skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically most people don't want to pay period. Very few are paying $2/month for individuals either.

ADDED: Of course, very few is not no one. "Very few" people in the scheme of things buy a lot of books either but some authors make a lot of money. But if you're betting on how much money a book will bring in, don't give up your day job. And, with respect to journalism, the bar is even higher if you're talking investigative journalism that may not produce results for many months if ever.
I don't see why open source would end. Most open source software is not commercial. There's a massive and obvious difference between a person writing code and a huge obscenely rich corporation selling software to a wide audience. We expect much more from the latter.

There's also no liability associated with running a website. Simply refrain from collecting data of any kind and there should be no reason to worry.
Funny how 'km' has become so commonplace we forget we can write '1 Mm' (megameter).
Apple addressed this in iOS 15 with Secure Paste: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/08/ios-15-secure-paste/
> But a traitor ? Some evidence would be appreciated.

Search for "general flynn traitor," you'll find plenty of opinions about that with substantive reasons. Some will be about what he was doing before the Trump administration, some for what he did after Trump lost in 2020, including a public statement that sounded like America should have a Myanmar-style coup to defy the 2020 election results and install Trump again (I don't know whether to believe that interpretation or his later denial and explanation of what he said).
I always ignore this stuff, concept vehicles rarely, if ever make it to production. It's pretty easy to build 1 prototype, but really hard to scale that up.
This article touches on a couple of the problems with SRE-ism as its currently understood/practiced at a lot of organizations:

> SREs aren’t necessarily organized as part of development or IT ops teams.

SRE teams should be comprised of software engineers. Who do software engineering - specifically to tackle the thus-far intractable problem of managing operational complexity for the SDLC. It says as much in the first chapters of the SRE book. The idea that SREs are not engineers, or developers, is nuts to me. Of course, most SREs _arent_ developers, they haven't ever been in that role. Thats fine, but organizations need to understand that transposing Sysadmin into SRE doesn't magically change anything.

> No role in CI/CD for reliability engineering

Phew boy - this really underscores the weakness of the SRE meme, in my opinion; and highlights the usefulness of the Platform Engineering meme. CI/CD is the fulcrum where effective SREs/Platform Engineers can insert a _ton_ of value into the business, and if they're not allowed to have a leading role in its care and feeding then they are basically being kept from doing their jobs. I've seen this many times over. Another pathology is an organization where CI/CD is neglected in favor of shinier, more whiz-bang toys - this is just as unfortunate.

Just my two cents - but as I always say, everthing in moderation except moderation.

t. SRE/Platform Engineer/DevOps for 6ish years
To the best of my knowledge, you can make a custom layout on the Phosh keyboard with a layout file. IIRC it isn't too difficult.
Things I Hate About Your Game Pitch (2017)
And naturally the ones to decide which software is unsafe will be the lobbyists from the most powerful tech companies like Microsoft or Google.
I was writing, copy&pasting, linking, etc. but in the end I gave up. There's simply too much that is wrong and it would take a long list to refute every single thing and I just does not have the time or energy to waste (Safari have taken enough already, as IE used to).

In short, it isn't about "IE vs Safari". Both have multiple versions. What was awful was that IE was behind the times. Everything else was basically fixed by pasting a few lines of code from awesome people. Safari is way more work today than IE was back in the day and doing any modern web development is a breeze today - until you need to make it work in Safari.
> The Web Workers API allows your JS code to keep running in the background even when your site is not loaded in any tab.

How? Because last I checked Web Workers are only active when there is an active tab. Service Workers live a little longer than that but only around 30 seconds or so last time I looked in Chrome (and that’s an implementation detail, not something in the spec), unless the user has enabled push events and you send one.
Why would NASA consider Blue Origin for any Moon mission when they’ve yet to even put something in orbit?

The hubris is… ahem… astronomical.
The premise in healthcare of do no harm is for patients not groups of people. Do no harm, so don't lock up murders because that would harm them?

