skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew I was missing someone. Yes, Baidu (who also already runs a large search index) could probably do the same thing.
Signal does not send encrypted SMS messages. Period. It can send encrypted messages but they are not SMS.

I think that without using the same words that other "security professionals" (which I would not class myself as) use most discussion becomes absolutely pointless.
If it was discovered that the laws of nature prevent a species from expanding into the universe through whatever mechanisms plausible, what would that do the idea of free will? Does free will require unbounded possibilities or would an upper bound rethink our idea of the universe?
Sure, but in comparison to other formats and especially HTML it is 90%+ there.
Yeah, I realized after I reread it some of those negatives are contrary to one another. eg insanely expensive housing vs commute time and whatnot.

I include commute time into long hours. Many people I knew there, admittedly NOT at FAANG, would spend an hour or more each way on a bus or train, plus 8 or more hours working, that's a huge chunk of the day. I'm remote, if that helps give a frame of reference.

As for crime, I guess it's just culture shock. I've had people tell me not to drive, and if you do drive and park, to leave your doors unlocked and empty your car, or else someone will break the windows and take things. And I've seen the broken windows. That, along with being harassed by mentally ill folks, was just a big turn off to me. Though, this may just be more of a SF thing specifically.
> Should we eliminate gun background checks entirely

After you own 1, 2, 5, 12 guns, what purpose does this background check serve? How about the 10 day waiting period?

The background check could be completed in seconds - it's a API call to DOJ effectively, and you get a "Pass/Fail" indication back - based on the laws that allow you to own guns.

So... this process could effectively be immediate for anyone who already owns guns.

But! We somehow sleep better at night knowing someone with 12 guns has to wait 10 days before getting their 13th... because that prevents them from committing murder or something?

Some things are simply Security Theater. We should stop pretending.
More capitalism creates more products.

If the world were just a bunch of fields with a static farm economy and no innovation in cultivation, then your point would be correct. But innovation increases the size of the pie. Yeah, the jealous may focus on the percentage kept by these innovators, but they really should be looking at the share of the pie.

Socialism is all about making sure that everyone is equally miserable.
I think simple, trivial type systems offer simple, trivial correctness. Robust type systems can offer robust correctness (when used to their potential).
The browser built around ad replacement and blockchain payments? Seriously?
I feel the same. A friend wrote an extension that allows you to do this and my life has been much better. It just kills threads made by users I don't like.
This is only the beginning. At the moment, mobile devices must run sub-SOTA models, such as a MobileNetV3[a] for visual recognition, to provide an acceptable user experience. As mobile devices continue to get more powerful and start incorporating dedicated AI hardware for multiply-add-accumulate ops, I expect to see devices that can run today's SOTA models locally within a couple of years. Exciting stuff!

[a] https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/11/introducing-next-generatio...
This was already possible with browser plugins.

Active State had ActiveX plugins for using Perl and Python instead of JavaScript.
Along similar lines is there any guides on making more artful QR codes? I've seen ones that aren't square but still scan and found them fascinating.
Its a dominance gesture
50 years of scolding people hasn't worked, but a bit more scolding now might do the trick, right?
I did not tell you whether you should or shouldn't be political. I'm asking you a second time, please stop putting words in my mouth.
I can recommend:

- Timelense preview for youtube: https://timelens.io/youtube/ (needs greasemonkey or something)

- Opens pdfs in my pdf reader right away: https://add0n.com/open-in.html?from=pdf (invert sumatra pdf on windows and you even have a dark mode: "...\SumatraPDF.exe" -bg-color #000000 -set-color-range #FFFFFF #000000 )

- (there is also one to open in chrome, really good if you are using FF but need to use google products like meet or jamboard)

- TTS with amazon polly support (if you have an AWS account): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-aloud-a-text-...

- oh and mouse users should always scroll my dragging right-click IMO :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scroll_anywhe...

- adblock for youtube sponsored bla bla within the video https://sponsor.ajay.app/

- backup what you typed in form fields: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textarea-cach...

- stylish if you know CSS. I made wikipedia look more like the mobile version, make visited links visible globally, hide jira crap for sprint plannings etc.

- for good keyboard hint navigation: trydactyl (but saka keys is probably more beginner friendly)

- Show which links are fresh on news sites (e.g. on HN). FF only for now though. Just published it myself: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/seen-it-al....
> I see no reason they intentionally want to hurt the goose laying golden eggs.

It makes them feel powerful. So there's at least one reason.
The author seems to want CHM...

For all the PDF hate, 99% of the time the rendering is better than most web pages, and it actually works properly. I don't have scaling issues with it on hi-dpi displays/etc.

