skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the surface, compared to Android, iOS is much more secure. It seems they ensure app sandbox is not violated by any app developer. No app can steal another apps data. You can prevent/revoke access to contacts, photos, sms, location, background execution, mobile data to any app from a central place.

They allow 3rd-party apps for doing messaging (replaces iMessage), cloud storage (replaces icloud), firefox (replaces safari), 1password (replaces keychain) – all in a clean and easy way – with no ambiguity or confusion.

But w.r.t end to end encryption claims, we just take them at their word. There is no formal verifiable proof.

Recently we have repeatedly learnt the hard way to not trust corporations at they word.

Without open-source and peer-reviewed cryptographic protocols and verifiable trusted execution models, it is not safe to believe it is truly end to end encrypted and nobody is spying.
Because even Comcast, the most evil of the telecom companies, doesn't put out a web browser that seeks to permanently entrench its ad business. In fact, it lets me use any browser I want.
Not necessarily. Many municipal water treatment plants are adding or switching to chloramines, which can be more stable than chlorine gas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloramine

The main problem is that they are potentially more carcinogenic.

The rarely talked about, but potentially more serious problem, is that chlorine and chloramine are difficult to remove from water by letting it stand or boiling it:

https://www.sfwater.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentID...

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/does-boiling-water-rem...

https://www.morebeer.com/articles/removing_chloramines_from_...

It looks like activated charcoal filters are the best way to neutralize it, but I'm having trouble finding numbers for how effective they are at it.

https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/3447/what-are-t...
These wings will necessarily be much more rigid, as they are far thicker than traditional wings and pressurized. One thing not mentioned here is that that flexible wings act as a suspension system for an airliner; I'd expect that in a Flying-V you'd feel more turbulence.
clearly he was a secret agent. Well played.
Wow with the downvotes, guess the Mozilla organization is twerking off to this thread.
There are doubtless cases where that extra slice of one-off revenue per customer would make all the difference in the world to the business model.

At the same time, I suspect that in most cases it would not change the business decisions being made. Recurring revenue matches the financial needs of a business better in most cases.
Whoops sorry, i said that wrong. I was talking about things like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/technology/att-verizon-in... (att and verizon colluding to price fix.) I dont think apple is colluding with carriers.
Oh, hmm, it looks like you're right ("known third party trackers"). That's what I get for headline reading.
I also wonder about engine placement. Engines on top will push the nose downwards in case of adding more trust. There is also issue of stalling on ascend. On ascend, wings would very easily obstruct air going into engines, reducing their power. Also currently aft-mounted engines require vertical stabilizer to be above them to counter act the forces generated by the engines. I don't see any vertical stabilizers in this concept.
The Early Origin of Feathers (review)
Whataboutism when dealing with the law is called Selective Enforcement.
Nor is the MOVE police bombing of 1985. It's always interesting to see which police overreach people choose to remember, and how difficult it is to get them to link it all up into reform.
Other people step in and start the sustainable businesses again.
By any measure, telecom is a fairy concentrated market that creates antitrust concerns, relative to many other industries. But the comparison to telecom only highlights the market concentration in tech. There are four major wireless carriers, none with more than about a third of the market. Google has 90% of the search market. There are just two viable mobile OS competitors, and Android has 75% market share (50% in the US). Even within a given market, there is more competition in telecom. The big four cellular companies are nationwide. Verizon is just the sixth largest wireline carrier, has less than 40% market share across its FiOS footprint. That does not mean that telecom (or day health insurance) is a highly competitive market. It’s not. But at least search and mobile is even less competitive.

It also matters what is happening going forward. Even in areas with no wired competition, wireless (cellular and satellite) exerts competitive pressure. 15% of high income households have abandoned wired internet for cellular only, and that number is growing. (There are more cellular-only households by a large margin than ones that use something other than Google search.) Meanwhile, there is no viable competition in sight for Google Search or Android.
Yeah. My impression of Baboons is that they are ... ornery. Who knows ,though.

Also, is the Baboon taking a piss in that picture?
Oh, really? I might give it a try again one of these days, then.
On the Future of Zcash Funding
Hmm... I've never heard of anyone mean thermodynamic efficiency when talking about fuel efficiency of a vehicle. Maybe people who design aircraft engines do?

See e.g:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transpor

> The energy efficiency in transport is the useful travelled distance, of passengers, goods or any type of load; divided by the total energy put into the transport propulsion means.
Emacs Makes All Computers Superb
They're giving their time -- literally the one non-fungible resource any human being has -- in exchange for money. Money comes and goes. You never get your 20s or 30s back.
I look at another part of society, where the hacking and getting hacked has a long tradition- lawyers and the law. And money subverts them all. In the long run.
So lets look at yet another part of society- our own bodys. How does the body detect intruders, or even prevent theire entrance?

