skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because things aren't so bad.

I live in Bangladesh, now, and I don't think we're much improvement over India (except the caste problem). I once witnessed the aftermath of a policeman beaten by public because he assaulted a shopkeeper. So while people doesn't have much legal recourse, they aren't exactly powerless either.

Similarly rich & powerful evade justice, but I wouldn't go as far as saying "there's rarely any justice for anyone". The state may fail to provide justice, but people find their ways, and that sort of keeps the worst impulses of the powerful in check.
Interesting article, to me it just appears to be deciding how much you know at compile time vs runtime. (Runtime expressibility vs compile-time proofs) If you make your code a DSL you’re implicitly limiting your code to the semantics of your DSL, (you know at compile time that your code will do some finite set of things) while if you enable arbitrary code to be passed as higher order functions you lose this compile time knowledge. In the distributed systems case this is a positive because you want to limit the behavior of programs sent over the wire for security reasons.
> Perhaps in a year or two the existing vaccines will have proven so effective that COVID-19 becomes not much more than a nuisance.

This sentence won't age well.
How does this compare to Facebook Ax?
A quarter acre is a little over 10,000 square feet, which is what I'd consider a normal-size lot in a normal town. A 5,000 square foot lot is smallish, but pretty typical of new construction. I leave near Portland, OR.

One way to have large lots and walkable cities at the same time is just to have smaller cities or towns. People are drawn to large urban areas because that's where the jobs are and that's where the interesting people and things to do are. If we had more towns that were desirable places to live, it would go a long way towards fixing the housing shortages and long commutes and so on that are typical of major cities. (This is easier said than done, though.)
If you want more walkable cities you have to stop subsidizing the suburban sprawl that has been paid for with debt spending. The infrastructure that is falling apart around us is happening because its unsustainable, and if we just print 1T dollars every few years to kick the can down the road all you do is create a bigger problem to be solved in 20 years.
Someone is going to figure out how to make false positives, and then an entire genre of meme will be born from putting regular memes through a false positive machine, just for the lulz.

Someone else could find a way to make every single possible mutation of false positive Goatse/Lemonparty/TubGirl/etc. Then some poor Apple employee has to check those out.
The so called "labor shortage" is also very related to lack of housing, nobody really wants to take a job if they have a 16 hour each way commute to and from affordable housing.
The fact that people see getting the vaccine as a political decision is part of the problem IMO. Now that you put it like that, I suspect that one reason why uptake is relatively high here in the UK is that it's generally seen as a medical decision here, and we have much higher trust in ou medical professionals than we do in our politicians.
The throw away account point sounds fair. I hadn't necessarily considered that.

I was just going off the larger number of password dumps there are out there. Most are from small companies.
A lot of the early study members were physicians and health care workers, so this doesn’t come as a huge surprise.

A pulmonologist I know that was in the Moderna study was offered a vaccine from their employer back in December. They tried to get urgently deblinded (this was after the primary study was done but before deblinding) so they could ensure the doses didn’t go to waste. This ended up being a bit of a bureaucratic nightmare, and they weren’t able to find out the answer until a few hours before their scheduled appointment. They had in fact been in the treatment group, so the dose was fortunately redirected to another healthcare worker.
Sophisticated abuser criminals will not be caught this way. This is for a likely significant percent of the abusers that doesn’t know, forget or make mistakes. Also this system can slow spread CSAM images which can facilitates abuse.
> If you want a thriving business district with a mixture of local business you need to have density.

I simply disagree. You can have single family homes and a thriving business district. Not ginormous mcmansions. But modest, good-sized single family homes. I disagree with your assessment because I've seen how great things can be in my own neighborhood. I'm not even suggesting no high-density housing. On the actual 'satellite downtown' core a few blocks from my house, there are a few big apartment buildings. This is fine... apartment buildings are perfect for younger people and couples.
Exactly. I lived in Kawasaki, Japan, which is a large suburb of both Tokyo and Yokohama. Much of Kawasaki is walkable and has amenities such as restaurants, grocery stores, and shopping centers within no more than a 15-minute walk from most residences. Kawasaki is also served by many commuter train lines; once again, the majority of residents live within 15-minute walking distance from a train station, and there are local buses that serve those who live too far to easily walk to a train station (and even in these places a train station is generally 30 minutes away walking distance).

