skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like it'd be almost comically easy to detect, because normal compilers and assemblers would consistently use either 31 C0 or 33 C0 all the time, rather than bouncing back and forth between them within a single program.
What happens to people like me, no Google search, no Facebook, no amp, etc if this came about?
>, he's claiming that rents are down 30-50%, which isn't remotely true.

Based on conflicting information via google search, I'm guessing it's the sale transactions[1] that are down ~30% to 50% or more. Therefore, author mistranslated sales volume statistic into sale prices.

If sellers are not willing to lower prices but potential buyers don't want to pay because they think the properties are now worth less because of COVID, it seems that the logical outcome is less sales transactions.

[1] example story: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/manhattan-apartment-sales-wo...

excerpts:

>The total number of sales in the second quarter fell by 54%, the largest percentage decline in 30 years,

>The number of new signed contracts for co-ops fell 78% in June compared with a year ago,

>Signed contracts for condos were down 74%. Co-ops in the $2 million to $4 million range were hit hardest in June, with an 86% decline.
Hey guys,

This Sheets add-on pulls various metrics like the number of views, likes, subscribers, etc for any YouTube videos/channels.
Remember in 2005-2010 when every geek worth their salt was talking about an open and distributed web?

"The web is open!" they would say. It's a key part of the web. It's part of our core values! We're going to change the world!

Yet 95% of these people are now at Facebook or Google actively trying to rip apart what made the web good, stable, and open.

It's repugnant. Every person you know working at Facebook should be ashamed of themselves and they should be socially ostracized.
If you want to find a thing to purchase online, you know almost certainly that Amazon will have it. This is not the case with any other e-commerce site. No one has the breadth of products that Amazon has. No one comes close. Yes, I can buy things on walmart.com that are commonly carried in Walmart, but they only have a tiny fraction of the overall selection of Amazon. It's not even a contest.
Thanks for sharing the other side of the story. Manhattan will thrive as the pandemic subsides and the skeptics will be proven wrong just as when they bad mouthed NY through the ‘80s
Astrobotic builds rovers and lunar landers in an unsassuming building in a crowded urban area full of bars and restaurants in my city of Pittsburgh. I won a hackacthon years ago and got to tour their facilities as a prize and my mind was totally blown that I was just walking past this everyday and had no idea it was there.

That was really inspiring to me in some weird way.
it is open source: https://github.com/garageScript/c0d3-app

It used to be closed source, but it was only because I wasn't confident about the quality of the codebase. Now it is much better.

> My personal experience when I was a gsoc admin was that it was hard to get the students stick around after the end of the summer, do you manage and have some tips to share?

First you should realize that some people just don't really see the point in coding. These people are just going to wander off.

The ones who are dedicated though, its important to spend time to talk to them and make sure your project aligns with their goals. Then they will contribute above and beyond. Our project mission is simple because most students want an engineering job: Working on c0d3.com repository will not only help you gain the skills as a software engineer, it also counts as work experience and makes your resume look amazing.

Does your gsoc project lead to a full time job conversion? 100% of the people I know who did gsoc did it with only one goal in mind: get a full time job.
No but they can stop enforcement of them as they control NSA, FBI, SS, etc. Even a reprieve from the injustice would be nice and maybe they could even set a precedent that would help democracy and privacy concerns
Going by the SQLite documentation it isn't.

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_update.html
I dislike AMP because it's Google trying to own parts of the web that should not be ownable.

Every non-Google service I log into that allows external auth supports at least Facebook and plain old e-mail in addition to Google. Maybe your experience is different, but I use a lot of very mainstream services both free and paid.

I know people who don't have Google accounts. I only use Gmail as a throwaway address for when I expect spam (e.g. signing up for dodgy-looking web sites). I happily admit I'm a huge fan of Google Maps and would not at all mind paying for it, and I actually do pay for YouTube, but everything else from Google has pretty good alternatives as far as I can see. (And even Maps has acceptable alternatives, it's just that much better.)

AMP is like putting all the non-Gmail mail you receive on your Gmail account into a separate folder, and only including Gmail senders in your Inbox.
Space Duct Tape Could Confuse Mars Rover (2011)
This article challenges partisans in the BGP vs OSPF debate but it's deeper than just pointing out that the wire protocol is quite superficial. Obviously, at scale you have to control OSPF to avoid update floods. But BGP also needs to be controlled so bad entries aren't trusted and propagated; for example, https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-...

The deeper message in the article is linked https://elegantnetwork.github.io/posts/Network-Validation-wi... and it's about simulating infrastructure. This is so important for large scale systems as complex aggregate behaviour easily emerges from myopic error handling strategies that only take into account the local view from each actor. This is true for any large scale system not just networks!

