skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, and FF for Linux was always second to FF for Windows, where the experience was better than both platforms.

Not for me on desktop with a pretty well specced machine, Firefox still runs better on Linux than Windows and I constantly boot into the other during one day.
That article doesn't say the bottles are cleaned and reused, it says they have a bottle deposit system and process the recycled material to a high standard.
Well said. This is why engineers who know how to finish the last 10% are truly valued by good colleagues and managers.
The existence of several vice ETF's undermines your thesis.
Laws exist? How about protecting free speech and other points of view. It's clearly a right vs left viewpoint. And so political. We can easily list how much worse facebook is in terms of supporting dictators, supporting the CCP, censoring stories on Uyghurs. Not allowing political discourse on alternative viewpoints besides what is in their leftist bubble.
I dont see huawei as ideologically worse than google.
Yeah I moved away from FF as well after they got too political, very happy with Brave.
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JS embedding isn't unique to Firefox. This is Firefox catching up with an old feature from Adobe Acrobat. PDFs with embedded JS have been Turing complete for years, in readers that run the JS. Just like PDFs with embedded Flash content.

The PDF layout language isn't Turing complete on its own.
Good read. Amos used to be the most visible/active developer on itch and his twitter was interesting to read. He also has a lot of other pieces like this that really dig into how and why you go wrong when working with something that is unfamiliar to you.

I really enjoyed this one:

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-am-a-java-csharp-c-or-cpl...
Not really, since it doesn't include most major newspapers. News+ is closer to the Spotify of magazines.
I can rewrite your entire documentation using clearer words than the ones you are using.

Are they going to go through the whole dictionary to eliminate all those non-double-plus-good words that are not efficient enough?

Don't you feel that it's just getting ridiculous at this point?
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Would be more awesome if it could export as an image! Right now I'm just manually inspecting it and copying the entire <g> section.
Would be great if the internet and social media were treated like utilities. You could then prosecute people legally according to state laws for doing things like inciting violence.
Thanks! This always bugs me. Maybe not disabling right-click has legitimate uses in things like games, but I only ever seen to see it used spitefully.
Is it multi-user video chat? Firefox can't do this efficiently and it's also a problem with other tools like Jitsi.
Interviews aren't the only cost of hiring. Onboarding is very expensive for knowledge workers.
I am most curious about the "no technical interview" part and "my work speaks for my skills" while OP's GitHub is just forks.

This all really reads in an uncomfortable way and I would never risk investing into somebody by guessing if whatever I need done, as a business, will be interesting enough for this person to put genuine effort into.

I feel like OP needs hobbies to get the fun/interesting itch scratched and then go back to being a "code monkey" like the rest of us, doing "boring" stuff to pay the bills.

I've been there myself before and the most valuable lesson I've learned is that motivation != discipline. Motivation comes and goes and if you base your productivity solely on that you will burn out. Being disciplined though allows to get the "boring" out of the way first, leaving lots of time to explore other interests.
Yes exactly; I think of the web as a modest and humble (and thus brilliant) extension of Unix. It adds simple networking and hyperlinks to hierarchical namespaces (and extends hierarchical names as URLs).

Those principles scale. GET/POST is basically the Unix/Plan 9 principle of read() / write() of declarative formats.

On a small scale you can avoid that and use more tightly coupled RPC (and maybe you should), and you can design more elaborate VMs.

On a large scale it all becomes REST (e.g. what do you talk to Github with, what does a Debian repo look like, etc.). It's less about the technical design and more about the social issues -- who owns each end of the wire? If you own both ends of the wire, you have a much different problem, but that's not the problem the web is solving.

Previous comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6131335

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Funny thing about objects, I went back to my comment from 8 years ago and also noted that Kay was obsessed with "objects" in a way that's not useful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5516960

When watching the Kay talk, I was struck that he seems to be lumping every "good" in software engineering under the term "object oriented". Virtual machines are objects. Servers are objects. Numbers should be objects. All abstraction is objects. It was not really a useful or enlightening way of thinking about the world.
Mandatory password rotation does help in one place - when passwords to an account are shared.

So if Microsoft Employees 1,2,3 share a password to Vendor X's system, and employee 2 moves to another part of the company or leaves, the shared password will eventually change and employee 2 won't know it anymore.
That sounds disingenuous. Most browsers do not block cookies by default. Cookies are a critical piece of the web. Chrome doesn't, Firefox doesn't, and ie/edge don't. Sounds more like Brave is giving themselves a pat on the back.
Yes, but shapes are not usually random. Bars, cylinders, cubes, rectangles, squares and circles are everywhere. That does not mean that they will have a string like attenuation curve for those higher harmonics, but they'll be there.
If I recall correctly: Active Directory can be setup so that the last few passwords cannot be reused, otherwise people would just cycle through two passwords. I am guessing that people would simply use a variation of their second to last password to come up with a new password under your proposal.
Not the case at all. I don't have an exact number, but Alberta completed 300% more flu tests than the previous year.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7606557/alberta-2020-2021-flu-sea...
The problems are already solved with the current financial system. That's the point.
Firefox opens PDF via pdf.js. From security perspective it's merely yet another bloated web page.
If you’re doing what you love, you’ll put up with the other necessary crap.

