skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of racial and class injustice, the war in drugs has incentivized a lot of crime over the years while also brutally punishing poor people who turn to it out of desperation. To propose adding another layer of facial recognition that both attempts to strip privacy from people, but also falsely identifies many black people, is in extremely bad taste by Microsoft
Less than 1/3 of acquired companies received traditional funding
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Crazy that creditors took priority over cleanup, given that the purpose of the Superfund system is to prevent exactly that from happening.
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loads of pedos and criminals love hiding via that network, and those who run it likely know it, but they defend it as “privacy” and “freedom” yet this stat shows its being used in somewhat free countries.
Call your Congressperson to properly prioritize the charging order with legislation. Environmental cleanup, pensions, then creditors can have whatever is left, instead of privatizing the profits and socializing the losses (Superfund & Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation).
This is pure (wild) speculation given my experience with data needs that seem to fit the product. I bet one (the) customer profile for this was military or intelligence (before it was available to the public).

I say this given AWS prior gov/cia work. Securely capturing, transferring, and maintaining chain of custody for intel from various media and devices captured during raids or other activities was (several years ago) a total shit show. We had a closet full of trash bags from various raids. The analysts weren’t in the field, the op tempo and slow data rates prevented us from making good use of most of the data. Some of which was time sensitive (we would find out weeks later). Also some of the data captured was to be used as evidence in the host nation legal system (I don’t know if that ever happened) or (presumably) GITMO. I was just a grunt at the time, and this was a long time ago but I bet the problem still exists.
I found borehole inspection videos very instructive.

- 'Several oil and gas wells': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9gpowN3k0M

- 'Methane bubbling in water well': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTZp1e0uc0c

- 'Sample Oil Well Video Inspection': https://youtu.be/Ei2xI4_IhbQ?t=173 (shows perforations)

That last video has multiple scenarios that I think help illustrate how wells work (water wells too) and what happens in their lifecycles. Worth watching from the beginning - it's a pinch more complicated than meets the eye.
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Yep, she's featured in the compilation above. They are great as a duo as well.
Ok - so assume a store opens with a 10% revenue cut, and ends up with 50% of sales.

You still have to support the Apple store otherwise you lose half your sales.

The effective commission is now 20%. So you pay 10% less commission but must deal with 2 stores.

That’s with just a single additional store taking 50% of the business, which is an unlikely scenario.

Consider that it is inevitable that new stores will not all be independent.

Google and Amazon will immediately open stores if Apple is forced to allow 3rd party stores.

Will their cut be lower than 30%? I see no reason for it to be. Google play is 30% right now. Maybe it will be 25%, but they have no reason to minimize the commission.

Will they get significant traffic? Yes - they both have the ability to push their stores via their giant advertising platforms. They will also use the opportunity to push browser based platforms that they control, and which will further fragment the user experience.

Why would they need to dramatically improve terms for developers?

Neither has any record of doing so.

Would they allow all kinds of App? No. They don’t right now. Why would they in future?

So you’re going to have to deal with all 3 of the big stores.

Now assume some independent stores get funded which actually do offer better terms for developers.

What percentage of the market will they realistically get?

And how can you benefit from their ‘less egregious demands‘?

If you want the percentage of revenue from the Apple store or from the Play or Amazon stores, you will have to meet their demands.

Therefore you will either make a lowest common denominator version that complies with the restrictions of all stores, or you will need to maintain multiple versions.

Requiring Apple to allow multiple stores will be more expensive and more restrictive and force developers to deal with even more rules.

It is in no way good for indie developers.
There's only smartphone platforms, apple and android.neither is perfect. Google drops apps and services
it it does not have millions of users or it does not make a profit eg Google reader
I use android I can sideload apps on my phone.
Google does not seem to copy popular apps like apple does
Apple is unlikely to provide an option to pay via PayPal or
some credit card unless its forced to by Congress, like the EU forced Microsoft to provide a browser ballot
Eg choose Firefox , chrome etc instead of Internet explorer years ago before Windows 10 was released
Companys realise more and more
products will be bought online using apps, if you can get
people used to using apple pay or Google payment services
you have an almost unlimited
source of income.
Even if apple is forced to allow apps to be paid with
Other finance options like mastercard will they be easy to use will they have access to the api that apple uses for contact less payment
We have seen before in tech the public tends to use the most easy to use app or services, it's easy to just put in your credit card into
the apple app once and just buy any app or service with a few clicks without thinking about it
The law is slow to catch up with tech. 10 tears ago people did not expect consumers to be
Able to buy products and services using a smartphone
app. Apple was the first company to offer an easy to use app to buy music or TV shows on a mobile device.
The first music apps on phones
were limited and hard to use
I write code on 1366x768 and 1080p and see no difference. 1080p is slightly bigger, but that's all.
That's true for hardware that's actually "in the cloud" (aka at an AWS data center) where a hardware failure simply results in your workload automatically shifting to other hardware. But if a Snowcone breaks on you, it still certainly is your problem, because you're the one that now has a physical brick in your office and you need to find a replacement hardware for whatever you were previously using Snowcone for.
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Hello! Person who actively dislikes 4k here. In my experience:

