reasons why it's not straightforward to implement...

But it doesn't change the fact that I have this incredible device (iPhone X) with 256gb of blindingly fast NAND flash storage, of which I am only utilizing 30gb, yet I still have to tote around a f*ing stupid little plastic USB dongle if I want to copy some files around.
In the past 20 years I've lost multiple files to bit rot on NTFS. In my opinion, the primary purpose of a filesystem is to reliably store data. Checksumming is not particularly complex technically, does not impose significant run time costs, and allows the filesystem to at least detect when data has been damaged. Unless there's some other very compelling reason to not do checksumming, it's reasonable to consider it's omission to be a de facto bug.
That should be fine, though I'm pretty sure I have some episodes that are above that.
Syncthing is fantastic for this (and file transfers between computers over LAN and/or internet), unless you happen to have an iOS phone.
https://send.firefox.com/legal

> We receive IP addresses of downloaders and uploaders as part of our standard server logs. These are retained for 90 days, and for that period, may be connected to activity of a file’s download URL. Although we develop our services in ways that minimize identification, you should know that it may be possible to correlate the IP address of a Send user to the IP address of other Mozilla services with accounts; and if there is a match, this could identify the account email address.
A bit of poking around leads me to prod.send.prod.cloudops.mozgcp.net so Im assumping Google CloudCloud.