skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As crazy as this sounds, it requires a hell lot more precision at this point.

But perhaps their engineers have already designed and tested different aspects of such a system.

Wondering if the catching can be done by making it float down in to a cooling tower size chimney, avoiding the variations caused due to wind.
This is America. Schwarz was not prosecuted for his crimes but for his failure to monetize them.
I only want to add security to the list.

This lead to my boycott of flash. Sorry flash websites!

Flash was an interesting experiment, as you said, important at the time, however I started distrusting websites, that used it, heavily and avoided them.
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You can reach out to her (or me) on email. Her email is all over her blog and mine is in my profile.

In my opinion the project that inspired this article was some of the most valuable work we did together and it was made more valuable by working directly in a pair (trio?)-programming context with the Underwriter the model was actually for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalously_numbered_roads_in_... amazing
This forgets a lot of the pain of flash. It was almost a windows only thing. It required constant updates independantly of the browser, sometimes not working properly. It was also a common cause of browser crashes. There was low control over what it was doing (remember those horrible ads with blasting sound?) Having a plugin to block flash was almost mandatory. It was also taking over user input in a way that always seems to break website that were a mix of html and flash. Flash was a horrible user experience.

The flash editor was indeed a user friendly and nice tool to get into vector animations though, for anything else HTML/js already does a much better job than flash in my opinion.

One thing i'll never get is why adobe didn't open source flash player instead of killing it. The money was in the editor, not the player. Open sourcing it might have changed its fate.
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For all foreigners China has a long and impressive history, for whom is this 5K claim relevant?
Why is HMAC-SHA1 still considered secure? (2015)
I wonder how this will affect Tesla's long-term profitability and valuation. At the moment, the average Tesla on the road is very young - especially with the rapid growth in production rates.

A car door that doesn't quite shut and lets water in is a major annoyance, but if they start breaking down left right and centre, that could crush them. Among established car brands, failure rates are a major decision factor.

Or maybe it will turn out these are mostly superficial issues, who knows. I'm not convinced.
In fact, we're talking about the company that did skip on insurance without even saying it, or asking for permission. It's Uber - one of the more sociopathic companies in recent history (all well documented). Not some charity.
The US government pulled funding for this, but coronavirus research was allowed to continue because they secured funding before the ban.

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/lab-made-coronavi...

Incidentally, most of Ralph Baric's research ended up in Wuhan with Zhengli-Li Shi and his team, where their research continued.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
They did, sort of. Flash (now rebranded Adobe Animate) can export to HTML5, it just isn't very good.

As I recall, it tries to naively export your Flash graphics as HTML5 Canvas drawing commands, but they come out all glitchy because Flash's renderer just uses a fundamentally different model (planar maps vs. stacked rendering).

This probably is fixable, but I sincerely wonder whether Adobe still has the engineering skills to solve new problems like this. They've subisted for so long now by just adding new layers of janky, slow, webview-powered cloud-enhanced e-commerce integration to their existing products, that I wouldn't be surprised if most of the serious engineering talent has left.
Fun fact, everyone I hear speaking out about Amazon taxes and worker conditions, has Amazon Prime membership.
There's a huge difference between the EU vs Microsoft antitrust investigations involving Internet Explorer. This was at a time when Microsoft was still the dominant player in the market and IE had a stranglehold on the browser market.

By contrast, Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the mobile device market, the browser market is dominated by Google's Chrome, and the majority share of browsers use Chrome's Blink engine.

'PWA' is a Google-invented term to describe technologies already implemented in their own browser; none of it constitutes a single standard unto itself. Apple not fully implementing Google's standard, made not for the benefit of the open web but to make ChromeOS a little more functional than a glorified web browser, is only a threat to those who've forgotten that coding for one browser is what got us stuck in the code-only-for-IE mindset and halted progress for browsers for about a decade.

Apple isn't the biggest threat to the free and open web. Google is. Everybody's using Google's browser, based around Google's own standards designed to force people to stay using Google, to access Google's search which displays Google's ads above Google's curated AMP results.
In other words - replace one horrible mess with another for what is ultimately only a web app.

Moreover, it is a complete red herring - there is not much advantage in a "much more up to date browser" in an app that will ever open/download a single page (so security or newer standard support is rarely a problem). Never mind that even the Electron apps can be (and are) updated frequently.

Also, PWAs are unable to do many things that Electron apps can as PWA is still ultimately in a browser sandbox whereas Electron runs a Node.js backend that can do pretty much anything a regular desktop app can (networking, access hardware, etc.).

