skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I disagree. It is a fair mark against postfix if (as I claim) most users really don't need it.

if they don't need it, they won't be affected by that vulnerability because it won't be active.

>Meanwhile on the enterprise, pretty much every machine in every enterprise environment I've ever worked in has been set up for local relay.

In every enterprise setup I have seen, local relay was still protected using SMTP-AUTH for accounting purposes.

Plus in case of end-users, many ISPs still provide SMTP for mail delivery, all of whom need to support SMTP auth. That includes Fastmail and Gmail.

>but I can't believe you gain nothing by starting from a solid foundation.

Of course you do. But saying "Postfix is worse because it had a security vulnerability in a component that qmail doesn't even support" is unfair to postfix.

If you are running qmail with a custom patch then that custom patch will for sure have been exposed to less scrutiny than Postfix proper. It's not valid to extend the scrutiny given to vanilla qmail to all of the custom patches.
I'm confused, the point being made is that the Apple Card modernises payments by getting rid of all the points schemes, special offers and back room deals over your data.
USA mailing lists for all technologies
Selenocysteine is a really strange one.
Seeing people like you, perceiving USA invading whoever they want as a completely normal thing to do since "USA is good, obviously" makes me ready to support even fucking China in the military race against USA...
I count the parent, and a couple more replying with something-must-be-done answers at the suggestion that the territory be forcefully or otherwise removed from Brazilian sovereignty.

There are other comments in other sub-threads.

Also, this pretext isn't a new idea, and there's heavyweight international support for it.

“Contrary to what Brazilians think, the Amazon is not their property, it belongs to all of us,” Al Gore, then a senator, said in 1989.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/weekinreview/18barrionuev...

The Latin-American Bishops Conference denounced this back in 2007:

The growing assault on the environment may serve as a pretext for proposals to internationalize the Amazon, which only serve the economic interests of transnational corporations. Pan-Amazon society is multiethnic, multicultural, and multireligious. The dispute over the occupation of the land is intensifying more and more. The traditional communities of the region want their lands to be recognized and legalized.

https://www.celam.org/aparecida/Ingles.pdf
Paragraph 86

The Brazilian Amazon territory borders British, French and Dutch interests in Guyana, French Guyana and Suriname, respectively.

So, I don't see a horde of enemies, but I see an agenda.

In my view, Bolsonaro's tenure is viewed as an opportunity to further this agenda, and that's if he's not in it himself.
> That signature is all a modern browser (currently just Chrome on Android)

That's a very interesting definition of modern browser.
True, but the point was about the reliability of the tech. My point was that the chip can be just as reliable as the magnetic strip.
Distributed Ledger Technology. Maybe a new way of saying "block chain" without the current negative connotation?
Beria was a fucking mass murderer, who created two generations of people who were scared to death to speak freely.

"Wanted to liberalize the system" my ass.
Or, you know, buy something else.

Before the"locked devices, people had the inverse problem:

everything was two open ended and complicated, could cripple the system, stuff was open for exploit (much more so than in this case of unpatched vulnerability, viruses were everyday occurence). Techies didn't have this issue, but the general public did (heck, even techies did suffer somewhat). And that might have been OK for when the PC was an unconnected tool, but not when everybody has one with them, from school to nursing home, and everybody buys and does tons of sensitive stuff from it, while connected 24/7.

Whereas you can give a 2-year old an iPad, and they can start using it just fine...
Kary Mullis?
I don't know why you compare processor implementations and then talk as if that generalizes to all processor implementations of a given ISA. Intel Atom chips definitively aren't in the same performance ballpark as POWER9.

I mean it should be obvious. The ISA does not dictate memory performance, micro architecture, clock frequencies, manufacturing processes, number of cores, maximum allowed power consumption, etc. All of those affect performance but are independent of the ISA.
Yeah, the house’s matron was fired over it - and it transpired that she’d lied on her CV about her experience and qualifications - something that seemed to happen with alarming frequency at the school.
> I also resort to the desktop version sometimes but it's very seldom the mobile version is actually missing content.

Lol. I don't remember the last time I came across an AMP page that wasn't missing content.
Interesting discussion here https://mobile.twitter.com/KateClarkTweets/status/1163918806...
I think you have taken the better job opportunity. You’ll be more valuable with that sort of tech than the usual stacks, although there may be fewer of those jobs.
I have feeling, that team is most important here, not starting idea. There is chance, that the teams with currently non-viable ideas will pivot and be successful in the future.
Signatures are no longer required with chip cards.
Your smartphone has all the hardware that it needs to be a general purpose computer. If you could plug in a decent screen and connect a mouse and a keyboard it would be more powerful than the computers you used just a few years ago.
Privacy-Preserving Adds Service
Do you have any examples? I think it's a separate topic though (AMP compared to mobile sites in general).
Mobile form creator with offline form submission
Literally every page on the Guardian, as the AMP pages don't include comments?
I don't know, this is only my personal experience but every time I check .NET related stuff some Windows or Visual Studio related thing pops out and I think "nah, it's not worth it".
Not to sound negative but I can't really understand why they can't make their documentation platform agnostic like every other project on the planet.
That’s not your call to make, ace.
This was terrifying.

