skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that this was not exclusive from germany. It was a global change of paradigm

Every single big car brand experienced a period of very confused years (bordering panic for some of them) between 2000 and 2005 IMHO when faced the truth that the old trustable mechanics must either be replaced by mechatronica in a rush, or be overcomed and left behind by the new competitors.

Some so-so models were hurriedly launched in those years as result. Some of those soon started suffering lots of random errors and must be recalled and eventually replaced.

Cars now are computers with tires, all coated in plastic. Metal is ethernal, electronics not so much. Do not expect this soft and delicate matherials to last much more than your computer.
> The fact that you can even do stuff like this in Rust is amazing.

Stuff like this? You mean closures? That's what you find amazing? What is considered ordinary in other programming languages is considered amazing in Rust. Amazing.

> It’s simultaneously: relatively clean code, very efficient and type-safe. I like it.

You like it? Do you work for mozilla? If there is a tech evangelist of the year award, I will vote for you. I've never seen someone take absolutely nothing and try to spin it into something positive.

Edit: Instadownvotes by the evangelists. I like it!
Mainstream motherboard OEMs ship UEFI firmware that contains drivers to handle NTFS at boot.
It has to come from an account a) Bezos trusts enough to read and open attachments from, b) an account Saudi intel has access to, and c) an account that's not gonna go "hey ignore that, I got hacked".

That’s likely to be a small set.
I've bugged Amazon about counterfeit dust masks (and complained about it on HN too). Some masks claim to have valid NIOSH certification but don't, some advertise themselves as NIOSH certified but use a certification number that was revoked by the CDC 10 years ago, make claims about being N95 without providing any lab references, etc. All of the listings I've complained about are still up on Amazon.
Not sure where you live, but if air in my room circulated once in an hour, with doors/windows closed, I'd consider it way too much. We have winters so people tend to plug holes.

You're not talking about HVAC, are you?

Nevertheless, I do know people living in leaky homes/building, and they do get >1 exchange/hour.
This is great, now I can check if my cheap fringe laptop is usable with BSD. Been itching to switch for a while, but haven’t dared.
Is giving away that much of your privacy really worth $20/year? That's 0.02% of a regular software development salary. Two hours of work at minimum wage.
> Asking ever day users to create a site (buy a DNS and all that) and create a FOAF file and host it is kind of ridiculous.

It could work like email, where your ISP provides you with a FOAF (or more generally Social Linked Data) store as part of your Internet access package. Or you could buy federated hosting from your preferred 'cloud' supplier.
How would you rank UpWork in this respect?
I think this is a solid assessment and a great data point for founders assessing their idea.
If you use Firefox reader view it bypasses the wall.
He was clearly right
> zero days are rare

really?
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> to some extent
Haven't used Rust, but I don't think your argument makes any sense.

Isn't the point the combination of features is unique?

It seems like if I invented a functional sledge hammer that only weighed 1oz, you'd say:

> It can hammer big nails? So can other sledge hammers!

> It only weighs 1oz? So does a plastic toy hammer!

> So I don't care.
Routine is definitely helpful for things involving habitual tasks (like going to the gym).

Humans are loss averse and at some point, breaking routine becomes taps into the loss aversion and there actually is a friction to not going to the gym.

I suppose when you're starting out to go to the gym you are averse to breaking your existing routine (which could be bingeing netflix every night after work)
As a vegetarian, I can't really comment much on meat quality, but there were a number of scandals in Germany w.r.t. to meat (google "Pferdefleischskandal" if you know German). Again, though, this doesn't reflect on the wealth of Germans as much as on the relative importance of good food (especially compared to e.g. French or Italian people). I don't know if it's a result of my generation's parents or grandparents growing up in the aftermath of WW2, but "cheap food = good food" is an equation that many Germans would agree to (and which I personally find quite strange). I see a lot of people that always buy the cheapest food, but then they have an iPhone, a fancy car, a house, etc.

