skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAICT the intent is to eventually support the full WebExtensions API, i.e. every extension that runs on Firefox 57 or later. From an older blog post discussing this:

"We’re happy to confirm that GeckoView is currently building support for extensions through the WebExtensions API. This feature will be available in Firefox Preview, and we are looking forward to offering a great experience for both mobile users and developers. Bringing GeckoView and Firefox Preview up to par with the APIs that were supported previously in Firefox for Android won’t happen overnight. For the remainder of 2019 and leading into 2020, we are focusing on building support for a selection of content from our Recommended Extensions program that work well on mobile and cover a variety of utilities and features."

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/23/fx-preview-geckov...
Unless you wanted to submit this to the Mac App Store, you could have just turned off sandboxing. With that off, the only permission required would be Catalina’s permission dialogs when any app first accesses various folders (Documents, etc.), and those are automatic without needing any code in the app to request them.
> In 2003, you could switch the config to Release, hit build, zip the app, and then put on a web server.

You can still do that.
See also: false nostalgia
You can blame the rise of authoritarianism (for lack of a better term) and centralised control, which Apple has been very good at. The increasing bureaucracy is ultimately beneficial to Apple's bottom line.
Unsurprising, mutation is the hallmark of the corona viruses in the wild.

I read elsewhere that for genetically engineer viruses (which there is speculation that this may be the case here) are quick to lose their alterations via the natural mutation process.

In any case, more contagious doesn't mean more deadly, and that's probably what's most important.
Note that this has nothing to do with how good a developer you are. I am specifically talking about your accuracy with parsing property lists as Apple does. You could have a perfect, XML spec compliant, stable parser and it would still not be relevant here because Apple does not use one themselves and third-party implementations which aim to be compatible must be bug-for-bug compatible.
If I remember correctly, at that time it was legal to book it this way. Perhaps that was "innovation" that allowed Enron to shoot to the moon?
Rust and WebAssembly Is Dope
Code is here --> https://github.com/justinmimbs/rs-asteroids
Nothing I would talk about here. Read some leftist theory and go from there
https://www.instagram.com/p/BdW71kNANln/
...and that's how a lot of stuff is released on GitHub, but you can't get into Apple's walled garden that way.
An extension that replaces every response with <html></html> will also drastically improve load times.
You’re just rewording things that you said earlier and elaborating.
3 days at home for working on technical problems with less distractions.

2 days at the office to make higher level decisions with the team. Code reviews in person and planning out the next week's goals. Plus I get exercise riding to work...
I'm mostly invited to select things with the mouse... with just one of them, to be exact.
Moral of the story was that his dreams came true?

https://twitter.com/mikeandersonKSL/status/12577783769258024...
Still normal as soon as they can reach the pedals. If they're on a farm they're probably also riding on (or driving) small tractors and four-wheelers, and maybe riding horses, all of which are a hell of a lot more dangerous than towing a trailer of square bales a quarter mile over a private dirt road in the old '94 Ford, from the field to the barn, probably not going over 15mph because you'll rattle your bones out of your skin and the windows out of their frames if you go faster. Hell driving on a farm is probably safer than wandering around the more developed parts playing. There are lots of ways to get hurt on the kinds of structures, equipment, and junk in the more developed areas of a farm, and there's the livestock, if there is any, which can also be very dangerous.
What then is the converse of retrofuturism where the present or future is represented with a mix of obsolete technologies along with contemporary and/or hypothetical future ones?
Sharing Joel David Hamkins’s “almost correct proofs” tweet with my son
It might be renewable but it still makes air pollution. On certain nights when everyone in the neighborhood decides to have a fire the air quality is terrible - almost as bad as during summer forest fire season.
What does that even mean? Are you talking about buying power? How much you lose on taxes? You make it sound like Germany is a low wage country. Their minimum wage is around 9 euros, versus 7 dollars in the US, no?
That appears to be the intent, yes. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/23/fx-preview-geckov...
would you consider someone with a Java professional experience and python college experience?I haven't use python in a while but would have no issue using it if given the opportunity.
So, the kid isn't actually white, which makes me wonder if that changes your perspective on things?