Suburbs don't have to be car-dependent; most of Tokyo's suburbs are transit-oriented (some of them were actually planned by railroad companies) and are generally walkable.
The OS in this case has nothing to do with not being able to be ported to other phones. Google is one of the few who will pay extra to Qualcomm for the ability for users to flash their own signing keys. Lineage does not support one of the most important security feature of any modern smartphone, lockable bootloader and verified boot.

Lineage might be more privacy respecting than Googles Android, but far behind regarding security.

CalyxOS and GrapheneOS are the only real options (because they support relockable bootloaders) if you dont want to use Googles Android.
> I had given myself a project of writing my interview phone screen coding question in as many languages as I could, more as a lark, but also in 'prep' for a candidate being 'funny' when I say 'use whatever language you are comfortable in'.

I would honestly love a candidate to use some esoteric/legacy/wacky/niche language to spice it up.

If they can walk me through it that would be a Strong Hire in my book (assuming it actually works when I test it later).
Yep, you have good points. I just thought I'd warn people thinking its going to be all roses.

Either way, I'm happy with my non-Google, Android setup
Thanks, that's really useful - I added this to the post.
https://archive.is/fv5U4
Do you really believe that if they scan your photo library at 10am and don't get any false positives, another scan five hours later, with no changes to the library, has the same chance of getting false positives as the first one, independent of that result?
> Everyone is subsidizing your housing appreciation when you don’t allow more housing to be built. The activists who are driving up the price of your property are the activists trying to stop upward growth. It’s pure supply and demand.

I advocate for building and development. I'm just pointing out that the activists that are supposedly rallying for 'high-density' just end up increasing my home price because (1) the high-density builders want the land and (2) people want to live in neighborhoods like mine. Heads I win, tails you lose.
You can't? They don't?

Just curious. Never tried it, never thought to try it.

But PDF is trash. Everybody loves their PDFs.

I presume people use PDFs primarily to hide information while still keeping it strictly/ostensibly public.
yeah it’s a little bleak tbh, the scents are an attempt to influence your memory and make you hungry, and things like magic bands are meant to make you spend as much money as possible by making money more opaque
I don't think any reasonable person interpreted this as 'will never see even a single mosquito', come on.
Walkable cities or walkable towns?

The cities are losing population and this started before Covid. Now, with working from home possibilities, it has been revealed, in NYC at least, that many people only were living here to be close to work. It's evident from the house sales behavior in more suburban and rural areas, and while things are coming back, it seems to be skewing towards a younger demographic and 'new people' rather than people-who-had-left. Moreover, a lot of people are downgrading apartments and buying weekend homes with fresh air and birds in trees.

Let's forget cities for a second. A lot of American towns could be a little more pedestrian friendly. They should copy European cities like France and Netherlands and Germany, where even smaller towns have public transport that doesn't suck, safe sidewalks with safe crosswalks, and separate bike lanes.

Instead we have roads with people's driveways, commercial stuff, people walking, all intermixed making traffic slow and dangerous.

The evidence that Americans want more walkable towns is in the fact that these towns are so much more expensive and often populated by white collar professionals who can afford them.
Yep, that was my point. If you're backing up, apps shouldn't get a say
The problem is that now we can’t do it even if we wanted to. The Big Corpos effectively blew up the control arm to protect their bottom line.
This feels tautological. And I've seen too many crap security features in nursery cameras to really have faith in small camera companies. :(
Ask HN: How does one create a service like Vercel or Heroku?
As the title says, could someone lay out what would it look infrastructure/architecture wise to create one of those services?

I spend most of my time creating CRUD apps but I'm finding out I want to learn more of how the web really works.

For example, I know that for Heroku there are Open Source projects like CapRover [1] that fulfill similar needs. Would it be good to study the code of that project to understand how it works?

What technologies should I study? I'm thinking I should learn:
* Docker
* Nginx
* AWS (S3, EC2, API Gateway, ...any other?)

Thanks in advance!!
[1]: https://github.com/caprover/caprover
wow if this is the best we got in terms of conversation in this thread.. we've reached peak ignorance
Ask HN: How to get involved in “maker culture” these days?
I just found out that Maker Faire died. I never went to one, though now I wish I had.

What’s the equivalent now? Is maker culture dead or has it just fragmented? Do Adafruit or other organizations do conventions?

I realize nothing is stopping me from getting started on my own, but I like the idea of participating in a community
How about OpenSPARC running on an FPGA?
> it's not like Netflix has a game-changing technology advantage over all the companies chasing them.

You're kidding right? They have huge technological advantages in the areas of content production. Comments like this are why people are doubting this pitches ability to deliver. It doesn't really sound like you know your competitions strengths.

