skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty cynical take. I don't think we can possibly foresee all the advances that practical fully homomorphic encryption could provide. It could make it easier for under siege communities in repressed 3rd world countries to run fully online programs that can't be shutdown or blocked. There are numerous ways in which it could be helpful or harmful.

The point is that we don't know what's going to come out ahead of time.
Why would they improve the documentation? It's not like you have a choice anyway, you will have to figure out, since you cannot ask your customers to switch to another mobile platform... They really don't give a shit about developers. I'm a backend developer, their In App Purchase system is the worse API I have been unfortunate to work with (and it's much better than what it used to be)
Thanks. This is useful info.

Brother's site says my printer does support AirPrint. And through the printer's internal web server, I can see under Network -> Protocol that AirPrint is there and enabled.

I have the binary blob driver installed, so I guess this explains why two entries appear for this printer under Printer settings in Ubuntu.

So, a minor mystery is solved, and I now see that I have the option of removing this driver.
I agree!

With .NET Core 3.x it's possible to publish self-contained executables so there's no need to have to the runtime installed.

https://docs.microsoft.com/pt-br/dotnet/core/deploying/#publ...
it's infuriating that google is so embedded in government. i'm routinely thwarted from using government websites, especially in CA, because i block google (especially captcha).

if you're in gov (or not), please advocate for using/building open-source, privacy-conscious analytics tools rather than giving all of our sensitive information to uncaring corporations like google. the right to privacy extends to our personal data and google shouldn't be a information tollbooth between us and government services.
Exactly this. Most of the software others will build with GPL'd stuff isn't interesting to the owner of the original code. They're not doing it to fix bugs. They're doing it to add stuff for their own products. No community of the original software's devs is going to want the output of everyone else's surrounding code or customizations.
Out of curiosity how are you developing Xwm? Do you write/compile/run in a docker image?
Yes, the version dropdown is a godsend especially for .NET as there are many variations - If I want to see if the API exists or is different on say .Net Core vs .Net standard this makes it a piece of cake.

Also wasn't aware of the source browser - some questions are best answered by - use the source, Luke - and you might get better ideas for your own code from there :)
I don't know how true this is. Personally I've always noticed significantly more input lag on Linux than Windows for games. I even used to hack on ezquake's Linux port to try and get the input lag down, but the Linux kernel just caused too much latency. This could have changed since then though. You have to realize MS invested significantly in "gaming APIs" like DirectInput, DirectX all tuned to low latency gaming. Linux never really had anything like that. I'd love to see results showing otherwise, I'd far prefer to game in Linux if possible.
Regarding these two points:

- Key-Value Storage
- Event Streaming

Is there specific software used for these--what are its characteristics comparable with?
> also realized that the same people who are good at starting companies aren’t always the same people who are good at growing or managing them. The company itself has so much more potential than I have the ability or interest in offering and on top of that, I just wasn’t enjoying myself anymore.

I thought this was a key insight, and I'm happy the author is frank about it. Some people enjoy building things from scratch, others enjoy taking a good idea and scaling it. IMO, both are hard problems and its good that he bailed before trying to go down that route.
I thought this was a good story for all the Western world on how immigration helps with unexpected breakthroughs.

More stories like these might help moderate some of the borderline right wing anti-immigration folks
Here’s an alternate source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/aug/26...

I’m an Indian Muslim (born and raised in KSA), and while the source is from a PETA website it’s what we’ve practiced. You can independently look up the Hadith (narrations) and see if they are valid.

Although modern Muslims have become a lot more meat dependent due to modern agriculture practices (as have most societies regardless of faith), I would argue that for Muslims vegetarianism or moderation in meat consumption isn’t a repugnant idea as it is for most folks in the west.
Different screenshot: https://clbin.com/iu9cJ
I was never confused, but am more technical. I mean, how do you terminate to POTS, do the mix-ins etc without zoom decrypting on their end? If it's E2E encrypted and I have a dial in number - it's not E2E in that sense.
Show HN: Apogee – cross between a spreadsheet and a notebook
I don't think this is fair. This is more of a magazine article than a newspaper article. It's totally valid to draw a general reader in with answering the question of why to even care about this problem in the first place, and then fill in the technical details, which are, in any case, going to take some space to explain, given how complex the idea may be.
>Your competitors are doing it, if you don't, you lose.

What's far more interesting to me is the fact that your vendors are doing it. I wonder how much business efficiency could be gained by taking advantage of the fact that we all know the products our businesses are buying are oversold?
The Three Circles of Wealth Creation
> It could make it easier for under siege communities in repressed 3rd world countries to run fully online programs that can't be shutdown or blocked.

How can you expect people being targeted by hostile nation states to trust obfuscated closed-source software to protect them from said nation states?

