skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a reasonable architectural choice early on when your app is live in 2 cities. Instead of changing the language of the app, they should have focused on its API architecture.
In a time that you could only get phone service from Bell. Now you have many vendors that sell Android based phones that you can choose if you want a wide open market.
Another autotracking tool is https://useitbetter.com which combines quant analytics with heatmapping and a/b testing.

I believe Mixpanel also offered autotracking for a while, but it didn't work out for some reason? It's probably difficult to mix pricing for manual tagging nad autotracking since the latter produce massive amounts of data.
I would say we're a very stable group. It's rare anyone is going to put in more than 45 hours a week, but at the same time stakeholders have extreme confidence that their projects will be done correctly. We're more of a steady churn than a burn out in a flash--which is the feeling I get from younger startup workers.
What are you even saying? Facebook and Google engineers are just writing code, just like (presumably) you. Very few of them make any key decisions, and most of them work on good things. For every engineer working on disallowing FB signout on oculus, there are 10 writing tools for small businesses to more easliy share their pages, helping people stay in contact with loved ones.

We (rightly) don't go after Northrop Grumman engineers when the US decides to bomb Yemen. Put down your pitchfork and show some compassion.
Your email address is still not on your profile. Did you add it to the window only visible to the HN mods? Or have you removed it again?

Regardless, as I type this, there are no contact details in your profile.
No, it's obviously Arch.

Gentoo users are busy doing other things and don't have time to push it into everybody.
Apple fires warning shot at Facebook and Google on privacy
Depends on what. For your Desktop Debian is not good, but bearable because of the variety of packages. Fedora still the best, or Arch if you want to break your machine every few months. Some even like Ubuntu or Mint, but those should be ignored nowadays.

But if you need a stable and secure server Debian or Ubuntu are a joke. There are no engineers with Debian, only lawyers and community managers.
There your can use RHEL, Oracle Linux (with dTrace and ZFS), or SLES. Those do have the experts. For an unstable server CentOS Stream is fine.
That new fintech venture is most definitely backed by VC.
>This may be an egregious question, but what does the Uber app actually do that makes it so big?

It justifies the employment of 400 iOS engineers, it also lets you book taxi rides.
The problem from the author's perspective is that the Obj-C "curmudgeons" were proving the right solution to save the app (drop Swift and cut losses + go back to a functioning language) but not the careers of the people who had gotten them into this terrible situation.
Answering my own question.. A cryptographer friend offered an answer to this question: The network operator may be the same as or colluding with the target resolver, defeating the anonymization of the proxy.

Once we say we need encryption on the first hop, then I can see the logic in using a stateless protocol instead of TLS for the second hop, to avoid TLS-in-TLS and all the round trips associated with that.

Side note: It'd be cool if these new protocols used the more generic Noise Protocol Framework [1] instead of a custom, more specialized protocol they just came up with like HPKE [2].

[1] http://noiseprotocol.org/noise.html
[2] https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-cfrg-hpke-06.txt
The NWS radar web interface is one those great examples of a government service done right. They've been working on an upgraded version, the public deployment was just pushed back a week. The new stuff appears much more bandwidth intensive, especially since "shared cache" is dead.

https://preview-radar.weather.gov/ still seems to be getting assets off arcgis.com ; surely theres room for a public map server that can stand this traffic?

I haven't looked at the code; I suspect its amenable to hacking up one's own views.
Still, it's not 1971 anymore. Can we move to SFTP at least?
> Usually people point to the judges' casual dismissal, as justification for their own casual dismissal

I can't say how usual this is without evidence, but sounds like you might be casually dismissing other peoples' thought processes, including the judges.

I think some of the issues and concerns being raised absolutely should be looked into, and at minimum they should help inform us on how to improve election processes going forward. But the bar for deciding to throw out votes needs to be very high, so I expect the evidence required to reach that level to go far beyond seemingly legitimate witness complaints. Those complaints seem like a great starting point for investigators though, and it's beyond my expertise to evaluate them myself.