The wire protocol is the surface; what information is propagated is essential and what lies underneath. Simulation illuminates these depths. Whiteboard discussions are great for debugging and communicating specific cases - for example, aggregate responses to retry backoff rules that are locally sensible can cascade into catastrophes if many actors follow the same process. However, it's hard as human beings to find these cases without the help of tools. Tools are so important!
Please note that this article was written by the "Bitcoin" guy

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-man-behind-bitcoin-geniu...

I wouldn't take anything he says seriously. There's probably a buck in it for him to flip to write something like this.
Solr is one of those technologies which works but isn't really glorious to use and is bit stuffy with its XML configurations and Java interfaces. It's a bit of shame, because search engines are so popular nowadays and everybody seems to be fixated on using ElasticSearch. Which from what I've read and heard is resource-hungry and not really cut for simple text-search.

Maybe someday somebody will create a new search engine that will be hipster and easy to use, like Algolia but open-source. I'm bit curious though how incumbent Lucene is as the core search engine that it would even make sense to try and recreate it in another language. Probably too much that unless somebody has money to throw around it will remain so to the far future.
Turning Social Distancing into a Lottery
leaker is neutral, it's not a pejorative
Doesn't "murders per capita" answer that question?

It's "murder victims per capita", not "murderers per capita", so it doesn't matter if you run into 100x more people in NYC.
This particular trick is easy to detect when you're looking for it, but that doesn't mean that it's easy to realise that you should look for this trick (I'm not about to make "check the assembler for strange compiler choices" part of my workflow for installation of a new binary), or that all possible such tricks could be so easily caught.
I don't think it's a problem. Every complex system is really an automated network of someone else's stuff employing some idiosyncratic tech to manage it. Mass-produced textiles, highways, factory farming, bee hives, air conditioners, coffee, rain. We don't always own the thing and don't always have control over how it works. But we still get a lot of value out of it and continue to use it.
Google is anything but open and anything but a utopia, I can't see how they could be called 'an open utopia' by any stretch of the imagination.

Also, Apple isn't the 'alternative to Google'. The open web is an alternative to Google and Google is doing what it can to strangle it.
Not a single mention of elastic beanstalk or App Engine? The best middle ground for small teams who just want one reliable website with minimal scaling (and who can't just choose a nom-aws service).
>Microsoft dominated personal computing back in the day.

By making illegal deals with PC sellers, and by vandalizing apps running on their OS.
You can break it up geographically. Advertising is still very local.

Or you could break up search / browser / advertising / mobile; search and browser would need to invent other ways to monetize themselves.
Please note that this article was written by the "Bitcoin" guy.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-man-behind-bitcoin-geniu...

I wouldn't take anything he says seriously. There's probably a buck in it for him to flip to write something like this.
Automatic water extent mapping from satellite Synthetic-aperture radar imagery
Tiny Lib for Setting Configurations
Library for setting values to structs' fields from env variables, flags, files or default tag
I feel the same way about the supposedly cheap lobster I hear about.
Does this then portend that volcanic magma expelled has a younger half-life?
> NYC is dead right now.

It's really not though. Where are you coming up with that? I live in Manhattan and spent the day walking around outside yesterday doing various things and it was very much not dead. There were people out and about everywhere doing things, patronizing businesses, etc.

What makes you think it's "dead"?
> I can understand what they mean if they use "shill"

You kind of answered your own question. Many people never differentiate between bot and shill, instead preferring to lump those two words together. A bot is programmatic; a shill is a human agent that likes to amplify messages or spread disinformation manually. Although some shills may still use some level of automation, for example, often using several accounts at the same time using some bespoke software arrangement.
Spin off the major parts of their business into genuinely separate companies - search, cloud compute, advertising, SaaS, Android and Chrome. With Google as a monolith, it's far too easy for them to bundle products and cross-subsidise unprofitable parts of their business to achieve dominance. Those independent companies can make deals that are mutually beneficial, but they'll have to answer to their shareholders and the FTC.
I don't take the OP to be distracting or unnecessary in any way - in fact, I find it highly insightful.

The OP - perhaps without realizing it explicitly - makes an important distinction between the kinds of information-sharing systems that are in place on the modern web. Borrowing from Marshall McLuhan's distinctions between oral and literate cultures [0] we can see that Google and Facebook have a similar relationship. Both engage our hunter-gatherer mindsets in novel ways, but only one clearly does so with utility.

Google's usefulness as a search engine provider is in how it provides relevant information to users who are querying for something specific. Google search users are not sitting and waiting - they're searching and exploring. Google, therefore, plays to our hunter-gatherer mindset by directly aiding us in our searches.

