skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ICANN't is a corrupt scam, and everyone who follows Internet issues knows it.

They're continually coming up with new rip-offs to get people or organizations to apply for and then keep the astronomical fee after rejecting the application. Registrars, TLD owners...

Oh yeah, the "unlimited" TLD scam was one of the most offensive. They made it look like they were finally going to do the right thing and get rid of canned TLDs... but nope.

ICANN should be abolished. What should replace it? I don't know.
Or maybe because native apps are a better experience, nearly every time. True multi-threading, native code performance, latest UI implementation, more and better hardware access/performance, etc.... I can keep going but the point is that the web really is the lowest common denominator. That isn't bad but it also isn't how you build the best experience.
Apple, Google app store fights move to the states
If they had no reason to turn down drivers other than their race, sure, but that's because it's illegal (on top of being morally repugnant). They can turn down drivers for other reasons just fine, though, even if they are disproportionately black. For example, I'm told that voter ID laws are wrong, because black people are less likely to have ID (presumably driver's license). Alamo is perfectly able to turn down drivers without driver licenses, even if they are disproportionately black.
If Okta is ever compromised, they have a team of people working 24 hours a day to deal with it as quickly as possible. And, of course, to prevent it from happening.

When it comes to security, it's often a pretty good idea to put all of your eggs in one basket, and then make sure it's a really, really good basket. Unless you're certain you can make a better basket yourself -- and when it comes to auth, there are a lot of ways to make bad baskets -- it's better to use somebody else's basket.

It's not perfect, but I know I'm not an expert in auth. I use Auth0 and then get on with the rest of my work.
A cool trick with .webm videos in Discord
I think that's mostly FUD. It's just one tool that's reporting those reads, and the reality is that with modern storage hardware, the numbers they report can be very misleading because of additional layers between the OS and physical drive.

In practice, I can't imagine the SSD load to be particularly worse than what the iPhones endure, and I have yet to hear anyone complain about their iPhone dying from their flash storage being overused.
But the all-important question remains: how soon until I can eat a woolly mammoth?
Thanks for the tip, but the compiled version exhibits the same juddering/choppiness for me, most noticeably in the rotations.
Regulators should block this merger. Consolation is strangling capitalism in this country.
The proper analog to union types in Dart (as in Java) is enums and / or church-encoding [I think that's the term] generalized algebraic data types (GADTs). E. g. something like this: https://gist.github.com/jbgi/208a1733f15cdcf78eb5

Scala 2 also had `sealed` classes that could be used in places where you needed enums parameterized by runtime values and that's been generalized in Scala 3 IIRC.
> it should be noted that quantum mechanics predicts that this will not happen

There is a possibility that QM will break somewhere, but I wouldn't consider this very probable...
> might get construed as

The uncertainty comes mostly from the interpretation of the asked.

> is not intrinsically

The uncertainty comes mostly from the way in which the asker asks.

I believe the latter is more representative.
This is probably the the worst confluence of programmer & dad jokes I have ever seen.

I love it.
Facebook now beating Valve on Valve's own platform
> a job writing native apps

Sadly, a shrinking market day by day.
Shouldn't we just try to stop doing unfair things, and speak out against them when we can?

That's basically all anyone is being asked to do here.
On Android too. It literally takes 15-20s for it to charge enough for me to be able to select anything.
They're not assuming. They're analogizing.
You literally just made this up based on nothing
Questions still unanswered:

1. Did Apple talk to Dustin, or just to the media?

2. The 9to5Mac article says, "if the item is not received, Apple communicates with the customer over email and phone." Yet Dustin reported no phone call from Apple, and indeed Dustin's article says he was frustrated playing phone tag with multiple departments at Apple, each of whom were unable to help him resolve the issue.

3. Why did Apple Card deny the charge? My understanding is that it's not common practice in the credit card industry for cards to stop working after one late payment. It seems that the missed payment in this case would have only been $9.99 for Dustin's iCloud upgrade (which was successful charged and up to date on payments, Dustin said). There are late fees and so forth, but they don't usually just render the card unusable.

4. Why did this happen so fast, and why is Apple such a hardass with loyal Apple customers? A customer who in this case had purchased multiple MacBook Pros, as well as iCloud, I'm sure among other things.

5. What ever happened to the trade-in kit that Apple was supposed to send to Dustin? There's no indication that it ever arrived.
It's much simpler to compute answers with classical mechanics, and the answers are accurate enough for many practical purposes. As the saying goes, all models are wrong but some are useful.
Not an expert at all, but you can think of lattices as evenly-spaced grid points in a vector space. Given a set of basis vectors b0..bn, and arbitrary integers a0..an, a0b0 + ... + anbn are points on the lattice b.

You can have a "good basis" where the norms for b are low, or an equivalent "bad basis" with the same lattice points but with high norms. That's one hard problem (lattice reduction), but there are polynomial-time approximations.