1) Provide no interface for hacking. Our stomaches and colons are our main energy interface - they regenerate at a increddible rate. Slimy, colon cells, they live fast, they die fast, holding on to them is near impossible.

2) Have a pre-warn system for getting hacked. If your sensory apparatus deteriorates, go in full reverse on all operations.

3) A general good feature to have - the ability to undo damage, by doing a full reset to a previously working state. Good in software development, good for a society, its a nice last line of defense, that the comon citizen can veto-vote direct democratic.

4) Divide and Conquer: Prevent accumulations of power, by allowing monopolies to be legally usurped. Can proof your employer is in a cartel/monopoly?
Congratualations, you are allowed to march out with x% of the company into a seperate company.

5)Dont be a static target. A passive defense is weakness, as it gives the attacker infinite attempts. If attacked, and the attack is proofable, dissolve the attacker, integrate his strengths into the defenses.
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But Comcast doesn't provide browsers, they provide telecom services and if you're lucky you might be able to choose another provider in your area.
They already do - I wish it was more transparent in the app as it's currently ruining the experience.
The RSS feed (https://news.ycombinator.com/rss) comes into FreshRSS (https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS)

Usually just skim the comments to gather insight as quickly as possible, if there seems to be a strong signal with depth, I'll add the HN page to Pocket (https://getpocket.com) and check back later when I clear through all the backlog of interesting things

HN has replaced Reddit for me. I'm still reading Slashdot, two decades later, it usually just dupes HN.

Also Lobsters (https://lobste.rs) has some decent content, similar position in that it often dupes HN, but interesting regardless
> In fact, it lets me use any browser I want

...to connect to the gateway they specify, and pull reams of data from with nary a bat of an eye from Washington.
Because you are a part of the Mozilla organization. Obvious since what's happening. No sane person would use Firefox.
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Experienced web developer (20 years)

- ASP.NET (including ASP.NET Core), SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, GraphQL, Hangfire, Kafka

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- Docker and virtualization

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Google has been the largest spender in DC for a couple years now, I believe.
This is great advice. Generalists have to engender a high degree of trust before they are considered reliable for some set of tasks, and if no one at the company knows you then it will be hard for you to demonstrate your skill set effectively. Telling the story of how you got those skills to management (and having good references to back it up) is pretty much the only way to gain that trust without already being in their network.
well to be fair, with a Tesla Model 3 it's not "park and charge for 2 hours", it's "park and charge for <20 minutes" in most cases. (assuming it's at a tesla supercharger)

I feel like throwing out exact numbers is disingenuous at best since a lot of things vary charge rate (state of charge, temperature, type of charger, etc...), but 20 minutes will almost always get you to the next charger or a destination in the Model 3.

And while I agree it's not quite "charge on your way home from work", it is something that at least Tesla is working on. Their "Supercharger v3" stalls cuts the stop times roughly in half in the ideal situations. And IMO "stop for 10 minutes on the way home" is absolutely acceptable.
Predictive CPU Isolation of Containers at Netflix
> Are you willing to pay the price for providing an alternate means of sky observation at a scale suitable for astronomy, and for cleaning up the debris that might result from expiration of, or collisions between, tens of thousands of commercial satellites?

SpaceX is literally spearheading both technologies and business models required to do exactly that, and Starlink is critical to this as a source of funding.
It was really convenient for traveling, especially now that Inbox trip bundles are discontinued. Put all your reservations in one handy place, available offline. The suggested itineraries were pretty good too.
A perfect example of a bad KPI (ticketing x violators) causing unexpected consequences (an increase of y accidents) instead of achieving the REAL goal (%z safer roads for all users).
I live in SF. Agree that there are many reckless scooter and e-bike users. To offer another anecdote, everyday I see Uber/Lyft drivers stopped in the middle of traffic, parked in red zones, and driving 10-15 mph under the speed limit. Either way, San Francisco has a big problem of actually enforcing the rule of law for traffic violations.
That plane was extremely aerodynamic, allowing high top speeds and high rates of acceleration. It wasn't easily controlled.
I find it annoying that the article makes a subtle association between Trump and "Big Brother." Given the tireless efforts of people in the current administration to roll back Big Brother! The media lies--they don't want any thing other than collectivism for all in the West. I will never understand why except that it fulfills some control strategy of some kind.

I compare what we are facing to the Matrix or maybe the AIs from Terminator. Humans have created this monster and we don't even understand it. The machine lives and it has no pity for humans and doesn't care if we all die. At every step of the way I see human beings apologizing for being demagogues, but still they are demagogues. What is this?

