skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally prefer the naam FAAS. It's a logical naming scheme where each xAAS moves the maintenance of an increasing part of the tech stack to your supplier.
PAAS > SAAS > FAAS
As much as I would like this to be true, I think it's unlikely - Tachyons were first suggested in a scientific paper in 1967, while Tichy first appeared in Star Diaries in 1957, 10 years prior.
Wait, so people actually pay 17% of their income over two years for a 9 week course? What on earth is the upside of this over picking up a few books/online courses and attending a couple of networking events?
Isn't that what webhosting providers have offered for at least a decade? No server management, just resources on a server with a web server, data storage (often MySQL) and the ability to execute code (mostly PHP). You run your software on a server without ever accessing the server itself or having to worry about OS updates.
From the FAQ at https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-are-you-going-to-make-money-o...

Q: How are you going to make money out of this?

We believe in fast and secure messaging that is also 100% free.

Pavel Durov, who shares our vision, supplied Telegram with a generous donation, so we have quite enough money for the time being. If Telegram runs out, we will introduce non-essential paid options to support the infrastructure and finance developer salaries. But making profits will never be an end-goal for Telegram.
Project website: https://plus.codes
There was a time when people were impressed by Netflix's data-driven commissioning [1] which let them commission House of Cards without even seeing a pilot episode, because their data told them a gritty political thriller with Kevin Spacey was a sure winner.

This is what chrischen means by "I assume Netflix has troves of data on viewer preferences and what types of shows would work."

Compared to a few years ago the praise of Netflix no longer seems so effusive - whether because Netflix's stream of winning shows has dried up, or because hiring Kevin Spacey no longer seems so clever.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/23/netflix-viewer...
It is a common misconception (dare I say prejudice) that gestures are "universal" and therefore easy to learn/unify sign languages. Sign languages are a full-fledged natural language with nuances and complexities, just like spoken languages. Their grammar tends to be spatial as well as temporal, and a typical signer can express abstract concepts and its relationships using different placement/movement of signs. The reason why it's diverse is that most sign languages have been organically developed (just like spoken languages pre radio/TV era) in mostly isolated deaf communities.
Crowdsourcing can help the financial services industry
That would be nice but it's probably unlikely
> It's Paul Mason

Ok, it's now clear I need some coffee. Sorry for all this mess.
But it can mean that and, in the case of Disney+ it does mean that. Content that was (and some still is) avaliale on Netflix UK will now be moved to Disney's new subscription platform. In this case, Netflix lost value for anyone that used to consume this content there.

With more subscriptions, they will steal or claim content from existing ones, effectively driving their value down. Sure some will create content, as they have been doing for a while now but that doesn't change the fact that if I want to watch The Office, I used to have to use a VPN to watch it through Netflix US, now it's on Amazon Prime but where will it be in 2 years?
Not sure if intentional but both moves also seem rather passive-aggressive - i.e., they both affect relatively uncontroversial data uses that might cause noticeable problems for end-users when affected.

E.g., they make a camera designed for surveillance helpfully indicate to any burglars whether or not the owner might be watching them - but they don't change the actual capabilities of Google to watch.

They turning of location sharing for one feature that people would probably agree to share statistics with but keep the personal location history every android user gets by default untouched.
Is anyway else underwhelmed by the number of accounts?
State of Application Security at Top Global Fintech Startups
Here is a screenshot of the classic Flash version: https://www.electronicbeats.net/the-feed/ishkurs-guide-elect...
Researchers develop method to extract hydrogen from oil sands and oil fields
Where I live (Czech Republic) we don't do healthcare like that. We often go to the one available at the hospital of our choice (often the nearest one) or the one our practician recommends. We don't travel long distances to visit doctors. Now that he works near me (less than 5 km out of my way), I will switch my hospital of choice - if I didn't know, I wouldn't.
<Devil's advocate>No point sending a camera up, the camera manufacturers have tweaked the firmware to create the illusion of curvature.

