skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pro-riot side of the discussion also wishes to point out that by the legal definition of a riot, an assembly of three[1] or more people, where one of them engages in graffiti is... A riot.

By that definition, there isn't a single protest, that can't, in thirty seconds, be turned by a drunken idiot, an agent provocateur, or an undercover cop into a riot. (Which immediately justifies the use of flashbangs, firing less-lethal rubber-coated bullets into crowds, and flooding the entire street with tear gas.)

The Hong Kong protests, under American law, would be considered riots. The folks tagging federal CCP buildings would, under American law, have been eligible for up to ten years in federal prison. [2]

Strangely enough, most of people demanding for crackdowns against domestic protests are also endorsing the protests in Hong Kong.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2102

[2] https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019...
So it was forced uppon him. Like you said "pressure". How can a choice under pressure be "voluntary"?
They aren't.

However, a car dealer in most of Europe is not the only place you can get a car, as used market is pretty big, and car dealers tend to go all in for one brand or one group and stuck around for about as long as you care about official service offerings.
In places where information distribution monopolized by ruling class riots are the only method to signal disagreement to both a) ruling class and b) other non-ruling people.
Just because two different codebases try to achieve similar things, doesn't mean it's duplication.

It certainly serves not only consumers, but also businesses well to have firefox (and mozilla) so web standards don't get dictated by a single private entity.
I bet that Epic execs also talked behind the scene with other execs in the industry to garner support in case Apple cracks down hard on Epic and removes Fortnite from the app store. If more studios/developers join the cause, they can definitely apply big pressure on Apple.
The same IP that hosted this guys phishing page also hosted phishing pages targeting Italian banks WeBank, Banca Intesa Sanpaolo and Banca Sella over the past 14 days, all with wildcard certs issued by the same CA. So not really surprising, just run of the mill phishkit activity most likely. If you have fun spamming their inbox knock then yourself out, but it's not gonna make a dent in the thousands of phishkits deployed every day. Source: https://urlscan.io/ip/89.46.110.15
The developer experience (DX) will more or less get solved by over the top vendors. Serverless.com and Begin.com are doing great jobs at this so far. For any of the concerns about proprietary-ness - sure. But you're already locked in once you start using S3, or relying on any other technology decisions like which database you use. It's not currently free as in freedom to use some of these early serverless solutions, but I'm also having a hard time seeing a world where we have globally distributed, fault tolerant, reliable, secure compute capacity at this cost that isn't running in someones basement.
If people really think this is a problem, they'd contribute a non-abusive solution. Writing cron jobs to pull periodically in order to artificially reset the timer is abusive.

Non-abusive solutions include:

- extending docker to introduce reproducible image builds

- extending docker push and pull to allow discovery from different sources that use different protocols like IPFS, TahoeLAFS, or filesharing hosts

I'm sure you can come up with more solutions that don't abuse the goodwill of people.
Probability theory with sets actually generalizes well to infinite and even uncountable cardinalities—rather than counting events you just have to switch to the more general notion of the measure of a (sub)set [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(mathematics)
I am using C and Go and I don't remember ever having to deal with some kind of change in the language. Sure there were changes but with very little impact on the ecosystem.

Languages evolve okay, but Rust felt more like it was just right in the making.
Sure, it can be done and I'm all for it, but historical track record hasn't been great here with automakers keeping their systems pretty close to the chest.
Just the thought of countries and cultures coming together makes the future look positive.
That's really exciting. It reminds me of PrEP which is a pill you take that can prevent you from contracting HIV with like 99% success rate. It's really a game changer since there isn't an HIV vaccine.

I also don't want to get my hopes up since research like this is bound to be overhyped. I want to see where it goes like a month or two from now.
Edit: It seems like Play Store has a category restriction on Games without exceptions.

Google doesn't force payments to go through its channels based on some conditions. A lot of app developers including Apple makes use of this.

So it might just survive on Play Store.
Is there a google sheet where people can put themselves as "available for hire" like in other lay offs of the past?
The net beneficial effect mentioned refers to some kind of societal net benefit. The sentence doesn't stand independently from the rest of the post.
> Send a Word attachment to _anyone_ to collaborate. They can open, read and edit the file

If they hate themselves. Because no other app renders Word documents quite correctly, you end up with pagination problems, missing fonts, etc. PDF would be a better choice, or Rich Text if they have to edit it. I pretty much refuse Word documents because of how awful they are to work with if you're not running Word on Windows.
What do you mean by "the user expands them and there's nothing there"?
I think Backbone is a really big omission, specially because it credits Angular for the popularity of the SPA and in doing so practically erases Jeremy Ashkenas and his awesome contributions from Javascript history. I would argue you can trace modern JS to Backbone, Underscore and CoffeeScript.
Hi, thanks so much for the helpful feedback! I'll definitely look into improving the app.
I don't think that's entirely true. Apps can use SMS or open the OS browser to accept payments and not be in direct violation of the guidelines.
I really don't think it's that simple. Why should CEO salary depend on revenue? Should the CEO of a startup that doesn't have customers yet make $0?
It's not a donation. They pay for being the default search. They throw billions at Apple for the same, but nobody paints that as charity.
Weaponizing of Google Cloud Storage for phishing attacks (2019)
There are a handful of decent "adsense/manage your own ads" and "add adsense to your site" plugins, but the self-service model wasn't rich with options. The few I did start testing had bumpy roads for implementing and managing the integration into the template.

