skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now we can supplement the heavy blanket of bleak wintertime isolation provided by COVID19 lockdowns with the heavy blanket of bleak wintertime isolation provided by a soviet-era concrete tower block simulator.

Now if only Dismaland would re-open again...
Not everyone is on HN for years. Some people may not know that those are job advertisements.
Was Spaces an app before it was a feature? Currently I'm using third party software to pretend I have Spaces instead of the awful thing that replaced it.
Weltschmerz
Sure, but we now can say with certainty that 2020 isn't the hottest year on record for that particular region.
> Network operators have a better view of the network than sources, and will know how to route packets more efficiently.

the value proposition here targets operators not end-users. if you look at it from an operator pov there are many advantages:

1) geo-fencing service for enterprise customers (think public sector, or ICS, which may have a strong need to guarantee a packet never leaves a jurisdiction)

2) "transparency" in the data plane while isolating the control plane.

I'm not convinced about this being better for security. let me rephrase, I doubt that it will eliminate/mitigate more security issues than it will create on its own. apart from the superior-security sales angle it will further lead to a "balkanization of the Internet".

This technology is extremely political and so there is little surprise it has momentum now when the focus is on isolating ourselves. See 1 Above - this value proposition isn't just great for off-shore banks, but also for countries who want less exposure to traffic from other countries (for whatever reason! think copyright laws, political sanctions, incompatible "human rights", or content-control e.g. social / free-speech / whatever values our own overlords might disagree with). SCION allows fine grained control over what to impose on who and helps with censorship since not everyone will be affected, it allows micro sanctions on anyone they disagree with and it will be harder for them to say it's happening because only they experience it. Think of it as a great-firewall-lite without all the political stigma and dressed up in the language of "security".
I’d just like to thank you for your work on Growl, Perian, and Adium. Those were fantastic, provided great functionality and were rock solid. All of them were invaluable. They are always associated with the good time I’ve had tinkering with my computers as a student.
Eh, if they're that capable, they probably have a lot of room to optimize for whatever they want. Maybe they consider rivets ugly—or consider making such a thing without rivets to be a demonstration of their skill (which it would be). I'd agree you can't assume for certain they wouldn't use rivets, but I'd say it seems likely they wouldn't.

(Of course, the chance they'd choose to make rivets in an exact shape and size and style that is presumably mass-produced somewhere on Earth is very unlikely unless they wanted to make something to blend in.)
> [citation needed]

Pretty much the whole of human history? There's no shortage of examples. To the contrary, it's more difficult to find examples that do not demonstrate tribalism.

> difference between individuals as to what they perceive their tribe to be

This is a recent luxury that hasn't existed for more than a century. Other than a few cultures here and there that encouraged blended demographics (usually as a consequence of conquest, think Rome).
The only reasons for needing to reinflate every day should be:

1) using latex inner tubes. They’re lighter, but don’t hold air so well. Fine for racing, impractical for normal use

2) a slow puncture
Question: would creating a symlink via ln -s also work instead of doing mv? That would be less risky and more performant compared to moving across filesystems.
Replacing one set of abusive tax-shirking anticompetitive monopolies with another isn't progress.
The mysterious silver monolith in the Utah desert has disappeared
What are you using our of curiosity? I used to use the amazing TotalSpaces but with recent versions of OSx it was no longer able to work. Now I've just gotten used to OSx's shite version but I really miss using a grid
That's the power of monopolizing a distribution channel
We are preserving all your favorite flash games
As most of you probably know by now - Flash is dying and will be gone after 2020. For years we have been working on technology that can runtime-emulate flash games in the browser called AwayFL.

Nitrome ( Bad Ice Cream ) is using the AwayFL technology, together with Splapp-me-do (The Impossible Quiz), Pixeljam (Dino Run) and as of recently also Brad Borne with Fancy Pants Adventures! These games are fully playable in your browser and you can even play them on your phone.

Gifs:

Fancy Pants on mobile browser: https://imgur.com/wCVn7UZ
Fancy Pants on desktop browser: https://imgur.com/WTu4TAn

Try yourself here:

https://poki.com/en/g/fancy-pants

( ͜ʖ) Also, Anyone remember this one?
https://qa-files.poki.com/html5/651e7954-e6b6-4354-80f5-e41ac9dc6921/index.html
I can say that Growl and desktop notifications are the very first thing I disable.

Not once on 20 years of computing did I ever think: “I want applications to interrupt what I’m doing and steal my limited ADHD focus because they’re lonely and need attention”.
Everyone should read this collection of some of Ted Nelson's insightful comments. Read slowly and considered carefully. Ted is a non-linear thinker whose insight is frequently extraordinary and sometimes embarrassing. You will be the better for your efforts.
GNU Make does support multiple outputs, but the feature is very new (it's in the latest release that came out earlier this year), so if you didn't happen to catch that release announcement you probably missed it. The support is called 'grouped targets', documented in the second half of this page: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Multiple-... -- the syntax has &: in the rule line.