The shortest vector problem, iirc, is to find the vector with the smallest norm in the best possible basis of that lattice.
Perhaps, but for many others a business model of "___, but with crypto!" is a huge turn off.
To be specific, the regression models they use assume no measurement error in predictors. In this case BMI isn't even a direct measure of adiposity, so it's kind of obvious, but even if they had a direct measure of body fat the issue could remain because error in measurement of predictors would attenuate the ability of this covariate to eliminate confounding.
That times out for me, I guess www.math.uni-frankfurt.de is now getting more attention than usual ;-)

Here is a version in the Google cache, it has an old date on it "work in progress 04.03.2020" and does not contain the "destroys RSA" sentence:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:E0L-S3...
I would argue that the original original sin is the fact that the government would bail out the banks writing these mortgages. The fact that the banks knew this encourages them to do take reckless actions in the name of profit. Why wouldn't they? There's no downside for them.

It's another case of the government attempting to help the economy, but only hurting it.
It is driven mainly by automotive uses. Modern instrument clusters in all cars are running Linux, and need to handle sound and video streams of terrifying variety, including dashcams, back-up cams, sirius radio, phone bluetooth, and more to come, directed to various display devices including actual screens, the instrument cluster, speakers, and phone calls.
Other way around I think. Your link is an old version of the paper. The one on eprint was just updated today with a version of the paper that adds the "destroys RSA" line and removes the "work in progress" line (put it in the wayback machine to see the version that was there yesterday without the claim of destroying RSA)
What really disturbs me is this comment:

,,But no one said fs.promises.readFile should perform similarly to fs.readFile ''

I'm happy that it was downvoted at least, but there should be a better way to set expectations for excellence in development.
[Disclaimer: I work on the Dart team.]

The TS code indeed looks cool. This is an area we're looking at.

One point, though: we try to be very careful to not regress performance or developer iteration time (e.g., type checking time) when we introduce new language features. E.g., structural typing can be more expensive in general to type check since we need to recurse.
There are just going to be more and more pushes to turn your laptop into a subscription service. Pay apple $100/mo and always have the latest hardware sent to you on release, always have the latest version of the OS, always have a store you can drop off a broken laptop and walk back home with a perfectly working one that day no questions asked, etc.
On balance, anyone remote before the pandemic and traveling the world has probably had a better life than someone with the same skills making double the salary in SV. Just the reduction in poop on sidewalks speaks for itself.

Apparently this comment triggered someone lol.
"This giant prime number will keep your information totally unreadable to anyone who doesn't have this other giant prime number" is no less of an extraordinary claim, just one that we all believe in (myself included).
Increasing the length by a factor of 2^400 only increased the amount of work by a factor of 20? Staggering, if true in general.
Read somewhere flutter canvas rendering was only a first « quick n dirty » way of rendering something on the web, but a true DOM renderer was the end goal.

Can you give more info on that ?

Another question i’ve always had about flutter : last time i explained how this tech looked promising, a friend asked me about performance. I said « they said it’s really good and smooth ». But then we tried the iOS demo app (something very basic about vegetables) from the app store, and the scrolling performance was a total disaster (on an iphone x).

Do you have an explanation for the discrepancy between the official ad one can read on google blogs, and the real-world experience of app developped with flutter ?
We're busy moving stuff AWS stuff to Graviton, too. I'm not directly involved, but my understanding is it's been all good (except that not every instance type is available with Graviton). We're going to save a whole lot of money (we spend several million per year on AWS) and as far as I know there's been no performance penalty or any kind of issue.
Flutter is not for everything, but it is really worth a look.

We (AU MVNO/Telco) recently converted iOS and Android apps (200,000 MAUs) to Flutter and it has been game changing. We had experimented with react native and found it just didn't deliver. Flutter is different. On mobile platforms the experience is super responsive and smooth and for your typical consumer app indistinguishable from the native experience. The tooling and developer experience are incredible. The benefits and experience where so clear that the whole team was onboard - including the most die-hard career platform specialists. Our velocity and ability to deliver is measurably better.

We're looking at the web target as maybe "good enough". I don't think it could be a replacement for a well-crafted web app, but could be used to provide a fast alternative to the primary native experience, and for rapidly prototyping and experimenting. In the current state, Flutter Web could never replace our highly optimised ecommerce funnel - some things you just need to sweat the details. But it's definitely better than some of the CX in the corners of our legacy applications. Shipping fast is valuable - so build for native, get a good enough web for "free" and then spend time and attention on the web if it is warranted.
Replace the “among us” reference with “here”
There are a few things that WASM can do that JS can't (at least not now):

- Memory management without GC
- Unboxed data structures
- SIMD
- Shared-memory multi-threading
- Precompiled snapshots (does not need to be recompiled on page reload)
Android development is like that; you hit a framework bug, you'll expect it will never get fixed. Just find a workaround and accept it's what it is.
QT isn't neccesarily a crowd pleaser, and in 2020 it's starting to look a little long in the tooth. Don't get me wrong though, I love QT on the desktop, and it powers some of my favorite software out there. Ultimately though, I don't think QT's fate is on the web.
By that argument, libraries and resellers are "stealing".

