skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do browsers punish non-verified certs much harder than no-cert?

Because it's taking time to build enough acceptance to flag http as insecure, whereas bad https connections that can't guarantee the expected security properties have been flagged as insecure from the beginning.

At this point, though, modern browsers show http sites as various flavors of "not secure" in the address bar, and limit what those sites can do. Browsers will increase the restrictions on insecure http over time, and hopefully get to the point where insecure http outside the local network gets treated much like bad https.
As a shell script, feeding w3m directly (it will read stdin, as will lynx):

#!/bin/sh
set -e
curl -s "${1}" |
tr -cd '\11\12\15\40-\176' |
sed 's/</\n</g' |
sed -n '/./{/<p class=.font--body/,/<\/p>/p;}' |
/usr/bin/w3m -T text/html

I've called this "washpo".

The argument is the URL you want view.

If you're a stickler for well-formed HTML, you can add a pipeline for tidy as well ;-)

tidy -i -w 120 --quiet |

Immediately before your browser of choice.

And if you want to retain the title and dateline, use this version:

https://pastebin.com/raw/LcBp6gPB
You would expect equities to outstrip inflation in most environments.
They have too much influence to be 'friends' with anyone to be honest.

We can all complain about it, nothing will change, but there is no denying, that such a big fish shouldn't have such a big influence on things because of their 'friends'.

But whatever
So disable secure cookies by default for self-signed certs. The scary warnings can be shown when the user tries to enable them.
>It also included a link to a list of employee rights and protections that Google agreed to post as part of a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board this year.[0]

But in this case it appears to be a link to an internal notice.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-17/another-g...
Has any private equity buyout ever helped anybody other than the PE stakeholders?
They'll give you a shpiel how this is for the best and that brighter days are to come with new management. Maybe they'll entice folks with an incentive program that says "if profits are x much, you'll get a bonus in 2 years."

Then within 18 months, they'll reduce benefits (e.g. worse insurance plan, change the vacation policy), or maybe actually lay off people and shut down entire departments to boost numbers.

tl;dr - update your a resume and start interviewing to have a backup. If upper management thinks you're a top performer, you have a bit more leeway.
You own companies (stock) that produce things. It is true you have no active involvement or control over the business itself (unless you reach activist investor levels), but this is often a positive thing.
What I see is a subset of people who chase the money who are actually very smart and willing to work hard for it in the long run - think those high schoolers who had to be type A students to get into Ivy League with 4.0 GPA and SAT scores so perfect they still put it on their resume.
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WASM won't kill JavaScript because there is a whole generation of programmers that actually prefers it to Python etc. and goes out of their way to use it (nodejs).

There are also more technical reasons like WASM not being able to access DOM.
>why would you want to have lawmakers automatically removed from office after they have gained significant experience in writing and lobbying for legislation and serving in various committees?

Because passed laws should be about the will of the people. Not how deep the tentacles of a particular politician go. The only reason it takes so long for politicians to climb those ranks and gain power is due to the long line of lifers in front of them. 8 years is more than enough for Presidents to significantly impact the country. There is no reason a senator or a representative needs more than that.

>Every politician would optimize their legislative careers for their post-term private sector gigs

They do this already. The lack of term limits just allows them to continue amassing power and favors to make it more lucrative.

>rather than try their hardest to continue doing a good job so as to get re-elected.

You fundamentally misunderstand what the point of a member of congress. They aren't supposed to be professional politicians. They are supposed to be normal people from each state doing their duty representing that state. It's why congress isn't a full-time position.
I think this is a very bad sign. Not necessarily because of Kitura (as others have mentioned, Vapor is more popular and quite active), but because IBM was the only major company that was at least somewhat invested in improving the server-side Swift ecosystem. Clearly, apple can't be bothered to fix some of the more serious issues with Swift on Linux.

Just look at the kinds of discussions that e.g. Ian Partridge has contributed to:
https://forums.swift.org/u/ianpartridge/summary

It includes substantial work on Docker images, logging, crash debugging, etc.

Maybe google will become a bit more invested in the Swift on Linux side of things, but so far I haven't really seen them invest in the ecosystem (besides pushing differentiable programming, which is cool, but it's mostly satisfying a niche requirement).
I used to buy from Amazon because I knew what I was going to get. All these stories make it sound more like eBay.
I think companies will be incentivized to do this for two reasons. Cost and echo chamber. If they geodiversify they lower costs and the workforce is less of an echo chamber.
+1. When I was young and naive I used to praise Kiyosaki. Later experience taught me he's just a charlatan getting rich by teaching others how to get rich.
What do they get into?
While you're at it, here are other things to avoid if you're middle class and want to get wealthy: having kids, and getting medical attention.