I've also yet to see a browser do proper sgml/svg graphics scaling of high density (thing multiple hundreds of MB) maps/etc that are common in PDFs.
Or if you go to the docs, BuckleScript is everywhere:

https://reasonml.org/docs/reason-compiler/latest/introductio...
>But as mentioned index and ranking are inextricably tied together.

I'm pretty sure they're quite extricably tied together. I'm almost certain google's engine weights the different ranking variables (e.g. page speed) differently depending upon context. Why not expose those variables to other search engines? Well, it would kill google's search engine dominance - if you're concerned with that...

Unbundling isn't technically infeasible and it would create more competition. This would help with the arms race alluded to. What if another search engine used google's index to build a more spam free index? not good for google but great for Joe public.

>Motivation: If search is open and you therefore can't directly profit from your efforts to improve it (because you automatically give away anything you create to competitors) where is your motivation to keep innovating?

Nothing saying that they can't make money from the users of their index just as Bing makes money from DDG. However, is there any reason their search engine shouldn't compete with other similar offerings? Maybe somebody out there does it better.

Well, other than "we've got an unfair advantage and wed like to keep it please"

>It's harder than you think

Actually it's probably a LOT easier. This idea is a direct attack on google's power and the easiest response they can make is "too difficult. not possible". Not "this would fuck us in the bottom line". Simply "we can't do it, who are YOU to tell us it's possible? "

fwiw if you look through history similar reactions were made to attempts to regulate pretty much all utilities. Then it happened. This kind of response is kind of an expected part of the process. Most recently it happened in the UK when utilities and banks were told to open up API access to their data. Same claim you made.

Part two is when they tell you "it's not fair!". It's coming.
The only risk I can think of is that someone will upload the video and then livestream its playback on your platform with your branding using a separate livestreaming tool.
I don't have air conditioning either, but I have a huge fan on the ground that blows air under the desk. Plus I have a smaller fan on my desk, aimed at my upper body.

It keeps me cool enough to work in relative comfort, and I don't need to take all clothes off (but I do wear a polo shirt, khaki shorts and flip-flops which I kick off under my desk).

https://www.coolblue.nl/product/855263/fuave-vv3010-chrome.h...
> E.g., a product costs $X, owners get too large of a % of that compared to employees.

this is orthogonal to the economy being positive/negative/zero sum. if total real wealth increases over time, the world is positive sum, regardless of how that wealth is distributed.

positive sum doesn't imply that everyone gets wealthier over time, only that it's possible for people to get wealthier without it being directly at the expense of others.
This is true but long term Google can not sustain that. MS did the same in the 90s. Google is failing to execute on many 'big ideas'. Not because of a shortage of talent. But because of a shortage of follow through and nothing moves the needle anymore. That means any new product that has a shot of being interesting (say 1%) has to produce 1.6 billion pretty quickly. There are very few new businesses that start at that position. MS should have owned the cell market. Not for a lack of trying or talent. But they kept changing positions and tech stacks every few months. They lacked the will to do it. Google is in a similar position now with most of its projects outside of its 'core' ideas. What happens, fairly quickly, is the talent figures out that the company does not really value their ideas. They move out of the company and do something else.
Ah, I was talking about OpenBSD's kernel interface. Linux is ABI stable at the syscall level, of course–I know it tries to be binary compatible, but I have never actually tested this much.
How did an antitrust lawsuit that ended in 2002, lead to MS losing browser market share a decade later? Even if you do count that as a victory - it was still only 1 out of 3 areas that the government went after MS for. Since when was 33% score considered a success?

And the largest anti trust lawsuit before that in technology was IBM. It started in 1969 and it was dismissed in 1983 and nothing came of it.

Maybe the government is just incapable of understanding let alone regulating tech?
Thanks!

a) Yes, I'm testing our Salesforce integration this week

b) While we don't have documentation for it yet, we support migration both in and out by loading and reading the current tokens for all of your users.

That's good feedback on our landing page, we've had the Auth0 comparison come up quite a bit, so we'll need to tweak it.
> What to train them on, how to train them, and how to encourage adherence to the training are the subjects here

Yep.

The fact that enough doctors are in breach of the protocol, despite all the training and motivators, suggests we do need to look deeper.

I'm not sure why you would reject psychology or neuroscience insights into the causes of behavior. Aren't those the disciplines that provide a scientific basis for constructing training protocols? Philosophy just tells us that the scientists are limited by conscious awareness, which means they don't have access to the data to be able to determine themselves why they do or don't make a behavior.
The issue is we're not able to quantify the costs of technical debt and lack of domain knowledge.

