skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The total PC market (including tablets) had 23% year-on-year growth
Currently the workaround seems to be /etc/hosts override or firewall-level blocking.

Just a small reminder that this can soon stop working: Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816
"Faster" could also mean running at an acceptable speed on hardware where skia would be too slow.
If we've gotten to the point that an adversary can and would effectively blockade the US, destroy its infrastructure, and effectively prevent it from being rebuilt for an extended period of time, then odds are we have bigger issues than famine to worry about.
The link points to a C++ library that provides accelerated drawing of 2D shapes, apparently intended to be used for UI rendering.

This is not about HTML5 Canvas vs something WebGL based.

A browser could theoretically use this tough to implement Canvas elements. See this issue: https://github.com/intel/fastuidraw/issues/50
It's a reply to the tiring cognitive dissonance of posts like GP that basically broadcast that 'oh, I would simply love to support open software and general-purpose computing instead of locked-down proprietary platforms, but alas, Linux is simply unusable you see, so I have no choice!'
I would be more curious on why this is not bothering you at all.

You do like it doesn't matter.

Does it?
Humans are hard bastards to kill. The biggest and best tool is the one between our ears and the capability to draw a blank expression in the midst of hell is undoubtedly our best asset. It would take much more than nuclear weapons to wipe out humanity. We are the cockroaches of the mammals. The virus of kingdom animalia.
(sorry for late reply.) There was a bit in the OP that said in passing, "[f]or instance, it enables the creation of “deniable” encryption, in which you can plausibly convince an attacker that you sent an entirely different message from the one you really sent".

So candidate plaintexts that are plausible sources for the obfuscated blob appears to be a capability of this approach.
You mean too many nazis?
And maybe for creating playlists? And maybe for modifying playlists? And maybe for searching for songs/albums/artists? And maybe for modifying metadata?

Considering all these features that needs to be supported it makes sense IMO that it's a specific protocol.
https://onetool.co/saas-vendors/

"Keep your competition out! onetool accepts a limited number of partners for each service and pricing-tier. Most of your competition will not be onboard if you are."

Read as, we'll only support a limited number of vendors who approach us first, regardless of which the best solutions are.

More likely, they will only recommend the vendors they get the biggest cuts from. As a user this is no use.
My ballot had 35 positions to vote on.

I sometimes wish we had a separate federal / state / county / town vote to keep the practice up and reduce the overhead of individual voting periods.
The thing you gain from the replicas is removing read load from the primary during normal operations.
I'm pretty sure that the Earth going round the Sun and the Earth's axis being slightly tilted counts as a model using which you can predict the seasons.
A very nice web server :)

IMHO, it is much more modern and convenient than Nginx!
I really don't think so. The reason other sites look so bad is more marketing/AB testing centered around engagement, not because users like it.

Most users hate or fear what software does but don't think things can be better.
> What kind of profits are there to mine data in google photos?

Are you asking why data is valuable or what data can be found in photos? They could pour over every detail captured on camera taking note of locations, any products seen the background of your shots, the types of clothes you and your family/friends wear, who wears or doesn't wear makeup, etc) then they can use facial recognition to identify everyone in your pictures (photographed intentionally or not) and determine their relationships to you and each other then update everyone's dossiers with whatever new information they managed to gather from your pics.

Or they could just jerk off to your nudes. Who knows.
Well said! I agree 100%. When we look back to the Founders this is what we're talking about. A multi-layered Federal Republic without strong centralization. Centralization is what Progressives have been pushing on us bit by bit for 100 years and look at the mess we're in now. Every regime change in the Whitehouse pisses off 50% of the country. We're a large country with 50 independent states of differing geographies and political philosophies that s/b largely governing themselves. We're not a small country like Sweden. Why can't we have progressive states like CA and conservative states like TX. If CA wants healthcare they can implement it themselves and if TX doesn't then they don't have to do it for themselves. CA is the 5th largest economy in the world on their own. They dont need DC. I'm a conservative who crossed the border from MA into the Live Free or Die state of NH. Why do Progressives want to hammer a one size fits all solution down to all states from DC and ruin our freedoms like that?
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I should be able to license any Saas tool without talking to a sales rep or doing some kind of "scoping" call.
If a kid with a phone but no money wants to know if programming is something they might like to study, and somehow the school also can’t afford a Pi, I’d point the kid at something like https://js.do/
what is the privacy loss outcome that you are suggesting has happened as a result of photos being disclosed to algorithms?
Their situation of having to pay $24 a year?
Any relevant problems on your update?
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> Using smaller companies which charge honestly for the services they provide is probably more sustainable in the long term.

