skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers' data
They could easily double that density with Go, or quadruple with C++ or Rust. Why people still use JRE I fail to understand.
Java’s “String” interface included the fact that indexing a string by character is O(1), so its desire to not break interfaces rules out such choices.
Ah sorry, that was a dumb reply on my part
>The single-core performance gets very close to the fastest Intel processors

I would add: While using way less power to get to that level of performance.
According to the github page, we do not get to use some system support thingy where the browser takes the toast and displays it elsewhere. The webdesigner still needs to roughly indicate where it's displayed in the page (the choices range from 'top-left' to 'bottom-right').

Unless there's something I've missed, I don't see how that's too different than adroit use of 'position', 'left' etc.
IIRC the crafty itself is not medically certified but S&B at one time did have a medically certified version.
From that same link:

Another popular work-around is to convert the name to the 8.3 filename equivalent, this is necessary if the fopen is inside a library function that takes a string filename and cannot be altered.

8.3 filenames for the win!
It was just a forum comment that couldn't seem made-up.

Search for Copenhagen here:
http://freakonomics.com/2006/07/26/parking-spots-and-fire-hy...

I was trying to research which countries prohibit parking in-front of fire hydrants, because many don't, and don't burn down in 6 seconds.

I think the 90 degree turns with the hose are fine and can be fit between parked cars. It's the valve facing the street that can be a problem if it's obstructed, possibly needing to smash windows, because there isn't enough space to route around.
I don't doubt rational people choose limited tech in specific circumstances. I doubt rational people choose limited tech in all circumstances.

What would you think about someone that only wants to see black and white photography and won't even take a look at full color photographs?
Indeed : )
> The fashion and sneaker trading platform pushed out a password reset email to its users on Thursday citing “system updates,” but left users confused and scrambling for answers. StockX told users that the email was legitimate and not a phishing email as some had suspected, but did not say what caused the alleged system update or why there was no prior warning.

I hope this attracts EU and FTC scrutiny. Being hacked is one thing, lying about it is another.
Read here: https://selfpaypatient.com/2015/05/12/insured-but-not-lettin...

How can it otherwise possibly make sense that they charge more for not having to deal with insurance company bureaucracy?
This reminds me of the situation where video games now require that if you add text chat to a game, then you also need to add voice-to-text and text-to-voice to accommodate people with disabilities. Then you need to also test it with a bunch of people that suffer from these disabilities. There are some exceptions, but you need to at least document that you assessed whether you can afford to add this feature or not before release. [0]

Accessibility is important, but things like this can easily overstep their bounds to the degree that it can stifle competition. It would've made far more sense to work towards some unified OS features that would allow for such functionality, instead of putting the burden onto the application developer.

[0] https://www.3playmedia.com/2019/03/18/the-cvaa-video-game-ac...
If anyone wants to try it, I have a fairly recent Docker image up as insightful/ubuntu-gerbil.

Sources:

https://github.com/insightfulsystems/ubuntu-gerbil

(need to fix that pipeline, I know)
That sounds interesting a few years ago I worked on a project (the back end system that managed large chunks of the core UK internet infrastructure ).

That had an extended 9 month design phase - but a short 12 week agile sprint phase that delivered two intermediate POC versions and then a final working project (we even delivered hardware when at the last minute the customer admitted they hadn't ordered a server) - we even took enough networking gear that we could have installed a net work if that was missing to.
>cheaper

While also faster than the non-a variants.
Do any of your points change the facts that he outlined?
I'm in the process of trying it out. So far it's quite trivial for REST/CRUD, have been focusing on other stuff.
Kinda depressing but there are people out there who would sit up and take note about climate change, once it affects the financial market. But the way we measure countries via GDP, import and exports and rate those countries based upon financial makeup alone. That's kinda the crux. Sure there are other metrics out there, but none that feedback into how the World operates - financially.
A lively week of enrichment in Germany?
It was a little intriguing reading this after reading another article: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746600105/1-in-4-food-deliver...

Is delivery drivers stealing from customers' orders the new thing?
I agree with your viewpoint but I'm also aware of several security standards that explicitly specify all traffic between hosts needs to be encrypted. Sometimes it's easier to meet the standard verbatim than try and justify an exception. If you already use a configuration management tool it shouldn't be a lot more overhead to install some certificates.
Looks interesting. That website is extremely fluffy in the usual 'next silicon valley way', but it should mean that you could find someone who at least knows where to get some hardware done. Which isn't nothing for a smaller city.
Url changed from https://www.pymnts.com/apple/2019/three-2020-iphones-will-su..., which points to this.
I did not mean to be overly argumentative. I just wanted to refer to the proposal as it is. There could be a case for a somewhat different proposal like yours, say if mobile does need this and implements support. However, at the moment the proposed element is defined almost entirely by presentational demands.
Related post with interesting comments:

UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-h...
Gorgeous Minimalist Rings That Will Capture Your Heart
How did the FBI obtain access to pawnshop transactions? Because the article makes no mention of a court order, making it sound like they were on a fishing expedition.
From the article, it's not clear to me how the investigation began...could it have started with a tip from Amazon?

