skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe there is a general lack of awareness of what AOSP is without Google services and add-ons on top of it.

In some facets, AOSP is not a complete and working OS as is. In particular, I have personally had many issues with GPS location for the past fews years. Out-of-the-box, GPS simply does not work without additional non-free software to help it out. Additionally, many (that is, 95%) of all Android apps that you would find on the Google Play store do not function properly without Google services (which AOSP does not have). Applications that are built to run on stock AOSP are not the 'Snapchats' or 'Instagrams' of the world. They are typically FOSS projects that are built out of passion, but recieve little funding or corporate support.

These shortcomings often carry over to third-party ROMs, such as Lineage.

So in my experience, as someone who used to flash a new Android ROM every week, it is not about freedom - its about basic functionality. One could also argue that, since the world operates on all kinds of propietary platforms that aren't available on stock AOSP, so do we also lack the freedom to use AOSP as our daily driver - simply because it often does not interface properly with these propietary platforms.

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The biggest revenue opportunity for WeWork is big corporations opening smaller office location in cities where just want to staff a small field office or operations office. Example, Uber opening an office in let's say Columbus. Now instead of Uber going on a real estate hunt, they can simply rent out space in WeWork Columbus which gives them flexibility to scale or shrink depending on business. It is essentially abstracting away the real estate inefficiencies. There is a definitely a market for it. But not sure whether it is worth $47bn
It was probably time to give up 8 years ago. Between Yelp, Google, Facebook, Tripadvisor, and Google maps it's a saturated space. If you generate OC maybe you can differentiate yourself but for user generated reviews? Too many big fish in that sea.
In general, Prolog is extremely well suited for tasks where partial information needs to be taken into account.

The presence of logic variables, i.e., "true" variables in the sense of logic, is one of the defining characteristics of logic programming languages like Prolog. In comparison, what other programming languages call a "variable", is not really a variable but just some concrete value. In contrast, a logic variable truly stands for anything at all and may be bound to any term (in its domain).

For this reason, Prolog is especially well suited for data that has "holes" in it. For example, Prolog was successfully used to investigate the folding structure of DNA, where hypotheses were available about some aspects, but the overall structure of parts was yet unknown. A Prolog specification allows to "leave out" parts of the specification that are unknown.

Hence, a map generation task where some constraints are specified sounds like a very nice project and potentially great application for a logic programming language. Enjoy!
Build a User Authentication System in Dart
> ...on AWS.

so? you're not implying I'm supposed to buy land, erect my own datacenter on it and lease my own backbone connectivity just to host a blog?

I think the author's rebellion is against user-generated content, when everything you post becomes someone else's data. That's definitely not the case with any cloud hosting providers.
Audi Recalls Its First Electric Car for Battery Fire Risk
I mean do you want Discord to fingerprint your browser so you don't have to deal with captchas? Kind of defeats the purpose of incognito doesn't it?
which sounds way too good to be true

Why do you think that sounds too good to be true? Why would a species become extinct naturally? Nature seems pretty good at maintaining a species once its evolved to be viable. Obviously things do die out naturally, but to me (a non-botanist) it seems like something that would be very unusual without external factors (eg meteorites, global floods, climate change..)
> > Why make me solve a Captcha to pay utility bills? Is there some underground group of deviants going around surreptitiously paying other people's utility bills?

> Sound like a strange place to have a captcha indeed. What information is needed in the form to submit it? Does it validate stuff that an attacker might want to scrape? I guess they added it for a reason.

Ive seen captchas on payment forms to prevent credit card checking. You can take a dump of CC details and try them all out on a site and get back the valid ones. I'd assume they charge $1 to the CC to test it before allowing you to continue and then you could cancel your order before they charge the full amount. However, assuming you have to be logged in to pay your bill that seems less reasonable.
Well x86 itself requires barriers for store/loads; the cost of such a barrier had been going down for a few generations but improvements have stalled recently.

Recent ARMs apparently have cheap explicit load acquire and store release which are great and map very well to the c11 memory model. If this means they need to use less transistors or save some power, that's even better.

The issue is with some RISCs were even implemeting acquire/release semantic requires expensive barriers (and seq cst requires even more expensive barriers), the only alternative being address or flow control dependent loads which are hard to reason about in higher level languages.