We rewrote something in React and adding a feature to it took 2-3 hours but doing the same to the legacy Java code took 3 weeks. This cost was easy to quantify and strengthened proposals to remove the legacy Java code.
"The day I realized my camgirl sex website was being used for business meetings"
no kidding - looks like even the web server is old too. Seems to be Cherokee, a project which last stable release was 6 years ago
How so? It still has the super annoying fixed header/footers that I have to kill with special tools.
classic story of envy driving you to be worse than that what you envy - was shocked to get to know some Mozilla folks and find out that they _fly everyone to week-long "offsites" at resorts_. Because something something gotta be competitive...
Until a couple years ago, Tox worked with sidecar services that existed solely to store this information serverside. That, and the fact that Tox is not a mainstream messenger, illustrates the point I'm trying to make --- which is about messengers, not about this post, which thankfully doesn't make this bogus but popular argument.
Actually, to expand a bit on 3rd point. Whenever the internet sucks at work (I used to work in a bank where the VPN would sometimes crap out) I just go on weloverss and check my feeds. Those tiny payloads get through everything in no time.
I hope RSS will not die.

Recently, Reuters killed their RSS feed without any notice. I wrote a quick guide how to fix this using a hack with Google News RSS (https://codarium.substack.com/p/returning-the-killed-rss-of-...)

Also, while working on the execution plan to parse news articles for a News API service (https://newscatcherapi.com/) we benchmarked a few options such as parsing sitemap, custom generic parser and parsing RSS feeds. It is so much easier to get structured content out of RSS... everything is well structured, normalized, lightweight webpage, etc
"Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly"

http://www.software-lab.org/publications/usenixSec2020-WebAs...
Professional pundits 'offering' old observations, watered down to the point of near-meaninglessness, as their own original ideas, are part of the problem: prvc
Part of being an employee is that your employer can dictate hours. You are ofcourse free to negotiate otherwise but if it's a minimum wage low skill position you don't generally have the power to do that.

It's important to remember that companies will always take the maximum they can get away with for the least compensation.

In the current situation that is asserting some control over the drivers to disincentivize them declining jobs but fairly little else because to exert more control would invalidate their claim their drivers are independent contractors.
This is beneficial to Uber as they don't need to pay payroll taxes and provide health benefits etc that are tied to employment in US. i.e the overall cost to Uber per km driven is probably lowest this way.

The moment their drivers become employees there is no benefit to them not exerting all the control they can under an employment agreement. For instance there will no longer need to be a system for surge pricing because there won't be a need for surge compensation for drivers to increase supply because now the drivers are employees you can schedule shifts to ensure demand is met with sufficient supply.

Will it lead to a large portion of Uber drivers no longer being able to drive for Uber? Most likely.
Will the drivers that remain be better off? Most likely as they were probably already full-time but not receiving benefits.
Will ride prices go up? Most likely.
Would this be better overall? Maybe, it's not as clear cut as a lot of people are making it out to be.
Political decisions that rest on understanding economics.
No experience in Wifi Calling but I use the 2ndLine app for (very rare) calls and SMS. It gives you a local number. Data-only is the most cost effective imo
I have to say the API seems to be very pleasant and simple at a glance. Kudos to the author!

> Being able to use Rust functions directly as systems might feel like magic, but I promise it's not! You may have noticed that we do this when registering systems in our App (...)

> (...) This works because we implement the IntoQuerySystem trait for all functions that match a certain set of function signatures.

This pattern is a great example of how Rust achieves to be both very ergonomic or dynamic (in the sense of expressiveness) and type safe at the same time.
Thanks. So I go for a haircut, if I pay in EUR the hairdresser forwards the VAT to the government. If I pay in the local currency for the same haircut, the hairdresser keeps the VAT. Same if I buy fruits from a local producer (how is that "coup de main"!?)

This very much looks like VAT or other tax evasion scheme. Maybe users of the currency should realize the associated risks.

If the government shuts it down for fraud, it will be difficult to convert the local currency back to euros and the claim that is pegged 1:1 to the Euro might be be correct after all.
Cancel culture* is not new. If you say you are a cannibal and eat human flesh, you're out of a job, same thing 100 years ago I assume. The thing that is slowly shifting is what is morally acceptable, or perhaps that more voices are part of the discussion of what is morally acceptable.

Shame has its function. Personally, I'm more worried about people who are proud to not use morals and are not hypocritical about it, than the do-gooders who put the bar higher than they can live up to.

Yes, they are more often hypocrites. That's great, you can point to that and expect some kind of feedback loop to have effect.

People without shame, who apply no morals to their deeds, are not to be applauded. I hope you agree when it comes to things like child beating. Now the questions is where to draw the line for cancel culture. Not if cancel culture is a 'bad thing'.

* Probably people load the word 'cancel culture' differently. I see it as pointing out morally bad behavior, and asking other people to also notice it, hoping there will be repercussions.
People said that about MS and Linux too but when you're the guy with low marketshare, aggressively Postel Principle-ing is the way to more.

The benefits to common engine are too high.
> Brook's law is also outdated. It's mostly only relevant for when you deliver your software with a forklift.

