skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is not much financial risk involved in his case, and it looks like he already has the skills needed. He already makes over 10 times his salary. In one year of employment, he spared the equivalent salary of 10 years.

I think people exaggerate the dive into the abyss thing and risking it all. If you have some savings, you can try to launch a business and if it doesn't work you can always go back to work for someone else.

At a given point, someone is going to give you another job as a sysadmin again. He can even work remotely and easily make more than $400 a month.

If you are not hiring other people and purchasing equipment, starting a Saas business as a sole founder has minimal financial risk involved compared to almost all other types of businesses, it's really not that risky.

I think what holds a lot of people back is the fact that they come from an employee background probably at the family level, and they see the world through the eyes of an employee.

They don't even remotely consider the several options that they actually have available.
My Java experience is admittedly limited so thanks for pointing that out!

What happens in case you forget to override the method in CachedHTTPClient?
There's plenty of counter points to that, Nintendo hardware is generally busted wide open pretty early. There's a very active Switch homebrew community right now and even very advanced emulators already capable of running commercial titles. It seems that it did not affect in any way the console commercially.
Knowing people at Google is absolutely the only way to get help with crucial issues.

Silly doesn’t begin to describe it.
> The first step in interfacing with a native library is to understand how it was originally intended to work.

But reading code is hard, it's easier to project your sense of confusion onto your predecessor than own it yourself, and once you rewrite the code in Rust and start to understand the true complexity that the previous code had to work around, you'll leave for another job (this time with Rust on your resume).
I understand that and it's a fair point. But the law should be on the principle of the matter, I own my data, with the compromise buried in the details. (Perhaps I own the data in the same way an artist owns a copy of their music). Instead, the principles are compromised, and in a way that's not visible to the public, with the only thing left being a bunch of policy details.

That might be a great way to get a law passed, but it doesn't do much in the long run towards fixing the underlying problem.
China claims the U.S. has ‘weaponized’ the issuance of visas
Toolwise, I use Notion. It's neat, simple and elegant.

www.notion.so
Yes, but the question is how to achieve portability without infringing on others' privacy rights.

If I'm on facebook and want to export all my comments, that would require exporting all the status updates of the people who's posts I've commented on, which then also includes those contacts, too.

There's no such thing as exporting a single node in a network, you need the entire network.
Why yes I make random shit up about how people plan to finance their low latency satellite constellations allla damn time. Ya got me. It's a fair cop guv.
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>so this sounds like it's describing a bad way to rewrite something in Rust, which is not the case.

Actually, this is the case. It describes the bad way (and bad reasons) to rewrite something in Rust.
I think there are a lot of people who smoke a joint and drift to sleep watching Rogan.
What happens if you get hit by the proverbial bus?
Do you have contractually binding SLAs with your customers?
Autotools is rarely portable. I've been doing a lot of cross compiling recently: the vast majority of autotools projects can't be cross compiled. Sure autotools itself supports it, but something required to make it work didn't get connected up and so you can't do it.

If you want to natively compile on a fairly recent linux with the common standard libraries autotools works well. Even though autotools was written to work around these differences, in most cases the developer didn't hook into autotools detecting that difference and so it doesn't work.
> that's true in any jurisdiction, right? Laws and regulations can always override contracts.

What varies is how easily new rules can be introduced, how easily they can be challenged, and the number of entities with rule making power.

Broadly speaking, Europe's systems make it easy for rules to be introduced and hard for them to be struck down by a competing arm of government. There also tend to be more regulators with independent rule making authority in Europe than in America.

This derives, fundamentally, from differing levels of trust in government, and differing views on the scope of government's job.
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> I would like to have that confined and isolated in an app 100% separate from my browser, which is already having a hard time staying secure.

So instead of having all of the security features that browsers have you would prefer to run the application in an environment where code has all of the permissions as the user running it. I'm sure malicious actors are onboard with this proposal!
IMO using Kafka for long term storage is not the greatest idea. It is expensive to keep CPU and RAM constantly on top of data that it going to be cold most of the time. There is no DML which means mistakes are expensive (from an engineering pov). And while the whole event sourcing paradigm can work quite well in narrow domains with teams fully aware of the implications of what they are doing, in practice, on large orgs, it is hard to scale (from a people perspective).
Are "connections" not also "your data"? It's a list of other users, curated by you.
Fun fact is, that Netflix only hosts their website on AWS, the video stream is delivered from their very own CDN which is completely self-engineered by them and multiple magnitudes cheaper than AWS: https://openconnect.netflix.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Michelangel...:

"The structure of the chapel, built in a great hurry in the 1470s, had given trouble from the start, with frequent cracks appearing. At Christmas in 1525 a Swiss Guard was killed when entering the chapel with the pope when the stone lintel to the doorway split and fell on him. The site is on sandy soil, draining a large area, and the preceding "Great Chapel" had had similar problems."
That source even shows numbers that helmets increase the risk of injury, which I've seen presumed to be due to the perception of safety and less careful driving by other road users.