It's only stealing if the person who's being stolen from no longer has something they used to have. Potential things can't be stolen.
Quotes from Moral Mazes
Seems to be in line with the general stock market trend for tech sector.
“State legislators are pushing bills that would offer app developers like Spotify, Epic Games and Match Group a reprieve from the two tech giants' fees.“

Missing from this is that they are pushing such bills because of lobbying and support from Epic.
There are some which are explained in more than 4 words.
Far-right misinformation gets by far the most engagement on Facebook, study says
This was heavily discussed yesterday. (Edit: this next bit was out of date:) It seems the provenance of the paper and the 'destroy' claim are unclear.

“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26321962 - March 2021 (140 comments)
Simplifying the tax code will require removing special exemptions for certain interest groups. This is often rephrased as "raising the taxes on [group]" which gets a lot of pushback. For example, raising the taxes on teachers, native americans, certain small businesses, public servants, antarctica scientists, students at for-profits, etc. It's hard to fight against that message.
The confidence is in the ability to learn a topic, not confidence about the knowledge.
It really depends, I don't know what your product is but chances are it's pretty harmless. However, if your app offers services that are legally troublesome, for example an app that delivers cannabis or alcohol where age verification is an issue, yeah I might want to lawyer up there.

As a serial entrepreneur, my perspective is shoot first beg for forgiveness later. Honestly, nobody's going to sue you right now because you have an idea, you clearly don't have a real business setup, and you're not worth nearly as much as Google to sue. And when you end up having a million users, you have a great problem on your hands, you'll have enough money to hire lawyers anyway.

I'd recommend continuing to focus on finding your product market fit and actually getting customer stickiness before worrying about any of this.

We're a litigious society, but let's be real who's going to want to sue a budding entrepreneur. What could I possibly get from you. Wouldn't even be worth my legal fees.

I hope you don't take any of this the wrong way, just my two cents.
AAD implements SAML, OIDC, SCIM, LDAP, Kerberos, FIDO2 and more. Even if it was not a Microsoft product, it would have better non-proprietary interoperability than most other SSO platforms.
It makes sense that new employees are trained on the job from actual line workers, rather than by reading documentation.

It is totally possible that the line workers have no idea what the documentation on the tooling says.
Supposing the paper does describe a more efficient factorisation algorithm, that does not imply that factoring a 800 bit prime (like the author of this article suggests) would be cheap.
Would you not buy a screwdriver because some people with that screwdriver don't build chairs correctly ?

Like with Unity, the power of cross-platform development leads many to just assume apps work across platforms automatically. This is absolutely not the case, you need to properly QA any code you write and code it to accommodate each platform's quirks.
Cognito is a joke. It’s full of bugs, the hosted UI doesn’t support half the features and -- based on the change velocity I’ve seen over the last three years —- it is desperately under-resourced by AWS. The new releases always seem to be small changes (like adding a new OAuth provider) but never fixes for the major bugs.
Sure, but it's not a 1-1 comparison. If Hulu gets compromised you only lose your (hopefully unique) Hulu credentials. If your password manager gets compromised a single attacker gets access to _all_ of your accounts. The security standard for a password manager is much, much higher than pretty much any other service.

Password managers are still the best option for most cases, but having to put such an incredible amount of trust in a single company certainly makes me nervous.
It would if people could stick to the protocols in the studies as designed. In practice RCTs only enable us to estimate the effect of the _offer_ of treatment (the intention to treat estimate) rather than making a direct causal estimate of the treatment itself. Missing data is a particular source of bias in this regard (if people dropped out, you can't know why or the counterfactual of what you would have observed had they stayed in the trial).
I'm not sure about this. It is optimistic to see big actors getting into Ethereum but i don't think we should be happy about it. A "centralized" decentralized network running on Amazon servers? Are we learning from the past or are we repeating the same mistakes again?
How does one migrate your users away from Auth0 seamlessly as possible (when you’re using their Database connection)?

I seem to recall something about raising a ticket for an export including the hashes?
All those icons and no icon for +1 ?
Physicist, not physician, but really - I haven't used my physics knowledge directly in a few decades now... I've been a software engineer for most of my life :)

As for V=IR (I had to google U=RI, maybe U is the more modern version, but it was always V=IR when I were a lad), I don't really have a problem with ratios. When I was learning equations, the simple rule is "do unto one side whatever you do to the other", so ...