> A police detective last summer noticed that one of the drivers had dozens of pawn shop transactions, and thus began an investigation that uncovered a theft ring that sold millions of dollars' worth of stolen goods on Amazon.com in the past six years, the FBI said.

Why was a police detective looking at the driver's transactions? Would be interesting to know.
Did anything happen to those garages? And out of interest, where they clustered around a particular part of the country? I’d imagine London was a hotspot.
Is it possible to flag or outright ban paywalls from HN? In my case I even tried to sign up to read the article but their registration is currently broken (gives an invalid code message).
What Is Null? (2010)
A bus driver that “meets expectations” is the perfect bus driver, I don’t want him to “continually improve” thinking that he’s the new Ayrton Senna, I don’t want to be driven around by drivers who think that they’re Formula 1 drivers. How are programmers different from bus drivers?
Yes each of those websites still use PHP under the hood. But by that argument each of those websites can be counted as using C as well. As well as machine code.

It has nothing to do with the code being spaghetti or not. It's about a level of abstraction where I no longer consider something made with wordpress as something created with PHP. The PHP was allready created and then someone just clicked a few menus to choose what existing PHP he or she wanted.

The more fitting category would be just calling such websites "Wordpress" websites and not PHP websites.
Oh.

Right, replicating that exactly requires 240fps with fast shutter and discarding half of the frames. Which is a way more expensive proposition.
It is really up to package maintainers, so rather than give up, why not try to contribute back?
The important bit is "running our software" - depending on the complexity of said software, 200MB is pretty meh.
Certainly on Mac OS, sizeof(wchar_t) had nothing to do with the way text strings got stored. The Mac had an elaborate system for handling international text that used either bytes or 16-bit quantities for text storage, where the interpretation of what a byte or byte pair meant was stored separately from those bytes. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma...:

”The character codes may be 1-byte or 2-byte codes, but there is nothing else in the text stream except for those codes. Using font information that your program stores separately, Script Manager routines can help you determine whether a character is 1 or 2 bytes, and other managers allow you to work with either character size.”

More cumbersome to use than modern Unicode API’s? Definitely, but it was superior to what Windows provided for years.
did they had enameled ceramics back then ?

soap cannot clean porous things I suppose
Okay, we need to make the distinction of gold-rush vs ordinary economic atmosphere. A gold rush is a very specific sort of environment in which a great number of people descend on a particular economic activity in order to get rich.

In an ordinary economic atmosphere, one can choose many different ways to get ahead. In a gold rush, everything revolves around this one activity. Either you're actually doing the activity, that is, mining the gold, or you're facilitating others doing the activity, i.e. selling shovels.

What started this discussion was a third category of gold rush activity, that of owning the underlying platform / land. This was accused to be survivor's bias. I'm saying that unless you can come up with a fourth category of even more successful economic activity that's still relevant to the discussion, survivor's bias doesn't apply, and we can accept the model of causation as stated on the tin.
Things don't get accepted into mainline just because you did the work. This is a weird misconception people have about open source. You also see it when people ask "why did you build this instead of just contributing it to $largeProject?"
I presume you were billed $85 for the tuning fork?
This year is mentioned on the Wikipedia page and its references as the sort of "genesis date" of all the companies' involvement and is more or less when the UCS-2 tragedy began. (This is a post specifically about UTF-16 and UCS-2, not the entire history of Unicode. That'd be... considerably longer.)

I mention in another post (Correction: In a draft of a post.) I'm still stuck on JDK 8 for various reasons out of my control, and am generally unaware of changes made in 9 or later. I'll amend the post to reflect that the feature shipped.
Because doubling, quadrupling, etc. the number of servers is quick and has a well-known cost compared to going for a complete re-write in another language?

I'm a massive go and rust fan, but I don't expect the entire world to be re-written in them any time soon.
> I find the suggestion that videogames don't need to suspect disbelief, but films do, very strange.

True, the distinction may seem strange to some, and it's not always a clear distinction. Here's how I'd describe it in more detail (just my opinion of course):

In film, we see a person depicted on the screen with certain characteristics that convey emotion (just as we do with a group of lines comprising a stick figure with similar emotion), but we are forced to activate parts of our brain that span the gap between what we see (which obviously isn't reality) and what that character might feel in his/her universe.