I didn't test this one.

Appreciate the recommendation... will look into it further.
Seems similar in inspiration to https://pugsql.org/ which is a python reimplementation of hugSQL, more or less.

I'd say an advantage of pugSQL is that it's sqla-core under the hood, so lots of stuff will Just Work and you can drop down to core to commit war crimes if you have to.
"It's about the land."

It seems that the tunneling was meant to solve this in urban areas. Open farmland is easier to manage, perhaps leasing the strip from the owners, gaining right-of-way over roadways by working with local governments.
How do you know she is under-performing? It's not like Mozilla was profitable before she joined.
Now riots and civil disorder are there to be exploited by the ruling class leading up to elections until the desired result is changed; they are in power.

Just like the noise leading into 2008, complete with celebrity moms and widows, to protests and destruction of property, once the political goal was achieved the money behind these people are groups were removed along with any attention directed their way through the press. The press has sufficient numbers who operate strictly at the order of political influences, people vastly underestimate this influence.
My wholly unqualified opinion as forever firefox user:

They are going to push their VPN, Pocket and Lockwise like never before. They are also going to focus on their incubator hoping for a big win.

Firefox the browser will start to stagnate, and in five years or so they'll switch to WebKit.

The focus is now not the browser or the browser engine. It's selling Fix-the-Internet type products that have a dash of security theater baked in.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-expected-to-ex...

"Mozilla and Google are expected to extend their current search deal for another three years, multiple sources have told ZDNet."

"Terms of the new deal were leaked to this reporter after Mozilla announced plans to lay off more than 250 employees on Wednesday".

"Mozilla officials are expected to announce the search deal's extension later this fall, in November".
I was hired by the owner of the site to build the bedtime calculator tool. I do not own the site.
Does this mean private schools with big endowments are noticeably corrupt vs their public peers?
> I can install software from other sources just fine

Not when Epic paid the devs to make them exclusive (either permanently or time-limited): https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/Epic-games-store-exclusives

Unless you are referring to warez as the other source, of coursse
I expect a bigger corp with a sustainable business model will scoop it up. Rust is too promising to die at this point.
This looks great for the future, balsy for sure, but like Hey did. Change is on the way!
If you’re a dev (as I’m sure many here are), many big builds will max all cores for extended times. I had to up the cooling in my machine as building Chromium would regularly peg all 8 core for hours, causing thermal throttling to kick in and lower clock speeds.
My field is doing something similar.

Reproducible science is definitely a good goal, but reproducible doesn't mean maintainable. Really scientists should be getting in the habit of versioning their code and datasets. Of course a docker container is better than nothing, but I would much rather have a tagged repository and a pointer to an operating system where it compiles.

It's true that many scientists tend to build their results on an ill-defined dumpster fire of a software stack, but the fact that docker lets us preserve these workflows doesn't solve the underlying problem.
> One thing I want to clarify: I was the engineering manager for this team. I didn't lead strategy for Rust — that's
@nikomatsakis. And together with @luke_wagner I supported @linclark in leading strategy for Wasmtime and Wasm outside the browser.

Looks like Lin Clark was one of those affected:

https://twitter.com/linclark/status/1293207099766431744

edit: fortunately I'm wrong and need to read more carefully.
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It is a hobby in itself. It’s irritating to others because the true hobby is hidden under the guise of another hobby.

The irritation comes from a mismatch of expectations around the end goal between those who are fanboys and those who just want to get stuff done.
Even if they did this is now an argument that the app store review process is not "fairly applied" which will be noticed in the current environment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24109565
Damn, that was a cliffhanger.
Yes but would they be the right people? You know. The right ones. Who are friends with members of the board, and are therefore already rich enough and socialized such that they can be friends with members of the board.
The Hyundai Kona EV looks quite nice too. 258 mile range.
I can install software from other sources just fine. Doesn't have to be the same software. But why is having the Epic store such a problem?
Availability at the time of purchase, I bet.
PS - here's a link I posted in another comment about the disappearing glasses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QqxLalvh-4
Firefox doesn't have the developer tools that Chrome does so developers use Chrome to develop with meaning their websites work better in Chrome so Firefox is playing catch-up or just plain looks worse keeping adoption of Firefox lower.

