skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're conflating the deadlock-detection/garbage collector examples with the general gist of the paper, or maybe I just misunderstood?

My point is that 'deletion' in every dbms - be it SQL or NoSQL - is equivalent to logical negation of a statement, which in turn is equivalent to the non monotonic query example that they use throughout the article `¬∃ ("not exists")`.

There is a major logical difference between an explicit delete (negation in a closed world interpretation) and a forget (temporary inconsistency in an open world interpretation), in the sense that the latter can be repaired by subsequent messaging.

This means that you can't have easy distributed consistency with our current databases and data models.

This is partially addressed by temporal databases like datomic and juxt, however they too have delete/retract as logical negation, which makes their monotonicity properties limited to the set of 'change operations' instead of the data itself, which in turn makes it hard to work with. If their monotonicity were on the data-model layer the entire database would essentially become a CRDT.
But that's the goal! When the police are worried the crowd might escalate, they preemptive action to end the situation before it can happen, because crowd-initiated escalations are much more destructive and deadly. Once protesters are shooting at people it's too late to step in.
https://www.baidu.com
“You know that even Techrights (formerly Boycott Novell) trusted Google, right?”
Hi everyone! I've recently written a typesafe middleware library for AWS Lambdas.

Here's also a comparison to other ways to do middleware in AWS Lambda:
https://startup-cto.net/simplify-aws-lambda-functions-with-m...
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Apple freezing developer accounts was out of line but Fortnite was taken off of Google's and Apple's stores because Epic knowingly broke the rules. They introduced "VBUCKS" that bypass in-app purchases.

> and just as obviously Fortnite being restored to the app store is a matter for Epic's lawsuit against apple.

They can easily roll back their TOS breaking update and the game will be available as early as today. The reality is that they broke the rules so they could sue.
> I invested your "10 seconds". Google took me to a site called Defund the Police[1].

Weird. That page is not even at page 1 for me. Wikipedia comes up first for me and would generally be my go-to source for these topics.

> Reading this site, it seems that they want to... defund the police. As in, take the majority of their funding away, and put it somewhere else (nominally into social programs).

> Not making a value judgement here, but I'm pretty sure this thing does what it says on the tin.

Yes? This is correctly what the movement is about. The misunderstanding we're talking about here is that people assume it means only cutting down police funds without investing it anywhere else.
The author probably wanted to say that by looking at timetables, times being indicated in the timezone of the station, if you cross a timezone you have to add/remove hours to get the real duration of the trip.
If you need any more info, my masters thesis is on this project (it's my uni)
So how do you explain the shortage with 2^15 numbers per person?
> you have no control over

Faulty assumption here. You do have control over maintaining the system of privilege that you were born into. That's how it continues from generation to generation, by white people holding on to their money and power instead of working on ways to distribute it.
4. The human pilot doesn't experience any load factor, he can sustain 9Gs doing circles for over a minute
Yes, it is, and that's in fact one popular way to set up a private root content DNS server for a resolving proxy DNS server to consult. I do it on my machines.

* https://github.com/jdebp/nosh/blob/9a113ec2c2e58679bab8d8b34...
There were both automated 11 years ago using Flickr data.
The dual licensing is not used at all and getting shit open sourced out of my uni is a royal pain. Source: doing my masters with openwifi at this research group
Yes, I'm saying it also allows leaving the gap.
I always get a chuckle when UK and US media bash the Japanese justice system. English speakers are lucky they don't have to hear the devastating retorts the Japanese would be able to make back - they must be falling off their chairs laughing at the kind of reporting the BBC and Vox make on them.
And source code is none of those things
Why not? Why are you not willing to invest time into understanding what other people are willing to march in the street for?
They couldn’t even if they wanted to; it’s up to NVidia. Or the court, but we already know NVidia would win the case.
> The misunderstanding we're talking about here is that people assume it means only cutting down police funds without investing it anywhere else.

Pretty sure people understood that part.

Edit: I am also seeing downvotes on my above comment, which seems to indicate that a fair number of people disagree with the assessment that "defund the police" means "defund the police".
Are there any good empirical arguments for it?
As I understand it, the build process for Firefox is now so painful it might be beyond saving.
He wrote the post on 2019-02-16 and didn't put in the edit until 2019-04-26 so the causality probably happened the other way around.

It seemed like this is a career summary from his time at Google Fiber (which was killed by google).

It sucks when your baby gets killed for reasons outside of your control. You want those years of your life to mean something, for the work to live on in some form (hence the "Please, please, steal these ideas").

He probably realized after publishing that the post wasn't enough to give him closure so he started a company to keep working on it instead.

