skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find these type of things to be deeply unconvincing, not in the sense that these people aren't getting something out of it, but again because it is happening in spite of the fact that it's cryptocurrency. They aren't using this because of some technical blockchain reasons, they're using this because it's a group of powerful foreigners coming along allowing them to do illegal forex. I guess you can't as easily push the "financial inclusion" angle if you're illegally selling them USD on black markets as a way to evade taxes? Then it becomes a lot more obvious what the game is.
High Availability. A service with (hopefully) a lot of 9s in its percent uptime.
> countries with a strong egalitarian bend in their schooling system seem to do much better than the American ones and not just on average.

I'm not sure; France and Russia and their selective systems, respectively classes préparatoires and elite schools, do not seem to do worse than other European countries.
DisplayLink is an actual USB graphics card. You also won't get any acceleration as far as I know, all you have is a dumb framebuffer there.
WebContainers are now supported in Firefox on desktop and Android
My family discovered recently that we have synchronous fireflies in our "back 40" (not really 40 acres, but a nice chunk of undeveloped land). They only go for a few weeks, but when they do, it's like someone threw Christmas tree lights all over the forest floor. Thousands of lights blinking at the exact same millisecond. Utterly amazing that such tiny organisms can synchronize over such a large area. We're doing our part to try to keep it habitable for them.
Design of a Separable Transition-Diagram Compiler (1963) [pdf]
New off-the-shelf cancer vaccine reduces metastasis in animal experiments
GoodRX shows me $42.54 at Publix vs $19.40 shipped from CostPlus. So yes, some drugs will be cheaper but it's not the magnitude of savings they claim and it's not across the board. Last time this came up I checked a handful and CostPlus was usually slightly more when you include shipping cost.
See the second sentence.
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They are dependent on and subservient to the US and its geopolitical interests. We see this right now with Germany self-sabotaging it's own economy and industrial power by cutting off cheap Russian energy at the direction of US policy interests (Nord Stream 2 was agreed upon for years between Russia and Germany but thwarted at every turn, sanctioned etc by US).
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Oh this looks great! It reminds me of haml, where it is so much easier to see the structure of your file, and you avoid a whole class of dumb typo bugs. And I'm happy to see this doesn't serialize the arguments into json and back (as Tera does). What is the point of that? Every time I start a new project in Rust/React/Elixir I look for a haml-like templating library. For private JS projects I'm stubbornly using a pug-to-jsx babel plugin, but in other languages I'm mostly out of luck. I have several small Rocket projects now where I'm using Tera (handlebars basically). I'll happily switch them to Maud. Thank you for building this!
Erm, maybe I'm out of the loop, but hasn't Dresden developed into a fairly healthy technology "hotspot" (at least for "German standards")?

(e.g. AFAIK the former AMD fab is now GlobalFoundries: https://www.silicon-saxony.de/nc/mitglieder/mitglieder-foerd...)
Or, as I mentioned in the article, you can pick a Surface which is just as good hardware and actually run Linux today. It even comes with a built-in stand and a has a good keyboard.
That really isn’t multi-user support though, is it? You are just doing rapid reinstalls with a new user profile, wiping the old profile each time. It seems like a pretty crude hack because profile support was not built into the first iOS.
Thank you! I just sent you an email. :)
Can you show me where on https://www.gov.uk/apply-renew-passport it asks for a biometric other than a photo?
America is not part of Europe. No reason to spend European money supporting American companies.
Standards are a good thing but I’m not sure that we have reached this point where USB-C is functionally the best. If we could completely eliminate on all other types of connectors on not just phones but computers then I would say it’s time to standardize. Unfortunately on my computer if I want a 4K resolution and frame rate that is way 300 hz then is it even possible that can be done over a USB-C connector? Hopefully some expert can chime in but display port or hdmi 2.1+ or multiple of those cables is what is used typically, and if USB-c worked perfectly why isn’t that already replacing every single port on a computer? Phones will eventually be as fast or faster than the current computers, so why implement a limitation when it feels like phones are still at the baby steps in phone evolution? That is just data transfer and I’m no expert but I’m not certain either than charging has reached it’s final form either. Am I wrong, is the USB-c connector capable of infinite data transfer rate as long as your cable is good enough?
What fantastic info that answers my questions. Thanks for sharing it.
Okay, so still: what is the company making the next-best chip making machines, using the next-best technology after EUV?
Random tangent, but do we even need .mobi domains anymore? The web became responsive to mobile, so I fail to see a case where it makes sense, and with Google having made .app it even defeats the idea that they could be used to market apps. Whoever runs that TLD missed the mark there honestly.
Born and grew up on Oahu and moved to the mainland when I was a teen. Can definitely say that while I saw bright flashes of light from lightning during hurricane season I never actually saw the bolts of lightning until moving away from Hawaii.
I would expect mail delivery flows cross the entire network on average because the mail arrives from places that are in no way related to where the user account is homed.
Your mistake is believing that financial interdependence is what prevents conflict instead of, say, shared values, political interdependence, cultural exchange, etc. Things that aren't money bind countries together far, far, far stronger than a stack of money ever could. That's the biggest reason why trying to bind Russia financially failed, and why it's been failing with China for the past 20 years. Ideology is such a powerful tool that I don't understand how people still think money is so important.
„All liquid assets“, „many“, „extremely talented“, it’s all so non factional as is their website.
GC and FFI do have a lot to do w/ each-other though, because FFI usually introduces unmanaged objects.

