skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>(e.g. Bezos) will operate something like the Washington Post at a loss

the Post has been profitable since 2017. https://www.axios.com/washington-post-1515418495-9c9dc541-16...
What types of software and systems have you worked with that take on the order of days to compile?
Well put.

I also don't want my location broadcast as I move around on foot, or in my car, so why would I want to be tracked in the air?

And if you don't like being tracked, what makes you think that others want to be tracked all the time?
Remember that these "lenses" are very irregularly shaped, not at all like the smooth lens of a camera. A good real-world analogy is to look through a wine glass, for example:

https://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/_samantha/journal/ringpic.p...
To be fair, Africa has quite the lead on that one!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oklo-reactor
Hi, there have been some updates to it and the landing page does have a short explanation, but I agree - something a bit more interactive would probably be better.

The app itself is something tightly coupled to having an account to operate (so no data is lost), but I might try adding in an interactive demo on the landing page so you get that feel of how it works straight away.
I strongly suspect those cheap little surgical masks most people wear are close to useless, as they are incredibly porous and allow completely unfiltered air to get in through the sides of the mask.

A P100 or at least an N95 respirator would be far more effective, but most people aren't going to wear those, unfortunately.
The difficulty there is cybercafe PCs that are locked down and won't run .EXEs.
> It is not tyranny, when it involves terrorism

I'm not sure I would otherwise bring this up, as it's of tangential relevancy at best, but to return to GP's point, could the prelude to Indian independence (c. 1900-1920), and the response of the colonial government, not be described in similar terms?

http://theconversation.com/the-forgotten-violence-that-helpe...
Apple Doesn’t Secure iCloud Backups
Blaming the tech industry is both not fair and not correct. In the grand scheme of themes they are a tiny fraction of total employment.
But more data, and more data types = more precision and accuracy.
> Microsoft Office Excel 2007 was the first version of Excel to use multithreaded recalculation (MTR) of worksheets. You can configure Excel to use up to 1024 concurrent threads when recalculating, regardless of the number of processors or processor cores on the computer.

Somewhere, there is probably someone running hundreds of threads for excel (likely in a beefy VM/VDI). It is probably wired so deep into their business that they are afraid to move to other methods (that are more scalable). But such is the power of excel. What you see is what you get is not to be underestimated.
Do any of them have comprehensive standard libraries, and compile to small native binaries? Those features, along with performance and support for parallelism, are why I chose Go (for command-line apps).
I would beg to differ and could probably accurately guess that several ag pilots I know would as well.
I suspect this is because these are wolves in operator's clothing. If you deploy true operators that are doing labor in their area of expertise, and if they can pre-empt obvious mistakes + generate reproducible playbooks, you could net out ahead.
No, it doesn’t... on a stock build. Get the VLC app though, and then you can play (through the app, of course).
Surprised to see this here as this has been around for quite some time. I used to do these problems on the weekends in 2013-14.
People who want to look too cool for school.

Clearly they aren't actually nihilists because they care about money and status.
My favorite use for JWT was actually on the backend for Frontend-to-service-to-service auth. It was actually a pretty natural way to flow the user context around without getting ugly with our API calling conventions.

Basically, Clients all used NTLM to talk to the main site, but the main site would use JWT to pass the authenticated user info to the other services being called. The signature ensured that you couldn't spoof, short of being an authorized user that could get an impersonate token for calling the APIs.

But the nice thing was it meant we didn't really have to hit the DB at all in any of this, and it was way cheaper to implement than an API gateway.
A Chrome/Firefox extension to check the live CO2 em of the California grid
No, I'd like some evidence for one of these two claims:

1. Prisoners in Belmarsh are routinely tortured.

2. Prisoners in Belmarsh are not routinely tortured, but Assange in particular is being singled out for a surprise helping of torture in Belmarsh.

Neither TFA, nor its sources provide any evidence for either of those two things. What they do provide is evidence for the much less incendiary, and less surprising claim of:

1. Assange has not gotten any better since his self-imposed exile.

> Doctors have observed, reported, documented, and endorsed that he is being tortured.

No, they haven't. If you disagree, please cite sources. Ones that don't do the bait-and-switch of pointing at the medical problems he acquired during his pre-incarceration living conditions, and using that to 'prove' the entirely unrelated claim that he is being tortured in Belmarsh.

I strongly doubt that such sources exist, because if they did, publications like TFA would directly, and unambiguously cite them, instead of dancing around the truth.
It's not ok to post like this to HN, and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Menggunakan Cermin HTTPS Untuk Menghindari Suntikan Iklan Operator Seluler
This is interesting, but what I actually find even more interesting than this is Spotify continuing it's usage of Google Cloud products even after being acquired by Microsoft. Can anyone shed some light as to why this is the case? Has that acquisition not been a "traditional" MS acquisition?
Firefox version here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/energy-lollip...

