skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be easier to not believe accusations like [0], if google didn't squander it's reputation of not doing evil long time ago.

[0]: https://fossbytes.com/google-accused-of-sabotaging-microsoft...
Google Ads vs. Display and Video 360
It still is, but webrtc-adapter [1] aims to provide shims wherever they are needed to transparently provide the same API across all supported browsers

[1]: https://github.com/webrtchacks/adapter
Everyone knows about chernobyl. No one knows about pike river. Yet they killed the same amount of people. Every single nuclear incident is propagandized, yet dirty energy gets a free rap. It's a shame as global warming will cause much more damage than the chernobyl exclusion zone which is essentially a nature reserve now.
I hadn't thought of that but when you say it, it seems obviously true
I taught myself programming when I was 14 on school computers during lunch breaks and after hours. I worked as a cleaner in order to buy my first laptop. By the time I went to university to study software engineering, I already knew how to code. I graduated after 5 years working as a part time software developer on the side. I've been coding for 16 years. I've been learning constantly for the first 14 years. The last 2 have been pretty easy.
NATS – The Cloud Native Messaging System
Its a dumb reason applied to an adult.
Hopefully not. The "deep state establishment," i.e. the bureaucracy, is there for a reason.

America tried "fire everyone back to the postmen" in their first few years. It was terrible. It's why we instituted laws limiting executive authority to fire.
To be fair about #2, I have rarely seen vulns in QR code scanners that were actually related to the scanning of QR codes. The only issues I heard about were things like auto-opening a URL or logic issues when handling the scanned data. Of course this doesn't immediately lead to perfect and provable security, but there are bigger issues with the concept than this.
Talk to an iPhone user?
Correct, they were physically depleted to far below minimum levels after H1N1 (and other crises), but SARS was their last warning before COVID-19. General political leadership across parties and jurisdictions [1] routinely treat it as a deadweight loss by allowing severe atrophy, short-changing the requested budgets; most recently in 2011 a -$121M shortfall [2].

Read into that what you will, but my hot take on it is if there is another pandemic, or an NBC attack, unless you are part of the 0.1% of government, you're on your own preparedness supplies.

I don't see the SNS placing the long-term supplies under inert gases and in extremely dry storage conditions (though much of it is secret, so I'm hoping they're doing this and just not telling anyone), the primary cause of various rubber components expiring. They are definitely not integrated into vendor supply chains, nor practicing shipping on a regular basis to rotate stock and evaluate large-scale field trials of preserved PPE to establish long-term operational practices that no one in the world has performed, injecting into re-supply orders and tracking the results with the healthcare institutions.

Once PPE preservation is worked out reasonably well, then the costs of maintaining the stockpile switch to marginal replacement costs. Then they can switch to funding research into reusable PPE, and ultra-long storage (on the order of 100 years). The national security angle is to weaponize the increasingly-long storage durations themselves, while at the same time benefiting the environment (less disposables): the ever-increasing lifespan covering an ever-increasing percentage of the population for an ever-increasing incident timespan are wielded as a deterrence factor; if we quickly react and return to semi-normal relatively quickly based upon such a robust supply chain, the effectiveness of such attacks are neutralized to that extent.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/mar/30/federal-pande...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/strategic-national-stockpile...
I learned that on Linux, GNOME Web (Epiphany) is basically Safari. It will exhibit most of the quirks and rendering issues, and it has a decent dev console. It definitely helps avoid paying the Apple tax.
Kiwi browser has backported them and brave browser is currently merging the kiwi browser changes. Only a matter of time before this get on the radar of Edge too
Almost certainly nuclear accidents & other externalities were avoided. But would those have been more costly than the costs of fossil fuels (e.g. international conflicts, tens or hundreds of gigatonnes of CO2, many other contaminants, oil spills, etc.)?
The User Experience field is wrong. Please, read me
Desde hace unos días me pregunto sobre la experiencia del usuario y los problemas que nadie ve en este campo. Me pregunté por qué vemos la relación entre el usuario y la tecnología como algo humano-máquina pero no humano-humano. Puede parecer una tontería, pero comprenderá lo que quiero decir. No debemos interpretar lo que nos ofrece un dispositivo electrónico como un servicio, sino como un favor que nos hace un amigo. Es posible que las personas no lo entiendan de esa manera, pero probablemente, inconscientemente, establecen un sentimiento de afecto hacia sus dispositivos como lo hacen con un amigo. Sin embargo, los humanos no establecemos relaciones sin confianza, y la confianza se forma a partir de los actos que la inculcan. Si somos sinceros, respetuosos, colaborativos y abiertos con una persona, esa persona eventualmente logrará establecer una relación de confianza en. Entonces, simplemente, ¿por qué no diseñamos protocolos basados en los principios de la sociología, la psicología social y la confianza específica para diseñar dispositivos electrónicos, aplicaciones y sistemas operativos para mantener a nuestros usuarios y clientes por mucho más tiempo? Si quieres saber más déjame un método de contacto en los comentarios y dime lo que piensas y POR FAVOR NO ATRIBUYAS MI "TRABAJO". Puedes usarlo, distribuirlo o hablar de él sin ningún problema, pero no olvides mencionarme como Jevag.
How can we know that coal kills 13k people a year in the US? Sure, burning coal releases carcinogens but most of the population lives far away from coal plants.
spdy become HTTP2, quic become HTTP3 it is expensive in time and money to develop and test new ideas in protocols. I think it is a bit unfair to to bundle android, chromium and AMP into same bag. AMP is clearly driven by money but there is a lot of open source that benefit everyone.