This is not to say that there isn't poverty in Germany. There definitely are a lot of people who are just getting by, especially after the Hartz reforms, although the social security net in Germany is still quite good. But it's not like nobody is well off.
I think TKL/80% keyboards strike a good balance.

I never really got used to using the numpad block, and it's nice to have the mouse a little bit closer. But I definitely use the navigation keys (both the arrow keys and the Ins/Del/Home/End/PgUp/PgDn block), F-keys, symbols (`~[{]}\|;:'",<.>/?), all of the modifier keys, Esc, and PrtSc.
lugenpresse means "lying press" and is equivalent to "fake news"
You get C++... take that as you will.
Apple has "ads" of these form for Safari and possibly other products.
What are they even talking about? They talk about this "lenovofix" like we should have some clue what it is.
And in the end all those big companies become banks.
The APM of Observability – Part 1
This is the year of BSD on the desktop.

(sorry, had to)
I think parent's point still stands. They're saying it's hard to compete now

I don't think it was intentional on Facebook's part, but in retrospect it would have been a brilliant strategy. MySpace was largely populated by a high school/shortly-post-high-school crowd.

Facebook came along and your college had to be added/invited (since residence halls and class schedules were curated). Nothing drives demand like exclusivity. Now all of MySpace's former demographic was clamoring to get in -- either by graduating HS and moving to college, or by having their existing college added.

And then the floodgates opened.
You can use exfat and it will fit.
There's no way to legislate backdoors now. They tried and failed with Clipper.

The current status quo is good enough for the spooks. Zero regulation of data privacy allows third-party aggregators to do the desired collection activities without explicit government involvement. When they want something they know who to ask, warrant optional. Enacting laws that expose what the government is doing would risk a public backlash like the mass mobilization to deploy HTTPS.
Just as long as you understand MS will be using the telemetry data for advertising and marketing purposes (in addition to the more helpful purposes you are expecting).
> It's curious how little cultural impact it has compared to the world wars

Erm, it could be argued that the Spanish Flu is what stopped World War I.

That's pretty significant.
Well yeah, that’s what Bezos has been saying all along.
There is a feature to do this in Safari already, but it's not automatic. If you force press or long press on a link so the preview window pops up, then tap on the preview to load the link, it will skip the AMP page.
It's the severely-outdated Firefox version number. Spambots and crawlers sometimes have user-agent strings corresponding to very old browsers, because they were set once when the bot was created and then never updated. On an unrelated site that I run, we get a lot of traffic with user agent strings corresponding to implausibly-old browsers, and it's ~100% bots.
Not if they're smart enough to capitalize on this.

With just the right touch, they could potentially crush it with the Super Bowl coming.

I don't know. Maybe a bunch of people sitting around holding Corona Light beers with hospital masks on. They are just looking at each other. Then at their beers. They can't take their masks off. One guy tries to drink it through the mask, just kind-of chokes. Another tries to pour it through the little cracks at the top of the mask... no good. Finally, one guy says screw-it, takes his mask of and drinks the beer. Everyone else follows.

Then, to be a little tongue in cheek, a guy at the very end of the commercial coughs.
Here's an idea: Plaid for social networks, built on the FoaF standard. The first vertical could be a personal website built from your social data.
Oh wow, now I feel old. I remember compiling and running Java course work on a laptop with 8MB of RAM. The display was monochrome, and the compiler literally took ten minutes to spin up (as go get, and drink a cup of coffee before it's done - probably swapping like mad). But it worked well enough with x11 and fvwm.

I see i was on a supercharged "pro" workstation with that much ram, though:

http://www.fvwm.org/history/

> There were two or three reasons for starting FVWM and RXVT. First, I had a need 33 MHZ 486 laptop PC with only 4 MB of RAM, and I thought linux and X11 were way better than the windows versions of the day. X11 with TWM and xterm would run on my PC, but just barely.
Huge opportunity to rebuild our health system around the consumer!
This seems like a straight out anti-trust violation.

eg using their monopoly in the desktop OS market to get people using their Office application

They've had problems with this before, eg Windows + IE.