Feedback welcome!
Users flagged this post. Moderators didn't touch it, or even see it until now.

Given that there was a large Assange thread yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22351183), and a large thread on the Assange/torture question a few weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22201381), I don't think this letter contains significant-enough new information to support a solid HN discussion. This topic is divisive enough as it is, and in the absence of significant new information, threads tend to degrade even faster than usual.
Austin, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, (and maybe London UK) branches of FAANG pays 2-3x from the top-10% market average in that area.

SDE1 @ Amazon Vancouver get at least 160-180k (CAD).

SDE3 @ Tableau Vancouver can hit $300k-$350k (CAD).

SDE3 @ Amazon Seattle can get paid 400-500k (USD).

I don't know how much Google Singapore, Zurich, and China pay compare to the market. I heard Alibaba pays $200k USD (if you're OK with 996) for Soft Eng (not in management).

All I said was that "competitive salary" is loosely defined because once FAANG landed in a specific location, they will absolutely "crushed" your notion of competitive salary.

This is the reason why I find the notion of "competitive salary" is interesting (and a bit funny). Employees will demand "competitive salary" and when we asked them, they will point out to the maximum TC that they can find in their area. That's not "competitive" salary. That's "I want to get paid the max".

Of course... it wouldn't be sexy to say "pay us fairly" since that equates to "market average".
From knowing a bunch of STEM PhDs over the past decade, we're producing way more of those than "needed" too. They just have cushier basically-unrelated fallback options.
> standard industry practice forbids engineers from reading any patents whatsoever.

It does? Exactly zero of the companies I've worked for in my career have forbidden me from reading patents.
I feel the same way. Although I have only been starting to contribute recently, I thought that by offering code first via pull request I wouldn't be perceived as a whiner in the issues section.
Does that mean they are shutting down? Too bad, it was an interesting company developing an interesting kite-based alternative to traditional wind turbines.

Although Alphabet apparently wasn't a great match, is Shell any better - are they really going to be an effective advocate for developing wind power as an effective competitor against their primary fossil fuel business?
May be this will help you understand the difference.
Anti-national != criticize.

If you refresh your past memory, kishan kanhaiya raise slogans saying we will break India and he is not in jail.

Every one has right to express their opinion but judicial system will take its course. Govt cannot put people in jail just because someone criticized them. That was the point I am making. I can't make it any clearer than this for you
In my previous house, there were a large number of helicopters flying. Partly due to a tour company nearby. But the ADSB picked up very few of them.

I think in certain areas they have a different frequency for an ADSB equivalent.
The standard model for on-premise is an annually licensed managed service. We deploy, manage and monitor the platform on the customer's resources (usually AWS account).

Great questions on credential management and transformations. These are not in the offering today, but they are on our near-term roadmap and we are very excited about their potential. As you've alluded to, there's a lot we can do there.
No. That is stupid. The solution is to make sure that education is never skimped on.

The lesson for countries like US that are cutting education in favor of tax cuts is that lack of education in a electoral democracy is a self-fulfilling disaster.
You also end up writing patterns like Pimpl[1] into your codebase, which are really just contortions to get faster compilation speed at the expense of readability, maintainability, and (some) runtime speed.

[1] https://herbsutter.com/gotw/_100/
This is one of the most interesting things the climate movement has put out. It actually makes you feel like you can do something about it, instead of just freaking out about burning Earths.
What if the code is dangerous, but that's because it's only intended to conceptually answer the question?

For example, part of writing safe code is adding an appropriate level of error handling, but this also dilutes it. If you're trying to understand a new concept, the code with lots of error handling will be harder to parse.
Yeah, this can be done for nested virtualization instances (images) too.
Bad analogy. Data science isn't manual labor. Ask yourself, does an artisan woodworker want the shop to buy a CNC mill that they'll be obliged to use to justify its cost, knowing that they can be replaced more easily as a machine operator than as a skilled artisan?

They would probably rather advance their skills in woodworking than as a specialist in XYZ Woodco button-pushing.
The late 90s and early 2000s were a weird time in America.
i... don’t think microsoft acquired microsoft
Somehow my view on this would be:

The BIGS will be too big to accept union and the less BIGS will have to accept their fate to live with unionized workers.

Employees will choose between: get paid tons of money but sacrifice your life vs unionized and accept market average pay (or a little bit above).

Just like life: high-risk high-gain, low-risk low-gain.
I wonder if that will change.

(If it can change? Probably yes...)
Microsoft does this. When logging into PowerBI, you have to change passwords every 6 months. They somehow store last 5 used password patterns and won’t allow re-using them. So for every 6 months you gotta come up with new combinations and remember them.

