skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost. Cookies are way too permissive and complex. What I am thinking of is essentially a Session: abcdef12345 type of header that would be used for authentication/sessions. This header would be directly tied to the domain I am talking to and should have a simple expiration (or not) policy that the web server may suggest but I can override. No more X-PHP_Session_widget_co-referer: … type crap. No multiple cookies. No large storage. No HTTP vs HTTPS, no HTTP-only, no third party anything. path is the only thing I am somewhat ambivalent about because it does present a certain complication but also allows you to have applications that aren’t at the top of the domain.

Along with this we have a browser API we can call Authentication with something like Authenticate.prompt() and Authenticate.clear(). prompt() would bring up the standard browser UI for logging in and the parameters to it would dictate how the authentication should happen: username and password, 2FA options, private/public key, client certificate, etc. Registration could be handled in the same UI or have a separate API. clear() lets you have an internal logout button or mechanism on the site. The same APIs should be available via HTTP headers for non-JS usage.

As a bonus, we can then develop a mechanism for creating a session ID based on me having a private key that has an associated identity with with. So when I am prompted with a login UI instead of entering usernames and passwords I can simply choose from a drop down which identity I want to use for this site. Of course the problem of syncing private keys across devices is hard, but not any harder than what password managers currently do with my passwords.
Rego, the language used in Open Policy Agent, is based on and extends Datalog. It's gaining a lot of traction in the past couple of years for evaluating authorization policies.
> having abuse in the pipeline means that the only people that make it through are strong enough to withstand abuse and this strength is a positive quality

Having an assembly line process to create abusers isn't a positive. After they're done abusing the cadets, these men go home and beat their wives and children.
What's wrong with parsing your own log files locally?
Who are these people buying NFTs? These are some people mentioned in the article:

> Benjamin Clymer, the editor of the watch site Hodinkee

> John Demsey, the executive group president of the Estée Lauder Companies

> Clement Kwan, the former president of Yoox Net-a-Porter and a founder of Beboe (he bought physical collectibles, not NFTs)

The people missing is the people that spend 8 figures on NFTs. The best I could find is Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile, who spent ~$67,000 and sold it for $6.6 million

I don't doubt that the sales are happening, especially since large institutions like Christie's auctions are involved. But it may be just an elaborate pump and dump by those with interests in these NFT markets. It just seems odd that people are spending absurd amounts on vanity products without coming out and owning it. Or maybe I'm just not in the right circles to know about them.
Hover is quick and natural on desktop, but why would you want to long press a tab bar button on mobile? That's long and unnatural. Just press it (quick and natural) and see what it does!
This seems like an instance of a common tactic (or problem, depending on your perspective) that is especially common at software firms where management learn to work around employees' problems instead of challenging them to improve.

The engineer in this case had an emotional control issue: they reacted badly to anything new, even if they had no rational reason to do so (they were fine with it later). This could have been tackled by working with the employee to get them to understand that this type of loud public reaction is causing problems for everyone, including the perception of their own skills, and that they need to learn how to take a deep breath when a new change is announced - maybe wait a few minutes to write down what they wanted to say and then wait a few days before hitting the send button. Lots of approaches. Instead everyone else adjusted their behaviour to avoid tackling the underlying problem.

The manager’s new tactic seems to me both more effective and kinder

Maybe I'm just some asshole manager but I never saw it that way. You externalised one person's problem onto the whole team, who now all have to be aware of this special exception. Most obviously it makes it difficult to have brainstorming sessions, or if someone comes up with a new idea half way through a meeting unexpectedly, they can't raise it there and then, they have to wait for the meeting to end, pre-brief this one guy, let him/her get over it, then raise it with the rest of the team.

So whilst it may have been kinder to that one specific person, I'm not sure it was kinder to everyone else, let alone more effective. Especially because once such a culture is embedded, sooner or later half the team has some weird quirk that everyone is expected to work around or ignore.
You can’t prevent yourself from getting worn away by pre-emptively crushing yourself.

Your advice is contradictory: you’re just immediately causing future pain.
A bit off-topic but I recently wrote a blog post about how you could get historical online published news articles:

https://blog.newscatcherapi.com/an-ultimate-list-of-open-sou...
You actually cannot watch videos just fine, it blocks youtube/* You're presented with a page that says you don't have permission to use youtube(no errors), and when you google why, you find that support page.
The First Things to Disappear (2020)
It stems from the mechanical shutter not being completely "flush" with the sensor and some oblique rays illuminating "under" the shutter near the edges, this is supposed to even out with two curtain shutters, but no light can get past the efcs.

There are a couple threads on DPR, I found this real quick: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/59542514
Have you tried Nomad?
> [1] I have a theory for this, and it involves leaded gasoline.

May just be coincidence but this is the second time in the past few weeks I've heard about this, and I'm curious. Would you mind going into more detail?
> Tragedy of the commons.

