skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the remote workstation idea is a bad idea. For me, in order to be a proper development machine it would need to have a fully local IDE with a remote terminal so I can run docker, test cases, database commands, etc.

The VSCode Docker image recently discussed is a huge next step if the input and scroll were to be fixed.

I used to use the dev version of cloud 9 on my VMs and code in the browser. It worked really, really well. Getting that right for the iPad would be quite exciting.
And pledging to continue supporting NPAPI definitely doesn't make sense.

NPAPI is dead. There are no longer any mainstream browsers which support it; as such, upstream development of NPAPI plugins has largely ceased. NPAPI plugins present a significant attack surface, especially ones which interpret code like Flash and Silverlight, so continuing to support them presents a significant risk to users.
For reference, Lidl (a German discount supermarket chain) advertises that ~50% of their bottles' PET comes from recycled bottles.
I would say that OpenBSD focuses on correctness (security being a subset of correctness) and documentation while FreeBSD focuses on performance.

Personally, I find OpenBSD much nicer and simpler. The performance isn't impressive though.
Meaning of the word is defined by it's use, not by a dictionary.
I very specifically wrote "processed food products optimized for production costs and shelf life".
One more fucked-up data point about the for-profit health care system:

before the ACA, I was also unable to purchase health insurance from anyone at any price.

Why? Because, in 2004, I had my gallbladder out. Then I moved overseas for a year and a half, and didn't have an American-based health insurance plan. I came back, and boom, I have a "lapse in insurance" and a "pre-existing condition".

The ACA at least let me buy health insurance, although the plan is so expensive and so shitty I can't really use it for anything.

American health care is garbage, and we desperately need a radical change in how we care for people here.
There needs to be something along the lines of the iron law of wages, but for developer machines. Something like:

"If you are unable to run the tools needed to further create software on the machine itself, then said machine cannot be considered a developer machine."
Certainly a large number of people with significant inherited wealth are useless. It is one of those things where there is ample anecdotal evidence and even presidential evidence. I know one people who denies this. My friend who inherited a bunch of wealth, like 20 million.

Being that wealthy doesn't mean you'll be happy or not struggle, but it makes a lot of things easier. There are a lot of people who can barely feed their kids, will they get the opportunity to achieve to their ability? Lot harder for them than for you.
I have heard from a guy on IRC that openbsd's biggest flaws are the network stack and file system options compared to freebsd and gnu/linux.
I think you need better sources
You'd either need a different rack design per particular server or a rack that is overdesigned for 99% of servers plugged into it (e.g. different speeds/counts of network connections). If the thought is the servers will be static for the lifetime of the rack does wiring up a preset rack to a switch really save any time from wiring up preset server designs to a switch?

I think it's probably best kept modular.
I think -and it depends on the corporate culture / industry- the value of culling toil, ergo using tech as force multiplier for tech problems, is both beyond their grasp and is a threat to the status quo.

Much like the type of fuel injection used in a combustion engine is irrelevant to most people that use their car.

If you are managing a hauling company and a brand type of fuel allows you to save 20%, you can see the value but you also know that it means updating your fleet, infra and all the costs and hassle associated with that. Which means that while you are keen on making those savings, you probably will not roll out fleet update ASAP.

I think this is how in companies which are not pure IT players, management might see those situations. Yes there is some value in reducing the toil but the perceived costs are too high for them to be fully on board, and I guess it's because their perspective is too rooted in the physical world (i.e my example).

Not that there are no costs when automating toil management in IT, it just doesn't map 1 to 1 to the real world equivalents.
The article was like the security equivalent to an anti-vaxer blog post.

First, AV bake-offs are a racket that gets security companies to hand over their malware samples or pay to be "excluded," from the bake off. So anyone with advantageous data either gives that up, or pays to be left out of the test. There is nothing honest about their benchmarks or methods. Bake-off companies are scumbags, and this ZDNet reporter got taken.

Second: Hard problem with malware detection on mobile is that there is no privileged role to do analysis from. It's not like you can root the phone and do syscall interception. The best they can do is analysis of apps you can find, and to do automated software analysis at scale is some very interesting work.

However, If you are the target of a custom APT, there isn't a lot anyone can do.

There are a few startups who are doing automated dynamic analysis and working on symbolic execution problems to further this. That the industry has not solved it yet does not make them fraudulent.

Third, Android malware includes:

- fake repackaged apps with adware or spyware.
- spyware installed by 3rd party
- malware that roots the device
- whatever all those dodgy 2FA and password manager apps are.
- apps with libraries with known vulnerabilities (think image processing, overflows, etc)
- apps that hoover up your data (txts, contacts, browsing, etc) and send it to authors.