I _know_ the earth is flat, so I already know that GoPro are in on the conspiracy as well.</Devil's advocate>

Your "throw them on a rocket" idea is the only realistic way to convince them I would imagine. Which gives me an idea, maybe that could be my ticket to the moon
Hi born2discover, I'm the founder and lead of OpenFaaS. Over in the community, we and many others such as Google, IBM, Red Hat believe that "serverless" is an architectural pattern and approach rather than a literal term.

I'd encourage you to checkout my video on Serverless 2.0 which draws out some of the issues with "Serverless 1.0" (which I think you are describing)

In 2019, serverless is not about SaaS products anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvXm-oHi5Mg&list=PLlIapFDp30...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of my all time favourite books, it is as meaningful with words as the best works of Chekhov and shows the power of the human spirit.
Pardon my ignorance, but what was the GPO network?
> When using BeiDou for car navigation, the receiver could theoretically transmit the car's location to a satellite in orbit, said Dean Cheng, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.

Details on this? What does "theoretically" mean? Are there known protocols for this? Implementations? A lot of things could "theoretically" be done but aren't in practice.
I would echo this. Believe it or not, AWS also run many many servers to power Lambda :-)

Not every term in computing is literal. Think about "the cloud" - is it really in the sky? Of course not and Serverless like aivisol is rightly pointing out is an approach and architecture.

To the developer, it's "serverless" when they don't have to care about infrastructure. So if you're using OpenFaaS Cloud or AWS Lambda, as a developer you literally don't have to care.
Tax Wedge
What a joke.

Currently Scala.Native still performs poorly than Scala JVM.

Since 2000 anyone that cared about AOT in Java had quite a few commercial Java vendors that offered AOT on their JDKs, Oracle and IBM were two of them.

Project Panama, Valhalla, Metropolis and Graal are proof that Java community does care to optimize for these things.
I've played with ArangoDB[1] last year, when I was doing a self-learning sprint. While I never reached any level of proficiency in it, I did enjoy using it, and I'm still intrigued by the idea of a combined "graph, document, and key/value [data models] in a single core with the same query language"

I put my 'boilerplate experiment' code up on GitHub[2] after my self-learning sprint petered out, mainly in the hope that one day someone will come along and point out some of the more obvious errors and bad assumptions I made when building the boilerplate - I learn best from my errors!

[1] https://www.arangodb.com/
[2] https://github.com/KaliedaRik/boilerplate-experiment
So if you're new to OpenFaaS, it is a platform for building and shipping applications on Kubernetes. We're talking about the big picture here, if you have Kubernetes, you can now deploy static sites, blogs, micro services, functions and lift+shift just about any other code.
Ahhh - a salt
Some alternatives that I am aware of:

https://wikimili.com/en/Natural_Area_Code ,
https://what3words.com/ ,
https://geokey.io/ ,
http://geohash.org/ ,
https://www.mapcode.com/ .

Some of which are proprietary.

Edit: plus.codes was this same proposal. Removed from the list.
A good example of why platform languages always reign on their turf.
> I'm going to watch it later, but I'll ask ahead of time-- is the author really stating that the feeling of watching that single video on Encarta was more enthralling than what I'll experience with that HTML5 interface?

It is also very possible that the author didn't knew about the page you linked, which is another "issue" with Internet vs Encarta: you can find way more information on the Internet at way more depth, but... you need to find it first. Encarta was comparatively very little information and depth but everything it has is by design easily discoverable.
There is https://genieframework.com/ for a fullstack framework.
I don't disagree with your points. And I don't like Microsoft either. But there's still no alternative to Android and iOS.
GraalVM's ahead of time compilation is not the sole competitor, most commercial JDKs do offer some kind of AOT support.
Noob question - what is the advantage for Huawei in getting this moved out of staging? All of their devices are already using it despite it being in staging. Is it to reduce maintenance burden on themselves because it's now a shared responsibility?
No, they've definitely got a Flash translation layer in there, and a microcontroller to run it. It's pretty much unavoidable for making a working flash device with reasonable performance on traditional filesystems.
It doesn't help that the GPS modernization project was delayed by a decade re-prioritization after 9/11.

