skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if they were writing iOS apps as a side hustle instead we'd be championing them here

If that were the case, I'd wager there'd be a similar number of "BrandonM" style comments about how what they're building "doesn't need to be an app" and was how they could have made a better version over the weekend.
Thank you for providing App Review Times for so long. I used (and gave my own results to) this service. I wish you good luck in your next adventure.
We're doing that right now with most international destinations. We just don't have a Canadian printer. It's likely I'll start printing them here in the Boston area for Canadian users. The US and Canada offer super fair postage rates for first-class mail.
"LED display" term is commonly used for LCD displays where backlight is also actively controlled to increase dynamic range.
You can't put aside the pension funding politics but still want to pay the USPS more, since the price of postage fees is set by federal law and must be approved by Congress. The reason you pay below cost to the USPS is because Congress demands it.
Known by whom? The majority of government agencies and international NGOs disagree with you.
EU migrants no extra burden on taxpayers in more generous welfare states
I'm confused as to why someone would even want them to change the codebase - is this just an example of the "newer is better" problem we have here in tech? Is there something glaringly obvious about Rust that would make the effort worthwhile?
I dunno about you, but I don't trust either the US or China. Doesn't matter what their publicly stated intentions may be.
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The easy way to get someone to stop filming would have been to wait, as Glass could only film short clips.

I’m was never about to assault anyone over filming me, but when I was using Glass, I never once filmed something without their permission, but I did see lots of people secretly trying to record “this guy with Google Glass”.

The fear was overblown and most people were hypocritical about it.
Supposedly, the GDPR handles point #1.
This conversation reminds me of discussions around cryptographic hash functions:

https://slideplayer.com/slide/12035043/69/images/28/Reaction...

Google clearly considered it an important enough issue to spend considerable resources on trying to mitigate Spectre and in the end only gave up because they didn't find a feasible way to do so. They emphatically didn't conclude that it's fine because attacks are impractical.

This attitude was learned the hard way though: about a decade ago the PoC or gtfo attitude was prevalent among browser makers and large tech companies. Theoretical vulnerabilities were dismissed if no immediate proof of concept was provided.

What changed this was a bunch of security/cryptographical vulnerabilities. MD5 was known to be theoretically week for years and years, but when researchers minted their "can break every SSL/TLS connection" intermediate certificate to finally make browser vendors move on the issue, it was too late.

You see with systemic issues, in cryptography or hardware, by the time you actually demonstrate a PoC, things are way too late: it takes years if not half a decade (as in MD5's case, or with older TLS versions) to deprecate insecure things, if you look at the timelines.

So for issues in fundamental building blocks, it's more or less irrelevant if there is a working PoC today or not: if we don't move to fix the underlying issue and start acting on a roadmap to move away from insecure things, people _will_ come up with a working exploit that allows practical attacks. If mitigation is only attempted at that point then we're being left vulnerable for years to come.
This article fails to mention that Mountain View has been blocking improved transit to service the office park in the area for at least a decade.

(Starting a private bus service wasn’t Google’s “plan A”. Their preferred approach was to get the city set up adequate service between the Mountain View train station and surrounding office parks.

Although a buy of new housing is finally going in, it’s clearly too little and too late.

Anyway, needing to ban shanty towns usually means you suck at being mayor (at least in city simulators).

Maybe they’ll take the housing and transit shortages more seriously moving forward.
The time window is very important here. csh, for instance, famously crashed all the time.
Linux Privilege Escalation via LXD and Hijacked Unix Socket Credentials
I think nobody talks about automated trains because they actually work.

A handy map of projects worldwide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications-based_train_con...

A little story about the MTA's experience:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMT_Canarsie_Line#Automation_a...
this is why I'm working on this http://foxie.cool we need an easier and simpler way to interact with the world around us!
If I want to browse a site without it cluttering up my auto complete history.

Say you want to order an engagement ring for your girlfriend but don't want WEDDING RINGS R US showing up when you type "r" in the address bar
This is happening everywhere with all kinds of government services. "Slash budgets" and by firing full time employees and cutting investment, piecemeal it out to the lowest-bid contractor, the quality of service deteriorates, not much money is actually saved, but someone gets rich(er)!
CRTs consume so much power that the beam current is negligible. The comparison is with backlit LCD screens, which have to have the backlight on regardless of how many black pixels you have.
Continuous visual testing for Jenkins builds with Percy
US aviation officials think a bird strike was factor in 737 Max crash
“Just when you're getting going, the rug is getting pulled out from under you.”

What do you mean with that?
> Every other car with lane assist has a warning light in the corresponding side view mirror.

Well, maybe every other car except for Acuras, but who's counting.
They have a dark mode but it’s activated with a toggle in the interface, and not with the prefers-color-scheme media query.
We're already seeing a similar effect through privately run communication systems like Facebook too, though.