When a lot of what you're doing is interacting with low-level platform APIs, you end up having a lot of those unmanaged objects. After a certain point, the upsides of using a GC kind of disappear because you still have a lot of places you have to worry about those objects.

Of course, this can be worked around by providing managed wrappers around those unmanaged object, but at a certain point, it becomes easier to just drop down to an unmanaged but safe language (like Rust) that model the unmanaged resources more accurately. In my experience, it's somewhat easier to provide Safe Rust wrappers around your average Windows API than it is to provide a C# Managed Wrapper around the same.

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And yes, go is special because it has very smol stacks, so doing any kind of FFI on it is a bad idea.
Some of the current German leaders (like Annalena Baerbock) are too subservient to American corporate interests.
Credit to chewxy who mentioned it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31651475
> It's about national security. A fab is necessary for national security

How does germany funding a foreign/non-german company's fab part of national security? What about expelling a foreign occupying force? If the germans cared about national security, shouldn't they be looking in that first?

If germany was funding a german company's fab, it would be national security. What germany is doing is paying tribute to a dominating foreign empire. No different than india sending their goods to britain during the colonial period.
Worse since they're expensive and pushed by the manufacturer to the point you cannot physically plug a 3.5mm male plug into a female adapter on the newer phones -- you are forced to buy a dongle.

Meanwhile the intelligence agencies of the world siphon up signals like hungry hungry hippos because SDRs are cheap and ubiquitious, when ten-ish years ago they were poorly documented, expensive, and the encryption schemes used strong enough using 4g over wifi was a very practical security decision.

Here's an old talk that references someone's deadname with good technical information:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU8hg4FTm0g|

And a more recent talk on similar subjects:

https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6249_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412271...
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https://berlin.ccc.de/~tobias/31c3-ss7-locate-track-manipula...

(Apologies to Kristin, if they see this: I had trouble locating JUST the slides, not audio or video, of the DC18 talk or I would have simply linked the slides.)
10 Years of Zuul CI/CD rises to new successes
Cyclists are much scarier to me as a pedestrian than cars are. Cars can be erratic but they stay on the road and, at worst, I can wait them out or otherwise almost always avoid them. On the other hand I've had cyclists zoom around me from behind on a sidewalk, surprise me from the front in the dark, or buzz me while I'm on a crosswalk and they're on the road and then they shout "sorryyyyy..." as they keep going. There's nothing I can do about that, it's just a roll of the dice.
> Ukraine was not a reliable partner in the past.

What does that any of this have to do with innocent civilians, including children, who are being slaughtered by Russia?

European intervention is predicated on the following concepts, none of which are addressed by your comment:

- This is an unprovoked invasion of a country that unilaterally disarmed under the promise that Russia wouldn't invade them.

- Russia is testing NATO's tolerance for invasion and conquest, which is also something China will be closely watching as they consider annexation of Taiwan and likely many other countries.

