skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone isn't charged and convicted of murder, they are innocent of murder. This is the core of modern justice systems, unless you are in favor of extrajudicial witch hunts based on the testimony of checks notes corrupt federal agents who were charged and convicted themselves.
> Shared ownership is code smell to me regardless of the language

This is an unsubstantiated claim. If Rust makes something hard, that doesn't automatically make it universally bad. Nearly every large Rust code base I've seen uses reference counting (both `Rc` and `Arc`) a lot. Moreover, it is not practical to write general-purpose code avoiding both GC and RC because the need for shared ownership will inevitably crop up at some point. So ruling it out as code smell is a bit dogmatic.

It is also worth noting that ownership semantics is one approach (among others like GC) to memory management. In future, more languages will have some sort of ownership semantics along with GC. Nim's ORC is currently a good example.
> I believe the point the article is making is that any browser extension to auto fill is inherently insecure for architectural reasons.

No, that is not what the article said. The article said that password managers that insert elements into the webpage are insecure. You don’t need need to do that to autofill passwords.
iPadOS approaches the edge of desktop computing
Interesting, but not sure it matters. There exist _many_ markets where chargebacks are possible, it's not that big of a deal. It's worked around or priced in and life goes on.
Many, including myself, have an opposite view on nearly every point.

I have more energy at home. Interacting with family during lunch break is better than interacting with co-workers. Of course, this does mean I spend less time with co-workers, but they still get the majority of my waking hours, so hopefully that's enough.

I have more resources at home, I have more space at home, I have fewer distractions at home. I am more professional and focused more on the team at home, rather than focused on office politics. Collaboration tools are great, and if there were another developer like me, and we worked 30 feet apart, we would collaborate remotely with the tools rather than walking 30 feet.

I also want to know what evaluation metrics require being in an office? Any good ones? I guess working remote the only way to evaluate is to look at the work done and the quality of that work. Sounds pretty good.
In my experience, saying "that won't work" as a direct response to anything a peer proposes is too early (or someone even resembling a peer).

It's not that you need to say yes to things, it's that you need to sit with it a minute, and challenge your objection internally / try to creatively get around the fatal flaw you perceive, before voicing your opinion. Sometimes you'll actually be wrong, other times you'll invent something that works in response. Sometimes you'll be right, and you can raise the objection after you've put in a little internal work.

This isn't the case if, say, someone suggests something as outlandish as "we should just invent a new compression algorithm that works on all possible inputs." But then, that's not something a peer or someone resembling a peer is likely to say.
So the EllaLink cable was inaugurated this week, connecting Brazil to Europe in less than 60ms of latency, instead of the 200ms we have today.

Any ideas how can I track the progress of each ASN in using it?
You don't see the side-effects of destabilizing a government as potentially disastrous for an economy? Governments and economies can have many different forms, but there are clear cases where destabilizing one will destabilize the other and ultimately lead to mass suffering for a period of time. Imagine what would happen if a government in a place like the Middle East or parts of Africa collapsed. History has shown that a new government often doesn't rise up from the ashes without lots of tears and bloodshed. What do you think happens to people's standards of living? How much of their time and money do you think it will take just to get back what they used to have?
Because I want a $5 beer today, and one next week as well. Why buy bitcoin until you die and never have beer? Are you even living at that point?
there is also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/passff/ that offer direct integration; but now i don't know if it's susceptible to the attacks mentioned in the link
I don't think this is a threat. Jargon and bullshit starts overflowing whenever complexity surpasses what the chimp brain can handle.

There are lots of such situations chimps find themselves in these days, where they have no training or instinct on how to react.

Over analyzing these behaviors and the language used when people are out of their depth takes focus away from the fact there are many issues the chimp troupe has no capacity to solve. Just acknowledging and accepting that reality and refocusing the mind on simpler things is what will reduce the bullshit.

As an extreme example take what happens in the military. If you are in a situation surrounded by all kinds of threats and 5 minutes away from possible death what will an untrained mind say? No one sits around analyzing it. Instead there is training to keep the mind focused on the simplest of things.
Crocodile tears.

I'm not being facetious when I say I would cry to influence my RSUs to increase in value if I could.
Similarly I was surprised by the "Gulf of Mexico Fiber Optic Network". It's apparently operated by BP for offshore gas and oil drilling
But that’s why you have choices - you’re not going to agree with or want what everyone is offering you. And like wise, that’s why businesses decide what choices to offer you - they’re not going to be able to serve every need.