And then there was alpha were even load consume required a barrier.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Exposed 8.4 TB of Email Data
Fwiw, I wasn't assuming that 'pay for browser' (optionally) meant any more than, if I'm signed in, I get Lock~box~wise et al. - or 'unlocked' access beyond 100 passwords or something.

I just think if you don't make payment look like it's about a specific product, that people will be more willing and likely to pseudo-donate by subscribing before they hit whatever such limits.
I love the embedded PostScript in the source code. Its always fun to see how other people write their code.
> Thankfully, the EU disagrees with you

The EU doesn't disagree with me. Some people involved may be asking questions, but that doesn't mean that the EU disagrees with me.

If the EU disagreed with me we'd know, as they'd be taking action against these companies.
Thanks, I did miss that it was a "Secured Credit Card"... but again, banks have offered those forever...

It feels more like an ad than news.
> A LOT of reCAPTCHA sites never prompt you.

That has only happened to me in Chrome, not Firefox or Safari. Which is the subject of this article.
They do but 500 times slower.
We probably won't know that for a long time. The lag time from basic research to FDA approved treatment is measured in decades.
The network isn't an issue. The entire problem is that those who are creating the network want to be the source content creator as well. We need good networks. We need good creators. The networks should incentivize good collaboration, curation, and give discoverability. Reddit is an example of this. Facebook and Medium want to take content.
Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Do This Instead
'Cynical and bullying' TalkTalk hackerhacker getsgets 4 years
Unless you plan to have a 2-10+ apps to developer ratio, at least 50+ apps in the medium term, and looking into a future of 50-100+ devs at least, I wouldn't do this.

Exception: if your apps are very very distinct anyway. One company I worked at long ago where we did this, we were small, but the "screens" of our apps were very unrelated (no one really used more than 1-2 of them as part of their job), so it was very easy to split them up with zero impact on users.
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_who_disag...

Depends on how you define legitimate. Also, given today's research "climate", I imagine publishing a dissenting opinion is tantamount to career suicide. Good luck getting funded to prove anything. Particularly considering how politicized climate science has become.

Which is unfortunate, because skepticism should be a part of healthy scientific practice - and I think it'd be a stretch to say that climate science isn't subject to the same problems, like p-value abuse and selective publishing, that plague other non-experimental, purely model and statistics based fields. No one is going to publish negative results when they can tweak any of hundreds of model variables to force agreement with data.

I think a valid proxy for bias is the relative lack of publications discussing possible benefits of climate change.
Emuparadise gaming emulator website suffers data breach
Stop buying telco subsidized phones.
949/892 today. I can check again at any time of day you'd like. I don't have anything automated for regular testing.
It's not prepaid, it's a deposit. It usually gets refunded after you've gone some amount of time without missing a payment.
> the pay is often below industry standards

Is there any defense contractor that pays anywhere near industry standards?
I don't understand this. You're logging in from a fresh browser. Do you want sites to fingerprint you in other ways so you can clear your cookies and not have to deal with captchas?
> But now, WeWork opened three more floors of space, and of the six floors, four are occupied entirely by large companies.

This was interesting to me. I've seen wework turn corporate often. Startups are great candidates: they want to offer good offices and not worry about big moves, contract negotiations, get good branding, etc.

But that is a small market..
This is actually a pretty good idea, I'd expect AirBnB doesn't attempt something along these lines in the next couple years.
EPA Head Targets “Worst-Case” Climate Scenarios
I’m from The Netherlands, so actually fairly close. I also know France doesn’t have a credit system as described, and wouldnt be surprised if that’s the case for a large part of the EU.

I think in general it’s a matter of philosophy: so you think that loans are there to serve society (mortgage is a good example of a “necessary” loan), just like banks have a function to society.