Ah so you’re saying the lifestyle isn’t superior because it throws self interest out of the discussion.

And yes, it works out quite well for me. My hatred for cyclists who don’t use the bike lanes built literally for them is growing daily and so is my skill to hold the horn for minutes and holding low speeds in first gear. They want coexistence and they get coexistence.
So apparently the mainstream media has not changed much since.
Farbrausch!
>"and that makes banks more willing to lend out money"

And who, exactly, do you think they're lending that zero interest money to? People and businesses with collateral, i.e. the wealthy.
Sadly all my CPC/Amiga demos are lost to time.
Hello, JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (2013)
Swarm isn't dead, it works just fine and is being actively maintained.
Displaying real-time targeted ads (1) isn't Apple Business for sure. Selling you health data to health insurance companies (2) fits their strategy much more, and by accepting their privacy policy, you allowed them to do it. I don't consider (2) less harmful than (1).
And having people select between scenes, as well as idling behavior when you are not in the actual frame as well
How did he forget about flash games? Now when I see a new indie game I get nostalgic for the old flash game that was just like the new one. My kids will never know how fun those games were.
Pine has decided that selling their products as close to cost as possible is how they can best achieve their goals of spurring open development and a having a vibrant, international community. It seems to be working for them.
Some protection is good but there is this sort of hedonic drive to keep extending protection even though only a certain amount is needed to keep industries alive. At that point it is purely a wealth transfer.
To me one of the scariest things is Twitter wokeism.

It echoes Honeckers DDR. Neighbors and friends denouncing each other for minor transgressions. Some of it due to personal revenge, some of it to provide cover for their own shortcomings, some true believers.

Honecker did it for power and oppression. These people gleefully enlist voluntarily, attacking enemy and friends and each other to prove who the better dehumanized human is. Goddamit, it’s sad.
Using a Proportional Font for Markdown
Rand Paul Slices into Doctor Fauci
Right. Members of the band Tribe worked for Looking Glass. 2 of them went on to lead roles for Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

Tribe's music video for Supercollider[1] was filmed at the Superconducting Super Collider before Congress cut funding. It might be the most expensive music video set ever.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX1Y7147L6Q
Works properly on Chrome 89 on Nokia 5.1+
Hacking IIS
Tesseract is great in certain situations but a lot comes down to having a robust preprocessing pipeline and a correction flow. I wrote about this a few years back:

https://chris.improbable.org/2014/3/17/content-search-on-a-b...

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2014/08/making-scanned-conte...

Basically the big problems are getting the content deskewed (even a slight rotation will cause accuracy to plummet, which is a problem if there was page curl or a flaw in the original printing process), breaking text into clean segments (non-trivial in newspaper layouts), and dealing with noise from dust or content from the other side of the page bleeding through. The collection I’ve worked the most with (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/) also had a lot of problems due to many collections having been scanned from microfilm first. Tesseract 4 is better but in my testing you aren’t going to see revolutionary improvements without investing in tooling to identify segments and clean them up before passing them to Tesseract.

Since that entire collection is public domain and freely available for download (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/ or s3://ndnp-batches), researchers have used various ML tools on it and that definitely looks promising but is not a silver bullet by any means. There are some trained files available here along with a large public S3 dataset:

https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/
I always wondered why demo scene was so culturally impactful in Europe but not in the US. I wonder if it’s due to the fact that Amiga was a lot more popular in Europe than US.
Which makes a lot of sense. How is it fair that a speeding ticket costs the same for everyone? For the lower-class, a speeding ticket can mean not being able to afford food for the month. For the upper-class, a speeding ticket can been seen as just the price for driving faster than usual. Laws are supposed to treat us equally, but without considering the income of the one who gets fined, the law is really unfavorable to some while at most a nuisance for others.
I believe it's new accounts only, however if you do any kinda of migrating around domains (as happened to me) you'l trigger it. You can probably make an advance payment of $100 to google work and then wait the 2 months.
Oh for sure. Even if it’s the P6’s microcode (the first with updatable code), I’d take it. I’ve always wondered what microcode looks like in these processors, and how it functions. There is “p6tools”[0][1] which looks interesting. But if Intel released info on it, that’d be really cool.

Sidenote: Ken Shirriff has reverse engineered the ARM1’s microcode,[2] but it’s a “horizontal” microcode (bits control CPU blocks directly) while x86 uses “vertical” (RISC-like) microcode.

[0]: https://github.com/peterbjornx/p6tools

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oFOpDflJMA (slides: https://hardwear.io/netherlands-2020/presentation/under-the-...)

[2]: http://www.righto.com/2016/02/reverse-engineering-arm1-proce...
Anthony Scaramucci Claims Elon Musk Added Bitcoin to the Balance Sheet of SpaceX
It’s also a non-archaic English word.
>> “The equities space and the cryptocurrency space over the last couple years created really savvy investors who understand the dynamics of the market, so it’s a complement to their Coinbase accounts and their Robinhood accounts,” Mr. Petrozzo said.

