skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that developers are simply angry with Apple for not letting them to fiddle with the latest stuff that Google is experimenting with.

Chrome is the new IE but with better manners if you consider the non standard Chrome specific stuff that makes websites to work only in Chrome.

Developers hated IE for not being standart, you had to write two versions of your CSS, you had to make your code accommodate the Box model differences(is the border included in the width of your DIV?) and bugs just to make the UI properly display a standart compliant HTML and CSS. You had to deal with JScript, Microsoft's JavaScript that is mostly the same but not exactly.

Due to the marketshare, Microsoft was able to push its own non-standart technology and pushed people to use IE if they don't want to be left out. This is very similar to what Google is doing with Chrome, sabotaging FF through popular Google properties like YouTube[0] and leaving out features if you are not using Chrome.

Apple may not be perfect but Google is not the "good guy" here.

[0]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
Lots of sites use WebRTC for video and audio calls. Google Meet, Discord, Slack for example. On desktop it's far more secure to use those in-browser than via desktop apps.
Understandable. At the same time, if you have a deaf candidate apply, you and your coworkers have the opportunity to learn some of their non-verbal communication strategies for collaboration.
you... copy and paste it?
What the hell is so hard with taking stamped metal, making something look better than the cookie cutter crap we have today, sticking a giant Eneloop on it, and tossing in a 23-inch non-automotive grade touchscreen monitor powered by some AMD game console grade x64 processor on Ubuntu?

That's a step away from what Tesla is doing today, and I'd rather buy that than any of the trash BMW, Daimler, or Volkswagen are selling today.

These manufacturers are sitting on their hands. And it's not just the tech. It's everything. My Audi A4 has virtually the same moonroof on it from 2007 that is being sold on the highest end trim A4s today.

It's stamped metal. Make it look hot already, and not like some car version of a short bus.

Tesla struggles with demand because everyone already knows what they want and zero manufacturers want to sell it.
> They were just asking questions

Yes they were JAQing off.

> questions I agreed with, for what it's worth.

You agreed with the question “what is the difference between 80% and 97%”?
I've wondered similarly. I don't have answers for you, but to add more questions: Are there tree structures that are more amenable to SSDs and the associated write amplification and other perf penalties? Could "hard-linking" in the SSD facilitate covered indexes? Could bitwise operations be performed on the SSD itself?

Edit: I found some exploration: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...
I was answering the “they can’t be artificially weakened” point. I’m not saying they play like humans.
you cannot use connect-src self. You can use CSP just fine if you are more explicit.
> The biggest problem with IE was all the insanely weird shit it did, not missing features.

This depends entirely on what decade you focus on. There was a significant period of time where even the "cutting edge" version of IE was the furthest behind on implementing new standards. When you combine that with the way IE handled updates and versions, older versions of IE created huge problems for developers.

So there is an era of IE that is very similar to Safari today.
Follow the money. Apple makes its money from iOS & the apps ecosystem. Microsoft from business licenses. Mozilla – well they try their best but don't make much money at all. The only company to successfully monetize the open web is Google. Facebook as well to an extent but they found their success in mobile more than web, so gave up caring too much.
Regarding PWA support, I often read you can use PWAs offline. I can not imagine a Website that I would want offline. Can someone please give me an useful example of such an offline Website?
> So what that they're partisan?

So it's led them to uncritically publish lies time after time.

They claimed "Capitol Police Officer Dies From Injuries in Pro-Trump Rampage", but the medical examiner found no evidence of injuries, and a thorough review of the tapes found no event that would have caused his death.

They pushed the Steele dossier, whose claims, even they now admit, "have never materialized or have been proved false" and which was the work of a "renegade, billion-dollar [private spying] industry, one that is increasingly invading our privacy, profiting from deception and manipulating the news."[1]

They said “Protesters Dispersed With Tear Gas So Trump Could Pose at Church” but a thorough investigation by the inspector general, published under the Biden administration, found that “the evidence we reviewed showed that the USPP cleared the park to allow a contractor to safely install anti-scale fencing in response to destruction of Federal property and injury to officers that occurred on May 30 and May 31.”[2]

Something that claims to be the "newspaper of record" should have higher standards and not just run with any story that suits their partisan agenda.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/media/spooked-pr...

2: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/yet-another-media-tale-trum...
This still doesn’t mean that engines can’t be made to play weaker moves without making deliberate mistakes, which is the only point I was making.
I remember about 10 years ago, sitting drinking coffee with a friend who was a "network guy" at Google.