Though this result is also because BeiDou has intentionally uneven coverage via satellites with inclined orbits that result in much better coverage (and better signal angles, high off the horizon) in asia.
I think OP is quite aware of the distinction, yet I would also argue that 'serverless' doesn't apply to having to manage a Kubernetes cluster (on servers.) If you are only exposed at the services level - whether they are provided directly by your cloud provider, and whether or not those FaaS & buckets are implemented with k8s hidden from you, then you can use 'serverless', but not if part of the requirement is to manage that k8s stack yourself - and that includes provisioning so-called FaaS on the cluster. "Serverless" it decidedly is not.
European Central Bank's Forecasting Errors
I wish Google to put a tiny bit of their money [0] into promoting this more. To counter the closed-source, for-profit what3words offering.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/1/20749831/alphabet-google-a...
How immune is this solution to VID / PID spoofing?

I've thought about this topic before and arrived at the idea that USB devices ought to be treated kind of like user accounts, where I can control what drivers / data / devices they have access to.
I think that's sensible. Though reporting by omission, disproportion or passive aggressive submissions are inherently political in nature.

Suppose for a moment that all the front page China articles are other 'tech news' such as "Israel creates novel way of demolishing buildings in settlements".

Not that I have anything concrete to suggest but consider the possibility that sometimes, half of the work is already done before anyone writes the first comment 'for political battle' or not.
As if it's not possible to place the reflectors using a robot.
This reminds me of the Japanese Chome system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system.
>>Contrast that with e.g. home internet, where in many parts of the US there's literally just a single company providing internet connectivity, a single ISP, and it's illegal to start a competing ISP.

You know, you might have shed some light on the core issue here. Usually for tangible goods, it is about choice, at an affordable cost. In the case of tech however, it is not about choice, but it is actually about access, at an affordable cost.

In theory, you could also just set up your own wireless mesh network to reach the internet. Its actually really simple: figure out the basic hardware, and then the software which goes with it, and then get the cooperation of your immediate neighborhood, and then the community at large, and don't centralize anything so you don't become branded as an ISP. Of course, the problem is that it is prohibitively expensive, at least in terms of time. So you might say "Well, it makes no sense. I will rather pay the very high price that my ISP charges". So you have just perpetuated the ISP's monopoly, because there is now one less person who has a good reason to potentially contribute to the wireless mesh network.

You can use Telegram instead of WhatsApp, but now you don't have access (because most of your friends are not going to move to Telegram just because you are such an amazing friend).

But here is the important thing: the fact that all these tech giants use every single dark UX pattern imaginable (to increase access on their products), and don't allow unfettered data export (to decrease access for competitors), means they are well aware of this and try to make access prohibitively expensive (again, in terms of time) if you chose one of their competitors.

I don't have a solution, but I think that is why the monopoly label makes sense.
With military receivers (or codeless phase tracking) the current constellation is good down to centimeters.
I've heard it said that this is the most significant figures ever accurately recorded in any measurement, ever.
While "slippery slope" / "where does it end" arguments can be used in bad faith and often are not productive regardless of intention, I don't think they are inherently bad. I think the best use of it is to call into question things the original argument thinks is obvious.

Your article's example of using pronouns to show empathy and the saboteur response show this well. It is not clear if Person 1 thinks all people regardless of whether they are a furry, goth, etc are deserving of empathy or whether there is some group of people who don't deserve empathy. I think the position that all people deserve empathy is probably at least a slightly controversial claim, and if only some people deserve it you should provide the reasoning why LGBTQ deserve it.

