skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
uhm, that excerpt is the single kernel that sticks out from the rest of the article
Not sure what you mean exactly but coming from the IoT end there are plenty of options to connect existing platforms to mobile networks (ArduinoGSMShield for example). Coming from the smartphone end there are several hackable projects too that enable you to build a smartphone like IoT device. Look at pine64.org for example they basically have all the parts to build a smartphone like device with sensors.
Kiichiro Toyoda was a good engineer and thinker.

I learned from him to ask 5 whys when there's a problem.

Changed my understanding about understanding, have found my self in multiverses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys
If only we had well-maintained open source projects for scraping every data type.
So we are painfully aware that Riot’s usability still needs to increase, as per https://blog.riot.im/e2e-encryption-by-default-cross-signing... - although I’m not sure it’s quite as dire as the GP makes out.

All I can say is that we’ve hired three permanent kick-ass full time UI/UX designers for the team, put them charge of the product direction for Riot, and told all the devs that their job is to do nothing but implement their design iterations as efficiently and accurately as possible. Let’s see how it goes.
Ask HN: Can you publish paid extensions to the Visual Studio Code marketplace?
The recent discussions on the rise of Visual Studio Code (v/s Emacs) made me think if there is a market for porting extensions from Emacs to the Visual Studio marketplace.

The Microsoft page explaining paid subscription models for extensions:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/paid-extension-in-the-visual-studio-marketplace/

This blogpost is vague on details and is ~4 years old now.
The early days of the iOS app store were the easiest for new entrants. I am hoping there is some analogy with this marketplace.
At some point, yes. Amazon needs them, too.
In reality, it is very easy in vscode. The difference is, that in vscode it is a easily readable json. Much, much! better than in both emacs and vim.

Edit: downvoting doesn't change reality
For whatever reason the images aren’t loading.
I stopped reading the post at that point.

To most people, the distinction is an inconsequential technical detail and so they conflate the two, but if someone is teaching the specification history of an implementation detail, they really ought to know the fundamentals.
Fully agree.

I've been using SO since it's inception, several years ago. But with the whole moderator thing, the switch to a ridiculous buzzword homepage, and all the damn bullshit corporate speak, my trust in SO is at an all time low.

How did it get here from the straight-talking, community-orientated feel it used to have under Spoelsy and friends?
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Not sure what you mean. The differences in impact seems to be trivial to explain given the vastly different measures taken by different countries, and their timing relative to the start of the outbreak. The IFR estimates are very similar everywhere.
That sure looks like more than 1 strain to me: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/
I hope you are being sarcastic
A white sepremacy blog, are you serious?
^ This exactly. A half-decent used Thinkpad can be picked up for slightly north of $120. And it will have 4-8x RAM and at least 4-5x CPU performance. And you own it! The only thing you potentially miss out on is: uptime SLAs ("reliability") and a higher-speed internet connection.

You also might miss out on a public IPv4 address, but that's whole 'nother issue... FRP (fast reverse proxy) is a decent workaround for this.
Yeah, sadly the ‘research paper’ wasn’t updated after we fixed the issues it highlighted; see also https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-s...
Sorry, it is. Managed to cross wires in my head.

In my weak defence, it's not often we get two bits of code open sourced in a week relating to UK government policy.
Clickable link to blog:- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/paid-extension-in-the-...
We don’t really have attribution on masks vs. contact tracing.
Just because it's possible doesn't mean everyone will do it. Probably just some. Third party Cookies made tracking too easy.

But they also enabled some cool cross domain integrations. Guess we'll see js-based apis pick up the slack here.
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I assume you meant to type Phyphox?
Second this. Verizon was basically unusable in wide swaths of the LA metro area but TMobile is unusable in wide swaths of rural areas. In mountainous areas like San Diego east county it becomes even more annoying: the I8 has decent coverage until like El Centro, CA (enough to stream HD video) but even a km from the freeway the signal completely disappears. Often times the only real option is AT&T.
Oh no :( A company that cares as little about security as Zoom aquiring Keybase sounds like an absolute loose for all the good work the Keybase team has been doing.
The static ip is free?
Which actually would allow doing away with cookies: redirect users to $hash_of_fingerprint.mysite.com. On routing, discard the hash subdomain. This would keep their session alive, if they share a URL that's fine, the hash is irreversible so their info is not leaked and if someone else visits that URL they'll be redirected to their respective hash subdomain anyways so the usual security concerns do not apply. If the hashing library includes mysite.com in input variables then the fingerprint will differ between domains so you can't use it to track people either. Likely IP address needs to be included as well. User and password could be used to tie several hash subdomains together.
1. Nothing I've found comes anywhere close to Emacs support for keyboard macros. Zero latency to record. Records every keystroke. Very very consistent behavior. Infinite undo. Kill Ring. Register support.