https://kutv.com/news/local/5-year-old-recounts-being-stoppe...
After a quick read through the data it looks like they're making progress on becoming a more diverse workforce. It seems like it's going pretty slowly but from what I recall most tech co's aren't any better and it seems like they are trying to eliminate a lot of bias in the recruiting process too. Anyone from Google care to comment on whether this seems to be something the company takes seriously or is it PR fluff?
I have little experience in Golang apart from reading the Tour of Go and writing toy programs, but I have more experience in Rust. In my opinion, Rust is definitely worth it, even if at the end of the day I work with other languages professionaly, its principles (ownership, borrowing, safe concurrency) really helped me to improve myself.
I started to be productive with it by actually writing code, I have read the book during 3 weeks but I learned much more quickly by confronting myself directly to the compiler after. I also became productive with the right tools (vscode + rust analyzer, rust cookbook, rust by examples), the right crates (regex, lazy_static, anyhow, actix, reqwest ...) and pragmatic principles (sometimes boxing, cloning or using refcell when necessary, in non critical code).
As always, use the right tool for the right job, there is a learning curve and more cognitive overhead but I really appreciate working in Rust.
Right, because I'm hoping that might help you understand what I was trying to say better. Were you expecting something else?
Like the car? Volkswagen is twice the size of Microsoft by revenue.

I'm going with the OECD definition here:
https://data.oecd.org/rd/gross-domestic-spending-on-r-d.htm
Though the pictures and copy clearly tell a different story, the tables are quite clear that "White" and "Asian" are the by far largest groups at Google.

What I typically miss in these types of reports is a breakdown within the different areas of what a company does. Global overall numbers do not help much if, e.g., engineering would be exclusively this gender or group and HR exclusively some other gender or group.
So they're hiring 910% more Asians than census data would dictate they should?

27% less Native Americans than expected?
40% less Whites.
56% less Blacks.
59% less Latinx.
I agree to the point you're mentioning industry standard. PHP is not considered in the enterprise environment, simply for all it's flaws and it's security vulnerabilities and still has the same problems as before. Most languages don't have those problems.
Does iOS allow creating new executable pages?
Note that this blog post was from April 14, I (the submitter) went looking for it after my copy of Firefox notified me of the change a few days ago. I am indeed using the nightly branch, but I find it to be quite stable.
No need to approximate:
https://data.oecd.org/rd/gross-domestic-spending-on-r-d.htm

Germany is at 3.4% of GDP spending on R&D and the USA at 2.8% France is also right up there at 2.2%
Yeah, both of them will see mozilla kicked out of App Store
Sounds like another crappy market deal, kind of like these overpriced casters
You can't avoid Chrome extension updates
"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise." Proverbs 17:28
Kiwi is the only one I'm aware of with a real dark/night mode for the entire browser. I was sold just on that.
For anyone else who was out of the loop on "Black+", this is from their 2018 report:

>Black+ includes all Googlers who identify as Black, plus those who identify as Black and any other race.
I live in Vegas, I'm pretty sure it swept through a few months ago. Before people were testing for it. We had deaths from people testing negative for the Flu and everyone I knew got sick in about a 2 week period (we are <40).
Steampunk?
isn't C++ with compile-time imperative metaprogramming now called... C++?
I meant this as a figure of speech, not literally. There are no sparks flying, or something like that. "Zapping/tazing" it by applying some EMF, nothing more :)
Sure, but same everywhere in the Bay Area for that type of ratio. I think the growth trends in other areas and how many resources they devote towards it is what's most interesting. If they keep ticking upwards while retaining people eventually they'll get there
Whoops, corrected: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Airbnb&track=Software%20Engi...

