skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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makes sense but what heuristic did you use to come up with that specific date/duration?
I'm not a deep expert in these areas, but one current problem seems to be money slowing down -- what often happens is people buy Amazon stock and sit on it. Amazon makes more sales, their stock price goes up, those with Amazon stock get richer (which they can often leverage into things like loans, without ever selling the stock), and at no point is some of that money taken to help fund general government.

When the rules were set up this wasn't the intention, and there might have to be changes. To be fair to Amazon, their problems are not as serious as many other companies which make it look like they make zero profit in some countries by "paying" themselves in another.
In what cases is Nim a better option than Rust? Would be great if anyone with more experience can share more information.
They were doing four days of work and getting paid for five, now they do four and get paid to do four :)

I also went from 8 hour day to 6 hour day with a cut in pay and no loss in productivity and I feel it was a win. I've enough money either way and a lot more time.
they say "distribute", not send. The truth is, you just put it on a web server with some rudimentary js, if required, and it works
At least the first comment I ran into on HN explained what a PWA is :)
32 random characters (192 bits of entropy if you assume base64) is a lot more than just "difficult" to find. I'm pretty sure that is not what the article meant by difficult to find pages.
I don't think that lockdown is an instant recipe for covid handling success. There are many countries that "performed poorly" despite going into lockdown.

Also, I think you are missing the point. The swedish strategy was based on people following the recommendations over a long period of time. Locking down is not a sustainable strategy, especially when you believe that the pandemic might last for several years.
It's similar, but for contract work, you need that to be ongoing. Law and custom provide protections for employees that contractors don't get.
Thanks for the tips! Marketing was clearly my weakness here.

(Unfortunately scraping Amazon is forbidden in their ToS, I got banned from the affiliate program for it)

Tech-wise you'd be surprised, the website is 90% static! It's simple vanilla JS and PHP, with a homemade framework, hence the great performance.
but this is america
> Why is ptrace enabled by default, rather than disabled?

because it's useful to be able to attach to a running process with gdb
The leveled up version is trying to figure out what exactly the local kebab shop is doing to their salad. It's sitting there in some clear liquid, but what is that liquid?! Vinegar for sure, lemon juice probably, but what else?!
I completely agree. Without savnat it would be very hard to navigate in the UK for me. Even with preparation ahead of time. The only useful feature in the UK vs other EU countries I have driven in are compass directions: NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST. Some motorways also have reflectors on the lanes to guide you, which is great and I don't remember from Germany at least.

Everything else is weird. Starting from the typography which looks clumsy, to inconsistent signage (which city am I tracking at the moment? Why is it not on the sign anymore?), junction numbers which are sometimes missing, abbreviations of places on signs, directions painted on the tarmac at junctions without signs.

A lot of those A roads go through cities, but are rarely labelled as such. Fully consistent with the patchy signs of street names in cities at junctions and house numbers only present on about 30% of houses, particularly shopfronts.

Not using the E numbers is just the icing on the cake.

Further, driving on the country side is dangerous at night as there are no reflectors on either side of the road.

So I guess you are right. Non-locals are still being kept at bay by the leaky signage traditions of the UK.
> Safari isn’t really a competitor to Chrome at this point, but rather a means of Apple to curb the web and to conform to it’s standards

You got this wrong. Currently it's Chrome that pushes its own standards at neck-breaking speed with utter disregard to any objections. For example, all of the standards that Mozilla considers harmful are enabled by default in Chrome. Or standards that both Safari and Mozilla consider woefully under-specced or badly implemented? Well, Chrome ships them to Google's own teams and then refuses to hide them back under a flag.

Apple may not give enough resources to Safari, that's true. But don't for a second assume that Apple is unequivocally bad and Google is unequivocally good when it comes to the web. I'll take Safari over Google any day of the week.
> just a sensible possible conclusion based on established facts

What facts support a European source for SARS-Cov2, that then stealthily traversed two continents, to then super spread in Wuhan, Hubei?
Same as REST: a meaningless buzzword.
Electron is native? It's just another copy of Chrome...
True game changer.
My family uses famileo.com (Europe only I think) which is basically that, selecting recent photos and add texts to make "articles" and they send your "family newspaper" to your older relatives each month.

My grand-parents love it, so yeah there's a market for this kind of things (at least as long as this generation lives).
There's another angle to this that was discussed on the Risky Business[0] podcast a while back, namely the security angle. As the recent Microsoft Team's vulnerability[1] illustrated, with many Electron apps any XSS vulnerability turns into RCE. Personally I am moving away from Slack, Discord, and other electron apps like them. The browser sandbox ensures that XSS is "only" XSS and doesn't turn into RCE as well.