In this case it is about security, I believe. Primarily because of the additional secret material needed to encrypt the vault, but also because I trust them to store that vault securely for me versus my self. I’m lazy. I’m forgetful. They’re not. It’s literally they’re business and they’re getting better at it daily (one would hope at least.)
But if that salted pw gets exposed, can a hacker just guess your pws for other sites?

E.g. myBank@thepwialwaysuse
I have this installed but I have no idea how to make it put passwords into a given password field, or save the password as I'm setting one somewhere, so I went back to the browser addon. I think I'm getting too old to copy+paste passwords by hand. :/
Julia is great for numerical computing, but it's not as good as it can be, even in that area. Widening the community's base of expertise will help.
I'll just list a few things that come to mind.

Many Base functions are currently untyped, which means it's hard to abstract out the key properties that enable reuse, compiler optimizations, and parallelism. See [0] for a language expert's take on numerical computing, which involves defining traits like associativity that enable automatic parallelism by default.

A stronger culture of functional programming could make your code faster and easier to understand. It's often (though not always) easier for tooling to optimize pure functions over immutable data structures (and arrays). Arrays are currently mutable, and there is too much emphasis on mutating functions.

The iteration protocol can be made more memory-efficient for large collections and simpler, following Rust's implementation [1].

Macros are useful for high-performance computing [4], and Julia's macros can be made more composable [2].

In general, systems languages don't make language decisions lightly. They have committees, discuss how other languages do things, make proposals. This allows more perspectives on each decision. That would be an improvement over the more ad-hoc style of Julia development, as long as Julia can avoid adding every possible feature, which is a risk of expanding the decision-making body [3].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZD3Scuv02g

[1] https://mikeinnes.github.io/2020/06/04/iterate.html

[2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/37691

[3] https://www.stroustrup.com/P0977-remember-the-vasa.pdf

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSgXWpvQEHE
> Again, the sound quality and noise cancellation from this array of microphones (please note what I'm emphasizing here)

I’ll repeat myself; no number of microphones will make the inverse square law go away. You can attempt to use computation to detect human voices and reject background noise, but this will always be an inferior technique to moving the microphone closer to the sound you want and further from the sound you don’t want.

This is the same reason why the speakerphone on your cell will never beat out just holding it up to your head. It’s also why podcasters use XLR mics rather than laptops. Sure, laptops have gotten better, but they’re still not as good as other options.

If you have issues with lag, wired headsets work great. Gaming ones are particularly good, since they’re designed for long periods of use.
If reporters aren't given the legal protection they need to do their jobs then how will they uncover the next big story of national importance like trumps russian collusion or debunk misinformation like the wuhan lab theory.
I'm far less worried about that than I am about one website breach resulting in my accounts on other sites being compromised.

Perfect security doesn't exist, of course, so somewhere in the middle lies a good compromise that trades off risk and convenience. For me keepass on a synced drive hits the mark.

Not sure what the solution would be if you don't trust local programs - Keepass' paste method already bypasses the clipboard IIRC by entering directly into the fields.
And yet this is nothing to worry about
TikTok accidentally detected my ADHD
Yeah this is a cool idea. And maybe u can host it yourself, or signup to a pw manager. There should be a protocol for this stuff.
Never flown one, but as far as I know that's only moving the center of gravity by moving fuel. The CG is very important to inherent stability, if it moves behind the center of pressure you lose all pitch stability. And for efficiency you want it to be as far aft as possible because that reduces drag from the tailplane.
The Levenshtein distance in production (2020)
If we're going to get serious, Ross enabled unprecedented safety and transparency in drug markets. He probably directly saved many lives by redirecting drug addicts from street drugs that are often laced with fentanyl and other nasties to verifiable reviewed drugs by reputable vendors.

Meanwhile, under the legal system you revere, the perpetrators of the opioid crisis who have killed hundreds of thousands of people are billionaires with their names on buildings.
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I'm not sure where to begin, and frankly I'm astonished you think any of it "makes sense".

To start with, do you know what a tragedy of the commons is?

Second, why would "individual freedom being prized so heavily" entail "people tending to do things like call the police"? Are you familiar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unofficial_collaborator and the like in authoritarian countries?

Third, what's the source for this bizarre claim that "those [dog owners] tend to do things like call the police on black people"?

Fourth, in what way is the latter at all relevant to the topic?
Decentralized Alternatives to HN?
Are there any decentralized alternatives to HN? If not, is there a way to build it where upvotes and moderation is done in an anonymous way based on past reputation?
I highly doubt its only google or fb who deal with this.

It can even be a problem with a single machine depending on the environment. Like I was messing around with a simple circuit on a bread board. One of the ICs had a schimit trigger and just the EMI from being on a bread board consistently would cause my desktop computer near by to lock up.