Facebook has clearly failed to take responsibility to combat fake news, as some of the most serious solutions to the problem pose existential threats to their entire business.

On top of that, we're also seeing high-profile figures and politicians pushing propaganda successfully without the need for censorship (the Obama birtherism conspiracy, the Jade Helm conspiracy, etc.) Whether or not they're willingly doing so is up for debate, but some of the conspiracies being pushed are inflammatory, ridiculous, and damaging to our civil discourse.

The heads of major political parties get to decide what is real information and what is fake now; they don't need censorship to do this.

Look at how many plainly absurd lies this administration has pushed about the most inane things (the inauguration attendance) to the most serious things (Trump dictating the false statement on the June 2016 meeting, etc.)

There's just no longer an incentive to have a good-faith debate on anything.
Thanks, Dave. Your site helped us understand when we had to submit our app to be live on specific deadlines. Most of the time it was pretty accurate.

But I am glad we no longer need an site like this because Apple improved one of the worst parts of the AppStore (from dev POV).
They are not uncommon on laptops, and quite common on phones. And, I have a couple on my desk at the office.
For comparison, the entire NSF budget for next year is around $7B. That would just about cover the imaging component of building a speculative and ethically-questionable data set, assuming someone else pays for the biopsies, analysis, and staff.

(The NIH does have more money, but also funds trials, vaccines, and other stuff that we probably don't want to cancel for a century).
No space? Yet I'm driving on 280 every morning and all I see are green fields. Yet 75% of San Francisco land has zoning rules that prevent buildings of more than 2 stories. What you really meant is: no space for you, I got mine
Multi-Account Containers is good for that.
Couldn't the same thing be said about '90s grunge/alternative bands and rap/hiphop groups? They were "influencers" as well, with a clear impact in art and fashion. And they crafted their legend in part by wrecking hotel rooms, arriving hours late to shows and making public spectacles of themselves.

The common thread among them is that they were polarizing. It was OK that lots of people hated them and would never buy anything they were pitching, as long as there were thousands of others who went the exact opposite way and bought in to the whole charade.
For frontend performance: record the frame rate (via requestAnimationFrame, look at simple frame rate counters), memory, count of DOM nodes on the page during each of your integration tests as a good start. You can get a lot of this via window.performance and memory info you need to pass an extra flag into chrome headless.

It’s also useful to instrument this in your production environment (called real user metrics) for some % of user sessions and combine it with more synthetic tests.

The backend is of course really easy, just measure request times (min/avg/max) and time to first byte.

Edit: Don’t know why I’m being downvoted for this answer? Lol
Firefox 67
There's a huge RV park at San Francisco Airport, too, in a lot near I believe the United hangar. Some of the vehicles look like they've been there for decades, and all of them look abandoned. I've often wondered what the story is there.
what are the prerequisites? C?
This article fails to mention that Mountain View has been blocking improved transit to service the office parks in the area for at least a decade.

Starting a private bus service wasn’t Google’s “plan A”. Their preferred approach was to get the city to set up adequate service between the Mountain View train station and surrounding office parks.

Although a bit of new housing is finally going in, it’s clearly too little and too late.

Anyway, needing to ban shanty towns usually means you suck at being mayor (at least in city simulators). Maybe they’ll take the housing and transit shortages more seriously moving forward.
That's actually been tried in the 70s, but for various reasons it never really took off: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/mobile-home-skyscrape...
Seems like a FUD-y non sequitur. Everyone isn't going to run out and completely replace their infrastructure with AMD overnight.

I doubt intel could keep up much better.
I hear you and those are valid points.

Don't blame QUIC. Blame ISPs and middlebox makers for abusing their (literal network-wise) position and breaking the end-to-end principle. History has shown that we just have to encrypt everything and quite literally cut out the middleman/box.
We humans are remarkably solipsistic creatures. Why not build more elsewhere? Probably because leadership isn’t feeling the squeeze.
If you mean Slack, they have announced at Google IO that they will migrate to a PWA.

Check the PWA and what is coming to the Web talks.

One reason less to bother with Electron.
It does has better handling for obj-c messages. IMO it's not as good at C or C++ as IDA (I haven't tried Ghidra), but tracing through what messages are sent is often the thing that matters for apple system frameworks.
"We will pretend to be a suburb in 1957 forever"