Unfortunately we also have an administration coming at these issues in rather dubious ways, which seems to harm their efforts for seeking out the truth. It makes me suspicious they are really only seeking their version of the truth, otherwise why would they be arriving at such strong conclusions _before_ enough evidence has been gathered to determine real, quantifiable effects of specific events? If I have a hypothesis and want to legitimately evaluate it by gathering facts and then I proceed to announce conclusions before the evidence has been gathered and vetted, I would be correctly dismissed as biased and only looking to advance my own agenda, not seeking the truth.
The lengths some people are willing to go to absolve FB of wrongdoing here are pretty incredible. Concretely, I'm sure the problem has been brought up plenty of times by plenty of people. However, the log out button got clogged up in the phlogiston at FB and they're having a hell of a time looking for it!
There is, but it has its own downsides. Also, charging for internet services would have the effect of cementing the monopolies: why pay $5 for signal and $5 for mastodon when I can pay $5 for Facebook and get both?
This is a total non-sequitur. Just because you write javascript doesn't mean you're writing spyware or adware.
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> It's strange to me that Deno seems as if it could decide overnight to be a drop-in replacement

The 1.0 announcement post the team mentioned:

> For some applications Deno may be a good choice today, for others not yet. It will depend on the requirements. We want to be transparent about these limitations to help people make informed decisions when considering to use Deno.

and:

> Over time, we expect Deno to be able to run more and more Node programs out-of-the-box.

I don't think they've ever claimed to be an immediate drop-in replacement.
I was wondering why it was lighting up as visited link. Turns out it’s same blog that posted few years ago something so special it took me entire Christmas to read!
Thanks, I will be looking forward to this announcement as the current requirement would prevent me from using it. Cheers.
The Red Hat employees on freenode's #centos and #centos-devel have been quite adamant that IBM had nothing to do with this decision. How true that is, of course, is anyone's guess.
> 1) The "market" (for what, you don't say) was created by government policy hundreds of years ago (but not thousands of yeas ago?)

By market, I'm referring to what we refer to as the market today, which is a relatively modern invention. Sure, for thousands of years there have been things called "markets," but they were far more limited in scope and their role in society was not nearly the same.

> 2) The market needs constant interference in order to not destroy itself (and again you seem to be referring to a great range of economic activity, perhaps all of it, but not all of it because you're also saying it would destroy "much else")

I mean, isn't this obvious? The market itself is not going to enforce contracts, it's not going prevent a wealthy person from paying for a private army and making his own rules, it's not going to do anything about monopolies and cartels (at least not on a reasonable timescale), it's not going to manage negative externalities, it's not going to address or mitigate socially destabilizing economic forces, etc.

The market is like a car: it some ways it may be a modern marvel, effortlessly regulating the timing of its complicated internal workings in a way no person could, but without a driver it will run out of gas and as happily drive into a wall than not.
Such incredibly bad timing, too, with the vaccine coming ASAP. If we had delayed the second (third?) wave a couple more months or flattened its peak a little bit the vaccine would have saved us.
> You don't need to be told in a classroom to do that, it happens naturally

That's just a theory, and if you're wrong, then what? A description of what you think will happen needs better evidence. At least one other factor is religious/cultural inertia encouraging people to have lots of children, and that is somewhat characteristic/unique for each given culture s.t. you can't really generalise it too much.

There was a similar theory about non-democracies being unstable (Democratic peace theory, wrt greater public wealth), and how free trade liberates nations. How did that turn out for Chinese superpower?

China is an emerging superpower, and economic powerhouse, and anti-democratic to the extend of suppressing democracy in HK. It also does lot of trade that never seems to encourage an increase in civil liberties.

Now, maybe the theory was all an illusion caused by the domination and coercive power, of existing democratic nations.
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Show HN: Open Hours – Let friends/colleagues know when you're available by phone
Hello HN! Today a friend and I are launching an iPhone app called Open Hours (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/open-hours-call-a-friend/id1540104215). The app lets you turn on your availability by phone anytime, anywhere.

In real time, you can easily let your close friends, family, colleagues, or clients know that you’re free to accept calls. Just flip a switch. And you can find out who is free to accept a call from you.

We're building Open Hours because we believe spontaneous one-on-one phone calls are one of the most powerful and meaningful ways to stay in touch with the people we care about and collaborate with.

But they don't happen nearly as much as we'd like because we don't know when people we want to call are free and social norms prevent many of us from calling people in our social/professional network out-of-the-blue.

You can think of Open Hours as an alternative to texting a bunch of people “I’m free to chat. Are you?” anytime you’re available.

We think Open Hours could be a useful tool when you're commuting, running errands, doing light work in the evenings, or feeling bored. We also think it could potentially be useful for people in their jobs.

We’re looking for feedback on two main things:

* In user testing, our main challenge has been getting users to remember to turn on their availability whenever they’re free for phone calls with their friends. We know it's very hard to create a new habit. Any thoughts?

* We want to explore B2B use cases. Can you think of any industries or professions where someone would benefit from letting colleagues, clients, or customers know whenever they're holding "office hours?" We’re thinking about how we might make turning on your availability in the app part of doing your job.