1. No matter what operating system you're on, you'll eventually run into an application that doesn't render in high dpi mode. Depending on the OS that can mean it renders tiny, or that the whole things is super ugly and pixelated (WAY worse than on a native 1080p display)

2. If the 4k screen is on your laptop, good luck ever having a decent experience plugging in a 1080p monitor. Also good luck having anyone's random spare monitor be 4k.

3. Configuring my preferred linux environment to work with 4k is either impossible or just super time consuming. I use i3 and it adds way more productivity to my workflow than "My fonts are almost imperceptively sharper" ever could

My setup is 2x24" 1920x1200 monitors - so I get slightly more vertical pixels than true 1080p, but in the form of screen real estate rather than improved density. I also have 20/20 vision as of the last time I was tested.

My argument in favor of 1080p is that I find text to just be... completely readable. At various sizes, in various fonts, whatever syntax highlighting colors you want to use. Can you see the pixels in the font on my 24" 1080p monitor if you put your face 3" from the screen? Absolutely. Do I notice them day to day? Absolutely not.

I genuinely think 4k provides no real benefit to me as a developer unless the screen is 27" or higher, because increased pixel density just isn't required. If more pixels meant slightly higher density but also came with more usable screen real estate, that'd be what made the difference for me.
"Many sources of funding"? Yeah, all of them the pockets of the public. You can consider me to be unsympathetic to Porter's argument.
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i've gotta say though, its much worse in Japan. By those standards the US is a paragon of transparency and dealing with issues openly.
Disclaimer: AWS employee, don't work on any of the Snow products

My guess is for situations where you don't have a decent internet connection. Like some remote research base way out in the middle of nowhere. The other major application I can think of is for transferring data to air-gapped networks. You could use Snowball for this also, but that would be overkill in a lot of cases. I think for air-gapped networks this is meant to fill in the niche between a USB drive and something like Snowball.

EDIT: expanding on that off the top of my head I can think of a couple other applications. If you're using long range drones with lots of sensors (think RQ-4 global hawk, but also weather monitoring and the like) you're generating way more data than you could stream over a satellite uplink. So you could put a snowcone (or maybe several) inside the drone and use them for storage of all that raw data. On landing you can remove the snowcone(s) and ship it off to Amazon and all that raw data is available on S3 the next day. There's a bunch of other defense-type applications. Embassies could transfer these in diplomatic pouches for top secret information. In fact, if you wanted to be particularly secure but wanted lower latency, you could use the snowball to transfer a bunch of random bytes to use as a one time pad, which the embassy or intelligence center could use on demand as it transfers data back.
If you are going to blame anyone, it's easiest to blame Google's failed EEE attempt on the blogging world with sunset of Reader and attempt to push everyone to Google+. There were so many blogs and meta-blogs I saw directly lost in that fumbled transition. In trying to build their own Facebook, Google did irreparable harm to the blogging world in the process.
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The war on drugs is also a way to fund LE using civil forfeiture.

So assisting LE with this tech indirectly helps fund the continued war on drugs.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/09/710456736/defining-whats-exce...
What makes your comments even better is that Zoom's response from the get-go has basically been "Look at all these large companies that are using our service. Would they be using our service if we weren't secure?"

Meanwhile the companies in question universally refuse to acknowledge THEY NEVER ACTUALLY VERIFIED ANY of the claims around encryption. It would be hilarious if it weren't so terrifying. And oh, by the way, all of those companies refuse to admit they messed up so they ALSO haven't switched to another service, so Zoom is literally still selling on "If we weren't secure, these big guys wouldn't be paying for our service". It's insanity.
Their relative insignificance doesn't mean we should not clean up after ourselves.
I'm not sure if they do, but one potential reason not to do it is that setting DNT literally gives the server 1 additional bit of information about your configuration. This could be used to track you more effectively.
Thanks for sharing your experience!

> My argument in favor of 1080p is that I find text to just be... completely readable.