Mozilla solves the problem by killing development of developer tools insuring Firefox is an afterthought.

Is there anyone in Mozilla management that has a technical bone in their body?
I would say that debugging a program live is highly underrated. There is no inherent reason why building a webserver into everything and using html for visualization is the best way to go. Shared memory can be used and be 100-1000 times faster, which can make a huge difference if you want to visualize large amounts of data like point clouds, pixels, etc. as they change.

In your scenario it sounds like an easy way to make a big step forward, though I don't think that takes it far enough.
It has always been about volumes. Supply of high quality batteries was the bottleneck. Tesla had huge edge there.

European car manufacturers joined together and and started huge battery factories in Europe in joint operations with LG Chem, CATL and others. Berkshire Hathaway provided some of the funding. Now when they have battery supply secured and skateboards are ready, they are ready to compete.
For one, they have been hacking biomedical companies to steal COVID-19 research and a few were caught red-handed [1]. Also, see Equifax indictments.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53493028
Improve performance and security with Server-Side Tagging
Refusal to denounce rioting can be problematic, but I'm not comfortable equating it with support. If people came by demanding that I denounce some random riot, I wouldn't do it, not because I'm pro-riot but because I reject the implication that the rioters have anything to do with me.

I've been quite surprised seeing how many people will condone rioting, but I'm still confident it's a small minority, shrinking to a barely existent minority for riots which can't plausibly be spun as honest protests.
But the linker doesn't try to keep code in a dedupe friendly format. I don't think this would help on a pile of Go/rust binaries.

Maybe there would be better sharing if I extracted the ELF sections first.

I just ran an experiment on the 20 largest items in my Mac's /usr/local/bin, many of which are Go binaries

for file in `find /usr/local/bin -perm +u+x | xargs ls -SL | head -20`; do split -a4 -b4k $file `basename $file`; done
ls | xargs md5 > md5.txt
cut -d' ' -f4 md5.txt | sort | uniq -c | cut -c1-4 | sort | uniq -c

This gives: (number of 4kb blocks, frequency of sharing)

128021 1
12105 2
13 3
1 4
1 1137

so about 10% of blocks are shared... once. And 1 blocks is shared 1137 (all zeroes).

To your second point, we still want fast security updates and more secure code even with sandboxing! EG, sandboxing would not help with heartbleed -- critical data leaked.
It doesn't seem self-evident that forcing kids to learn a little about all subjects has that much benefit. I do taxes for a living and we have a lot of tradespeople as clients, and their life histories are surprisingly frequently - do miserably in school to the point that their self-esteem is destroyed, spend a few years bumming around, drinking too much, playing video games, get a job in the trades, realize they can make more money owning their own business, etc. By the time they come to us, you'd never be able to tell they were the worst students ever.

How many people never make it out of the drinking and playing video games phase because school has convinced them that they're failures?

A lot of kids would be perfectly happy starting some sort of apprenticeship when they were teenagers, and it's not obvious to me that that would be worse than forcing them through the remainder of school.

I think it's hard to tell the difference between kids who have an intrinsic motivation to play video games, and kids who have an intrinsic motivation to do anything but school and have to default to video games because the world doesn't offer much of an avenue for kids to be productive on their own (unless you happen to be very interested in computers and have access to one and the internet).

I say all this as someone who thinks education is profoundly important. I just don't think as much education happens in schools as we'd like to believe, especially for people who don't fit neatly in the system.
I'd assume that the move would be to take the option out then file an anti-trust suit.
That's not true. They all have some sort of thing that drives them. For some it might be football, for others it is making up stories, for yet others it is coming up with drawings of weird mad-professor like castles, fashion, a certain genre of music, food, cooking, decorating things you name it.

The one kid that I ever encountered which I didn't find something that I could leverage to get their intrinsic motivation was a very young syrian refugee child who must have been so severeley traumatized he barely remembered my name despite seeing me every day – he was 6 years old. With him it was like working with someone who had dementia, you could only get him for very short periods and do something and he would completely lose it the day after. Most times it seemed like he wasn't there at all mentally.

But for all the others it was just about finding a way to connect certain topics to their field of interest. E.g. xkcd-style calculations for catapult with the "mad professor" as a trojan horse to physics he tended to hate before that, doing record sales calculations with the hiphop guy, writing a text about a soccer game with the soccer guy etc.

Of course sometimes they just wanted to do nothing, but slowly connecting the stuff they were forced to do before with their interests was something that showed tremendous effect. They were gladly coming every day (most because it was worse at home). If someone is stressed they cannot focus unless you make them care and motivate them.

Edit: as you can imagine, this is not the easy route to do that job. The easy route is more authoritarian.
https://apnews.com/abcb0ed9a84e2d3da7d87c28641ccc21

Another vantage point from the AP.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/israel-uae-announce-n...