Google is big company. I think trying to paint whole google as evil is not effective.
just don't give up guys, i got 100 business sign up since i launched Conferfly a month ago. it was hard and i almost gave up after i got rejected twice but i am happy i didn't. finished the project by myself with my humble budget. now i am working with some happy customers
*Thanks for all help from HN community
The Democratic Party platform reflects the position of the party for four years and is voted on and influenced by all delegates (including delegates for candidates that do not win, ex. Bernie's delegates the past two elections).

A page on the Obama administration website reflected the personal opinion of the president at the time it was posted, and can be changed at any time.

The presidential nominee is not necessarily going to agree with the party platform (although they are more or less telling voters they will uphold it). The party and all of its delegates certainly need not agree with everything the president says.
Making menus smaller is a good idea in general. Every restaurant rescue show I watch recommends this. However, there's a better idea for more profitability: make portions smaller.
If you are running a copy of the same software for each tenant anyways it doesn't matter much as a SQL injection for one tenant is most likely available on all tenants.

I think for this use case security is focused on accidentally returning the wrong tenant's data (fully or partially)
I will say unlike IE, Chrome (more specifically Chromium) has allowed for a new generation of browsers to compete. Rendering / JavaScript engine is now a commodity.

If you want try out something that feels new and different you can try out what I'm working on! It's designed to make you more productive and feel more like an OS than a browser...
sometimes people remark at how extensive ancient civilations became with such simple technology, yet here we are. billions of people being served by things like BGP and SS7.

as i get older, i become more and more concerned with humanity's lack of fault tolerance.

brett weinstein clued me into this as an evolutionary phenomena. if a gene activates a short-term solution and long-term problem, that gene is likely to be favored.

how do we transcend this problem that seems to be inherent with existing? a first-principal problem?
What about the cleanup work done on 3d scans?
Firefox has support for a lot of extensions but they removed most of the support now which is a shame. It allowed me to play YouTube on the background, a feature that make people actually pay YouTube premium music.
I wonder if there's a similar extension for kiwi? Basically it just nerds to disable the page visibility and full-screen API + some tweaks
> If the Go team made Goroutines types like ADA tasks, nobody would have to deal with any of the problems people using Goroutines have to deal with

This generalises nicely to "If Go had paid attention to literally any lesson we've learnt about programming languages since approximately the 80's".
Unless I've misunderstood what you meant by "true" in your previous post, nothing in the oaths says what you say they said. They aren't any kind of sole defenders, nor would the American people want that.

America was founded partially to escape rule by military might.
It would also make it difficult to canary new versions of JavaScript by serving a new version to only a small fraction of traffic.
Wind blows around the clock and solar runs most of the time we are awake. If renewables are super cheap but storage is not viable, can't we simply overbuild?
>No-one talks about it because it isn't relevant. The fact that a 1970s plant didn't get every safety upgrade over the course of 40 years is possible.

You dont think plans on how to prevent a disaster caused by a Tsunami 3 years prior to a disaster caused by Tsunami is relevant? Interesting world view.
Agreed. The point of the core charge is to make the program more palatable to manufacturers. They’d rather the customer see the charge as a line item than rise their prices to fund it. I think the line item also helps educate the customer at purchase time that the refund exists.
That's after Fenix release... before that' there was plenty of supported plugins. It's only a matter of time when other plugins will support new UI. As for Chromium, I'm more than sure the battery issue is just a nice excuse to toss ad blockers out of the window.
> The Big Basin area near Santa Cruz isn't supposed to regularly burn.

Do you have any sources you can share for further reading on this?

I did a little bit of digging and found https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/management/firemanagement_fir..., but couldn’t come up with anything for Big Basin specifically.

