skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if I can use a key and otp that makes it safer. But I'm more thinking how do you send a password safely. On the internet we don't want to do that with http. As I understand it, if you send your password without encryption you are sending your password with plain text. I don't see why this is different with electrical signals traveling through the air vs electrical signals traveling through cables. I figure we'd want to use the same security practices regardless of what medium that signal is being sent through.
i laugh in windows 10
"Public Good" and "for profit" are incompatible.
I know this is controversial but I've always felt the entire universe is Deterministic which would make it just a massive State-Machine.

We as humans might be missing the right equations/right measurements/precision to actually figure out it's exact state.
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Your explanation is very clear and really makes a lot of sense.

> The customer's mental model is the only thing that matters here.

Totally right

> If you're building a car or a skateboard, you're seeking to fit into an existing category in their head. Even if you win (which is unlikely, because incumbents optimize very heavily with lots of resources), you lose, because you're a commodity in a market with lots of substitutes.

> If you want to actually win - in the sense of create a monopoly product that defines its own market - you, as an entrepreneur, need to be thinking in terms of the overall problem that the user wants solved (transportation, or information access, or answers) so that you can define the terms of the market in a way that you're the only reasonable solution.

At what point should you start doing that?

Using one of your examples: I don't think the Google founders had a vision of defining a new category of service. And they didn't even have a business model for several years. So what actually made them "win"?
I’ve been very happily using Bvckup for my personal and work files for a number of years now. Thanks very much for your pristine work.
This is something which baffles me as a +15yrs "linux guy" who thought to know what kind of ecosystem the big desktop OS brings: MS Windows is really rich in tooling, both in terms of desktop and command line tools. And there is similar bloat as with Linux: I never heard of wmic.exe before, but the fact that it can be used to manage network interfaces sounds similarly fucked up as the linux story (/sbin/ifconfig, /sbin/ip, the unloved network manager, resolv.d, etc. pp). Just to give another example: mshta.exe was basically the Electron platform but in early 2000. And it was shipped right out of the box. That's very elegant.

Since I have an addition to write tools which solve problems they were not intended to solve (violating Unix philosophy), I admire that wmic.exe can use XSLT to generate reports. Of course, PowerShell solves the problem of structured output in a better way. A contemporary Unix tool would simply have the option for JSON output and that's it. But including an XSL processor which even executes scripting languages... hilarious!
I’m happy to see someone els lament a good alternative to Preview on windows.
Indeed, it is terrible that many more people can do a job now, with lower barriers to entry, and that the service is more easily available, more reliable and often cheaper. The medallion system of decreasing supply with employee drivers and a taxi regulator that did everything possible to protect drivers and frustrate consumer complaints about drivers not picking up black customers or refusing to drive people to places within the mandated service area was far superior for those who could buy medallions and rent them out to drivers, and for drivers who could refuse customers and still be able to pick up a fare.
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It has potential to go off the charts.
There's also supposed to be a lot of platinum and things near it in the periodic table, which are all very important catalysts. I think the person who wrote this article is massively underestimating technological effect of making a part of the periodic table more affordable for scientists to play with.
I really like Ashton Gleckman’s YT channel. He goes over the process of making and composing movie scores. Check out the video on the Dark Knight. It’s fantastic. Unsurprisingly he got hired by Hans Zimmer’s studio.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Z0p8W-IvB_2K_cAQdf7bg
I’m not sure why it’s focusing on gold. It’s a bit of a straw man argument using gold to argue against astroid mining.

There are plenty of precious metals that have abundant industrial uses.
Hello old friend :), wheres the DMG download ?? :P
Awesome work!

I ran the 4 shape example through SVGOMG and lowered the precision slider down until it didn't affect the perceived output.

The result was about 40% of the original size.

https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/

SVG tested:

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ffa6eed9348fcd42454fc3916...

Side note -- if using React, svg2jsx is great for converting the SVG properties to React JSX names.

https://svg2jsx.herokuapp.com/
Not sure what you're talking about here, Haiku's window system has network transparency, with drawcall-forwarding, even. In fact there is an HTML5-based remote client for it!
Slack only recently got threads at all -- I realize it's easy to get used to them but maybe reconsider whether it's really become a show stopper. You probably would have used Slack before they implemented threads, after all...
Not sure this community's views on Louis CK, but he had an insightful bit on cross-country travel then and now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4
So this is ~$366 per person whose data was compromised. That seems fairly cheap all things considered.

