skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that the development effort that V8 has seen has been X orders of magnitude greater.
> I know hn doesn't like sarcasm, but saying that infection level off after 10-20% "naturally" after the world experienced the biggest lockdown since the spanish flu, is like saying the fire I saw on the news was extinguished because I took a pee at the same time.

The weird thing is, that after reopening many thing/services in many places, there were very rarely any new spikes in new cases. We've all been expecting a spike after every measure being removed, and it hasn't happened in most countries (it's probably too soon to speak about the effect of protests in the USA, but we'll see that soon too).
BTW if you ever get to see a linotype machine operating in a tech museum get someone to show you - especially look at how the type molds are mechanically sorted after use, how automatic line justification is done - see how a line of type (hence the name) is cast in molten type metal - it's absolutely brilliant and completely mechanical machinery

Dad could read type backwards, it was part of the job, he still worked for the newspaper after getting an accounting degree after coming back from the war, I spent a summer working there, got to see a full hot-metal system working before computers came along and made lots of people redundant (used to be a reporter's copy was checked by 3-4 people: lino operator, reader, copy holder, sub editor) now it's just spellcheck ... and before the evening paper was essentially killed by TV
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All these to make Snapchat not being recorded. Well, it's a mouse and cat game and currently the cat is winning, as in using Memu on my PC allows me to record everything happening there, your crush nudes and dances included.
German tech unicorn Wirecard doesn't get financials attested, stock crashes
If Fairphone can support a 5-year-old handset, the other vendors could too?
Jitsi is the way to go as far as I know. It passed the grandma test.

https://meet.jit.si/
$16T loss in global wealth expected due to Covid-19, warns report
Get something like Pi-Hole or the MVPS hosts file ( https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm ) to block the majority of ads. Deal with the few ads that remain and enjoy blocking the vast majority trivially easily, without sharing all your browsing activity with an extension you can't easily audit the functionality of.
Thanks for taking the time to write the detailed reponses. Definitely led me to think more closely about these vaguely held intuitions about bias and variance! I think you are exactly right that the crucial aspect is the variance when looking at out-of-sample predictions, not just across several samplings from the original training distribution (a la k-fold crossvalidation).
Nice framing. :)
For me it's email or chat (telegram/whatsapp/signal/skype); it used to be forums actually when they still 'worked'. HN/subreddits are quite good but I notice that usually (HN the least, Facebook the most) social media has engagement only when either party is trying to score points (likes/whatever), so me: 'we have a new feature!', them: 'I can build this in a weekend with react node, why would you pay for this?'. Aka not much engaging going on; advertising or whining...
That "baudot" code looks like it's 7 bits wide (4 bits to the left of the feed holes represented by "." and 3 bits to the right)

Were there extra spaces inserted somewhere?
Open platforms are great (and they are, I say this as a Fedora user who just finished an install via dnf'ing all the things) but they lack the money which translates to marketing that large corporations have, it's not a case of a level playing field, we are playing two different games on entirely different fields and ours is mostly uphill.

When your opposition has an absolute chokehold on major markets it's a near unassailable position - throw in that the vast vast majority of users simply don't care whether an app store is open or not or know why they should care - attention is finite and the only way things will improve is if governments lead it and well see my earlier paragraph about who has the money...
And Apple is not even an isolated case.

Google will close gmail accounts, take away adsense revenues, or remove youtube videos on a whim.

Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world.

For years Microsoft made it super hard to buy hardware without paying the Windows licence. They killed xbox remotely. They have invasive telemetry in Win 10.

Paypal may refuse to pay the money you have on their account at any moment. Your money, no appeal.

Twitter and facebook censorship rules are on a case by case basis. If your famous, you may be able to use hate speech. I you are an anonymous political activist, China may ask for your shut down.

Big companies exist to make money. If they get too much power, they will abuse it. Not because they are evil, but because it's the logical thing to do for them.

This is why I was advocating in another comment that we should not use WhatsApp new payment system:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553455

Thinking about the power we give to big entities is a central mechanism to build the society we live on. That's why we should think about what we buy, the media we consumme, etc.

They are votes, just as much as during an election.
Living is a risk. The chance of toxicity occurring in new plants is possible but quite small, but it's not likely to kill you, just make you sick. Full recovery is highly likely.