- Many civilians who have nothing to do with global politics are being killed, again for absolutely no reason. Russia's entire pretext for this invasion was the warming relationship between Ukraine and NATO.

> Russia, on the other hand, while being massively corrupt always delivered what they promised.

Russia has been waging a cyber war on NATO countries, especially the US, for years. They are openly hostile to NATO countries. They will "deliver what they promised" until it doesn't suit them anymore. If they are able to rebuild an empire, they may not need Germany for their economic engine as badly as they do now.

> I have deep compassion for individual Ukrainians during this war.

None of the rest of your comment suggests this at all. If you have compassion for them and so do most European voters, why shouldn't Europe act on that compassion?
Study examines evolution of snake venom genes
Each time I read ProGuard I am reminded of TurboPower OnGuard's product :)
There's a point at which theory needs to catch up to observations before it makes sense to gather more observations.
Google Play app+web now disallow seeing app perms, installing is the only way to
Google has removed the "Permissions" link on the pages of apps both in the Google Play app (latest version as of 2022-06-07) and on the Google Play website.

Not shipping a sample link so I don't get accused of trying to promote my app. Go to https://play.google.com and check any.

This also applies when trying to install app updates so you cannot easily notice if an update introduces new permissions. (Previous Play versions would even mark new permissions with a green "New" indicator, which helped a lot.)

The "Permissions" link was replaced with a "Data safety" link which merely contains something like a privacy policy, not the actual permissions the apps will request.

As a consequence, installing an app and using Android's own UI to view permissions is the only way to determine the perms now.

This implies that if bad apps upload private data right after installation they can frontrun the user's chance to review their permissions:

The Internet permission does not require manual consent via a popup, and certain permissions which reveal private data such as your phone number/identity and accounts on the device also do not require consent. So frontrunning is possible.

(IMHO this is not a theoretical scenario: The last time I searched for "flashlight" on Google Play there still was a flood of "flashlight" apps which wanted access to lots of private data, even though a flashlight shouldn't need any data at all.)
I think insect variety in that case is restricted to a few species that keep thriving due to the sudden lack of predators. Like that brown marmorated stink bug that's killing the crops.
Considering how poorly run San Francisco and much of CA has been they should vote out everyone "progressive".
My phone budget is regularly $1000 and I still can't justify buying an IPhone.
Relevant XKCD, https://xkcd.com/927/

Bitcoin is scaling rapidly with higher layer development. The foundational blockchain layer is simple but rock solid and expressive enough to allow for some incredibly creative development, like the lightning network. Projects like https://www.rsk.co/ are attempting to bring ethereum like smart contracting to bitcoin's second layer.

Don't fall into the trying to build a new TCP/IP because alternative protocols are somewhat better. Once network effects take over, alternatives don't just need to be marginally better to supplant the dominant network. They need to be several orders of magnitude better.
Really? I've been ignored on Azure tickets for longer than their stated SLA. During outages, too.
Note that the act of giving subsidies to foreign companies automatically kills any case for investing in a truly local chip company, because you can't easily compete against that.
How many times this happened to you?
There are lots of local semiconductor companies (Infineon, Bosch). This money would be better spent on them.
I don’t miss root on my device, like having all-encompassing root access is not a goal worth pursuing from a modern security standpoint. But one should absolutely be able to install any app they deem worthy into the existing sand box environment, like put a huge ass scary banner saying it is dangerous and hide it 4 pages down in settings, but let me use my device as I deem fit.
> ... but people with "TDS" make him a central part of their identity ...

What do you call people who make Trump a central part of their identity and constantly look for ways to work their hatred of Biden/Democrats in to every situation?
Twitch has one of the worst developer experience I've seen. I developed a set of tools ~6 years ago and they get broken by API changes twice a year. Meanwhile my similar set of Steam tools have been running smoothly for a decade. They just love changing their APIs left and right, often without fully supporting all the previous functionality. They arbitrarily many functions harder on the developer for no reason (like how you now have to manually convert username into userid).