That said, I am certainly not advocating Electron, it is a horrible kludge leading to poorly designed applications that break desktop usability conventions constantly, are enormous resource hogs and require weird workarounds for doing basic stuff only for the sake of being able to do user interface in HTML and javascript.
So if I set up a company and I'm paying my employees $4/hr, then the government need subsidizing $12/hr of my employees wage. This is completely broken, even more if the company is making tons of profit from paying their employees only $4/hr.
The current Chrome 88 beta has a new PDF reader UI that I've found to be much more usable.
Yeah probably. Its support for easily configuring daemons to run under dynamic users, with private tmp, lesser capabilities, read only root, etc etc makes it quite attractive.

Even more attractive if you’re writing a blog post about hardening Linux against ill specified ill specified threats. Writing a bunch of config files to “lock down” random daemons seems like it’d be right up this guy’s alley
They don't allow hotlinking. Copy the URL and paste it in a new tab, and it works :)
Ahh caralho! fuck puta de mi vida, cyka blyat..
In this case no.

The reason is that if you have a less widely accepted opinion and someone states it and you can add additional info to it which makes it "stronger" you are likely to do so.

Which still doesn't mean I believe it. As far as I know the scientific majority believe is that the virus doesn't show any indication of potential human manipulation and is very unlikely to be human made assuming China isn't years ahead wrt. virus manipulation (which doesn't mean it doesn't escaped from a lab, btw.).

But as I'm not to much involved in this I would need hours to collect sources and trace them back to their original source to provide any useful links. So no credibility to this post.
What counts as zoonotic? What counts as engineered?

The lab was publishing research for many years. We know they grew bat viruses in HeLa cells that had been modified to have bat features. One would expect, as a simple matter of evolution, that the viruses would adapt to replicate without reliance on the bat features. It's breeding.

Now, is that zoonotic or engineered? Reasonable people could argue either way. Does the term we use matter so much? William Shakespeare wrote that "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Either way, that is some seriously hazardous research with an obvious potential for permanent worldwide consequences. Somebody needed to say "NO".
I tried to submit one alternative but can't get hold o them. Anyone can help?
In a sense it makes swearing harder, because hitting the right tone in a language that is not your mother tongue is sooo hard. An no, just trying to never ever swear is not the solution because you will not know where the line exactly is and staying away from anything possibly offensive will make your communication boring and inefficient too.
Why do we need Uber in the first place? Where I live, there is an app that directly connects drivers to riders who pay cash, and nobody takes 30% fee fro mdriver's wages.
Things I always wanted to know:

> If you eat beans and fart a lot, do you ever get rid of the smell?
Well also that a fission reactor is so simple to build that nature accidentally made one in a swamp in South Africa a few hundred thousand years ago.

It's not killing everyone around it that's the challenge.
> the government should subsidize $4 per hour to give you a total income of $16 per hour. If you make $15/hr, they subsidize $1

Pretty bad example - where’s the incentive to work harder for the extra $3/hour when you get nothing?

And do you really mean to tax per hour rather than per year which is where we currently base income taxes on? Wouldn’t that continue to encourage 70, 80, 90 hour weeks which is really bad.
Was it possibly integrated into Adobe ImageReady [0]? It had a feature like what you're describing where after you finished designing your website, you could define cutouts and export as images+HTML.

This is actually how I first got into programming when I was younger. I made my first site in ImageReady, but it couldn't do all the other cool stuff other sites did like comment sections and logging in, so I went on a quest to learn how to do all that and the rest is history :)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ImageReady

Edit: actually, I found an example from 13 years ago https://youtu.be/qCq0JiwMcJs
Its absolutely true that an untested 1000 line python function is no better than a 1000 line untested VBA function.
I would argue that this is only half true. In the strictest sense, yes, we are at the mercy of hardware manufacturers.

In practice, however, we can make chips at home, using FPGAs. For example, Lattice ECP5 offers capabilities beyond what can be reasonably expected from true DIY chips, can be programmed using a completely free toolchain, and let you design your hardware as RTL, which gives you all the freedom to build a free hardware layer for your free software stack.

RTL designs in particular have a much reduced chance for FPGA-specific "closedness" to leak into the software stack, like it is the case with BLOB-based device drivers. While the designs will be FPGA-specific for performance reasons, they are not forced to be closed-source, nor will the specifics be visible outside the HDL.

Again, in the strictest sense, Lattice chips are non-free too and you are at their mercy not to withdraw their support and tell their lawyers to go full nuclear on anyone working on the free toolchain, or free designs for their FPGAs. But then, with true DIY chips, the same could happen to your suppliers for wafers or chemicals. Or just other chipmakers threatening you with a lawsuit.

I would definitely prefer "more open", but having to use an FPGA is not something I would consider a show stopper. Whatever holds back free hardware, I don't think this is it.
Looks like they are using magnetic sensors, this would would very simply, similar to the ones on doors for burglar alarms.
Python works with source control and tests so this would indeed be a problem with Excel per se.
The radial numbering can be a useful ‘signpost’.