I'm all for saving and spending responsibly, but I don't there's a thin line between doing that and being miserly. Everyone needs to have a goal for themselves for how much "enough" is, work towards it while still living their lives (even if the goal is asymptotic)
You're close to 90% correct. Title 47 Part 15 covers what is normally referred to as the ISM bands and as long as you're operating under those rules (power limitations, frequencies, and interference) then you can absolutely use any encryption or protocol you like. Amateur licenses are not allowed to use encryption for the purpose of obscuring the message, and even the type of transmissions are restricted within those bands (some aren't allowed to be data, the protocol has to be published, must be using certain modulations on certain frequencies, etc).

Those frequencies are not exclusively licensed to ISM; Even some amateur radio bands overlap with bits of the ISM spectrum.

If you're operating under your HAM license even in the ISM band and within the other requirements you're in violation and subject to penalties. Though if you've met all the other requirements you can just claim you're operating under part 15 and be all set.

That "for the purpose of obscuring the message" part of the amateur requirements is rather interesting and some people have been playing with it, though there hasn't been any official yay/nay on what that exactly means from the FCC and AFAIK it's never been tested in court.

Theoretically if you broadcast an AES key then transmit 10 minutes of data encrypted with that AES key, you haven't encrypted with the purpose of obscuring as you've published the key with the transmission. Probably doesn't do much good in practice but there is a bunch of "edge cases" that may be interesting.
Some of us mentioned that this would happen once GDPR came out. Not disclosing breaches is now a punishable offense, and this becomes a weapon in the hands of malicious hackers.
The thing I find disappointing is the lack of bytecode changes.

The language changes are all just trivial tweaks to javac. Appreciated niceties, sure, but nothing meaty. The VM changes are then likewise focused mostly on the GC. Again, appreciated, but it's entirely disconnected from the language.

Where's the long-overdue improvements to the bytecode? Where's value types? Where's runtime generics?
Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel SSL has a downside of relying on more centralization. If a visitor to my totally-static webpage wants to bypass that layer and request the http version directly, I’m going to let them. (Obviously not excited about the idea of being mitm’d but it’s not a security risk, so leave that tradeoff up to the visitor).
I do severely hope that the case is fake or at least information is inaccurate or missing.

Otherwise: That boy is more of a digital literate than most of the others involved for selectively posting to social media under a real name.
Great catch! Updated, thank you :)
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I avoid Amazon like the plague these days. They've become my last resort for reasons like this.
Scalability Layer Hits the Internet Stack
They cover this in the article, carefully describe a “microbrowser” as a subset of agents which are closer to full browsers:

“Microbrowsers are a class of User-Agents that also visit website links, parse HTML and generate a user experience. But unlike those traditional browsers, the HTML parsing is limited and the rendering engine is singularly focused.”

This seems like a reasonable distinction, especially since many people are used to thinking of “browser” as something which does a lot of work (parsing, JavaScript execution, etc.) which aren't implemented in this class of agent.
100K in the midwest is at least as good as 200K in the penninsula/SF, at least for those who have a family of 4.
I work and live in the Bay Area. It is a cruel joke to say that any FANG engineer (or other $200k+ earner) working here is living "paycheck to paycheck". Even in your reply, you provide a solution (just one of many) to this hypothetical renter's problem: switch to a yearly lease and save $66,000 a year. People who are actually living paycheck to paycheck don't have the luxury of making these kinds of financial decisions.

Meanwhile, I know a number of Bay Area grad students who still get by on a salary of $30,000, and even they wouldn't say that they're living "paycheck to paycheck" for the most part.
Just curious - what company is that?
Wow what a resource, I love this.

I'm a little skeptical about that table though, because as you point out, there's not a great way of figuring "meaning per character". For some more (real flawed) comparison, the English version of The Tale of Genji is ~60k words and 224 pages, and the Chinese version is ~75k words and 300 pages. [1] [2]

So yeah, I'm skeptical about the claim that some languages have more meaning per character, and as a result you'll end up storing less text overall. I think it'd be cool to look at more data about this though, like (for example) stats from Treasure Data [3].

But regardless, it's pretty indisputable that UTF-16 is a lot better space-wise for languages that tend to be multibyte in UTF-8. Mostly what I'm trying (Quixotically) to say is "UTF-8 the world" ignores a lot of the world.

[1]: https://www.readinglength.com/book/isbn-4805314648

[2]: https://www.readinglength.com/book/isbn-7544717275

[3]: https://www.treasuredata.com/
That’s a pretty standard definition of what an open-box product is. Good on them for listing one product accurately?
It's still a very solid career choice and probably will be for the foreseeable future. AFAIK, Thiel has a thesis about how most innovation in the past 50 years has come in the world of bits and not atoms. This seems unlikely to change in the near term as half of global population isn't on the internet and there are still productivity gains to be made in many industries by digitizing processes or rewriting legacy codebases.

