skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I’m just in a cohort that doesn’t trust US companies with this data either. If it’s stored, CCP can find a way to get it, it’s probably as easy as offering to buy it. So I don’t see a big difference. I operate from a mindset that TikTok isn’t opening a new floodgate of data. Maybe I don’t fully understand what data they’re allegedly collecting and if it’s any different than what Google, FB would have on an active user. That said, I still don’t agree that we should strive to be like CCP in terms of censorship, audits, govt regulations, etc.
A lot of US history boils down to criminals and cult leaders, whereas Europe is mostly about spoiled brats.
TDD is one of these buzzword methodologies that it good to know it exists but is inapplicable by itself.

In fact, TDD-like techniques have produced some of the worst code I've seen.

The trap with test driven development is that you write code to pass the tests, not code that solves a problem. It is easy to write code you don't understand. Ex: "is it +1 or -1? +1 passes, -1 fails, it must be +1". In the end you don't know why you wrote +1, and maybe it makes no sense but since it passed your tests...
That would also be possible for a successful website or app using pinning. So far there are no public reports of it happening.

Would probably also put the CA out of business in no time if they did.
I like how apps cannot include sexual, violent or offensive content but Apple Music and Netflix can.
I haven’t used WinRAR in ages, but what makes 7zip (which I use as well) better?
> How does it work with e.g.?

Yes and .... you're wrong you idiot
The US has been doing it for well over 50 years.
Particles from Space Are Messing with Our Quantum Computers, Scientists Discover
LSST/Vera is probably the project most impacted by these satellites. Per my contacts, smaller scopes like LBT/Keck/MMT aren't as drastically affected yet. But if we start approaching 100k+ satellites, even they will be having some major issues to deal with.
Same! Yay Apple.
The zeep zoop sound with practically every element interaction, for starters.
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Metadata Management and Integration at LinkedIn with DataHub
Based on https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/26/facebook-apple-ios-14-could-...

It seems to be the unique ID used for targeted advertising. iOS 14 requires user opt-in before the IDFA can be used by third-party apps for advertising. This, I believe, is what Facebook is crying foul about.
I am sure that the old policy no longer served a purpose, and that there is a sound reasoning behind the new one
"every" being the operative word.

The "feel" for good code that comes with experience is not reducible in practice to a set of black-and-white rules.
Your web server isn't written in Python either, though.
>this could eventually lead to developers being ransomed, “pay us big money or we will revoke your certificate”

by whom? the platform makers (apple/microsoft) or malicious third parties?
The most important changes Apple needs to make would not cost them a single line of code- they just get rid of their policy to require consistent pricing across all platforms, and allow promotion/linking of external (i.e. not on iOS) payment sources.

If Spotify could charge +30% for a subscription purchased through the App store, and include a link to their main sign up page where subscriptions are regular price, everyone is happy. No security is changed and developers pass along the price of being in the App store to only those consumers who wish it. Only loser is Apple, who does not get to use their gatekeeper status on iOS to enforce monopoly-style pricing controls across all platforms.
There are ways to structure your code so that this can be done. Of course, it would require a complete refactor to achieve full test coverage on an existing project, but if you build like this from the beginning, it's feasible.
Isn't the PCIe card you're looking for this:

https://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/USB-3.0/Cards/PCI-Ex...

Seems to have 4 USB ports each served by it's own controller with dedicated PCIe lanes.
Similar. I end up googling around a good quarter of my ddg searches.
I have found that some multipart rar files fail to extract properly with 7zip. Most are fine though, but I normally have the unrar-nonfree package installed for the few that don't work.
This is the natural outcome of prioritizing capital above all else, including human life. And the examples of this priority are, sadly, very numerous in the world we all live in.
Art is subjective, of course, but

Pollack isn't easy to imitate and get 90+% of the way with no skill or practice. Cheap imitations don't look similar. The jacksonpollack.org website is a silly farce.
So you are upset that now other people can stop you from exploiting me when I am not using your service? Hmmmmmmmm
The issue with slow execution is that you don't run the test suite often enough.

I like running my tests almost as often as I compile my code. If they run fast enough, it creates the most addictive feedback loop for TDD.

Besides, we should be measuring the time to write tests against the time it takes to manually test. If you don't execute tests every time you make a change, you're not really sure if your code works. And manual testing just means we have no idea whether or not our code works.
Doctor Who regeneration was 'modelled on LSD trips' (2010)
Do they go out of their way, or do they naturally gravitate to like-minded people?
Initially, I was skeptical of the "good!" reactions.
It's worrying/annoying when one company alone has the clout to massively impede a potential competitor (or legitimate service they simply dislike) in arbitrary ways.