Otherwise, we welcome any additional feedback on use cases and how this might address a pain point in your life.
It tends to make animations sluggish, see for example https://github.com/framer/motion/issues/441. That’s not because they are trying to track you but simply because requestAnimationFrame (which has its legitimate uses) can potentially be used for fingerprinting. No regular user is going to make the connection between broken functionality and this setting, and I’ve seen developers waste lots of time on this.
Sounded like a "both sides" analysis, where the assumption is that both sides in a disagreement must share blame.
My take is that eBPF is such a powerful technology that it holds the potential to fundamentally change how Networking, Observability and Security are delivered. Just like Virtualization and now Containers/Kubernetes challenged an entire industry focused on big servers, the ability to safely embed programs into the Linux Kernel w/ eBPF challenges every incumbent. We're seeing every incumbent vendor look hard at the technology and make build vs. buy calculations. New Relic probably compared acquiring Pixie this early to either building internally or waiting to see how things developed for both the market and Pixie. I'm guessing they made a bet that the longer they waited the more expensive it would be to buy an eBPF based company. It was a good fit so they pulled the trigger, de-risking things for both themselves and the Pixie team (Note I have no inside info this is all just a guess).
NWS could push the data commercial users want into a requestor pays S3 bucket. Archived/historical data could be rate limited, and made available for free (and I'd probably upload it into the Internet Archive for good measure).

There is a solid case that citizens requesting weather data should have such requests fulfilled at no or minimal cost, similar to GPS services (a public good) or FOIA requests. The government does charge user fees for some commercial services (IRS tax transcripts for income verification, for example).

EDIT: Please take the time to submit a comment on this issue [1] (last page of the pdf, December 18th deadline).

[1] https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf2/pns20-85ncep...
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In addition many physical copies, if not most or all, mostly are either straight up a redemption for an online key or are functionally telling your system to go download it.

Optical drives haven’t been standard issue in PCs for a while now.
Have you requested a meeting? You might be surprised.
When I first read this headline I was imagining physical extensions to my finger tips..
It's not that snarky.

Especially from someone new to the field these are questions I would be expecting, especially at a tech company (so pretty equalitarian and meritocratic where the director probably started as an engineer himself). I would also expect the career path to take to get into management to be discussed as well.
This concept doesn't really work as the OS updates are required to interface with features of the new phones and support features of older phones. This would essentially force users to buy new devices every cycle, or cough up money for the updated OS. Also what about important security updates and bug fixes? Would Apple just allow these vulnerabilities to exist if people didn't pay? Either way this would be a terrible business decision on their part.
Thanks. I ended up emailing directly, just posted an update. It's fixed now.
You're describing leases.
Contains more functionality than Uber at a smaller size.
I assume that the constraints placed on the Android team are much higher, as that market seems like it would be much more sensitive of app sizes.
New fields in humanities usually come in the form of "studies" majors, which have low applicative and monetary value compared to STEM fields.
Looks like China unintentionally found a way to damage the west pretty good. I wounder what will happen with the next Virus for the far east. I wounder if we will we learn from this and what long term changes our society will keep.
It amazes me that many people wait for COVID to end, but don't understand, that it will never go away completely.
resistfingerprinting works by making JS APIs less useful, even if used legitimately. If you rely on something that is both accurate and distinct to a user for functionality, that functionality os going to be broken by fingerprinting mitigation. There is no "fingerprinting API" that can simply be disabled, it's a combination of many APIs that all have real-world not-evil uses.
How many examples do you need to prove that something existed? Isn't one enough? When you see a fossil of a dinosaur skeleton in a museum do you say 'well hang on are there any more or just one?'

And it was rejected because it was a simple descriptive term. You can't take ownership of a simple descriptive term.

Bottom line facts are: OSDI don't own it - that's a fact - and they didn't use it first - that's a fact.
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Couple things always to mind whenever this article is referenced.

Joel's example is Mozilla, but Mozilla ultimately became more successful than Netscape (in terms of userbase with Firefox). Was the problem really the rewrite, or that a browser company was doomed anyway and the rewrite exacerbated it?

Also the article was published just a year before Microsoft pulled off what's maybe the most successful large rewrite and customer migration in software history: Windows/DOS to Windows NT (XP was where it became complete).

