skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The topic is obviously enormous and more complicated than "big business bad", but it wouldn't be a loophole if it wasn't legal. Defining only illegal things as loopholes is not a great line in the sand, it's kind of a tautology that loopholes aren't illegal. I would expect that the specific definition varies a lot by person because democracy. One person's corrupt loophole is another person's tax incentive, but either way the loophole is legal.

What specifically the parent was referring to I'm not sure, but that would be why it is consistent to describe a company as both "in compliance with tax law" and also as "using loopholes". If they weren't in compliance with tax law they'd just be breaking the law. No one is accusing the companies of breaking the law, they're accusing the tax system of being biased and corrupt.
The pandemic has accelerated the use of no-touch surfaces specially at places like an airport that are more inclined to now use a face recognition security kiosk. What's not clear is the vetting process for these (albeit controversial) technologies. What if Google thinks person A is an offender but Amazon thinks otherwise. Can they be used as counter evidence? What is the gold standard for surveillance?
You mean... Goats?
The anarchist sees all power relationships as a problem, and would eliminate them all given a chance. The non-anarchist advocate of liberal democracy sees some power relationships as legitimate (if only to prevent other, presumably worse ones) and is seeking an "optimal", rather than minimal, level of power relationships. The difference between "anarchist" and "minarchist" lies mainly in what you consider to be the "minimum"—it is perfectly possible to be both, if you define the minimum as zero.

The difference is academic, of course, so long as the current level of power relationships in society is well above what even the liberal democracy advocate would consider "optimal".
Efficiency and land use is indeed an issue in India as with the struggles to feed an increasing population with a higher protein intake requirement as well.

Instead of natural gas -> Fertilizers route, a solar or renewable energy -> LED route can help for certain crops provided they do grow efficiently.
If they overshoot, there's always motion to suppress evidence and associated consequences (fruit of poisonous tree, grounds for appeal, etc).

I agree it risks being problematic, but allowing a blanket unsearched conduit for physical evidential items from defendants is problematic, too.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings donates $120M to support HBCUs
I finally bit the bullet and upgraded from a SE, compromising on the size of the phone. I already notice increased wrist stress and place more sideways weight than is optimal on my pinky (to hold the phone up but also be able to reach single-handed).

So, knowing how life works, we can guarantee that Apple will release a small form factor phone as part of their next offering ;)
For one thing, Facebook competes with the NYT for advertising dollars. If Facebook and Instagram are less appealing places to run adds for a company then maybe that company will spend more of its advertising budget on NYT ads instead.

More broadly though, they have an incentive to weaken companies like Facebook and Google, which are effectively gatekeepers for a lot of traffic to NYT articles. Clicking on an article shared on Facebook, or clicking through to an article in a Google search result are very common ways for people to land on the NYT website. Not only is this traffic valuable to the NYT for ad revenue it's also very valuable for selling subscriptions - people are more likely to subscribe if they have been seeing and reading free articles. I think it's safe to assume the people running the NYT are aware of this dependency on search and social media platforms and are eager to do anything they can to minimize it. I have no idea how much bias, if any, actually creeps into reporting - hopefully it's none! But the business incentives are enough to make me approach any article from almost any media company about Google or FB with a dose of healthy skepticism.
Yeah, having a threat intelligence and investigations team is very common for big companies.

If nothing else, it's probably safe to assume that someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page regularly get emails or other messages saying things like "im gunna go to ur house nd kill ur dog and ur hot wife"

Law enforcement doesn't have the resources to investigate every one of these, absent a credible threat of it actually happening, so corporate security / executive protection exists to, well, investigate.
techcrunch?
Nice, thanks for the link and for your contributions to OTRS, it has improved workflows tremendously on both companies I've set it up on. I've messed around on some of the source and template files for some dirty hacks over the years and did get the impression of it being very well structured and with pretty clear separation of concerns even though I'm not a Perl coder.
> What incentive do parking and venue apps have to implement this?

As a good example, a parking meter app is simply there to collect money at the meter. An App Clip is small, which will be way faster to download than the full app, and enable a user to pay much faster than before. In a situation where you want people to get an app but know that they're time constrained and that app is how you get paid, you'll implement it because it'll make sense to implement.

I've personally given up on bike and scooter rental apps because the time to download and setup was frustrating. For those cases, this would be awesome.
And the lowest bidder is often an app factory.

See real estate apps or corporate travel apps for instance. A majority seem to be the same few practically unusable apps re-skinned.
> Do you even know what the heck an enclave is and how does it work?