The closest I found was:

> Fire return intervals range from as long as 500 years on wetter, northern sites to 5–25 years on drier, southern sites. Point Reyes NS falls closer to the shorter end of the fire return interval spectrum. Researchers report a fire return interval of 7.7 years for redwood stands at Point Reyes. A study of redwood stands on Bolinas Ridge and Mount Tamalpais found point estimates of fire return interval ranging from 21.7 to 27.3 years.

Regardless of what the natural fire frequency was in the past, isn’t this an empirical question about unburnt fuel levels and other environmental factors listed in the article? If we have a large surplus of fuel building up in these forests, and more controlled burns would manage it, that seems like a management problem even if frequent burns were not part of the historical norm.
Why is the shared app & shared database the most complex beast? Technically it's the simplest and requires the least amount of work to set up and maintain. You can even run the app & db on the same server. The complexity of maintaining multiple app & db instances isn't worth it, at least when you're starting out.
I also wonder if you need to water cool it—-a lot of that 1500W is getting blasted out as light, unlike a processor, which dumps it all to heat.
Zen-Hacking. I look at a problem, and I Zen. Code has now been written
I'm guessing them mean in terms of anything likely to actually unseat IE. Netscape->Mozilla->Firefox had been around years and were still only minor players ~20% market share. Chrome on the other hand saw nearly instant hockey-stick growth. I remember I switched almost instantly after a quick try and everything was so much faster.
Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781475
So this is not Star Trek related?

Oh, you sweat summer child me.
More like the internet is making many Christians aware of when their preachers are spouting worldly values instead of biblical ones. The beltway "journalists" can only see this as conspiracy mongering.
Stats courses for non-statisticians should focus on teaching people how to tell when they need to call in an expert. (Which is most of the time, of course. And that is not unique to statistics.)

And academic journals in medicine etc. need to require that research involving the use of statistics has been reviewed and okayed by specialist statisticians, and prioritise publishing null results. The last would save future researchers a lot of time.
BTW Sony devs are contributors to webkit because it's the default browser of the PS3/4. I hope they will improve chromium instead for the PS5 instead of wasting resources on an obscolete decision, just like QT did
just install "New pipe" from f-droid, it really rocks. Allows you to play videos in background, download video or audio - practically everything. The only issue is that it sometimes breaks when youtube changes its protocol
At my company we used to have an OpenRTB bidder backed by Redis that would do 9ms 99th percentile for 4B requests/day spread over 8 machines.
We have a solid idea about about the pre-European history of fire in the US west, including some information about native american practices during parts of that history (they burned, at least in some areas and for some of the time).

We have hard evidence of what the last 100 years of forest management policy has done.

Nobody is proposing "nature can never (be) change(d)". The point is that that we tried to do something different (fire suppression) and it manifestly did not and has not worked.
Do you know if thia edition comes with the monthy Xbox Game Pass (which is considerably cheaper if you don't mind "renting" the game)
> In practice, in the real world, the consequences of accidents are extraordinarily bad and costly.

...not really. Fossil fuels kill a simply enormous amount of people. Coal is responsible for something like 13k deaths per year in the US alone; air pollution (from burning fossil fuels) kills something like 10k people per day.

> How much do you think it cost to have 1,000 square miles in the Ukraine uninhabitable for the next 20,000 years?

A number so low it rounds to zero in this context?

> The same problem of externalities exists for fossil fuels, of course.

I don't think you can handwave that away as an "of course". The externalities around fossil fuels are simply enormous; the issues and costs and risks of nuclear are multiple orders of magnitude less.
I was curious as to what the impact would be on Bing's map product. The flight sim community is fixing these landmarks and creating files that players then have to import locally, this doesn't bring improvements over into Bing. Microsoft doesn't gain anything from this.
- Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first?

To build the future.

- What are you doing at your job? Is it everything you dreamed of and more?

No. I need to get back to my principles

- How did you break that first-job barrier?

By presenting myself as a low cost low risk gamble

- What were you doing before this?

See below

- Any tips for the rest of us?

I leave my education off my resume. I've been at this over 20 years and have a hard 10 year cliff when it comes to talking about things.

I consider the knowledge I left the University with as rather useless unless someone continues the practice.

If the employer cares about prestige and pedigree then leave the room, rudely if you want.

Engaging with the now is the crucial determinant of empowering the future. If the competence signalling is past laurels than you're going to get stagnating structure. I've seen it. Just leave. Aspirational stricture through institutional structure is a waste of human effort.

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What do you care about? That's the main question. There's no easy answer. But once you can get to it let that drive and centralize your decisions.

Really that's all I can give you.
The Pandemic Has Dramatically Changed Rural Attitudes Toward Government
I have tried the BSDs but their hardware support is lacking. Being unable to connect to wifi easily during install is one problem I have ran into. Also I am all for CLI utils but the installation process is needlessly confusing and complex by sticking to that approach.