The security model of mobile devices (iOS and Android) enforce hard limits on what is possible in terms of security value add by a non-OEM vendor. OEMs are worse than useless, and so app vendors have moved into the game. The threat model apps mitigate is patchy, but it suffices for most consumer and enterprise use cases. However, if you antagonize a government and get targeted custom malware, it would seem naive to think an app vendor is going to protect you.

While I have no remaining affection for any vendors in that space, to call them fraudulent is sensational, if not obnoxious.
Thank you for this wealth of information!

I will definitely look through, and after digging around a bit I'd love to get some pointers. I have been curious about this for a long time, but uncertain where to look, so this is very exciting. Thank you again :)
I had an "aortic root reconstruction" by open heart surgery about 18 years ago, and my animal-tissue valve will no doubt need replacement sometime reasonably soon.

At that time, I made the optimistic prediction that by the time I needed a replacement, they will be able to grow me a new valve from my stem cells, and install it laparoscopically.

Well, 50% ain't bad, I guess.
Reminds me of this famous list from the 90s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_com...
Good on you for standing up for yourself. I hope everything worked out in the end!
It's not a punishment; that sort of language is tantamount to sophistry. The tax structure in the US sucks, especially with how, the more you have, the more you can dodge supporting the country that obviously made you so very rich.

But, it's not a punishment. It's just a shitty set of laws -- fortunately, laws can change.
Re: one-way bottles, it was not always that easy. When the one-way deposit was introduced in ~2004, shops were only required to take their own SKUs back. This was absolutely horrible for consumers and producers alike, so retailers introduced the shared system voluntarily.
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The OpenBSD people implemented an interesting insight recently. Now a microphone attached to a OpenBSD system does not work by default. You need to actively turn on a sysctl as root to activate the microphone. So to get eavesdropping access on a default OpenBSD system you need to root the system, which makes that access somewhat harder to obtain.

The moral here is that microphone access should be treated differently than access to the rest of the audio system. You can get more protection through software than we normally get.
Understanding the Memcached Source Code-Event Driven II
I think that is a bit like saying Xerox parc guis were all pixels which certainly isn't oop. Modern guis are mostly OO code that targets the Dom or generates HTML on the server
The idea of Pale Moon sounds good, it's a shame (most of) the community and the developers are drooling retards.
TESTING!!!
Wow, that got out of hand quickly. Like in a matter of minutes.

At first I was thinking, "Oh, neat. A browser I know nothing about. Maybe I'll give it a try."

After reading how multiple Pale Moon people acted in that thread, I'll pass. I've worked with people like that in the past, and I don't want to support them in any way, or validate their work.
And php does it both ways with its type hinting...

function foo(string bar): string {
return “y u do this”;
}
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19397957
Throthled performance might midly annoy some of the users, some of the time. Battery lasting less than 8 hours would enrage everyone very quickly.
Worse than that: he threatened to sue OpenBSD 3 hours after the OpenBSD developer working on the port specifically asked for permission to use different compile flags on Palemoon forums!
Doesn't sound like you have standing, but the original academics who authored the original article do.

They might could care less, or they may send a cease & desist, takedown, or more aggressive action.

If you just reach out to them, no matter what happens, you did the right thing, and hopefully it'll bring the competitor down the right way.
I don't have a smart watch, so I assumed it connects to your phone via Bluetooth. Is that not the case? Otherwise how can you leave the house without your phone also?
I often wonder how much of the plastic in the ocean actually came from "recycled" plastic being shipped to another country for burning and/or burial.
We can just admire, appreciate, and enjoy what AI produce for us.

What scares me is when AI start to generate "art" for other AI.
> The only one I know of is that you have to go to about:config to disable Javascript.

And I frankly don't see any problem with that.

The modern Web requires Javascript. Most major web sites will fail to work properly without it, often in confusing ways. (For example, Youtube will just display as a bunch of gray boxes.) Hiding a setting whose effect, for most users, is effectively to "break" the browser, is entirely appropriate.
I am amazed at the general level of understanding regarding this sort of thing. People simply don't know enough, on average, to even make an informed decision about this stuff.

They think the FBI is gonna sit and watch or listen to a recording. They have no idea this is gonna sit as text in a database forever to be searched against later.
Neuzz: A neural-network-assisted fuzzer(S&P 19)
I am lead author of NEUZZ, a neural network assisted fuzzer. We build a NN model to learn dynamic program behaviors and use the NN model to guide mutation of fuzzer. NEUZZ outperforms AFL and other fuzzers by 3X more edge coverage on the 10 real world programs evaluated in the paper. Please find more detail of this work below.