Binary obfuscation techniques to evade signature detection are a dime a dozen. The only time this intersects with homomorphic encryption is when you're dealing with DRM and other privacy-adverse technologies.
No thanks. I've been writing .Net since before day one and quite frankly I've been buggered around enough now to run as far away from this as possible.
How about AWS documentation?
Thanks for replying back to me, I've been having a look and it seems that you guys are very talented.

I'm going to start a new project and if this can help me save time and not have to deal with aws, etc would be great! Depending on cost of course. Hopefully we can get some info in terms of cost.

About the repository/database layer, I found the "store" documentation; just going through things quickly at the moment, but guess that's what store means in the Architecture?

I'll check the examples you've provided and read the documentation properly.

Thank you and good luck!
I didn't blame their condition on Covid but that doesn't matter at this point.
This is precisely why I am a hardcore Mac user, the settings are straightforward and do not auto-revert and fail to stick anywhere close to the level of Windows.
> Obfuscate executable code? Somehow I don't think the original paper is talking about that.

Why not?

Technically its talking about polynomial sized circuits, but that is roughly the same thing.

To quote the paper, the property they are looking for:

"(T, γ)-Indistinguishability: For every two ensembles {C_0,λ} {C_1,λ} of polynomial-sized
circuits that have the same size, input length, and output length, and are functionally equivalent, that is, ∀λ, C_0,λ(x) = C_1,λ(x) for every input x, the following distributions are (T, γ)-
indistinguishable: {iO(1^λ, C_0,λ)} {iO(1^λ, C_1,λ)}"
The Case for Proactive Lockdowns
> It’s already in active use by teams at Microsoft and other companies...

This means nothing anymore. MSFT says that about everything they release and users are still often left with the feeling that they are guinea pigs testing a very unfinished product.

> For Visual Studio users, you need Visual Studio 16.8 or later to use .NET 5.0 on Windows and the latest version of Visual Studio for Mac) on macOS. The C# extension for Visual Studio Code already supports .NET 5.0 and C# 9.

Reading this makes me wonder who is still using Visual Studio. That IDE is so bad it's beyond believe. .NET 5 is a standalone runtime which anyone can install. You can write C# in a text editor and build and run it from the command line. Why the hell do Windows developers need to install an entire new IDE in order to use the latest version of the .NET runtime? It's ridiculous beyond belief.

Really shows that Visual Studio Code is the future. All you have to do is install the latest runtime and update the plugin so it shows you suggestions for all the latest language features. No need to install a new version of Visual Studio Code itself.

> .NET 5.0 is the first release in our .NET unification journey.

This might cause confusion. .NET 5 is basically .NET Core 3.2 but has been renamed to .NET 5 so that .NET Framework 4.x users can finally get convinced to move to .NET Core. They just dropped the Core to make it look more appealing to them, but it's still .NET Core.
>I know zero about Benford's law, there is at least one argument that the available data is not sufficient or does not lead one to believe voter fraud occurred:

Well you made the argument that I have been widely debunked.

>http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/inapB.pdf

Very interesting to have a paper written up already. I don't actually see the rebuttals other than 'everyone knows that's not useful'. Also interesting how he has discovered problems when republicans won. I'm not seeing the content to tackle myself.

>Poll watchers weren't let in to the Michigan facility because Republicans (and Democrats) had already exceeded the maximum number of allowed poll watchers.

Not how the rules are set. Michigan threw out all republican challengers(yes wearing a white halloween mask is probably inappropriate, but did every single one of the other republican poll watchers have mask violations or say racist terms. Not likely.) and then locked out all watchers. There are no limits as per the rules. Now let's say it was just limits, why block up the windows? Let the people record through the windows?

The problem is the perception.

>Biden didn't receive 138k votes to Trump's zero. That was a typo which was immediately corrected.

While I understand Vox or NYTimes outright assert that this never happened; yet NYtimes had graphs which showed the bump that was not removed. NYTtimes took down the graphs. The bump did happen, they are walking it back as 'typo'

How about the other 'software glitches' that benefitted Biden. Counties which have voted heavily Republican throughout history supposedly voted heavily biden. I guess it's certainly possible there was that much swing.

But now circle back. Poll watchers, of which there are no limits on numbers or qualifications, were not allowed in that building.

The problem is the perception. An awful lot of reasons to distrust the results.

>Poll workers do transcribe votes from damaged ballots. One poll worker reads votes from the damaged ballots, another fills in the new ballot. Of this team of two, one is a Democrat, one is a Republican. The videos of this process that some people shared crops out poll watchers.

That's not at all what happened is the point being made and there were no observers. You have a pretty precarious situation here.

>I agree that if poll watchers were not allowed to adequately perform their functions in any state that is not acceptable. It is not evidence of fraud.

That's the new thing by the news. "Trump has provided no evidence" how exactly can you provide evidence when the observers were removed from the process? The observers are the people who provide the evidence. That's why both sides agree there should be practically no limits on observers.