There is all sort of spurious noise from cosmic to man made that has the potential to screw up a chips operation

Heck even a dip in power for a few micro seconds could cause issues, and most UPS use a mechanical relay that takes milliseconds to kick in ect... All though any decent PSU should have enough filtering capacitance to filter out such a short event
In principle there’s no difference, but 1Password did happen to improve the security in parallel with their transition to a cloud-centric product.

That being said it’s worth noting that behaviour can be as important as technology. For example if a cloud-centric solution is more convenient, its users are less likely to engage in security compromising behaviours such as copying and pasting passwords, or declining to use a password manager at all outside of their local device context.
The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
Hunters & foragers went with their family. Both activities were group activities done with family & tribe.
I was referring to additional piece of secret material required to decrypt the vault. It increases the key length by 128 bits. This is important in the general, overall scheme of things based on how your mother will use the product.

You’re not as good as they are at storing the vault, monitoring it, backing it up, and observing any and all access to that vault and reacting to access that’s not authorised. That’s literally their job and you have to trust someone to do that job well at some point (trust is the backbone of a healthy society)

Of course you can get as good, and better, but the time and energy required would burn hundreds of hours you might consider spending doing something that generates more money, therefore negating any (reasonable) price they put on their product.
Lighting seems to be the thing that really matters for the camera second to placement. I just use some smart lights to toggle “meeting mode” which turns off my overhead lamp and turns on the desk lamp. It’s better than the norm, but inferior to the professional setups some people have.
A classic essay on this topic: Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
And if you are on the correct path, you will feel world-encompassing cringe about your writing and speeches from six months back.

This is the way.
> shortage of skilled workers to fill positions

Companies are willing to do anything to attract skilled workers short of raising wages.
Constellations of Words: Learn about the world of the stars above us
Remove Tattoos using code, Close to Photoshop results
I know this may be baffling to you but software doesn't need to be updated every week.
The OP is about job interviews.

Your advice seems more relevant to media interviews.
Show HN: I made a webapp to help people create flag designs for fun
This is a really important point that's not getting voiced much here. Numerically there are more ICs in a company/forum/world, so the managerial voices don't get heard in places where the numerical advantage matters.

The only person in leadership position I could ask in real life told me IC productivity might be higher than before but team & org productivity has plummeted drastically. Wondering if this is true across the industry?
> Audio, audio, audio... It doesn't matter how good or good looking you are if I can't understand any of your eloquence. Using microphone on your phone or webcam may or may not be adequate, you should test this. There is test call functionality in almost every web conferencing software.

If you’re going to be permanently remote, consider buying a low end podcasting or streaming setup. The quality will be fantastic comparative to cheaper options, and it won’t be that expensive to buy.
Small correction: the definition you shared is that of “uniform continuity” [1] not “absolute continuity” [2]. Absolute continuity is a slightly stronger condition where instead of providing a single (x1, x2) pair with |x1 - x2| < delta, you can now provide a finite list of pairs.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_continuity
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_continuity
A useful and entertaining book!
You sounded different, and they decided to blame unrelated internet problems on that. Easy.
Looks like EdgeDB hasn't done enough marketing. No one has mentioned EdgeDB except you. Well we're (I love EdgeDB) still in beta.
> it's that you need to sit with it a minute, and challenge your objection internally

Yaaas please, this so much.
Sci-Hub has received 4.7 BTC in donations in the last year
A lot of detached webcams come with flip down privacy guards.
That isn't correct.

What happens is that it is basically two modems into one, so it can go double the speed at the expense of using two phone lines.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000JBAI/?shop28-20
They're awful. I have at least one Zoom social bs thing per week. They're never good, they're always emotionally draining and they always suck!!
Ten is unpleasant to interact with; constantly nagging you about edge or update or false security threats. Edge does nothing special, updates are arduous, false security threats don't necessarily comfort one regarding real dangerous threats.

We keep it paused (or off) in VirtualBox for one small piece of proprietary vendor software.

Really enjoying these guys: https://www.devuan.org/
That’s true of pretty much any App Store that isn’t strictly invitation only. If you have an app follows Apple’s rules, it gets listed. Whereas Steam, by comparison, exercises editorial control over all of its content. The solution for a better Mac App Store would require Apple to be similarly dictatorial about content.

In that sense I agree with you; personally I think it was a mistake of Apple to have the Mac App Store so closely mirror the iOS App Store. They should have made it a more aggressively curated experience.
> High speed internet doesn't count for much, aside checking off a box, if it goes out for a couple hours every few hours

This adds an interesting dimension to things. In a roundabout way, for this kind of case, have you ever been glad to be using a PWA (with client-side caching) instead of a regular website?
I want 8 ft tall maps for my wall that I can rotate through. Does anyone recommend somewhere to get A) a submarine cable map of this size and B) other geographical maps of this size?