Hopefully the EU takes action here as well.
Pegasus as expected according to another person claiming to have been hacked, also a report expected out in the coming months https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/12197417733014528...
I used to agree that Facebook was superior, but I don't anymore. Myspace allowed people to far better express themselves with design and music. It was a shit show, but so are we.
There used to be such feature in the results page. I just went looking for it and I got 'Cached' and 'Similar' when I click in the little drop-down arrow. Nice feature that appears to be removed. How does removing that feature benefited the users?
Why? Bezos isn't going to open any other videos from someone else. The US executive branch won't do a thing, in case the Saudis decide to stop buying US treasury bonds in exchange for oil. Then they might stop buying weapons, which funds the inflated military industry, and then they might buy weapons from someone else and begin keeping larger reserves of their currency. This exchange is worth more to those in power than Bezos' love life.
My first pass at a way would have some point in the code where various hooks can be triggered for a feature like downloading a file under the guise of creating previews of various types of files and simply have the production build sent to the Google Play store include an additional small plugin that looks for a specific header and then hands over the keys to the kingdom to whatever payload it finds. It's simple and there's generally a very small portion of people looking at the disassembled code from the Play Store. You could even have it produce two versions one for any internal testing on the live version and one with the small backdoor plugin.

Doing it this way you only really have to control a core part of the release team to hide the slight of hand between the published version and the clean 'published' version.

Alternatively just bury the same thing deep in the codebase using techniques like people use for the Obfuscated C competition every year. Any changes could be delayed/deprioritized/handled by a team in the know about the backdoor.
This aspect (variability of requirements spectrum) is exactly why Julia language seems to be extremely attractive in that it represents an excellent and unique solution to the "two-language problem". The only issue that I'm seeing right now is a relative immaturity of the Julia ecosystem (tooling, talent, etc.), though progress in this regard is significant.
Shodan returns some 5100 Tomato servers, with about 1500 running web services (presumably the remote administration). I would bet that a fair number of those 1500 servers (maybe 10%?) have the default password, but I'm not going to check.
Maybe a million fevers a day in China
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> Synology has built in tools to mirror to it

Yes exactly, this is what I'm using. There is a time machine folder on the NAS, the Synology tool mirrors that encrypted folder to backblaze. I have the backblaze sync set to run at 1am so it's not uploading and affecting my bandwidth while I'm (typically) awake. Yes, my remote backup is up to 24 hours behind my local time machine backup, but this is acceptable to me since it's only for catastrophic recovery.
HPKP Is No More
How does this help with the context we're dealing with here: the iPhone (and other iDevices) being heavily encrypted/secure and iCloud not being secure?

Quickly looking at Borg's website (thanks for the heads up - great tool/option) I see it doesn't support iOS or backing up an iOS device.

I assume you're just suggesting it as a general purpose option for general backups on the desktop?
> then your non coke head friends drift away, then you are strung out.

Alas, that may be more wishful thinking than reality. :( There are countless countries around the world, both in modern history and today, that prove the dynamic can be sustained indefinitely.
While wheresgeorge hasn't been entirely "cleared," they have been directly investigated by the secret service and the only fallout was that they were prohibited from selling stamps directly. It is not permitted to advertise on currency, and they considered this to be promoting the practice.

Individuals marking their own bills for the purpose of tracking them however was considered a separate and fully permissible action. The legal standard for defacing or destroying requires that the banknote be made unfit for circulation -- though that is about as clear as mud, it has been a pretty tall standard to meet.
Which is it? Is "fake news" a dangerous sentiment, or do journalists actually get the facts wrong more often than they get them right?

Do journalists try to get the facts correct? When they get them wrong, do they issue retractions? Or do they not?

Do you think you can draw an equivalency between their accuracy and the President's relationship with the truth?