That's the fraud. Interesting also how we went from my points being mostly debunked to basically be all correct.
The pitot tubes had iced-over and it wasn't the first time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Pitot_tu...

But that's not what made me nervous about Airbus. Rather, that's when I learned that Airbuses are flown by side-sticks that aren't mechanically linked while Boeings are flown by yokes which are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Side-sti...

The idea that two pilots can provide conflicting inputs without realizing it bothers me from a design standpoint.
Here's a contrarian view of this (deplorable) situation, from someone who developed for Microsoft platforms for years. The low quality of the documentation has two reasons:

* Protectionism: The poor documentation defends expert third party developers against competition from new entrants. It ensures a shortage of competent developers and so enhances the revenue of established experts.

* Low commitment: The publisher (Apple) is unwilling to make the functional commitments implied by good documentation. Once the documentation says "this does that" it's harder to change "this" to do something else.

In the distant past, Apple teamed up with the publisher Addison-Wesley to create and publish high quality documentation. They could certainly do so again, with A-W or O'Reilly or whoever.

But they won't do it as long as they have business reasons not to. They have sufficient control over their marketplace to refuse to do this and get away with it.
Suppose there exist two programs that do the same task, with the following properties:

- Knowing program A allows an attacker to recover your password.

- Program B does not contain any information about your password.

Eve knows that these programs exist and that they have these properties. Eve is now given two obfuscated programs O1 and O2. They were produced by applying iO to A and B, but Eve knows neither A, B nor how O1 and O2 map to O(A) and O(B).

If it were possible for Eve to somehow obtain your password from, say (without loss of generality), O1 in any way, then Eve could deduce that O1 must be O(A). It could not be O(B) because neither O nor B contain information about your password.

Since we assert that indistinguishable obfuscation makes it impossible to draw this kind of conclusion, it must be impossible to obtain your password from O(A) if B exists.
I'm vegan (plant-based eater is less catchy) - but I started for health reasons tbh. Personally, I don't eat that many substitutes, except for convenience when I haven't got time to cook.

While the suffering argument is entirely valid, it's obviously not a successful driver of change. The climate change/pandemic/health angle is easily more appealing to the average consumer.
As someone who was in the so called "DevOps" position for years, I'm slowly becoming tired of asking management for "give me a technical writer, even half-time, instead of another dev/ops person" :(
> It destroyed their business completely when their fraud was discovered...

I suppose rebranding and transferring assets is kind of like a Chapter 7 "destroyed their business completely", but no one involved went to jail, no one lost their Series 7 or any other kind of licensing, no one was ever barred for life from ever managing at a public company ever again, etc. Sure, to laypeople a selling off of assets and rebranding sounds pretty "destroyed...completely", but unless there are lifelong, severe, natural person repercussions, business people are thrilled with the results. No clawbacks, no offender registration, can always point the blame elsewhere in future discussions (like job interviews). This is mostly regulatory theater, and all net upside for those who benefited by unethical action or by unethical omission.
Java has GraalVM whose AOT technology[1] is being adopted by pretty much every framework out there.

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/reference-manual/native-image/
Indeed. The government basically says "Please give us 1% of the profit you made from defrauding millions, and we will call it a day."
Even 5 years ago, I felt that Apple's documentation was way worse than Android's.

I wonder if there is a good way to measure documentation quality...I suspect such measures will require techniques borrowed from user experience research.
Jonathan Siegel is mentioned in the article (his company acquired Baremetrics). I dealt with Jonathan in the past, and I could only say good things about him - not just his business acumen, but his integrity and generosity.

Years ago Jonathan was in a position where we needed to buy back his shares in a company in which he invested early. He could have asked for a much higher price, and instead he graciously agreed to a different outcome - he understood the situation and did the right thing.

Glad to see that General Catalyst did the same in relation to Baremetrics, writing off their investment. These things don't go unnoticed. Sometimes reputation is way more important than a few more bucks for your LPs.
Is the term Corporate Social Responsibility still alive?
Thanks, I will review that. We are working on ASP.NET stuff and using Web.configs in a non-standard way (don't get me started) to store encrypted strings for... anyway, you get the idea. This is in the queue to get overhauled soon, so hopefully won't be an issue much longer (if you squint, you can see the end of the todo list wayyy back there). Maybe I should check this out.
In a back-of-the-napkin, spherical-cow, way, it's not too hard.

20% chance it happens in a year means an 80% chance it doesn't. Let's assume (this is the spherical cow) each day has the same chance. We can find it by looking at the chance an adult doesn't get a mental illness in a year. Then, because that's the chance they won't get it every day, it's easier to figure out the daily chance of not getting one.

0.8 = x^365
x = 0.8^(1/365)
x = 0.9993888346422956
1 - x = 0.0006111653577044462

So, overall, adults have roughly a 0.061% chance each day of getting a mental illness.