It's a isolated smart-card-like KMS core within the SoC, that has most smart-card guarantees (e.g. no side-channel attacks; tamper-resistance.)
How fluent were you in the language after three years? Three years of French or Spanish might put you much further ahead than three years of Mandarin or Russian, for example.
Don't mean to sound harsh, but is it just me or the speaker was borderline impossible to understand? What is that word again "authontication"?
A thread on the Sylow theorems and algebraic geometry
huh... no shit. I think I've encountered maybe 2 or 3 elevators that play music in my life, and I'm a middle-aged guy living and working in a major metropolitan area where most non-residential, and many residential buildings have elevators.
Zoom Hires Jason Lee as CISO
With any luck Perl 7 with phase out the archaic linenoise features. This is overdue IMO.
For an anecdotal counter-example, the habits of code maintenance I picked up at Google are 10x better than anywhere else I've worked at. I've worked at small and medium-sized companies (and my current company is research-focused enough that a lot of people don't have a strong engineering background), but this is also what I hear from my Xoogler friends at (eg) Uber and Airbnb.

I'd be surprised if this tendency had anything to do with Google exporting its culture.
Thank these guys: https://www.drift.com/

Never heard of them before, and will definitely avoid them in the future. How obnoxious.
Yeah, but (presumably) much more latency tolerant.

I didn’t mean to imply they were the first do build a development environment using a thin client.

I meant they are way ahead on in-browser / on tablet IDE’s, which is surprising, since Google had a 10 year lead on the office suite side of things.
Perl has these tiny neat features that I still miss in other languages. Like unless (opposite of if), and postfix syntax.

print "It worked!\n" unless $error;
print "Item: $_\n" foreach @items;
Disclaimer: I am not Chinese.

I'm a bit dubious about a lot of the other reasons in the article, but one strikes me as very true, perhaps just because I directly observed it.

I'm just wrapping up an MSc in the UK. One thing I have noticed in my program is that language is a huge barrier for the Chinese students. Their questions often reveal they are struggling to follow in lectures, they struggle to make others understand their arguments, and they get tasked with less responsibility in group assignments. Furthermore, the extra time needed to read texts, write papers, and generally learn more English comes at the cost of time spent on their actual topic of interest.

I can't imagine how demotivating this must be, and generally how much more difficult the program must be as a result. I wouldn't be surprised at all if some of their counterparts in China have more academic/career success as a result of not having language as another burden.
I think (hope) there are opportunities around connecting small farmers directly with customers for both produce and value-added prepared food. There are a few "virtual farmer's market" services already.

But this is much more an issue of marketing and communication than technology, eh?
Same. Weird. I never imagined something so seemingly consistent as elevators having regional dialects.
Yes, but we are not talking about an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment, we are talking about the use of police force to prevent vandalization, which is the topic of the current tweet/post in question. That's hardly ambiguous.
I quite rightly trust Apple more than I trust Equifax.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is? Perhaps you don't owe it better, but you owe the community better—we should all be posting in a way that protects the container for future discussion. It's fragile, and it's under more pressure than ever these days.

A better way to respond to that one might be by saying something about all the people who can't afford to pay for email, who benefit from the free services we're talking about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In my family we have both iOS and Android devices. All Android devices are Android One devices receiving updates.
I wouldn't want unpatched old devices on my network.

Android One is quite successful from what I can tell. This is the reason.
> This is an elitist point of view, and I don't think you are as good at deconstructing untruths

You seem to have ignored the sentence I wrote immediately following that:

"Even you and I don't always have that rigor, even though we probably both strive for it."

I count myself as "people" here.

> So you think you can mindread people and you know what "many people" want?
> You just admitted it's hard to judge another persons desires.

No, but I know that targeting peoples basest desires and resentments is a very effective propaganda technique. You don't need a PhD in history to concluded that.
Which would be great if co2 were all they emitted, burning bunker fuel is very dirty. Of all forms of emissions co2 is relatively harmless.
It's webauthn from what I can see.
Yes, but it’s probably stored in the Secure Enclave, so it’ll be hard work.
Do you know how it works?
Tribler: Torrent without Worries or Censorship
What is there to gain in calling it Perl 7? It seems needlessly disruptive, rather than just calling it 5.34 or whatever is next.
One thing I appreciate about John D. Cook's blog is that he doesn't feel the need to pad out what he wants to say.

Here, he had a thought, and he expressed it in two paragraphs. I'm sure he could have riffed on the core idea for another 10 paragraphs, developed a few tangential lines of thought, inserted pull quotes -- in short, turned it into a full-blown essay.

Given that his blog serves, at least in part, as an advertisement for his services, he even has some incentive to demonstrate how comprehensive and "smart" he can be.

