skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a strategy, it's hard to see how this benefits Trump, though. If he isn't re-elected, he gets ejected from the white house on jan 20. Walking through the various outcomes, it seems like any legal attempts to prevent mail-in ballots from being delivered and counted would be fast-tracked to the Supreme Court. The SC is unlikely to show any explicit favoritism for Trump and in general, the entire country is tired of his chaos engineering, so it would seem that almost certainly, the vast majority of ballots (both in person and by mail) will be counted.

IE, there really isn't a path for Trump to remain president; I have to conclude instead that his goal is maximum chaos. It's pretty clear that the institutions aren't going to be favorable at any attempts he makes at a permanent power grab.

One more thing- many people who vote for Trump will be using mail-in ballots. So his attempts to suppress counting could very well hurt him as well. none of this suggests that trump has some sort of "master strategy" to remain president if he doesn't win the electoral college.
...and then a ton of apps decide "screw the app store, I'm going solo!" and people start enabling sideloading so they can try those apps, then sideloading becomes normalized and malware starts to spread without Apple having the ability to prevent it. Users who have issues with apps start hitting up Apple's support lines, and they start getting pissed off when Apple says "Sorry we can't help you, go talk to the developer. Not that we know who they are, and maybe you actually don't either, but either way you're on your own."

Plus, developers lose access to a lot of Apple's functionality, like the fact that XCode can upload LLVM bytecode so that Apple can re-optimize through new or updated LLVM backends to deliver optimized versions for new platforms, etc.

Suddenly, all the goodness that's "baked in" to the iPhone experience is gone, and the whole system starts looking like an inconsistent mess compared to the way it was before.

I wonder if some kind of hybrid approach would work; for example, a workflow like this:

1. Developers develop locally as usual
2. Developers upload to Apple via XCode as usual
3. Apple does its standard automated checks (private APIs, etc)
4. The developer can file for that app to be held "off the store"; this is rejected by Apple for some reasons (like private API usage, malware, etc.) but generally approved. Apps which do this likely lose access to some system APIs (e.g. iCloud storage, IAP) but it's a tradeoff.
5. The developer can now get an App Store link which they can give to users to find their app on the store. This is the only way to find the app; it doesn't appear in lists, search, "top paid", features, or anything of the sort.
6. Users get an app that isn't (overtly) malicious and won't definitely break in future OS updates, developers get the infrastructure benefits and automatic updates, Apple can wash their hands of any downstream issues because they know for certain that the user arrived via the developer and can make that clear to the user ("if you have problems, go talk to them. If they're misbehaving, come talk to us.")

This would make the value proposition for most developers pretty clear, but for huge entities like Epic or Microsoft, they can just bypass the system because people can come to them directly.
Confirmed this is the case by NPR.

> While President Trump has long railed against mail-in voting, falsely claiming it leads to rampant fraud, he appeared to confirm Thursday morning that he opposes Democrats' proposed boost in funding for the U.S. Postal Service because he wants to make it harder to expand voting by mail.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/902109991/trump-admits-to-opp...
Oddly enough, my favorite package management experiences, by far, have been Homebrew on Mac and Portage on Gentoo. Talk about polar opposites.

I do think, unfortunately, that the experience of a very stable base of macOS with Homebrew on top would be nearly impossible to replicate on desktop Linux, because Linux's GUI layer is so intertwined with user software, and is so... uh, "free and libre", I guess, is a nice way to put it. You'd end up with a bunch of copies of KDE and Gnome libs and probably multiple competing IPC buses or god knows what, in no time. Maybe multiple sound daemons stepping on each other. You'd probably have issues like different apps deciding to do scaling or font rendering differently, or who knows what, because lots of "basic features" on macOS are instead choices on Linux.
I remember wasting days, weeks of my life making things display correctly in IE6.

We're going down the same path again and it makes me sad.
Gordon Moore would be very disappointed with 40% every 2-3 years. OTOH, he would probably like how GPUs are progressing.

Even though I'd say benchmarking fp16 GFLOPS against fp64 ones is cheating.
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Here’s a link to the Onavo app from Facebook
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo#Privacy_concerns
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I think that may be a false analogy.

Generally, in the modern state, I view riots as being allowed and/or managed by the ruling class for their benefit.