To some degree that same experience happens in video games, but I would argue that instead of seeing the emotions and trying to understand them, we (as players) are the person feeling the emotion. In one, we are witnessing events happen to someone else (and exercising empathy), whereas in the other, we are experiencing the events first-hand (even in a 3rd person view, we're playing as if we are the character in view).

A first-hand experience feels most believable when it's actually realistic (hence the need for high frame rates), but a simple stick figure can feel "believable" if we're engaged and sharing the emotion we believe it to be feeling.

As a side note, maybe that's why I personally prefer classic (8-bit era) video games over modern 3D video games :)
Sorry man, I was just referencing joker from the dark knight for humour :-/
Post-Startup Life: Reflecting on My First 18 Months Living in Denver
But it has a Venn diagram so it's science!
I'm not disputing whether Java is a good choice for anything, just refuting your assertion that Java is the new COBOL and is mainly used in legacy enterprise software. Jobs stats on Indeed.com (corporate) and Angel.co (startups) show that's clearly not the case.
Those "urban pockets" contain a very large percentage, if not the majority (depending on how you measure and with what granularity), of the US population.

One could just as easily say that it's "heavily frowned upon" by all but the retrograde inhabitants of the country's depopulated and backwards interior.

But we won't, because that's rude.
Wow. Montgomery Ward -- source of the ad dating the game -- doesn't even exist anymore:

Montgomery Ward Inc. is the name of two historically distinct American retail enterprises. It can refer either to the defunct mail order and department store retailer, which operated between 1872 and 2001, or to the current catalog and online retailer also known as Wards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Ward

I was thinking "Does Montgomery Ward even exist anymore? I can't recall the last time I saw one." I searched and, to my surprise, the Wards.com website came up.

Then I checked Wikipedia. Nope, it is not the website for the now defunct department store chain. It's a different entity.
The very first link in the article is the original source - a press release from Wisconsin's Department of Health: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/news/releases/080219.htm
Hardware as the Interface for AI, ML, and Data
Having a national health care system administered by the government is the ultimate monopoly. It necessitates a gigantic bureaucracy, which will decide what you get and what you don't get according to their standardized rules.

Since it will be impossible to provide everyone with the best health care, it'll get allocated according to bureaucratic rules, not what you or your doctor want.

These allocations will inevitably be done based on political decisions, and how politically connected you are.
The density per server savings is probably a drop in the hat compared to the cost of the engineers themselves... also by the sounds of it memory usage isn't the issue here which is the only thing I think you'd get from C++. I've seen well written java applications do amazing things performance wise even expert C programmers couldn't match (without an obtuse amount of effort).
Why the End of the INF Treaty Will Not Start a New Arms Race
I don't understand why you're saying it isn't free. Are you saying that because it's dual licensed it's not free? Users would still be able to modify and fork the GPL version in all the normal ways.
It takes a rare degree of micromanaging to run a $10b startup (for an appropriate comparison to Domino's) and worry when it's sued for some accessibility issue.
I mean, that wiki page shows that electronic record players can still be referred to as a phonograph.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Philco_T...
Right. Under this classification, my choice to make my own bread rather than buy it at the store, or my choice not to eat bread at all, is interstate commerce.
Though do note this is only an issue when using particular "narrow" functions. If you consistently use the recommended "wide" functions then none of these issues occur.
Indeed, all that is made more challenging given that "ordinary life" was often not considered a subject that should be written about any detail. I recall a description of medieval literature often involving "the acts of kings" written as just as a sequence of events.

I think in many societies, there often wasn't much effort put into "telling people what they already knew" and instead writing involved records of big events or accounting entries.
A recent study here in Europe as found that some low-quality CBD e-liquids contain traces of solvent (used to extract said CBD) that are above safety level and may trigger adverse reaction in vapers. I assume THC e-liquid goes through the same sort of process and may have the same issue.
> If you don't have multicast support at all in your network infrastructure, which as the article points out isn't common to have on cloud networks,

Huh? Are you assuming large flat L2 networks addressed with IPv6?

IPv6 works great at scale, just route everything everywhere, stick with unicast & anycast, and don't roll large L2 domains.
Multicast is entirely unnecessary aside from the small amount needed for ND/RA between host and ToR.

And, for operations, a routed IPv6 network without NAT, VXLAN, or VLANs spanned across switches is much easier to troubleshoot and generally has fewer moving parts to fail.
Title is obviously built to trigger for many, but the interview itself is a fascinating analysis of the relative plasticity of the Fed's mandate.

Many forget that the Fed is just a few generations old. Its operating principles can and will change over time. Fascinating read!
My experience using Spring boot for website development
At work, I was asked to learn spring boot and the first task was to build a simple crud app, just end to end functionality for a model with automated tests, builds, static code analysis etc. I hate to admit it, but for the first few days (and even now) I couldn't tell which was up and which way was down, nothing made sense.