Paper URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05620

Code URL: https://github.com/Dongdongshe/neuzz
Best of luck to them but it is an uphill battle. The number of addons that are still updated for the pre-webextension system is really small. The last time I tried to use Pale Moon for an old extension I found that it wasn't worth it because so many other extensions were either out of date or just unavailable. I keep Waterfox around for the rare times I need to use an old extension since it can also use current ones as well.
That's true, but it's just a shame for the millions of pieces of content out there in flash that risk becoming lost.
Is that anything more than a sentiment? It's easy to come up with counter-examples. For example, it's easy for me to "innovate" myself into a 15-foot hole in the ground, and likely impossible to innovate myself out of it without outside help.
How long the customer expects the web service to properly function:
The shorter the time - the more canned stuff you can probably integrate into a solution.
The longer the time - less reliance on external dependencies.

Security - as much as you can, use common sense and current best practices. If there are data laws/financial concerns regarding it's function, then you will need to follow any requirements of those.
It would muffle it slightly. It would still give an attacker perfectly usable sound.
The "Three R's" have been a thing forever. https://home.fandom.com/wiki/Reduce,_reuse,_recycle

"Refuse" sounds like you're just repeating the point of Reduce (=> Reduce consumption). And "Repurpose" is exactly the same as "Reuse".
Waterfox - it's like Pale Moon but started as a 64 bit version of Firefox.

They can pry my NPAPI plugins out of my bare hands.
Emacs org mode definitely got this right. Storing everything as json feels like an ok choice, but there is a huge advantage to storing in the repo exactly what you review.
As far as I can tell, they don't even have a trademark on Pale Moon

(EDIT): Ah shucks, USPTO TESS links don't work correctly. Anyway just search for "Pale Moon", I couldn't find anything relevant.
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/
Wait, this just gets weirder the closer you look at it.

Pale Moon's developers will threaten legal action if you use the wrong compile flags for their software??!
Yup. Metals are actually worth recycling. Little else is.
Pocket to start. Phoning home to check certs. Things like that. It's so bad guides have been featured on hackernews before, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16135875
Progress seems to always be extremely slow, and then it just happens remarkably fast. The scary part is you never know when the punctuated equilibrium will flip. Take CRISPR for example... sheesh.

You never know when they'll figure out scaffolding, could be sooner than you think. Could be later. Hopefully sooner.
This was probably posted here because of the book promotion articles referring to Beto O'Rourke's hacker culture history, which is directly connected to this whistle, and the subsequent solder hacks on Radio Shack phone dialers to emulate said whistle's 2600 Hz tone.

So there is at least an indirect current events element to it. Fun times were had once.
Recyclables, Please! Steam greenlight that stat. I’d buy it. Maybe the plot twist is you’re homeless all along!
More than 4 languages. I also like 3 Scheme dialects and also Ruby.

I am getting interested in Swift also since the Swift ‘turtles all the way down’ version of TensorFlow is under development and looks good.
For those who don't know (as I didn't), Kryoflux is

> a software-programmable FDC system that connects to a floppy disk drive and a host PC over USB... reads "flux transitions" from floppy disks at a very fine resolution... the device operates on data bits at the lowest possible level with very precise timing resolution, it allows modern PCs to read, decode and write floppy disks that use practically any data format or method of copy protection to aid in digital preservation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KryoFlux
I agree. Unfortunately, Americans are not all multi millionaires or billionaires and almost all Americans are too stupid to realize that they won't be able to afford their own healthcare without a "socialized" government run system. Such stupidity is a hallmark trait of such an individualistic, selfish society in which people cannot think of others or or collective action. Other traits are high levels of depression, anxiety, and drug abuse due to isolation and the complete lack of community. But hey, at least you can watch your neighbor die slowly of cancer he can't afford to get treatment for from afar. That seems to be something Americans enjoy.
How does this work if you're not a citizen or resident? Do you just pay cash?
There was an ad for Impella (a form of mechanical circulatory support - basically advanced life support) during the Super Bowl 1-2 years back [1]. Which is basically even more absurd than advertising aortic valve replacement...

1 = https://www.ispot.tv/ad/ArZf/protected-pci-impella-25
It's not just bottles. Manufacturers must register packaging materials they use on their products with a central register and pay fees for all the packages they produce. Since january 2019 a revised form of the law is in force which also applies to packages used by online distributors, e.g. amazon has to pay fees for the cardboard packages it wraps around the manufacturer's pre-existing packaging for which the latter has already paid.

There also are mandatory recycling quotas.
I've just read the thread and I agree with the Pale Moon devs. The redistribution conditions were clear and the build system easily allows you to disable the official branding.

The Pale Moon devs weren't super polite about it, but they were objective and clear in their statements.
WeWork, OpenAI, WEF headline $200M plan for 30-acre jewel of Presidio
Funniest thing I've ever seen on github.

https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
> That is the issue that should get resolved with time.

