skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, as we were discussing Monday, would formal methods have addressed this vulnerability?
I don't know, I've seen plenty of abuse on the windows store. Being a default choice for tech illiterates makes it a juicy target
All in all, I'd say the one on the left is more pleasant to read and easier on the eyes, despite being "thinner". The jagged edges on the right feel on my eyes like the sound of relentless blackboard scratching.
Drug development, medical devices.
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Sandstorm Oasis going away and the last time I checked (maybe a year ago?) work seemed to have stopped on getting the protocol implemented in the browser.
Is PouchDB + CouchDB considered an alternative to Firebase?
I was born in one of the "safe" East Asian countries and I think it all comes down to their sense of ownership in the community. Koreans and Japanese have this deeply ingrained idea that the entire history of their country has been built and run by their "people" and they will have a hivemind-allergic reaction to anything they see as undesirable. There's very little crime in public in these countries because people equate a crime that happens in some back alley of a major city to a crime that happens in your cousin's backyard. It's simply abhorrent.

Needless to say, this culture does have its drawbacks, but I think the key takeaway is to increase people's sense of ownership in our communities.
I don't know why, but for some reason, I was thinking there were about 600 of them. Thanks for the link, I've edited my comment.
>Yes, Apple produced a better solution than allowing random third parties the ability to record everything you do on your phone. Would you prefer that they never increase privacy and security?

Using this logic you should then ot have the freedom to read your emails outside Apple browser or email client on your computers, the solution is

1 let the user decide if the trusts the third party

2 for sensitive application like mail/sms/browsers review the top 5 alternative browsers/email clients etc and allow only those, I assume Apple has the ability to say discuss with Mozilla about allowing Firefox on iOS, what APIs and what privacy rules need to be respected and then have a team of lawyers ready if Mozilla breaches the contract/promises.

My point there are solutions between the extremes of not allow thrid party access and allow any random app access.
Sorry, how would a company implement basic customer services except at the direction of its senior managers? Musk wasn't just issuing this one refund in that tweet, he was promising to fix Tesla's customer service policies. That's his job, and he's doing it. You can argue that he did it badly in the past, but I don't see much to complain about currently.
Thanks for posting that link! I came across that presentation several years back and found it quite enlightening. Then I thought of it for some reason a few months ago and tried Googling for it but couldn't find it. Very glad to stumble upon it again, and this time I'll definitely bookmark it.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll fix it soon.
> Hell there are millions lost by people ordering clothes on Amazon and sending them back when they don't like them.

Free returns are usually a requirement for clothing sales though. Say, Zalando has free returns within 100 days -- people expect this as clothes obviously need to fit.
Sure, I am not saying Coda should change at all.

I am suggesting that if you want to blog, and want people to read what you blog, to host it somewhere where it is readable on the widest range of devices. If a iPhone 6 with a 20Mbps mobile connection is too antiquated to render the site, then they are probably cutting out a lot of audience.

I don't know Coda, so I'll use the Confluence (which you suggest is similar) as an example. If I am using Confluence it is because I have to, for work. I will make a provision that maybe I can't read it on mobile and I need to be at my desktop. If I am reading a blog post from hacker news, I probably wont go to the effort of bookmarking it later to read on a desktop PC.
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"I’d also imagine if you tried to really abuse the relationship and show up constantly for no reason the doctor might fire you." My worry with something like this would be the doctor firing me as a patient as soon as I became unprofitable for any reason. Sure if the doctor is good you'll be fine, but how can you really know until you need to know?
What's frightening is that advertising does work on all of us, even when we find it offensive.

I buy warehouse store house-brand laundry detergent, but if you put me on Family Feud and asked me to name a detergent brand, it'd be Tide.
But then you add Microsoft tracking which is even worse. Why not just use Chromium and have no tracking?
That's a really nice way to put it, I could never find a decent way to describe it until now!
Apple should let me decide or maybe review Thunderbird and Firefox and allow them. I am wondering how can you bring this argument and at the same time you install random apps on your computer that are not made or restricted by Apple.
What about licencing? Think of it like Star Wars but comes with free movie tickets and makes the money from merchandise and licensing characters/artwork etc. to businesses that actually sell things.
I'm Lenny Teytelman, the target of this article. I'm the CEO and cofounder of protocols.io, an open access platform to improve reproducibility of published research. Accelerating science has been my mission for the past eight years.