(I don't know why I am psychoanalyzing a random blog. I am probably projecting really hard.)
It's not a space problem if that's all we can teach people in 12 years, it's a teaching problem.
Suggestion: Rick roll plays in the background 3 seconds after opening the page.
The only issue I've had is that lastpass stopped working with it. It says it can't find the address bar
Just depends entirely on what you are doing. If you are ecommerce you can basically stick to really slow languages forever as the request volume is so small it should be a small fraction of your application. For consumer scale you end up scaling with caching and eventually migrate or severely optimize - like writing your own language runtime like FB. None of this accounts for all the analytics they are doing which is mostly written in Java and C++.
What's sad is they only support very few selected Add Ons.
> you are aware that there is no "post 911 world" in 90% of the world, right?

In the financial world, there definitely is. Because of how 9/11 was bankrolled, AML laws were severely tightened. Quoting the subject line of the relevant EU directive [1]:

"[...] prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing"

Which is the point that the grandparent was getting to.

Edit: To be more specific, in today's financial world, technically, shell companies should be pointless because any bank transacting with such a company is required to know the beneficial owner, ie the natural person ultimately behind that company (no matter how many layers).

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
In Estonia the government issued ID works like that. This allows you to log in to your bank too. Although you do need your PIN codes on top of the card.
As a proud vanilla-js developer for over two decades, my primary concern hasn't been speed for the past decade, and today it's a total non-issue - I don't even need to profile vanilla-js code, since execution time is not noticeable.

But there is nervousness of supporting/testing browsers like IE/Edge. - I haven't had any issues on Safari/Chrome/Firefox for several years, but you never know with the MS products until you try.

I only use a single polyfill for IE/Edge, plus a couple of UA `if' statements, so it hasn't been difficult to write cross-browser code using trailing-edge JS API calls. But there is always a nagging testing load.
They claim that "the photonics core operates at the speed of light (...) boosting bandwidth by a factor of ten while reducing latency from the typical 100ns with electronics-based chips to a staggering 100 picoseconds (a 1000X improvement)". Plus a radical reduction in power consumption ...

It would be interesting to hear from anyone with insights into the realistic potential of this tech.
> It was constantly full of police but my friends were always able to purchase drugs.

Personal anecdote. A while ago I was mugged while I was walking at 2am in Manhattan (around Union Square). I thought it was particularly safe as I always saw many cops everywhere (even just before I was mugged, and right after).

Not saying police are useless, but retrospectively, I realize that seeing many cops doesn't mean a place is safe but rather the opposite.
Are you kidding? Nobody will take you seriously if you try to pass the 13 y hey off as the 12 y hey. How can anyone trust you when they can't even trust the domain of your email?
For me lastpass was horrible in android integration, tried on a few devices on Android 9-11, always the same. Wanted to buy a subscription for me and family, but it just required a LOT of maintenance and still didn't work well.

Keepass2android on same devices was flawless, so says family as well.
Managed Cloud is Oracle all over again.

Engineers who job hop don't care, but they leave their orgs paying Amazon forever.

I'm doing this right now, but I know a boondoggle when I see one.
It was not my point, but I think our definitions of 'here' differ. I don't need to wait until everyone has it to consider it 'here'. I consider it here when I can start doing it.
Most of my early excitement for WASM circled around “Hey, I can finally use a decent language on the web” but since then I have grown to love TypeScript, so a lot of that early excitement has been tempered.

I have done a number of experiments with Go’s WASM target, one of the earliest and silliest porting Go’s “Otto” JavaScript runtime to WASM, so you can much less efficiently run ES3 JavaScript in a browser.

I have also been working on porting a number of tools I currently have that run server side with web frontends to pure WASM. I have had mixed success here however and have found interacting with web elements and JavaScript from Go an awkward, non statically validated, frustrating experience of trial-and-error that somewhat undermines the joy of a statically typed language. On top of everything, Go’s .wasm files are frustratingly large, “Hello World” starting at 1mb and growing quickly from there.

All that said though, it is pretty magical seeing something written as a CLI tool running in a browser with minimal changes.
What happened to that laser system to shoot mosquitoes? I soooo want one of those :-)
Context: This bill would mean implementing collecting all metadata of communications "crossing the border" (in practice most of Norwegian traffic), and that "service providers" (undefined) would have make unencrypted communications available if they can.
The bill was about out military/foreign intelligence service.
They would also combine this with "metadata" from other sources, as well as unspecified data from unspecified sources.
They would be able to search in the metadata-storage via court-order.
Content data could also be collected via court-order.

