skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't so important though. Canada UK are the same. You don't technically elect a Prime Minister.

But - the party, platforms, PM etc are very transparent, and elections are held on that basis.

If the Conservative Party of the UK ran with B. Johnson and Brexit, but then after the election decided to make some randome guy from Scotland - that nobody ever heard of - the Prime Minister, and said Scot made a 'Throne Speech' with some completely different agenda ...

...there would be a revoluion.

And of course PM has to be someone elected at their riding for good reason.

It's simply not good enough to say 'someone voted somewhere' so therefore 'it's democracy and we can do what we want'.
It's almost as if Mozilla does not understand how the Internet works!
Still, too bad IMO - I personally enjoyed him talking about games and CG much more than about VR (which I don't care too much about) even though there is, of course, an overlap. I wonder whether I will enjoy him talking about ML even less since I hear that all the time already in my day job.
I'm not saying we mess with these people, I'm saying we charge market rate, or closer to it, for electricity. Maybe setup a program they can apply for to get a subsidy. That will make the process much clearer and everyone can track how much is being subsidized.

We shouldn't just throw money at companies and hide the subsidies. The help should go to the people who ask for it and that way it's much clearer to everyone involved.
WeChat too. People will be able to sideload those apps on Android to keep current with new features and invisible changes to the server protocol. That's going to be a source of vulnerabilities though.
Chrome-style profiles are one thing I really don’t want. I endure Mozilla accounts only to sync bookmarks.
This has been happening for a long time. You really think that a first generation immigrant from Asia spells their last name Liu or Sato with Roman letters?
What a blow. I loved it.
hmm, who runs the ads on WordPress.com? Would that be Oracle's ad network?
You're assuming the good case of people sending naive users a virus. But think of two consenting parties sharing cp or something else. It's a legal hell hole.
Still true: https://xkcd.com/949/
You are right about the general definition. In our specific case when someone says

> I don't see how X

Then what's often lacking is an experience or knowledge that would allow them to imagine X.
But we aren't talking about most corporate entities we are talking about Facebook and their scummy behaviour.

If we always say everyone behaves this way we make it acceptable to behave this way.
The neat thing about Lua is: It's simple. It's reasonable to expect that a sandbox can be proven to be inescapable considering there's only a very limited set of features that would allow this sort of thing in the first place (mainly the `debug` library, which I doubt will be exposed)
By all means, extrapolate your position. The press is corporate, but every story I've ever seen has a byline. That means the actual speech is from a person.
Some feedback on the site:

It says 6 languages are supported yet when I click deeper I only see things for Python and Java. If I wanted to learn Go, why would I choose your site over golangs [0]?

I think more complete content would pull in more users. You pull in more users and you will have better chance of word spreading. Developers wanting to learn language $X are going to see how much content a site has first before committing to using that site.

Maybe have a screen cast showing what the user experience is like, demonstrate how note taking, practice, reminders and music all come together. I think your intent is to make it so the user doesn't have to use other tools to help them learn. Focus on that more.

It has this gradient color text thing on black background going on which might seem cool but will turn off people, especially those with color blind or vision issues. I'm by no means a designer but a professional design or theme could help. You might be thinking it will look like a lot of other sites, there are reasons why lots of other sites have a similar look/feel. Your site can still be unique and stand out somehow (again I'm not a designer.) If dark-mode is part of the experience, highlight that or make it a preference.

[0] https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1
Billion-Dollar Scandal Turns ‘King of Manuscripts’ into ‘Madoff of France’
This is one thing they could have done better in partnership with someone whose main business is hosting and transferring files.

I said it yesterday: Mozilla and Dropbox should talk. Alone they will perish, united they’ll be a real alternative to FAANG.
I can play this game too, Nope.
Interesting. I thought it was discontinued due to malware and hackers using it. I wonder if they were ever able to successfully mitigate these threats with an encrypted file sharing service. If they did, the community ought to know so other projects in the future can learn from Mozilla's efforts.

[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-suspends-firefox-send-...

[2]: https://cybersecuritymag.com/firefox-send-suspended-hackers-...
Tesla Driver Pulled over Going 93 MPH While Completely Asleep
Moving the hypervisor off the main CPU has made Amazon more comfortable (from a security perspective) enabling "bare metal" features like hardware performance counters. Brendan Gregg has written quite a bit about how these are used at Netflix. We use them in rr[0] to enable fast recording of asynchronous events like signals and context switches.