The claims in this piece of "cancel culture" and fear of disagreement on my part are utter nonsense.

This National Association of Scholars is a group using the legitimate reproducibility discussion to undermine the EPA and climate research.

I've warned people not to attend this conference because 7/21 total speakers are climate change deniers and 0 are climate experts. My full response is here: https://twitter.com/lteytelman/status/1216770668475252738.

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CEO, protocols.io
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I think the situation invites that specific comparison because the new Edge is based on Chromium. I didn't read it as leaving out Firefox for any other reason.
Nuclear is renewable through uranium seawater extraction: https://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4514
I have the opposite experience! The image on the right is almost pixelated; the image on the left has almost perfect diagonal lines!
Google has for its entire history had strong ties to building a developer community. For instance Google Summer of Code [0] and here's a list of Google APIs with 179 current APIs [1].

[0] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

[1] https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer
Very true, I shouldn't have said standard practice and should have phrased it differently as I'm sure they would rather keep the fuel than waste it as you describe.
Cool - I'm glad to see more tech similar to Firebase pop up that's self hosted.

The big request would be mobile. I mostly use FB for the web but knowing that I could create a mobile version using the same platform would be great.
I realized by accident once when I bought an app for a one-time thing, it worked very well and quickly, and then I uninstalled it.

Actually re-purchased afterwards and left it installed for a few days so dev would get their couple dollars.
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Eric Elliot does a great analysis on this:

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-typescript-tax-132ff...
Tornado ADV cost 14m Pounds in 1980[1]. Eurofighter Typhoon cost 100m Pounds[2] in 2006. Saab Viggen cost of 2mUSD in 1967. Saab Gripen cost something like 70m in 2006. (All four of those numbers are replacement cost, ignoring R&D overhead.)

Yes, inflation is real, but the costs in the Augustine's Law chart I provided earlier weren't otherwise adjusted for inflation either, and the rest of the costs of living haven't gone up by an order of magnitude over that stretch.

As for the armwaving about how magically the waste/fraud/abuse in the American defense systems can be avoided, US aircraft win competitive bids on the international market against other countries fighters, suggesting that US price/capability rates are at least as good as other countries can offer. As every Canadian airpower enthusiast would know, the Panvia Tornado and the French Mirage were entered into the New Fighter Aircraft competition that resulted in the CF-18. But the American design won, because it was cheaper/better than the alternatives. (Neither the Tornado nor the Mirage made the cut to 3 finalists- the Tornado was too expensive, the Mirage not good enough.) So... where's the waste/fraud/abuse?

[1]: https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1...

[2]: http://www.defense-aerospace.com/dae/articles/communiques/Fi... Also the source for Saab costs.
It might be useful to think of "luck" as an error term on a regression model, where the covariates are well-known factors (e.g. wealth, ambition, connections) and the error term is everything else.

Given that plenty had privilege and money (i.e. those are the covariates), and many didn't succeed, we'd expect those weren't significant variables.

Many likely had drive, connections, know-how as well. Many of them probably failed too. Again, insignificant covariates.

So what does that leave? The error term: luck.

In other words, during a tech boom like at the turn of the century, there are so many winners (often outsized, which distort many basic statistical assumptions, such as a normal distribution) that is almost futile to try and identify significant covariates.

To speculate here, often with the pretense of certainty, is more often reflective of post-hoc reasoning than actual science.

That, in my opinion, is why "luck" is an adequate answer. We can be fairly sure that certain covariates contribute to success over the long-term in life (i.e. we have a large sample size of being alive, and we can extrapolate from many other people who have lived). It is far harder to do this with nonce hype cycles (infrequent, low-sample size).

Chalking up more success to the error term, "luck", seems perfectly appropriate during such unusual times.
Tannins give Wine and Tea their pucker (2014)
> Chromium is...vendor neutral.

That's pretty misleading. When you want to sync state across Chromium installs, you use a Google account, and that's really just scratching the surface.

Chromium comes with quite a bit of Google baked-in.
Diluted how? As in, dispersed in air, so they got misted rather than drenched?