It’s a pain in the ass because I only login once in a while. I refuse to use their software until they give a sane password experience with two factor auth. Well I refuse to use it because I have to click 20 things before I can even proper login.
Autotranslation of the title: "Using HTTPS Mirrors To Avoid Injecting Cellular Operator Ads"

This looks on-topic, but this is a English speaking forum, so the submission will probably get ignored of flagged, unless it has some very interesting material that is not available in English.

Do you have an English version? With a little of luck it will be more popular here. (At least translate the title of the submission.)
Do you have a react component for this ?
How many images are lost because of the shutdown of Twitpic?
I have texted the seven people of those 12 who I'm on "texting terms" with. Three of them began shifting some of their time in mid-November, two in mid-December, one in January, one no response. Four of the seven have traveled to US ports beginning in January to begin testing and monitoring efforts.
These companies often times were bought shelf companies with history so as to have credibility. The goal was selling up blocks to prohibited locations and enabling spamming. This guy spent a lot of time in Tunisia with spam Kong’s and accepted up front money to build infrastructure.

The publicly discussed components here are but a small piece of a complex and sloppily run scam organization.

Look up the judgements under these businesses over the years at various web hosts. These companies would enter long contracts and eventually stop paying.
Spotify is not a Microsoft asset
Microsoft doesn’t own Spotify. It seems there were rumours they might be acquired by MS around the time of the IPO but nothing came of it.
Even if you take the OP at face value, they're an unreliable narrator at best.

They have questionable character and moral standards by their own admission. That's before even considering the effects of their mental illness.

I would never hire this "perpetually unemployed" person. Everything they say points to something being off.
I still don't understand what the ribbon provides that customizable toolbars don't. Even after years of using the ribbon, I still don't have the location of even basic things memorized. I used to jump back and forth between excel and a program with toolbars regularly. After setting up the toolbars once, everything was exactly where I wanted it and fit my work flow perfectly. The ribbon in excel on the otherhand I always had to.change tabs to find what i wanted, everything seems kind of arbitrarily laid out, nothing is movable or customizable. I find it limiting by comparison.
That's probably a corp speak, to be honest. They'll almost certainly shut it down after few months/quarters.
Ask HN: Best way to build a mobile iOS app in 2020?
I ask this as someone who is:

1) Very familiar with react native, its breakage, its dependency hell, and the struggle to get the most simple apps rolling

2) Slightly afraid of full-on XCode and Swift

3) Jaded from React Native, so slightly hesitant to jump onto Flutter

I realize that beggars can't be choosers, but what is the a great way to build mobile apps (iOS mainly) in 2020?
There was some news about Microsoft acquiring Spotify in April 2018, but as far as I can tell that never went through.
Let's not push the narrative of Kashmir being peaceful after the abrogation of Article 370 without any meaningful metric for the same.
And the author.

But your claim was that this was unrelated to the trial. The response was that, no, it actually corroborated the core allegation in the Micfo case.

It's true that it alleges other stuff. That doesn't make the IP fraud point somehow not corroboration.
Indeed.

Don't use multiple processes if one will do.

Don't use threads if multiple processes will do.

Don't use some sort of multi-host framework if something dumb driven by ssh (etc) will do.
Tech vs non-tech. Blue-collar vs white-collar. That’s not what matters. What matters is market dynamics. That’s all I’m saying here.
Seems like the reason is so it can maintain data integrity, like an explicit "in order" mechanism.
He picked the fight foolishly by being greedy. He lived well beyond his means too and owes a lot of money to people you don’t want to owe.
And? My point remains: why should software developers willingly work for less pay? People aren't entitled to have software developers work on their projects. If companies not willing to pay the going rate for software development, then why are they surprised when they can't find workers?
Politically, the solution is to offer them candidates who are are conservative on all issues except corporate regulations.

This is what FDR did: went left on economic issues, and right on everything else: law and order, pro-military, anti-civil rights, etc. His “brain trust” and bureaucratic supporters came from the upper class (something rural citizens support).
> you can press-and-release Alt and then "walk" through the Ribbon by keyboard

Ah, I see. That doesn't really address my issues, though.

> every version of the Ribbon in Office has had an accompanying search box

It does? I can't find anything like that in O365 Word at all (I haven't checked the other apps). Regardless, that just underscores how bad the ribbon is -- a search function shouldn't be necessary.
This is exactly it. Unviersity education in particular has developed an irresistable cachet that means people keep coming even under the most diabolical conditions. The other part of it is a lack of good other options, and also a great reduction in labour mobility.
Hi Startledmarmot, I happened to notice this post. I’m Travis Stoliker and I’m a VP at Signalwire. I don’t want to interrupt the thread but I wanted to give you my direct email so you can get a hold of me anytime. Travis.stoliker@signalwire.com. Thanks for the shout out on here. If you need any credit to try out our service if you haven’t already done so, just shoot me an email! If anyone else would like some credit just let me know. Take care.
New accounts are rate limited by software. I've marked your account to exempt it from this now.
Not uncommon in some cities in Canada to find out you're working for a criminal outfit if writing point of sale/restaurant software where they want you to produce one receipt for the customer and a different one for the restaurant or salon or shady car mechanic that then pockets the unreported tax aka a 'zapper'. Profitek was busted once, InfoSpec Systems, zappers are in high demand
Swift is nowhere outside of mobile space, on server side it's pretty much dead.
Don't live in the redwoods it's why we have fires. And I'm not sure what you're upset about here your nature destroying frontiersman fantasy is still very much alive in Bonny Doon
He flat out created new people and signed things via notary with fake names. He then tried to sell blocks to prohibited persons in prohibited regions.