Despite being an expert Emacs user, I'm mostly in VS Code these days because it has syntax highlighting, git support, and linting out of the the box. But I always go back to Emacs when I need to transform a bit of text.

2. Comparing two text snippets, as opposed to files.

There are a small set of use cases where you want to look at every position where something has changed. You can open two buffers in Emacs and use compare-windows to walk through them. Since the IDEs are all file-oriented, they don't work for this case well.
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"What is the relation between Godel’s theorem and whether we can formulate the theory of the universe in terms of a finite number of principles? One connection is obvious. According to the positivist philosophy of science, a physical theory is a mathematical model. So if there are mathematical results that can not be proved, there are physical problems that can not be predicted."

- Stephen Hawking
The only certainty with Stack Exchange, is that it's going to end up in the belly of one of just a few possible tech companies: Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Salesforce, etc.

They'll slash most of the communities away (even if they initially lie about their intentions and pretend they won't do that) and keep the focus on the tech part of the network.

Knowledge services are not great businesses, they're almost entirely incompatible with the venture capital model. Those that take VC all eventually get force-liquidated, without exception. Stack Exchange is still pretending to be a knowledge service. As they took on more venture capital they pivoted to being primarily HotJobs 3.0. The only way they were going to avoid that outcome, is to 1) never take major venture capital 2) stay super thin operationally; they did neither, so they get liquidated, it's only a question of time now.

The Internet will need to replace Stack Exchange with a new platform in the near future, as it'll combo rot and most of the communities will be killed off after SE is sold. I'd advise someone/s out there to get started on replacing SE right now, as by the time you get a new platform up to speed (assume a few years), SE as it has been thought of over the prior decade will be on its last legs and the new platform will be in prime position to step in. And please, do it right, do not take venture capital, which is a devil's bargain for knowledge services: they will kill you in the end, guaranteed, every single time. I've been closely watching this stupid story repeat in the knowledge space for over two decades now. Go the non-profit route ideally, or alternatively go with the wikiHow approach and stay thin (it's the sole viable option to survive long-term as an independent knowledge service business).
I always wondered why most emulators keep OpenGL/DirectX as renderers instead of porting to Vulkan, I imagine because that would be an insanely tall task to tackle?
PCSX2 is a really nice piece of software and often gets overshadowed by more popular emulators, it's really nice to see the devs getting some attention. The feats they've accomplished are substantial - I'd go so far to say that it's the best way to play many PS2 games.
I don't spend the majority of my time compiling (a decent chunk though!), but then again, I also don't spend a large part of my time doing the complex refactorings that an IDE would make much easier. I don't think either vim or clion has dramatic advantages over the other.
Thanks, so if I understand correctly:

Files won't be modified on the server. For example images won't be scaled down or compressed and users download the exact copy of what was uploaded.
For a second, I thought this title claimed that stack overflow reduces the need for software engineers by 15%. Now I’m curious what the actual number might be, given the productivity boost that it provides...
Why? What massive files are you downloading on your phone?

And IoT devices typically require tiny throughput. Is your electricity meter pumping out 4K video?
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And tomorrow there will be an article describing an exploit in a web service written in C/C++.

Does she even see the size of the batteries included in a framework like Django? Here is some brand new information. Everyone knows Python/Django is slow and inefficient (same for rails) but they still use it for those batteries.

It is easy to write some web service in a low level language that just crunches some numbers for your benchmark. It quickly gets complicated when you start thinking about accounts, security, passwords, databases, orders, carts etc.
They were tolerated at first but not as much any more. https://www.pcmag.com/news/china-starts-issuing-145-fines-fo...
I've searched far and wide haha; the cheapest I can find them is $3.50/month from Vultr. I'm almost ready to switch to DDNS though. The threat of DDOS scares me a little bit. We have 300 mbps down though, so I don't forsee it being a terrible problem. I guess I would just call my ISP if something sketchy was going on.

I'd like to imagine that my content is not DDOS-worthy though :)
Nvidia+Deep+Learning+Institute+Now+Available+Online+|+Nvidia+Blog
Last time I was trying to sell my Tesla, I used factory reset, entered credentials, the car rebooted, data still fully here. Tried again multiple times. Nothing happened. I don’t think that functionality is tested properly even for the basic erasure that you can visually confirm, let alone properly wiping the storage. If someone is reading this at Tesla, you should encrypt storage and destroy the key on reset.
The old app had bad layering, and no explicit storage layer. We wanted to experiment with different storage layers, use rx for data flow, switch from java to kotlin, and use all the latest androidx/jetpack best practices. This amounted to a whole new app, and it was easier to start from scratch, despite the disruption to users.
Apple ditched OpenGL and Vulkan for their own exclusive 3D graphics API. They're a terrible platform to develop for.
Self-Starting Siphon
It's easy to point to examples of all those things in the US. Both countries still have laws.
Australia's DTA publicly releases COVIDSafe application source code
Great chart! I guess my assumed reference was the current mental image where there's the oil fund worth over a million crowns for every citizen.
> That's not what I said.