(If so, "doused" is a poor choice of words for the headline, though par for the course in modern journalism.)
Things I've learned from using SSDs at prgmr:

Since the firmware is more complicated than hard drives, they are way more likely to brick themselves completely instead of a graceful degradation. Manufacturers can also have nasty firmware bugs like https://www.techpowerup.com/261560/hp-enterprise-ssd-firmwar... . I'd recommend using a mix of SSDs at different lifetimes, and/or different manufacturers, in a RAID configuration.

How different manufacturers deal with running SMART tests under load drastically varies. Samsung tests always take the same amount of time. The length of Intel tests vary depending on load. Micron SMART tests get stuck if they are under constant load. Seagate SMART tests appear to report being at 90% done or complete, but the tests do actually run.

Different SSDs also are more or less tolerant to power changes. Micron SSDs are prone to resetting when a hard disk is inserted in the same backplane power domain, and we have to isolate them accordingly.

Manual overprovisioning is helpful when you aren't able to use TRIM.

What a drive does with secure-erase-enhanced can be different too. Some drives only change the encryption key and then return garbage on read. Some additionally wipe the block mappings so that reads return 0.
Fuel is dumped to get the weight of the plane at or below the defined max landing weight.

While a plane is unlikely to explode during an overweight landing, it might receive expensive structural damages from an overweight landing. Anyway expensive investigations will be needed to check for such damages after an overweight landing.
Ask HN: Does it feel like there’s been more tech layoffs lately?
Feel like I’ve seen a lot of layoffs lately, across a lot of different companies (not just overfunded unicorns)...
Immigration has been steadily increasing in Japan.[1] That homogeneity presupposes trust is a right-wing stereotype used to devalue immigrants in a society and justify harsh enforcement. You can find people of every ethnicity in Tokyo, including many half and full Brazilian people that you could mistake for latinos here in the US[2].

1. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/11/national/japan-...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilians_in_Japan#Migration_...
it barely exists. Most houses don't look nice at all, that 's just because there's little demand for nice looking houses - it's just space people are after with lots of concrete and garages.
Right! When your hot code is in C you get a performance mix. Still, only about 3% of your logic has to be in interpreted Python for it to dominate your runtime.
I thought it was generally accepted that the die off in megafauna over the last 40k was human related?
What is disturbing to me about the idea of having skin in the game is that I really struggle to imagine a work situation in which I would even _want_ to have skin in the game. Skin in the game means responsibility at some personal level, and the absence of that personal responsibility is precisely the nice thing (perhaps the only nice thing) about wage labor.
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Off course gatekeeper needs to be off once something doesn't have a valid signature.
But SIP protects /System, NVRAM, kext loading and some additional stuff. Not user app signatures. Hence my question.
We've been seeing those requests for awhile now, e.g. this from 2016:

https://www.oemoffhighway.com/electronics/sensors/proximity-...
Nice of them to change their minds after lobbying for that rule in the first place.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/thanks-to-doctors-there-a...
How exactly is this preventing that fakes are being sold as authentic ?

The people who want to fake a certain shoe would just need to acquire an authentic one, then fake the shoe AND copy the QR / NFC data attached to the authentic one.

So if i buy this shoe and I want to check its authenticity i would scan the tag and the system would tell me: Jordan 5 Chinese New Year, size 11, owner: John Doe

Am I missing something ?
It's beyond reskinning. They can change anything they want to.

Let's say Google says they don't like some privacy feature because it hurts their bottom line in terms of ad revenue. So they decide not to have that in Chrome.

Sure, people could switch to in-house Edge or Firefox. But they don't want to switch, because for whatever reason, Google is better able to make a browser that people like. Attested to by the tiny market share Edge has (and fairly small share Firefox has, notwithstanding its popularity within the HN community).

Switching to Chromium based Edge is a much easier move for users, assuming Microsoft decides to second-guess Google's decision, which they can do easily and have strong incentives to do -- keeping in mind that the number one complaint people have about Chrome is that they don't trust Google.
I wonder if the writers of HBO's Succession have read this series of web page? I have only glanced at a few pages TBH, but this immediately came to mind.
I interpreted this particular article's main point as being:

Don't assume Japanese people are more honest than people in other countries, there are many social and cultural factors at play that influence behavior.

