skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone using Aurora Store and worried about how it will affect them? For reference, Aurora anonymously retrieves APKs from the play store so you can use common apps like Zoom, Slack, et cetera.
That (developers only being responsible for a fraction of bad rollouts they personally cause) reminds me of the water dynamic at a lot of apartments I've rented:

For "reasons" the water meters are per building rather than per unit, but the landlords are adamant that residents have to pay their fair share to ensure water isn't wasted. The scheme envisioned to meet those goals is that the total cost of water for a building is averaged out across all units (perhaps normalized by unit size). Looking at the net effect however, using $X of water only costs $X/N because my personal excess is split between the rest of the residents. Consequently, the entire building uses and pays for substantially more water than they would if the meters were more finely distributed.
I hear this kind of rhetoric all the time. 15 years ago it was “any solution to world hunger that doesn’t lean heavily on GMO is not a solution.”. The lack of food security was/is not a problem of production but of distribution. GMO may produce more nutrient rich food, but has failed to do so at scale (also so does better soil management and more crop variety).

Today, people are instead advocating nuclear power as the unproven solution to a real crisis. The problem is not of technology, but of policy and political will. Renewable energy has been a real option since the 80s. Lithium Ion batteries were invented in the 90s, and proliferated less then 15 years later (and are arguably the wrong solution for large scale energy storage). If we would have gotten behind renewables in the 70s—like we should have—the technology would be even more favorable. However in the 70s we went all in on nuclear and it failed. Nuclear has failed to scale to be the dominant power generation method in the past despite political will and ample funding, and we have no reason to believe it will be different this time around.

There is also more to the climate disaster then just polluting power generation. There is a genuine lack in green infrastructure. Highways and airports are the favorable transportation infrastructures, even though they are the most polluting. Buildings keep being made out of polluting cement, water is wasted on inefficient agricultural practices to grow unessisary crops in arid places, etc. It is as if there is a genuine lack of interest from the political class in tackling the climate crisis. As if the climate crisis is not a problem of technology but something else, like say policy.
Science itself is a belief (or religion, depending on your epistemology), that the scientific method and associated tools, like the gold-standard double-blind study*, is the most effective way to form a model for reality.

On top of that, experimental results can only inform a subjective model for each individual. For example, children are informed about our solar system in a simple 2d plane, because that's useful enough. We can prove that the solar system has planetary deviation from the generally flat plane (up to 7 degrees) but that more advanced model is something that is generally learned later, out of pragmatism. You can spend a lifetime learning details and data, but you'll still die ignorant because gathering all of human knowledge is impractical at this point.

Therefore, relying on science alone, is not enough to inform your personal ideas about reality, even if you believe that it's the most reliable way to do so.

eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/ <-- no double blind for parachutes, where's the evidence?
> Meteorologists know how to calculate the exact weather six hours in advance. It's sadly useless knowledge, at present, because the best staff of [human] computers needs six weeks of calculating to do it. But a machine, now--

Article is a detailed survey of principles and state-of-the-art of analog and digital calculators (computers), and possible applications such as meteorology, fluid dynamics, and other fields which have actually come to fruitation.

> Theoretical studies are now under way about the principles of machines which would solve problems symbolically. One example relates to the solution of problems in symbolic logic, another to a machine which will perform mathematical--not arithmetical--operations directly. There is even a proposal for a machine to play chess.
I think that they have ultimate power and they even trump the constitution...
Man, those 7 bugs must be tough. ;)
If you use Go, Rust, Python 3, or Javascript, this is a non-problem, because those are all native UTF-8. Only for legacy languages is this still a problem.
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>I still don’t get the model whereby <lock up> is unsafe with client funds but not broker funds.

"unsafe" is the wrong word here. That would imply the clearinghouse doesn't think the collateral is as good if it came from the customer rather than the broker. This isn't the case. The requirement to use broker funds is not to protect the clearinghouse, it's to protect the customer in case the clearinghouse seizes the collateral (as they're allowed to do) when things go south. By using broker (or their creditor's funds), the customer's funds aren't at risk.
Obligatory relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1737/
Thanks for the kind words!

I learned more from the labs in that class than from many other classes combined. It was undoubtedly some of the hardest work I did during undergrad, but also some of the most fun and rewarding.