Smaller companies also commonly get acquired, shuttered, or become big companies in their own right. There's no panacea here. I think by the third or fourth time I was migrating from "the honesty priced option" the reality settled in that "honestly priced" is usually just an uninventive advertising moniker used for overpriced underdeveloped products.
>Share the sentiment but both of us are likely not the target audience for these kinds of funnels then.

Except I'm an engineer first who just happens to be able to make that decision, and I made the decision not to buy.

Here's the thing: we've been making bespoke machine learning products for large enterprise for quite long. Not huge contracts, but say mid six-figures on average. We sit down with our clients but the key word here is "bespoke", which warrants these meetings and communications and calls. We build these solutions from scratch to solve their problems with their workflows. Anything that's not bespoke or where we don't have to discuss regulatory matters or where that conversation is not required by law is a roadblock for my purchase.

One reason we're making our platform is to reduce that necessity and be able to deliver that value to companies without ever speaking to us. Heck that "speaking" is also included in the cost of the product, and all those "engineer.days" add up pretty quickly, making our client list exclusively composed of behemoths who sometimes happen to have internal ML teams but just need more help, or because we happen to have expertise on a problem and they're inexperienced despite their size. One of our biggest frustrations is that we could not serve smaller organizations, and I'm not even talking mom & pop's or SMBs, but even some organizations that seem large shy away from this kind of projects even though they want to leverage data.

I find that these companies and products are targeting decision makers who do not consult with their teams and buy products nobody will use. They're targeting dysfunctional organizations which, I'll grant you that, may be a large enough segment to build a business around. Not my ideal to wake up and earn a living, though, but that's another matter.
IDK, I started a blog recently with server rendered react and the thing builds on <15s for a production build (from the time the GitHub we hook runs a push to me seeing the new site deployed), and in ~2s for a local dev build.

It also loads lightning fast.

https://charron.dev

This is using next.js and preact.
GCP has a similar capability.

One thing that is kind of amusing was that I was able to find a price sheet in the AWS marketplace for GCP-owned Looker that isn't available anywhere else.

Apparently the AWS solution not only works as a way to simplify your purchasing, it also works to produce better transparency in the market.

I'm not sure the product mix in either case is necessarily what the OP was talking about, though. For example, I don't think, e.g. SalesForce or HubSpot are available on either.
This site was more useful to me than €300 of textbooks during my undergrad. I had to purchase two books so I could submit the homework, and in all honesty, I learned nothing from them, very little from the lectures. Almost all of my library algebra and at least my first 4 calc courses we're handled by Paul (and khan academy occasionally)
Depending on how it’s implemented I could see this being a very good thing. My public sector clients esp. have a hard time buying any Saas as each one involves finding vendors, getting it approved, setting up payment, etc etc etc. obv they have a whole procurement department for that, but I could see their job being easier if all their aws, azure, and smaller saas came on one bill. The organization would still need to handle compliance and be sure POs were valid, fair pricing, no conflicts, etc. but do that against one vendor instead of 100. It would be difficult to get right though. Balancing buyer and seller interests while trying to get a cut. In fact the same org I’m thinking about was recently forced to do all purchasing through a 3rd party vendor and it slowed down and complicated purchasing even more...
Where in the paper do they claim that? I couldn't find that.
> As long as something works like they want it to, most people wont care what platform they use to get it.

For almost anything, there are (at least in big cities and in the Internet) many vendors offering nearly the same with nearly the same quality level at nearly the same prices.

But I can't say I don't care whom do I get the same service thing every particular time. I'm more likely to choose whoever feels more nice and offers even slightly more freedom and flexibility. Once I've chosen a vendor I'm much more likely to stick with them (and choose them every time I need something else they can offer) as long as I don't feel severely dissatisfied.

E.g. once I've got a GMail (GMail is and has always been the very best e-mail service anyway, you can hardly be dissatisfied with it) account I would use everything Google if only they didn't piss me off politically (with stiff like this particular discussion subject) and scare me by terminating other's peoples accounts. But I actually am migrating everything I can away from Google and Gmail because Google seems becoming more and more evil (I even suspect RIAA only attacked ytdl after Google told them to).
WideVine has support for revoking private keys if they get leaked, which duped a bunch of smart TV customers before. I'm pretty sure the key is useless already, or will be very soon. Google can just roll new keys whenever the old ones get published through their Chrome update mechanisms.
One of the reasons given for the change to the California theme was that they wouldn’t be running out of names any time soon. So this will keep going for the foreseeable future.
64-bits have been around for few years. This means developer did not have sustainable income or is not compatible due to missing API (old Carbon times). Sooner or later you will need to move on. I am also on Mojave but booting to Big Sur to build for M1 with Xcode 12 is pain in a.
It's not about entitlement, it's not about wanting something for free as some other replies are trying to justify this kind of practice. It's about how offering something for free destroys genuine competition. Once the competition is destroyed, users will have no other option but to pay the price Google is asking. Users can't search for a better price or better service because there is no other competing business that can offer a better anything.
I dont like talking to sales people but I get where they are coming from. It might also be using the opportunity to do some discovery as to what people are using the platform for and who are those people.