Second, the more it spreads the more it has a chance to mutate.

In the beginning of the article it said lockdowns were based on opinions and to use fact based logic then proceeded to present a bunch of opinions.
It's not that some of us don't trust it, it's that it's statistically unwise. The probability of death for my age/weight/health group is almost negligible, however, the probability of adverse affects to the vaccine are non-negligible. Also, nobody knows the long-term affects of the vaccine. Plus, the natural antibodies are potentially life long, according to new research. Organic antibodies are better, so if you can get them or have them you're better off.

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/good-news-mild-covid-19-indu...

https://www.openvaers.com
I advise you to update your Fuchsia knowledge, it is written in a mix of C++, Rust and Dart nowadays.
5 Reasons Why Your Smaller Clients Are Often The Best Ones
Phonetic IMEs aren't the only input methods available. There are a number of input methods based off of character components for Chinese and Japanese that are generally an order of magnitude faster (not accounting for predictive text). It requires about the same level of memorization as learning Vim. The problem with phonetic input is that it doesn't narrow down the search space enough for typing to be open loop. It's essentially the equivalent of typing in IPA and then selecting the equivalent English spelling. The problem is that without predictive text the search is too broad for any given input. Kanji actually has a set of about ~500 atomic components that all characters can decompose down to, so if you just map these in a lossy way to the US keyboard or just the numpad for some input methods, the search space is narrow enough that you can get close to open loop typing.

You can also decompose to about 10 strokes, whose order when written is set, so you can map from sequences of those strokes.

The problem with all these input methods IMO is that they're not deterministic and therefore not open loop because that just wasn't one of the design goals.

The additional benefit is that you can apply whatever rules your input method uses to symbols from math or other languages, which IMO is far simpler than using LaTeX syntax if you just want to type a ‰ or ⊥ sign. My input method can type Chinese, Japanese, Greek, and Russian as well as some mischellaneous symbols.

Entirely mechanical component based typewriters were being developed in the 50s but never came to fruition. By the time electronic typewriters came along it was decided that it was just cheaper to use the existing physical keyboards designed for Ascii or numpads on phones and work around it with software. This seems to have been a consistent pattern for most languages regardless of the number of symbols or whether they were phonetic. IMO I believe if they had just standardized on a more specialized keyboard layout in the 80s IMEs would not exist. IMO you can likely deterministically type Kanji in a open loop way if there were maybe 2 to 5 times the number of physical keys as the standard, or the same number of physical keys with 4 more shift keys. The advent of predictive text the need for it is basically nil for the majority of people in the same way the majority of people have no need for LaTeX or Vim.
Right, but it's not 2007 any more. Apple has more technical and financial resources available to it than many small countries. Memory-safe languages aren't toys now. Even if they still were, Apple could have built a better one from scratch.

Maybe in 2007 it made sense to build iOS on an existing platform and use the normal systems programming languages. Why couldn't more recent development of potentially vulnerable components have been done using safer technologies though?

Take a look at the long list of security issues fixed by last week's iOS 14.7 update[1] and tell me how many of the vulnerable systems could have been written or rewritten to use more secure technologies. Look for terms like "use-after-free", "buffer overflow" and "out-of-bounds read".

Then there is the iOS 14.7.1 update we're discussing today. Yet again this seems to be about fixing a memory corruption issue in a kernel extension written in an unsafe language that has a track record of exposing vulnerabilities. When do we start learning from those mistakes?

[1] https://www.cybernewsgroup.co.uk/apple-issues-urgent-iphone-...
When is it illegal to scrape a website?
A data analyst is more likely to know SQL rather than C++.
It absolutely does not work well. It only just barely works if all you need is chatting in public rooms that you joined from another client (e.g. Element). Everything else (joining rooms, sending private messages to people you don't have a 1:1 room with, viewing images sent to encrypted rooms, …) is painful or impossible.

And then there's the "little" issue of it not being able to coexist with wee-slack. That's a bug Python 3.9, not in weechat-matrix, but still.