I don't know specific numbers at AirBNB or their layoff details but you would hit the equivalent L5 at other large bay area companies in about 5 or 6 years.
I definitely understand your reasoning, but personally I don't see how I would be more productive by switching languages. Maybe I just don't know what I'm missing, but I feel pretty dang productive with my current stack. And I'm working on a long term project for 90% of my time, so even if I could be more productive, I don't think I could justify re-writing 40k LoC.

I also don't really get emotional over the language choice... I'd ditch PHP in a second if it made sense to, but IMO a good architecture can enable development speed FAR better than a good language can. The language choice mostly just comes down to syntax preferences.

To each their own.
I was hoping for a conversation.
This means that you have no idea what the Bible talks about or what Christianity believes. You have never learned about Jesus. Hope this helps.
A post-apocalypic present with ancient and highly advanced technologies unearthed from ruins that humanity no longer has the skill to remake. Miyazaki's Nausicaa comes to mind.

Or maybe a world where technology is futuristic but the societal structure is from the past. Warhammer 40k, the Roman empire but in space.
iOS supports content blockers. Why not install AdGuard? I use default Safari on my iPhone and see zero ads.
They're fundamentally different only in the model of decoupling storage and compute completely, but in a far more simpler way than redshift spectrum I feel like. Some of their features like zero-copy-clone are just not possible in AWS and make it extremely simple to do pipeline management in way that (at least to me) makes the most sense.

It's also the most democratizable model I have seen - anyone who knows the slightest amount of SQL can be set up to explore the data in minutes.

The elephant in the room is that you need to use SQL. Their spark connecters are as of now useless, so you either have to go with DBT, some homebrew SQL stringing mess or something like sqlalchemy. We're currently developing some wrappers around sqlalchemy to make this a bit less painful, but it's still so worth it.
So... Are you going to stop paying for your free Gmail account? That'll hurt them!

Personally I couldn't care less about their ethnic diversity. Are their products and services good or not? In my opinion some are excellent, but their privacy and censorship practices greatly diminish them. They suck at diversity that matters to me, that's for sure.
GoDaddy notifies users of breached hosting accounts
I have not watched south park :) I am looking for people who have no idea what the Bible talks about or what Christianity believes. You have never learned about Jesus. Hope this helps.
This one looks semi-legit but inactive https://github.com/ostcar/geiss
It doesn't generate artifacts that you can examine and debug.
To clarify: I am looking for people who have no idea what the Bible talks about or what Christianity believes. You have never learned about Jesus. Hope this helps.
Its incredible how microsoft got in loads of legal trouble for bundling IE with windows but Apple got away with banning alternative browsers.
Not on my phone it isn’t. PixiJS is the only library that stays at 60fps, Two is at 30fps and Paper is at 15fps.
I don't think it's Netflix that needs to be worried.

I see Disney+ ads on FB. They are advertising some Star Wars movie is now on Disney+. Smart approach: I can pay for their streaming service for $7/mo, or rent it on Prime Video for $6.
Don't ask me, ask Paul Graham if he's white enough to be a startup founder. Seems to be a sliding scale in the USA. Very situational.
It's like you didn't read the previous poster: They're claiming lisp macros can work BEFORE the compiler generates an AST.
How would they get gcc crash reports if you refuse to upgrade to latest? :)
You're right, I forgot that it doesn't work the other way around (my Google Voice number definitely can receive shortcodes though).
Async Mutexes in Rust
If the USSR was organized like the US, they wouldn't have had 1/3 of the country die, and they wouldn't have had to have 10-1 advantages to win battles.

The USSR was lucky to survive WW2 at all. They did almost everything they could to lose the war, from purging almost all the competent officers to allowing basically the entire army to be destroyed in Poland. If you took the USSR, and swapped in a democratic government in 1920, they would have escaped the war with 1/10th as many casualties. Maybe they would have surrendered, maybe they would have never been attacked, but in the end the 22 million extra people who died would not have had to.