There is a reason it's the N in FAANG. They are a technology company first.
Towns tend to be this way, not so much cities. I live in a single family neighborhood in a large city and it’s both walkable and drivable. It’s not great driving beyond a 1-2 mile radius, but I don’t need to go that far more than once a week. My kids’ schools are all walkable distances, 30 minutes tops, or a 5 minute drive. Same for the gym, restaurants, bars, the grocery stores, etc.
> In this case Americans have chosen the [car-centric] suburbs in droves.

What alternative do they have if that is all that is being built?
I'm surprised that chickens eat mosquitoes efficiently, seeing as they can't fly much.
Or work at CNN.
No Rocks Collected by Perseverance Rover in First Mars Sampling Attempt
Rift Tour Just Gave Away Epic's Entire Metaverse Strategy
> We don't even mention the giant logical leap from finding someone possessing CP to automatically considering them a child molester, yet someone posessing an action movie is not considered a murderer.

Filming an action movie does not require actually murdering people.
"Full autonomous driving" within a closed course set up like a metro system is 100% possible today. The hard part is all the weirdness of the real world and in this model you can shut most of that out.
Part two 4/19/2020 [Question]
RE the kernel exploit of the jailbreak
NOT only the bug , but the technique too !
Doing re-implementation of the kernel exploit
Clear understanding of the bug ,and general / fuzzy idea about break /exploiting it
Pen & paper ,testing ,evaluation ,repeat
Ad nauseam ;despair ;new idea ;repeat
RE the kernel exploit of the jailbreak
NOT only the bug , but the technique too !
Doing re-implementation of the kernel exploit
Clear understanding of the bug ,and general / fuzzy idea about break /exploiting it
Pen & paper ,testing ,evaluation ,repeat
Ad nauseam ;despair ;new idea ;repeat
>The Big Corpos effectively blew up the control arm to protect their bottom line.

Knowing what I know, if I was in the control arm, I would take the vaccine as soon as it was available. It would be highly unethical to keep people from being vaccinated who were in the control arm.

Those “Big Corpos” literally saved millions of lives and trillions of dollars.
My belief is that Americans want walkable cities except they fundamentally hate other people. Not personally, just existentially. Other people take stuff that the average American wants - a parking spot next to the door, getting a coffee right away, being seated instantly in a restaurant. Or simply having to see people they dislike.

So the drive, which means they have to see even fewer people.
Agreed. But the only thing Apple is doing that involve authorities has nothing to do with iMessage, which is what was claimed above.
Bitcoin About-Face: JPMorgan Opens Crypto Trading to All Clients
Stochastic domestic terrorist is not a term I ever expected to read, but it seems very fitting for the “data-driven” (but generally poorly evaluated) future we find ourselves drifting into.
> We should do something.

Oh, we (the global "we") will, eventually. It's just that the incentives for politicians are to let crises get bad before acting, so that people notice them and remember them.

No-one (well hardly anyone) remembers people who stopped a catastrophe from happening in the first place. For example, Stanislav Petrov ought to have a statue in every town in the world.[1] But "who's he?" is what you get when you mention him.

In the case of climate change, when the effects are bad enough for politicians to act, their actions will be draconian but ineffective. I can't offer any Disney ending to the story, but we must carry on anyway. It won't be the end of the world, just a much worse future than we might have had.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Discussed at the time:

Defunctionalization: Everybody Does It, Nobody Talks About It - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21916774 - Dec 2019 (20 comments)
> I like my car and I like driving.

There's a difference between having a car as an option as a form of transportation versus having it be a necessity.
Fortunately I have a cisco router and enough knowledge to block the 17.0.0.0/8 ip address range.
This combined with an openvpn vpn will block all apple services from my devices.
So basically my internet will look like this:

Internet <---> CISCO <---> ASUS ROUTER with openvpn <-> Network
The cisco router will block the 17.0.0.0/8 ip address range and I will use spotify on all my computers.
now governments have realised they can run code locally on the phone... how do they expect to stop them legislating to do that?
Copying my reply to another comment:

Not recommended. Downloads are tailored to specific device models, and installing an operating system image intended for a different device model would not work and could brick your device.

DOOGEE phones are not supported by LineageOS, and there is unfortunately hardly any developer focus on this brand:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/c/doogee.12007/

You are probably better off selling it. A used Google Pixel 3a is in the same price range, and would make a much more flexible replacement.
The parent comment is anything but 'bull'. To date, every single messenger app with E2E encryption has wound up becoming popular with unsavory groups like ISIS, Atomwoffen, organized criminals, etc.