Yes, me too. To me it's more than just readable, I find the text crisp and comfortable. I don't need anything else.
IIRC, Terms of Service usually have a clause with language that states that the provider of the service may change the terms of the contract at any time without prior notice. If the user doesn't like the new terms, they can quit using the service.

Take-it-or-leave-it changes contracts are a thing in negotiated contracts between businesses as well. But rather than taking effect immediately, they'll happen when the contract is up for renewal.

As an example, an employer of mine used to have a software product offered for on-prem self-hosted use, or as a hosted service. Then, they decided to stop offering the self-hosted option and to only offer the software as a hosted service to reduce development and support costs of having to support the myriad configurations that come of a number of customers running their own on-prem setups. Customers had the option of converting to the hosted service option, or taking their business elsewhere. And so, when their existing on-prem contracts were up for renewal, those customers made the choice to find another solution, or convert to the hosted service.

So, IMO, these ToSes are following contract law. It just sucks that the contracts are so one-sided and the consumers of services offered really don't have an easy means of negotiating the terms to something better for themselves.
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So you're going to willingly spam me despite someone else over there saying I can block? Well now we definitely are going to have a problem.
The Crusades were also a response to Arab invasions into Europe, during a time when Vienna, practically the center of Europe, was besieged twice by the Ottomans, and the entire Iberian peninsula was conquered and held for more than half a millennium by Muslims (and Constantinople/Istanbul still is). Many border countries had children regularly kidnapped into slavery by Ottoman raids (or had to turn them over as part of the blood tax), then turned into child soldiers and made to participate in those same raids, so try to understand when not everyone shares your black and white view of crusaders.

Look at it this way - complaining about the Crusades makes as much sense as complaining about Purim, which celebrates 75 thousand Persians being pre-emptively killed for being "enemies of the Jews".
The FDA made it mandatory for food manufacturers to list their ingredients on food they sell. Prior to these laws no food manufacturer was willing to do this freely, for fear of someone else stealing their recipe. But now consumers can make informed decisions and avoid foods that will give them severe, life threatening allergic reactions.

Every citizen who drives a motor vehicle must be issued a driver's licence by the state they reside in. This enables a minimum understanding of how a complex machine (the highway transportation system) works so that other drivers / participants of that system can use it safely. Without regulation, vehicle collisions would be rampant and the system would be far less stable.

Not all government regulation and oversight is bad.

I highly recommend reading the book "Click here to kill everybody" by Bruce Schneier [1]. Bruce has been in the cyber-security world for a long time now and is considered one of the world's foremost experts on cryptography and computer security. In this book he makes projections about the "internet of things (internet+)" and the security problems that will come with it. He strongly advocates for government oversight and legal reform in multiple areas.

[1]: https://www.schneier.com/books/click_here/
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Just your average decked-out "gaming" PC. An approximately $3000 AMD/Gigabyte with a smaller-sized 4K monitor.

https://secure.newegg.com/wishlist/md/7519915
(I listed all the parts here, but I didn't buy them all here)

I don't really game.
Well the old Harbor Freight stuff was REALLY good, then they sold out and it turned to crap.
You can make text bigger without scaling in pretty much every application there is with text.
JavaScript didn't work well across all browsers a decade or more ago, and jQuery made it easier to write JavaScript without resorting to browser-specific hacks. It also added some elegant features.

JavaScript has improved so much you don't need jQuery anymore.
I think that it's a long article to just say that a 1) good 2) big screen, or two, or 3 is a good idea. The bigerrer, the beterrer.

I wrote a lot of code on Mac classic format (512x342) using Monaco 9 -- it was great; next step was 640x480, and 800x600, and then (for a rather long time) 1024x768.

It was still perfectly fine, as (at the time) Apple screens were some of the best, nice crisp, clear with good contrast. I didn't feel particularly handicapped because of the screen real estate, you just adapt to what you have.

Now my main machine is Linux with 2*32" 4K screen side-by-side, and about 60cm from me. I use Liberation Mono 17pt as a terminal font, and 9pt is just microscopic on the screen.

And guess what? I still wish I had a bit more screen space sometime! :-)

One thing I always tell more junior developers who ask me about what the most valuable piece of information about programming in my whole career is: Get a good SCREEN, get a good KEYBOARD, and get a good CHAIR, the rest are just details.

Oh, also, make sure the screen(s) are perpendicular to any window, and watch that posture!