His phone goes "beep", he looks at it and goes "That's odd, we just lost two undersea fibres at the same time, about 50 miles off the east coast of Japan..."
Well, they didn't align with TSMC. They end up jumping ahead of TSMC by a node.
DeepMind – Solving Mixed Integer Programs Using Neural Networks
You’re not going to get any answers on HN. Want my advice? Do it. Fuck it.
Great read, and I’m happy to be introduced to the phrase “advocacy journalists” (and “advocacy-focused studies” and “advocacy-focused scientists”). Speaking for myself, I definitely fell for the insect apocalypse news cycle and I can’t recall ever seeing any updates that redacted prior claims or attempted to correct the public’s knowledge. I feel like news media needs to ensure equal exposure (like on the front page) for corrections to past mistakes.

It’s also eerie reading this so soon after the recent heatwave in the Pacific Northwest, which was falsely attributed to climate change in a very similar collaboration between advocacy journalists and advocacy researchers. A Professor of Atmospheric Science recently analyzed how news covered this story and laid bare the immense failure of researchers and journalists to properly inform the public of the nuances involved:

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/07/flawed-heatwave-repor...

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/07/miscommunication-of-r...
Considering there are no other browsers on iOS to compare to, Safari is obviously the fastest by default.
When you’re talking about team uniforms, there isn’t always a choice.
The majority of Mozilla’s operating funds come from Google.
There is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEB_Robotron

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_300

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Saxony
Because everyone benefits. The helpers get first hand experience, the helped get rapid scaleup of capabilities. Nobody’s interested in messing this up as everybody knows they might be next. This is the sort of positive feedback that keeps the world turning.
Mozilla is mostly funded by Google.
Was this not fixed in the release a few days ago?
Yeah, it's much better when one party pretends to be 2 parties and practically nothing changes regardless if you choose one or the other. I am sure people in the US choose who rules - that's a REAL democracy.
Note that you can import _any_ data that's structured like a nested orderable hierarchy, it doesn't have to be a file that `ncdu` itself created. I've used this functionality to scan and then navigate S3 buckets, Artifactory repositories, and even git branches (where the "size" is the number of commits).
I don't think it's just about diversity points. There's a real competitive advantage to building a workplace that can accommodate smart but different people.

My impression is that despite the perception of Google as having a very progressive and liberal culture, they are actually pretty ruthlessly capitalist and won't go out of their way to accommodate people who are ultimately detrimental. They are just being open-minded about what kinds of people they can put to use.
Hey Ryan,

This is interesting. I don’t know if enough people will want this to make it a viable business, but I like the idea a lot.

I would suggest this would be an easier sell if your main client was open source. If it were open source, you would need a slightly different economic model, but here are things you could charge for:

* E2E cloud encrypted backups

* Better AI models (or just different features, like e.g. searching for YOLO categories in photos)

* Support

* Group features as a sort of realtime knowledgebase. Note you’d need a bunch of privacy stuff added. But you could charge a lot here if it worked I think.

* Spyware / time tracking software sold to the odesks of the world.

In exchange, you might get quite a lot of people using it. As an alternate, you could make the lowest tier free forever if people allowed anonymous-ish data submission, that would let your free users pay by letting you tune better models, and your paying users could benefit and keep their privacy.

Happy to talk more if you’d like.
Artist’s Creativity Rocks
They were (and still are) amazing machines. Everything Commodore made was actually really great stuff, honestly. You can still emulate all of the great old classic machines on any half-decent modern PC if you ever wanna play around with any of 'em and can't get ahold of original hardware.
Yeah, and those all suck up my RAM. Color me nonplussed that WebKit doesn't follow in Chromium's footsteps.
Follow your passion!

I left SF and never looked back.

My values maybe different from yours but I refused to buy more taxes than common sense dictates.
Especially watching crime and filth level grows in SF and it's surroundings.

However again - follow you passion and excitement.
In order to prevent women from competing.
Features to Lookout While Choosing a Pharmacy Management System
> Why would you go out of your way to build something this way?

In fairness, if you want to use traditional aerospace supply chains, they are probably optimized to work through 47 out of 50 states - because their biggest customers were DoD contractors who wanted to help Senators make those claims.
I'd never considered the program itself getting dropped and re-read from disk -- but it makes perfect sense. I'm curious if executing the programs from a ramdisk would achieve the same effect.
I think its fairly common to have disaster recovery as part of the military, and to have them help in foreign countries when disaster strikes. E.g. canadian military helped out in usa during hurricane katrina
> what prevents anybody from saying "I don't feel comfortable taking a phone call" or "I need extra time for this" without actually being autistic? Then the disadvantage they claim to be removing hasn't actually gone anywhere.

I don't see how supporting the individual needs of others is a problem in any context. At the end of the day a candidate still needs to pass the interview.

The point is to focus on their ability to do the actual work.
Dell won't ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states
Would you refuse to use Postgres, the Linux kernel or SQLite because they’re all written in C?