This sort of hubris was heard often before the first internet crash. This time around instead of the most amazing technological shift perhaps ever witnessed it's about sneakers and baseball cards.
> until the 20th century, with Beijing* as the primary exception, big cities were in Western Asia, North Africa, and Europe
> Why did rice-growing areas have villages while wheat areas developed cities?

I'm sorry but that's simply untrue. There were lots of cities in premodern China. Urbanization probably got started earlier in the Near East, which is why you get early large cities there, but even in the list you link to, from ca. 1000 BC on there are basically always one or more Chinese cities in the list: Haojing, Luoyan, Xiadu, Chang'an/Xian, Nanjing, Kaifeng, Hangzou, .... (And this is ignoring other large cities that were never the largest like Guangzhou.)

(Beijing doesn't become really significant until the Mongol Yuan dynasty makes it their capital in the 13th Century.)
I just have no understanding of why anyone would work at anything for 95/80/crazy hours per week. Unless: it’s your own thing and you’re committed in a personal way, eg a startup or first business or whatever. But even then, life is too short to do this for any protracted length of time.

But then I also don’t understand anyone working solely for money, and I double don’t understand anyone wanting to get into finance, so what do I know...
The point is that few want this and Chrome make a default behavior that inconveniences lots of users.

Chrome should default not to prompt. Safari estimates that no one wants this, and I suspect they’re right.
This is how inflation takes effect, first investment instruments, then luxury goods, then basic goods, then rent, and finally, wages. Basically, from closest to the money source and spreading out.
You make good points but IMO that's an Apple problem first and foremost, not an application designer problem. If an application doesn't follow the guidelines and breaks on some of the phones supported by the app store, then Apple should tell the application makers to fix it lest the app be removed.

Last week I defended the move by Apple to remove that "crab house" app because they're the custodians of their walled garden and get to enforce arbitrary standards of quality and safety on the behalf of their customers who bought into the ecosystem. With this same mindset I can only blame Apple here for failing to maintain the quality standard on some of their phone lineup.

So basically I'd frame this as "Apple failing to enforce the guidelines" instead.
Stamp isn’t Amore-ica
> You don't think lady in 'mail-lady' refers to woman?

It can either refer to their sex or their gender.

> Rude. I never would. But if I did it would be redundant after calling her a woman. What do you mean?

If we refer to sex, a woman/lady is someone with a vagina. So yes, if you call someone a mail lady, you literally are describing her as a mail carrier with a vagina.

> But maybe I'm trying to help my brother find a partner so I do want to point out available women, and that does imply people with vaginas. Again, so, and what do you think would be a more efficient way to do this?

In that case, you might also talk about "the cute ginger mail lady with blue eyes" (or whatever your brother likes). But in most situations, that would be quite inappropriate.
Jeremiah Reid Travel Is ******* Hard
Seriously, these top level complaints make me very happy Safari isn’t doing this stuff.
There was an interesting black hat talk about automatically finding undocumented instructions. [0]

Interesting comment on twitter to the instruction of the original post[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ&t=3

[1] https://twitter.com/eigma/status/1373155650432290819
The problem is that it doesn't convey the subtlety that occurs when your income starts to drastically outstretch your expenses. I can't speak for anyone else, but _my_ brain can't wrap itself around the additional income...You have $1000 in income, and you make sure you keep your expenses to $900. So you have $100 extra...and you scrimp and save, and eventually you have $200 extra.

240 months later you don't feel any safer that you have $125000 in savings...meanwhile, you've upgraded your house 3 or 4 times, have upgraded the car 3 or 4 times, bought all the food and clothes and vacations...but you're still the same scared little rabbit you were when you had $200 extra.

People may or may not contribute to a greater cause with the extra money, but that's not the only factor into how people think about money.

Additionally, money does NOT follow value. That guy that IPO'd and his net worth went from $25,000 to $130M? It really wasn't from anything he did, it's lottery money. Is it fair? Meh, I dunno, I'm just pointing out the trope. But if you suddenly found yourself there, why WOULDN'T you buy the most expensive $item? It doesn't affect the number in your checkbook any.

We have the same brains our ancestors had...all it needed to do then was learn how to find the next meal.
I would find this a more compelling argument if some of the apps in question weren’t from Apple themselves (Apple Shortcuts, Apple TV). If Apple can’t get it right, then how can we expect anyone else to?
Honestly thought it was an exaggerated title but reading the article says otherwise. That’s a lot of mouse. Is it because the habitat is missing the right predators due to climate change?
I’m aware of a business owner that was given 200k and said that they easily could’ve gotten more. They had to ask for it quickly so it wasn’t quite “stuffed” into their pockets but the impression I get is that the larger businesses had an even easier time.
I'm a (retired? infinitely procrastinating?) demoscener and to be frank I've never understood this effort. What does it help anyone that some bureacrats somewhere put the demoscene on the same list as folk dances, saunas, and "the Gastronomic meal of the French"?