If you're still an undergrad you could also think about some of the adjacent fields where having CS knowledge is a benefit. These include (applied) math, physics, economics and biology.

I majored in physics, but if I could do it all again I'd probably study equal amounts of math, economics and CS.
Amazon is opening a new office in NY by 2021, just without the huge tax breaks that they were originally pushing for. The tax breaks were the main reason that folks like AOC were pushing back against them opening a new headquarters in NY.
I don't think this is a fair characterization of the situation, regardless of whether one likes AOC or not. AOC cannot personally say no to Amazon opening an office because that is not how the government works.

Amazon asked for large tax breaks for their offices. Empirical economics research is at best mixed on whether or not those tax breaks are a good choice from the standpoint of growth and overall tax receipts. AOC and other representatives said they were opposed to those tax breaks, not that Amazon couldn't open an office.
> Note: this is not a great idea; trains release less than a third as much co2 as a truck and electrifying cross country rail would be very expensive. You need extremely high voltage for long distance transmission, which is incompatible with pantographs (the metal things that power trains/buses from overhead).

> You'd essentially need to build dedicated HVDC lines alongside all trunk routes, with regular substations (which are immensely expensive for HVDC) to inject power into the lines. Cross country HVDC would be really great for the grid, but it would be better to build a dedicated solution and forget about the trains. For context, the transmission losses for electricity cause ~2x more CO2 than all trains.

You're not wrong that electrification has a significant upfront cost associated with it, but using DC for it is absolutely not the preferred method for good reasons. Most rail electrification across the world uses 25kV AC overheads, which needs feeder stations typically only every ~50Km. Newer installations are moving to an autotransformer system, where transmission is at 50 kV AC but the trains still receive 25 kV AC, which reduces losses even further and increases the distance between feeder stations to every ~100Km.

Additionally, electrification means that the benefits of moving generation towards less environmentally impacting sources has an immediate benefit on the trains, rather than waiting until the train is replaced. In the UK, over the last year CO2 emissions per passenger per mile have dropped by 10% in just the last year [0] due to a combination of electricity generation moving towards more renewable sources and newly electrified routes.

[0]: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/1531/rail-emissions-2018...
I really don't understand his justification for such a significant modification:

> Make leans heavily on the shell, and in the shell spaces matter. Hence, the default behavior in Make of using tabs forces you to mix tabs and spaces, and that leads to readability issues.

I agree with you in that replacing TAB with > makes things much less readable.
Take a look at the pricing for Jetbrains products. 500€ for the first year only. I'm sure it has some features above "vim with syntax highlighting" but I can't tell which one costs 500.
I still use 1password because local storage and wifi sync still works but the minute that stops I'll look for another alternative.
Shameless plug for Certera for these more complex scenarios: https://docs.certera.io

I found that the certs behind a load balancer were enough of a problem that a solution was needed.
It is deliberately specified in order to preemptively counter the industry's argument that their proprietary systems and repair tools are there to protect the environment and the law.
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Which now has ads on TV make me more than a bit uncomfortable.
I think you over-read the metaphor. The point is that when people are extremely content in their current job, they're likely to 'bounce' people who are asking them to coffee since it's usually seen as a waste of time. It seems legit to me to consider that there is a tipping point in a person's current job where those inbound requests start being responded to, since the person's mind is open to the idea of some kind of transition, however unlikely.
Probably still a net plus if you have Google on your resume and decide to look elsewhere.
At least on eBay it’s much more common to get a picture of the actual product and there’s no inventory commingling.
Unfortunately, I'm leaning toward the other interpretation these days: Google management does not want their software engineers unionized but doesn't have experience to know how to deal with it legally, so they've hired strikebreaking lawyers and given them a lot of leeway on firing calls.
Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing
There's nothing stopping this from happening now except lack of infrastructure in pluck-my-banjo heartland and nobody wants to go first (do you want to live for a few years in a city with no real friends?)

It's also a terrible idea for the Feds to be in charge of doing this in any meaningful capacity aside from tax incentives and banner waving, and it'd be up to the state/city to want to be selected.

edit: removed suggestion that the heartland was lacking bars and restaurants
The “eligibility index” here is kind of a bullshit number. R&D per capita doesn’t make sense as a measurement to begin with, and even if it did it doesn’t account of population density and the artificial nature of the borders of some of these places. Some cities have more or less of their suburbs within their borders, which is going to drastically affect those R&D per capita numbers.

Overall though I think the concept is very good.
>by an employee whose job it was to do exactly this kind of thing..

I think this is the crux of the issue and people are making up the facts they don't have to fit a narrative.

There is a reasonable difference between security notifications and other corporate policies.