I mean, I still use it because all I really need is chatting in already joined public rooms and for that it's better than that Element/Electron crap, because it's still a weechat after all, but it absolutely is not ready for any kind of serious usage. It's just a quick hack that sort of maybe works, sometimes.
That still allows some need for drivers to provide some safety backup. I much prefer the level 4 definition which explicitly says the driver does not need to be praying attention.
What has the choice of a framework got to do with browsers?

No one is forcing you to use them. HTML and CSS still work perfectly fine, let the people with curiosity and energy experiment. Nothing is stopping you from using browser APIs with any code you want.
Was just a wild idea. Anyway, how can they check if prirai is obeying with the C&D?
Xero is miles away superior to qbo but only because qbo is such an atrocious product.

Qbo does seem to have reachable customer service but only does so because their platform is so unreliable and riddled with errors.

That being said this is the 1st time i hear of a major xero disruption.

There's nothing else out there to compete with either of them unfortunately.
As a developer, nope, don't really think so.
Thanks for asking. I'm not sharing it on HN yet as it's still small. I want to grow the business some more before sharing it.
In my opinion, XSS is not a security issue autofill should deal with at all.

The real issue is if attackers can trick the autofill to fill in a password for a different site. I did a pentest for a password manager a few years ago, and if I remember correctly this type of exploit had been successful against multiple of the big password managers.
Yeah, I can't stand freezing nor boiling either! Let's go ahead and embrace a better unit of measurement now!
Can you give a citation for this? On the contrary all I can find is that the UK intends to put a 10% tariff on EU-produced cars.
One can only dream. What's likely to happen is the software industry will lobby the government and kill any law that doesn't favor their business model.
These kinds of claims are near impossible to prove with certainty so it all seems very self gratifying
"Subsequent inversions or another run of the coaster would serve as insurance against unintentional survival of more robust passengers." - This sentence just cracks me up
NB: I'm the author of the post, and I work at Timescale.

Yep! Though I will say a number of the hyperfunctions are optimized to work on time-series data whether or not there's a hypertable involved, but the name is meant to echo the hypertable concept. In general, hyperfunctions are meant to improve the user experience for working with time-series data inside of SQL.
I have to agree on PlantNet. It is good enough to come up with a general name of a plant (ragwort), that you can then look up in a local plant guidebook to find out the specific variety (common ragwort).

Hopefully, a privacy-friendly phone (ie Apple) manufacturer acquires them and does deep OS integration with the app.
Just what I needed to hear. Thank you for the insight.
The level of profit Apple achieves every year is public,
not insider knowledge. They could very obviously hire some more engineers to work on WebKit without bankrupting themselves.
Building a Tool to Improve Go Codebase's Test Coverage
Why is Synapse “impossible to run”? I agree it’s not the most performance but for a small home server it’s quite fast to set up. Dendrite is definitely going to be faster but it also has a lot more complexity (multiple databases, Kafka etc). Synapse is quite simple to understand and reason about.
This is a key point. There’s no equivalent enforcement mechanism when it comes to software. It would be a very different world if one of thousands of local jurisdictions could at least theoretically issue a binding demolition order, within their boundaries of course.
Actually, Safari integrates nicely with the desktop Safari. You can access the mobile Safari through the developer tools in the desktop Safari and debug as if it is the desktop one. It a shame that Safari is not OSS.
If you're willing to be a little more flexible with the definition of a country, many U.S. states and Canadian provinces look fairly easy to cross in a straight line. They contain long, straight stretches of roads, and even their borders are straight lines. You might as well just walk or drive along the fence.
Monty Hall Problem and Variations: Intuitive Solutions
Much like the Colonel's 11 Secret Herbs and Spices, they are both Forbidden to know, and Impossible to understand.
For anyone trying to transfer MiniDV tapes on Windows, I recommend the super-lightweight freeware WinDV: http://windv.mourek.cz/

For some reason it worked a lot better for me than the commercial video capture software I tried.
Resume Summary Phrases
Yes there is VoIP capability. And video as well.
> Rochester police had also refused his multiple requests for them to test his hands and clothing for gunshot residue.