Your argument comes down to 'only a dictatorship can throw 1/3 of the population into a meat grinder while the others quietly watch' and I'm saying 'only a dictatorship can do that, but only a dictatorship ever has to do that'.
The intruders had root access to every server in a salt deployment for who knows how long and yet everyone is claiming there's no evidence that any data or secrets (customer's or otherwise) were exfiltrated from the network. This is a very dangerous assumption. Nobody has any idea what was run on the servers since it seems that once the initial attack script was deployed it downloaded and executed new scripts every 60s and then removed themselves. Pretty standard C&C ops. It may have started as a mining operation, but that doesn't mean it was the only thing it was doing.
German execs are also insulated from the debts of the company. Many German startups even use English (now Irish) limited companies.
Not way out.

I was at a company in the UK where a department closed. They offered 3 months, plus a month per year served. And for first round they offered a 6 month bonus for volunteers vs stay and try to get an internal transfer.

I was surprised how few volunteers there were. I don't think I've had a job I wouldn't walk from for a years pay. Those that were chopped second round were pissed.
>>>> If you're here, chances are you're already compromised.

> WTF does that mean?

The website assumes that if you dropped by or googled the vulnerability, it's because you had saltstack exposed to the public internet.

You don't have to react so harshly to that turn of phrase.
150k bunnies at 60fps on an iPhone 8. Impressive.
Totally just a newspaper. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CINJUoqUwAEkSip.jpg
Giggle... A site i haven't seen in a while :)

Thx
Pardon my frankness but that's BS.

What are you referring to here? How much money buys you? Aka: costs of living?

How much you make, converting EUR to USD?

What industry? IT?

I worked in a leadership position at a multi-national in Berlin for almost five years. I know the salaries the engineers had in CA & Chicago vs Germany.
US was maybe 20% more max. In terms of what it buys you ... not so much. See below.

Cost of living in Munich (one of Germany's most expensive cities) vs. SF.[1]
And then Berlin (one of Germany's cheapest cities) vs. SF.[2]

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

[2] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Windows Terminal v1.0 Release Candidate is out as version 0.11.1251.0
Bankruptcies, Bankruptcies, Bankruptcies. All these contracts go underwater once the companies file chapter-11. Gold Gym has already started, most retailers are following the suit. That said, Microsoft (my previous employer) is well diversified to come out net positive or neutral.
The odor and taste of methanol are distinguishable from ethanol only at high concentrations.

The methanol I've worked with has a strong wintergreen odor, impossible to mistake for ethanol. I'd always assumed that's just what methanol smells like. Is it actually an odorant?
The Battle of Helm’s Deep: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
Programmatically Send Blue iMessage Texts
So, there is no Lamborghini dealers in Utah?
Diversity KPI Report
I wrote a bot to quickly test random permutations. After a while, an alert dialog popped up, which then redirected to a rickroll. Anyone else get something similar?
Staqu Introduces AI-Enabled Crowd Surveillance and Protocol Violation Technology
Exactly. When I summarized a complex technical issue to a mixed audience, the TLDR version was in nested bulleted format, each line limited to ~5 words. Higher level bullet points were targeted at non technical readers and sub points aimed at the techie ones. Non technicals can opt not to dig further into sub points.
Can you break down by age? Don't know if that data is available. 10-20, 20-30,30-40,50-60, etc.

Also, a breakdown by area/zipcode would be interesting as well.

would percentage of total deaths be a better way to describe the relationship?
How would you compare it to ansible in that usage model? I don't do much config mgmt these days, so curious for a master(less) mindset, whats the comparison for salt vs. ansible?
There is an analogy to computing here. I mentioned a couple of 30+ year old books here about what the future of software would be:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22093100

by Brad Cox (inventor of Objective C) and David Gelertner (CS professor and entrepreneur).

I guess you could make Retrofuturistic software now by writing modern versions of those old ideas (which didn't turn out to be economically feasible / adopted, at least in the exact form predicted, although in some cases they were influential.)
All I need is a standing desk and I’m good
They’ve been developing some good open source habits with their RAPIDS project.
I'm the author of the course, and I had no idea that there was any such information in the signup. It's from Podia, the platform I use for all of my courses, free and paid.