I don’t care about super high quality paper but I do want lots of detail so it’s fun to lose yourself in.
How so? do remember that they can only do things supported by the general climate of opinion so them being in government isn't the point of contention here. It's what we as people tolerate (passively or actively) that matters. Besides, this greatly undermines the justification for anti-trust laws as they're clearly communicating to everyone that "it's OK to collude"
Hi. IconVG author here. Thanks for the attention.

It's still a work-in-progress and I'm actually considering some major file format changes in the coming weeks. As some of you have noticed, the docs aren't complete. I wasn't expecting to hit Hacker News today.

The primary goals are simplicity and security. The file size benefits are a bonus.

Why not .svg.gz? Well, if that (or another format) works for you, that's great. But implementing SVG needs a lot of code (the SVG spec is 400 pages long) plus dependencies like XML, JavaScript and Freetype/Harfbuzz (or equivalent) libraries. It's practically impossible to do a thorough security audit over a complete implementation.

For example, https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/1831 says "We don't want full SVG support. There is too much in the spec that is expensive, heavyweight, and/or duplicates what we already have in Flutter."
FTFY: "they're _almost_ the same thing."

Dividends lower stock price by moving cash from company to owner, buybacks increase stock prices[1] by de-diluting, so only one of those is evidence of the CEO (whose compensation is often tied to stock price) acting on his own interests. Also taxation is different.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/073015/...
You are being naive because both sides do this. The DoJ under Obama went after phone records for AP reporters repeatedly.

No government is above this behavior.
Pfizer vaccinated have lower antibody levels targeting the Delta/India variant
Looks like the one they talked about over the Arctic wasn't built yet? London to Tokyo or similar?
Although you’re getting downvoted, this was my takeaway as well. “Better for touch” and “rounded corners.”
Ask HN: Post Burnout Ideas
I burnt my self out a few years back after spending 3 years working full-time on a startup. Since then I've been working for a FAANG.

One thing I've never really recovered is the passion I had for side projects. Worse than that, I can't actually think of anything worth building, or even tinkering with, which is sad, as spending some of my free time on side projects was something I really enjoyed.

If you've found yourself in a similar position, how have you dealt with it?
Yes, a bad assumption. Corporate profits cannot end up in the pockets of greedy board members without being taxed.
Elon Musk Targeted by Anonymous
The map controls seems not working on mobile.
This is a UX nightmare on mobile.

I always thought it would be a good action movie plot to follow what would happen if a malicious group intentionally disrupted these connections.
Forwarded to AMZN and GOOGL.
Not disagreeing with your general point but, if bad wifi is a problem for you and you can't run a cable, consider:

A) plugging a better wifi router or AP into the existing router, or

B) Using a pair of powerline ethernet adapters, or

C) Same as A, but using a pair of mesh routers, with the main one set in 'access point' mode.

None of these require a cable run between two rooms. Unless the flat is huge or has concrete walls, one of these solutions will work. (I'm assuming the problem is with the wifi connection between you and the router, and not the connection between your router and the internet.)
I’m constantly hoping this is going to be true, that some new release of iPadOS is the breakthrough to serious computing that the hardware at least seems to be capable of, but each time I try to do ‘serious’ work on the iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard I bought last year, I realize how bound I am to the paradigms of desktop computers.

Trying to work with several programs at the same time, navigating the ‘finder’ interface with gestures that still cause ‘accidental’ things to happen, having to switch from keyboard to screen input for certain interactions.

There are certain applications that really work with the strengths of the iPad - Concepts from Too Corporation, or Procreate for drawing, for instance - but on the whole I feel I’m constantly hankering after the sheer instinctive simplicity that I find when using the Mac.

I do think that if my output was mostly text-based, or even some type of social media output, like onscreen image, video or blogging output, then the iPad might be enough?

edit: one thing I should add, is that I definitely hope any improvements won’t be limited to the new M1 iPad Pros. I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking that last year’s very expensive iPad Pro already sits on an enormous reserve of unused processing power, and leaving these previous models behind would be a great disappointment.
> Only two levels of detail per file

There are multiple levels of detail per file. Each LoD is specified by two numbers: a lower and upper bound on the height-in-pixels that enables the subsequent drawings.
I can't stand the amount of empty whitespace in the Windows 10 UI. I find it so offensive.

I hope they are heading in a new aesthetic direction with Windows 11.