Compared to the daily risk for this 90-day period

0.8 = x^90
x = 0.8^(1/90)
x = 0.9993888346422956
1 - x = 0.0024763016863216247

So about 0.248% each day for the COVID patients. That's more than four times as high as for all adults.

Remember, this is spherical cow stuff. Numbers to use in other calculations need a more experienced statistical approach, I'm sure. But this at least tells us something's different.
That's the thing, it's all still there, but it's abundantly clear based on the pages and the list of supported OSs/platforms whether you can use it, and what the new API is.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/assetslibrary
> Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst and Young Audited Them

https://www.wsj.com/articles/string-of-firms-that-imploded-h...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24802741

Nobody at Arthur Andersen went to prison and SCOTUS reversed their conviction. The firm may have gone up in smoke, but nobody was actually punished for their crimes. Who at Ernst and Young has gone to prison for Wireguard or WeWork? None by my count.
Ah! Yay!
You understand they’re reading other people’s writing, right?

Of that’s your litmus test then we should stop talking about anything but software. Including psychology in software.
Isn't everything political nowadays?
Thanks for the info and the link.
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> (unless politics get involved)

I don't understand why the US Government can tolerate losing the edge in this area to other nations. Maybe its because TSMC is based in Taiwan, which is an American Ally?

It seems like one would want to retain these skills even if they may not be profitable. Are there military contractors dedicated to manufacturing microchips?
Article doesn't include a link to the study. Here's a link:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
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For folks with a family office the question is not too complicated. Someone says, would it be beneficial to have another passport (EU). The answer is yes (sometimes also intended to benefit kids by giving them lots of options in terms of schools etc). Then someone else does all the paperwork. You need to buy property worth $400K? That is not even an expense. This is not a "high cost" approach.
ok this one yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk

so, does it make me incorrect in general idea?

what about ls? echo?
Interesting, I always felt C# was a step ahead of Java, while the JVM was some steps ahead of the CLR.
I've seen this exact thing happen with a facebook acquaintance. She already posted a lot about every problem she has on social media even before she got Covid, but with covid it was another beast. She tested positive before she got symptoms but before the symptoms even really began she was reading anything and everything in full blown hypochrondia-mode and getting more and more depressed and anxious about it (from what I could surmise from the editorializing she added to every covid related article or study she shared). Within one week of testing positive she was deep into the articles about chronic issues, so it was well before quarantining period was even over. It was pretty wild to observe and she's still posting stuff these days. It's hard to distinguish what is legitimate and what's for attention. While there may be legitimate issues, I can't help but think that it would be hard to separate legitimate issues from psychosomatic ones brought about by the way she dealt with it (and how it has become part of her facebook identity). She may be an extreme case, but I could totally see the same happening with other people to a lesser degree.
Adopting a policy to never stash is a good idea, because "If you mistakenly drop or clear stash entries, they cannot be recovered through the normal safety mechanisms." https://git-scm.com/docs/git-stash
not much of a life really is it? That aside, it would make room for the non-livestock animals to live on the planet, reintroduce some biodiversity and create genetic firewalls to stop pandemics going absolutely buckwild.
> If you live in a fiefdom with wells, irrigation, castles, etc. -- then your Lord is responsible for everything around you.

Well that's because it's true. No human-collective entity is entirely evil, because otherwise nothing would get done. Look at all the evils of FAANG; yet they still pay their employees and have restrooms.
What would you choose for server code?
You will always need the IRS. There are always cheaters when it comes to taxes. Even without deductions you would still see underreporting of income and under the table deals. Not to mention the brand new headache of cryptocurrency taxation.
Which software did you use for that?

We also had an SE in the early 90s, it didn't seem more prone to crashes than any other computer I've ever used.

I still think they should've named the 2nd gen iPhone SE the SE/30, BTW.
Feeling sensitive? Portugal's program is widely discussed. By an apartment and spend seven days a year in Portugal (which is a very nice place to spend time!)

Here are the first two links on DDG:

https://www.second-citizenship.org/permanent-residence/portu...

https://www.escapeartist.com/blog/get-residency-second-passp...
Apologies, I failed to communicate my point correctly.

What I am trying to say is that vegans are trying to engineer a product. So this product the opposite of natural, so what is with the claims of health?

I don't know why I used the word "bad"

I find it frustrating as a person who only eats meat and vegetables to have to tolerate vegans who claim health benefits. Most vegans I've met are fat.
Why? Building a company is a journey.
Honestly, I feel like a shill because I was not a believer.

They are expensive if you're used to cheap inkjets and have to spend $80 on a black-white laser.
Israel reportedly has nuclear armed cruise missiles deployed on their submarines; this provides a limited and rudimentary counterstrike capability.
Hopin raises $125M for its online events platform on the back of surging growth