Speaking of which, if anybody who works on EC2 is reading this it would be great if you could continue exposing more MSRs and bare metal features. rr in particular would like MSR_INTEL_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES to be available[1], which would enable trace portability for traces recorded on EC2.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/rr
[1] https://github.com/mozilla/rr/issues/2667
TikTok will be banned in the US from Sunday, report claims
You get much larger fires when they go undetected for significant periods of time. Lightning strikes can happen anywhere, but most ignition sources are close enough to people for early responses. Power lines are therefore unusually bad as they regularly start fires in forests a significant distance from people making both detection and response more difficult.

If power companies what to run lines through these areas they need to take responsibility for what’s going to happen.
Prepare to wait a bit if you didn't secure one yesterday. The 3000 serie launch is the exact definition of paper launch.
That's also what it says in the linked explanation contained in the article.
Cryptography and the AR-15 may both be classified at weapons, but you can't actually shoot someone with cryptography. I suspect that may also play a role when it comes to enforcement...
Can someone comment on the legality of this? I imagine Apple or Google trying to fight this in court?
I feel so too but the goals that I want the EU to achieve do not necessarily require a single federation. If they find a different method I'll be happy either way.
This doesn't imply the benefits that were weighted against the costs were monetary.
> Wonder how long before Chinese people will have to anglicize their names in the U.S.

Why would they have to do that? Most Americans probably can't tell the difference between Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or other East Asian names. I guess if Fox News starts publishing "this is what a Chinese name is" we should worry (not that I should give them any ideas), but I really doubt that'll happen. Americans don't like the Chinese government, and for extremely good reason.

> On a more serious note, I wonder how this can be enforced? Prevent distribution on Play store and apple store? Can't you just sideload on android? You have to prevent connections to the server side right? Maybe via ISP providers or mobile companies to get them to prevent access?

Yea it'll be blocked on the official distribution channels. You'll probably be able to side load it, but lots of people don't know how to do that and probably don't care enough. I guess we'll find out what happens. The US can certainly have companies like ISPs comply here.
What? Don't global variables exist in pretty much every language on the planet? This isn't a "trick", it is a bad practice which should be avoided in any language.

Imagine describing globals in C, Python, or JavaScript, or static fields in Java or C# as a "neat trick"...
It does require having an account on both machines though. I've used nc in situations where one machine is owned by someone else.
A relationship without well-founded trust is often a worse alternative to no relationship at all.

* A contractor who insists on an hourly rate for a project with unknown timeline does himself and the client the favor of killing the deal.

* A client who insists on a total-cost pricing for a project they need budget-certainty on does himself and the contractor the favor of killing the deal.
"The US commerce department, which will issue the orders, stopped short of forcing Apple and Google to remove the Chinese versions of TikTok and WeChat from their app stores in China."

The rest of the world really needs to free itself from American monopoly big tech.

It is simply unacceptable that I, a European in a European country, can have arbitrary apps on my phone blocked and removed by the whims of the American president.
Few examples [0] from 5 years ago. Since then it became worse.

[0]: https://reason.com/2015/04/26/the-slow-death-of-free-speech-...
Here’s a page about that earthquake which has a lot of data including the power spectrum. It peaks around 1Hz. https://www.monitorseis.net/seismo-blog/m70-in-alaska-and-so...
DeLorean Bus
And mere minutes after reading this, what should come in on my newsfeed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503077

Another tool for sending encrypted files from one machine to another. Viva la Hacker News!
Or Sandship on iOS.
Fracturing the Internet
That's where Android is better than iOS. At least, users still have the freedom to sideload anything they want.
> Do you have any statistics?

Not really, no. If I ever rebuild my website, I will probably add some stats though :D
1. sketch a rectangle, extrude up. edge_1 in question created.

2. chamfer edge_1. chamfered edge_2 and _3 are created.

3. sketch a rectangle on far side, extrude toward camera for 1/2 full length. edge_4 is created at middle of box.

4. do other stuff. lots of things come and go.

5. you changed mind. extrusion distance is changed so edge_4 goes past chamfered surface.

On Fusion 360 with History enabled, this will result in a progress bar and backend goes back to step 2. to re-do and re-compute all subsequent ops up to step 5. As the result there will be probably edges 2, 3, 4, 5 that now represent near and far side chamfered edges. If you've done something that presently don't make sense at step 4., Fusion 360 throws an error and leave half done objects.

Okay, now I understand the problem. It needs the History feature to be done right, and UUID.
So you are saying..

A developer went to their tech lead and said 'hey we can make the app much better by leaving the camera on all the time saves 200ms on camera startup time'

Tech lead: this is brilliant no potential problems here

Tech lead to management team: got this great new feature, we leave the camera on all the time makes the app 200ms faster.

Management: wow that's great can't see any problem with that, no chance of reputational damage there.

And it's all innocent and noone has any idea why anyone would get the wrong idea?
We evolved in a species that is just intelligent enough to develop technology but not intelligent enough to handle it properly. You do not only see this with the (ab)use of fossil fuels, but also, for example, with respect to the use of antibiotics.