While I'm personally uncomfortable with the privacy ramifications of what Apple is doing, Apple's decision is sensible in the grand scheme.
The Big Money Behind the Big Lie
If Berkeley Systems reproduced these screensavers for modern Macs and sold them in the Mac App Store for ten bucks, they would make an absolute killing.
Many choose suburbs because there aren't walkable cities as an option
Ha! If only it was that simple.
Being given insect repellent implies the problem is more than one mosquito here and there
> watch how far they walked before they threw the wrapper on the ground

I'd throw those kids out of the park. Probably why I could never be Walt Disney :-)
Defunctionalization was introduced by John Renolds in 1972 [1] and entire compiler backends have been based on it [2].

[1] "Definitional Interpreters for Higher-Order Programming Languages", John C. Reynolds, 1972 as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defunctionalization

[2] "The GRIN project: A highly optimising back end for lazy functional languages", Urban Boquist, Thomas Johnsson, 2005

+

"A modern look at GRIN, an optimizing functional language back end", Péter Dávid Podlovics, Csaba Hruska, Andor Pénzes, 2019
1. Bootstrap a smithy

2. Make incrementally better tools. You don't need to get to the level of medieval clockmakers, just as long as you're not hitting metal with a rock.

3. Make a draw plate.

4. Make lots and lots of copper wire.

5. Build a water wheel whichever way you want.

6. Attach bigger wheel (TM) and connect to smaller wheel (TM) with a rope drive.

7. Use copper wire to build a power generator attached to smaller wheel (TM).

Unless humanity got completely wiped off the planet with no artifacts left behind, most of the above should not be necessary though.
Netflix doesn't cater to a specific racial subset of America though. You could become a global player in the space somehow, but probably not while retaining this mission
> You could just build walkable suburbs. Why there is a distinction between 'suburb' and 'smaller city' is beyond me, but there really is.

The Not Just Bikes channel semi-recently did a video on "streetcar suburbs":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

It's how things used to be built pre-WW2.
So you don't think that a website would not benefit this? Imagine a design where the user selects options in the browser front end for how to filter product search results, and the system has contract whereby the front end can call the search API with a set of valid filters and get the results back. Yes, I know that typically the front end would ask the back end, for example, all things in a category, then do the filtering within the search results at the browser. I'm speaking to a hypothetical system that wouldn't be dependent on the user providing some classifying condition at first. Imagine, say, a library. You could require the user to pick an LC catalog classification first, but how many non-librarians know that Class D is World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Etc?
Black-Box Attacks on Perceptual Image Hashes with GANs (2018)
This is beautifully put and very true!
Youtube app can be replaced with Firefox
The 1600s were the worst time to find wood.
Forestation levels now are quite significantly above that period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holznot
If the full 1.2T were actually on roads, we would have much nicer roads. Quite a bit of it goes to not-car spending.
Why need to over complicate matters? If conditions were good, life will find its way over millions of years.
Britney Spears: 'I got my first iPad today'
There had to be a friendlier way to make that comment.
And because the walkable cities have been made unaffordable by those insisting that no one wants to live in such a place.
> 2) Don’t talk to the police

2b) Don't buy phones that talk to the police.
In terms of trying to rationalize how much $5B matters to them I think this is a perfectly reasonable comparison.
I've never run into a walkable city center where there was one super-obvious and convenient place to park--maybe a gigantic underground garage--and then you walk everywhere from there. Feels like that might work.

The attractive city centers have nice stuff, but too few people who live within walking distance to keep them in business and in good shape. They need a way to bring in suburbanites and visitors to supplement the native population.
https://podcasts.podinstall.com/npr-fresh-air/202108052119-d...
One thing that struck me was the number of parks they went to. I’m sitting here is a fantastically beautiful state (Western Washington) with so much to offer outdoors, yet I realize I’ve barely explored what is there for free, always opting for expensive dinners or events.

This weekend I’m going to change that, for the first time since covid started we’ll go for a hike in a park.
Our society is highly optimized to the current climate. Any change is for the worse.
An additional note: Android is natively much more private (1) and secure (2) than GNU/Linux. This is the reason /e/ is considered okay privacy-wise, by simply removing Google and OEM apps, you make Android much more private.

(1) Except if you have Google apps or OEM apps, which can access all your data. But your data is pretty safe from other people.

(2) except that kernel upgrades are often lagging behind