To quote banksy: "You are an acceptable level of threat and if you were not you would know about it."
I doubt he is not thinking ahead. Just seeing jobs start to come back to US when the previous one claimed no magic wand can do it already indicate the orange man are no ordinary tactician. He ended ISIS just by bombing them to hell while the previous with a Nobel, free helicopterloads of money and 2 terms couldn't. Look at the outcome. If the ends is good, the means may not be that stupid as you might perceived. The guy able to do Art of War even better than the people who read it as part of national educational syllabus since young.
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Differential privacy is cool, but does Google actually use any of this themselves? I'm hard-pressed to remember a time where Google collected much less than what they were allowed to in order to respect my privacy.

Edit: thanks for providing examples, although I do personally note in my response to them below that I don't believe it's evidence in favor of Google actually incorporating these algorithms at scale to help users
Everyone should actually read the docker FAQ instead of assuming. This only applies t inactive images.

https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq

What is an “inactive” image?
An inactive image is a container image that has not been either pushed or pulled from the image repository in 6 or months.
exactly because of kids i am more frequently distracted, and for example just today i forgot one (optional) ingredient because i didn't collect all the ingredients at the start.
given their track record with developers over the years, i wouldn't be surprised if microsoft scammbles to build a competitor to docker repo service and integrates it with github.
In addition to the "hustle" motivation, he also evangelizes not treating your employees or team like crap, and espouses the "be a leader not a boss" mantra. Nothing I've seen from him advocates using other people for your own success without making sure you are also considering their success as well. He actually speaks against exploitation like that.
It's not. That only applies to the US & Canada. In a lot of other countries it can be extremely difficult to impossible to do something in case of credit card fraud.

Besides that, entering card info is a chore. Same as I don't want to signup for every app (which is solved by apple login mostly), I don't want to enter payment info for every app (and update it whenever the card expires lol).
> An ally cannot engage in an "illegal" act

But this misses my point. I didn't mean "illegal act between allies". I mean the same act against a 3rd (independent) party will be judged as legal or illegal based on whether the 2nd party committing it is friend or foe. Friend bombs a hospital, they fight for freedom. Enemy bombs a hospital, they're a terrorist.

The occupation/annexation is a similar topic. Russia and Israel committed some of the same fouls but in the case of the latter it's a "matter of debate" that never reaches a conclusion. That's because the West doesn't actually want to set a precedent that it's OK. So it's like a never ending trial and as long as that goes on everybody's free to go about their business.

You probably noticed by now that almost no leader explicitly approves Israel's actions, they approve them implicitly by inaction. They always have vague rhetoric which gives the appearance of support for some lofty, worthwhile ideals without actually stating their support for the particular actions or methods, and without making any connection between these and the aforementioned ideals. Then it's left to you to map those words over the real life situation and interpret that your own way. But I learned long ago that what's not said speaks volumes more than what's said.
Looks like numba has cffi support now so it would be an option. If I can dig out the code (it was about 5 years ago) I'll probably try adapting it to numba to benchmark it against pypy.
It is impossible given the spec and syntax of those languages, which is why Rust exists, to enable these features...
It's very unlikely a safe vaccine will come out six months from now. It's even more insane to think most people around the world will allow themselves to be injected with something developed in less than a year.

Effective treatment will be much more likely to hit the market than a vaccine.
It's still amazing to me that the mainstream media is insisting that incumbent politicians and power players weren't spying on their rivals using the full strength and force of the American intelligence community.

This isn't a red vs blue issue here. It's about whether or not we're going to allow the powerful to pick and choose election winners.
> "You should rebuild images every 6 mo anyway!" - have you ever worked with an enterprise company? They do not upgrade like we do.

Good opportunity to sell a support contract. The point still stands - a six month old image is most likely stale.

Docker is doing the ecosystem a favor.
Within the framework proposed by the parent comment, these guys would be unnecessary because Mozilla would switch to Chromium.

(Please don't downvote me, I'm just trying to flesh out the exact meaning of that statement.)
How hard is it to pull non-ARM images from a pi?
I've spent a lot of my life opposed to nuclear power - but I'm slowly feeling that even with the currently unsolved long term storage issues - that it is better than the alternatives (carrying on burning fossil fuel until some point in the future when storage is good enough.)