And then I read the subheadline of the article:
> The social-media company says Apple’s privacy changes will affect its Audience Network business, which connects users’ Facebook identities with their off-platform activities

Holy sh*t - GOOD! Go Apple
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> ...Apple Inc actually has decades of case precedent to support the idea that Apple controls its own hardware with its own exclusive app store...

This was true for AT&T at one time as well.

I agree with your point, but things change when you get too big. Apple might be at that point, but I don't really know, and IANAL.
"Explain Like I'm Five"

Oh my god - are you all right ? Where are your parents ?
Don’t be patronizing.

Management needs to act, and locking yourself in, if it’s the only choice, go for it.

In the case of IT, composing across clouds is pretty common because it solves problems. Note I am not talking about brokerage or constant migration or other such nonsense. I’m talking about treating your clouds as a portfolio where you have levels of investment for particular reasons, and can make long run decisions about upping or lowering investment in. You compose across them. Salesforce for CRM, AWS for my front end apps, Google for my analytics, Azure and O365 for internal apps, whatever. It’s reality.

Forcing everything on one cloud, boy I donno. For an SMB, sure.

My point is, don’t tell me how tasty and good for me the shit sandwich I am forced to eat is. Users of EPIC hate it, that’s a market opportunity.
You're assuming people are reasonable. They're not most of the times.
+1, I look forward to it every week
Already posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24284046
It definitely is for me. The LCARS interface is as much of a character of the story as the as the Enterprise herself (substitute with Voyager, Defiant, or São Paulo if you wish) and I’d go a step further of saying ship interfaces and systems inform us as much about the era of Star Trek one is watching as does the plot and narrative at any given moment to the discerning and attentive Trekkie :)
The Overture is smaller than the Concorde, so that a lower level of noise is expected. There has been some developments in aerodynamics for minimizing the shock by spreading it over a larger area, but, as you point out, they don't mention it.

It is probably part of their "secret sauce".
Neuralink to do live webcast of working brain interface
Introducing The Voyage G3 Robotaxi
Shortly, the Silicon Valley Bank blocked my account access because their telephony service couldn't reach my foreign number via SMS/Phone call 5 times in a row. Had to make several calls to unblock my account.

You'd think that a bank that claims to "work with the brightest minds in technology" would have a better 2FA mechanism than a phone number...
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I'm a brit, I looked into our equivalent regime a while back and I was amazed you could be considered sophisticated based solely on income/assets.
I am 3/4 of the way through Zuboff's wonderful book on surveillance capitalism and I am half way into this article. I think Corey makes some good points on which parts of surveillance capitalism are most dangerous and deserve the hardest push-back but Zuboff's book is still important and I hope sincerely that this article's critique does not dissuade people from reading the book.
Brazilian here. There is an equivalent alphabet in Portuguese, with different words for each letter, better adapted to the Portuguese language. It's ubiquitous in the Brazilian armed services.

Phone service is always in a specific language, I don't see why the use of such alphabets would be harder in non-English-speaking countries than in English-speaking ones.
SVB account is free for 3 years if you do it directly with them. But Atlas cost is lower than the cost of opening with a good lawyer.
US teenager wrote slice of Scots Wikipedia
But this should be looked at from the US government's perspective though.

US government definitely trusts US companies more that Chinese companies.

I don't find it unreasonable to want to ban TikTok. Seems like the national security's risk is real.
Not a lawyer but I suspect there's a viable tortious interference claim. Revocation is effectively telling your customers that your product is unsafe, if done without cause it could be actionable.
Because intelligence is general and correlates well across fields, and intelligence has a loose causal link with a PhD in biology. So I wouldn’t say it "helps" with investment per se but there is a connection there.
They do, but the wings have a lot of drag that the engines must compensate for.
> I am going by the complaints from users in the Play Store ratings.

Even if the number there is small (which I'm not sure, "small" compared to what?), you can't look at one place and make such a global strong statement. There are many other places for people to voice their opinion, Mozilla forums, chat, social media or, well, here.

> this one I don't have any backup, this is why I said "probably".

Probably is not a synonym of "maybe" or of "I don't know"...
I believe they're referring to the forced permission prompt for allowing tracking cross websites and apps - https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ios-14-safari-privacy-ad-t...