And Al Jazeera for somewhat completeness.
Wasn't Microsoft hinting that it was going to adopt Rust for some projects?
Trying to put our finger on digital sovereignty
* By building a bedtime calculator tool. I do not own the site.
That's the death of Firefox.

What would "Foxium" offer that Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, Chromium, or Chrome don't already offer?

I don't think your speculation is unfounded though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143346
For Apple, Microsoft, and Google, their open source activities are all loss leaders for their profitable ventures.

Apple sells hardware, and most of their software offerings, like MacOS, their office suite, and Safari, and given away to convince people to buy that hardware. Also, it's not like they're spending a whole lot of time making Sarafi the best browser around.

Microsoft's web browser was created (and bundled) specifically to prevent the web from disrupting their monopoly on the desktop, and their new browser is just a fork of Chromium.

Google's browser was a way for Google to drive web technologies in service of their advertising platform.

Mozilla's open source efforts are/were a loss leader for ... nothing. Their work was motivated by altruism, not profit, and that turned out to be, well, not profitable. That's why they're pivoting; altruism alone wasn't enough to pay the bills.
I learned Swift several years back, but didn't see myself using it until SwiftUI came to be. I have my fingers crossed for RustUI.
I don’t dispute that serverless deployments are a mess. But I look at it the other way: they make you deal with scaling up front, whether you need it or not. RDS, S3, all that... it scales to huge volumes. Your single VM will not. You can set up auto scaling with multiple VMs but by that point you’re going to be dealing with a lot of the issues you have with serverless deployments.

Now, could a lot of serverless deployments do just fine on a single VM because they never get enough traffic? ...probably. To my mind that's the real problem with serverless: it's a premature optimisation that simply isn't needed in a lot of cases.
It'd be really interesting to see how much activist HR employees eat into their revenue.
This line of thinking happens in a lot of tech companies and it's why these companies eventually die. It's documented in [0] though the book is incredibly hard to read.

The gist is that companies very rarely move downmarket when threatened with competition and instead move upmarket to protect their high margin customers. Over time, the entry level competitors gain more and more features and move up, squeezing the original players.

So you're correct that a $40 Android phone is not a worry to apple, but when those manufacturers start releasing a $300-$500 phone that has most of the features of the iPhone, that's when Apple has to be worried. But by the time they notice, it's too late. If we look at [1] we see that iPhone sales peaked in 2015, and then have been slightly down since then. But it took until 2020 to release a new lower-end phone.

0. https://www.amazon.com/Product-Strategy-High-Technology-Comp...
1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/276306/global-apple-ipho...
The US will produce more renewable energy than coal in 2020 partly b/c of Covid
Every message which makes it to my Gmail spam folder is using this trick, it would be nice for Gmail users if Google could pro-actively detect this kind of abuse of their storage API.

Relatedly, there seems to be no way to filter Gmail messages based on them containing a link to a particular host?
I don't believe I claimed that 4GB RAM was enough. Just that a 5 year old (and perhaps older) CPU was good enough.

I mentioned web browser usage as opposed to more demanding loads like gaming, content creation, software development, multiple office tools being used at the same time alongside the browser, etc.
I'd actually say it's one of the primary motivations, but then I think that's the reason most people do most things. On the second point freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum and exercising ones freedoms almost always involves impinging on the freedoms of others. Therefore there is a constant negotiation going on that involves the balancing of freedoms of different individuals, not to mention the balancing of freedoms with other ethical goods that people value (like equality, happiness etc.) There is very little recognition in the fsf / open source world that adopting a maximalist approach to a specific set of freedoms - those that fit into the free software / open source ideology - necessarily impinges on other freedoms that many people also value - like the freedom to own and profit from one's labour without further enriching google et. al (Yes there are differences between the fsf and open source camps but they're largely of the peoples front of Judea / judean people's front variety.)
Serverless: so grown up that Google App Engine launched 12 years ago and hosts several huge, valuable services. The question of whether serverless is ready answered itself years ago. The remaining questions for prospective adopters are whether it meets your requirements, and are you mentally ready to adopt it (because cramming legacy concepts into serverless never works).
True, but the only model that's really interested me is the Model S P100D, which rolls in at or near £100k. It's not an estate, but it does have a decent amount of cabin and boot space - and it's obviously incredibly fast.

The Model 3, which I find deeply unappealing in looks, is about the same price as a top end Volvo V60 hybrid (the fast version), which to me is a much more interesting/useful vehicle simply because it is an estate. Also much closer to the kind of money I could spend. What I'll probably end up doing is buying a 2 year old V60 hybrid in a year or two, to dodge at least some of the depreciation, to replace my aging and "characterful" Saab 93 wagon.