This is not the same as saying "TV is bad for you, mmkay?" This is about actual journalism, which may take place in newspapers or on television.

You're treading on dangerous false equivalency here. I get that it's hip to say "the mainstream media gets it wrong all the time, amirite" in lieu of having an actual nuanced opinion, but I certainly don't think it's remotely accurate.
> It's surprising more organizations haven't switched to this approach, it saves on costs and overhead.

The user experience with web-based versions of these things is substantially worse, though. I don't know, but perhaps that's why there isn't greater adoption.
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Huh, does Medium just respond 404 when you try to visit it in incognito mode?
Python is probably a good next language given that it's a very marketable skill right now. And it should be quite easy to pick up if you know JS already.

After that I'd probably learn Rust - it's kind of a longer term bet. Seems to be getting some critical mass so it'll likely be around for a while, but that's by no means a sure thing at this point. Still, there are lots of good concepts in Rust that are worth learning that would be transferable.

You might also look into ReasonML (https://reasonml.github.io/) a strongly-typed, functional alternative to JS.
Cultural burns are a better option.

They require more time as they are slow burning and require the right conditions. Far less likely to impact wildlife.

While there has been a lot of talk about it in regards to Australian bushfires: Native American indians also had a history of prescribed burning in the Sierra Nevada.
> Haskell is easier to learn than Rust because it's literally just math.

That explains why it was so hard for me to learn: I'm awful at math. The most advanced math I could understand was high school algebra.
Well, didn't they hide the true extent of the Great Famine as well for multiple decades?
seems perfectly clear to me; some lenovo's dont like to boot from GPT, and the workaround isn't functional on all systems, so using the older Master Boot Record seems a reasonable way of avoiding the problem.
Yep, Proton is really good for lots of things.

Unfortunately, it's not a 100% complete solution. For example, no-one seems to have gotten Crysis (the original - and best ;) - version) to work, due to some kind of DRM thing in Crysis itself. :(
Ozzy Osbourne, 71, reveals he has Parkinson's disease
Sounds interesting, I will check it out. How do you want to receive feedback?
Taking someone's money to fund research and then not giving them access to that research is theft. If that money is tax money, I'd call it treason.
This reminds me of something I have been looking for for a long time. If you know any reasonable way to fix it please let me know!

This "any CA can authenticate any domain" system is ridiculous. I manage my own CA, which is fine for my own self-hosted sites, but the issue is that it doesn't protect me from a cert made valid by some other CA.

Is there any way I can whitelist my own CA such that IT ALONE will work for my domains? (note: this is a me-only thing. Don't need anyone to be able to validate these domains).

PS, I've asked this question elsewhere [0] before. I did not find an adequate answer.

[0]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/211401/can-you-...
The way Google defends its income stream against that is simple: They allow your competitors to buy ads on your own names and trademarks, then you're forced to do so as well because otherwise your organic link is below the ads. It used to be that it mattered since only dumb users would click the ads. But now that they're unshaded and look 99% identical, only super nerds bypass ads. Meaning your #1 organic result is basically only good for bragging rights and nothing more if there's anyone willing to pay even a small amount to jump up above you.
And more specifically the potential exploit / vector used.
Sure. Maybe he wasn’t super worried about getting caught cheating on his wife. A few billion dollars pays for a lot of alimony and lawyers.
The problem for areas presently affected by high PM2.5 concentrations, most notably Australia, is that materials which are commonplace in the US, box fans, but especially box-fan-sized square HEPA furnace filters, are rare as hen's teeth.

So alternate designs using available materials are required.

(Or someone might drop ship a few containers worth of box fans and HEPA furnace filters down under.)
Generally correct, but do watch out for some recent changes by Google, where you pay what you bid instead of being charged the lowest next bid even if you set your bid higher.
Can you elaborate on the google data center breach? Are you saying it was orchestrated by google?
I've been playing with training different sizes[0] of gpt on my own chat data precisely for this reason.