Pull down the whole court doc, it’s pretty clear his intentions.
Is anyone interested in customer service consulting?
You sum 7 numbers all around 100. Assuming I didn't mess up, the maximal floating point error for that is ~100·7·2^-53 which is < 10^-13.
You mean as a wrapper? I'm not familiar with react as an Angular guy, but do you need one - could you plop the HTML into the page? All the client side script does is insert an iframe and control its size.

I'll look into making a React component.
I see 10gps listed at USD 569/month?

https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/general-purpos...
Adapting to a Fast-Forward World
Thanks. HN helped with it! :)
The problem with using RenderDoc is that it doesn't capture ANGLE GL function usage, only the underlying D3D calls. So you have to correlate the high-level GL API calls with whatever ANGLE is lowering them to yourself.

It would be nice to have a native D3D11 backend (and D3D12, and Metal, and Vulkan) someday, but that day isn't today. gfx-rs, or wgpu-rs, looks promising as an abstraction layer over all of these APIs.
You've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly in multiple threads on divisive topics by snarking, getting personal, posting flamebait, and so on. That's not cool. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on? Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Go has its issues, name a language that doesn't.

For a long time I couldn't stand using it because it's so damn opinionated, but it still hits a sweet spot for me.

I like C a lot because of its simplicity, but hate spending days solving trivial problems.

If you really need C, nothing else will do. But if you're willing to trade some flexibility for convenience, Go lets you make that compromise without dragging along a ton of features that you didn't ask for.

It's a tool, if it works it works.
Nice!

The one thing that I didn't expect was to pay more per card in the bundled plan than the per-piece cost in that plan. The math still checks out so you're not leaving money in the table by having someone stay on a lower plan.
Interesting, thank you for the link.
IMO, this is a great example for how the policy of “owning your own data” actually leads to objectively “better” Engineering solutions.

If Spotify leveraged my phone to calculate these statistics of my listening history (owned and stored locally), this article would have been written about an app update.

No need for a massive ad-hoc job with high-bandwidth round trips, just a simple app update.

It’s funny to imagine how engineers of the future might look back on our pride over this kind of computing similar to how we look back in horror on how wasteful we once were with mining oil back in the 1910s, etc.
I'm more or less in the same camp as the parent and I'm sure what the best way to communicate is.

The call to feel-good individual consumer action has been a Siren Song for the last twenty or thirty years while the various large scale pollution disasters simply continue. I'd agree with what is now older-school economics - you need direct regulation specifically to handle those cases the market can't handle. And the moves based on consumer action and market-driven regulation have visibly (and invisibly) failed.

So I hope you understand the appeal of giving people this bitter pill. I mean, think people want to hear "just add a little more of this to what you're doing" and what we're saying is more like, "sorry, I know you meant well but you need to stop what you're doing and this instead". But I don't know, don't know how to balance "I understand you're not the enemy and you mean well" with "what you're is basically counter-productive, in the sense that it gets other people to also do something ineffective".
Thank you for your response.

I'll be keeping an eye out for enhancements. We have to renew our Datapower licenses annually and are always on the look out for a replacement.
I submitted the ft story a couple hours ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361216

In case you pay for ft and not Medium, like myself.

Direct link:

https://www.ft.com/content/56582032-528e-11ea-8841-482eed003...
Umm so those who reported negative on PCR exam will not be quarantined at all??
I’m no expert in this field, but what Japan is doing here is outrageously irresponsible given the reported situation.
Cynically, this sounds like a way to further concentrate the rewards at the top and ensure rank and file employees get nothing more than a salary.
Air quality control. Net neutrality. Higher education.
Lobbying for equal pay protections isn’t independent of evaluations of merit. It’s about correcting demonstrable systemic bias against a protected class, e.g. if all women were being paid less then men in the same roles, with same experience, merit evaluations etc.
> Spending 80% of your income on housing is just poor budgeting no matter how you look at it.

77% of take-home pay is closer to 40% of income. It's only a little higher than sustainable levels. When housing costs grow 5-10% per year and PhD programs last 3 years longer than they need to, anyone who had a reasonable budget at the beginning could end up with an unreasonable budget by the end.