But I agree that they should make provisions for people who just want to pay and get to business.
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"secret" when it's distributed with every installation of Google Chrome.

This is your brain on DRM.
That's really scary, at the same level as asymptomatic-but-spreading people.
Factorio 1.1 is getting close
Yet mandatory signing of binaries is enabled on the ARM build.

It is basically a milestone; since new binaries are needed, they might be as well as signed.
Highways and fast food kill innocent people too, yet society weighs the benefits.
>don’t want to manage every nitty-gritty detail of the security and privacy of my computer.

Good Linux distros have sane defaults managed by volunteers for you, so on OSes that respect your freedom you still don't have to do this.
Of course you can statistically predict the future. The error bars just get bigger the further out you go.
Oh c'mon, that is the oldest argument in the tool-box of Apple/MS "sheeple", as you put it. Most Linux distros don't require you to "manage every nitty-gritty detail" of anything. In fact, some of them make it easier for you to choose your privacy settings once and only during installation.

> I have better things to do.

Oh, mr. I'm-so-important, if ignoring your privacy and the rights to use your own machine is low on your priority list, you gotta respect those people who see it as something important, as well as their demand for something better. If you are fine with Apple/MS, great, use it. But don't try to take away the rights of others to look for something that better addresses their needs, and, especially, their right to try to tell others that it could work for them too.
MS sells cloud services. They don't really care what machine you use, as long as you live on Azure as much as possible. That's why they give you more and more tools that improve the "remote development" experience.

Apple sells silicon. They don't really care about developers; as long as they can pull enough users through the iPhone->iPad->Mac funnel, they have done their job of selling as much hardware as they can. In their view, developers bitch and moan but in the end will have to go where users go - at which point, Apple can tax them for access to the walled garden.
That would performance - if we're going for a run, how are they going to keep up and last the distance?

As another example, it's not unusual for top-level sports coaches (e.g. soccer, tennis) to be older, and to be overweight - it's their past experience that is useful, not their current appearance.
I think the point is if you charge upfront for storing peoples data under a certain price plan, you're less likely to change anything regarding the deal because you're in the business of storing peoples data. If you do bad, people will stop using the service, and you lose your business. You're more aligned with your users.

Compare it to Google, where they can operate under a loss for a particular service (like Google Photos) in order to increase profits in a different market (like AI recognition tools). Once they are done with whatever they wanted to do, they can close down the service without much consequence, the business lives on.
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"Neither French law nor European conventions recognize software as patentable"

Wait for the Unitary Patent to come to reality:

https://ffii.org/donate-now-to-save-europe-from-software-pat...

French courts won't have a say anymore.
Maybe you’re thinking of the frivolous legal tactic of sovereign citizens to assert that when their name appears in all caps in court documents, it does not refer to themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman_theory
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The line between IDEs and editors get blurry every day :).

You’re right java IDEs sometimes don’t include java sdk in the base package.

I’ve recently been fiddling with ios development, when thinking of an IDE, I think of xcode, visual studio etc. Lots of defaults and magic.

Slime might very well be considered an IDE, an IDE for power users :) who likely have learned at least some emacs lisp to get it working.
I own a company which manufactures and sells showerheads. Since the "vast majority" of people are prone to a fall while taking a shower, and since it is difficult to come up with a fool-proof solution against slipping and falling (who wants to get into the nitty-gritty of that?), my company also mandatorily installs a camera alongside, so that we can monitor for accidents.

Of course, it's not perfect. Some customers have raised concerns about their privacy, but this is for the greater good. My company is very ethical in its practices, and really values each customer's privacy (pinky promise). This is the best solution for everyone.

The footage of you and your loved ones showering is completely safe with us, although you can choose not to be recorded while showering by not purchasing our products.

Oh by the way, our showerheads are sleeker and more convenient than anything else in the market.
Owning slaves was also "legal" some point in time.
Normal in the sense of how flips of a coin give false positives and negatives with the same distribution.
One or two million people fleeing from the middle east to Europe caused large political trouble. Imagine what happens when hundreds of millions are displaced.
Maybe I'm too libertarian-leaning, but doesn't the author of the article have the option of NOT driving for Uber? If California is truly one of the wealthiest economies, the author should be able to find a different line of work.
What's with the weird punctuation in the altered title? Makes it hard to read. The article title is "Uber bought itself a law. Here's why that's dangerous for struggling drivers like me", and if you want to fit it into 80 characters, just drop the "like me".
Try running a content platform with an API.