Specifically, from the above,

> "moving forward, App Store policy will require apps to ask before tracking you across apps and websites owned by other companies"
Well said - I love the mix of reasoned historical argument and "get off my lawn!"
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Peazip: https://peazip.github.io/

I used to use 7zip, but switched when I discovered that Peazip doesn't extract to a temporary directory when extracting (thus, saving extra I/O work). It directly extracts into the target directory.
Every SEC regulation and every financial law is anti-free-market, but that doesn't mean it isn't necessary.
what spiked the graph in November 2012?
https://archive.is/jzFJu
> "if you want anyone to take this seriously"

I hope I'm not the only one finding irony in the total lack of punctuation and capitalization in here
There was a TV show, a very long time ago, about a spaceship called Fireball XL-5.

A fireball is precisely what you want to avoid in spaceships.
The premise of Boom Technologies is that the intensity of the sonic boom can be managed by creating an aircraft with a sufficiently clever shape. I don't know exactly how that's meant to work, but it's this premise that they hope to demonstrate with the small-scale XB-1 in 2021.
Multiline Shebang – Rosetta Code
Ben Carson.
Looks like they're going to refuse to comply with it, in fact:
https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1298662658934222848
Beautifully written.
I just finished rewatching Halt and Catch Fire. If you haven't watched it, I recommend for the C64 hype and revisiting of the digital revolution.
Indeed.

We have had message boards, subreddits, newspapers, TV news shows, radio shows, etc. dedicated to (or at least slanted towards) specific policial views for quite some time.

Possibly centuries in the case of pamphlets and newspapers, often printed with an explicitly partisan point of view in ye olde times.
Art <> difficulty level.

Something can be easy and magnificent. Something can be hard and not worth a damn.
I found 2003 here: https://web.archive.org/web/20111215141056/http://www.maneta...
Is a file move that big of an IO operation?
I really like this question. What I get out of it is where the candidate focuses on, and where they gloss over. I find it useful to prefix the question with a statement about there being no "right" answer, and "go in as much detail as you want or know".

Since I'm not hiring for hardware, when they get into minute details about keyboard and USB, I smile and gently interrupt to move to the browser making the request. Come to think of it, I may rephrase the question to "What happens when you click on a link?" since that covers browser events, CORS and all that fun; and does away with the keyboard.
Hang on, should I be moving off of pkzip?
This is how the world used to work, and it was fine.
From the linked wikipedia article:

>In the late 1950s when supersonic transport (SST) designs were being actively pursued, it was thought that although the boom would be very large, the problems could be avoided by flying higher. This assumption was proven false when the North American XB-70 Valkyrie started flying, and it was found that the boom was a problem even at 70,000 feet (21,000 m). It was during these tests that the N-wave was first characterized.
I agree with many points here. But :) .

> However, there is no way to become a space faring civilization without putting lots of things in space, period. I want to see 1,000,000x more objects in space, including much larger ones.

But you can have many of those things - majority, if you want - not in an orbit around the Earth. Even farther than GSO, for example.

> imagine over 100,000x the humans, artists, friendship, science, and love.

Humanity isn't only love and friendship. Not to mention that currently we're on a trajectory for the peak population in this century - not quadrillions currently, not even 10 billions. Maybe when we at least colonize Solar system better...

> I just don't think that as society a relatively fringe hobby should stop the progress of humanity.

Astronomy is arguably the first science - that is, brought humanity to asking and thinking about world at large. It's important.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24273851
A basic principle of economics is elasticity of demand, which means that people will buy more of something if it's cheaper and less of something if it's more expensive.

Piracy "loss" estimates from publishing cartels pretend that elasticity of demand does not exist and assume that anyone who would copy an intangible good at a price of $0 would pay whatever price the publishing cartel demanded if the $0 option was not available. While this may be true in the very narrow case of monopoly software products used by businesses in their line of trade, it's absolutely not true for commodity consumer goods.

Very, very few people who have collected a few thousand movies (etc), at a price of $0, would have anywhere as large a collection if they were forced to pay cartel prices for each title.

At the absolute best, the cartel belief that they are entitled to full profits from every copy made is in complete ignorance of several hundred years of economic theory. At worst, it's a lie.

Anti-piracy enforcement is not about profit. It's about being vindictive for its own sake.
True that. Without decent amount of testing with good coverage I don't feel any confident of the code (in Python) I write. Without decent amount of test any migration from Python2 to 3 is a cumbersome exercise.
Actually kind of surprising that they're around 28KB.

But the TLDR is "almost 90% of the size of the binary, is indeed extra libraries/elf metadata."

and also that the executables are rarely used because true and false are shell built-ins.
I always assumed it was a reference to the resiliency. That it should survive the apocalypse...
> loosely typed languages like Javascript/Python

Isn't Python strongly dynamically typed?
> We think that revoking certificates based on questionable data discredits the certification system.