—Mountain View and Palo Alto zoning board
Why save cycles today if you can borrow tomorrow?
How exactly types and unit tests stop you from moving around the internal implementation? My impression was always that they help you in exactly that, allowing one to refactor any piece of code without worrying about unexpected side-effects.
The Siralim games are some that capture some of what Pokemon is for mobile (although the controls aren't really optimised for touch with on-screen D-pad and virtual A/B buttons), although I suppose it's more like some of the old Monster Hunter games (capture, breeding as well as a bunch of other mechanics too).
I didn't even know until about a month ago that the USPS is one of the only constitutionally-mandated federal institutions (in school, we focused a lot on the Bill of Rights, not so much on the articles themselves).
Oracle is laying off and shutting down its R&D centers in China
That's exactly the crucial question I don't see being asked anywhere. It's answer has huge implications, it's non answer leads to a schizophrenic nation.
People have built actual cults around far less useful things.
To be fair, that sounds like a bug in the graphics driver or OpenGL ICD/libraries. GPUs are a bit special in that they have the power to hose your entire running OS (force a reboot due to a hard hang) no matter what OS you're running. It's just the nature of GPUs and how their drivers work... With direct access to memory and allowing user space applications access to their hardware features.

In other words: Probably not Firefox's fault. The Firefox devs probably started adding support for accelerating more stuff via the GPU via OpenGL calls and if your driver has issues with any of those calls (e.g. bad application auto-detection) it can cause things to crash or have undefined behavior.

Not much the Firefox devs can do about it but report the bug anyway. At the very least they might be able to figure a workaround.
Check out this Smarter Every Day introduction to the HaptX force feedback glove from last year.[1] The guy thought VR was stupid until he used the glove, then was instantly immersed. They’ve packed a lot of sensory feedback into it.

Once force feedback hits, translating 2D onscreen control surfaces to 3D models will be both trivial and worthwhile, at least in the niche realm of virtual audio devices. Touchscreens have already made them much more playable, and things like TouchOSC allow for some customization. I’d love to have something like the Reason rack[2] in a space where I could use all 10 fingers instead of 1 mouse pointer to interact with it.

[1] https://youtu.be/OK2y4Z5IkZ0

[2] https://images.app.goo.gl/37FMUZ6kfgTb5rPf6
Many people are not diagnosed and many illnesses are transient. This is really not enough.
How to protect documents,photos and passwords?
So much for the 2-hour window during early afternoon when the 101 is drivable.
Unless he can sign something with the keys from the genesis block, I'm not believing him...
Why would VBA be better than Python, Julia or R for handling complex math? Seems like the language would be really cumbersome and lacking in libraries relative to those languages.
I am just replying to add some clarification on points you were uncertain about. These comments go for Model S and X; there are some slight differences with Model 3 since the AP and drive selector stalks are merged.

2. Climate control maps to the right-hannd steering wheel scroll wheel by default, so you don't need to take your hands off the wheel o change temp or turn it on or off.

3. Music is on the left wheel control; play/pause, volume, and next/prev buttons. Cruise and AP are on the stalk.

4. Reverse cam comes up along with the ultrasonic sensor distance view (and Autopark UI) when changing to reverse. I can't help but add my wishlist item to have the two side cams also display in this view or Tesla to do the pseudo-360 view.

5. Central door locks on tesla are quite a bit smarter than in many other cars, so I find I generally don't have to use the lock control all, but when it's needed, it's a soft button at the top of the screen. The car auto locks/unlocks the doors with the drive selector and further, when the doors are locked and the car is moving, they cannot be opened accidentally. Hazard control is a physical button to the left of the screen which is a good decision.

6. Tesla's lane assist features are actually relatively new, and they are doing some pretty interesting things-- most interestingly if the AP system is pretty damn sure the lane change is a bad idea it will as of the latest software raise audible alarms and the steering motor will actively resist the wheel movement. That is the most important thing IMO because the real problems happen when the driver changes lanes without awareness, and while the lane change indicators might catch the drivers attention moreso than a car in the blind spot, an inattentive driver might not be paying attention to any of that. For this reason too I believe the mirror indicators in other cars are stupid. My line of reasoning is that if I am looking in the side mirror, I shouldn't need the indicator. But then again most people have their side mirrors set up to look too close to their car and create huge blind spots.

Still, I can't give the whole UI a pass. There are some really egregious issues with it that as a software developer make me clench my butt a little bit. For instance on the current software release, turning the traffic overlay on absolutely kills performance because some developer made an error by specifying some timer as 200 milliseconds when it was supposed to have been 200 seconds. Notwithstanding this, the whole thing still freezes or crashes about once a week too. Like, how am I supposed to really trust the autopilot if Tesla can't even hammer out a decent and well-performing UI on top of a rock solid OS after 7 years?
I agree in principle, but as a news publisher, you practically have to use Facebook to stay relevant. Same goes for Google to a lesser degree. All the laws like the EUs article 13 were tools in the fight between publishers and the internet giants.

They just have the masses of users.
We are paying salary as a perk. Legally we don't have to.

With that in mind, why should those 16 months count to experience?

Work was not done by said engineer, and experience was not gained.