Coincidentally, today I was even planning to publish my last post and notebook for training gpt2-1.5b and then chatting to oneself with the model. I left it for tomorrow though.. Maybe a mistake.

There is quite a lot you can do and talking to my trained model which is responding to me as me can be real weird at times. It's definitely the most engaged Ive been with gpt while talking to myself.

Having said that you seem to train here on very little. Still - cool demo.

[0] https://svilentodorov.xyz/blog/gpt-345M-finetune/
(Standard C doesn't have file descriptors at all, it has FILE * file handles).
I'd also like an invite!
> Experience = event that changes the model of the world you have in your brain

So if I don't have a brain, then I can't have experiences? What if we find aliens out there that don't have brains? Or computers? Are they a-experiential by nature of not having brains, or is it something deeper?

> Indeed, that's why putting meaningless arbitrarily defined touchy-feely words in physics is a bad idea

We're not talking strictly about physics, though. I doubt most physicist professors would not let you bring up questions like these in physics class because they are the subject of an entire field of philosophy. And while there is relevant science to our debate, there's a lot of "soft" arguments outside of the scientific worldview that you should at least read and consider. See Jackson's knowledge argument, Block's Chinese Brain, or Nagel's "what it's like to be a bat" arguments. They "touch" on the uncomfortable ubiquity of things that we "feel" to be outside of a purely scientific view of the world.

> We can deduce from that change that your internal model of the world changed to associate "buzz" with "food" so you experienced our experiment.

This is a bit off kilter. Do people with memory or learning disorders, then, not have "experiences" because they don't learn? What about those who are deaf? You're essentializing consciousness into "ability to learn by hearing and rationally deduction". Computers can take audio input and learn from it with very primitive machine learning models - does that mean that the computer is having experiences akin to our own human experiences?

My advice is to give philosophy its due course! Read up on the touchy-feely stuff because it can be profoundly interesting.
Python is definitely on an undeniable upswing, but you might find your mind more tingly taking a look at Elixir [0] with Phoenix-LiveView [1].

Here's a video that introduces the framework (April 2019):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJzHq8ru0M

It's based on Erlang which has always felt a little rough around the edges, but rock solid and very fast. With Erlang, service boundaries become a thing of the past and tangible state makes debugging a breeze. It's still on the upswing after 20 years in industry.

Elixir greatly improves Erlang's tooling and creature comforts and adds syntax that many find more enjoyable.

As a guy with web dev PTSD, I've been testing Phoenix and Live-View a bit lately and it really hits a sweet spot between Node's speed and evented nature and the simpler end of React's interactivity.

And jobs seem to be appearing too.

Plus Elixir is surprisingly simple to setup[2] so you won't be spending all night fighting Python module dep issues. :)

[0] http://elixir-lang.org/

[1] https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view

[2] https://elixir-lang.org/install.html
Thanks for reminding me once again than Stallman is a narrow -minded dipshit.
I only know about this second hand..

Back when Joel's article was written there was also a response to it written by someone who was part of the decision. And that was one of the big points that stuck with me.

There were dozens of proprietary components that had to be removed. Java being the biggest (because it had been integrated into every part of the browser). They succeeded in removing them, but after 2 years of trying to fix the result, everything from print preview to text selection was broken. That was when they decided to scrap and rewrite.

Now consider. You've had 100 engineers working for 2 years and you don't have a functioning product or a realistic timeline for getting one. How many more years are you planning to throw into it before deciding that you're going down a dead end?

Now let's throw a monkey wrench into this. The main reason that the product is being funded was as a bargaining chip. Specifically, AOL had a deal with Microsoft to bundle a specially branded version of IE. And had every reason to believe that when the contract expired, Microsoft was not going to renew. AOL didn't care about browser market share, they wanted to have a viable alternative if Microsoft refused to negotiation. (As it turns out, Microsoft renewed the deal but part of the price was that AOL had to stop supporting Mozilla...)