It's hard to dispute this imo. There are many good reasons certificates should be revoked, but the reasoning should be 100% public information, for both the vendor and users who may have trusted the original certificate.

I'm building a desktop app, and the process to even get a certificate is absurd. Each CA has their own wildly different processes, and seemingly answers to nobody. I changed cert providers recently after Digicert suddenly raised their prices 400% on a whim, and it took a huge number of changing requirements, phone calls, 3rd parties, and over a month to receive the new one, despite already having an existing verified & still-valid signing certificate with all those details from an equally legitimate provider.

I'd kill to see a modern service a la Let's Encrypt but for code signing. Something transparent, reliable, fast & trusted cross-platform (I can dream). Verifying identity is a hard problem, but it's really not _that_ hard a problem - there's plenty of fintech services that can reliably do sufficient KYC for banking in 5 minutes with a few id details and video call.
That’s why I’m on an iPhone. Unlike google they don’t have a powerful incentive to make the devices leaky like a sieve due to ad biz side. FB can say it but I’m sure google is thinking the same thing

Besides - it’s not like ads are going to go away. It’ll just be less focused
WinRAR seems to have added additional compression formats and algorithms, like 7zip and XZ: https://www.rarlab.com/otherfmt.htm

WinZIP, too: https://www.winzip.com/win/en/lanall.html
I can't think of less meaningful information than why someone believes why someone else believes something is beautiful. How could you possibly know that?
There was a discussion on HN not long ago about things that are obvious in hindsight[1], and I think Pollock's work might fit this category. Beyond the aesthetics, and even if his artworks were easy to reproduce, there's some value not just in the art itself but the discussion that it sparked in the community, and the impact that it had on perceptions of modern art.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24229269
Somehow archival tools have become political. 7zip seems to be the new one people use even though that means their users now have to download and understand two packages instead of one. It’s off-putting, especially when downloading your tool was already an act of yak shaving. As awesome as we want to think our tools are, the people who use them may be preoccupied with other problems instead. Friction will not convert them.

I think I shamed someone out of using 7z recently by pointing out that if they claim to be trying to attract a broad audience of hobbyist developers, using a compression library that doesn’t exist on OS X (with out without Xcode) is not a smart plan. In this particular case you had to download two tools to use their code, and that just tore it for me.

When I went back recently they had switched to .xz, which does exist.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24277902
Works for me in Firefox Android.
Great sample data set for seeding a brute force search space to crack "move mouse for entropy" PRNG seeds?
> another explanation, i.e. that one reason for the revocation is some mysterious 570 MB executable file, which had been signed with our certificate but looked like a file used by hackers.

Woah, talk about burying the lede? This sentence makes it sound like their private key was compromised, in which case it makes total sense to revoke the cert. Unless I'm misunderstanding what they're trying to say here.
I would say that the main problem with EVs right now isn't that they're large. You can get an electric Smart or Twizy and those aren't much more than driver's seats on wheels. And don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good: plenty of people who have full-size cars now would switch to something like one of those to save money once it was cheap enough...

...if not for the actual practical problem, which is that for a lot of people living in dense urban areas, there's no way to keep an EV charged up. Street parking and surface lots don't have chargers, old parking garages and almost all new parking garage construction doesn't have chargers, apartment buildings or shared houses with official or ad-hoc parking don't have chargers.

I have that problem myself: I'd probably have replaced my car with an EV already if only I actually had somewhere to plug it in.
This is one of the ideas Elon Musk floated as a way to help finance Starship+Superheavy - suborbital passenger flights.
Can someone more familiar with what's going on here explain that statement? It's not at all clear to me what they're saying.
Often it's convenient to test the functions in your database access layer against a real or convincingly simulated database (e.g. sqlite). This is "like a unit test" in that it focuses on the details of individual functions, but "like an integration test" in that it crosses a system boundary rather than mocking it. I've not found it productive to use either term when talking about it.
"You could enable any phone to be a receiver for SMS and literally see the network traffic around you on the SMS paging channel. The phone real time operating system actually discards messages that do not match your number ..."

This is literally true, and actually, you can do it with an SDR device and the GNURadio liveCD.

However, this data will all be encrypted. Even on 2G networks, you can't just camp at a cellular base station and watch SMS fly by ...
SVB was a horrible antiquated banking experience. It was heavily recommended for my last startup so I signed up without shopping around. It was literally the worst online banking experience I’ve ever used, straight out of the 90’s. And there were fees for every little thing. Maybe they’ve improved in the last 5 years, but I will never try them again.