The source summarizes helmets as 'safety theater' based on what seems to be pretty well researched data.
I can pre-calculate as many samples from the distribution as you can generate during the coherence time of the QC. Once you lose coherence, you have to re-calibrate, and during that time I can pre-compute another set of samples.
I’d be fine with top-level.
Yes, exactly! I use VPN exclusively for downloading movie torrents so I don't get nasty letters from my ISP. I have a friend who has gotten several such letters.
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If they instead said they run a site that does X and it was a pertinent solution to the topic, that would be kosher™, wouldn't it?
I want talking down hill... More the 30-35 kmh nonchalantly with zero effort kind.

The extra weight of the ebike system becomes a significant factor when trying to push past the cut off point manually. Speaking from experience with a Bionic system.
What contractual position? It seems that any contractual term which is against the law would be null. I do not think that the law is (nor should be) subordinate to contract terms.
Your "totalitarian" remark is such a shameless misrepresentation of what the person you're talking to is saying that you might as well be talking to yourself.
Confirmed as a DDOS (now resolved).
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/22/aws_dns_ddos/
> Everytime I see these threads I end up feeling inadequate.

It is always good to see people with successes that granted them some amount of freedom. Though it looks daunting in a time/competition sense, it is one day at a time towards a goal, and compounding focus amounts to large efforts that look daunting.

These threads are great because they motivate and show you what is possible, should you choose to pursue.

Not everyone has success either, these are survivorship bias. However, the reality is the ability to succeed is there. Many of these ideas, big business would not pursue due to market size, but for one man/small teams these are perfect.

With enough time put towards something and smart tuning to niche/market/needs, efforts can be fruitful.
Seeing this be published on Science Magazine is interesting by itself.

Its like IBM and Google at a high level work on different problems. IBM is focused on research and public discussion of the problem space. Google on the other hand is focusing on marketing using fancy terms like "supremecy" that can easily be misunderstood by the public.
+1 for solid. Solid has these concerns baked into the design. It's the best solution I've seen for user-owned data and interoperability, not to mention the wealth of possibilities enabled by linked data. To try to legislate those concerns into the current centralized web is going to cause a lot of grief.
> not user or developer friendly

Well, with text contrast like that, neither is your website to be brutally honest
Is AR Glasses Long-Term Scale in Consumer Markets?
I’d like having an archive of my tweets that I control. I know they have a tool, but as far as I know, there’s no way to upload that to Mastodon. I could be wrong about that.
> The bill would require communications platforms with more than 100 million monthly active members - Facebook has more than two billion - to allow its users to easily move, or port, their data to another network, Warner’s office said in a statement.

Facebook already has a data export feature. You have to manually navigate to that page and download a giant zip file. Cool.

The much more important concept being proposed here is delegation:

> Under the bill the companies would be required to maintain an interface to facilitate interoperability. Or users would be allowed to choose another company to manage a user’s account settings, content, and online interactions, the statement said.

Very few people are going to manually export their data from Facebook. But they might go to a new network that supports cross-posting to Facebook, or an automatic import that doesn't require them to navigate Facebook's menus.

Delegation is a severely underappreciated digital right. Beyond advocating for data-exports, we should advocate that users have the right to delegate data-access through APIs to third-parties. If I can manually update/download my Facebook status, I should also be allowed to programmatically update it. And I should be able to authorize another person to update/download it on my behalf.
Google claims it has achieved 'quantum supremacy' – but IBM disagrees
As I work on launching my own app, this thought is constantly in the back of my mind. I'm glad I'm not the only one
I think Catalyst and SwiftUI are rather isolated activities at this point. I would be surprised if there was much overlap with teams working on iCloud and user facing apps. But I have no inside knowledge obviously.
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I have found ngrok to be amazingly useful in my day to day development work. Looking for other tools I should be using.
Apple's documentation is some of the worst most incomplete garbage I've ever had the displeasure of trying to read. When you literally need to go to third party people who just figured it out through sheer luck because features are fully undocumented and don't give tool tips, you've broken the user experience.
> That was just an example among many

Well, it wasn't really an example at all as he's petty open about how silly he was to believe it, but ok.

Rogan invites anyone on who he finds interesting. Yes, he has a proclivity to want to believe things that are a bit out there, but he challenges a lot of those "wackos" as well. He also brings on many field experts just to hear what they have to say.