Certainly C and C++ have more footguns than many other languages, but highly insecure as well as highly secure software gets written in all languages. I think coming up with better/easier avenues for digital-security-breach related lawsuits and fines is a better idea than banning specific languages.
>"We then hired “The Machine” (Engineer #2) and I moved in with him into an apartment in the Twin Peaks neighborhood of San Francisco, mostly so I could harass him into programming day and night. And as my two engineers built a beta version of our call center software, I started dialing for dollars and calling call center owners with the pitch and promise of something cheaper.

After so many rejections, I wanted to reject myself.

After what must have been more than 2,000 cold calls, I finally reached a receptive voice on the other line.

Joe owned a small but successful call center in Provo, Utah. He called my bluff and said that he knew we didn’t have anything solid yet, but he trusted we could get it built — but it had to be half the price I quoted him.

And that’s the early lesson I learned about entrepreneurship, or maybe it was a lesson in America itself. That after so many rejections, I wanted to reject myself, but then found someone who would mail me a check for $40,000, even during a recession, because they were risk-taking business owners themselves.

It made me realize that America was a magical place for entrepreneurs."

[...]

>"I’m not sure if I have any sage advice for other entrepreneurs, but out of this experience I did learn one important truth. Namely, you don’t have to be an Ivy League graduate (I’m not) or have a lot of money (we didn’t).

You just have to believe in yourself against all reasonable logic,

as trite as that sounds."

PDS: What a great piece of writing about Entrepreneurship!

Worth reading and re-reading in the future!
Luckily modern tech companies don't need those resumes anymore nowadays
Shit they even admit as much with the popup for the app saying "it's better in the app".
yes. such buildings literally blanket my neighborhood. lot (and block) sizes in the US are huge for urban development.
Why is this considered "evidence" at all? Raw recordings of sound, with timestamps and locations of sensors, could be evidence, but something output from an AI?

Let's also consider that the speed of sound isn't constant, sound reflects off of everything, and can even be ducted by natural causes.
Adding a Translation Application
How non-Tesla EV owners will be able to use the Supercharger network
Tesla doesn’t have to die for other automakers to succeed in EVs. Every vehicle sold will eventually be electric, up from something like 3% today. Huge growth ahead and plenty of room in the market for everyone.

As for marketing campaigns, almost every car ad I’ve seen this year in the UK is for electric models. Only Toyota persists in spreading EV FUD.
With a uniform initialization, presumably you'd never need much more than 2^(network bit complexity) number of samples to come across an ideally-initialized network with decent probability, so that's 2^10^24 for anything that fits in a yottabyte.
It doesn't necessarily require a massive design change. The problem is that nearly every aspect of two different processes is different, even when there is supposed to be an "easy" migration path, such as when the new process is just an optical shrink of another process.

Specifically, the transistor properties are different, and so are the properties of the tiny metal wires connecting the transistors together. Once you get to the design phase where you're dealing with individual transistors (for analog this is right off the bat; for digital it's once you get to place & route), you spend thousands of hours simulating the behavior of the analog circuits, or the effects of the particular arrangement of digital logic gates, to make sure everything works. When the transistor and wire properties change, you at minimum have to repeat all of that verification

Sometimes, the new process is different enough that an old design no longer works, and it takes a lot of engineering effort to fix it. Other times, a few small tweaks are enough. In some cases, particularly for digital-only ICs, the foundry will validate the migration between two processes, essentially saying, "we guarantee the IC you already designed will just work in this new process". Smaller companies might just go with it and accept any yield fallout, but bigger companies like Qualcomm would probably do their own independent verification.
Lazy Loading Images in React
Don't you think that's a bit selfish... to suggest eliminating the opportunity for thousands of athletes to fulfill a lifelong dream, just because you personally don't approve of advertising?
Habitat 67
Yeah, it would be great if those things were offered as options.

Personally, I am terrible at studying and getting assignments done, so I like that interviews are usually self-contained and relatively short. I also really appreciate the encouragement and sense of cooperation I get from doing an interview in person rather than in text, I think it makes me perform better. Obviously not as much with zoom interviews.

But I recognize my privilege here, that my brain happens to fit the current shape of interviews! It would be great if there were other types of interviews available that fit other people as well.
A personal view of average-case complexity [pdf]
> What sort of apps are in the intersection of being performant enough to be written in JavaScript and also generate lots of in-app purchase revenue (which is typically recurring revenue)?

Or maybe it's just selection bias - we don't see these types of apps because the experience is so fundamentally broken, noone ever bothers to develop them.
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Top color tools for web designers and developers
In Berlin there is water which even the city doesn't want. :))

http://allsinkscherman.blogspot.com/2013/02/berlin-water-pip...
Computers Are Bad: Rip Those Bits to Shreds
It is a popular topic within Google, at least.
> You should probably go re-examine the summary of findings chart.