His unpadded style means I'm never afraid to check out a link to one of his posts on HN. Whereas I will often forego clicking on links to Medium, or the Atlantic, or wherever, until I have looked at a few comments to see whether it will be worth my time.
I thought that this was a great & succinct article.
You might be too young to have experienced this, but this is literally how things used to be, and they worked pretty ok.

When you payed your ISP for internet service it used to include an email account with it.
I hear Perl has weak typing with implicit type conversion. The only other language I know that has a powerful implicit type conversion system is C++. How does implicit type conversion work in Perl?
Still can’t copy a folder full of docs in google drive and it’s so frustrating.
Indeed, if the market is remote and energy rich (e.g. remote Canada with lot of surplus hydropower but lack of sufficient sun) the economics changes
Great insight and thoughts on Houston and Dropbox. Dropbox would have floundered at Apple. Even a loose competitor, Box, where Aaron, the co-founder, owned around 5.5% (after all exercised stocks) post IPO, that still was over $100M while he got to continue running the company through now. Apple buying Dropbox for $800M back in 2009-2010 would’ve given Houston $300M or so I am assuming? I’m sure even if he eventually came out with much less, even less than Aaron, continuing to run the company for over a decade more is far more fulfilling.

And of course Houston is a billionare from Dropbox since it went public a little over two years ago in 2018.

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I remember thinking Snapchat, namely, Spiegel and Murphy co-founders as being a bit crazy to not sell Snapchat to Facebook in late 2013 for $3B when Instagram was bought for $1B 1.5 years earlier.

However the two remaining founders had taken $10M a piece in the previous 2013 funding round. So like you said about $20M being insane as it would be for me. A lot easier to turn that down with all the possibly upsides and millions in your bank account.

Even with Snapchat not exploding the way it was thought it would later on:
- a year after rebuffing FB, they raised almost $500M at a $10B+ valuation in late 2014.
- 2.5 years later, in early-ish 2017, they went public at $30B+, raising $3.5B.
- Tencent became the next big company to have a large stake in Snapchat. After being a previous small investor. Gathering 12-18% of the company by late 2017/early 2018 when Snap stock was doing pretty badly.
- Today, the co-founders still have super voting rights and Snap stock is back to being above $30B while seemingly everyone copies them.

They unethically (IMO) kicked out the third co-founder for a while by then, like Twitter did before them, but less ruthlessly in the end since Snap’s 3rd guy, Brown, still made out very well.

Twitter’s Noah Glass on the other hand...it’s just too sad. No less seeing the worst Twitter guy of them all, Dorsey, getting all this praise for his recent big donations with almost no mentions of how he began his lies and consolidation of power [at Twitter]
I think it's pretty ridiculous that Apple pours time and effort into stuff like this but apps have been able to steal from your clipboard for years.

It reminds me of the phenomenon when researchers and engineers don't work on something that's useful for everyday users, instead prioritizing what they find exciting and cool. The security team is so busy dealing with absurd edge cases like nation-states attacking your enclave that they don't seem to care to address egregious and obvious holes in the security model like this.

It's not that WebAuthn and passwordless isn't exciting or useful, it's just that there are much bigger fish to fry (clipboard paste, terrible permissions management, non-shitty VPN support, trackers in apps) that Apple seems completely uninterested in addressing.

There really is no excuse, at least not when you're tooting the privacy/security horn so loudly, but let stuff like this pass by.

Edit: have y'all thought of an actual counterargument instead of just downvoting? Is it really too much to ask security engineers at Apple to focus on actual major privacy holes in their OS than things like this?
So that I use their service instead of passing on it?
The final claim is hyperbolic. There absolutely is another option which is to find people who aren't interested in performing amiability or socializing exclusively in the safety of their ethnicity.

I made friends because we loved talking about healthcare policy, from being on the debate team, from a shared love for Mad Men, from being interested in starting companies. I did all of this as someone who'd spent the decade preceding college growing up in Bangladesh, with a thick accent and somehow ended up with a group of friends from all around the world.

I'm not saying any of this was easy, but I do think there's a self-defeating element to believing what the parent does.
Thanks I didn’t know this.
Facebook to be hit by its largest ever advertiser boycott over racism
In response to his specific points - this.

In response to his response as a response to my response, I'd add that if he wants to see progress on these issues, Linux isn't ever going to burst into the room, take him by the hand and whisk him away. At some point he's going to need to take the leap and start using Linux in anger in order to escape W7 or W10.

His wife running Ubuntu is encouraging though. I'm much happier if someone has at least tried Linux rather than just assuming it's terrible.

But as I say, everyone needs to take a step forward of we want to move the front line.
No, Safari 14 does not block Google Analytics
This seems pretty cool. Would I still get value if I only want to sample performance a few hours a week, say, under high load? Do you allow for that?
I would like to transition to this in the next 5-10 years. Starting off with a garden on a plot of land I just purchased.