I think you're wrong about Joe fishing for clicks. He's been doing this a long time now and his format hasn't really changes. He's not purporting to be an expert of any kind (hell, he doesn't even claim to be intelligent) and he's an intellectually open person.

His show is not a platform for guests who won't offend your sensibilities, and he has no obligation to censor for you. If you don't like what a guest is saying then great; make up your own mind. He's not trying to convince you.
I think we misunderstood each other?

"It" in my post referred to the Rust cargo package in question. The package ships configure.in, but not the generated configure. You do need autoconf for configure.in -> configure. Similarly, it ships Makefile.am, but not the generated Makefile.in for use with configure.

Note how I said "The whole point of autotools is not making your users install them".
Rust doesn't have varargs, so formatting functions tend to be macros (allowing to pass in multiple arguments, compile time parsing the format string to allow type checking etc) so they are generally not that trivial.

There are some examples of printing output using formatting strings in the RustCrypto readme:

let hash = Blake2b::digest(b"my message");
println!("Result: {:x}", hash);

https://github.com/RustCrypto/hashes#usage

If you're looking to get the actual string value rather than just print it out, then take a look at the format macro. It uses the same format strings / traits etc as println, so wherever you see println you could drop in format instead:

let hash = Blake2b::digest(b"my message");
let text = format!("{:x}", hash);

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.format.html
Not using Google is my method for reducing impact.

Even just moving your "root" email off of Google into something like ProtonMail or FastMail would be better.
I haven't seen this beyond 1809
> why would you be better equipped to write a library for some domain-specific purpose than the original author?

This is how you avoid growing as a programmer.
Whats your take home (netto) after taxes for all of that? I'm an American living in Germany, wondering what the effective tax rate is for someone like you here.

Danke sehr!
A major U.S. farm lender left a trail of defaults, lawsuits
So, facebook and twitter already have apis for almost all their functions. What's the goal of this legislation?
Timing is everything. I read yesterday's and today's comments and discovered different things.
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We can keep moving the goalposts and I can rephrase my claim to:

> it's a state when a quantum computer can achieve results that would require more operations on a binary computer than a binary computer has proven to be able to do

but the point will still stand.

We can't say we achieved quantum supremacy for this one thing because binary computers still have supremacy over everyting else.

I guess we can agree here that quantum supremacy was definitely not achieved since we are not clear on the definition of said quantum supremacy.
Depends on the industry. For grunt work it's pretty easy. If you're manufacturing widgets, count how many widgets you make per employee hour while staying below a certain defect rate. For professional jobs where the task is never the same and your contribution is applying your intelligence to defining, understanding, and solving new problems in the best way, it's not easy because developing a test of productivity can be nearly as hard as doing the work, maybe even harder.
anybody else annoyed by the excel graph?
And how would that be different from Facebook's previous data access API that allowed companies like Cambridge Analytica access to people's friends data?
These being equivalent:

(a (b (c (d (e (f x))))))
(a; b; c; d; e; f x)

Is not required so isn't the thinnest possible layer.

Whether it's preferable to a homoiconic s-expr is subjective.
I think, so far, this is the least terrible article I've seen.
> If it were partisan politics I don't think we would see the continuity that we did between Bush and Obama.

If it weren't partisan politics, you wouldn't be seeing roughly 15 senior officials from the NSA/CIA/FBI leaving the public sector to take jobs at CNN & MSNBC.

I'm curious why most people don't find this to be deeply disturbing.
I don't think so - I can export my data, then delete it from your network. Now I'm in control of its spread. Subsequently, I can import that data $elsewhere, add to it, export again, and delete it from $elsewhere.

I don't see these as being in opposition at all.
^this.
Thank you for providing some perspective. Both of my parents immigrated to the US from countries occupied or torn apart by Communism. I think the many downsides of the Communist ideology are lost to younger modern Americans (and I think many Western Europeans?)... the Cold War is not even a memory for many, and its easy to deconstruct its lessons as part of oikophobic self-criticism. It seems fashionable to expound Leftist ideology today and extol the virtues of Communism since "now we have the technology to do it right!". Even the "This time we'll do Communism right!" refrain is historically old.