We must get back to some fundamental basis for working together for freedom if we stand a chance at stopping a system that is trying to shackle our minds for good.
Great article. mpi4py is the ideal solution presented, but I am wondering how hard the error tracking will be on Python since MPICH2 doesn't help much natively.
Medium vs. Personal Blog
Weren't Google Fiber and Google Fi just tests, not actual large scale investments? I mean, in that case, there are many counter-weights to Google - they just have 0% market share...

I don't believe that Big Tech has or wants to be anything to counter the ISP monopolies. Sure, they don't want to pay for traffic twice, but that's about it - if net neutrality wasn't an issue, Google, FB & Co wouldn't care about telecom monopolies one bit. In fact, I'm pretty sure they'd prefer a single large ISP that they can make data deals with to get a better tracking system up and running.
The world needs generalists to govern specialists (but not in the way the US government operates).
Getting 30% less ad revenue means that subscription revenue would look marginally more attractive. Some # of apps would switch to "paid" if the tax applied to ad revenue. And maybe some apps just wouldn't get made at all, if they were already on the margin of profitability.
How do I notify users that my PWA is installable?
Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster, 30 Years Later (2014)
I thought the problem was they are more difficult to fly, less stable.
> If true this reflects very poorly on NordVPN. How much criticism did they manage to suppress successfully until someone sued for blackmail?

NordVPN has sent legal threats to many Youtubers and bloggers anytime they don't like what's written.

NordVPN and ProtonVPN are enemies of free speech and open internet.
Hmm - that's not good. That said, once I read the article title, my first thought was "Therac-25"? A quick skim before I read it confirmed that suspicion.

...and I have to add that I'm one of those "informally educated software engineers" - though I've never touched or worked on any kind of safety-critical systems (and I would decline such a position if offered, to be honest). I've been doing SWE for over 25 years now, and the only "formal schooling" I've had in the field was a couple of community college classes I took to learn C/C++ 2+ decades ago. Everything else has either been learned thru my employment, or at home. Prior to my first "professional" position in 1992, all I had was a high school degree and an associates from a trade school in "computer electronics".

But even I know about the Therac-25, and it's always in the back of my head.

The fairly recent change in the industry surrounding automated testing, test case programming, CI, etc - all of that which more or less fell out of the whole "agile" movement - has led to a vast improvement in software, imho. Yet bugs still persist, despite all of that and more.

We have to do better - I don't know how, or if it's even possible (from what I understand, it's not mathematically possible, except in maybe certain trivial examples, to validate all possible states of code - maybe I'm mistaken on that).
sounds like a doable third-party keyboard app on smartphones
I get what you mean and yes, it would definitely be a good move in terms of showing the way to sane defaults, however I would have a hard time calling it a "huge win" considering Firefox + Safari make up <20% market share. Maybe I'm just being cynical.
I agree with this approach, and this is roughly the approach my own Statistics master's degree takes as well. It can be challenging to understand the finer points of likelihoods and posteriors (and the how to choose a prior) without serious mathematics that you're unlikely to have upon entering a graduate statistics degree.

Starting with applied probability and applied statistics (incl. regression, ANOVA, GLMs) allow you to solve problems and feel useful and engaged before being thrown into the mathematical rigor required of Bayesian statistics.
Quite frankly, the primary reason I can't switch to Android is iMessage, which is used by my family and coworkers. (I also greatly prefer iOS's UI and touch response time.)

My current, personal solution is a Jailbroken iPhone, which I'm very happy with. But, I'm getting tired of worrying about what happens if my phone breaks and I can't get a new one on an exploitable firmware. I wish Apple would stop fighting to make this impossible. Build in a switch to unlock the bootloader or what have you, and nothing will change for the rest of the user base.

> You sound like someone that just moved into the neighborhood complaining things that have been that way for the last 20 years.

Is Comcast not a monopoly because you have the option to move to a different city?

If the only neighborhood with good jobs and a good school also prevented me from buying my own furniture, I'd complain.
Likely, in Lithuania, where they are subject to data retention laws, which means they are obliged to keep data for 6 month. I can suggest to search for "NordVPN Tesonet", the scandal that happened a year ago or so. The data mining possibility is horrible on its own, but Reddit and Hacker News users have discovered much more on the way. Everything is already said and exposed, hard to believe how much influence in general media they have that they could bury the whole story.
The ideal flying wing is more efficient. The tradeoff to make a flying wing suitable for commercial aviation has historically made those efficiencies moot.
Doesn't seem like the kind of thing you can rely on in an emergency.
For sure, as always that which seems obvious may not be the case. On the face of it though, awaiting a definitive result as to the benefits or not of flossing and neglecting to remove that gooey matrix of dextrans on and around your teeth which certainly provides a happy hunting ground for a diverse collection of bugs, is possibly not the best strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_plaque
Magneto-Optical Functions at 3p Resonances of Fe, Co&Ni:Description&Experiment
You can’t defeat nationalism, so stop trying
>It is just anecdotal as opinions in India change every few kilometres.