As an anti-invasion tactic during World War II, a civil defence measure was to remove many road signs. That’d stop those nazis in their tracks.

So to this day, I find the UK a difficult country to navigate by signs alone as they are often absent at important local junctions.

In many other parts of the world, you can trace your way from a major destination by signs at forks/exits. In the UK, this often only works on ‘M’otorway routes. With satnav now ubiquitous, much local signposting tends to deplete over time, unless it is to control traffic flow.
What do you mean it talks to the network? Can you give some reference?
That would mean that there were plenty of mammoths around just underground, easy to find and within easy reach. If that is the case, wouldn't scientists flock to the area and collect them by the dozens?
Good plan, start with a small and easy demographic.
I have written a chat app for selling and buying cars. It has been more than two years work now, mostly on weekends but it is not finished yet. Cloud costs to keep it online are very low, only 5EUR/month since I do not use any paid service. I am still very motivated and have the expectation of launching it in the city where I live soon. Link: https://www.occase.de
You mean to say me that there’s no such thing as “superior programming practices”./s

I’d take a heavily used and tested system over one programmed “with superior practices”, like obsoleting rarely used code, any day of the week.

Yes, heartbleed was bad, but those type of bugs are rare, and once made public patches come fast. You don’t make your system more secure by exchanging the rare occasional general bug with obscure and unknown bugs (with unknown reach).

A lot of people thinking in security tend to fall for the availability bias, they want to protect themselves from the bugs that make news, while ignoring the ones that are removed day by day in a changelog of some minor utility they are using.
Ever heard of an obscure little thing called OS X?
Anecdotally, here's a lot more 'ancillary bloat' in academia now. You can't just buy a microscope, it has to go through a purchasing department. You can't buy your own conference tickets, there's a dedicated buyer. Money trickles down through multiple layers, each with their own beaurocracy. On top of your core science costs, you need to budget for public engagement etc. This has meant that there are more incremental studies being approved (that are closer to patient care), but fewer moonshots, which are harder to demonstrate outcomes.
Thank you these types of comments are why I frequent HN! Really insightful, first time I came across rollback I had one of those loving CS/SWE moments. So I'm grateful that you're so obliging to my curiosity!

Out of interest are there any toy projects out there you can point to that can explore the concepts here with no first hand experience with game dev?
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love that your hn handle is so creative with an english swear word :)
Indeed. It is a tool. The chief issue I encounter is the staff not actually using the tool, whether Jira or otherwise.

If Jira takes a performane hit by lowering the bar for the non-techs, fine.

Just use the tool.
Product Cycle 2021 Prediction for African Products
Heh, it's not that Redhat owned the devel community, it's that several redhat engineers joined the debian technical board and used their bylaws to force a quick vote.
> Configure a cron job or init script to update your system daily.

He recommends daily automated updates. This is quite dangerous from my personal experience in various distributions. An update might break your system or might put it into a vulnerable state. I very much prefer regular manual updates, as it allows me to read release notes, bug reports and manual user intervention instructions before update.
Your post is wrong on so many levels.

Take this as a start:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-sta...
Yes, very "exciting." I thought we were done with the snark?

Nonetheless, financial difficulties are not relevant. What is relevant is reducing the world's carbon footprint, and that needs to happen ASAP. I, personally, think it's more "exciting" that human civilization might survive another century than to keep track of the solution to some useless, financialized math problem. But, that's just me, I suppose.
The context of your quote is someone coming to him for advice, and proceeding to monologue at him.

Why would you go to someone for advice, unless you think they they have something of value to say?
If that's so (and I believe it is), then isn't this whole discussion a red herring?

The market correcting for disposable income is a problem. We'll never solve poverty if the market is just going to eat all the improvements we're making.
I'd prefer one Firefox tab in a standalone window (for example: Slack) instead of booting an instance of a different browser.

Granted, I could always have that tab in a separate window, but that groups it with other Firefox windows, making it harder to navigate to when compared to PWA.
If these things are true, author is talking about true, why are they not set to hardened by default?

Why is ptrace enabled by default, rather than disabled? Why is /proc visible to any other process? Why aren’t the ASLR bits already set to 32?

This of course leads to the question, why is there even a way to change this and why don’t we live in a opt-out world? This reminds me about that whole Apple vs. Facebook discussion again
> We used an Excel spreadsheet-based model with dozens of tabs containing complex formulas, endless pivot tables and unintelligible VBA code.

> The tangled mess of VBA was re-written into independent Python modules, each of which performs a distinct function.