For me, 213 was the class after which I truly felt like a real programmer. By the end, so many layers of abstraction had been peeled back that it felt like there was no error or bug that I couldn't get to the bottom of if I dug deep enough.
I don't believe that's true.

Del Monte sauerkraut comes in a can (which is why I picked it as an example) and contains only cabbage, water, and salt:

https://www.delmonte.com/products/vegetables/sauerkraut/saue...

It's pasteurized of course, which kills off the beneficial bacteria, but it's still fermented to make it.

There are other pickled vegetables made with vinegar, including cucumbers, but fermentation is still the more common method.
There is always a boom and bust surrounding presidential election years and viewership/readership of news in the US. It was probably more dramatic this cycle. I do know viewership / listenership was breaking record at many television and radio news stations and so I suspect the fall in numbers will be equal to the climb.
Thanks for the information, but I persist, having a prior example doesn't necessarily mean they're not all morons.

Of course you're free to have your opinion though.
My senior high school project was hacking the school's HP 2000 mini. I had to get an approval from the principal and the person running the computers. She laughed when I made my presentation.
It was a glorious day when I succeeded.
If I'm calling support, I'm probably not in the mood for anything being frustrating or confusing. I spend every day in countries where English isn't the primary language, but in face-to-face or chat or even video call, there are ways to indicate nonverbal cues. I have to take phone calls from delivery men when bare know any English and I feel sorry for them having to be asked to wade through my attempt to speak their language or my English because they don't get paid enough for that.

On the otherhand my (massive) bank sure as heck better have the money to afford good native support. And for my beefs with Schwab, this they do a very good job at.
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Seems we are. I also hacked at something similar - json being yaml in my case - that turns into a weird threejs 'tower'. I used it to 'loci' encode a couple of data sets - mostly the AWS WellAF. https://waf.fudless.xyz and a blog post that goes with it, https://fudless.xyz/misc-memoholics/
I don’t have any money. I literally lost everything I have accrued in my life in the last 18 months. That fact that I’m not at bankruptcy door is because of what little stimulus we got. So no, I’m too exhausted to deal with the IRS. If they care, they can serve me and drag me to court because I won’t comply at all.
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It has been established that distributing APK anywhere else (Github, etc.) other than the Play store would have a drastic impact on the exposure and discoverability of the app, which will lessen user engagement and revenue stream.

Disclaimer: I'm not an app developer, but works in PR and marketing.
What size team do you consider typical?

Most projects I've worked on have been games where the studio was split into teams of about 6-10 people with one dedicated in-house QA member for some but not all teams, a few in-house QA workers not assigned to a specific team, plus a much larger external QA team (from the parent company/ publisher). That has worked great.

I've also been on projects with only external QA. It works, but the lack of internal QA has been a frequent annoyance.
Agreed it's presenting a false dichotomy. The article ends with a pitch for Rainforest's "no-code" QA platform so it makes sense they want to present their product as the clear solution. I could take the article more seriously if it at least mentioned a more integrated approach.
For sure. I actually used to write tape library robotics firmware, so that theme of exploring memory hierarchies is absolutely on my mind.
Village is the right way to characterise this place. About ten blocks big. Still can't believe they gave up the town this easily.
And that would be easy if you didn't raise kids or have a spouse that will very quickly be acclimated to all of this. Yanking the rug so you can retire early? That's a quick way to ensure you'll be back at work anyway, because your spouse may take the kids and bail.

It's only a for-sure viable option for those that never marry or have children. And even then I'd caution someone to do it as long as you possibly can stand, you have no idea what lies ahead expense wise in life in your long retirement.
APK is an antiquated format that originates from Java Jar over two decades ago. It's basically a zip file with some internal structure for signing a manifest of hashes. Google already had to bastardize the APK format to move the signature to ZIP metadata, but there were still tons of problems around key rotation and distribution of large APKs.

This is a natural evolution of the format. It's good for the ecosystem. Whatever guarantees were supposedly provided by having developer (poorly) store their own signing keys are better handled by Google's own infrastructure.
This echoes my experience. It often finds seasonality that doesn't exist, but it also makes it look like you are doing something impressive...