And every ten meters, when asking for directions, ha ha :)

And the best part is that some of them, if asked "where is so-and-so place" (hotel / restaurant / bus station / etc.), will dramatically raise their arm, point "that-a-way", and say "tum XYZ chowk ko cross karke seeeedddddhaaaayyy jao" (you cross XYZ square and go sttttrrrraaaiiiiggggghhhhhhhtttt) - without mentioning in which direction to straight from the square ...

Always good for a few giggles (apart from the frustration).

Indian here.
The regulatory systems in the US since Reagan have been anemic, and if we believe in effective business competition there are probably very few industries that would have a good time if a new regulatory environment were put in place that is more... effective? I can't find the right word because I'm biased - I strongly believe in collectivism and strong regulatory environments.

When I look at major industries: social media (sadly, IMO), telecom, health care, transportation, military, and more; what I see are industries that need regulation in order to meet the needs of society, but that is based on my point of view of the world. My guess is that the folks with capital and data, and thus power, view the situation very differently, and are more focused on their own needs than those of a more nebulous society that has needs. I believe that this can be seen in the practices of businesses throughout the United States.

So, are "we" ignoring telecom? No, that headline is aggravating. Why isn't it "Antitrust issues in Telecom"? Because society has been trained to be enraged. Why? Because it serves those who already have power, and they disagree with me about how regulation should work.
Because, eventually, Apple will lose revenue, and their shareholders will demand profit. And, Apple will be sitting on a trove of data, or metadata, or predictive models built from that data.
Yeah the Mozilla organization is a piece of shit since Jamie Zawinski, JWZ, cashed out. #lesszilla
Forget WWDC, Regulators Just Put a Target on Apple's Back
They are easy to understand and the harm that they do to consumers is very real and easy to measure.
SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO
From the FAQ:

> What is Firefox Lockwise?

> Firefox Lockwise is an experimental product from Mozilla

Sounds like the rename is an indicator of approaching release stability, leaving "Lockbox" as essentially the internal codename.
"Today marks an important milestone in the history of Firefox and the web. As of today, for NEW USERS who download and install Firefox for the FIRST TIME, Enhanced Tracking Protection will automatically be set on by default, protecting our users from the pervasive tracking and collection of personal data by ad networks and tech companies."

this gives me the impression that Mozilla is trying to pull in a bunch of new recruits, also does this mean upgrades or repetitive DLs will not have this ~privacy by default?
Would you trust people with no general knowledge to design something composed of many different mechanical, aerodynamic, electrical, electronic and human systems?

Specialist programmers see no problem on reading values from an unreliable sensor and overriding the pilots decisions if the values are bad.
that looks like a deicing SNAFU just waiting to happen. that's a lot of surface area that has to be de-iced to ensure nothing breaks off and enters the engines at the back.
As of right now their UI to allow third-party cookies is pretty bad. Chrome shows an icon in the address bar for it. In Nightly there is a section in tracking prevention, but it's not in normal Firefox yet.
Windows tend to work slightly better after running into the ground than cameras, electrical systems and screens do.

(A broken window still lets you see outside)
Who is "we", exactly? No-one is ignoring telecom monopolies, it's something people complain about all the damn time. Spoiler alert: it's because the telecom industry has spent decades embedding itself at the top levels of organizations like the FCC, and it's gotten worse since the arrival of the Trump administration. Is that good? No. Should we change it? Yes. Does any of this have anything to do with regulating big tech? No.

This stuff just feels like whataboutism to me. There's no reason we can't tackle both big tech and telecom. If wait turns then the telecom industry will just say "what about other utilities!". Those utilities will say "what about the defense industry!" or whatever the hell.

"What about these bad guys!!" just feels like an attempt to deflect attention away from tech.
Only the last couple of years? Sounds like they have a lot of catching up to do then.
Right, but some of us care more about cross-compatibility in our shell than shiny new features
This isn't really a good-faith argument. It isn't tenable to live and work in modern society without the use of a phone or PC, and it certainly isn't possible to connect with people to effect societal change at any significant level without using the internet (and by extension a device capable of connecting to the internet). The very fact that the parent comment was pointing out the issues with western corporations outsourcing their pollution-producing practices means that the commenter isn't "turning a deaf ear" to the issue; they're very much aware and talking about it. What you're saying comes across as disingenuous and hostile, when as far as you know the individual you're responding to could be working diligently to fight against industrial pollution and climate change.