I don't think Person 1's argument could convince anyone who doesn't already believe either: all people deserve empathy or LGBTQ people deserve empathy. Provide more reasoning to support either of those positions would help convince people to refer to people by their preferred pronouns.
It depends on where you look. Glaciers pick up material for sure, but where they melt, it is all deposited as glacial till which provides nice heavy soil for agriculture. As Greenland thaws, all this stuff will be deposited upon it. Ireland for instance, and parts of the UK have been beneficiaries of this.

Also, worth considering is that it is virgin territory for exploration for minerals and other goodies.

No shortage of water either.

But even all that aside, it is newly available space. If you can build a city in a desert (Phoenix, Arizona lets say) you can build one on Greenland.
Unfortunately I live in a corrupt country where public work would possibly be even more harmful than private work.

The incredible amount of wasted potential from human beings spent in the endless race for profits makes me sick.

The irony of it all is that we're always trying to find ways to find meaning in life and ended up caught up in the most useless quests possible...
We are in violent agreement.

An explicitly const-qualified object instead can be replaced with its value even if its address has escaped.
Wow, just when I thought this wouldn't release, because of The Longplay. This guide is amazingly detailed, Ishkur outdid himself
This seems rather counter to what I know about GPS. It is a one way link.
No need to worry, at most it’d be the equivalent of having a chest X-ray.
Afaik most microcars are pretty much bikes or electric mobility scooters with bodies. Plenty of fun can be had by googling for ‘microcar.’

Even some beefier things like KTM X-Bow or Polaris Slingshot, which are racing cars for all practical purposes, are registered as bikes due to having no safety features.
> "serverless" is an architectural pattern

Ah, a marketing term.
Data binding for Web Components in just a few lines of code
I think the problem is more complex here, as these are usually not in-house marketing people who have willingly chosen to market cigarettes, but rather people working for external marketing agencies for whom promoting Philip Morris' products is just one of many projects imposed on them. They haven't really chosen to market tobacco, but would probably have a hard time objecting to this one particular project, if they otherwise like the job.
TL;DR at bottom.

While impressive, "how many satellites you can see over a major city" is not an accurate way to judge a GPS satellite network.

To understand why, you have to understand how GPS works. Basically, each GPS has a super accurate clock on board. These are all synced up. These satellites transmit a signal regularly on predetermined schedules.

Your phone or car or whatever else is using GPS listens for these signals. Your device knows when exactly all the satellites sent their signal. It listens and counts how long it takes to receive each signal. With the length of time it takes to receive each signal from each satellite, it can pinpoint your location.

For basic operations you require three satellites for an approximate location.

For precise operations you need line of sight to four satellites, as the fourth enables you to calculate your altitude.

At no point do you need more than 4 in sight.

Why this is important is because the U.S. satellite constellation has 32 currently operating GPS satellites. In addition to those, we have 8 that are currently in space, ready to turn on, but they aren't because there's no reason to have them on.

There's no doubt in my mind these satellites have additional secret reasons for being up there. That's the only reason they'd need that many.

TL;DR:While they do have more active satellites, it's pointless for navigation purposes. Additionally, counting the backup satellites the U.S. Has operational but currently turned off in "standby" mode, we still have more.

EDIT: Not everything I stated is completely accurate. See comments below for some clarifications. Make sure to upvote them if you found them helpful.
I agree the kubernetes part in the article is an overkill, but the serverless movement is here to stay. I used to be a serverless skeptic like you. However, after playing around with "serverless"[1] and AWS CDK[2], I truly believe serverless architecture is not only possible but preferred in many real use cases.

For example, API powered by traditional web cserver + database can be replaced with lambda/function + dynamo/s3/firestore. Cron jobs can be replaced by cloud scheduler + lambda/fargate/cloud run. As a serverless user, you really don't interact with "servers", but instead a highly-available and scalable managed task execution environment.

The only downside is each layer of compute abstraction comes at the cost of spending more and more money.