I personally can see both sides of the argument, but am I really not feeling like I’m missing out on something without it. Just checking your current financial status rather than historical seems sufficient to me.
First learned about this on a highly-recommended episode of 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/vox-ex-machina/
You can already pass customs in an airport through face recognition in the EU. I don't see it as much of a stretch for it to be extended to boarding.
Sure, if you weren't otherwise gonna get Prime, you'd have to spend $2400/year to break even. If you're one of Amazon's millions of Prime subscribers, it's a no-brainer.
Does Amazon do micro apps on their storefront side? I know they do on the AWS side, but the ecommerce bit is very different.
I agree. There is no coherent analysis of how to actually enable this, and what the real pros and cons are. The article also assumes that you have the same order of frontends and services, which is a weak assumption, and that branding, style and design coherency are not important parts of a frontend experience, which is even weaker. This is an incredibly lame argument for any system. I expect a whole lot better from Fowler's blog
Decoherence – a problem with quantum computers
Google does this often, it makes Firefox bugs on purpose to make them look bad, down with the Google monopoly I say
We literally breed new subtypes of plants, constantly, to improve our food crops. Those are new species being created within a human life span.
Every single credit card statement I’ve ever seen clearly states the balance and payment due date before which interest will begin to accrue. Every single one offers an option to automatically pay it every month so you don’t even have to do anything, other than not spend more than the cash you have in your bank account.
Plus 28% APR, though I can't imagine holding a balance on a secured card.
> There is security, and then there is freedom. You can have the most secure system in the world -- but if there are state sponsored, or company back back doors it means nothing.

Okay, so you're saying: "If a backdoor is present than your security prioritization doesn't matter, the result is bad." I understand, but:

1. If there is a back door in open source code that goes unnoticed (and it certainly does) because of persistent but bad practices in the open source community (e.g., a stubborn refusal to stop using C-like memory management semantics and primitives when dealing with untrusted inputs), then why don't said accidentaly backdoors invalidate the open source work?

2. Does "control" actually matter in the context of AOSP? Strictly speaking, you have essentially everything you need up utill you hit the hardware drivers. You can easily rewrite that to your hearts content.

3. Given Librem's recently move into commodity-based social products (and the poop-from-great-height attitude they initially adopted), are you genuinely sure that they're actually trustworthy actors? If they're coerced, how will yu attest that they never injected a deeply subtle backdoor on millions of lines of code which you'd like to be unique and less scrutinized?

I can't really work out why you feel the way you do, so I ask these questions.
Getting Serious about “Critical Materials”
Recycling has a negligible impact on this problem. The big areas that could actually make a difference are: Power generation, mass transit, and food production.

But we don't seem to have the political will to fix any of these areas. Pushing ineffective solutions that require effort from consumers is an unfortunately effective trick to keep people distracted.
It's interesting that godaddy would opt for a wework rather than leasing office space and setting it up. Probably less cost and hassle?
While I agree with your analysis, do we have a good word for lots of little repos?

ie microservices : monolith and ?? : monorepo
I don't buy them. One of the many hobbies I enjoy, alongside coding, rock climbing, and a host of other activities, is gaming. You can turn your nose up at people's hobbies as much as you want, but playing games is no less mindless that most sports. My complaint is that game series that I enjoy playing turn into micro-transaction-ridden garbage.

Street fighter 4: great game, some netcode issues, DLC expansions released every year or two. Street fighter 5: buggy mess that didn't even work for the first 3 days after release, even after two(!) betas, with half the content locked behind a paywall, and literal advertisements put on costumes. That was probably the last AAA game I bought. I pretty much only play games from devs/publishers I respect, my problem is that list is ever-shrinking.

A lot of consumers are not like me: the hype is too much and they don't care about the actual game as much as getting to play it with other people.
The question is, why would a F500 company rent space from WeWork at a double-digit markup when they can do it themselves? This is not super hard or special stuff, and F500 companies need to do it enough that they can maintain the expertise.

If the answer is "wework allows us to be elastic with real estate as our needs shift", then WeWork will be in for a lot of hurt at the next recession. If the answer is "we are using a lot more remote or geographically-diverse staffers, and WeWork allows us to have small office space available all over the world", they might do okay. The single-company WeWorks described in the article lean towards the former, though.
That's one of the concerns I've heard raised over ad-supported email providers that target ads based on the content of your email.

One way that could alleviate this but still allow targeting, although it might be too expensive to implement in practice, would be only allow ad targeting to be based on attributes of the viewer that are either very broad (e.g., gender, income quartile, age group, geographic region) or that correlate highly with use of the advertised product and do not correlate will with non-users of the product.

For example, targeting "young dog owners in Seattle" would be OK on the "young" part and the "in Seattle" part because age group and region are whitelisted broad categories, but would not be OK on the "dog owners" part unless the product was in a category that dog owners use but people who are not dog owners do not. Dog food, for example, or a dog walking service.