Inexperienced stakeholders don't want/like to see smooth forecasts, even if you provide predication intervals.
Would have been better to read the article, because then you'd be in a position to explain how those languages handle transcoding from ShiftJS to UTF-8.
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I similarly think that you are applying a techno-utopian lens to your analysis. My family and I have spent time with many people who did not have internet or other modern amenities (Mongolia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Kazakhstan, and several others), and your statement does not hold. It is not _entirely_ untrue, because a bacterial infection can kill you, however, the dynamics of life are just... different. People are still capable of all the emotion and fulfillment that you and I are, but life is slower, simpler, and more well-defined, so it is often easier to feel happy and fulfilled.
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The next stage is hydrogen powered cars. All of the upsides of electric cars but none of the downsides.
Most likely: Kens runs a site on reverse engineering and the first result is a arduino. Ken is advising/writing/a part of the suit somehow.
"Sunsetting" inspires the feeling of a new beginning, and positive sentiment than "deprecating". There's a lot of power to be had in being able to influence perceptions with using the right words.
I saw a demo of PLATO in the 1970s and it inspired me for years about what was possible with computers. On the hardware side, it had a touchscreen which was remarkable back then, as well as the high-resolution graphics and flat plasma display. The software was also amazingly interactive. This was the era of punch cards, or a Teletype if you were lucky, so seeing the PLATO was like a vision from the future.
So, if Chromium turns into a bun fight with Google, the Open Source components would just fork?
I think they are considered a foreign seller as a merchant shipping from outside the US on amazon.com (the US marketplace)
Software Dev is The Wheel of Time, got it
I believe this is maybe the last step before a total removal of sideloading apps on Android. Sideloading is the main reason why I left iOS for Android 10 years ago. If it's off the table ... I might switch to a Linux phone... Or go back to iOS
The Netherlands, over the past few years, has had a massive increase in companies started by young people. Many related to social media, of course, like video production and things like that. But there's also a group doing more original stuff, like breakfast delivery, or ice cream stands.

Over here it seems like what the author is looking for is on the rise.
That brings up an old memory for me: I used to work as a lifeguard at a pool for three or four years as I was going through uni. Nothing glamorous in that work, it's just very loosely managing young males showing off in front of young females. Except this one time some kid jumped in the deep end and whilst he surfaced, he couldn't reach the top of the side of the pool in order to stay at the surface, he was clutching at the side with that unmistakeable, wide-eyed panic face. I reached down, pulled him out, and he ran off to his mum / friends / whatever, I never saw him again. Was a three second interaction from seeing it to him being back on dry land.

Possibly the best thing I've ever done in my life, and it was in my late teens. I get satisfaction from my intellectuality and general smarts, but for it really brighten my soul, it has to positively affect other people.

The bottom line is a demanding bitch and no matter how much you give it will ask for ever more. A positive change in a fellow human being is intrinsically, life-affirmingly satisfying; even just a single-serve in a lifetime.
Let me state that this[*] is 100% not true. I have no connection at all with this suit, except seeing it on HN like everyone else. It's a bit bizarre to appear in some sort of conspiracy theory.

[*] i.e. the second sentence. I do have a blog on reverse engineering.
I agree with you. The article has no substance. We can talk about how today’s schools don’t produce shining stars or bright minds, but the path followed by these legends (Carnegie, Da Vinci, etc.) were not out of the ordinary and I really don’t think they formed their character. If anything, I believe these people had a bias for action, took risks and were hyper-focused. Same recipe works today.
Tell HN: Don't root for WFH, it might destroy well-paying jobs
There is a vocal crowd on HN cheering for the WFH trend. But that is a big risk for the US SW engineers and a great opportunity for the rest of the SW engineers in Americas.

The crowd cheering for WFH seems to assume that the jobs will be available anywhere the suburban US which is ideal for WFH with big houses with enough space to have an office, gym and whatever. They also assume SV level salaries, maybe with a 10-15% haircut and think they can live like kings.

But from my personal experience at a company going fully WFH, I can say that those are rosy dreams. I am in a position where I know about the company's hiring plans and salaries. Guess where is a majority of new hires going to come from? Other countries! Guess what will be their salaries? Much lower than what we are offering in the non-SV parts of the US.

If the WFH trend continues, it will do to the plum US tech job market what globalization did to manufacturing. In a WFH setup, someone in Mexico is on the same level as someone in Kansas or SV, but much cheaper.