Generalizing a group of people is almost always inaccurate, and often frustrating to read, but I don't think this article is an egregious example of that. This is a fluff piece to get people interested in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, don't mistake it for serious cultural analysis.
> optimal

i.e., there is something in it for them. It doesn't have to be a tangible thing, it could be a simple as self-satisfaction.
Even if the first five employees get 50% that will be diluted to ~5% by the time there is any form of satisfactory exit, so while it sounds high, its not crazy either. If the company doesn't exit well the 50% doesn't matter.
Tested it out a few weeks ago and discovered Netflix was limiting the streaming bitrate on it. Turns out Chrome and Edge can play at 1080p now, but the bitrate is reduced(much) over what I see in Safari and the Netflix app on Windows.
From my understanding fuel is supposed to be dumbed above a certain height. High enough that it should evaporate fully before reaching the ground.
Blatantly false advertising is illegal. There's a lot of room between "blatantly false" and "valuable and informative". That's why we have upvote and downvote mechanisms.

Also, I understand not everyone believes this, but I think there is something morally wrong with the form and scale of manipulation that modern advertisement brings.
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Can somebody explain the Outboard Mode? I don't really understand the example. It decodes the input file using an outboard file, but the result is what? You already have the input file?
This sounds consistent with the advice from my trainer when I was going to the gym. One thing you don't mention is knee position relative to your toes. I was admonished that the knees should never be allowed to go forward of the toes -- they will get excessively loaded if they do. Is that true in your experience?
> their shit works

Until it doesn't. And then you're screwed. Yes, this didn't happen to you yet. It's like insurance - most people end up not using it. But if you need it and don't have it you're quite screwed. FOr some levels of dependency on Google it's ok - if I can't use Google Maps, I use other maps, no problem. But if I depend on Google for something critical, it may be dangerous.
Taiwan and South Korea were both bloody, autocratic military regimes. Many nations have walked the bridge to hell and back, but the cultural revolution meant that China burned the bridge after crossing it.
My favorite insight on clean code is that the metaphor of "technical debt" is incredibly deep. It's not just "we skipped X hours of cleanup" - you can meaningfully discuss the purpose and size of the loan, interest rate, payment plan, and more.

From that viewpoint, there are basically three happy cases for paying tech debt. You can treat it like a paid-off credit card, releasing code today and then paying off the principal tomorrow before you incur any interest. You can use it like a home loan, accepting that you can afford long-term interest more easily than committing all the time upfront. Or you can use it almost literally as a business loan, releasing something ugly which makes the money you'll need for services/salaries/etc to pay off the debt.

In practice, most companies accrue tech debt like credit card debt or back taxes. Either they pay a fortune in interest (i.e. maintenance, dev ramp-up time, and slowed development) so they can't afford to work down the principal, or they ignore the entire problem until it grows way more expensive.

The upside is that there's not much longterm cost to declare tech bankruptcy. If something can limp along until it's replaced, all the work you've been putting off can be skipped completely. Hence the godawful state of videogame code: people aren't necessarily worse about hacking things together, but they're usually coding with a clear ship date in mind, so they don't worry so much about feature requests, training new devs, or anything else long-term.

(Sometimes this blows up, like when a studio wants to make a sequel to a hit game and discovers everything they've built is unusable. And post-release patching has raised the lifespan of game code a lot from the days when you pressed a master CD and walked away. But all of that is speculative: if you don't ship, or don't sell well, the code is dead anyway.)
So in an American context... NPR and PBS exclusively then? Because people have proven for quite a long time that they are not willing to foot the bill.

(I'm from Canada so our equivalent would be CBC and TVO.)

My guess is that if advertising was banned, the news media would become even more reliant on billionaires to keep them going, and I can't imagine that's healthy for a democracy. I know advertisers have impacted editorial decisions as well (especially really big advertisers who threaten to pull their ads), but I think that would be many times worse if a paper or TV station was entirely dependant on one or two people to stay afloat.
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Not much. Cleaning your house counts as excercise too. It's every bit as healthy as walking and then some because your using your whole body, and squating and moving around.
Is it? France generates over 70% of it's electricity from nuclear energy, at costs cheaper than most of its neighbors. Building up massive hydrogen storage and generation infrastructure is likely more expensive than building nuclear plants. The high overhead cost of nuclear is what makes it difficult to fund, the operating costs are minimal.