It's a far sight better than the "credit protection" they normally provide (from our point of view, rather than the people who are used to not having any penalties for abusing their customers). Remembering of course that the typical cost to companies making when they settle with "credit protection" is much lower than the already low $30 individuals would have to pay.

I'm also tired of newspapers parroting press releases that say things like "sophisticated, malicious criminal attack". Just like a few years ago every publicly exposed+default password service was compromised by "Nation state attackers", and before then "Advanced Persistent Threats". If you make a claim like this, you should be required to provide the full details of the attack:

- what level of employee account was compromised, and if none was needed, why not? Otherwise, did the targeted employee need the level of access that the attackers used? If not, why did they have it? Simply being a C-level executive does not imply requiring access.

- Did it make use of any software exploits? If it did, were those exploits fixed in the release versions? If those exploits were fix in released software, why was that out of date software being used?

- Is your company using established best practices: 2FA for all accounts, TLS for all networking, service isolation.

- Did the compromise come about due to loading content from a third party? If so, how was that code authenticated (multiple browsers support SRI)? Was that code used to support the site functionality, or was it for tracking or advertising?

This seems like a perfectly reasonable bare minimum if you want to support a claim that the compromise was unavoidable.
Why aren’t corporations analogous to unions? They’re an organization of people who work together as one. When was the last time you heard about a bidding war between two different managers in the same company trying to hire the same person? It doesn’t happen because the company organization doesn’t allow it to happen. This is exactly the flip side of two union members not undercutting each other on pay because the union organization stops it from happening.

You say that corporations aren’t created for collective negotiation. When was the last time you bought something from a corporation? Did you negotiate with individual members of that corporation on the price? Do you get individual cashiers to bid for your business? Of course not, because the organization they belong to insists on handling price negotiation in a consistent fashion across the company.

I suspect a lot of the negative attitude toward unions comes from an incorrect assumption that a union must be a monopoly (or perhaps monopsony is the right term). I think that’s why you immediately jumped to “cartel” for the analogous organization on the other side. There’s no reason a single union has to represent all workers in a field, any more than a single company has to be the only employer in a field.
I think we're talking past each other a little bit here. There's no denying that taste isn't augmented and influenced by "external forces or manipulation" (what, in all of society and culture, isn't?) and current pop is a fairly well-defined genre. I'm agreeing with everything you're saying.

But that has nothing to do with the commenter relating "modern music" to a "constant bombardment of shit" which is what my reply was addressing.
The 2600 was such an interesting machine for its lack of video RAM. Developers "raced the beam" to draw things just in time for them to be displayed, changing colors and sprites partway through a line to make all the cool (for the time) effects.
That's why I suggested a group of technologically savvy people undertake the challenge to devise a system that is trivial to implement.
Cost likely isn't going to be much considering a small town isn't going to need much bandwidth and since many do already run websites (albeit shabby).
Curiously, how exactly is Lineage OS not "fantastic in terms of security"?.

LOS merges upstream AOSP security commits and updates, often faster than most OEMs and isn't delayed by carrier testing (negative or positive, depending on your views). There are also more options for security- or pricacy-focused demands, up to the user to implement.
I'm trying it with my indie game. We'll see it works, but I realized Danger World (https://danger.world) at the end of January this year, and multiplayer is still under active development.
If we're indulging in idle speculation, then here's my contribution.

I think Lisp failed for the same reason that ORMs exist, and to be even more provocative, for the same reason that women are underrepresented in programming: the Apple II.

Yes, yes, of course that isn't "the reason." "The reason", singular, is nonsense, as any outcome is a consequence of many interrelated causal factors. However, often a few or even one dominate, and in my view the Apple II[1] is a dominant factor for these outcomes.

Hear me out.

Evidently, there once was a time when women had a healthier representation within programming, and this roughly coincided with times both when there was an efflorescence of different programming models, and when "computers" was more a profession for adults. Then, the personal computer revolution occurred in the 1970s, which introduced inexpensive, under-powered computers into (upper) middle class homes, and this roughly occurred in tandem with the introduction of video games both in arcades and then in homes. In my unscientific observation, girls were shoved aside by their brothers, who swiftly moved those video game consoles and computers into their bedrooms, where just as swiftly we set about adapting games and writing our own games using the only language offered: BASIC. And so a baby boom of baby programmers occurred. Programming expanded beyond an adult profession and became also a province of adolescent hobbyists, whose first and only (for a long time) view of what it meant to program meant: an imperative language, with subroutines, standard control-flow operations, and mutable state. BASIC isn't usually put in the Algol family of languages, but it's a better candidate for a foster child of that family than the never-learned models of before: Prolog, SQL, Forth, Lisp, etc. It wasn't difficult to make the transition from BASIC to C, then to C++, and then to Java (picking up Perl and maybe Python along the way). Without even trying, that generation of boys became a generation of young men primed to program in a non-Lispy way, right around the time when the internet was creating a demand for programmers. What fruit did this yield?