I'd love to be wrong and I'd love to see renewable energy and storage solved in the next 10 years (though likely take longer than that to scale up nuclear).
The Dockerfile should always be published, but it does not enable reproducible builds unless the author is very careful but even so there's no support built in. It would be cool if you could embed hashes into each layer of the Dockerfile, but in practice it's very hard to achieve.
Importantly, those other two R's come first.
Their pricing is greater than Datadog's, particularly if you can filter out any logs before indexing them.
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Where did they say they couldn't afford to pay these people?
"Deaths of despair have already claimed more lives than COVID..." is a pretty strong statement. I mostly agree that the headline seems highly questionable, but I'm wondering if you have a source for the "deaths of despair" totals?
Further down someone mentioned that it still requires logging in to download public packages, though they're apparently working on it.
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That's an interesting story, thanks for sharing.
Small providers often don't have the resources or skills to properly cover their bases and get hit by random BS. They may not be targeted today, but they will get hit by random badness.

Example of shared hosting providers not patching postfix fast enough or having a support person that chmodded the wrong thing on shared hosting server, customer with old wordpress install that was exploited to drop a webshell, etc.

> But you actually can run software on compromised hardware that can provide end to end encryption irrelevant on how thoroughly the system spies on you

Do you have any references? I'd like to read more.

If this were generally true, attempts to make trusted enclaves like Intel SGX (though flawed) would not need to exist.
> Oh and bandwidth isn't free.

Neither is it for Docker...
This app doesn't adequately disclose that it's using GPT-3/OpenAI API, therefore making the "our magical writing AI" subheader patently false.

The lack of transparency is going to be a continual problem with these kinds of apps, one I've tried to encourage with my own text-generating apps with only mild success.
I think the bigger problem is that the experiment wouldn't be well formed (the "value" of each image would vary between study participants).

I don't think we should throw out wholesale that sexuality is a big driver of human behavior though, even if the example isn't inclusive. Changing "woman" to "person" addresses part of your concern, but still doesn't actually fix the experiment as proposed. The bigger problem is the experiment wouldn't work, rather than that it was cringeworthy. Which, sure. If it was cringeworthy, but worked, I guess it could have some excusability in terms of science. As is, you're right. It's juvenile.
consider what info NSA has access to with it's stunning global passive adversary infrastructure. to you or me, developing exploit implants on a systematic scale targetting the firmwarw of every model of every harddrive of every vendor seems technically impossible to us outsiders.

but NSA has access to the emails, internal bug trackers and source code repos of the entire dev teams at all of those vendors. think how easy it would be to hack all firmware on an indistrial scale when you can cheat and read the blueprints?

NSA is the biggest cheater. i no longer consider them as being gods of cyberwar. rather, they merely tricked us all to believe NSA was not mass surveilling everyone, then we were blinded to the scale of what was really possible behind the curtain.

if we had the source code to the firmware of every hard drive, we could do exactly the same thing NSA did.

also, yes, do not ever trust a computer. remember the photo of David Miranda's macbook motherboard after his laptop was siezed when he was connecting to a flight in London and acting as the courier between Laura Poitras in Berlin and Greenwald in Brazil? the photo showed GCHQ melted like a dozen chip on his motherboards. when that photo came out, it was puzzling, because the Snowden leaks about NSA hacking firmwares had not yet leaked. in hindsight, now we know. NSA and FVEYs physically destroyed every chip that they could implant, out of fear that someone else could BADBIOS attack David's macbook and steal the Snowden cache.
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Nobody remembers MooTools
Before Firebug Mozilla had Venkman and the DOM Inspector.
How about we don’t have a mail in vote and just make the day a holiday.
The FreeBSD Ports tree specifies package building via reproducible instructions, and handles things like running extra patches for compatibility and security on source distributions. FreeBSD binary packages are simply packaged ports.
> We believe AI can unleash our creative potential.

Seems a little ironic given that the rest of the page is about using the creative potential of AI to lead the human in a direction it didn’t see.
No, because people in cities, breathing in that particulate matter daily, actually want to do something about it.
We've reached a point where you really can't get that much more frequency out of chips, and there's only so much you can do to attempt to get more done per clock cycle. Especially now that its made clear that much of these attempts lead to the various speculative execution bugs like spectre that have been discovered over the past few years.