How does an infection like this happen though? What can you do to prevent it?
So your idea is renting a bedroom out by the hour :-). Might be quite profitable.
That idea is stupid in itself.

The whole of civilization has been a process of shielding people from having to know stuff.

The same way you don't know how to make fire from first principles, fix your car, make a CPU, or whatever...

Even someone with a Ph.D in computer hardware is shielded from tons of complexities and never has to know the whole process end to end.
Well, they didn't say the ROMs made their device safer, just that they gave them some semblance of control.
Seconded about Amiga. Who knows which factory I would be earning wages to survive payday to payday today if I didn't have that Amiga at that key point in time.

I did well in school regardless, because school is about surviving without becoming dumb. The more the effort put into a program that's designed for the stupidest kid, the dumber you become. It was about efficiency, better results than most with minimum effort.

Refer to Taylor Gatto's The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher[0].

[0] http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
Regarding the APRs, interesting note at the bottom. It's possible this will lower over time.

> Variable APRs range from 12.99 percent to 23.99 percent based on creditworthiness. Rates as of August 2, 2019.
TPF might be a better example. It's pretty much a distributed nosql database delivered as an OS.
I think there aren't any algorithm that can do that and won't be for any time soon.

I spent several weeks last year recreating my backyard in VR, aiming at 1:1 mapping, using photogrammetry for capture and a standalone mobile headset that allow walking around untethered (Lenovo Mirage Solo). Even with photogrammetry it wasn't as accurate as required for the objects to be placed exactly at the correct position and be able to confidently walk around without fear of hitting a tree that is 20 cm more to the side in VR than in reality. It took many back and forth to get the alignment right. By the time I was done the tomatoes had grown so much the VR environment was already wrong.

Outsourcing reconstruction of lost/old places is a great idea. I found that even just stereo-panoramas of old apartments seen in VR (so without positional tracking) is triggering memories in a way that simple photos can't.
In the film, "To Sir, With Love", the boy called "Fats" would be probably average nowadays, even in the U.K.
Is this passmed, by any chance?
Just wait until they dial up the preference for AMP.
I think locking down a system by default, but offering a way to gain elevated priviledges, while educating and properly warning users before certain actions is better than taking away everyone's control over their own devices, and therefore restricting their freedom.
>Your smartphone has all the hardware that it needs to be a general purpose computer.

Which is neither here nor there. Parent doesn't mean a smartphone doesn't have the cpu power etc. of being a general purpose computing, he says it is not one.
Sound advise for general purpose programming but not for (high end) games.

Especially these days with multi-threaded game engines, a call to malloc() (e.g. from vector resizing) may attempt to grab a contended mutex and end up waiting until it misses its frame.

Modern game engines use a combination of memory management techniques which are tuned for different use cases. For example: large, persistent blocks of memory are allocated ahead of time. Small, transient objects are allocated from a thread-local, per-frame pool and they're never freed explicitly (at the end of the frame, memory will be reclaimed for reuse).

Most game engines don't use the C++ standard library containers at all in the first place. There are gamedev-flavored STL variants like EASTL, though.
It's also big part of networking, with something like that you can apply to different programs, different mentorships that all brings you closer to human capital and money. That's part of the privilege being an american too, you're much closer and easily accessable to all of it.
Cold War spy technology we all use
You're just describing a debit card?
What you wrote is the government narrative, it lacks sources.
The reality is that the current government has been loosening its controls a lot by dismantling the Ministry of Environment's supervisory bodies, using the narrative that climate change is alarmism.
This veiled incentive to deforestation promoted by the government is being reflected in satellite data and increased burns.
Hikikomori
Hello, is anyone here a hikikomori ? I have been one for around 10 years now after dropping out of college. Recently, I am trying to come back into society, but it is really hard finding a decent job as a 35 year old with no degree and 10 years of joblessness. Any advice / support? I am keen to meet other hikikomori too.
No other country can plant a rainforest the size of Amazonia, come on that does not make sense.

The Amazonia rainforest is unique and cannot be replaced, I don't get how the rate that it's getting tore down to plant soy crops for cattle feed to allow for the production of cheap meat is not alarming to anyone.
What is the reason that you want to roll your own?

Is it because you want to own the IP or for learning purposes?
An idea that kicks in my mind is citizens band on the internet. You sign up and pick a location in a fictional world and start off with 1w of power and a small antenna. Pay to upgrade your rig and get better antenna. Complete with squelch and everything!
It's almost like New Zealand 25 years ago.