V = IR, divide by R -> V/R = I

I was happy with either representation, and I didn't think of it as multiplying, dividing, adding or subtracting, it's just "do the same thing" on each side. The problems I had were more "when do you apply Kirchoff's laws to figure something out, and when do you apply Ohm's law; that sort of thing you just get by experience, I think.
If OS vendors wanted web-apps to succeed, they could have done a lot more than they have done so far. E.g. better integration, or improved web standards to optimize for certain cases.
Agreed, I found it hard to write integrations with Okta and ended up using Keycloak and integrating it as an OIDC client.

I found Keycloak extremely easy to setup and work with.
> loading down literally every claim with that long chain of caveats.

I have never proposed doing the latter, so you are attacking a straw man. Once it's understood that you're teaching a simplified, approximate model, you don't have to repeat in every sentence that you're teaching a simplified, approximate model. You just have to not say it's "the Truth", without approximation and without qualification.
Defensive Democracy
Some how Google + Chrome is bad

But Brave + Cliqz is good?

I thought the whole argument was a browser shouldn't be owned by the same company that runs a search engine, or for-profit organization
Many of the lessons we learn with GPay directly fed into improvements in the framework, improvements in our tooling to make this kind of debugging much easier, and better documentation to try to scale the knowledge to the whole community. Some of these have already shipped (see e.g. new features in our DevTools) and much more will continue to deploy over the coming months.
Amazon changes app logo that 'resembles Adolf Hitler'
Nah it’s confirmed as from Schnorr.

He even reiterated his belief it leaves RSA rekt.

All that’s left is the veracity of the attack.
> For better or worse, because there's a lot of irresponsible drone flyers as a result too

The industry is doing a horrible job of educating people and, as a result, they are ruining it for everyone else. I have been flying all manner of radio control craft for over thirty years (planes, helicopters, drones and "things"). As a simple example, I would never --ever-- fly anything over people, homes, roads or high fire risk brush areas. I have crashed enough time to understand that that these things are toys that are not designed to the standards of real aircraft, often suffering from multiple single-point failure risks that could bring them down and either hurt someone or cause serious damage to property.

Our neighborhood FB group is, at times (usually around Xmas and people's birthdays) filled with videos from people flying their new drones over roads (as in, directly over cars), over homes, over bone-dry brush surrounding our neighborhoods, over people (crowds, kids, at parks, without anyone knowing), etc.

The other kind of post is "I flew my drone for the first time in front of my house and I lost it". Which, of course, makes me crying at multiple levels. The crash could easily cause a brush fire that could take out an entire neighborhood [0], and, of course, hurt or kill someone [1].

At first I tried to educate people as to the realities of these devices. I own RC helicopters that cost well in excess of $3,000 and I still consider them unsafe toys. Yet people get offended and verbally abusive when you explain that their $300 drone, despite the hype, is a toy that could fall out of the sky at any time and potentially cause great harm. I mean, I have worked on the design of space capsules that are docked at the International Space Station and people are arguing with me about their toys actually being "reliable". Jeez.

It's only a matter of time until a tragedy occurs. Thankfully the large fires caused by drone crashes have, so far, been limited to open areas. One day someone is going to crash a drone into the bushes in a neighborhood, the LiPo is going to rupture and half the neighborhood will burn down. Sadly people seem to value their fun far more than the safety of others.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/drone-crashes-in...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/27/14755116/jail-sentence-dr...
Hard to be scared of an animal we've already hunted to extinction once back when we were working with spears.
You can get algorithmic explicit constructions of (for example) integer addition, rational addition and multiplication and even addition and multiplication of algebraic numbers on a Turing machine (all algebraic numbers are computable). All of these sets are infinite. The reals are particularly "badly behaved" even as far as infinite sets go.
I am just waiting the release of the next NixOS stable version, since the integration in the current stable version (20.09) is still lacking some important features.
Perhaps they could use https://cheapeth.org/
I'm not sure of your point. You're scared of being seen as a predator while women are scared of being preyed upon? So wouldn't you want to try and make spaces as safe as possible so that women wouldn't have to be afraid?
"Email cannot convey information"? Baloney. It does all the time.

You seem to mean something different from what your words say...
For Facebook and Apple, mobile (native) is definitely the most important.

Advertising accounts for 99.9% of Facebook revenue, with mobile advertising accounting for 94% [1]

Not sure for the other ones.

[1]https://www.businessofapps.com/data/facebook-statistics/
By the way, you might like to try again with KSM (same page merging) enabled.
That one was posted later, so I think it will be fairest to merge hither.

(Item IDs are the definitive way to check that btw.)
> most sales for such games happen in the first few weeks of release, and people forget about them after 10-20 hours of play time.

Hot take: I support piracy because it hurts the firms I want it to hurt. The market would be much better if AAA games were pirated out of it.