The other engineer worked, gained experience that's valuable to the company -> hence the raise + promotion.
That depends on what you mean by "inappropriate", of course. People say all sorts of things they don't mean to when they're made uncomfortable by something, and the line between "discomfort", "confusion" and "fatigue" is itself quite fuzzy. And yes, they apologized for it immediately afterwards - but apologies themselves can be strategically unwise, and leave one open to manipulative behavior in response to a perceived display of weakness. Their wife certainly didn't seem to think OP's behavior was inappropriate in the way you're implying, and she'd obviously care if it was!

All in all, I'm not sure why you seem to be willfully ignoring the whole part where OP explains what prompted their remark (whatever that might have been) in the first place; whether intentional or not, it seems that a somewhat "inappropriate" situation had already occurred by that time.
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I thought it was interesting the case study was on the S and not the 3, which I agree is better suited to the UI due to the landscape screen.

I completely agree about the excess buttons that are never used. Climate temperature I basically never change.

Climate On/Off I do wish was a little easier, but even better would be a Climate ‘Eco’ switch which persisted across drives, which would avoid resistance heating or A/C as much as possible. Then I could totally ignore all the climate settings altogether.

All in all I am very rarely reaching for the touchscreen during a drive. A massive array of buttons would not make my drive any safer at all. When I do have to switch on defog I do have to glance at it, but the same was true for my last car with buttons because even after 13 years I would never find it in a field of climate control buttons by groping around without looking.

Most of the complaints don’t make sense to me. I don’t think I’ve ever manually activated the rear-view camera? Placing a phone call is actually pretty great with large touch targets for recently dialed numbers, and there’s always voice controls.

And of course missing the forest for the trees. The interior design of the TM3 envisions a future where there isn’t even a steering wheel and the rest of the car design doesn’t change one bit.

It’s the perfect expression of Musk’s overpowering optimism and leaning further into the future than most people even dare to dream.

Overconfidence in the current AutoPilot capability leads to some accidents, and even fatalities. But the UI itself is actually stunning and highly usable. In particular the maps and GPS are leaps and bounds better than I imagined could be possible in a car.
> The Italian king fought for both axis and allies (and joining the allies was a big reason why he was voted out after the war).

...I'm not sure that a monarch who can be voted out is really an autocrat in the way most people think of when they hear the term.
> We have seen great growth in the use of AV1 even in just a few months, with our latest figures showing that 11.8% of video playback in Firefox

Where are people playing AV1 videos?

YouTube released an AV1 playlist long ago, and haven't added a single video since release: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyqf6gJt7KuHBmeVzZteZ...

Besides that, I've only seen a few in the wild.
And when the service fails, you can point to it as the reason government solutions don't work and how regulation is bad, which provides convenient reasoning to strip more regulations and privatize more government services.
> 10%+ likes to followers ratio

is there a standard metric to check how many of your followers are active?

if you have 1.5mm followers, but the same 10% on average are the ones to engage/like your posts, is it the same as having 15,000 really engaged followers?
Have you used the Dark Reader addon? It's not amazing in firefox (has major performance issues on some sites) but I can't live without it.
q was definitely an inspiration.

The biggest difference is that Empirical is statically typed. Also, arbitrary expressions are allowed anywhere when dealing with Dataframes.

For example, I can sort by anything:

sort my_table by col1 - col2, foo(col3)

And I can aggregate by an external array as long as the lengths are the same:

from my_table select foo(col1) by some_array_with_repetition

As for performance, I've tried to make Empirical "reasonable" at this stage, though I haven't put too much effort into it beyond that. I'm more worried about the ergonomics of the language right now, so I don't have SIMD, dependency analysis, etc.

One of the biggest things Empirical lacks compared to q is nested arrays. That's a major issue I have to tackle in the virtual machine.
With lots of bonds to pay back, who are treated preferentially to shareholders, $10 seems like an arbitrary number. They might just as well go below zero
5G rollout is being stalled by rows over lampposts
I think you will find that you're wrong. Your $500 GOOG was pre-split and has appreciated to GOOG + GOOGL, or about $2500, more than double what you put here.
sure ...except that a lot of support questions can be completely irrelevant to your project, because the users aren't competent programmers. it's a big time suck, and people happily demand help, and then not even bother to thank you for the hour of your time you spent solving their problem--which was ultimately due to them not paying attention, or having basic donain knowledge.

I'm all for giving. I happily write tutorial blog posts, but I don't feel obligated to give more help than I already gave.
They themselves have said they should. They actively censor their platform and enforce an editorial policy on the basis of their own business interests, nobody made them do that.

The Signal IM program is also run by a company. Unlike Facebook you could argue that what they're running is infrastructure. They aren't trying to say censor Alex Jones to be more appealing to advertisers.

Facebook is fully within their rights to run their company like that, but they can't expect to also have governments view them a common carrier when they're anything but.