Then what you said has nothing to do with what I was commenting on, which was not a claim that Hollywood will do what it has to do to access the Chinese market, but a claim that "they" own stakes in media companies to push pro-Chinese propaganda to the American public.

Do you have some examples of that?
They need to change how they communicate this though. It shouldn't be binary. It was clear to me that this would become a pandemic by mid January and hearing them say it isn't a pandemic was disheartening even though it was clinically correct. Perhaps they sound introduce probability to pre-pandemic viruses. Something like the doomsday clock.
Congrats on getting something written and launched -- always a challenge, always tricky.

I was wondering, what is the differentiator between this and HNNotify?

https://hnnotify.xyz/
There are dev devices like the M5StickC & M5Stack Fire that comes with a bunch of sensor bundled.
> because it's doing what the EFF hates: granting more software patents

Is there anything that's good about patents on software?
Look, I've spoken to this to my friends in China about this before, and I can understand that to them it's okay, they've seen their lives improve over the past 10 years. And I understand why they feel that way, they've never known anything else.

But anyone coming from the Western world, and agreeing with what their government is doing in terms of censorship, that I can't understand.
One in a million is next Tuesday (2014)
It depends on the layer. Matrix used Olm for device-to-fecice encryption, which is a clone of Signal’s double ratchet, and is PFS. For message history however we use Megolm, which is a simpler hash ratchet which is synchronised across the members of a group by sharing its state over Olm. You typically replace the Megolm ratchet every 100 msgs or 1 week, but depending on how fast you do that and how long you store the keys for, you can get PFS. The problem is that most users want to be able to access their chat history from the server, which is by definition incompatible with PFS as you have to keep the message keys around to decrypt the msgs.
Also if you’re looking to program with certificates I strongly recommend Go’s crypto/x509 for approachability over anything OpenSSL related.
People pay for Zoom, StackOverflow is free.
Just to pick up on a couple of these points.

> shifting Western society to one which requires mandatory install

It is not mandatory to install the app here in the UK.

> permanent extreme surveillance of citizens

My reading of the code and solution architecture is that the system is anonymised, with IDs generated using random rotating keys.

Can you expand more on how you feel there are privacy implications to this approach?

My view is that a decentralised approach might not provide enough data to perform adequate contact tracing. One of the reasons being the example you give relating to false positives and unsuitability of RSSI to measure proximity/range.

However, I do feel that, with a centralised approach, there exists a much better chance of doing something useful with the pooled data. For example, correlating patterns, tuning an algorithm to reduce false positives. Even extending the code base to support additional proximity events such as use of public transportation.
Disclaimer: I assume by impact you mean "case fatality rate" (CFR)

This is my hypothesis of lower impact. Both India & Germany have low CFR and we find that in Germany 49% of cases are under the age of 50, while in India 70% of cases are under the age of 50 years. On the contrary, in Italy 70% of Covid infected individuals are above the age of 50, with 39% above the age of 70 and Spain has 69% of cases above the age of 50 with 37% above the age of 70. US case data by age is grouped somewhat differently by CDC but my guess is that close to 40% of infections are in the age-group below 50 years and about 20% are above the age of 70 years, this might partially explain the relatively lower CFR because CFR for ages under 50 is ~0.4% if you are in the age-group of 40-49 & lower below. Median age of the population for these countries are India - 28, Italy - 46, Spain - 44, Germany - 48 & US - 38. Germany seems to have either done something differently here.

This can only partially explain the differences but would be an important factor when looking at overall fatalities.
nheko is pretty similar to TG and is reborn and evolving well after a hiatus a few years back: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko
If he doesn't collect any personal data (with Google Analytics for example), GDPR and ePrivacy do not apply to his business
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I see. I was talking about the fact that the cookies are visible to the ad/tracking company.

In my opinion (and I think this is common) ad/tracking companies are third parties and when a company proxy data to one of them it is then by definition residing with a third party ev3n if they don't share it with their other customers.
Yeah, they brought this guy in to be the hatchet man. Executes just as expected.
Samsung Confirms Critical Security Issue: Every Galaxy After 2014 Affected
the point of insertable streams is that you can hook into the compressed payloads and encrypt them after compression, and then decrypt them before decompression. The codec never sees encrypted data.
An aside: Anyone else finding themselves adding site:github.com rather than site:stackoverflow.com to their Google searches more now?
> If 3rd party cookies had never been enabled, that's what we would be doing today, and you would never even know your traffic was being sent to a 3rd party.