0: https://www.risky.biz/

1: https://github.com/oskarsve/ms-teams-rce
> I don't understand how we got to such misuse of "PWA" in this context (e.g, on both sides of the conversation).

Because any convenient and positive term will be coopted and misused to death, on-purpose.
99% of security issues are silly and avoidable in retrospect. I don't think an insecure direct reference (assuming that's what is meant) is really all that different from most XSS, SQLi, etc
Linux Mint's take on this in it's next release seems the most appealing to me. It's based on "Peppermint Ice" [1]

"WebApp Manager" uses the Chrome/Chromium/FF installed on your machine and creates a separate browser profile for each "WebApp" you configure and launches the "app" or "site-specific browser" in a new window. Details: [2][3]

Works well for simple sites where you're mostly visiting links in the same site, like Youtube.

[1] https://youtu.be/UCzL8P3WDd4?t=407

[2] https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3960

[3] https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager
I experience this too, especially in technical discussions where everyone involved had learned the concepts in English originally. There is this peculiar feeling when you exactly know what the original English sentence was before its garbled version got uttered in your common language.
Do you think that increasing the number of autonomous cars will linearly decrease the number of accidents to a certain point? Don’t you think that increasing their number will increase the chances of meeting with really bad human drivers and we simply don’t have sufficient info on whether those ‘meetings’ are less or more deadly than with a human driver - and those are the cause of a significant chunk of accidents. And by intuition I doubt that today’s AI could react better than a competent human driver to someone cutting in front of it, and the like. Simply because we are better at reading high-level patterns in others’ driving. Reaction time is not the only metric that matters.
> But none of my clients even ask about Firefox support anymore. They don't care and neither do 99% of their users. Supporting FF maybe be the morally correct and heroic thing but it's like being vegan. You're a rounding error on policy decisions that matter.

I don't know... my bank launched a new web interface for online banking and they seem to take my firefox bug reports seriously.

Show me another browser that runs uBlock Origin and has both a facebook and google container...
> There's a lot of buzz lately about flash player being retired. Why couldn't Electron copy its approach?

Certainly can't work on mobile platforms where everything is sandboxed.
Your understanding of the meaning of proper noun is inverted :)
I Decided to Quit My Job During the Pandemia
It's a context-dependent condiment.
ActionScript was just like javascript, almost no additional skills needed
I like this, very good reference material.

But as the disclaimer notes, this should not be followed blindly. It's sort of aimed at a niche audience because imho you should know what everything in that guide does, or at least know how to look it up, before applying it.

Also I feel that the overhead added by not using systemd creates a lot of attack surface too. So that's a difficult trade off to consider.

This is a rabbit hole of a debate but I'm interested in comparing the security trade offs of using for example RHEL with systemd where you get properly packaged SElinux policy for all your packages, and using Gentoo without systemd where you get no SElinux policy packaged at all and you have to write and maintain a bunch of init scripts.

(And before anyone chimes in, I know RHEL has had to make compromises in their SElinux packaging but at least it's there and you have the option to build upon it)

I personally prefer having the systemd+selinux option over any alternative. Because ease of administration is also a factor that influences security in the long run.
> Additionally user research found little to no perceived user benefit to the feature

> No the user research was not performed on the implementation in Firefox.

> Unfortunately I think that the research is confidential at the moment.

Right. Of course the source is confidential. Not a lot of people are comfortable with uploading photos of their own ass on the internet.
How does domain collecting even work? Don't you have to continuously pay in order to renew your domain ownership? Even if it's $5/year per domain, surely at some point you have to stop collecting.
Are you native to the UK? (I.e. do you have a good knowledge of the cities and areas you are driving to and passing by?)

Is there a system you are using to navigate / prepare when driving to areas that are new to you? Particularly off motorways?
There's an English language froscon 2015 talk:

https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2015-1524-lies_damned_lies_and...
Can you provide some links about that? Or an explanation?

I am genuinely interested.
19,551 year old Mammoth is gamey as hell. Woolly Rhino is probably not so different though.

https://shop.minimuseum.com/products/mammoth-meat
Gemini protocol aims to address some of these problems by doing away with the web entirely. It's like a modernised Gopher with improvements that benefit from 21st century hindsight.
This is absolutely true. When i translate english insults to my native language(zulu) they sound so heavy and so evil.
Lol. At the level of tech? We are barely better than a lego mindstorm that goes forward until something is not closer than x centimeters.. (with a bit of sarcasm)

An autonomous car can’t really exit a parking building (I’m not really sure what are they called, but those multi-level parking thingies) because it would require them to understand signs and the like and those may often be missing.
Yep, I'm up for making change based on player behaviour and ideally the game would have zero instructions. Proper nouns come up often in feedback too.