That syntropic agriculture video was powerful.

Any way to contact you to understand how you've made the transition?
Yes, though the intelligence of criminals varies wildly. One person might organize drug deals over speakerphone in a Starbucks while another might torrent movies only over a clean laptop connected to a public access point with a long-range wifi antenna.
Why are you linking a 16 years old article that has been proven wrong? Tuvalu is not shrinking or sinking.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/fact-check-is-the-isl...
> 1) A 'cost calculator' will be a hugely sensitive product, that is absolutely in the domain of sales, it has nothing to do with dev. So many sales issues around that - this will be the primary issue with such a product.

I can't tell what you're alluding to with "hugely sensitive", and "many sales issues around it". Could you clarify a concrete example these fuzzy expressions describe?
Android actually already has something similar: https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant
I guess it depends what you mean by error logging specifically.

I added a pretty barebones “report js errors to the backend” script in about 1.1k uncompressed/unminified.

It’s possible it doesn’t catch all errors I guess but I can’t imagine what 56K of js just to catch and reports is doing.
Because photoshop is primarily a complex software for professional raster image editing/designing. Those who use it for that purpose will not think of Figma as its replacement. Figma is a SVG based UX design tool and those who do UX design in 2020 most likely (hopefully) aren't using a heavy/complex raster graphics tool like photoshop.
Another current way is with COM in Windows.
I've recently bought a handful of these (the more basic Pro and 2000), with the aim of replacing the insides with an ESP32, but otherwise do the same job. There's a community of people, weirdly on Flickr, who provided enough motivation to buy one.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/alphasmart/
Perl 6 had its first release in December 2015. Since then, it has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). It has monthly releases and a weekly blog: https://rakudoweekly.blog

It supports an improved regex syntax, grammars, Unicode NFG (Normalization Form Grapheme, think "\r\n" as a single codepoint), a gradual type system, async execution of code, junctions, event driven execution, set operations...

Hope this was short enough.
Not every audience is captive. If Lyft offered this and Uber didn't, it might be a subtle push for me to prefer the former. Or maybe even walk/bike if neither adopts it.
When you open the Hey inbox, it only has the important stuff in it, not the messages of whoever decided to reach out to you today. It's a subtle difference but I love it.

Then when you have a moment, it's also very satisfying to just go through the screener list in bulk and click thumbs down/up and knowing you'll never see that sender again. Sometimes in GMail, no matter how many times I mark some thing as spam, the mail keeps on coming. Hey is the nuclear option to Gmail's fly swatter.
The domain name for the web page is kind of interesting in this regard. Just from the domain, I'd expect it to carry pro-China puff pieces at best, outright propaganda at worst.
This is a game engine reimplementation, not an emulator.

You obviously don't know what an emulator is.

And OFC is reimplementing from scratch. Everything else is not code, but data. Get your facts right.
Do You Need Plexiglass for Cubicles, Hotel Dividers, Aquarium or What?
Depends on what you mean by "fare well". Even in those benchmarks, Perl seems to have a lower memory footprint than Node.js in most of the results.

It's also worth noting that three of the examples (pidigits, reverse-complement, fasta) don't seem to do any multiprocessing in Perl whereas they do in Node.js. At least for reverse-complement and fasta, it should be possible to rewrite those to use multithreading (like the Node.js versions do).
> That is, access to raw sensors, running native code rather than JS and working offline.

So, a native app?
I have no idea where you get your graphs from - the chart you want is this one:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/image... (pneumonia and influenza mortality, COVID kills via penumonia and as such is in that graph), the spike at 2019-50 is the normal flu reason (you can see we were having a slightly above normal one that started to decline out), the spike at week 10 onwards is COVID-19. Likewise, looking at ILI (influenza like illnesses), you can see the normal flu season spike near week 50, a decline towards baseline, and then a rise towards week 10 https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html (ILInet line graph), followed by a decline as stay at home orders began to come into effect.

COVID emphatically was not circulating in numbers in november. We would have noticed, same as the chinese did, from the massive increase in pnuemonia clusters. Genetic analysis backs this up. You don't know what you're talking about, again.
It lifts them to a simplified version of x86 so they can be instrumented / transformed more easily. I think that implies you get different instructions when it lowers back to x86, but I could be wrong. (I’ve written a specialized valgrind instrumentation tool or two, but didn’t look too carefully at the execution half of their codebase.)
I'm not sure if the typical office user is the same as the casual office user.
Doubt it'd fit in the 10 MB
Probably not a very popular option but Chinese nuclear power stations would also do the job.