Those are not the same figures on the PDF listed. The PDF presented seems to be from 2019, and I can't tell because your images are presented out of context, but it looks like hey might be from a newer report?

The PDF linked has a summary of findings that shows in figure 4 that 52% of breaches included hacking, and that 33% included social attacks.

Assuming I've found the document you're using as a source[1] (it's nice to have a newer version, but I hardly think it's fitting to ask me to reexamine a summary of findings chart that I was not originally presented with), it does go into more recent information.

That said, figures 20[2] and 21 in the new report do shed some more light on what we're actually talking about, and brings up the difference between "incidents" and "breaches" in this report, and what they mean. They define an incident as something that compromised the integrity, confidentiality or availability of an asset, while a breach is something that results in a confirmed disclosure of information. While phishing (social) is top in breaches as a bit less than 40% and pretexting (social) also makes a good showing in the breach chart (figure 20[2]), the much more expansive category of incidents (figure 21[3]) is overwhelmingly dominated by DoS (hacking) at almost 60%.

While that may seem like splitting hairs, especially since the original comment mentioned breaches, it was in response to and in the context of iPhone users, which is end user security. These reports are about businesses, and note they're following the NAICS standard to categorize victim organizations. They source their data from paid external forensic investigations, direct recording by partners using VERIS, and converting partners existing schema of data into VERIS (paraphrasing Appendix A). I think this discussion is about people and security in general, and I don't think this data is about that, I think it's about companies and organizations.

Now, to be clear, on thinking about this more closely I fully believe that social engineering attacks likely could be the majority of attacks when taking into account end users, and I imagine quite a lot of end user malware and ransomware that is likely installed from email, but I'm not sure, and I'm not sure how much browser exploits account for that, or how much phones change the picture. If we were just considering home systems, the majority I assume are firewalled at this point, I would definitely assume social engineering, but with phones out hopping public ranges through data plans and sharing wifi at many businesses, I'm not sure how that may be changed.

In any case, I think it's completely valid to call out someone that makes a general factual statement such as "Most security breaches these days are social-engineered." without providing that evidence. It's not self evident, and there's a lot of data to look at, as we've seen.

1: https://enterprise.verizon.com/resources/reports/2021-data-b...

2: https://www.verizon.com/business/dam/img/resources/reports/2...

3: https://www.verizon.com/business/dam/img/resources/reports/2...
Certainly there's no boundary that clearly delineates "safe" and "unsafe" languages.

But certain languages (like C and C++, for instance) have built-in footguns. They were built in for various important reasons, but right now many of these reasons are not as pressing anymore. We can take something like Ada, Rust, OCaml instead, or at least use the extensive tooling that allows to statically check programs written in (a rather wide subset of) C and detect great many classical pitfalls.

So I'd say that it's not about safe languages, but mostly about safe methods of development for critical software, methods that remove large classes of defects that are commonly exploitable.

This, of course, can be only one layer of protection; the OS and the hardware design should also do their part. Advanced devices, like desktop and phone CPUs, have some very good hardware features for protection, like MMUs, w^x bits for RAM pages, secure enclaves, etc. Simpler devices (like IoT SoCs) often don't, and they can be potentially cracked into more easily.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_time-domain_reflectome...

OTDR basically uses light to measure a fiber cable's performance. A lot of these devices have break locators in them.

and DF I imagine OP is talking about dark fiber. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre
I think one big reason for this is how disappointing on the shelves ARM chips are compared with Apple's offering, and the lack of a standardized platform like the PC was for x86.

UEFI on AArch64 is a good start, but we really need to reach a point where a single image can be installed on every ARM desktop machine, like it has been for decades for Intel and AMD. Also, the lack of FOSS drivers for lots of boards mean that you risk getting stuck on a specific kernel version forever.l All of this is absolutely unacceptable, as long as there's x86_64 out there that's competitive and doesn't suffer from these downsides.
That paper has many problems. For example:

> There is no particular need to rewrite existing C code, provided the same benefit can be obtained more cheaply by alternative implementations of C

To be clear, those "alternative implementations" do not exist, and no-one actually working on C compilers or tools to make C code safer has been able to produce one, or even come up with a credible plan for producing one.
New features typically land in March and September, because they are often supported by the underlying OS.

For instance, HTTP/3 support should land in iOS 15 and macOS 12 because it is being added to the operating system frameworks.

Bug fixes can arrive even in maintenance releases, but this is more often seen for security-related fixed (such as remote exploits or side channel attacks)

Safari itself is shipped outside of the read-only container on macOS so that it can be updated independently.
Does "person first" just mean saying "person with autism" instead of "autistic person"?