- Installation was a nightmare. Workplace uses windows, so the usual dance of installing the jdk, setting the env variables, creating a project in eclipse and for some reason it uses the jre instead of the jdk. Some plugins/packages such as lombok work in eclipse but not in vs code! And even in eclipse there's some annotation (@Data I think) that's supposed to generate getters and setters but it doesn't work.

- Flexible architecture : some use service, serviceimpl and controllers. Some skip the service interface. And it turns out you can extend crudrepository and have a fully functioning rest endpoint without writing any code using spring data rest!

- Magic : this is incredibly frustrating. Some repository types are automatically exported, some are not and the docs do an atrocious job of explaing what's going on. Place some file abc.xyz in the root and magic happens!

- Docs : the single worst part of learning spring boot, especially for newcomers. How can the docs possibly be so insensitive to newcomers? Or do they expect only experienced devs at big cos to use spring boot?

- I hate to admit this, but I still don't know what a god damn bean is, what AOP is, what inversion of control is.

This was mainly a rant and a bad one at that, but I had to vent.
Lot of people ignore this, but NATO ally and a bigger Arctic stakeholder of the western world, Canada has a bigger and pretty capable Arctic Icebreaking fleet: http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/icebreaking/home

While, most of us would want to see US get bigger toys, we should collaborate with allies on some of the Polar logistics.
Interoperations for the New Internet
Continuation:

I will likely be changing teams soon, so hopefully this will be the last time I use spring boot.

Now I am not a complete noob to webdev. I have worked with django extensively and I have had a pleasant expereince with it. Everything is so beuatifully thought out, the docs are wonderful and I am never left scratching my head wanting to curse at the top of my lungs.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this topic.
“According to the search warrant affidavit, two storefront businesses posing as pawn shops bought the goods from shoplifters, then had the items shipped to Amazon warehouses, where they were stored until sold online.”
Yes, that was the intent. C itself obviously just sees chars as a number, but in C itself strings have no real meaning at all. The fact the kernel treats them as opaque byte sequences is the important part.
The big bottleneck we had with docker containers per host was not sustained peak but simultaneous start. This was with 1.6-1.8 but we’d see containers failing to start if more than 10 or so (sometimes as low as 2!) were started at the same time.

Hopefully rootless docker completely eliminates the races by removing the kernel resource contention.
> "...it just doesn't make economical sense to try to provide good support, which is a very hard endeavor for the reasons mentioned above."

it's economically rational but it's also a classic externality. the cost of poor service is externalized onto customers not only as direct costs in time and money but also indirectly as human anger and violence, which trickles out socioeconomically as general incivility (e.g., road rage).

i'm all for strengthening the legal equality of the individual so that corporations can't shirk off such externalities as simply a cost of doing business, as you suggest.

most "bad" customers are reacting to unfairness and injustice, not trying to swindle the company. treat customers fairly, even erring on their side, rather than treating them like moneybags for the squeezing, and you'll find good customer service is fast and easy (if tricky to master).
I've personally done this in Java, as mentioned. Generally I use fastutil to create an IntList (which is just an int[] with some conveniences) and use Java's Character class to convert between UTF-16 and UCS-4 on-the-fly.

It's not very fast, but it makes flawless Unicode support easy. :P
You are right, according to medical journal "The Lancet", 85% of (government-funded) research funding is “avoidably wasted across the entire biomedical research range (e.g., clinical, health services, and basic science)” Government-funded medical R&D (budget for the NIH: $34.4 billion for 2019) needs smarter spending.
No, only the normal charge for an office visit.
If you look at how much the overall volume of deliveries has increased in the past year, it doesn’t seem abnormal. You have something with a very low barrier to entry, and plenty of alternatives to switch between. Contrast this with, for example, working for the US Postal Service. While companies like Uber may resist contractor background checks, when these contractors are doing things like raping your customers, suddenly those background checks may have protected your brand.

My friend has had Amazon packages stolen before, by the delivery person, who thought that as long as he took a photo of the package on the door step he’d win the dispute. I guess he didn’t see the security camera.
It looks like the study is linked?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2da8

Also, it includes the scooter company driving around at the end of the day to pick up all the scooters. Obviously not applicable if you are using your own personal scooter.
Ok, so it's like any other decades old piece of machinery. That doesn't mean it's impossible to run. I get that it's no 5-star hotel but it seems perfectly serviceable to me. The entire world is mostly like this. New and simple parts that go together easily are luxuries of trades school and high margin industries.
At the end of the day, there needs to be a trust root.
Actually it is possible. It doesn't have to done on client-side. You can do it via DNS settings with Pi-Hole on your network, or create your own private tunnel with Pi-Hole. After that, you need to block subdomains with amp.. Or even you can create your own iOS app for it, and yes it is also possible.