skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not S.4051, but no bill text or summary yet.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/405...
And that justifies not mentioning the delay at all? The republicans cited in the article also have a reasonable concern (that it harms the economy to pay people more to not work than to work), and yet the GOP members were the only cited critics.
Yeah, it is a bit of a conundrum, but I don't think I'd say they can't be trusted entirely. I mean, I doubt they're printing outright lies - unlike some media outlets. I think the bias would creep in more in the fact that they run this story at all (while potentially interesting, it's hardly world-changing news), and also in descriptive words used here and there. As long as one is aware of their inherent motivations I think it's possible to get worthwhile info from their stories on their competitors. Of course, who knows what stories about media they're choosing not to cover.
I don't know what to say. I don't claim to be an expert on what life is like in the developing world, so I'll have to defer to people like missedthecue and yourself to tell me what it's like there.
How to make an SMS bot with Google Sheets and Twilio
This really is just bringing WebAuthn to Safari. I've been using it via chrome w/ TouchID for our corporate okta SSO and it has been working great.

WebAuthn is really just a way to make public-key/private-key crypto scale. The user never really knows about or interacts with the keys.

The website doesn't store a password, they store a public key.

The user doesn't know about the private key (paired to the public key) they just know how to unlock the private key via the yubikey or biometric device.

The site sends some data to the user to sign, and they do so with the private key, then the site verifies the data was signed by the private key, boom: authenticated.
It should be a square pie.
The Trouble with Public Sector Unions
I've had good luck ordering directly from companies. For me it was Nike, a yoga mat company, and some local toy retailers and a frame company.
I still buy stuff from amazon, but not critical stuff.

I knew things were going bad, when rock climbing gear was being counterfeited. (2011).

https://www.petzl.com/US/en/Sport/recalls/2011-2-21/Informat...

https://www.reddit.com/r/climbing/comments/b685vi/new_climbe...
Web 0.5
A little demo and info: https://twitter.com/nicolehe/status/1275822956334272514
Lots of my coworkers use their corporate phone as their personal phone. There’s a process for porting your phone number over when you get the corp phone. People do it because it’s simpler to have one phone, or just to save money. I would never do this but I understand why someone with a different background and worldview would.
Sure, "disrupted" is a bit hyperbolic.
To be fair, his comments were unacceptable at that time as well.
When it comes to advancing their interests, public-sector unions have significant advantages over traditional unions. For one thing, using the political process, they can exert far greater influence over their members' employers — that is, government — than private-sector unions can. Through their extensive political activity, these government-workers' unions help elect the very politicians who will act as "management" in their contract negotiations — in effect handpicking those who will sit across the bargaining table from them, in a way that workers in a private corporation (like, say, American Airlines or the Washington Post Company) cannot. Such power led Victor Gotbaum, the leader of District Council 37 of the AFSCME in New York City, to brag in 1975: "We have the ability, in a sense, to elect our own boss."
There are a bunch of Republicans too.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Caucus
The explicit replacement was CoreRT. It's built in to the options of the dotnet CLI tool as of .NET 5, and supposed to get more complete as the Mono merger finishes early in .NET 6.
Sounds like something out of a travelogue by a Victorian gentleman of leisure.
I know, I just wanted to select one measure for this example, I had no desire to write a thesis on every aspect of improvement on the iPhones.
Anyone know how they got deleted and decrypted WhatsApp chat messages between the individual?? I thought WhatsApp was end to end encrypted? iCloud backups?
Sounds like we largely agree, then. :)

I'm not ready to say I think this should or shouldn't be allowed and under what circumstances, because I'm not a lawyer or legal scholar. It just bugs me when people post these reductive black-and-white takes without even seeming to consider how complicated these issues really are. If it was so simple, that document would be a lot shorter, I think.
> Personally, I think the biggest difficulty for a Chinese in studying abroad in the US, is the difficulty of being accepted into the circle.

I am white but I have heard this from Asian people and Asian Americans. I wonder if some of it could vary from region to region. For example an Asian American friend had very big problems in Florida. Her white peers said unbelievably ignorant things to a fully American born, ordinary American from the northeast. And my first instinct hearing this was "yeah, well, Florida".

That's not to say it doesn't happen everywhere. I know I have heard complaints of this category here in San Francisco.
It might be worth clearing that up in the docs then. I missed it
Business owners and techies are still a minority of users. I'm not taking a stance here, just trying to realistically evaluate the "users have lost trust in Google" statement but it seems that we want to stay oblivious and glutton in Google's presumed downfall instead.
Ask HN: I want to quit coding professionally but keep it as hobby. What now?
I'm a web developer and I'm working in a small web shop.