Eventually you can share some the unfun crap to other team members.

Instead, what you may want to do is get into consulting.
> The amount of complexity that one can put into a PDF is both surprising and a tad frightening.

off-topic, but fwiw: the pocorgtfo16.pdf[1] is a polyglot that is valid PDF, a ZIP archive, and a Bash script that runs a Python webserver which hosts Kaitai Struct’s WebIDE which, allows you to view the file’s own annotated bytes.

[1] https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo16.pdf
Why? The media has been stealing all of their articles and news pieces by eavesdropping on people with good ideas since the 1950s. They don't deserve a dime of your money or Facebooks money.
I've been at places where the old passwords seemed to be kept around, so that it was detected whether or not you were switching to the password you used six or seven passwords ago.
Please omit swipes like your first sentence when posting to HN. Attacking another user like that will get you banned here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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For double the pay, you can document my code. Triple for unit tests.
A desert hobo, you say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RySHDUU2juM
"We pretty much captured everything except the actual text being copied."

Didn't realize I need to browse Stack Overflow in incognito mode...
Weird, I wonder what happened in America in the 1960s that would make so many people try to prevent others from moving into their neighborhoods.
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> Experiments have shown that users do not choose a new independent password; rather, they choose an update of the old one.

Such experiments clearly do not introduce the use of password managers which promote the generation of long passwords with high entropy.

Specifically in the case of master login passwords, where the usage of a password manager isn't feasible (like Active Directory and Windows logins), this may be the case. And it still requires that the domain forbid PIN/biometric logins and thus result in people complaining about entering long passwords with entropy each time.
Your Hue choices are selected from a pool of 16 with various mutators applied. Hue alone isn't a viable path forward, so finding a translation of Hue to a non-Hue representation that doesn't worsen the diagram is essential.

You could apply repeating surface textures inside each slice, rather than showing a solid color, so that Hue 1 shows repeating dots, Hue 2 shows repeating lines, Hue 3 shows repeating triangles.

You could use a Braille-like 2x2 grid to represent the 4-bit Hue space as circles and lines within each slice.

If you imagine that each slice has 4 walls, replacing the missing fourth wall of the innermost slices with the innermost corner, then you could map the binary representation of 2^4 hue (such as 0110) onto "bites" out of the walls. For example, given 0110, map the 0s onto "bites" and punch a small hole into two adjacent walls of the slice; given 0000, punch a small hole into all four walls.

ASCII art of what I mean by "punch a hole into the wall", for Hue 0111 (one zero, so one hole punched). This is an uncurved slice, because ASCII art.

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Considering how well Apple's M1 is performing, I suspect within 10 years the majority of new desktops and laptops sold will be ARM-based, with both Intel and AMD having to either adapt or languish.
Some parts of the tech world seem quick to forget that smaller (and sometimes bigger) non-tech companies do exist. Sometimes non professional people create and deploy websites either as hobbyists or simply because there is no budget to hire a proper tech guy.

Wordpress is still a huge part of the Web and is running fine on shared hosting. And yes it can be an appropriate and cost effective choice for smaller sites even in 2021.

Also adding to that, the one time I did migrate a project from shared hosting to a dockerized VM solution was when the hoster was not supporting the needed PHP version anymore. Meaning hopelessly too old to ever update.
That's naive. The brain is formed of regular structures. The complexity of the brain is in what we learn, not in the structure of a new brain
Wealth is not a comparative measure. This is fundamental flaw in wealth-inequality concerns. Me being more wealthy does not make you less wealthy, but that's unfortunately how our covetous monkey brains interpret the world around us.

Wealth at its core is a proxy for quality of life. Today, as compared to 30 years ago, here's what even most low-income households can afford:
* airline flights that cost a small percentage of what they used to
* immediate access to any information via the internet
* vastly improved medical care & surgical procedures, ranging from cancer treatment to lower infant mortality rates
* the ability to easily keep in touch with loved ones wherever they are in the world
* high definition flat-screen TVs and the ability to watch any any show or movie as soon as desired
* online videos to learn how to do almost anything, for those motivated enough to learn
* digital cameras in our pocket that allow us to always be ready to capture an amazing moment or scene for our memories

Wealth disparity is only a problem if it is due to theft.
Cool. I remember when flatbed scanners were pressed into service to make (very) large format images.