(One point you don't mention in your list of reasons why Make is successful is that it's reliably available everywhere. For projects that ship as source for others to build, that matters, and it delays uptake of fancy new build systems in that segment.)
Csidh Reference Implementation
Testing webhooks using netcat and ngrok
also, a "canard" is a slang word for a newspaper (cf "le canard enchaîné") ;)
Oh, yeah, we have a lot of them in the Elbe. (CZ).
Parsed urls:
Fancy Pants on mobile browser: https://imgur.com/wCVn7UZ
Fancy Pants on desktop browser: https://imgur.com/WTu4TAn

Try Fancy Pants:
https://poki.com/en/g/fancy-pants

Anyone remember this one:
https://qa-files.poki.com/html5/651e7954-e6b6-4354-80f5-e41a...
AI knows who you love
Interesting that Apple/Google don't get sued for this. (I assume other stores like Amazon demand a similar amount.) It obviously is a result of a monopoly and the lack of competition of software stores. I'd assume the price to go down if there were a real competition. On Android, you can at least use other stores if you want to take the risk. But on iOS?
Yeah well, sure. Thats one ofmthe reasons, why I am highly sceptical when I have to trust authority blindly.
Which goes back to the main point. I cannot really trust a closed encryption source, when I assume they are infiltrated by (western) intelligence agencies. And those agencies I do not trust. And I believe with the open information about them, rightfully so, even if they are not (yet) on par with the Stasi or KGB.
Wow. You make a lot of generalization about a large number of people.

I don't know how much luck plays role in success.

I do know that people who see other's people success as luck tend to be not lucky.

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Did you ever immigrate to a country where you don't even speak the language, with a wife and 5 children, took 3 (concurrently) low-paying jobs just to feed your family and still had the energy and ambition to try to open a small business?

That Donut Kind really had it easy.
How much trust can you still give a company like ProtonMail, The "secure encrypted Swiss" email service...? Zéro.
> employees just use web apps

It’s all fun and games until IT ticks the “filesharing sites” option in their censorware proxy config, and poof, no Dropbox, no Drive, no Gmail...
It took me €80 in cash and an afternoon to incorporate a liability limited company in Germany. That seemed pretty easy, too.

But it seems the US is unique in the way that raising capital is much easier than elsewhere. That can be great if you want to start a business, but it also means that competition can grow quickly, too.
That’s awesome! The only other painpoint of using Elixir for ad-hoc script is terrible IEX experience.

Canceling a line that you made mistake in is nearly impossible without loosing the whole existing context, pasting multiline pipelines is a no-go. I hope that iex on par with irb will become reality someday.
The market should decide what the correct fee is.

Unfortunately, there isn't a free market in payment processors for phone apps as there is no choice, and therefore no competition.
Back when Shumway was under development I remember using the first big Homestuck walkaround flash (https://www.homestuck.com/story/1358?fl=1) to put it through its paces and found it to be unbearably slow to the point of unplayability. If Ruffle is capable of running those at any reasonable speed then that would demonstrate real progress over what Shumway achieved.
yeah, AFAIK the MediaWiki people spent a lot of time to write a new parser for their visual editor that creates an AST from the syntax. That should be a much better way to create whatever format you want.

OTOH this is just hearsay and I never really looked into it. So maybe this was the last ditch and OP just did not mention the failed attempts before?
I've personally worked with a bunch of EPITA graduates in the past and they are some of the best young software engineers I've ever met.
Similarly, they said:

>This vulnerability has forced Tesla to issue an over the air patch for its Model X vehicles.

And I'd consider it a more interesting story that "Tesla was able to address this grievous problem with an over the air patch."

This kind of problem means it's time for a recall for any car I've ever owned, and I think that holds for the majority of the industry today, still.
Yes. But what does it matter that he couldnt find her. The universe took them in other directions. Facebook was created to jack with the universe. And jack with the universe it has.
Solving Real Time Collaboration Using Eventual Consistency
Strange that Sudo can be made to use your aliases (outside of sudo control) but makes an effort to ignores your $PATH.
Fluid Framework Architecture
Benis

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/175/637/16d...
I doubt it, given they are not targeting the European market. As a Utah firm clearly without an EU nexus, why would they need to care about EU law (or any other country besides their own?)
Reminds me of https://poolside.fm/

I like how this website works really well with mobile (dragging / switching windows just works). Even the emulator runs on Android.
No, I did that for a number of products, I have no idea how you deduced that. At some point I was the only engineer in the company! I can still perfectly recall dating back 15 years how each product was tested and what the issues were. Am always on the lab floor when tests are administered, doing the setup work myself and sometimes fixing the issues as they arise. In the teams, all electronic designs are reviewed and signed off by me.