Adding proper nouns has a few issues though:

- Where would you get an accurate dictionary of proper nouns? This would need to include e.g. people names, places, brand names. If it wasn't constantly kept up to date it could lead to more frustrations than just disallowing them.

- There's so many proper nouns it would bloat the game download. The English dictionary used right now takes about 3MB, which is the limiting factoring getting the game download lower than 1MB zipped. I'm failing to find an estimate but if you include proper nouns, the dictionary would be an order or magnitude bigger. Maybe less of an issue for mobile app store downloads but I want the game to load fast when shared online. A web service to check the words won't work for offline play either.

It's feeling like a "dictionary words only" message somewhere is the only practical solution. I could adapt the (single!) tutorial message at the start of the game to be "swipe in any direction to spell dictionary words" but "dictionary words" would probably be overlooked. There's no menu screen at the start because I know people are impatient. :)
Whether the Swedish herd immunity route was a failure or not is completely subjective. If your highest priority is to prevent all deaths, then it was a failure. If you are comfortable accepting higher elderly mortality to keep public spaces open for young people, it was a perfectly fine policy and it was a pity for Sweden to be shamed by certain media and other countries into reversing it.
I would remind my fellow HN readers that often with issues of race and violence it is better to listen first before potentially saying something stupid or hurtful.
It's part of the inherited "millenialism" of the modern world, the idea that progress towards some Star Trek future where everybody gets a free pony is inevitable, the human potential is limitless, resource and physical limits don't matter because "ingenuity" (and "we always found a way in the past", as if the handful of historical examples --which was non-industrial from the dawn of time until 3 centuries ago, and had very limited needs and very limited impact potential -- is a infalible predictor and pertutual guarantee for future outcomes).

The US took this idea and run with it, and also has an ingrained notion of a "manifest destiny" to lead the rest 96% of the world that way. Basically what you get when a culture is founded by persecuted religious nuts :-)
Oh, this is really cool idea. And executed well. Bookmarking it!
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The biggest threat to the open web is Google and Chrome. Apple couldn't imagine being a threat on this scale in their wettest dreams.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25591824
PIE has been enabled on most popular architectures since 2016:

https://sources.debian.org/src/gcc-6/6.3.0-18+deb9u1/debian/...
What is there always this assumption in wage law debates that employers have unilateral ability to “just raise their prices” and “pass costs on to the consumer”? There are plenty of other possibilities. It is also possible that the company will suffer reduced profits. Indeed, if the marketplace truly is competitive, the employer takes the price the marketplace offers. The employer can’t simply arbitrarily set prices any more than a corn farmer can show up at the grain elevator and demand a price for his corn. Economists like to talk about the invisible hand of the free market setting prices, but somehow when the minimum wage is being debated many economists toss the invisible hand into the trash heap and start saying that businesses can set whatever price they want and for some reason the market will simply bear it.

I’m not saying minimum wage laws are a good idea, but economists have no credibility when they won’t even allow for the possibility that wage laws might reduce corporate profits rather than leading to increased prices.
The difficulty of assessing the value of the work being done is indeed great. One way to look at this difficulty is as a significantly higher order phenomenon. What I mean is that if science is the discovery of regularities in nature, technology is the application of scientific knowledge to discover replicable tools, and engineering is the application of technology to solve problems at hand, the last is easiest seen, the one before a bit harder to appreciate as it can look a bit frivolous even at the start, and science is even harder to appreciate (what's the economic value of general relativity?).

And if you want to step one level more, there is mathematics.
> I disagree with this tutorial about tendency to use Terraform modules per AWS service,

seconded
* "The Yes Men from Tricksters in an age of dirty tricks" (the actual guy talks about the yes men)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEJ9VYmFbKo

Here is a list of all recorded talks of the RC3 (online conference, kinda replacing the 37c3): https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3
QAnon and the Fragility of Truth
Can an AI system learn on the fly (that would negate the testing done by the way)? Because I’m fairly sure other than sensor input “normalization”, they can’t and humans can.
SWF was a threat to apple's and google's walled garden. Its death coincides with the high point of the new world order

HTML5/JS animations and video are a worldwide space heater in comparison. If HTML5 was any good, app stores would have ceased to exist
Also 90% of the human population lives on the northern hemisphere.
Jakarta Security and Tomcat 10
> Great job, Microsoft!