Stephen Johnson was playing around with this in the 1990's.

http://www.betterlight.com/field_photography.html

"I initially captured 180 degrees of view in a 6,000 x 40,055 pixel image, but soon learned that Photoshop was limited to opening files with less than 30,000 pixels in either dimension, so I had to perform surgery on the original TIFF file to reduce the image to just under this limit."
There's also a video presentation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwNAnC2y8ds
I get what you say.

But I think you are projecting yourself onto the regular citizen.

The thing which up to now the crypto world has managed to capture about the regular citizen is its fear of inflation and strong preference for deflation which allows him to increase his net worth without doing any work, just by sheer deflationary force baked in the protocol.

From a purely financial return standpoint: If DeFi/DAO/Eth is what the internet was back in the days, then it's IRC.

IRC didn't make any money. Facebook which is the dictionary definition of tired and not fun...well it will smash the record as the fastest Company from 0 to 1T.

So the equivalent to that would be betting on the Bank which decides to make Buterin the CEO or the maybe a new properly regulated fintech startup which wears the mantle of DeFi and the PR of Eth, but it's really an old school intermediary.

I get what you are saying about fun, but fun and finances shouldn't be mixed, in my opinion. Because you'll never know what other people who are not yourself would consider fun and if they'd jump on board to legitimize the community and have the token/stock you invested in appreciate
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Many people in my circle are proud of paying off mortgages, so I kind of assumed by default that it is a worthwhile thing. But looking at the numbers I'm not so sure: it seems much better in current market to cash out as much as possible and let that money sit in an index fund. I guess the main issues are some risks with downturns and/or liquidity.
The system does have a "screw you, never" option for all permissions.

The issue is that Snapchat (in your case, as I don't have this happen on v11.23.3.36) is told that they wont get the permission and wont be able to ask for it either.

And so they perform their own inhouse permission request to you.

There is nothing that can be done from the system's point of view for that.
A user can also trivially defeat any password system by publishing their password to Facebook.

The purpose of preventing similar passwords isn't to prevent a user from defeating themselves, it's to prevent an adversary from defeating the user.

Now you can rightfully argue that blocking similar passwords isn't an effective measure against an adversary, and this article kind of suggests that... but it is possible to implement such a system.
Even that is often not enough: sessions are long lived and very often stealing a cookie is all the attacker needs.
Sort of true. To know what a non-profit's motivations are, look at the biggest donors and donations. Some of the Mozilla Foundation's money comes from the Mozilla Corporation, which does get a lot of money from the big tech companies.
Good point. It isn't "must", I should have said "may".
Oh, indeed I misread it.
I apologize if the tone of my previous comment sounded harsh to you or if some of my arguments sounded like strawmen. I am in good faith trying to interpret your comments as best as I am able. I don't feel like you're giving me the same courtesy, so I'll exit the discussion now. Thanks.
Let’s say an opportunity comes up with 10% chance of making Coinbase $5T company and 90% chance of sending value to 0.

A shareholder with properly balanced portfolio would likely go for the $5T option. Fully invested CEO might want to stay safe and even avoid bringing up this opportunity as there’s 90% chance for him to loose everything.
Thanks for the explanation. Honestly I still don't see the big deal though. It's just a little bit of fun with an interesting statistic, not everything needs to be so doom & gloom serious.
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ARM also gives the UK strategic leverage in any trade negotiations. Would we knowingly allow Rolls-Royce Jet Engines to be flogged off? No. Ditto ARM.

Doesn't this/shouldn't this basically encourage countries like the United States to completely ignore intellectual property laws? If not, why not?
Here's a bunch of the discussion from the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077967
Well, first of all I agree. Though I think it's more of a line of 800 pound gorillas knocking at your door. It's not going away because "we stopped Facebook". For example, I actually think Twitter influences the system in much worst ways. It's just easier to look the other way with those and is trendy to hate on Facebook because techy SV people don't use it anymore.
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I agree the author hasn't emphasised those things. If I was in need of those things, I might not automatically engage with the author.

But, you've given a list of what you don't like doing - that isn't a universal list.