Hate to be blunt, but if you can't push your product past the baseline EMC tests (like 47 CFR 15b or EN55032), your designs have no business being out there in the wild.
This was definitely dated back. Maybe by changing the EXIF information?

Note how there are many fingerprints on the monolith that only appeared after many people visited it. They cannot be seen on the early photos from right after the discovery.
Not sure if this went far enough (even before it was deprecated), but SMIL was a standard for vector animation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animati...
> NOTE: The use of nonplussed to mean "unimpressed" is an Americanism that has become increasingly common in recent decades and now appears frequently in published writing. It apparently arose from confusion over the meaning of nonplussed in ambiguous contexts, and it continues to be widely regarded as an error.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonplussed

My observation: "continues to be regarded as an error" is a bit of a "that's not how linguistics work" thing
European (Czech) here.

There is an attitude difference between most European countries and the USA when it comes to starting businesses. Bankruptcy is shameful here, almost on par with deliberate crime, and carries a lot of stigma; you will be considered untrustworthy from that point on and will find it harder to attract funding or even customers, once they learn about a bankruptcy in your past.

The population is more conservative with regard to technical development, so innovations mostly take form of very gradual improvements. Disruption of any kind won't find much purchase. Americans seem to be readier to try new things out. Most European megacorporations are 50+ years old and their founders are long dead.
It's easy to think you could scrap a mature system and design a simpler one from the top down (or do a sweeping refactor). Sometimes this is true, but often you're simply overlooking years of edge cases and bug fixes that allowed the system to become as robust as it is. Emergence in itself is not a bad thing. It means the system grew from the necessities of reality rather than someone's imagination.
Ikigai – Part 3
I don't know. I spend a lot less money on software compared to twenty years ago. So much of what I use is available for free or a nominal amount. When was the last time you paid for a compiler?
> In Europe carriers never had any say about what functionality a mobile device offered.

Not so, unfortunately. I tried putting a phone SIM into an iPad, and soon got a message from the mobile company saying the SIM card wasn’t intended for this use and would be disabled until it went back into a phone.

(This was in the UK a few years ago with a Three PAYG SIM).
Show HN: An online ghost prank disguised as an AI face scoring tool
When people say richest country per capita, they dont mean "including native Americans and slaves". Those were not citizens. It is profit and wealth of whites that count.

You are however averaging production to slaves too. So in countries where blacks outnumber whites you get much smaller wealth then what contemporaries commented on.

The alternative scenario is north in any case. The kind of society and production south was is plain impossible without slavery. It just did not exist.
> Never move to a different country unless you've spent significant time there and you know you enjoy it.

It is not that hard to evaluate a country remotely.

Back in 1999 I picked the US as my destination country.

I moved to the US back in 2003 (as soon as it became possible) - without ever visiting the US prior to that.

I am happy with my country choice and never exited the US since I entered it back in 2003.
It's an outlier if you assume nothing's changing, but there are better ways to say that sea ice is generally shrinking than by pointing out that the current year is an outlier.

I meant that it doesn't look like an outlier if you assume arctic sea ice is decreasing (linearly?) over time (it does look like an outlier even there if you focus on October 24th).
I don't think what you are doing is good. I think its contraproductive.

This narrative of 'is a doctor' doesn't make that person an expert.

In a global pandemic like this, i think, you need an expert group of people with a min and max size. Those people need to be in the right position to have access the most amount of data and they need to make suggestions and predictions as accurate as possible. This then needs to be taken by the current government to decide what to do.

Your type of 'doctors' shouldn't comment on it like they are experts; They should start doing research with proper tools and statistics to support the expert group at the top.

It is easy to say something doesn't work after a few days or weeks. Its just not helping. If experts are trying this, the chance, that your opinion was a fluke and now matches your expected outcome, doesn't make you an expert.

All those shitty people thinking wearing a mask is a absolut no go and strips them of their rights are a real problem.

In germany on the 'querdenker' people brought up and compared themselfs with anne frank and sophie scholl because of this. She was 22 when she was killed by the nazis through a guillotine in munich as a student because of distributing anti-war flyers.

Seeing this is one of my most frustrating experiences with our society so far. While there are a lot of people following those simple requests, its astounding how irrational people are in the usa.
I disagree: my basis makes it easier to answer the question of how much faster can you go by exerting the same power. The point being that when you are already close to maximal efficiency the gains are very marginal.
FYI After USSR was destroyed many factories were selled as a scrap metal (you know - fast money), but it`s had some side effect - many cities were built around and for that factories. So people there slowly dying without any reason to live. Also I know something similar happened in USA when factories were moved to Asia. But this game show some post-soviet specific.
So, instead of needing a lawyer to comprehend the law, you'll need to be a programmer.