From memory:

- Members of the committee kept stating that this bill would provide us security (without arguing how/why)

- Members of the committee kept ignoring rights-based arguments re: privacy from orgs like our DPA, Amnesty, the Norwegian Institute for Human Rights, Norwegian Society of Graduate Technical and Scientific Professionals, etc.

- Members of the committee kept suggesting that the bill would let us protect ourselves against the types of attacks we've seen on large public (petroleum, health) services

- Member of the committee kept harping about how this bill could protect us against identity-theft, hacking by extranational threat actors, etc. (despite obviously being out of legal scope)

- Member of the committee arguing with consulted bodies (incl. organizations of editors, journalists) that source protection was not about democracy or the public, but about the individual

- Comments from our Minister of Defense like: "This is not mass surveillance; It is mass storage" (mirroring arguments from Europe) and "Source protection should not be something threats to the nation can hide behind"

- Top politicians conflating privacy with securing against external threats throughout debate, and claiming that we had to remember that the Norwegian state is not "the bad guy"

- The government stating that without this bill, we'd be a less attractive collaborative partner internationally, and that most other countries have this sort of practice

- The Minister claiming that the external intelligence service needs these tools to be able to do their job at all, casting doubt on the existing of a chilling effect, claiming the ends justify the means...
rape.lol is totally fine though.
None of the participants in this story was American.
There's also picture of this critter:

https://s.oneroof.co.nz/image/7e/8d/7e8d982a89e64210f2502689...
Yeah, Ruby and specifically Ruby-on-Rails was (and still) is very popular in SV startups. Only one mention of Elixir, I'd expect this to change in the future as Phoenix replaces Rails as the easiest framework to build MVPs.
Thanks, that's great feedback!

- "serverless language". Fair point; I'm still working on how to describe it. I'm trying to get across the idea that it's a language for describing serverless applications (rather than a language that runs in a serverless env).

- flow charts: working on it

- new language: you're right, that section is pretty cringy
Erinn Clark, Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar) and Ximin Luo told Debian the story comes from 2 friends.

The Die Zeit article suggests the 2 friends are Isis Agora Lovecruft and Alison Macrina.

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2016-08/jacob-appelbaum-rape-sexu...

Enrico Zini introduced the words "first-hand accounts", making it appear that 3 more victims exist when maybe there is only one or none.
AIUI spectre is pretty much unrelated to this. The article is mainly about securing JS. Spectre allows sidestepping anything. The only point where spectre and capabilities touch, that I can see, is

"The second thing to note here is that if you have a true capability system and can carefully control network access, then the capability to exfiltrate (basically to use fetch), can itself be treated as a critical permission. Secrets might be discovered but not as easily shared"

which is a very interesting point.
Intergenerational Justic (SEP)
Yeah - my bad - will rename this week.
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Our cat gets me up at about 6:30 just because he can.
more background is here https://twitter.com/DebianCommunity
Fun read, nice to see some "down to Earth" engineering. :)
Absolutely, I doubt any company that is convinced their IPO would be oversubscribed is going to avoid it.
I like this idea. Longer time commitments would filter this out.
Thanks for your input, this may be it! I checked my old books I mentioned and although my editions are sometimes from UK, the authors are either originally from US or lived there.

I wish I was taking notes while reading, to show examples now :)
Google isn't alone in objecting to this.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/verisign-internet-coup.html
We try and encourage our cat to go outdoors - this, of course, makes him stay indoors.
Most of the mass is likely to be in the solar sail, so carrying two of them therefore is a major problem. If you need two different surface characteristics in two different directions, which I'm not sure is an issue, just coat the one sail differently on each side.
I am one of those vocal users, though I don't consider myself one. It was the first time I ranted about an update or UI behaviour.

Can you dismiss (most) of my arguments in this post? https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=24160559&goto=threads%...

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The recent mobile Firefox is worse in every way that matters to me:

° Breaking recent add-ons (for the few add-ons that exist). I added a close-tab icon to compensate for the bad tab-ui. It's gone now.
° URL-bar hiding is wonkey. Some overlays disable hiding due to recent phising attacks. Now, for overlays, it is always present and hides the bottom of the page. This is very annoying when links are hidden behind the bar.
° URL bar (2): where have my bookmarks gone?
° URL bar (3): no more editing the URL if anything was *ever* searched in the current tab. Instead it edits the search. The URL is inaccessible.
° After 'Open in new tab' there is an annoying delay for 'Switch' again hiding links.
° Tab selection is just bad now. Preview is broken. If anything is displayed, it is often the image of two sites ago, even if the page has rendered.
° Tab selection (2) no more moving the tabs?
° Tab selection (3) why waste so much space? Using only 80% of the screen. And every tab wastes two lines and a half of useful space. Why is only the domain shown? Why not truncated or cut in the middle?
° Tab selection (4): newly opened tabs are hidden, you always have to scroll up as the current tab is always first, older tabs are lower.
° about:config is broken. Certificate error. Certificate error is broken too. Thus no disabling reader mode.
This is an excellent, in-depth and thoughtful article. I'd say the only thing it omits, and I do think is crucial, is not using X where X is unnecessary. You can close a lot of security holes just by doing that. Still a great read.
How is anyone still using a Kindle after the 1984 scandal?
Attaching a probe to a big rock is likely to make it harder to find, as there are so many rocks.
My son is actually paranoid of cops when he goes to play basketball. But anyway, life isn't fair, and if you're having a problem then there are things you can do to improve perception. The lawyer look/mannerisms get you out of the "might be lower class" bucket, which is where the fear and hostility comes from. Although I admit that being white can help avoid that bucket, any white person can put themselves into the "might be lower class" bucket with awful grooming choices. Facial tattoos will do it, a slurred voice will do it, etc.

The kind of people who become teachers are generally not the kind of people who become cops. The education is radically different. So that is a different starting point and a different path to the career. The teaching degree is nearly 100% “woke” garbage, none of it practical in the classroom. Some, for example the methods for reading instruction, has even been proven to be actively harmful.

Educational funding has nearly nothing to do with educational success. The per-child budget for the DC schools should make this very clear. Culture is nearly everything. Some cultures are toxic.
> Taking a 30% cut from app store sales isn't anti-competitive though

That is not what the court case is asserting is anti-competitive.

The anti-competitive action is that Apple prevents competing app stores on the platform. Preventing competitors from competing is explicitly the definition of anti-competitive. High prices can be a consequence of anti-competitive behavior but is not really the main issue. The main issue has to do with.... reducing competition by stopping competitors, which Apple definitely does.

Apple doesn't even pretend to claim that it is not preventing competitors, honestly. The question is whether Apple is large enough that anti-competition laws apply to them. (Which they obviously are, given that they now have 52.4% of the phone duopoly, as of last month)

> it allows other platforms to compete on price

No, actually. Competing app stores cannot be put on the iPhone, due to Apple's actions. These competing app stores cannot compete for iPhone users.

> it favored IE

Apple favors its own app store, over competitors, in that it literally prevents other app stores from competing at all on the iPhone.

> Apple allows all apps

No, it does not allow other app stores, no.

> If you think it costs too much, don't pay it!

You should read the lawsuit. The anti-competitive behavior is not the price. This instead had to do with Apple preventing competing app stores.

Also, that is a bad argument, because "just dont use it" is not a valid defense when a company is engaging in anti-competitive practices.

> Nobody is forcing you to distribute software for the iPhone

Another bad argument. This would not at all be valid if Microsoft used it as an argument regarding software installed on the PC. That argument would be invalid, if microsoft prevented competitors from being installed on PC.

> If you're lamenting

No, I am saying that anti-competitive practices should be stopped.
Also south africa, grew up in malaria-hot area.

The rule with malaria medication is that either you take it consistently or you don't take it at all.

If you take it consistently, you don't get malaria.

If you don't take it, you get sick, you go to hospital, they put on a drop, you're largely fine.

If you take it inconsistently, you run the horrible risk of getting malaria, but not having proper symptoms, which means you don't go to hospital early enough, which means you end up with late-stage malaria, which is really bad.
They threatened to effectively revoke other developers licenses. Its plainly clear that if Apple blocks Epic from being able to continue to work on UE for iOS and macOS, they would affect other developers that are currently using Unreal Engine and have not breached Apple's terms. While Apple was not threatening to directly revoke those developers license, the net effect would have been equivalent. This is why the court ruled that Apple cannot currently do this. It's not necessarily because Apple is actually doing something wrong, but because during this litigation, such actions which may not be directly pertinent to the litigation, may have negative effects on unrelated parties.

The court isn't saying Apple is wrong for threatening to block Epic fully, including UE. The court is saying that doing say _may_ not be legal and thus Apple should hold off on it until the court has had time to deliberate the issue. It is only prudent of the court to work to reduce the variables in this situation and to prevent potential harm to innocent parties.
It's pretty easy to make a secure payment method for one-off payments or fixed-price regular payments. A lot of the value of credit cards is that you can use them to pay for things that do usage-based billing, without having to do anything after the initial setup.
Use NLP for sentiment analysis
> # How can I trust you?

> You can't.

If only every service was so straightforward.
12kwh a day? Then you could feasibly power a house with these things.
> could be hardened through formal verification

Yeah... but that only works by you verifying your assumptions. If your assumptions are wrong, you remain screwed. I'm all for it but it's not perfection.