Given that the author asks to be deeply involved in a human-centred project, it is not obvious to me that they don't like or are not prepared to do these things.
> It takes a huge amount of energy, too

This will often be more expensive than having a truck bring the water to you when running a dehumidifier especially when you are looking to get out enough for farming.
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You can't stop someone's next password from being a variant of their next-to-last one unless you store them unhashed.
The most plausible explanation is that it's expensive because there's no economy economy of scale, and that there's no economy of scale because people don't want to pay extra for a worse quality screen even if it has a slightly better battery life.
Maybe I misunderstood you, but I thought you meant they should get other people to stop using black and white for humans in other contexts. I presumed Google themselves does not talk about black or white people in their developer documentation.
Safari reading list already does this

https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/keep-a-reading-list-s...
Even if you if you think the show is lacking substance, however you define that, there's more to a show than just the story. The character designs (and art direction in general), music, sci-fi setting, Apple references, etc. are all other reasons for its critical success & popularity (or maybe cult following is the right term, I don't know). That the soundtracks and artbooks are still so sought after is a testament to that.
This feels like a PR play though. Banks aren't the most competitive market in the country but the idea that 100% of banks will stop doing business with a multi-billion dollar industry has to be a conceit.

Oil companies have a ton of money. "Start their own bank" money, if it came to that. There's no way this actually works against them. This kind of thing only works against marginalized people.

So what it's meant to do is normalize the tactic. The banks are doing this against evil oil companies, and screw those guys amiright? Show everybody that our benevolent overlords are doing this for our own good.

Then they come after others, actually marginalized groups without "start your own bank" money, and anybody who objects to that but not this is a hypocrite doing battle with existing precedent.
Same, sometimes people volunteer to help me code https://coursemaker.org for free because they like the idea. In one case this has worked out well. But in a couple of others the engineers have vanished quite fast. Sometimes I wonder if I made a much more serious effort to onboard/document/give ownership then would they stick with it. What do you reckon - how was the onboarding in your case?
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I just had a good chuckle at this. I’m skeptical, to say the least. I don’t have direct experience. But I do work at a company that has poached several FAANG employees this past year and whose thoughts...differ from yours.
> If you see those things as "the boring bits" that you don't want to do then you're not a developer. You're a hacker.

This point parallels the distinction made in the Software Engineering at Google flamingo book between programming and engineering. Engineering comprises the tools and processes to maintain software over time (this is a rough paraphrase), of which docs, for example, is essential.

So to use their language with your point: this sounds purely like programming and perhaps not engineering.
JavaScript in PDF? Have people learned nothing? This is so incredibly stupid. They're just looking for bullshit "features" to implement.
Personally I've utilized Gandi for a long time, I'm wrapping up a complex corporate domain portfolio migration to them and they've done amazingly well.

If you're just using for registrar, I would absolutely use them with no reservations.
There are rules under federal law: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/71-flsa-interns...

Basically an internship has to benefit the intern and not the employer. It's akin to taking a class.

Any HR rep looking at these standards would not permit someone to come on for free in these circumstances at the risk of being penalized for violating federal labor law.
That's an interesting project / paper[1]. I don't have the time to dive deeply into it and understand how this works, but at a glance it seems better than what I was working on a few months ago[2]. Does anyone else know more about this, since the paper is really written for the in-crowd? The video[3] helps a little for a very high-level overview (to give some context before starting to read), but doesn't explain how it works or what properties their algorithm has.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/517

[2] This would do partial hash matching against a database on the server (similar to HIBP) and then do an interactive session with each of the matches, basically alternating sending the next binary bit of the phone number until either party gets it wrong or the value fully matched. The todo is to check whether there are parameters that make it both scale and protect privacy.

[3] https://dro.pm/a.webm/preview (link works for 18 hours after posting) or if you've already accepted the Google terms of service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vgKHmNaAAw
Agreed - there's so much I find frustrating about how companies manage passwords in addition to mandatory changing.

- Maximum length requirements (often secret until you try to put a password in)

- Requiring some symbols, but not others

- Silent truncation of the the password without telling you

- Failure because the password is too long, but the error says something else (like missing symbol)

This isn't just small unknown companies either. If you use a password longer than 32chars in Zoom when creating your account it just truncates the remaining without telling you. Login works on the websites, but if you try to login via the client it fails. If I manually backspace to 32chars it works. I tried to tell it to their US Twitter support and they just kept sending me a password reset link so I gave up (they're a bad company anyway [0]). Tmobile's website used to do the same thing, except worse because it would truncate on creation but not on validation.

How is this not standardized in some sane way?

An old credit union I was part of in NY (SEFCU) mandated passwords with exactly 6 characters. When I complained about this I was told it was secure because they forced one of the characters to be a symbol.

[0]: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html
I did work for a small company whose “director of software development” had copied and pasted verbatim basic details from SO enough for it to become a theme. He would copy long, drawn-out, language-level examples from SO rather than use the idiomatic, syntactic sugar provided by the framework and its docs. The duplication would drive me insane.
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