I don't know how people put up with the arse-backwards payments in the US. Paying for things like rent with cheques, for heaven's sake!
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I just looked at this myself yesterday and Heroku offers free postgresql instance for under 10K rows. And decided to skip S3-like solutions by embedding my compressed image to the DB[0]. Want 10k-10M rows? That's $9 a month. A bit steep, but easier than configuring DO instances.

[0]: I know this is not best practice, but this is a small project and this is a hack that I fully know the tradeoffs for.
Also, bear in mind the Brazilian Amazon territory borders British, French and Dutch interests in Guyana, French Guyana and Suriname respectively.
10nm Ice Lake CPU Meets M.2: The 'Spring Hill' Nervana NPP-I Deep Dive
I think the answer to your question is not obvious. Here, it would have prevented the problem of Apple. 12 years ago while working on a military project on sun, I have encountered a similar vulnerability caused by a regression https://blog.erratasec.com/2007/02/trivial-remote-solaris-0d...

Adding this kind of non regression test is costly, but it protects against source code management mistakes.
It's genuinely shocking how far behind the USA is in terms of consumer banking. I moved from Chicago to London about six months ago, and I can't believe how much more convenient it is. You can wire money to anyone with a bank account without an intermediary like Venmo or Zelle from your phone, either as a one-off or recurring. I can revoke permission to draw regularly on my account from my phone, so I don't have to go 10 rounds with the gym or something to quit. You can pay for anything you like with a tap of your phone, and it takes maybe a second to clear. My credit cards never leave my possession.

I still have the envelope of cash I pulled out when I got here in February, minus maybe £40. I haven't needed it!
That's not the oldest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
Japronto looks promising but the lack of community support is discouraging. Another alternate could be Sanic if you are going to use Python 3.5+. Support for asyncio is essential if you want to serve a million requests per sec.
No-one is claiming that stress synthesizes bacteria, that is a laughable strawman.

We are surrounded by bacteria at all times. If stress were to weaken your immune system, then you might be more easily infected by them. This seems completely plausible to me (likely, even). It is not a great leap to describe this link as stress "causing" the infection, even if it might be better to describe it more precisely. Perhaps "stress meant he couldn't fight off the infection as he normally would have"?
>I just added a weirdly missing short section on plain rational beziers

That's great! Thanks for writing and maintaining this document over the years!

Coincidentally, I was referencing the section on offsetting [0] just last week and read the following,

>There is a small class of polynomials where the square root is also a polynomial, but they're utterly useless to us: any polynomial with unweighted binomial coefficients has a square root that is also a polynomial. ...We can already create offset curves for points, we call them circles, and they have much simpler functions than Bézier curves.

and thought, something like: "That's correct because Bézier curves in the context of this document, SVG, HTML canvas and fonts means polynomial (i.e non-rational) Bézier curves."

But if you're now considering rational Bézier curves as in-scope for the document that changes things doesn't it ? E.g Circles represented as rational Bézier quadratics, and Pythagorean Hodographs [1].

[0] https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/#offsetting

[1] http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/G1HermiteInterpolationWith...
In London you generally don't even get a bus, rail or underground ticket. You just swipe the contactless pads to hop on, or in and out at stations. Very occasionally an inspector just holds a hand terminal to your card to check you paid.
It's not the only reason but the US has a scale and population density disadvantage which makes it more expensive to roll out technology nationwide. You can see this with cellphones as well - rolling out 3G coverage across the UK is a lot cheaper 'per customer' than it is across the US, so we have better coverage.
I see the article says "oldest continuously operating". Sigh. I wish the headline were accurate.
I don't really know why you're getting downvoted. Plan9 is relevant to this space as it takes "everything is a file" to the logical conclusion in the same way that this takes "everything is a database" to the logical conclusion.

> The hierarchical organization of file systems manifests itself in nesting of directories (folders). On the other hand, directories are merely named views of a certain subset of files, selected according to some criteria. Thus, a directory can be thought of as a "database view," a named database query. It follows immediately that a file may appear in as many "directories" (views) as one wishes to. For example, one "folder" may show all files tagged as "sales reports", while another directory contains files modified within five days. Searching a file system and creating and populating a folder becomes therefore the same activity. Since saved views are database objects themselves, one can reference views within views if one so wishes. There is no required hierarchy however: one may create two views that refer to each other, or any other network of views that best suits the problem.

I built koios to solve this problem, but I didn't take the fuse approach because it seemed like a lot of extra work for the user, and puts databases first rather than files, which is un-UNIX.
> Moreover, your comment isn’t a cogent response to the post.

Yes, my bad.

> Did you even read it?

Finished now. Good idea!

> I don’t think very many people agree with you.