[1] https://github.com/serverless/serverless

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/home.html
User Mode Linux is fresh in my mind due to a recent HN post on it – wouldn't it be easier to fuzz the kernel as an user-mode program instead of futzing around with a `/dev/afl` device?
> I suspect there is a lot of cognitive dissonance involved.

This for sure. I had multiple friends work for Crispin Porter & Bogusky in the early 2010s. They're the main ad agency for companies like Burger King and Dominos. Great opportunity for them to begin their careers as designers, but at some point, all of them had to learn how to swallow selling diabetes to kids.
Look at their website. They actually think they have a mission to cure mankind from cigarettes.
Show HN: A few simple games not only for kids
At some point in mid-90s GLONASS had more satellites in orbit than GPS, so the sat count alone is not a terribly interesting metric.
The GPO was the General Post Office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Post_Office) which by the 1940s dealt not only with snailmail but also telegraph and telephones. GPO engineers built the Colossus computer at Bletchley.
then total moral condemnation is the way to go

Indeed. If people understood that with Phillip Morris or Facebook on their CVs they would be unemployable afterwards, they might think twice.
Ishkur's guide may have been useful in 1998. It's now super outdated.
I don't live in a healthcare system where any of this matters. I live in a universal healthcare (insurance) country. I can go to any hospital and any doctor "for free" at any time. I don't care about their other doctors in the slightest, I have my list of trustable doctors and where they work based on personal merit. I always pre-check my doctors on the internet before I visit them. I don't even know the names of the hospitals I visit, to be honest (often it's just town name anyways). However most often the hospital nearest to me is the one I visit because the standard of care is good enough - now I will go a little (2 km) further to visit this one. I wouldn't go more than 5 km out of my way to visit a doctor (obvious exceptions apply).
Unfortunately sweet chestnut is not a productive forestry species
"Sorry, no plans to make this tool public for a while."
Well, that certainly makes the whole thing much less interesting.
It's not about the actual full stack being without servers, it's about the end user not having to deal with anything related to servers.

It's just a step further then running instances with any cloud provider. There is still physical machinery in the stack, but you don't have to worry about it anymore.

Even if you don't agree with the definition, it is how it is used by most of the people in IT roles currently, so you'd probably have to learn to deal with it.
The first time you look up from 10m down, and realise you are breathing, is quite surreal. I'd recommend it.
it would only be worth it if they provided entire itunes movie catalog. prime, netflix, disneylife and nowtv covers all other bases already
Seems that the experimental Beidou-1 worked that way, and that Galileo is also able to work that way [1].

However, this does not seem to be how the deployed version of Beidou works, and this does not seem required with Galileo either.

I also note that Qualcomm produces Beidou receiver chips so these are under American control.

Overall I have the feeling that the article is trying hard to whip up fears over Beidou...

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/30839/is-two-way-c...
Hackers Planted Backdoor in Webmin, Popular Utility for Linux/Unix Servers
> At no point do you need more than 4 in sight.

Unless you are measuring something with high precision over long periods of time. Like dam flexing or ground shifts.

The more sats you have, the better you'll be at eliminating the signal noise (due to the ionosphere transition and what not).

Also, regarding this -

> "how many satellites you can see over a major city" is not an accurate way to judge a GPS satellite network.

You are completely missing their point - you are in the _city_, a place with tall buildings that give you just a slice of the sky. So the more satellites you have above, the better you chances you will see _enough_ from where you are standing.
Good thinking, but they don't do any file io, and I'm not sure how it could use less than a full CPU (wouldn't it just finish sooner? Though waiting for io could do that). OTOH it's java (on android, so dex format) and does some classloading of user classes... so maybe that is io? Here's time results:

real 0m1.818s
user 0m2.020s
sys 0m0.900s

top. (It completes in 1 sec, so put in a while loop - BTW top isn't behaving normally, "1" not giving multiple CPUs and not fitting on screen). Jus the top line:

User 51%, System 23%, IOW 0%, IRQ 0%