The days where clock speeds on processors was doubling every year or two are long gone, and its not because chip makers have gotten lazy.
Red Hat did use upstart before adopting systemd FWIW.
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Indeed. But if somebody were actively attacking you, having not yet inflicted any harm, I suppose any jury would see your self-defense as self-defense. You don't need to wait to be stabbed to fight back.

OTOH if you were to say "he just looked at me just so, and I felt really threatened, so I fought back", it's likely not going to fly.
Yeah, phrased that way it makes me wonder why do we even accept the concept of discounting price on some good by raising price of another good to cover for it? In your example, it leads to artificially deflated gas prices, which isn't good for the society at large.
What's wrong with elementary OS? (pls don't kill me HN — Edit: yup, downvoted for a simple question)
I would also like to see a lasting peace there, and I hope we will. It happened with other things in my lifetime that many did not expect to see. The fall of the USSR, peace in Northern Ireland, etc. I'm not going to hold my breath though.
Couldn't journals host the images? Or some university affiliated service, let us call it "dockXiv"?

Having the images on dockerhub is more convenient, but as long as the paper says where to find the image this does not seem that bad.
Developers have a choice when it comes to Apple as well. They make their software, and they chose to sell it on Android and iOS devices. Is it just because Apple is “big” and has cultivated themselves a valuable customer base the reason they are now... mandatory? No one is forcing you to release on iOS.
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They should be using Nix or similar then. The typical Dockerfile is not reproducible.
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Around where I live, it works really well in parks and busy streets.

But in residential areas the homeless people come and slash open trash bags, and dump garbage all over the street. Even if you put all your bottles in a clear bag for them, they will slash your black trash bags anyways just to check. It's super annoying and probably dangerous to them as well.
I can't even figure out Sumo's pricing by looking at their pricing page. DataDog's pricing page on the other hand is very easy to understand even though it contains 2 aspects (ingest and index). I would note that Data Dog lies about pricing by showing you a 7-day retention setting pricing that isn't actually available.
What about when the image that it is based on goes out of date and is pruned too?
PostgreSQL is probably the best example. It's maintained by many people from many different companies.
There are already many forks of Firefox with separate development. See Waterfox, Palemoon, etc. None seem to get the kind of development needed to compete with Chrome/Safari/Edge.
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It's at least a different, interesting kind of lying, worth naming separately.
Wow, if you zoom in really far, the resolution seems to exceed that of Google maps. I can make out shingles on roofs of homes, so it must be what, a quarter foot res?
I wonder if it is the dramatic difference in population density.
> ...amount of value obtained and time commitment involved?

If you're a first-time founder, startup school is tremendously beneficial in terms of support from the community (though, indiehackers might be better), content, network (pioneer.app likely better at this), and motivation. I fully recommend it. I am not so sure of the value-add otherwise but it continues to attract energetic and optimistic people.

YC's Startup Library is strikingly good which is (was?) central part of the curriculum. Startup school arranges weekly / bi-weekly AMAs by YC alumni and other industry experts which are of great value, too. Not sure if they're continuing to do that.

The founders you meet during the course open up avenues for collaboration. It is also a great place to get feedback on your startup's progress, refine your pitch, discuss your concerns and roadblocks (which sometimes result in unsolicited but welcomed help), get exposure for your work (however limited).

Getting the most out of the program depends on one's ability to get things done, to stay motivated, focused, and honest.

> Is it possible to complete outside of PST business hours or are there real-time components?

Yes, there are no real-time components. They also match founders for weekly meetings depending on the day and time you choose in addition to other criteria.
Ask HN: Advice on finding growth / marketing contractor?
Hi HN,

I have a few side-project DTC brands. I've been fortunately been able to handle all of the tech side, setting up e-commerce stores, some cool custom pages for user feedback and instructions etc.

That said, I am woefully clueless when it comes to marketing. I've spent a lot of time reading up on copy-writing and online marketing strategies without much luck. I largely intend to keep my side hustles well - as side hustles and at this point I'd be willing to pay someone for their expertise. ($1-2k to start per campaign)

However, outside of some instagram traction (lots of money wasted on ads that fell flat) and a relatively promising "promo code" strategies I'm stalling out on growth and would like to hire a relatively affordable "part time" marketing person to help drive growth and maybe develop some ad strategies.

I've talked to a few people, but many are either looking for a full-time gig or don't have much "ecomm" experience.

My products are both physical and target specific "plant" niches.

Thanks!