Is "people" limited only to linux fans and "libertarian" ones?

Most people on entire earth do not want (and don't have spare time for this) to always make any choices, and they shouldn't.
Just so you know guys, this sounds like a typical Bolsonaro voter. Even implying that the multi-hundred-percent increase in deforestation just this year was fabricated by the communist scientists and that Lula somehow has anything to do with it. Or that it's good that Bolsonaro is "reorganizing" the research departments to get rid of the commies that dare to present evidence against his corrupt children or about his family's relationships with Rio militias. Or just plain firing scientists and managers from organs like INPE (National Institute of Space Research) and IBAMA (Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) that dared to speak out against his anti-environment speech, policies or even environmental infractions.
Anecdotally - London use of contactless certainly accelerated when the Underground started taking contactless.
I just DON'T want to watch the world burn, like priority number 1 desire.
It's a premise derived from the message that is sensational to attract people while staying on-brand
PHP is good about that. Golang is better.
Google's not done 'til only Chrome runs.
For the avoidance of doubt I have no idea who the protesters were, what colour they are and don't really care.

I agree with him that students shouldn't be occupying university buildings and disrupting the business of the university unopposed by administrators. That's clearly nonsense even though it's now common. I agree with him the most likely explanation for this absurd behaviour is administrators being afraid of accusations of racism, as that seems to be a common thread in all these incidents, and students knowing they can get away with anything if they are seen as an "oppressed minority". Whether they are actually oppressed or not is a separate issue.

The rest of his post is a general commentary on modern identity politics. He draws analogies between modern western white men and Jews in Germany/Russia. He observes that one of the justifications used to oppress Jews was their (huge) over-representation in various lucrative/powerful fields like finance, and that this led to accusations of a (non-existent) global "Jewish conspiracy" that was keeping out non-Jews. In the eyes of the anti-semites this justified a range of oppressive measures like keeping Jews out of jobs and, of course, much worse. Sergey Brin's father was a victim of this in the Soviet Union and that's one reason why his family fled to America.

The parallels between these sort of anti-semitic beliefs and modern identity politics are very clear. Frankly they should be drawn more often. We see the modern left arguing that it's OK to deny white men from jobs, educational opportunities and even to bias the justice system against them because they are over-represented in lucrative/powerful jobs like finance, politics and tech. This is justified by reference to a non-existent conspiracy of the "patriarchy", or sometimes just an assumption that if white men dominate a field it must be because of discrimination, thus "positive discrimination" against them is morally OK.

We know where this kind of thinking leads. Povey is a remarkably brave man to point this out to delusional students and administrators who apparently can't or won't learn from the mistakes of history.
Sorry, my comment was unclear. They are comparing against jet, which is a colourmap that uses all the colours of the rainbow. They are not using the colourmap _called_ `rainbow`, to compare against.
I quit using Imgur because of agressive promotion of their app. Actually you can't even upload an image, neither view a full-size image on mobile version now.
Blaming the authors for demonstrating the deep flaws in this metric is certainly wrong however. This article is almost accusing some rigorous scientists, who choose to publish often and diligently reference their prior work to encourage fact checking and peer review, as frauds.

I disagree with the assertion that bad metrics should be used if there are no alternatives. Bad metrics give wrong answers, and only the illusion of meaningful information. The most common use of bad metrics is to lie to people, and it isn't the scientists using the metrics but the organizations that employ them.
Oh, it's the every OS sucks story again.

It's all about the user experience. System should be friend and still enable the user to increasingly get more out of the computer. It also needs to be extremely responsive.

AmigaOS got a lot right back in the 80s. BeOS (and now Haiku as spiritual successor) took a lot from that (system kits vs amiga's default set of shared libraries, and the concept of datatypes) and added some concepts of its own.

Meantime, the mainstream systems have only gone backwards.

My dream of a general purpose OS is definitely an open source microkernel, multiserver RTOS with capabilities and an user experience that builds on those two systems. It is important for it to be an RTOS, as unbounded response times would make the system fail as a general purpose system and as a personal computer system.

The closest existing system would be Genode. It currently only meets the technical side unfortunately, but it could meet the user experience requirements with some work.
Here are the ideas that I think have the most potential...

talar: Huge potential here. Cars are on their way out, and scheduled grocery delivery can replace it.

spotless materials: Coatings can make a huge difference in the way we interact with materials... in fact, for the most part, that's all we interact with. better coatings make things better.

encellin: I believe that interacting with our bodies on a more finely tuned small scale is the future.

my petrol pump: I can see a lot of convinience happening here. Recurring customers whos lives are made better.

rejuvenation technologies: I want to see life extension succeed. If they have something that works then that's fantastic for us all.

tensil: Baking AI seems like a good compromise for a lot of reasons. known capabilities, and known weaknesses make for predictability.