I've always wished for Joel's take on NT, especially since he was at Microsoft previously and it happened just after this article was posted. What's his opinion on its success when so many weren't?
Statically linked libraries.
I sure hope something happens, I wanted to buy an oculus this xmas for myself, but I left facebook in 2011, and all this facebook drama with the oculus accounts getting banned for no reason and having to have a Facebook account was the sole reason I did not. now I'm looking into who the next best vr option is.
I think by definition acting in a self-interested way is going to benefit you the most, otherwise it wouldn't be called self-interested. The problem is that often, acting in a self-interested way harms others, either directly or indirectly, hence being unethical. That's not the fault of the system, no system can prevent dogged self-interest being the most beneficial for yourself.
Experimentation / data-driven product development. You’re actually downloading 583 small variations of the same app, plus all the localized rules mentioned above, and it quickly adds up.
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Heh. Well, perhaps, but for public data it doesn’t really matter in general, does it?

Just like that installer you just downloaded off the internet, did you check the md5/sha to make sure it wasn’t tampered with? Just because it was over HTTPS doesn’t really mean much.
Amazon spent almost $14M on lobbying in 2020, and employs over 100 lobbyists. It's the #1 tech lobbyist in DC.
https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...

Also:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-amazon-lobbying/

In short, I think it's fair to say Amazon has been very successful in securing government contracts, lobbying for advantageous policy, and willingness to cooperate on just about any privacy-busting government initiative.
> What would be then? Newspapers? Gossip?

I think anywhere that libel and slander are enforced. Any random person with any random agenda can write on facebook or make youtube videos advancing that agenda.

> News sources are always biased, even when they try to stay neutral. The trick is to learn to extract useful nuggets of information from a number of biased streams. Having these streams biased differently helps.

I'm not talking about bias, I'm talking about obvious made-up QAnon garbage.

> This is much like raw data in science: all data have noise and imperfections, but statistics help extract a signal if there is one.

I would argue that baseless data is not data at all.
My mom asked me the same thing back in 2014 and I essentially felt the same way as you so I said the same thing. She bought some anyway though, and later sold when it hit $200. Glad she didn't listen to me.
The many ways of splitting a rectangle in many
I wouldn't say it's basic at all. It's an excellent distillation of the physics of cameras.

My one minor nit-pick would be introducing the wave nature of light so early--to motivate Snell's law and total internal reflection, but without discussing diffraction until well later and only in passing.

Snell's law can be motivated from a purely classical particle-based model as:

1. Light travels slower through media other than vacuum (This is mentioned, but hand-waved as boundary conditions, which probably isn't meaningful to the intended audience).
2. Light takes the shortest (in time) path between two points. (Light... finds a way).

Either way, the audience might find the obvious "why" for the first point more satisfactorily addressed with a short sidebar on permittivity and permeability of materials (their electrical properties, effectively the capacitance and inductance "density").

That can also lead to an interesting discussion of why conductors are usually not optically transparent and insulators are.
> I pay for my news to try an avoid the nonsense.

I sincerely applaud your paying for news, but a person who gets all their news via the free AP News and Reuters newsfeeds, cspan, PBS, VOA, Propublica, NPR, and so on can be very well informed and avoid a fair amount of nonsense.
When using event based goals, Google Analytics removes the ability to visualize funnels.

In my day-to-day this is a big drawback.
I'm not the OP, but I have a non-STEM degree and work at a research firm doing DARPA-funded program analysis and compiler research.

My experience does not match your claim: I've found no relationship between having a CS degree and having a strong grasp on "foundations" (which foundations?). The strongest indicators that I've found for whether someone can do complex, research-level work are:

* Being able (and willing) to try at a problem, even with partial information. Even more critically: being able to subdivide a problem such that they can solve some of it and be forthright about being unable to solve the rest.

* Just knowing a lot of productivity- and thought-enhancing stuff. My best interviewees are active and vociferous readers, both of technical and non-technical materials. They almost always end up treating interviews as conversations, ones where both parties end up learning a bit.
France contributes more to the EU budget than it gets out of it, including farming subsidies. With the UK gone, France is/will be the second largest contributor, in absolute terms. The largest beneficiaries, again in absolute terms, are the two countries that pretend to be Euro sceptic, Hungary and Poland. Go figure.

Of course that's just the EU budget. The advantage that all countries but particularly France and Germany (and, for another couple of weeks, the UK) get from frictionless trade are enormous.

https://m.bpb.de/nachschlagen/zahlen-und-fakten/europa/70580...
When I type "string", it returns commercials for g-string models. I love it because it makes me realize I'm living in in a small bubble.
This is the answer that the GP was looking for, but it's phrased funny.

sitharus means that the excess oxygen will oxidize (burn) things other than methane if there is enough oxygen present at the temperatures and pressures found in a rocket engine combustion chamber. It will oxidize (burn) things that you wouldn't normally think of as "fuel", such as the copper in the metal alloys.