I dont want to spend more than 15 minutes installing an OS. Aside from the time it may take for the automated bits to run.
Forgot the link to get access: https://www.aspen.cloud
Yeah but webkit on Linux is basically unmaintained / untested and therefore there can be many confusing webkit Linux only bugs
They're just Sysco resellers... the second highest margin items on menus are desserts, which are almost always Sysco microwave desserts or similiar preps.
Thanks for the input. What would be a bad day for each of the teams? What would be the most common problems they face, the most irritating, and the worst? What does each of these teams dread?

Also, "It's always sunny in Philadelphia".. What's the "It's always [x] in [team]"?
Hmm, that came out too harsh, sorry about that. I could clearly read your good intentions. It's just that at the same time, you bowed to the zeitgeist of "don't do this for real". It's kind of a ritual I see everywhere. Every time anyone writes about crypto, they feel obligated to say "oh by the way this is scary stuff".

Cryptography seems to be the only domain where this happens, even though many other kinds of code are just as critical: parsers, readers & players, network code… anything that reads potentially hostile input. I hate that double standard.

> If the rules were so simple, how come your library had a signature bypass vulnerability that you did NOT understand its root cause until I explained?

Because no single source actually explained what the rules were. I simply didn't know them. I didn't even know how to make a proper test suite when I introduced the vulnerability (in Spring 2017, well before v1.0.0).

By the time the vulnerability was discovered (in June 2018), I had a much better understanding of those rules, which allowed me to find the vulnerability from an odd report (which by itself wasn't a bug). The rule being "if you don't understand something, dig deeper". In other words, "don't mess with maths you don't understand".

Now however, after 4 years of practice, I think I have a rather keen understanding of the rules. And what do you know, they turned out to be fairly simple. Even side effects: you can know you've avoided all possible timing attacks. It's only a matter of making sure nothing flows from secrets to timings. (Side effects play a very small role in making code non-obvious. Almost negligible, compared to optimisations.)

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Re CTF/challenges, my apologies. I should have qualified. I cannot deny they help you get a feel. I didn't go this route, but I reckon it's a valid one, especially if it's fun for you. Beyond that initial kick however, it really depends what you mean to do. Do you want to make crypto? Or do you want to break crypto?

If you want to break crypto (which would be extremely useful when dealing with existing systems), then sure, actually breaking broken crypto would be a huge help. Hands on experience.

I however want to make crypto. I don't care for legacy, I just want to either select or make something simple that suits my needs (something I'm currently doing at work, incidentally). And for this, I strongly believe that learning to break crypto is unnecessary. And beyond the very basics, inefficient. A faster way to build crypto is learning about testing and proofs. (I believe Collin Percival has a similar opinion https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2013-06-17-crypto-science-n...)

I don't think we need to go full top-down, however. My focus would be on mathematical proofs (proofs about algebra, about discrete maths, and about programs).
Feels like a submarine ad for Netflix.
Taking License: on entertaining software licenses (2002)
Within 5 years every machine, building and device may start the transition to self-charging nuclear diamond batteries with graphene super capacitors. [1] [2] [3]

So these huge nuclear power plants may quickly become obsolete along with coal, solar and wind power generation, hydro and fossil fuels.

[1] https://ndb.technology

[2] https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-self-charging-batte...

[3] https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-battery-interview-n...

BTW I think HN downvoters should lose karma for downvoting.
Except IE was ripe for disruption due to a fairly poor customer experience. Various web apps of the time wouldn't work in different versions. It was slow, and frequently locked up completely needing a force-quit or, worse, hard reboot. Chrome isn't in that same sort of position.
Off-Topic:

There's two misplaced or missing words in just the first paragraph of that article - the sort of thing that happens when you're going back and rephrasing things.

I was getting ready to enjoy a good story, but was immediately punished for not just skimming instead. These mistakes happen to be really easy to catch for everyone but the author himself and they will trip up specifically those readers who are trying to pay attention.

Since even major professional online publications clearly don't hire editors anymore, maybe they should at least adopt a policy of having co-workers proofread.
This works and solves a lot of problems. The downside is that schema changes are cumbersome because you have to make them in many places. If you want to roll out a new feature in a shared app which depends on a schema change, it's hard to do without downtime or complicated feature flags.
iOS has supported ad blocking for a bit.
I don't see the connection. None of the countries listed have annexed any part of Afghanistan.
Which is maddening with transitions and zoom in/zoom out.
> Big disasters are unpredictable and hard to understand. One of those could end the world at any time.

In the context of nuclear reactors, Fukushima and Chernobyl are pretty much the worst case scenario. A large nuclear disaster is very disruptive to the immediate area but it would not "end the world" in any sense.
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