Ah no joke, looks like they know you better than yourself
Personally, yes, I enormously want this, and as a Firefox user I have various PWA apps that I have to run standalone via Chrome, purely because Firefox can't do it.

Being able to have a desktop window and traditional shortcuts per 'application' is 80% of why electron exists and is so big in the first place. Chromium powers that whole market. Moving all of that to PWAs that could share a runtime and use Firefox internally would be a huge step in a good direction.
> You need a x86 processor and it is recommended to have 8GBs of RAM.

This is a bit much for a home cloud installation, but I could see it becoming what Invidious is to YouTube.
Because that information is not available in standalone frontend component. They would have to make an additional API request to get that when timezone is available locally.
The problem is most countries don't sample - they put people through a PCR test and then send them off their way. The UK also does somewhat-regular genetic sequencing of positive tests, precisely to spot new mutations.
I already replied to the parent, but Gemini is a modern protocol that significantly improves conceptually upon Gopher. It's lighter than HTTP/HTML and with just enough features to serve the small web and not much more. It's worth checking out if you haven't already.
For me, it's a full stack language, write the frontent with karax https://github.com/pragmagic/karax or react bindings https://github.com/kristianmandrup/react-16.nim and backend in pure nim with any of the available web frameworks (jester/prologue/looper) and orms (ormin/norm) and share code and type declaration between the two.
Armstrong article is so full of shit, I mean mistakes. It's not about how long it takes to make something, but to test it.
thank you for the follow up. You have made some good points but I couldn't find any explanation to what you said : systemd talking to the network before I even have the client firewall up.
If it didn’t there wouldn’t be any crime.
Scientific publications have citations and the findings in them, whether correct or not, are falsifiable...
The English (especially American) puritanism makes the language poorer in my opinion.

What to Americans might sound very offensive to an English person is just an interjection.

In other cases it can "go around" like the French-Quebec where the swearwords are church related
Any idea if it will support CORS bypass?
> And if you want to step one level more, there is mathematics.

The beauty of mathematics, however, is the fact that great discoveries can be made without spending billions on it.

There's little public backlash for funding a handful of people who quietly scribble on blackboards or humbly request a few hours of time on the university's supercomputer.

Compare that to particle physicists who'd like to have a new super-collider or AI researchers who can easily burn 6-figures worth of compute in a single experiment.
Data scientists are useless if they don’t have the right communication skills to empower decision makers.

This is why linear regression will always be king and people who know how to turn complex problems into linear problems are worth millions.
Oh I've already seen the Spolsky video, but I seem to recall for the most part (except for using tables, which is great) it's about how to use Excel effectively, not about how to produce maintainable sheets. The Twitter thread looks good though. Thanks!
When a person does it, they go to jail for a long time. When a company does it, it pays a fine, no wrongdoing
Doh, fixed (hopefully). :)
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What caused Shimano's Coasting-program to fail? (2010)
I mean hell, in a corporate network where you might want to look at hardening the configuration you roll out to your machines, you're more likely to have a hardware firewall and a VPN requirement before you even get to your "squishy" Linux box.
Today’s AIs are happy to correctly identify which lane they should be on - counting how many people are on a given vehicle is so way out of scope that there is no point continuing.
Microsoft is using LibreSSL in the OpenSSH Windows port - got any more info?
Ha, glad I wasn't the only one.
Apple purges 39,000 game apps from China store to meet year-end licence deadline
Electron has a number of problems. First, as already mentioned, any XSS turns into much more serious RCE bug. Second, the bloat. Third, on platforms like MacOS you're encouraged (soon required) to obtain a code signing certificate, which costs money and time and is often unfeasible for someone developing a simple app, compared to web. Finally, another security issue is/was that Electron releases lag behind the official Chrome releases (although nowadays this is much better).
The Shape of 6M Lines of Ruby
We use famileo too, it's great. Our idea with that side hustle was total automation so people don't have to even choose the pictures, and perhaps that's where the product market fit was lacking. The hypothesis was that 1. most people think they'll choose pics but in reality they rarely do and rarely print any, and 2. in the "choose and print" market there was too much competition to begin with, from printing for pennies at walgreens or online via shutterfly, to recurring services like famileo

Here's the video I made, for what it's worth: https://youtu.be/93XUnsrG18g
Many Mac lispers use CCL as well which has its own editor if you don't feel like using GNU Emacs.

Hemlock is an Emacs, though, so I'm not really sure what it would bring.
So what is happening physically?
https://uxmovement.com/content/how-margins-and-line-lengths-...