* Boys and then men became overly-represented in programming, relative to decades before.

* The database was held at arm's length, and SQL was tolerated only by creating ORMs that permitted retreating to the comforting familiarity of imperative, mutable state, Algol-like languages.

* Languages like Lisp and Prolog were forgotten about, until being "rediscovered" decades later.

Of course, if any of this is true, it raises other questions

* Why did the early, cheap computer makers choose BASIC instead of Lisp?

* Why did later, more powerful computer makers choose C?

* Why was there a gender disparity in affinity toward games in kids and adolescents?

I can speculate on some of the reasons for these, but I've indulged in enough for now.

[1] "Apple II" is just a handy placeholder. Substitute Atari, Commodore 64, "personal computers", whatever, if you like.
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True, but let’s not forget that the game code is usually in much bigger ROM on the Atari 2600 (and I forgot whether bank switching hardware and similar cartridge extension hardware was common there). Still mind boggling how little RAM you had for game state. And that you actually did not have a framebuffer at all, meaning that you essentially had to draw each pixel (or scanline?) when it came up!
While I generally agree with your sentiments here, and this is a somewhat pedantic response, with regard to the following:

The goal of code, however, is simply to communicate a process to a computer. Or rather, when that process is subject to change over time, to communicate a process to a computer, simply.

I would tend to disagree. Code is not about communicating with a computer. It is about communicating with humans. The computer does not care how the code is written - it is the humans that have difficulty with it. In a way, programming is the translation of a language that the computer understands into a form that humans can comprehend. Not so much the other way around. In this regard, clever is fine for a computer, but it is not always understandable to a human.
Alright I will do it :D
maybe you should tell them to try and find an internet connection in the wild, on top of a mountain, etc. Whereas ham is infrastructure-less provided you can generate electricity (or have batteries).

What about learning about radio for the purposes other than talking to people? Are they interested in tinkering with electronics? maybe get an SDR like a hackrf and show they how you can use it to capture radio signals (try unlocking your car with a replay attack).

Lots of reasons besides talking to people to get your license. I am Extra Class and I never attempt to talk to people, i don't want to chat with random people unless its an emergency.
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> The only reason it's valued the way it is, is because everybody has agreed it's valuable.

The only reason why gold is valuable is because it is easily and arbitrarily divisible, can be worn as a status symbol to advertise your wealth, and it has a goldilocks scarcity where the amount you have to carry to do human-scale business is not smaller than a dime, but also not heavier than a large cat.

The last is becoming less and less true with as population size grows (I can't buy a 5-pound bag of sugar with gold), but the slack is taken up by fiat.
If my email provider decides to stop delivering my email because the person emailing me is a crank I'm going to get another email provider. Because they're a platform for email, not a publisher of email.

I don't want a YouTube that is a publisher because at that point it ceases being my tube and starts being their tube. This defeats what makes YouTube so special.
I've recently adopted two libraries for my server-side backend app:

1. unpoly to handle common JS behaviours (such as show this div when this checkbox is selected)

2. Web components to handle more complex pieces of UI while maintaining compatibility with LiveView: rendering a functional jQuery carousel via LiveView/Websockets is much harder than just pushing a <carousel> element through the socket. Admittedly I haven't tested if the DOM diffing library LiveView uses plays nice with web components.
This is true of EVERY Internet-based company. All of them.

Who doesn't wax nostalgic about the early days of eBay, Amazon, Craigslist?
By making it extremely hard to get into a union and working for the benefit of members and punishing employers of non-members.
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Tesla also has the milder "Cabin Overheat Protection" that can be turned on in settigns to keep the car interior from going over about 100 degrees fahrenheit.
There's something a lot of people don't know about Unity the company - they are awful. Difficult to work with, constant rumors about managerial scapegoating, questionable sales tactics.. the recent news about the allegations against the CEO didn't surprise me in the slightest.

I don't work with them closely, but I work with them closely enough that I've recommended that my employer cease all interaction with them, including further license purchases. That's how bad the taste in my mouth is after I deal with them interactively in any capacity.
Big Sign always gets a piece.
Good point about the communities online! I did post on r/languagelearning but there's surely more I can reach out to. I also like the idea around educational content since many of the resources I used to find the animal sounds were articles anyway.