Life in perfect safety is not worth much to many people (inc. me), and indeed not possible unless you have a large cushion of money. Your small-c conservatism is fine for you and I won't judge you on it, but please don't expect it of others.
where is this ? https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/tech/apple-app-store-supreme-...
Build in open source.
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> The great bubbles can go on a long time

What he said may be true, but that doesn't mean it's useful. By this logic, you can just say that stocks are overvalued any time after they've recovered from a prior bubble pop or they go over a certain P/E ration, and you'll eventually be right given a long enough timeframe for a correction, but you might miss out on decades of growth in between.
You get the same thing with YouTube creators (plus they get bogus or spurious copyright flags with the same result). If we're going to have these big platforms (and I'd include Steam, Amazon, YouTube etc) then we need to have legislation giving their clients basic, non-waivable rights to a quick and independent review and reasonable treatment. Sadly the law seems to be headed in the opposite direction (requiring platforms to do more "moderation").
You've made up your mind then.

Bite down hard, because that whip's coming.
Judging from the rest of engineering disciplines, people figured out the right process that yields reliable results- we don't have too many civil engineering failures, exploding steam boilers or houses burning down because of overheating/arcing in the mains wiring anymore.

Although the computer geeks are probably inclined to think: yes, but what we are dealing is more complex than that- I don't think there is a big difference between knowing how to safely connect two wires together, and how to safely copy one string to a buffer. Electricians took time to arrive at a consensus (but they did it), and I believe software engineers will too.
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> This kind of post infuriates me.

Apple's callous "walled garden" practices have always been well known. Honestly, developers who continue to participate in this shitshow had it coming.
> In a perfect world, the point of a lockdown is to arrest the spread of a disease entirely.

The problem with this is, that the whole world has to stop for that to happen, and by stop, i mean stop entirely.

Even if you stop the spread in California, and have zero infected people there, the first infected outsider that comes into the state, will spread infections, and you're back at closing down everything.

Basically the second part (keeping healthcare system managable, and hoping for a vaccine soon) is the only think we can do.
Or Rust, "rocker" would make a great name.
In that case they should ban browsers, too (which in a way they do, there's a de-facto WebKit monopoly on iOS).
The video doesn't seem to be available - perhaps it is marked as private?
Note-taking app Notion is no longer accessible from China
Depressing actually.

I still don't understand how it works, really. I asked someone how to do something in Postman (I couldn't not immediately find it in Google); he sent me a 15 minute video. Slow, boring, not copy-pastable, etc but yeah it worked. I checked the description and the owner also wrote a blog post, which distilled the 15 minutes in 10 lines, 3 if you exclude the introduction. Vastly more effective; no idea why people prefer videos. I only do when i'm resting ; then I put on some (usually programming language) meetup/event video in the background while resting my eyes. That only helps because i'm not really doing something actionable, but when doing something actionable, reading is always faster and you can copy/paste when there are slabs of code...
yea i had a feeling it was going towards this...
> the breakpoint infinite loop

Have seen multiple times in CTFs
Emissions Are Surging Back as Countries and States Reopen
> Similarily the chaining of grouping sets

Do you mean 'group by grouping sets'? If not, could you clarify.
>Extensions are ideal to exfiltrate data from browsers as they bypass all security measures and can literally see everything you do on every single page you visit.

That's not generally true. It depends on the permissions. If you grant an extension permission to access every page then yes it can do that. That's not bypassing all security measures.
Here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Metaobject_Prot.... I initially thought this was just for wikipedia pages but it works on every page. You can even highlight multiple fragments.

Here's a link to this comment with highlights: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23561601#:~:text=an,exa....
Might be that they just don’t like the idea of image board browser. Apple is somewhat strict on what kind of content the apps are providing to user (See ”Objectionable Content” [1])

Techically this is of course just like web browser, but Apple could see it differently.

[1] Objectionable Content
I agree, that is a business risk you take. The problem is just that this risk is very difficult to assess and it leaves you very little in term of being able to influence it.
Sweden has achieved about 15% infection rate and has showed no signs of slowing.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/new-beijing-outbreak-raise...
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
I wouldn't call that an alternative to the App Store, as that's exactly what the enterprise certs are for - internal distribution to employees (or more likely in this case to be contractors but whatever). Getting regular users to go in to settings and change things just to install your app is not feasible.
It's evidently still there. It's a slow-post high-info site so not much happens for long periods. I'm not sure what you're asking.
because anyone writing code that needs to accept untrusted data is defacto acting as a security "researcher"!
They weren't always cool: https://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-t...

As far as I know this changed later on, but still.
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Walled garden behaves exactly as intended. Everyone is surprised.

-- Alternate Title
The alternative could a webapp. But this all depends on what hardware access you need.

In the end it is a choice of business model. Taking the risk of making money while being dependant on one party (Apple, Youtube) is always a huge risk.
Why would that be an XOR situation?