With respect to our closest relatives, it is interesting that our level of aggression is in the middle of the chimps and bonobo's. Apparently, we are at the right level between individualism and cooperation to have developed the kind of intelligence we posses. If we would have been more cooperative, and value our personal interests less than that of the species, we would not have developed the technology that we now cannot handle. That we are a species that can use language to create intrinsic lies, is also not helping. On one hand language has helped us to cooperate without submitting to the whole, but also has lead to the development of politics: leaders who can convince others that they are good leaders based on what they say.
> the company that writes perfect code?

You are touching on an important point, which I did not state: that there are no companies with zero pebbles on the scale.

The goal is not perfection. The goal is to avoid a pile of pebbles large enough that engineers feel hopeless / "why do I bother" / "this place is a joke anyway". Good people don't stick around long for that.

But the main point was that thinking that a technical blemish has "zero cost" is a trap. The cost is not zero. The cost is having one more pebble on the scale.
For those who migt've missed the reference: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Wvn-9BXVc
But it tarnishes their name. People who get malware through Firefox Send will associate Firefox or Mozilla with viruses because that's where it's being served from. It doesn't matter to them that it's fully the fault of the person sharing the malware, they expect that if a site is serving them content then that site can ensure that it's safe.
Why would you even use GoDaddy? They have been doing this for decades you nitwit.
This is a niche where https://julialang.org/ is really poised to shine: (nearly) As fast as C; (almost) as approachable as Python.
Increase the cost of energy.
File.pizza is also p-p file defer in the browser, though I liked send from Mozilla since it was integrated.
> Did you spare a thought for the people who's social lives revolve around spending time with friends online?

I don't agree that banning social networks would be productive or even possible, but this argument doesn't make sense. People had social lives before social networking. People had friends online before social networking. Social networking is not required for these things.
Not really the place ask for unbiased feedback. Most devs here want less of this sort of thing. Maybe post on reddit startups instead.
Sure, there are a lot of possibilities that fullfill the three critera - you're imposing the modern conception of credit on early human civilizations.

To put it simply, early credit relationships were dominantly exchanges of services. So it wasn't barter, it's that you would do something for someone with the expectation that they would do something for you.

There, no media of exchange, and no barter. Solved. That's what you get for projecting definitions backwards through time :)

Now for the first time, I'm not sure how that is controversial, if you read that historically debt was a tool of bondage, then it makes perfect sense to frame the power of bondage as a social ill.
> Inflation adjusted housing cost per square foot has remained remarkably constant for decades

I think you mean for the first year. With higher inflation everyone got big wage rises each year which quickly made mortgages more affordable. Now wages are stagnating so even 10 years later most people dont earn much more than when they first took out the mortgage.
There is an autocrypt plugin for Thunderbird:

* https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/autoc...

Now that most SMTP connections are encrypted with STARTTLS on the wire, autocrypt is not that valuable. At an email server autocrypt can be trivially man in the middled with just a simple script. It ends up being just another encrypted messaging solution that skips the hard but crucial problem of identity.

Added: Autocrypt does not do forward secrecy. Most people want to keep their old emails, so forward secrecy wouldn't add much value:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:forward_secrecy
I use iwantmyname both for myself and my company and they have always been excellent. Loads of domains (I've never had a problem with something not being supported), good support, system works really well for me too.
I found this out with Minecraft and WorldEdit. I spent more time tinkering than building without any resource constraints in creative mode and with a tool to make huge changes.

Survival mode, even with monster spawns turned off, forces a constraint, and all the cool stuff I've built happened there. I can't just lop off the top of a mountain and lay out a perfect rectangle or square building. It has to grow and evolve from the blocks I collect on the available landscapes.
It's interesting the way that talk demonstrates the limits of the software he was talking about.

In a big picture way, it's also interesting to hear a prominent Facebook employee being frank about the limitations of the product. Perhaps they're just not allowed to do that when it comes to privacy issues.
I started modeling in OpenSCAD. It fit really well with my programmer mentality. The language is small, the concepts simple and you can do some really amazing things with it, far more than might be obvious from the primitives... except filleting and chamfering.

The limitations caught up really quickly after that.

I echo what the other folks are saying. Its great, but there is no "I knocked this out in 10 minutes in OpenSCAD" for any part that couldn't be done in less time in TinkerCAD.

Its difficult to imagine how you could fix this elegantly. "Pick a path that follows the intersection of these two solids" is difficult to express in code, and easy to express by clicking on the vectors that represent the path.
I bet TikTok will see a spike in downloads over the next few days ...