I'm not sure this solves any of the problems you are setting out to solve. I am sure that this, however, will create a lot of new problems.
I was at first very disappointed to read Ueli Maurer's name in the article; I attended quite a few of his lectures. According to the interview with him on the "Rundschau" (unfortunately in Swiss German), he hasn't known about anything and was certain himself that Omnisec didn't have anything to do with the NSA. However, I still struggle to see what exactly his involvement was with them - he was a "Berater" (consultant), but says that he didn't really have any insight into the algorithms etc. and couldn't have possibly known about their issues; so what exactly did he do for them, just sell his name?

I really appreciated him as a prof (even though he was known to be a complete hard ass when it came to exams with high bars to pass) and would be surprised if anything turned up that would question his integrity further; still, it does leave a bit of a bad taste after all his preaching...

And as a Swiss, this is a complete fiasco. That the issue with Crypto AG didn't send a few heads in the NDB rolling was an absolute disgrace, they didn't even pretend to be humbled by this or anything of that sort. And now another such story emerges, and while I do hope that we finally see some action now, I wouldn't be surprised if nothing happened again.
Nah, the hype on webapps was huge at the time. Even when native apps appeared on mobile and were on another planet of performance, a lot of people insisted webapps were the real future. That’s the movement that eventually gave us Electron and similar runtimes. This goes all the back to the late ‘90s, see for example this influential essay from Spolsky in 2004 [0]: “The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing.”

If anything, the steer to traditional native development was a classic example of Jobs being ready to deny everything he had sworn on until a minute before, just because he had found a new option that was more favorable to his profits.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
That would be pretty impressive. Do you have any insights?
Please tell me how, I've spent $100 a year to do that for a Iphone device. That's a lot more than 25% of $0 that I pay to support Android.
A Plan 9 C Compiler for RISC-V [video]
Imagine if the mall where you rent your store takes 30% of your revenue (plus a negligible fee). Now think of visa and mastercard that you use to charge your customers: imagine them also taking another 30% cut. That's basically what is happing here.

Many here pretend that Apple, Google, MS - first layer platform hegemons - and Roblox, unity, Uber etc - second layer platforms - charging 30% is fair because it's result of competitive market dynamics. But there's no true competition between these platforms. Specially when you consider that the longer a user is in a ecosystem, the costlier it is to move away from it.
> What are Interval Tree Clocks

... is a section that explains how they work without actually describing what they are.

Apparently it has to do with keeping track of time and ordering of the events in distributed systems. At least what it looks like from the intro of the paper the article is rehashing.
I've done that and it was lovely! 20 minutes bike ride each way, crossing the border every morning and evening on my bike. Nicer than most commutes.

In bad weather taking the bus, which was always on time and never delayed in traffic.
One can say that it's the power of creating a distribution channel where none has existed before.
> If you're skilled I'm sure you can find a company that you can put in 10 hours per week at

Do you have real world experience with that? I found on the contrary that the more skilled I get, the less companies are willing to make me work only part time. Which is too bad, because part time high paid job is really the best of both world.

Part time jobs in restaurants is what allowed me to learn programming when I was in early adult life, and I crave for as much time to learn new things, nowadays. Sadly, while people I work for are willing to negotiate insane amount of money (in my opinion), they are not to concede the slightest amount of time.
I'm convinced that a substantial part of the popularity of SaaS is because people can bypass IT and its sehnanigns.
Not currently FIRE, but close to it.
Are we guessing? Parma, Ohio?
Methinks you SEVERELY underestimate the business acumen of South and East Asians.

This is actually an interesting study in internal contradictions of the woke ideology. East Asians face a lot of racism when they move to Europe / America. Racial slurs, distrust from authorities, unwillingness to rent premises etc. No doubt about that, I was a kid in the early 90s and Vietnamese in Czechoslovakia were obvious targets, unfortunately. You could see it on a daily basis back then.

But that does not prevent them from growing very rich and successful. The so-called "systemic racism" somehow fails to prevent them from reaching elite status in large numbers.
It’s the friction of launching a new application the first time. It requires like four more clicks to run an unsigned executable on Windows, two of which are to bypass a scary “this is probably malware” dialog box.
It's interesting to see the defending gravity of the moon visualized. Any large impactor makes a similar journey?
A chain is an extremely efficient way of transferring power. A similar arrangement made with gears would be much less efficient (even if it could be made much more durable, but not at the same total weight).
Imagine a world where Adobe would have fixed the issues instead of stopping development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash
And the same principles used in a different context is called "advertising".
He is remembered for his other iconic role using his own voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRUBMBi_lp4
This depends on one's definition of "true competition".

Specifically, what Judge YGR said on Apple/Epic case seems very relevant:

> “Well plaintiffs always want me to define relevant markets as narrowly as possible. It helps their case. And defendants always want me to define markets as broad as possible, because it helps their case”