Actually, i'm bad at coding, but I like to code when I can build something for fun. I'm burnt out.

I'm a generalist, have a degree in supply chain, i'm pretty good with coming up with solutions for problems, I can design know a good ammount about UX and Design, I like to learn.

I like the web shop life (working hours, home office)

I live in europe.

I'm a newcomer in coding and lack in fundamental programming skills but don't want to learn it, because I see no future for me in coding professionally.

Because i'm newcomer it's pretty hard to switch to something else with my working experience and degrees.

What would you suggest?
What jobs are open for newcomers where my skills are helpful?
I'm using it but the fact the the assitant can only respond for the active google account is driving me nuts.

The Google Calendar app from my Google Pixel merges all my accounts but yet, the assistant is linked to my Google Account instead of my device.

It's useless because I'm using multiple calandars on multiple accounts.
I bought (and returned) a legit copy of that book. At least in the sense that it wasn't a printed pdf.

Weird.
Delta Engine
Legislators don't have to show up to court to defend their dumb laws, so there's no requirement that their statute have any semblance of coherence.

Government attorneys show up to court after some poor citizen spends a ton of money on legal fees to challenge a bad faith law. Worse yet, some bad faith laws are crafted in such a way that no (living) person has standing to bring it to court to challenge the statute.
Intel datacenter class SSD means it will die without warning and safe fallback mode
Android device manufacturers make their money when you buy a new device. Apple, on the other hand, makes money when you buy apps (in addition to making money on device sales I'm sure). They have an incentive to make sure that the latest OS runs on as many devices as possible, so that developers can release their apps to a wider audience, and so that Apple can make more money. Google wants apps to run on as many devices as possible, so that's why they bend over backwards to support older devices with their SDK. Samsung doesn't have any incentive to update the Galaxy S6 since that won't bring them any additional revenue.
Well, there is also the possibility was that they were exaggerating the degree to which they actually believed he was a puppet.
Things have moved on. Moose is a bit of kitchen sink. These days you would generally choose Moo first unless you really needed the meta object features. Or to get incremental Moo(se) features you’d use Role::Tiny, Class::Method::Modifiers And Type::Tiny
But as mentioned, the audience is captive. If there was another parking option around the corner they would have used that. I don't think parking lots care how long it takes you to download their app and pay.
Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun would be a great counter-example.

The novel owes absolutely nothing to Tolkien; it's entirely its own thing, subverting generic fantasy tropes left and right, while providing a clever variation on the classic hero's journey. And the same time it has this magnificent aura of otherwordliness, like a mythological narrative written thousands of years into the future (which it purports to be). It's an absolute masterpiece.

Wolfe really made a career out of subverting fantasy tropes. His Latro series [2] (Soldier of the Mist, etc.) is set in Ancient Greece, and features an amnesiac mercenary whose memory resets every day. The Wizard Knight is another good one; essentially a riff on Tolkienesque Norse mythology and Medieval romances, it features a prepubescent boy who is accidentally transported to a fantasy dimension, and then into the body of an adult knight. It's absurd, but also deliciously weird, just like some of Wolfe's other books (the Long Sun and Short Sun books, etc.).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075JL493G

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Soldier-Mist-Latro-Book-1-ebook/dp/B0...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Knight-Gene-Wolfe-ebook/dp/B08...
Harvard Computers
A date string and or a string specified by amazon at the time of shipment creation signed with some sort of private key should fix this I think.
I’m reading your comment on my iPhone 8. It runs as well as the day I got it.
Poland puts computer game “This War of Mine” on school reading list
Not sure that level of snark is appropriate for HN. Not that I explicitly disagree with you, of course. It's just we gotta have a higher bar around here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should be more thoughtful and substantive, not less.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.
Am I the only one who thinks those ebay guys might be je*king off to this right now? I mean to the comments here.
You can add filters to delete mail from specific senders. I have quite a few that ignore my requests to unsubscribe.
I speak as someone who has programmed in Perl for over 20 years and at one point was the top poster on Perlmonks.

The wantarray feature is a problem with Perl, and not libraries. It has nothing to do with how you pass your arguments, but rather how the data comes back. Every single function has to deal with the potential of context. Every choice you make has downsides. The choices made around wantarray tend to age poorly. And many Perl programmers are deeply confused about the difference between these lines:

my $bar = foo();
my ($baz) = foo();

I firmly believe that context is one of the worst ideas in Perl. There is a good reason why it was not borrowed by other languages. It is far better to expand arrays like Ruby does with * instead.
I think you misunderstood what I meant— almost all of them left except one which was newsworthy
This[1] explains it. Essentially, to support unicode probably, you have to do extra work in your own code. (How do you handle invalid unicode? Should regex character classes match the unicode versions, or just the ascii versions? etc.) Additionally, certain builtin functions don't already support unicode, and modifying them to do that would be a breaking change. For more info, see the py2->py3 unicode change, and how much of a mess that caused.