It is time for tech workers to look out for themselves and root for a failure of WFH trend. Else for the short term king-size lifestyle in your remote corner of the US, you will destroy one of the last remaining well-paying job market in the long term.
This is explicitly called out in the article: non-UTF-8 encodings still need to be handled somehow, and this library makes those just as easy to handle as UTF-8.
This was the most annoying thing in the 2003-2005 timeframe before MS got rid of it. Every tom, dick and harry in the world was doing this to any and every IP they could find.

You would be giving a presentation to a large group and voila some stupid net-send popup with some abusive 4-letter words would come fully-casted and centered and everyone would snigger.
Task was successful because it increased productivity.
Just done my benchmark, according to the results, Axios itself is left-leaning based on their own 5-notch wacky scale, also they either don't know the word centrist or [intentionally] misuse mainstream [to include the certain paper].
>Are they wind resistant?
>Yes. Boxabls are rated for hurricane speed winds. They can handle the worst wind conditions in North America.

The entire tone of the FAQ took me from "Neat!" to "I'll believe it when I see it."
I'm American but have worked in the EU, France specifically. There's no comparison in how hard you're pushed in the US vs over there, as you're insinuating. Everyone knows that part. And most of us on the US side are not in Silicon Valley nor do we make those wages. The EU guys have the better deal. They just need to actually secure full-time employment at all, which is hard to do there outside of Germany. That's the part no one will tell you.

It won't happen here, because our working class is asleep to the economic game being played, but the best blend is probably the UK and it's where we need to head as far as our demands.
This isn't about trusting the app dev at all, this is about trusting that Google didn't tamper anything. Whether or not trust a dev, you can't trust that you are getting what the dev intended. If you download a version of Signal Google silently changed to include a backdoor, it doesn't matter whether you trust Signal or not: Google will get all of your data.
>If you you shorten the timespan and only look at cultural changes since, say, the 1970s, though, it seems we've sacrificed a lot of what makes us human (community, interconnectedness, a sense of wonder about the future etc.) at the altar of free market economics

Free market economics didn't tell people to spend less time with their families and more time consuming entertainment media. Moreover, the argument that we have culturally regressed since the 70s only makes sense from the perspective of a white male.
And where do you imagine Microsoft stores all of this telemetry they steal from the user?
Established by whom? Many people host their apps on Google Play just so they don't subject their users to warnings about "installing apps from unknown sources" and for convenient updating.

> user engagement and revenue stream

Well, if you're making an app for the sole purpose of making charts go up...
Oh there's lots of prior-art way before Crays (B5500, CDC6700 - mid sixties for example)

Again the idea of sharing main memory between more than one CPU is very old (and arguably 'obvious to an ordinary practitioner of the art' who had taken a few comp sci classes)

I mentioned nVidia/Sony et al because they're the ones selling multicore CPUs right now and have the most to lose to this sort of predatory troll
What percentage of a pay decrease would you accept to work from home? If your job said come into the office, or take a 30% cut and work from home, would you do it?
This will happen anyways. It’s already too late. All I can say is that networking will be more important than ever and that client-facing positions might be saved. This will be bad for the US workers but amazing for the rest of the world. It will be a great equalizer.
Interesting. In my experience, living in Japan and Korea, cheese is everywhere -- sometimes in dishes you wouldn't even expect. I wonder if age is a factor in your observations.
I wonder whether I could get GPT3 to write patents for me so I can be lazy patent troll? hmmm
Who said you can't have rootkits on newer processors? Microsoft signed a bunch of rootkits and that was news last week? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640553
People have been crying wolf about "ZOMG! GOOGS GON REMOVE SIDELOADS" for years now.

It's still present.

AOSP still exists and is still updated.

Pixel devices still have unlockable bootloaders.

Your fear is still unfounded.
If I were making above 100k then yes and I would locate either in a cheap rural area or another country with affordable cost of life. My SO works in construction so that won’t happen. No WFH there.
I don’t agree with the statement the “crime is opportunistic,” that if you just remove the opportunity, you will remove the crime. That seems very, very narrow-sighted. I think a lot of theft crime comes from an absence of hope, no hope for better jobs, no hope for education, so why not? What stops a person from committing a crime? That’s really big big question, and I think when you have high poverty areas, high concentration of poverty, you encounter concentration of people who have no hope, no future, no jobs, no education, so why care? Steal. Anything to break the monotony seems worth the risk.
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