GSR tests are total crap and in my experience lean very hard toward the false positive side of things, unsurprisingly nitrates are all over the place. Cops know this, so them not administering a test that can only hurt a suspect's chances with a jury - well the guys on the street certainly weren't out to frame him.
Funny finding that on a news site :-)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...

And related 'Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse':

[2] http://www.sutjhally.com/articles/advertisingattheed/
FWIW, I find that aspect of Stephen's videos to be quite wholesome and enjoyable.
Show HN: Dorik 2.0
Apple is for everyday users and designers, not developers (not any more).
Without a contract there was no liability in the US until MacPherson v. Buick in 01916 and in the UK until Donoghue v. Stevenson in 01932, as I just explained in the comment you are replying to.
> It’s actually and Apple vs. APIs and technologies that allow fingerprinting on the web thing.

Of course it isn’t. Apple had longstanding (years long) bugs with IndexedDB. Their PWA implementation has been buggy from day one. They don’t implement push because it threatens their native app ecosystem, not because of privacy concerns.

Yes, there are some APIs with privacy concerns. But that’s a small part of the story of Apple’s neglect.
You can always convert to brontosaurusii - so this car has a range of 45,495 of them...

https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver...
My email password used to contain a pattern of symbols that I knew by pattern in QWERTY. I ended up at a cyber cafe in Europe locked out of my email because I didn’t remember the actual symbols.
That's a pretty misleading statement that manages to be true only by technicality. There are a lot of topics around here where both sides are represented but one is outnumbered 10:1 and all the comments representing that side are gray or dead.

(though I would argue that the more purely technical and less political a topic is the more evenly represented)
The OP used GeoWizard's measurements for the points (like less than 25m for Platinum) but GeoWizard usually goes for waaaaay longer than 1km. So the "fault" is on OP, if at all.
Code in ARM Assembly: Rounding and Arithmetic
Exactly. Plus, you don't even need to spoof anything - you can show the real login page!

There are many ways, but one particularly undetectable one would be to clear cookies and local-storage (causing the user to be logged out). Then use the history API to change the URL to the login page, and finally load the real login page in a full-screen iframe. Since the iframe contents are on the same domain, you can just reach in an extract the username & password fields as the user enters them.
Are you sure? If so TSMC and Intel must have discovered different ways of calculating surface area densities…
It wasn't until last year that Tesla Model 3 surpassed the Nissan Leaf to be the best selling electric car. I know the Leaf is not as competitive in some ways, but it's sold in the US for years with plenty of success.
Benchmarks for number theory libraries NTL vs. FLINT [pdf]
Sadly solar power isn't dense enough currently to provide really meaningful charging to EVs when constrained to the surface of the car itself.
If I build an unsafe boiler, and gift it to you, and then it explodes and kills you - am I not liable because it was a gift and not a sale? Can I disclaim away any liability and "fitness for purpose" when I gift you the boiler?

ETA: the first couple of Google results say that no, product liability can't be disclaimed away - particularly when there is no contract or opportunity for bargaining. I am very much not a lawyer but this sounds correct to me (i.e. this is what the law is).

https://www.findlaw.com/injury/product-liability/are-product...

https://www.eltonlaw.com/does-a-disclaimer-mean-you-cannot-f...
We've been incentivizing people to properly write "definitely" for decades and look where it's got us.

d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com
I did the opposite once. In a time before I knew Latex, I had to hand in something typeset in Latex. Instead I used Open Office with the Computer Modern typeface, and handed in my work as PDF, and my teacher never figured it out.
I see this happen all over the place. Instead of 1 Mg, you'll see thinks like 1000 kg.

I think power is the only metric unit I've seen where the common unit also often follows metric notations. 1 kW, MW, GW, TW.
I support free speech, but I will not endorse him or donate any money to him.
> The Walton family can't throw my in prison.