For a more modern example of pervasive, invasive control, look no further than China. Why confiscate glitzy consumer toys when you can just monitor and control everything? ;)

I spent a semester in Budapest back in '92, and I recall a Central European History professor wryly observing: "The only Marxists left are all in the West."
Nice to meet you. EU-based, also LegalTech with multiple companies (not all visible on LN) and a few interesting partners. Feel free to say hi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acmichaelschmitz/
The final conclusion of the article is that we can use science to look at planets but not people because people are complicated. This coming from a doctor, who in my experience has little to no idea how much science goes into tools they take for granted. Even the example about the elderly patient ends with the doctor generating a hypothesis (something is wrong with the patient) and then testing it (using imaging) using a model generated by the modality.
And this is why we need to care more and more about this issue as a society.
The rule (i.e. the GDPR law) was introduced by the european commission and parliament. It is applied by the various regulating agencies, interpreted by the courts and ultimately by the ECJ.

It is not like that governmental agencies are making up rules.
It’s such a false dilemma to say that the extremes are “manager” or “no manager.”

“Manager” is somewhere in the middle. “Insane bad manager” is the extreme, not the mere existence of a management structure.
At least as far as Twitter goes don't they limit some of their APIs like how many users a given set of API keys can use or something like that?
So, how exactly does this work? You get a notification that a customer has triggered your bonjoro, and then you record a video and send it to them via email?
That's great. Very few people in the unsupervised services imagine that they are so well protected. Thomas Drake and John Crane might have thought using the established procedure would protect them... and we've heard of them.
One feature that FF has and Chrome doesn't, is the abiliy to edit and reset an http request.
I'm well versed in Rust but I think you might need to use

str::from_utf8(result.as_slice())

https://docs.rs/generic-array/0.8.2/generic_array/struct.Gen...

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/str/fn.from_utf8.html
To break the Facebook and Twitter monopolies.
From Long beach you can get to San Diego as fast as San Fernando and Riverside.
All data should be exportable in a single file in a documented format with no encryption, no patents, no copyright or trademark claims attached to it.

I think this would solve all problems. An open standard would quickly appear and every platform would support it.
I am sure this exact rebuttal is already sent to Nature and under review and will be published in the next issue.
China cracking down on web crawlers
Is that different from the API access Facebook already makes available to apps?
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What information is in the list?

I might have a photo of me on my Facebook profile. Does a friend of mine get to take that photo with them if they migrate to Gab?

I would regard that as a breach of my rights.
Cars are not the only reason to wear helmets. Simply falls are enough of a reason: you're not a pedestrian when you're on a bike, and you're susceptible to injuries that pedestrians simply are not, even if the bike is not moving. Standing/sitting on a mechanical contraption simply is not normal for the human body, and it's very easy to get your leg trapped in a way that you break it, or your ankle, or hit your head on a curb or the pavement. Don't forget, the roads that we cycle on are also not natural in any way, and our bodies were not evolved for them. Concrete and asphalt are hard, not like dirt, and hitting your head on it can cause severe injury or death, again even if the bike is not moving. Do people fall over on bikes? Not that often, but probably a lot more often than pedestrians do, and because of the bike getting in the way, you're more likely to hit your head on something.
>Beyond advocating for data-exports, we should advocate that users have the right to delegate data-access through APIs to third-parties.

IMO we should first and foremost be advocating for the right to have our data destroyed.
Escape analysis is a common optimization for GCed languages.

e: Also, many languages allow the user create user-defined value types, which are copied rather than referenced. Variables containing these can be stack-allocated.
That's not the conventional definition of a metaphorical echo chamber.

> an environment in which a person encounters only beliefs or opinions that coincide with their own, so that their existing views are reinforced and alternative ideas are not considered

Source: https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/echo_chamber
Yeah they severely limit bots and ask for phone numbers and then they 'll ban your number if you use it twice. Who's responsible for that other then the media FUD about russian bots? I really can't blame twitter (and FB) for limiting their platforms here.
I wouldn't use Flutter for web development. It solves targeting iOS and Android without having to use a Javascript Bridge. Neither mobile platform defines its interfaces in terms of HTML. There are definitely a few development teams where React Native is also a valid choice, but cross-platform mobile app development has a learning curve regardless.
Catalina had been available to the public for testing since like WWDC; unless these were late breaks only found in GM, it's a tough pill to swallow that these urgent bugs couldn't have been addressed before GM shipped.
I mean, as I said, "encouraging competition in the marketplace" is a separate discussion. If we start allowing marketplace needs to determine or even influence who gets to access a user's data, we're already moving away from the goal of the user being the final arbiter of who gets to access his data.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but letting marketplace needs influence who gets access to a user's data is how we got to this point in the first place. It's a separate discussion, and it needs to be kept separate. Besides, whatever people come up with in that regard, the commercial entities that want access to users' data can really have no reasonable objection to obtaining strict, explicit consent to access that data. With the concomitant legally binding and criminally enforceable rules attached.

Competition in the marketplace is good, but people are a society's priority. We can't lower the barriers to access on a user's private data in the name of, "this is good for business."