Fortunately the GDPR also makes this illegal without consent, it legislates the conditions necessary to collect data and the permission you need to share it with third parties. It's not in any way specific to cookies.

And long before cookies the session id was stored in the query string.
"Would become a pandemic" is not the same as "is a pandemic". Why is it disheartening? The WHO wasn't saying this virus was not a threat of becoming a pandemic.
I would recommend Modern C by Jens Gustedt[1]. It is organized in levels so if you're already familiar with something you can skip ahead.

1 - https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/
You're right that correlation does not equal causation, but it doesn't have to be for those folks to not care.

Having lived in Singapore, Hong Kong (current) and China, I can tell you that in Singapore's case, folks are aware that they live under a semi-dictatorship, that their government controls all media (radio, tv, everything is state-owned). But they always say "but I guess the government is doing a good job".

One has nothing to do with the other. The government can do a good job without the dictatorship, but it's the way folks rationalize their helplessness, their sense of lack of control over their fate.

This is also why we in Hong Kong ARE fighting against these kind of controls, probably in vein, but I for one do NOT want to resign in rationalizing for the government's over-control without a fight.
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Muscle memory exists for a reason.

“Stove is hot, be careful before touching it.”

“Microsoft sexually discriminated in executive hires because ‘women will get pregnant and quit’, stifled completion in multiple categories, expected free overtime or you’d be stack-ranked out of a job. Be careful before trusting.”
I prefer "Keep It Simple, Silly"
Nice. Didn't think of that. Good logo as well :)
Adtech scores a pandemic pause from UK privacy oversight
Couldn't the FCC just rescind approval if there's interference with GPS? Or at least, with DoD GPS?
Thanks chief. I'd be more than happy to collaborate on the DotNet project.
How/where is the RSS feed list curated? I couldn't find my blog's RSS feed in there and was curious how to include it.
I'm actually thinking about creating a Lumen API on top of it to expose the internal objects as json
Glad I deleted my keybase account several weeks ago...
Removing an entire front in the War on Privacy wouldn't help? There are many things to fix if we want to reclaim privacy. There is certainly no single magic bullet and it certainly isn't all going to happen at once.
> is there any other user-facing software that has survived such a dramatically shifting landscape?

Yes. Microsoft Word, for example, is older than GNU Emacs.
I don't think the article addresses the point right. Yes, there is only one strain of Sars-CoV-2 as the definition of a strain is a strict scientific term. Nevertheless, there are different clades [1] of Sars-CoV-2, which are characterised as organisms with a common ancestor [2]. This doesn't has to imply a changed property, like infectivity or mortality, but it implies common heritage which is of course of interest. You can see it nicely in the the phylogenetic tree of the sequenced genomes [3].

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.25902

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clade

[3] https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global
And I think GP's idea is that if companies can't send over your identifying data from client side to advertising companies then they are more than happy to send it over from server side.
Yes, this is what happened. Though only a portion of the team related to Talent was furloughed, not the whole team. It is still an active product, but sales has taken a big hit related to the downturn of the overall hiring environment due to Covid19.
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How was that turn unexpected?

Didn't the part that said

"Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world country. Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving your own culture and wanting to preserve it are racism."

at the beginning clue you in?

The author certainly doesn't try very hard to be subtle.
I don't think you understand the technology or the privacy architecture.

The location permission you refer to is related to Bluetooth and is standard.

Just because the collected data is stored centrally it does not mean that it is not anonymised.

And finally I would suggest the Guardian is not the best place to get a balanced view of privacy implications!

I think it's an odd situation to be in where a foreign company is able to hold an elected government to ransom over its healthcare provider's technology choice.
Justified text with a monospaced font is an unusual choice.

(I can't work out whether my browser is stretching the space between letters as well as the space between words.)
great work! TBH Perhaps the best front end for editing tables I've ever used was.... wait for it... Access 2010(!) as you could use it (via ADP) for editing MS SQL Server databases - very quick/easy to edit table content, spell check, easily import/export to tables using excel files, ctrl-f to search, spell check etc. etc. everything I've used sincehas been a lot more powerful but lacked the speed and ease of editing table content.
On websites specialized on comparison shopping.
I don't know about the US, but when I was in Italy I used to use a lot one of such websites [1].
Think like shopping on Amazon except that you are redirected to the seller's website for details and actually buying the product, no ads, no SEO, and the rating is about the seller, not the product.

On the other side, you no longer have a central entity helping you with issues such as warranty, scams etc, but given the behavior of late of Amazon, I don't think that it is a big deal.

[1] https://www.trovaprezzi.it
I wonder if WiFi connection information could help. Being on different networks would suggest greater social distance.