Hardly a valid argument. I mean, VBA supports using modules too, so it basically comes down to an increased skill of the programmer and maybe more knowledge about the actual scope as it is a rewrite, but there is no reason why it could not be done with VBA.
so he did a chmod -w on their folder and it broke. Well, that's a feat I still have to work out!
There are similar markets in the rest of the word so, no.

There is also no need to ban such markets, but to further regulate what and how things can be sold is reasonable.

One problem often ignored is that because of differences in general wealth it's e.g. not always/every where feasible to require selling only pre-processed (cut apart) meat (and other body parts) as the necessary fridge infrastructure doesn't exist and would be to expansive.
Well, the premise was bit-charmer but too late did I realise most people would read it like you did :)
It certainly is counterproductive. We should be incentivising replication, not novelty. If you started giving out grants aimed at replicating results we would speed up scientific progress ten fold.
Hmm. Most likely. He was talking about fresh graduates not having people knowledge. That is probably less relevant in software development.
Ask HN: Division of Labour in Software Development?
I have experience writing software for myself but never worked as a developer in a corporate/large project environment.

My background is in economics.

How is division of labour achieved in software development. There are some obvious separations such as frontend/backend/devops but has anyone gone beyond that?

Has anyone tried a model where senior developers or architects define the data model and the high level logic of the software and junior developers are tasked with implmenting functions according to specifications and defined input and output data formats? Is there any literature or analysis showing if this works or not? What is your oppinion?
How good is the search in practice? Unsurprisingly, Google Photos is excellent at automatically categorizing photos.
If a job can be automated, it is better for society to be automated rather than to pay someone for effectively breaking rocks in the hot sun.

The US is wealthy enough to provide everyone in it a basic standard of life (shelter, food, healthcare, entertainment, transport) as a right.
My understanding from the reddit post was that it was forked due to the original seemingly being abandoned.
> Linux did take over the world, just not on the desktop.

I'm honestly not sad that it never happened.

It took over my desktop around ~1998 and I wonder if massive adoption of Linux on the desktop would have benefited me or been worse (from my perspective).

As it stands literally every single tool I want/need to do my job is already available for Linux and indeed many of those tools are simply better on Linux (docker on a mac is horrible, I have a work issued current gen macbook pro, I use it purely for testing docker set-ups and then it goes back in its case).

Its going to sound elitist but not dumbing down the platform for the average user is a benefit to me.
Yes - but only because of massive government subsidies for buying electric cars and installation of charge points in those countries, especially in Norway. And given that Tesla is/was pretty much the only thing on the market in that class, no wonder it is selling a lot there.

E.g. Norway has exempted electric cars from 25% VAT. That's some 20k EUR "discount" on a Model S right there. Plus it has excepted EVs from other taxes levied on gasoline and diesel cars. So no wonder that people are buying these vehicles there, they would be stupid not to.

The issue is not people buying electric cars but Tesla's claimed status as some sort of status symbol.

Heck, I would go electric myself if there was a car on the market I could actually justify buying - i.e. with about double the range of the current offerings, reasonable battery replacement costs (not costing more than the value of the car after 5-7 years - see Nissan Leaf ...) and reasonable price at the dealers (i.e. about half of what they cost today). People aren't stupid, they see the advantages of driving electric - but also can buy only as much as their wallets allow.

Cayenne prices start around 78k EUR in France, VAT and government ecology maluses included. So I doubt that 100k figure from Switzerland which has much lower VAT taxes, unless they have slapped some sort of "gas-guzzler" tax on it there (which wouldn't surprise me).
I know your pain all too well. I hate when people say stuff like 'Did you go to Harvard?' after I help them print a document. I knew managers who didn't know what < and > meant. They think creating a pivot table is genius work. I actually heard someone say you don't have to put .au on the end of the email address if you live in Australia. I sat next to one guy in a meeting who was typing away on his laptop keyboard without looking at the screen for about 5 minutes and then used spell check to fix every second word. These are the people running these old corporations.
"I built a Tinder-like matchmaking app where users log in with their Facebook account and the app then auto-matches users by their FB likes"

This is what most dating apps do, except Tinder (trying to do a clustering in an n-dimensional space). That Tinder outclasses most other dating apps is proof that your approach wont work. We don't look for people with similar interests for dating. Unfortunately we don't chose who or what we like in a partner.
as the earth warms and more frozen carcasses of extinct species rich with in tact dna, we may see a version of the imagined jurassic park become reality. i don’t claim to understand how viable the process of growing a complete organism from dna is but it seems like it’s inevitable.

interesting always how literary imaginations from the past drive some will to become reality to some extent.

we should ritualize big imaginations.
It's controversial only to incompetent admins, who should not be managing secure systems anyway.
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What’s wrong with google takeout? I’ve transferred everything to iCloud without any issue.