Facebook's usefulness as a social network is in its ability to facilitate individual communications within a vast, centralized ecosystem. Users of Facebook are often searching for something - connections, information, relationships, etc., - but the way it engages its users' hunter-gatherer mindsets is very different. Instead of delivering targeted answers relevant to queries, Facebook forces its users to search through seemingly endless threads of often low-quality conversations, not really doing much of anything to aid in the search. Its users are simply sitting and waiting for the correct information to scroll into view. The search function on Facebook is not like Google's - it doesn't look for information, it simply takes you to a new part of the social square to which you want to go. Facebook, in essence, attaches a hunter-gatherer mindset to the very antithetical gossip found in the social square.

IMO, it is perfectly fine to have this conversation right here. Facebook has added a new dimension to the modern web: the expectation for there to be a well-regulated, always-available social square online. If the outcome of Google's actions are as inevitable as the article states, it would be proper to discuss where Facebook's unique "contributions" to the web fit into this article's analysis.

[0] https://youtu.be/ULI3x8WIxus?t=165
They're not though, what? I want to see you back up this claim with evidence before passing it off as fact.

Edit: It is fairly easy to be < 25% body fat with normal musculature that accompanies normal weight lifting and cardio routines 4 times a week. That will get you to a BMI +30 at 5"10 +
No, I don't disable it, ever. If a website refuses to show because I have an ad blocker installed that is an extra reason to get out of there, not a reason to remove the ad blocker.
will reach out and we can bounce ideas :)
what Russian hackers?
Yep, my last project using it on Windows was around 2011.
The decline in infant mortality had a huge effect, but more people today are living to their 70s and 80s than most of human history.

People definitely lived into their 60s - 80s centuries ago, but they also used to die a lot more often from infections, disease, accidents etc. Public health infrastructure (clean water and sewage), antibiotics, vaccines and drugs like statins have all helped a lot.

Here's a fascinating chart on date of death of US women in 1933 vs. 2014. The distribution of age at death is narrowing, and more women are making it to old age:
https://media.eurekalert.org/multimedia_prod/pub/web/127460_...

Maximum life expectancy though, has unfortunately remained extremely steady. It is very unlikely that anyone reading this will live past 105 without a massive tech breakthrough.
Care to back it up I dispute that this is in fact rare.

Edit:I counter with anyone who lifts and play sports and is 5" 10'+ will hit < 25% body fat and a bmi +30. You only need to be 225 pounds and at 6" 1' to be bmi +30 at 5" 10' that's only 210. I saw that fairly regularly (or at least I did precovid) at the gym.
I have seen it but only briefly at a time. I've installed windows 10 twice recently and never got to it. Only Edge begging to not be removed from the launch bar.
Yes, steam is responsible for refunding. In EU there is protections like this so you are allowed 14 days (if I recall correctly) to return an item bought online because you had no way to review it "in person". If you consider this law sans Internet it still makes 100% sense. It applies to phone-ordering from TV shopping channels, or mail-ordering as well. It keeps merchants honest for at least 14 days of products use, forcing them not to (re)sell items that will quickly disappoint. It overall makes it much easier to be a consumer which should be in everyone's interest.
I have a morse code app which consistently crashed when certain users would try to translate letter "i", and it took me a long time to figure out that only the turkish users would complain about it, and when one of them sent me a screenshot I only noticed a "wrongly" rendered capital letter i (I used toUpper) and after digging around a bunch, I learned about this while turkish letter i.
Yes and that's one reason why I would expect to see companies that go more heavily remote hiring preferentially from low cost areas of the US rather than China. (Along with IP laws, etc.) As I say, I'd expect more remote jobs to flatten out tech salaries a bit--especially within the US. Mostly not 100% but if I don't need you to live in the Bay Area, I'm probably not going to pay you extra to live there any more than I'd pay you extra because you want to live in Aspen.
> How can one extra pieceof mail for the entire year cause an "unprecedented" volume?

Yeah I don't understand it either. McDonald's sell 2 billion burgers a year but when I ordered one million at the drive-thru it caused their system to crash.

(Not me, somebody said this on Twitter first.)
> Here in Canada it wasn’t a thing...

I sure remember it was a “thing” in Canada, especially before most people were on the internet.

https://youtu.be/iaJsc6DHYkE
I'm gay and eat at chick-fil-a all the time.

Because they make delicious food. It's a fast food joint.

I'm so done with all the joyless, puritanical woke-scolds.

Whether I decide to purchase and eat a freaking chicken sandwich and fries is not a matter of LGBT rights!

I've eaten chick-fil-a and bought goya for years...and will continue doing so in spite of pretty much any controversy.