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484#6163129
They didn't develop the capability to backdoor phones at the FBI's request.

They are generally happy to hand over iCloud backups, which they did in that case and the FBI "lost" them IIRC.

It was also an iPhone 5c, the last iPhone without a Secure Enclave, I believe they were able to get in with GrayKey.
It's not really supported for Face ID - you can create an "alternate appearance" for Face ID but it doesn't work well if the people look very different. With TouchID you can register fingers from different people and it works fairly well, but again not really supported.
Easy: it's a bad faith argument.

Most of the stories I've read about terrorists and mass shooters report that they were using bog standard instant messaging, unencrypted e-mail, and social media. Most of these people are not highly technical and do not practice good opsec. Hell Dread Pirate Roberts was pretty technical and still got busted because of bad/lazy opsec, not (as far as anyone knows) because encryption or Tor were broken.

The child porn thing is a bad faith argument too. Child sexual abuse is under-investigated and under-prosecuted already even when the information is there or when actual reports are made. (Adult rape is under-prosecuted too.) They don't do enough to go after child predators using existing tools, so why would more tools matter?
I think it's a very tiny number of user though. Most users don't care about a security update and many actively avoid them. A phone updating all the time is seen by many to be a bug, not a feature. If my car was constantly nagging me to take it into the shop to be optimized, I'd be pretty annoyed. If it was taking itself to the shop and coming back telling me I now needed to update my seat belts in order to work with it's newest updates I'd be further annoyed.

I switched from iPhone to Android because I end up breaking my phones after about two years and I can't be paying more per annum for a phone than for a car. I need an email client, web client, maps and sometimes a camera for taking a reference photo. It's astounding to me that the cost of meeting those needs seems to be increasing over time instead of decreasing.

We've seen over time how Apple uses software updates to aggressively force new hardware purchases. The latest OS doesn't support version X of the software, and more often than not your device doesn't support OS version Z so open up thy wallet and get the latest hardware. This is precisely the reason people are terrified of updating their software. It goes from working to not working. This impacts my reasoning for NOT buying Apple hardware.

EDIT: You know what, I change my mind. This gains some respect from me for Apple. I hate phones in general and I'm just grumpy.
PDF page 8:

https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...
I agree with this criticism of US college:

> You read really quickly, discuss really quickly, turn in your papers really quickly. The things you think about are decided by your professors, and you follow their lead as you develop your thoughts instead of asking yourself what questions you developed from your reading or what link it might produce with your own background. So you just do your best to chew the cud and digest the material. And if you actually learn something, it is transplanted out of nothing and remains attached to its origin rather than sinking roots or sprouting branches. When study is nothing but rote learning, who doesn’t lose their appetite?
It appears to be the WebAuthn standard (based on a quick look at the video so far) and so implementing it would enable you to leverage other Webauthn targets as well, not just on iPhone but on Windows devices and more.
On a tangential note: I've seen the upcoming rise of Syn Bio for quite some time now. But I've never figured out, how to participate / help its growth as a pure SWE.

Job offers related to that field require a skill stack, that I have zero investment in. I'm also in my thirties, so starting from scratch isn't really an option. Someone else here from a similar background, who managed to get a foot into the Syn Bio industry?

edit:
Should have mentioned, I'm currently living in Europe. Although I might give that up in order to break into the industry.
It's not my understanding that the "Perl 7" idea suddenly gives license to be backwards incompatible. Instead, features that have been made available and gated in previous releases can be made default in a new major version.
> Similarly, if POTUS calls for war against a specific nation (or group), it is within his rights to do that, no matter how violent or deadly war may be.

Calling for war against a foreign adversary, yes. But for violence against domestic protesters - not clear that Brandenburg v Ohio protects that, regardless of whether the violence is lawful, and to what degree it is lawful. The use of violence by public officials is not a blanket right, and courts will likely consider the types of situation where particular levels of violence are legal or not.

Also, there are specific legal prohibitions against using the military against domestic targets, which is one of the things Mattis was so incensed about in the photo op incident. The administration would like to claim they have the option of the Insurrection Act, which will again have to be tested in courts. Calling protests insurrection, even those that commit vandalism, is false on its face.
Yeah there's no precedent for the argument that "use of police force against vandalism is objectively unreasonable".