Bear in mind that this hasn't happened for the other major overdiagnosis issue (cancer screening), and the best solution found so far there is to screen less. This really isn't the sort of thing where natural technological progress is enough to be comfortable saying things like "it'll get resolved with time". There are already counterexamples to what you're saying, it's not a matter of an "adjustment period".
The 'many' part is questionable - some sure. But yes scooter analogy works better than the original! (9.5 million scooters and motorcycles sold in 2017 in ASEAN region where they are most popular - vs 80M cars globally.)
You say that as if Silicon Valley is subject to the law in the same way as you or I.

They learned to pay off DC around when Microsoft was taken to the anti-trust woodshed.

Now they are beyond accountability. Especially once it's clear to everyone that they control election results to a wide degree.
After sideswiping 4 Ferraris this guy could only pray for a miracle
It's a dime now, with 90% + recycling rates. But 30 cents is huge.
Convenient for the built-in Xserver, but not open source.
There is also another tool called `pynb` (by the same author) that can be used to achieve human-readable format. The logic is a bit different there, since it generates a .py script file with markdown cells appearing as Python comments.

example diff: https://github.com/minireference/noBSLAnotebooks/commit/9005...

script: https://github.com/minireference/noBSLAnotebooks/blob/master...

pre-commit hook: https://github.com/minireference/noBSLAnotebooks/blob/master...
That may be true, but it needs to be dealt with in some way that won't expose an outdated and insecure plugin to potentially malicious content. (Especially since plugins aren't even sandboxed in these browser forks.) If there's really interest in preserving old Flash content, then perhaps people need to work into forward-looking ways of preserving that content, like a JS-based viewer.
And not to forget: College

There's a reason I was comparing healthcare costs per capita, because then we don't have to argue about things like total tax rate, because it doesn't matter. US taxes wouldn't need to increase.
Do you actually have anything to add to the diacussion though? I contrasted Rachel Maddow and Fox News with examples. You just want to shake your head and downvote, fine, but don't add a comment like this with absolutely no substance.
The zen never says TOOWTDO, it says TO(APOO)OWTDI. (That's "there's one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do it.)

`reduce(op.add, [x, y])` works. Python could remove it's infix ops and use only prefix ones. But prefix ones aren't obvious. And as Guido says, readability matters.
Does Light Experience Time?
Congratulations. You have just helped take away the #1 support mechanism for our SaaS. Can I just redirect all my irate customers to your email when they cannot reach our support team within minutes like they do now after installing your extension?
> The Pale Moon devs weren't super polite

The weren't super polite. In fact, they weren't polite at all. They were rude and demanding. I can't blame anyone for not wanting to collaborate with them after reading that thread. I wouldn't.
So, do they?? Can you tell if that's the case?
Link doesn't work.
It all depends on the type of work you do. I work on the latest top of the line macbook pro issued by work as well, and for me it's too slow. Running the company's php app along with all the other dependencies like MySQL/Redis/etc takes a significant amount of resources. All development is done locally on the dev laptops, bugs are reproduced and fixed on local dev laptops. At this point I almost wish that my laptop was a terminal so that I could have access to more resources like RAM (currently at 16 GB).
In more ways than one, yes.
Crash Bandicoot has a highly entertaining development story as well. They straight up violated Sony's hardware rules, and Sony was so desperate, they let them.

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ba...
I don't understand part of the guide that says:

> To have your item pages removed, please email info@archive.org from the email address used to upload the files.

What does "...from the email address used to upload the files" mean?

If my posts in Google+ are "archived", >>I<< do not have an email address which was used to upload the Google+ contents... . What am I misunderstanding/overlooking ? Thx
It really depends on whether you value apples or oranges more highly.

My understanding is that paper fares better on the litter front, since even the stuff that escapes landfills still degrades quickly, while plastic tends to fare better on the carbon footprint front, because it's lighter (which reduces fuel burned to ship things) and less energy-intensive to manufacture.
This conversation would be improved by responding or refuting to the specific points made in the video instead of generalized comments
>Phoning home to check certs.

You mean OCSP/CRL? Every browser does that.
Good point. Fortunately, that seems to have been mandated by law since 2006 (at least for stores larger than 200m² ≅ 2150 sq ft).
Recycling will never be profitable, but we can't just keep burying trash and forgetting about it, or maybe we can, I don't know.
Types on the right reads better on those examples (read ":" as "is a(n)" and "=" as "which is").
Wow, those guys sure know how to not make friends. Last I checked choice of bundled or system libraries is normally reserved for distro packagers, and one would really hope the system libs win out wherever possible!
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You even get cheap powerbanks with solar integrated.
Are you referring to the vim emulation plugin in VS Code?
In oregon every store has to accept returns of at least what they sell, even convience stores.
I just threw this together for fun :) Feedback welcome!
Adding custom flags to a configure script is just so far outside the norms of free software development, what else can they do?