The idea is that if someone ran an ad for dog food targeting "young people in Seattle", rather than "young dog owners in Seattle", the respondents are going to largely be dog owners, and can reasonably expect that they are outing themselves as such to the seller. So allowing using "dog owners" in the targeting doesn't really give away any more information on the responders. The targeting just serves to not waste the time of people who don't own dogs seeing ads for dog food.

If, on the other hand, "dog owner" could be used on the targeting for unrelated products, someone could target "young dog owners in Seattle" with an ad for something that almost everyone wants, and the people who respond out themselves as dog owners without having any way to reasonably know that they are doing so.
Sure. But thats a false equivalency and you know it. When pretend that because species do go extinct in nature, and humans are currently causing extinction, that the two are even remotely close to the same thing is a clear attempt at disinformation.

There have been other times when plants have gone extinct at the current rate. They usually involved city+ size asteroids.
And this complaint is called an "election". Seems to me like getting super possessive about what the elected people do without a proposed solution (elect somebody else, run for office, etc.) is nonproductive and fails to grasp some essential point about the whole thing.
Jeff Bezos’s Corporate Takeover of Our Lives
Interesting stuff, thanks. I am a big fan of Henry S. Warren's book _Hacker's Delight, 2nd ed._ and have used his algorithms several times - for example, when I need a 64-bit divide operation on a 32-bit microcontroller with single-precision floating-point only.
See https://www.spacesworks.com/ which is basically Regus with a different brand name.

I am using their co-working in Copenhagen since a few months and quite happy so far.
He's referring to the one of several APIs like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage... or those listed on https://www.html5rocks.com/en/features/storage - Allowing the webpage to store some amount of data on your local machine. This storage can be accessed even if you're temporarily offline, so you can have an interactive webpage that downloads some data, and so long as you don't close the page you can update it. When you reconnect (or next load the webpage) your state is stored and can be reconciled with server state.

For obvious reasons, you don't want that API active for private browsing (As persisting it would enable tracking), but by combining browser version detection to determine if a browser supports the API with feature detection to see that it's disabled, you can assume that "Private Browsing" is on.

Better browser API design might include in-memory only support for the API, but I haven't thought that all the way through.
Most people who post controversial content don't just want to put their views out there, they want to build a large audience and want their views to be successfully distributed or to make money from them. It's almost impossible to completely ban access from online content unless you are a nation state.

It seems reasonable to want free speech but entitled to want successfully monetized speech as a baseline.
I don't think anyone is arguing you don't have the right to complain about where tax dollars go. They're arguing against the idea that taxation is theft, and the government doesn't have the right to collect it.
Came here to literally type "he didn't" thank you for doing it first!
Most secured cards have no rewards and many have a yearly fee. If you have prime anyways it's an amazing deal.
reCAPTCHA is malware. If a site uses it, I (usually reluctantly) stop using the site. It's not even a privacy issue anymore - I'm logging into the site, usually so I can give them some money (bandcamp, humble bundle) - I just don't want Google all up in my business. Is that too much to ask these days? In order to not have some creepy giant corporation overseeing everything I do, I guess I just have to not use the Internet.
Thanks for the reply. Personally I think the site looks pretty good, though I'm probably the furthest thing in the world from a web designer or anyone with any aesthetic tastes.

That said, I think the biggest issue right now may be the question of why this site is useful, given that so many other companies are doing the same thing. At a glance, it seems like it's competing with the likes of Yelp, TripAdvisor and Google Maps, all of which have significantly more data, large communities behind them and more features overall.

Unfortunately, the features it does lack here are generally some of the ones that these sites got popular for in the first place. Such as being able to create an account to upload pictures, rate restaurants and leave reviews, or (for a restaurant owner) to manage the listing and add extra information/respond to feedback.

By not having these, there's not really much of a reason to come back to the service time after time. It lacks the stickiness required for any real user retention.

I know for sure that I'd be unlikely to return after visiting, simply because the other options would have more to draw me in.

So yeah, focus on those features, get some more backlinks and try out a few paid ads and see what happens from there.

P.S. Don't worry, you're not the only person to struggle with this sort of site. It's a tough market to succeed in, and a company I previously worked for tried to do the same thing with much the same results.
That's all true, but it's not addressing the parent's question of why Americans have to artificially "build credit" while Europeans don't. Presumably all that applies in Europe and yet they don't have to jump through the same hoops.