Orange guerrilla marketing for the win!
Yes, Google's similar practices should also be prohibited. You ask as if it's obvious that someone would say no and show themselves to be a hypocrite, which is weird.
imho both effects stem mostly from the fact that diesel has ~11% higher density than gasoline.

(ie. mileage and co2-output become more equal if measured against mass rather than volume)
I find some paragarphs in the article somewhat moving, especially the ones related to the polio epidemic.
Sharing breath with another human and later witnessing her/his death must have been a daunting experience.
WeChat seems like a really big deal here. My understanding is that to basically function in China you need to have WeChat on your phone (to call a car, pay at a restaurant, etc. )

If we box Americans out of it entirely, how will that affect travel to China? Will people pick up cheap/limited-use androids at the airport that they can use for all these functions?
Did a broken random number generator in Cuba help expose a Russian spy network?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24504080
MOST concerning is the fact that WeChat will be banned. To many Asian demographics, that's a mainstream chat application for keeping in touch with family.
While sad to see Notes go, I've been pretty impressed with the continued support of the free Simplenote https://simplenote.com from Automattic. It's basic but nice, and I've actually gotten help from them the few times I've had issues.
>> Buy me a beer and I can tell you the story of when I intentionally got myself fired to dispute illegal work contracts.

I question the wisdom of posting this publicly. Should she ever need a job, fact is employers read this stuff but she’ll never find out that posts like this influenced their decision. It may not be right, but it’s what happens.
Neither Apple or Google have any incentive to fight this. Tiktok already has already started suing.
Laugh it up, but it's real. Your utricle contains calcium crystals called canaliths which are basically used by your body as a gyroscope, informing the brain of the angle your head is in. This is why an ear infection or damage to the ear can cause balance issues like vertigo and nausea as the body cannot properly detect the angle you're in. Same reason why we also have motion sickness.

It's closely related to the types of dyslexia that are not caused by cognitive issues, rather issues with the vision.
It is used routinely on the dark nets by pasting encrypted messages into web forms.
I'm trained as an economist so might have a different view. But what I think I know from physics is that, say, the people actively involved in engineering things like matter collidors do get authorship or at least appreciation for their role in furthering science.

For me, our discussion is mainly in where to draw the line around "the process of science". The chair, laptop and coffee machines aren't science. The statistical methods, papers and engineering are. You seem to cut parts of the engineering out, namely the non-novel parts. There's a lot to say for that. But a PhD is proof of apprenticeship as well. I wouldn't grant someone a PhD if all of his work is 'mere retooling'. But in a mainly research papers based PhD-application I wouldn't feel some retooling couldn't be allowed. One could demonstrate scientific craftsmanship in retooling.
With the right type of personality. That rule you don’t like, someone wrote it, someone is enforcing it, someone has the power to change it given the right incentives. If you can empathise with these people, you can find compromises that are a step forward for everyone involved.

I know I’m pretty bad at this sort of thing, but I’ve seen people who are good and it’s definitely a superpower.
If it touches the ground, it gets moist. So it has to be solid rock or steel. Maybe some plastic might work.

A cellar can be built if you surround it with gravel and install drainage pipes everywhere - and protect the outer wall with plastic or tar - and even then it doesn't last very long and problems with moisture are frequent so you have to dig and expose it again every now and then.

The best houses sit high on solid granite foundation pieces and are ventilated from below. They have steeply sloping roofs and long eaves. They have the minimal amount of holes in the floor or roof (preferably no cellar or skylights). They are built on a knoll so no water flows towards the building from any direction. Rain water from the roof is directed away with gutters and ditches. All building materials are breathing and can be dried if they get wet (no plastic or glass wool).
What about tomorrow's?
That does seem incredibly naive. Maybe the problem is not so much that it was used to spread malware/illegal content but that it failed to reach mainstream adoption and as such was mainly used to host malware/illegal content that would be rejected by other hosts, while not generating a lot of good publicity and new users for Firefox?
What's weird to me is this emphasis on being first. Most of the media trumpeting that there will be some huge advantage to being first seems wrong and misplaced. Even if you manage to create a vaccine, you still have to manufacture and convince everyone it is effective. Rollout is likely to be pretty slow and uneven. This will take months.

In the meantime, other vaccines will be created that work just as well. The vaccine might be manufactured faster and be distributed more widely.

Create a vaccine isn't planting a flag or even reaching a specific destination. Creating a vaccine is travelling a known distance in similar types of cars. There's only so fast you can go.
iOS 14 shows a green or amber dot in the top right if the camera or microphone is active. But yes i generally agree that more robust monitor tools are still needed. iPad is "a computer", right apple?
Transliteration is not necessarily a sign of persecution.
But maybe it’s a true scotsman..?