Hmm... not sure I agree with this. A few points come to mind:

- Some portions of a project become hotspots at different times and have a natural code concurrency limit (it may not be 1, but certainly 10 people can't make changes to the same class or other critical code path concurrently)

- Onboarding is a real thing. It requires current staff to train newcomers, at the very least. At worst, they have to account for the newcomer's coding/architectural misses

- Communication and consensus building with more folks takes exponentially more time (or is it combinatorial, I can't keep that straight).
I'm confused. How could the argument about Gates' philanthropic motives been obvious for decades but those about economic inequality not been simultaneously obvious?

It's all one in the same problem. Philanthropy comes from wealth accumulation.
Did billionaires accelerate that, or did they just profit from it disproportionately while slowing it down?
Basically, it's the only browser out there even trying to handle modern sites that's not mostly funded by Google or Apple (Firefox revenue is mostly coming from Google, and there's Safari), and which runs on rarer platforms.

It's still relatively big, because web standards are incredibly complicated, but it's almost tractable.

If you care about browser diversity, it's important.
Plugins already made that performance possible.
The whole thing is open source, isn't it?

I wonder if anybody else is interested in having it developed. Maybe if a couple of star developers currently being laid off, or redirected to other stuff, started to put more effort into it, and the community started supporting them with donations, that could speed things up?

Firefox is widely popular, and its popularity is also wide among the techs-savvy, well-paid people. Pledging to pay $10/mo for Firefox development would make a difference if, say 20k, or 50k people subscribed. I suspect there is a chance to achieve such numbers with a well-run campaign.
Of those examples, bicycling is the only one I've never seen taken away. Drivers licenses are required to drive and they get taken away for violations all the time. Fare Evasion or gross misbehavior can have you "excluded" from my city's mass transit system. Walking on the interstate is generally forbidden except in emergency situations.
This has been confusing for sure - most of the improvements for the language has been blogged at the Bucklescript website, since the Reason repo was only responsible for the syntax (and syntax has been mostly stable). So there is a ton of momentum hidden from visitors on the Reason site.

Hopefully that issue solved by this rebrand - a language should have a unified website for Syntax, Compiler and Standard Lib, and Blog Updates.
I wonder if we looked at stock price / developers.

Would it prove or disprove this statemenet?
Applications can request access to the contact list at any time. They don't need to incorporate some sort of "ask for a phone number to send an SMS to" functionality to enable this. Additionally, there's nothing preventing them letting users confirm accounts by e-mail instead of SMS.
The fact that Airbnb's business is fairly COVID-resilient has been one of the great business-related surprises this year.
> that you (instead of diversifying) foolishly spent on buying a single company's stock

So, it is actually a bit more complicated, and better than that, and long term stock grants act as a psuedo stock hedge.

This is a simplification, but imagine that there is stock worth X, that hs a 50% chance of the stock doubling in value, and a 50% chance of it crashing to 0$. You might think that this would be equivalent in expected value to X, but that is not true.

It is not true, because if the stock goes way down, you don't have to "accept" those losses. Instead, you can jump to another company, mid way through, and get back your previously high salary.

In that way you can capture the upside potential, while also being protected against the downside losses, in that if the stock goes down, you just jump ship, and get a high salary somewhere else.
I can't compel you to do anything, including things that would strengthen your rhetorical position.
fair point; shouldve worded it "terrific movie, based on the even better book"
How would a state extract fines out of an external entity who does not operate in that state? International court? Those only deal with human rights, resources and border disputes.
BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) is hiring a principal engineer
Yeah, we should totally do something like this if there is any real interest in this.

This post is to gauge that interest and it's our mini launch. (We are two beers into the celebration :)
The problem isn't that banning WeChat and TikTok hurts China.

The problem is that it hurts America and Americans.

It hurts Americans that want to use these apps, and it hurts Americans that work at these companies (TikTok has a lot of American employees). It also has broader ramifications (damages the rule of law, dis-incentivizes foreign investment in the U.S., and so on).
You do have the right to travel. The constitution does not specify a mode. Ergo, all modes are protected equally, and no-fly lists are unconstitutional. It's not like you get a background check to buy a printing press.

The ACLU mounted an attack on the no-fly list that was credible enough government changed procedure.

This would imply drivers licenses and car registration are also unconstitutional. You can tax them and have traffic laws, but not do those things.
Why does Mozilla insist on Pocket?
Hackers steal Bitcoin through large-scale exploit on Tor: report
Cherokee was updated 17 days ago:

https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/commits/master
There are major benefits to using the same language on backend and frontend though, especially with typed languages where you can share types. In my experience, this makes a much bigger difference than the specific language you choose.

So the real question imo should be which is better considering both frontend and backend. I suppose it’s also a very project-specific question. Maybe a heavy frontend project = ts, while heavy backend = rust.