I personally don't give away or sell any of the data I get from people who sign up for my courses. I use it myself, and that's it — mostly for personalized e-mail and the like.

I'm going to check with Podia about this, now that you've informed me. I can understand why you would be reluctant to sign up with such a statement.

But the course is 100% free, and more than 1,500 people have enjoyed it so far.
The disdain about C++ is now so overdone that I think that people who actually sit down with the language will be pleasantly surprised.
If only they'd achieved this level of diversity back when they released circles I'm sure it would have taken off.
Is the goal to have the distribution of ethnicities of google employees match California, or the US in general or the whole world? California is less than 6% black and the US is around 12% black.
I agree. I would like to seem more details of how they determined it was only crypto mining. Finding only mining scripts in your logs doesn't mean they were not running other code once they had root.
Is that really readable? I may be a crusty old fart, but that kind of shit is the antithesis of readable to me.
Los Alamos National Laboratories, the story was written by someone whose first name is Berkeley.
Anyone know why Stripe doesn't handle this?
This is rookie stuff, but it’s a recurring security issue where crypto libraries have APIs littered with footguns. The “lambda x, y, z: None” just strikes me as cargo culting copy paste code - I’m willing to bet there is other software with the same exploit as they all copied the same answer on StackOverflow
Good note, thanks for clarifying that
Is this stat still up to date? It changes drastically between booms and recessions. In some years small businesses have had far more employees. A fact which should affect policymaking as much as the ratio at any given point.

Either way I'd expect fewer americans still work at large businesses than at small and mid-sized businesses combined.
Funny enough, I just finished my PhD in December 2019. It's been hard getting interviews in the bay area (I want to stay close to family with older parents). I have great academic credentials but somehow I can't signal that to recruiters. I managed to snag an interview with a company I know I'll dread working for. The recruiter acknowledged it's a stress factory and weekends working where regular and I couldn't care less about their product.

I'm debating if I should take the job, assuming I pass the interview, to set foot in industry or keep searching continue working on a potentially monetizable passion project.
That guideline isn't limited to what good hackers would find interesting for hacking-related reasons. It's simply: what good hackers would find interesting. The key phrase is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

An article on doubles mode in DDR might be interesting in HN's sense, or it might not. If it were just a basic tutorial, that probably wouldn't be—tutorials are useful to people who are working on a specific task, but have little appeal to the general reader. If, on the other hand, it went into the design of doubles mode, the history of it, why it is the way it is, what makes it harder than you might expect, clever things that have been discovered about it—all of that would be on topic. Something that could go either way might be a story about, say, a couple who met because they were good at doubles mode in DDR. That would depend on how good an article it was.

This is such an important point because the kind of story that gets excluded this way—the kind that people find interesting but assume that it's not hacker-related enough—can be the absolutely best kind of HN submission. Why? Because it's unexpected. It's the one you can't predict from any sequence.

(Edit: Unpredictability isn't the only quality that matters, but it's the rarest. Actually, maybe it is the only quality that matters. For a while I was thinking otherwise, because a front page consisting of random numbers would be unpredictable, but not interesting to read. On the other hand, it's unpredictable only along one axis. From another point of view it would be fully predictable: random numbers again?)

Keep in mind that finding something interesting isn't quite the same thing as liking it, and also when we say "interesting" we mean intellectual interest, not all kinds of interest. For example, there is social interest (the sort that powers celebrity gossip). There is political interest (wanting to know how one's side is doing against the other side). There is sexual interest (no comment needed). These things all have their place, but not here. On the other hand, there can also be overlap with intellectual curiosity, in which case it's fine, though the bar is higher in some cases than others.
It's biggest innovation was ensuring tobacco regulations for everyone else while making sure it didn't apply to them.
The Master of Unknowing