I mean sure, it's impressive that they pulled it off - I wouldn't expect whoever decides these things to understand much about computer art subcultures, but I don't know what the benefit is, to anyone.

EDIT: I just realized that of course the answer is, like anything demosceners do, "because we can". What was I thinking?
Mostly homes and mortgages for me, not so much tangible objects as ramming a few hundred k back down JP Morgan’s throat.

Disclosure: my sell orders are always higher than the current market rate
All that craving. If only they learned they could satisfy it best by acting in service of others. As one of my role models and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Frances Hesselbein says, "To serve is to live."

They're doing the opposite.
Apple bent its rules for Russia–and other countries will take note
You absolutely can find a 1-bed in super-central London for well under £2000/month, e.g. it took 2 minutes searching to find this one https://ww2.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/57988484/?search_id...

But furthermore, you can find 2-beds in the same location for around £2000/month (I live in one). Suggestions that an analyst at GS or an E3 at FB earning 70-100k isn't actually that well off because rents are high are silly, if they're struggling how is someone on a more normal grad salary of 35k supposed to be coping?
Maps does what I want in this instance. The display shows results for what I searched for. If I want the map I tap the map. If I want to see more search results I scroll down. I'm not seeing any problem. I want those search results when I search. Where would you suggest they put them. The screen is already small, putting them just on the map would make it hard to provide any details to help you find the thing you were searching for
> 80 hour week cap

Understandable, but ultimately pointless: employers don’t demand the hours per se, they just pile so much work on you that you need 100 hours to complete it. The unspoken implication is that if you can’t complete it all in a reasonable amount of time, the fault is with you, not the workload.
Goldman & Sachs is a notorious money making machine that's optimized to squeezing as much money as possible out of everything they deal with.
They will do everything they can get away with to achieve that. Where do you think the 50 million bonuses are coming from?
And of course individuals who sign up for it know what they're getting into and why.
> Back in the mid 2000s I remember reading about top Wall Street traders taking home $50m annual bonuses.

Does a 50m bonus generate 1000x more happiness than a 50k salary? What’s wrong with that is that it seems pointless and myopic.
Taken directly from the Nomad website[1]:

> Kubernetes and Nomad support similar core use cases for application deployment and management, but they differ in a few key ways.

> Kubernetes aims to provide all the features needed to run Docker-based applications including cluster management, scheduling, service discovery, monitoring, secrets management and more.

> Nomad only aims to focus on cluster management and scheduling and is designed with the Unix philosophy of having a small scope while composing with tools like Consul for service discovery/service mesh and Vault for secret management.

Compare Kubernetes Pods and Deployments to Nomad, and the full Kubernetes ecosystem to the full Hashicorp ecosystem please.

IMHO, Vault and Consul are very hard to operate correctly, at least as hard as a Kubernetes cluster on-premise (managed Kubernetes does not count).

[1] - https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/nomad-vs-kubernetes
When I was younger I briefly flirted with the notion (and eventually decided against) of working abroad as a dev and came to the conclusion the UK has the worst software engineering salaries in the developed world. For an American, finding a low COL area to settle in and working remotely seems like the winning play.
Why? What if you're developing some app where you want to divert from the guidelines, you should be able to do that. Guidelines are just that, they're not rules.

Apps should follow some basic accessibility rules and be functional, but yij can in earnest say that you think that all games for example should follow the Apple design guidelines, can you?
>Since the party line often shifted, one could find oneself accused of errors that, at the time they were made, were not errors at all. The party constantly invented new mistakes, whether in ideas, practices, or phrases, so that one could never free oneself from the risk of humiliation. One sign of this sort of shame culture is the constant creation of new offenses, usually applied retroactively. No matter how many times the cadre manages to overcome his, he must always overcome them yet again.

This sounds quite relevant in 2020.
Lambda all the things!
I think that "holding people in power to account is bad because cOMmUnISM" is a disingenuous interpretation. From the article:

"Since the party line often shifted, one could find oneself accused of errors that, at the time they were made, were not errors at all. The party constantly invented new mistakes, whether in ideas, practices, or phrases, so that one could never free oneself from the risk of humiliation. One sign of this sort of shame culture is the constant creation of new offenses, usually applied retroactively. No matter how many times the cadre manages to overcome his, he must always overcome them yet again."
I just read most stuff on Firefox Reader mode. No way to click those popupas cleanly on my phone.
I wonder how many cats every house needs to rid it of mice. Given the volume, I doubt there are enough cats in Australia to even make a dent.