They're all tested positive, but 50% of them might have some form of immunity, and are fighting it off like that would a normal cold (or even with zero symptoms). The virus is still in their system, but their bodies are disposing of it without issues.
If you want to create a cross-platform mobile app, you have no choice. In my country, iPhones are ~50% of smartphones. This needs to be regulated.
As I understand it (from talking to people who have worked closely with the ICO in the UK) they're basically very understaffed and so prioritise the low hanging fruit e.g. big companies committing the most serious violations.
This is what I consider to be a "plan":

> Problem definition
> Product solution
> Technical solution
> Task breakdown
> (optionally: > Estimation > Timeline)

Of course there's always some feedback loop between items in the sequence but for given scope it's a good idea to minimize it.

Or in other words:
Pick a scope/feature/project, let's say proof of concept for your initiative. It seems like your problem description is robust enough so let's skip to Product solution.

It's a good investment to define everything you can define before stating actual implementation. If you still have some questions to answer then get the answers if that's possible. People have the tendency to leave the "unimportant" details for later but there's no gain in that. You have to spend the time sooner or later anyway. Better to do it sooner because sometimes the "unimportant" detail forces you to go back and rework bigger part of your solution.

Have your entities defined, user stories, UX mock-ups ready before working on technical solution.

Have a technical solution described and validated before you start implementation.

This way you mitigate the risk of being forced to go back to previous steps wasting time or being stuck with sub-optimal solutions.

So regarding the parent comment. If you know enough from the users/market research/cogitating to be reasonably sure about the next step then execute it. Once you get there it's time to continue the research with what you already have in mind.

Otherwise you risk getting stuck in an endless loop of tweaking and changing decisions without reaching tangible milestones.
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Yeah. Google has become Microsoft.
If you need an online SaaS account, that can be remotely disabled, to develop and distribute your software, you have been already lost anyway.

Forget that useless malicious platform already. It's not worth it.
> I think the only way criminals will standardize on E2EE is if every platform and communication mechanism is E2EE by default. Otherwise they will continue to make mistakes or think they can slip under the radar.

FWIW, I believe this is the future if lawmakers don’t prevent it. A look at some E2EE software today:

- WhatsApp

- Matrix

- Signal

- iMessage

- Firefox Send

- MEGA

- ...

The list will grow.

In my opinion, E2EE today is like TLS 10 years ago. TLS was once a nice-to-have when it came to communication that was not strictly necessary to encrypt. Today, TLS is more sophisticated, stronger, and easier to implement than ever, and damn near a necessity for anything, even toys.

Granted... E2EE is necessarily harder, since it requires application-level implementation of crypto primitives, things definitely get complicated. Still, I believe the state of the art will continue to improve and tooling with it. Eventually there will probably be defacto libraries and maybe even OS frameworks to deal with E2EE key management, trust, etc.

To be clear, I view this as strictly a good thing and an inevitability. I don’t think transport encryption and encryption-at-rest are good enough anymore for private communication. Of course for public sites like Twitter or Tiktok it’s all you would logically get, but for any group or direct communication I now believe E2EE is slowly becoming the new baseline, and it’s mostly the complexity of it that hampers adoption.

Now that iMessage and WhatsApp are E2EE though, there is a lot of messages flowing that, exploits notwithstanding, are “truly” private, today, and I think the number will only go up. The only real question in my mind is, who’s next?

As far as criminals making slip-ups, this is guaranteed; even the best make mistakes obviously. But assuming all criminals are foolish and stupid is a mistake; I believe there’s a lot of selection bias in there, since we don’t get to find out those who truly never get caught. Time will tell if any of this really matters, or, if, as usual, it’s just another panic that has no tangible effects. I vote on the latter, but I still do believe proliferation of E2EE will change the game in ways we can’t really anticipate 100%.
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But in a browser you'd had to enter the url yourse... oh, yeah, nevermind
Exactly, this is why I vote with my wallet and don't buy Apple products. Apple's hardware is perhaps only marginally better than the competition's, which by the way is much richer in choice. Developers should look further than Apple. It is better for the profession.

Remember:

developers : Apple == taxi drivers : Uber
You have the same choice the device users have. It's their right to choose their device, and it's your right to choose which provider you use or don't.

It is not your right to reach all those people.
I can totally relate to this. I built up a sas previously as a single person then later two person team, so I had to do both dev and sales. It's almost impossible to talk to potential clients after a serious stretch of hardcore coding. I end up spewing close to giberrish. Similarly, for me, being a more introverted technical type of person, trying to talk to clients is quite draining, and it's hard to pick up development work.