Because otherwise life is joyless if every consumer decision I make is at the mercy of some ever-changing cult-like extreme moral binary.
Mozilla serves as a counter balance to Google in web standards discussions. Without enough Firefox market share, Mozilla will be less able to shape the web’s technical development.
Case mapping and case folding are independent of normalization (in practice and it is the case here, see the end of SpecialCasing.txt)

There is a good Unicode FAQ on the topic: < http://unicode.org/faq/casemap_charprop.html >

E: to elaborate, I'm not sure whether the independence of case handling and normalization is guaranteed anywhere, and if we for example were to change the uppercase of ſ to something else than S then its compatibility forms' (s) case handling would differ. In practice the SpecialCasing.txt is designed to "make it work" (e.g. ſ uppercases to S).
Since I can't edit my current comment, I'll add that I wish your current project the best of luck and hope it morphs into something that people want to use and can use for development.
Author here: it is indeed easy to detect. I didn't base my work off of Hydan but it uses a similar strategy, and there are several[1][2] public steganalyses of it.

Edit: I previously claimed that this method might be easy to deny. It isn't, and I've added a note to the post as well.

[1]: https://cosec.inf.uc3m.es/~juan-tapiador/papers/2009sec.pdf

[2]: https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/stenganography...
I think the age of one of the largest generations and the timing of the pandemic is important to think about.

If you were getting to your 30s, you are about at the age where dual income career minded couples start to have children. The opportunity to work remote is convenient to those couples that were looking to move to a smaller more affordable area as their children made it to school age.

It’s not that the pandemic will never end, its that it gives a lot of people an easy way to relocate as they do not have to quit their current job and/or find a job while living outside the area they are trying to move to.

Even if their job requires them to start working in the office again, they’ll have already had time to get settled in their new area and will have a much easier tome finding a new job there.
Good point, and while the average Electron app probably doesn't need history or bookmarks, there are probably use cases it would still need WebSQL for. Another example would be the ffmpeg copy it ships to play back videos of various formats, even though the electron app only plays back a few hardcoded animations that all are in a single format.
Sure, there were absolutely problems (though bear in mind you're addressing one program - there was also the TVA, CCC, and a bunch of others I could've told you off the top of my head when I was in US history in high school), but the point is it put unemployed people to work and helped stem the damage to the economy.

It's the best precedent we have for the situation we're in today, and it's silly to act as though it's not useful to draw on it now because it had problems. They're problems that are easily fixable, after all - it's very possible for us to create programs today that have similar positive effects on employment and the economy and just do them without the racism.

It's very easy to find fault with anything in history, but if that's all you try to do, you're going to miss out on a lot of really useful information.
I wary from discouraging discussion in general, as we are encouraged to be charitable on this site.

Also, this type of thing happens in. every. HN. thread. ever.

If you are an expert in $topic and it gets discussed in HN, there will always be discussions about $other-related-topic - or side tracks.

If your comment was a clever troll, well done, I award you 9/10 as its possible to get responses from multiple people for multiple reasons!
> the meaning/behavior/whatever of characters is insanely dependent on their context

I wish you would give an example instead of just proclaiming crapness. You know, so we n00bs can learn something.
> It makes me wonder if it might be useful, as a public service, to have some kind of free business listing that (with your permission) automatically duplicates what you put on Facebook, just to encourage people to at least be discoverable outside that walled garden.

You know that Facebook would immediately start either offering incentives to keep all your data in the walled garden, or spreading FUD about the duplicator ("how can you trust what happens once your information leaves our loving embrace?").
But we aren’t saying “all of human commerce,” but “the retail sector.”

We can always narrow things into absurdity to imply a monopoly. But as a matter of fact, Amazon isn’t a monopoly in retail, or even online retail. To give an anecdote of my online buying in the past few months: I bought furniture from Crate and Barrel and Design Within Reach, in-line skates and street hockey gear from Pure Hockey, pilot supplies from Sporty’s, a silly tshirt from some random Facebook ad/vendor, some paracord and survival water from Amazon, an aircraft emergency raft from some raft company in Florida, some Surefire flashlight batteries from Amazon, a piece of furniture from Wayfair, sunscreen from the Sun Bum website.

I know not many would care what I bought over the past few months, but without even consciously trying, Amazon was just a part of my normal shopping mix, not even a majority of purposes were from there and the dollar amounts were even smaller of my total shopping spend.

Of course there are people that use Amazon more frequently and regularly, but that doesn’t make it a monopoly. You can easily buy from other places. Amazon retail is really nothing more than a highly efficient version of Sears. Ubiquitous, but hardly a monopoly.
Gammo – A pure-Ruby HTML5-compliant parser
I would love to introduce a new HTML parser, Gammo, it provides a HTML parser, and XPath support for traversing the DOM tree built by Gammo, without any external dependencies.
See RFC 2482 — Language Tagging in Unicode Plain Text:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2482

But it was deprecated later on:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6082
Independent aggregators are staging a minor comeback, thanks in part to the dismal failure of Google Shopping. I only ever buy PC components through PCPartPicker, I only buy games through IsThereAnyDeal. Third parties can offer real value in this space.