If the "war on drugs" can be considered a legal/reasonable use of force (even though I personally disagree with it), you can make the same conclusion re: the war on defacement of public/private property. My point is that policing vandalism is not unreasonable, by any measure, and this is hardly ambiguous at all.
I see a very good business case for this for some companies. Think of uber or lime, there is very little user data can do for them, whereas instant availability has enormous potential to boost their business. Right now either a user has all the scooter/ride-hail apps or one or two. Every time a user looking for a scooter passes one they don’t have an app for, that’s lost business for them. If app clips allows users to use whichever scooter is closest to them it can drive overall usage way up.
Beyond that, you have to acknowledge that Apple contributed heavily to USB-C. They are invested, but had to weigh the plusses and minuses of transitioning the iPhone. My guess is that it was something like this:

Plusses:
- everyone shares the same connectors

Minuses:
- all the old peripherals out there now don't work on the new phones
- there are lots of debug systems for phones built into the Lightning ports that Apple uses internally, those are all gone
- there are lots of junk chargers out there, and no real inspection scheme for USB-C, whereas Apple runs an inspection scheme already for Lighting

Since there is a large enough market for Apple products, Apple is not worried about the small bonus of everyone sharing the same connectors. Given that it seem pretty obvious that until there is something to push them off Lightening (e.g. power requirements, speed of connection, etc...), they will stay there.
It's funny because I usually use the same argument but for the opposite case: people are not idiots and know very well about the implications of giving up their data to Big Tech but they simply don't care and think it's worth it. As a response to the common trope that we all we need to do is inform users and they will stop doing it.
This article is basically someone failed at achieving something and then blame it all to an easy target. America happens to be the easy target of his choice this time.
> If you complain about a PWA apple cannot take it down!

Browsers already protect people against malicious sites.

You never saw Chrome warn you about it?
Maybe it would be helpful if you gave an example of the simplest python function it won't be able to synthesize, and if/when they release the code GPT into the API we can test your prediction.
The video explicitly mentioned it is WebAuthn Platform Authenticator (1:54)[1].

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/#platform-authenticators
It’s accurate and inaccurate. Ads were there but many users saw none for a long time.

IMO ads were a distraction to enable the data harvesting, which drove Adsense targeting. Even today, the ads I see on GMail are pretty low quality. Some lovelorn guy used my email address unintentionally to sign up for a 55+ dating site 3 years ago. The most targeted ads I get are for similar sites.

Of course YMMV.
I wholeheartedly agree with your comment about never being part of them. That experience is real and difficult and one that I experience as well with people from my own culture.

Having tried to make friends with people from many cultures I found my luck to be in the 10-20% range. Majority of people in every culture are only comfortable with people of their own culture. It can be hard to find the few people who are open to developing friendship with people of a different culture.
Perl’s core object system isn’t really an object system, it’s a toolkit for building object systems. Of course this leads to too many ways to do it, so if starting fresh just use Moo
I had hope there would be a merging (with some compatibility layers and wrapper binaries) allowing to use Raku the same way Perl 5 was used (should not have been _that_ hard, just adding familiar options and special variables)... Now I'm seeing this goes in a total different direction.
I use sentry but call the API directly. So my overhead is basically try-catch with a fetch sending the data in the catch.

I don't get sourcemap mapping, but I can send along enough metadata to find the issue in most cases,
Google has reached the mature phase of the corporate lifecycle. They have economic dominance and are putting the screws in to extract more money. The writing was on the wall when they got an ex-Goldman Sachs CFO, but it has become more and more externally obvious over the past few years.

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/fi...

The mature phase can last a long time so long as they keep buying the competition or use their position to shut others out. Or they can screw up and start to lose their grip to another company or group of companies that slice off their market share one service at a time.

In any case, Google was never actually trying to help the world, their marketing was extremely good though. Hopefully the advertising economy collapses as people realize the ads don't work and we have to find a model (such as public funding of essential services) that actually works.
I know you can still target iOS 9 with Xcode 12.
The question is more along the lines of: does this provide more security than passwords for real users?

Stealing a password is probably more easily done than stealing a private key that is never transmitted. The primary threat model is protecting the credentials of real users rather than protecting against fraudulent users (though some considerations have been made for that too).
They are the majority of Google's customers though.
To think we could have had this a decade+ ago with TLS client certificates, if web browsers weren't perpetually stuck in the past.
I don't know enough about Amazon's fulfillment to know if this is possible, but maybe the sticker is unique to that seller. Meaning if it isn't their sticker that is scanned during fulfillment, they don't get credit for the sale.
There's also the Ozzy Osbourne effect for programming languages:

I've listened to preachers
I've listened to fools
I've watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role

Mental wounds still screaming
Driving me insane
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train