I thought of the game when I was taking Japanese classes in Tokyo. One day we were learning about Japanese animal sounds and the teacher asked us to go around the room and share what animal sounds like in our native languages. There were folks from America, Italy, Norway, Thailand, China, the Phillipines. It was one of my favorite experiences.

I built it using React Native; it was very straightforward since the game doesn't need any particularly deep integrations with the native platforms.
Funny enough, when I was in grad school, the graduate student employees formed a union. In a sort-of-parallel to your narrative, my department, Computer Science, had pretty good support for its grad employees. But many other departments were highly exploitative – splitting hiring lines that should have gone to a single student across three or four.. meaning that none of the recipients got a living wage but each still had a full workload. These departments were effectively trying to create an indentured servant class.

The union ended a whole list of bad practices virtually immediately. Even better, they negotiated us into the same benefits (healthcare, etc.) package that faculty received, which was a significant bump up even for students in the better departments like mine.

None of this would have been possible had the employees not been able to organize to realize their power.
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[edit after reading more of the PDF]:

Yes, even Unity. Unity goes out of its way to get information that it does not have permission to acquire or transmit. It looks like knowledge of this is limited to a few developers who are "in the know" and I would not be surprised if Unity has given that info out to large licensees who have mentioned a need to uniquely identify players without permission.
More importantly as not discussed, the '&' character also derives also from the french word 'et' which refers to 'and' in English. Something we can call a Norman influence.
The problem is that functional doesn't by itself provide any discipline or consistency to the data structures. I prefer the discipline of RDBMS or RDBMS-like systems rather than willy-nilly structures. (Dynamic Relational is perhaps a form of "RDBMS-like".) However, tying/binding RDBMS to application code is still a grey art needing more R&D.
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What is the source for that? When I looked into this before, I wasn't able to find anything in the documentation stating this would happen.

Here's the official Node.JS image from a couple years ago, for example...

$ sudo docker inspect node:6.1 | grep 'Z"'
"Created": "2016-05-06T21:57:54.091444751Z",
"LastTagTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"

Node 6.1.0 was released on May 6 2016, it looks to me like the image was never changed after that? And if I run `ls -lah /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list` inside the image, I get a modification time of May 3, 2016 on all the files... I tried the "node:10.0" image as well and I see similar behavior.
True, he just tells the ad buyers.
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Well I can't even imagine a more arrogant thing than criticizing someone's work without the right to do so. Just because people have a keyboard it doesn't mean that they have all the fundamental skills and experience to give feedback on anything.

> not all team norms and guidelines can practically be discussed in advance

I would suggest that you’ll be more successful if you grow a spine and try to tackle the fundamental issue first: having norms and guidelines. If that's your attitude to programming your professionalism is very low.

You ignored the most important thing in a successful development team's life and now you are suggesting other people how to become more successful? Ridiculous.
Agreed, though I would sooner say the 80s were the only decade where popular music was actually good. :)
They should be lifetime banned from every Alphabet property. Others have suffered this fate for lesser offenses.
Why can't we compare wages between the two places? I get that there are CoL adjustments you have to make, and that there are government benefits UK citizens get that US people don't. But those aren't unknowable and they probably don't add up to a 100% difference, which the difference here exceeds.
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middle manager?
There is no such thing as at-will employment in most countries outside the US. No-one can fire anyone when the work is done and just because a bunch of pussies are criticizing your work.
Okay but you're still ignoring the main question "how does encryption require more bandwidth?"
Honestly, if you can find a broken implementation (or just write one; do the RSA "decrypt" of the signature block, and then just use a constant offset to get to the digest bytes), you should be able to knock it out just from the description I provided in like, 30 minutes.
Small shops can be a diverse ecosystem, en-masse robust and anti-fragile.

Edges, servers at the edges - monopolies are not a free Internet.

Computers run our lives, either we are in control or they are - Stallman is right - without GNU's four freedoms neither societies nor peoples are free.
Still cool.
Russia switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1918, so I don’t think it would need to.
Thanks for the numbers! Really cool that you tried so many different strategies.

I'll definitely try out posting on FB groups, that's a great idea. I think general target groups are families with young kids, or people interested in language learning.

Do you have a link to the app that you made? I'd love to check it out.
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While that's probably true for seasoned OSS contributors, I think the email model is a tad abrasive for new/casual contributors.

I'm not necessarily saying it's the right choice for Source Hut, but I think it's part of the reason why Github is quite successful in the open source community.
Hey, and the moon! The moon has lower gravity and we can more easily go pick it up there