</walks off waving is cane in the air> :-)
Alex Stamos had a good thread on some of the costs and benefits of E2EE. There is a cost https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1268219067707453441
TLDR: Buy a high-end gaming monitor, and plug into GPU with modern connectivity... to make your fonts look better.
I use a 55" curved 4k TV as my monitor. It's not pixel density that's important for reading text, but contrast. The best thing for coding is a high contrast bitmapped font with no smoothing.

My monitor is still available at Walmart for $500. It's like an actual desktop when you can spread out all your stuff.
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It’s definitely not adhering to the definition of E2E encryption. However given Zoom’s history of shadiness it’s a pretty good guess about how it will be implemented.
I am from the government and I'm here to help...
Same experience with starting from store bought yoghurt, only got 2-3 rounds from it.
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You could make the argument. Japan was actively xenophobic and exclusionary to practically all but the Dutch. And after that their biggest influence was U.S. occupation during the 50s. Lots of “western” influence there.

(Obviously in actual critical work, the word western isn’t useful at all as it doesn’t have much meaning)
There are some good twitch go streamers, but it hasn't blown up in popularity like chess did recently. Check out https://www.twitch.tv/battsgo for a go streamer that's pretty approachable, including doing a "basics" stream weekly. The Go world could learn a bit from how this chess boom is streamlining the presentation and terminology. The english go world tends to use mangled versions of the japanese strategic terms, and tbh, they aren't particularly helpful for learning.
What is the process for verifying that FaceTime isn't leaking the encryption keys to Apple's servers?
The early internet yes, the modern internet encompasses everyone and everything, it's a victim of its own success from the geek perspective.
Alberta has a fund for this exact purpose: to remediate & reclaim wells that may be 50+ years old where the owner no longer exists. Companies fund it on the front-end.

Even after recognizing the potential problem of abandonned wells the fund is massively underfunded; I can't imagine what land owners must be going through that don't have any protection. One difference: in our jurisidiction they usually only own the land rights (vs. subsurface mineral) so the leases paid are for access and generally pretty small. this article doesn't get into the weeds but I wonder if the US owners have mineral rights (based on the mention of royalty share) and thus the responsibility for Rec & Rem is more complicated.
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On a certain level fines and other punishments exist because they are politically popular.
They market this stuff aggressively to the government as a military IT solution.
> one of the four boogymen of the civil rights apocalypse

The public is willing trade away privacy in exchange for protection from certain categories of risk. Instead of denying that, one can lean into it by ensuring strict definitions and enforcement options within those categories while preserving full privacy for those without. Arguing pedophile rings and terrorism are a cost of a privacy policy is a good way to sink that policy.
He puts up some nice technical arguments, and I'm sure a 4k monitor is right for him, but really it comes down to what you're actually comfortable with. I stopped worrying about resolution the moment I got my first 19" (CRT) monitor. Resolution was high enough to fit as much text as I needed, and really that's all that ever mattered. I've used retina displays but I've never felt they make enough of a difference to matter. I've worked on 32" displays, and while they're nice, I've never felt like I'm missing real estate when I move back to a 1080p display.

Font smoothing has never bothered me, but what DOES bother me is this trend towards lower contrast, and "flat UIs" that lack any differentiation between sections in the UI. Win95, while ugly by today's standards, was easy to read and follow. And the black-on-white text is something I miss dearly.
The goodwill has already been squandered. There’s simply nowhere else to jump to (jitsi lol). As soon as a viable competitor launches, everyone will jump. Same thing happened from Skype to Discord with the gaming community.
> ... too opinionated for my liking.

Put yourself in the mindset of a typography geek. Then, by default, you will care about almost all of these things. I'm not saying you should care about all of these things all or most of the time, but that's the correct mindset to put you in sync with the author's conclusions (mostly -- I don't really think 120Hz is that big a deal).
At least one human has voted that this page is worth spending the time to do the data entry task to get it to show up.
4K display isn't bigger though. It only has better resolution, the size of all graphic elements in centimeters stays the same.
Often not, if the overhead of adding them outweighs their utility for the project.
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For those using JetBrains IDE's and MacOS:

Try experimenting with the font rendering settings in the prefs. There's a "middle" option of "greyscale-only" text aliasing in addition to the regular off or on settings.

Depending on your monitor, font choice, and personal preferences you might see an improvement by playing around with these.

Anecdotally, when I had an older MBP with a weak integrated GPU, lowering the anti-aliasing setting to greyscale (or off) seeming to increase the responsiveness and framerate on my 4K display in JetBrains IDE's. It was particularly noticeable when scrolling.
I'm not sure which version exactly, but somewhere along the line apple just ruined the experience for everyone without a retina laptop.
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I'm not a native speaker either. Sadly, this ideology exists.