Were any non-security notifications in scope for their job or the tool used?

Is there precedent for google flagging specific external websites with HR policy notices?
No family? Also if we were talking about the US (which the article was) then you have to factor in healthcare, average of $200 a month for the insurance IF it's sponsored (mostly covered) by their employer. If the grocery worker is living in any major city then rent is bare minimum of $600 a month for the privilege of living with at least 2 other flatmates or around $1000 for a pretty small apartment. So this person's already out half their monthly income. Let's say transportation costs are low and that this person only takes the bus to get everywhere, that's an extra $100 a month (assuming lack of adequate transportation doesn't also ending up costing them their job due to frequent late starts). Now this person also has to pay at least some utilities depending on where they're living so a rough estimate would be around $120 a month for that. Now we look at food, average grocery costs per person in the US is $220 a month. This person also needs clothing obviously, if they go on the super low side they could get by on ~$100 a month over all. If this is it for their spartan life style, meaning no cell phone, no internet, no eating out, no leisure activities that cost money, no hobbies, no children, no trips to the doctor (where medical deductibles kick in), no car, no netflix etc. This person has potentially $460 a month to save.

That's 100% best case scenario living a lifestyle that basically consists of going to work, going home, eating food, sleeping on the floor of their apartment (we didn't budget for furnishings but w/e it's better for the back) using the public library and walks around the park for sole avenues of entertainment. ALSO: THERE'S NO KIDS IN THIS SCENARIO. Some of those estimates I lowballed also (like food as that's average cost of groceries for people who also get calories from eating out at restaurants) so this is really not a realistic estimate here.

In reality though there's plenty of hidden costs that this person will incur and even assuming they do manage to stay kidsless they'll be lucky to put away $100 a month giving them a best case scenario of $250k in savings by 55. Not terrible for them, but not enough to retire on in the US when you think of medical expenses incurred later on in life.
>How do you know that about me?

Presumably you are human, no? The ability to undo a decision at any time significantly reduces the impact of the decision. How much effort do you spend deciding what to eat for lunch? How much effort would you spend if it's what you're going to eat for lunch every day for the next 4 years?
too bad the standard is not
#!/usr/bin/gmake
first line or something similar
Ban Against is really one negative. "ban on sleeping" and "against sleeping" meant the same thing as "ban against sleeping"
+1. In order for this to be punishable in the US, they would have had to have known this press release was fake before publishing it which would be a much different story.

The headline should be updated to say they were fined by France.
I would be soooo pissed if this happened. So much for marrying GCP. AWS and Azure are so much worse though. The price of good software is clearly very high.
Communication blackout is forcing young entrepreneurs out of Kashmir
Versions 12 to 16 are/will be stable releases.
It's easily the bottom of the barrel type recovery.

Although historically private equity has been a net gain for struggling businesses that would otherwise go out of business.

There was tons of anti PE stuff after the financial crisis and they received some of the earlier and harshest attacks from congress and other groups, but the data didn't support the idea they were some corporate raiding vultures and far more often turned around ventures in precarious positions.

But ultimately its not something you go to when they are going well. Unless there is some obvious value add consolidation scheme.
We do have a "boomlet"-ing tech scene in St Louis, MO and metro areas in the surrounding states. The thing that crimps the growth is access to risk capital. Companies here had to list with a bay area address, just to get a look from the VCs.

What the govt can do is fill the role of VCs and make good returns in pure financial terms as well. Missouri has a small fund that's been very successful, but the new GOP governor cut funding as soon as he got in.
I've been really fortunate to work with reasonable product managers. At worst, I've sold automation as an IOU - let me do this 1 thing now, and you get 2 things next release. But, even that's the exception.
Updated, thanks tzs!
As a Googler, it's not only her power to wield, it's her job description to make discerning calls.
There is a pay problem. In the heartland there are lots of employers that think $75K is too much for a senior engineer. My junior engineer starting salary was $55K in 2000 which would be more after inflation adjustment than what many will offer. Lower cost of living doesn't make up for being short changed.
and if you really want to preserve nature, then you need do something about our growing population. more people need more space to live, it's that simple.
If you don't support the right of others to say things you don't like then you don't support free speech.
unrelated to actual purpose of the tool; she co-opted internal security tool for a personal soap box and pushed it to the entire company. That's a clear violation of trust in her job role.
Do you think Facebook should publish an ad that says there is a security problem with your bank account and you need to login immediately to fix it? (The ad links to a phishing site that pretends to be your bank’s website but actually steals your account credentials.)

Do you think Facebook should publish an ad that falsely claims that the date of an election has been changed?
But that might also price out plenty of much better uses for helium as well if they are less funded than those with recreational demand. A market is not always a good way to allocate resources, especially in cases like this where the use cases are so wildly different in utility