In the end we tried to split the work so I did more dev and he did more sales/business development type stuff. Where I do have to do both again I try to assign separate days. I'd like to hear how others deal with it as well
I have no detailed information. But the development of PyPy has been going on for 20 years and was partly sponsored by the EU. If you compare that with LuaJIT which was developed by a single person in a shorter timeframe and a performance even faster than V8 I would assume that maybe the conceptual approach taken by RPython/PyPy is less suited or Python is just that much harder to speedup. I would guess the former because also the performance of other RPython based implementations is not insanely impressive.
that's not security, that's obscurity. don't confuse one with the other
This site is not made by an agency that sells anything (as far as I know). It is made by the French government agency which enforces the GDPR and which main mission is helping out companies complying with the GDPR (distributing fines is NOT their goal, they will only fine companies as a last recourse).

As such, it's one of the best guides you can find around, because everything you find in there is almost guaranteed to be exact (contrary to some companies selling compliance tools that are not compliant, or a random blog on the internet). And if there is any mistake there, well you can refer the CNIL to its own guide when they investigate you.

Obviously they want to make a guide to get to 100% compliance, but they as you said in your last phrase, they indeed don't have the manpower to investigate everyone, and if you are generally respectful of your users privacy, you don't handle sensitive data at a large scale and don't have any complaint against you, they have no reason to ask you for documentation (which is generally going to be the first step of an investigation).
> i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed

How about Apple telling me they don't like my business bank (a well known UK bank I've been with for 10 years) and simply refusing to set up the account. In a very cold, "go away already", manner. I wasn't going to kill the relationship with my business bank just because Apple told me to, so the app never got onto App Store and I shut down my dev account.
Pretty cool, and very educational for people not familiar with how these things work

That said (and I've said this before), this is not really Docker. It's running containers, not the same thing. If you want to compare it to anything, it's runc, but that's not a good headline :)

Not that the docker architecture is that clean, but it is the combination of ideas it brought to the table what made docker docker:

- have APIs to do everything, from launching workloads to building images.
- combining layered filesystems with os-level namespaces
- package format for "images" coupled with a distribution system

If it was just starting containers, that was already possible for a good while (and many shared hosting providers already did this).

I think many people underestimate the importance of the first point, having an API to do all this. It's having this combination of ideas that democratised cloud computing, it is what makes the bigger picture possible. While the Docker API is currently not very important anymore, it showed the possibilities, and made the limitations it had also very apparent, and at the beginning, nobody had solutions for this. It took things like Mesos and kubernetes to take it to the next level, with the latter having become the de-facto standard container API.
GMail was in beta for 5 years.
It only costs that much because launches are expensive. If you live in a world where your satellite costs $300m+ to launch your going to spend a lot on the satellite to make sure that it is reliable and has a long life.

If suddenly launches only cost $50m then you might build a cheaper and slightly less reliable satellite as you know you can always launch another for only $50m
You can Tweet a Tweet. But now you can Tweet your voice
Watch his videos of don't. Make up your own mind.
I actually like monospace pixel fonts. Doubt it would make a difference. I have a (cheap) 4k display at home. Some things might look better, but I would recommend to use one with a high refresh rate and good contrast.

Since I used ebook readers with their displays, reading on a monitor is always a compromise in comparison.

Wouldn't want to go lower than 1080 though. It can work of course, but it just doesn't have to be.
Different type than what OP asked for.

> The ICO’s investigation has found that a variety of information was compromised by poor security arrangements at the company, including log in, payment card, and travel booking details as well name and address information.
Payments Giant Wirecard’s Shares Plunge on $2B Audit Deception
Just go for it. Sounds like you want to. Worst case: you don't like it.
Actually I am looking for a new home alarm, should I buy a Spot instead to patrol around it ?
My users are generally happy when I make new stuff for them.

It sounds like the people you're talking to on Facebook aren't your users at all. They're just commenting on your announcements which are showing up on their feeds for some reason.
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> For the majority of users, this is irrelevant because linux is unusable for them.

I got Ubuntu recommended by an electrician back in 2005 or 2006. (I used to be using Red Hat/Mandrake/Mandriva back then.)

Soon after I realized it had come to the point where Ubuntu was not only possible to install and use but simpler to install and use than at least OEM-loaded Windows machines.

It seemed to work well for grandmothers, kids and sysadmins.

Notable exceptions:

- certain people refuse to learn (certain Windows sysadmins)

- people who depend on powerhungry software that doesn't exist on Linux (for less power hungry software there is RDP or Citrix and Windows Terminal servers.)