The Disney family can. [0]

‘What one fool can do, another can.’

https://unclewalts.com/wwwd/hey-walt-does-disney-world-have-...
Mineral extraction is very hard to predict 1 year from now let alone 12. I would be very cautious of an estimate that precise on those timescales.
> If they receive a ShotSpotter alert before a 911 report for the same incident, then they're probably going to arrive as soon or sooner than they would have otherwise.

This seems true, and if it happens a lot that would imply that the system is worthwhile.

> If they receive an alert but don't receive a 911 report, then any response time will be faster than no response.

Assuming it’s real, yes. If it’s not, it’s taken a cop on a wild goose chase when they could have been doing something else.

> Not sure if these are backed by data, but there are many quotes of law enforcement saying response times are decreased. I could paste a bunch of quotes but I know it doesn't really mean much.

Some of these are certainly true and in good faith, but as a general rule I don’t trust quotes from cops about whether or not they need new powers or tools since their answer is always “yes”. Sometimes they’re right, of course, but we need to evaluate more unbiased sources of data to correctly determine what tools are worth it.

It’s a bit like asking me if I need an M1 to do my job better. I might be incidentally right, but I also have extra motivations too.

And that’s before we talk about tools that are more ambiguous. Remember that this data will be used to prosecute people too, if it’s not accurate then the consequences might be worse than just sending out on pointless calls.

> This study used "gunshot victim prehospital time" as a proxy; arguably a more important proxy:

Yeah, that’s compelling.

> Another factor is that it tries to precisely locate the source of the shot. It's hard for humans to infer the location and direction of a supersonic bullet's source if they're going just by hearing and didn't see the incident, while in theory an automated system could determine it more accurately. I don't know how helpful this is empirically, though.

If it works, I agree. The article implies that it is not accurate in determining the location of a gun shot. The extremely high false positive rate also could be from the system accurately detecting a gunshot and inaccurately placing its location.

At a cost of $33 mil a year for the city of Chicago, I personally can’t help but wonder if there’s something else that could be done with that money to reduce the crime rate.
Side effects are expected. Vaccines provide enormous benefit but are not without risk. Patients must receive information about risks and choose whether to accept or reject treatments.

This is not at all comparable to corporations slurping up all data they can get their hands on for marketing purposes. Modern medicine provides enormous benefit for society. Surveillance capitalism... doesn't. Certainly not enough to justify the massive abuses being perpetrated.
Lint can catch fire.

https://www.consumerreports.org/clothes-dryer/how-to-prevent...
I have a tesla and autopilot is not the best L2 system out there. That crown belongs to GM with Supercruise (though they are doing their best to squander the technology by not racing to get it into every car they make).

Supercruise allows hands free operation and properly tracks user attention, 2 things autopilot doesn't do. It also has a much safer disconnect behaviour by slowly and safely pulling the car over to the side of the road rather than expecting the user to just take over.
I can vouch for Nheko. It’s fast as well (native code with Qt?).
What happens when you combine Angry Birds with a Golf Driving Range?
I think no company has yet figured out how to make affordable waterproof phones that are also user serviceable. The moment you open your phone, you destroy the adhesives and say goodbye to IPS6. Watch makers have solved this problem long ago, is it just not scalable for bigger devices?
You mean like Titney Spears did it again? Outing her bare breasts on Instagram?

Oops
When you say forcibly, they've been protected by the government their whole lives. They're protected from crime, protected from armies, protected from assassins, thugs, and warlords.

They've taken advantage of the schools, infrastructure, courts, laws, etc.

It's a social contract, it's two ways, and part of the price of all that stuff they've been using is to pay inheritance tax.

If they don't want to pay, they could go to a country without all those benefits. But they shouldn't expect to be able to take everything with them, it's not just theirs.
Privacy: A Quick Reality Check
Did you mean to reply to the other comment? Desktop Safari still requires a Mac as far as I'm aware...