I've never comes across so many developers who feel like they are entitled to unlimited API access for free so they can build businesses on top of your platform.
Another way of looking at this, perhaps, is that business concerns are deterministic. Deterministic is too strong a word, of course... but that's the idea.

15 years ago, the milkiness of potential cash cows was unknown. Search had an ad model that worked really well, as long as you had majority market share. Meanwhile, google had some great wed development chops. They could make a move on email, rss, a web based office suite and sweep the whole market in a short span. It was cheap enough, and each one might turn out to be a major business. Being free made sense. Higher product success rates and who cares about $10m here and there. The goal was that some of these would become multi billion dollar businesses.

I'm sure people remember the "google wipeouts" of startup territories when they released the latest something for free.

Fast forward... the bar for financial success is 25X bigger. Google's main problem is putting capital to work. We're way less naive about financial potential. Most of Google's important competitive dynamics are within oligopolies. There aren't hundreds of startups that threaten android or even youtube at any given time. A lot of the rollovers from Google pre 2010 just don't make a ton of sense.

You end up with these business/product units arbitrarily attached to stuff in the business. It's not obvious what they're for commercially, which makes them hard to manage. A commercially self sustaining unit can just operate like a business. It's easier.

It's the organisational version of technical debt.
<citation>?

Storage is growing faster. That's my point.
No, of course not.

Society will take that risk, though. The pandemic is killing thousands every day.
> with the diversity of commodity hardware out there, I would say that Microsoft has done pretty well with updates

This is a good point actually - with their walled garden approach, Apple has a much easier job with drivers than Windows or Linux have.

Of course, the end user may not care a jot, but it's an interesting point from a technical perspective.
For Google? A small fraction of what you guessed, in bulk.
"In California, one of the world’s wealthiest economies, I should be able to afford rent and pay my bills as a driver. I shouldn’t be forced to scour for public bathrooms or work 70-hour weeks to do this job. But that’s what these companies have forced upon us."

"Uber may have bought itself a law, but it has not bought itself reprieve. All labor has dignity, and driving for Uber or Lyft should be no different."

Cherri Murphy is a social justice minister and Lyft driver based in Oakland, California. She is also an organizer with Gig Workers Rising.

Oh ok, that makes sense.
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A fairly comprehensive step by step guide to use your website as a smartphone apps. Based on Webpack and Workbox (provided by Google).
Ellipsis is accomplished with an ellipsis, not a dash. Use ... next time.
Haha, hard pressed to find something better than an apple product in 2020? C'mon, go to any computer/phone store and you'll have plenty of options, for a cheaper price and with better privacy.
I'll need tutorials about starting a new web app, running it in dev mode without ide, developing with stateless architecture and deploying it. There is a wealth of resources about developing stateful web apps in Windows+VS and deploying it to IIS but learning .net from scratch outside this norm is a huge challenge.
Now don’t I feel sheepish!

But seriously, I guess it is possible to use a USB thumb drive on my Mac with only Thunderbolt ports, but I never have and it’s never occurred to me. I suppose I still have one somewhere and maybe a dongle that would let me do it.
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They're not charging a dollar. That's my point. They're raising their prices, while storage costs fall.

Lets try not to choose the most uncharitable interpretation. That's actually in the site guidlines.
When 1% of the permafrost melts per year, it releases about as much carbon as all of humanity combined. Where would you get the energy from to suck that back out of the atmosphere? Who would pay for it?
A sample size of one, but, I was able to pick out the correct penny immediately, and coincidentally, I work in marketing (but more technical marketing than anything brand-related).

In defense of the brand folks I know, I don't think any of them would say that the ROI from a well-designed logo is your ability to pick it out against a fake one. Sure, a poorly-designed logo would be one you would not be able to recall, but maximizing ROI from a logo is not maximizing your recall of it.

When my company rolled out a new logo a few years ago, some of the biggest selling points were making it consistent and easy to use, particularly in conjunction with our product names, which reduced time spent by marketers working around a hard-to-design-around logo. It also focused on make our workmark clearer, which was a real issue because even a large number of our own employees mistyped our company name as CamelCase instead of two words, which has real implications for trademark defense.

Yeah, sometimes logo refreshes are unnecessary. But not always. More often than not _you_ are not the end user benefiting from the changes.