Also, since they switched their own internal API to GraphQL, they basically stopped caring about the developer API. That's the #1 thing, if a website doesn't use the same API that it provides developers, then chances are the API will be shit.
> I'm fairly confident that we won't throw babys in the garbage can if we don't like them

Why not? What exactly is the limiting criterion? Sentience is the main criterion that people who want to argue for animal rights and yet support abortion use, and it's a pretty squishy criterion. Already Peter Singer supports veganism and effective altruism (i.e., rebranded utilitarianism), and yet is perfectly okay with both abortion and infanticide, at least until the child gets "sentience".
this looks really cool! I like the card-based design and the idea of subscribing to news and creating links.

I'll probably give it a whirl :)
Regex Literals in Swift
> just bring out the Panama papers

This way they will find out 10x more interesting things about their own "honorable businessmen" too thus nobody will ever do this
Seems to me that most software is horribly inefficient anyway. If push came to shove we might just consider making better software?
Is BDS a thing yet? I've never considered the current occupant of the hot seat to be particularly controversial, but based on the volume of FJB and LGB comments, maybe TDS/BDS are expected mirror images with a similar root cause.
For Common Lisp, just stick to SBCL or CCL: https://common-lisp.net/implementations
Really? $250/user/year, for how many users?

There was recently a thread about someone asking about password management solutions for an organization of 10k employees, and someone recommended 1Password, which I already find hard to believe it could ever make financial and operational sense. [0]

Now, these prices from GH can make sense if you are a team of 10-50, but I wonder what would be the point where it wouldn't take a bean-counter to say "can't we just hire someone else do that in-house, part-time? It would cost as much or less, but at least we would have a lot more control over the system and we wouldn't be at the mercy of a company that treats us as cattle."

I see on your profile page you are on Matrix. Would you mind if I add you there to chat (or add me @raphael:communick.com)? Seems like your company could have so many different cheaper and better solutions for their needs, I've been thinking for a while whether there could be a market in "open source strategy consulting".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31582161
can you clarify your case here about Apple as an antitrust or monopoly power?

In what ways are they using their market power to diminish welfare or competitiveness of the marketplace?
So, I assume before you accept one of these things you should validate that it actually contains funds somehow ?
How do you think San Francisco should be run?
> If it helps understand my seemingly heartless position: I have exactly as much sympathy and empathy for somebody spending $4bil on crypto, as for investing $4bil in Phillip Morris or another tobacco company a couple of decades ago.

This did help, thank you.

Your gambling metaphor is useful, but incomplete. Consider this instead: You come across your fellow citizens gambling in a casino. You decide they must stop what they are doing for reasons. My original question was basically how do you shutdown the casino in a fair and orderly way?

You seem to be saying that when people lose money playing casino games, that is their problem, they signed up for it when they entered the casino. I agree.

However, suppose gambling were made illegal today. Do you think everyone currently seated at a table, people who entered the casino legally, should lose the money they brought into the casino with them?
Thanks a ton, I wish more programs would aid folks in using PNG settings to efficiently use PNG, rather than nudge towards JPG/JPEG for realistic photos.

There's a lot of "tricks" like that we taught designers long ago that hold the web back absent more technical folks allowing new paradigms to flourish.
He was on AGT a few years ago.
Redundant Git access and repo access can be dealt with by using Artifactory. But then you have to hope Artifactory works. The SaaS offering isn't very stable and self-hosting is a huge pain in the butt.

You could also architect your business not to go down when an upstream vendor goes offline, but maybe I'm crazy.
I've anecdotally found that the improved safety features have led to near-crashes for me, simply by making the auto behave unexpectedly.

Most notably this happens when I'm driving down the freeway, and the car thinks something is in front of us that isn't and randomly slams on the breaks.

It has also happened when other negligent drivers have started merging into my lane (where I am), and the vehicle slams on the breaks, against my better judgement of slamming on the gas to avoid the collision because it would have been safer.

My daily driver is old and has no security features, and modern rentals are a nightmare for exactly those reasons.

Also, what's with the newer cars randomly beeping at me to communicate instead of presenting an actual sentence of information? Almost all the time I have no idea why the safety features are engaging because they only communication is a beep of some kind, leaving me confused and taking my eyes off the road to look for some supporting message in the car's interface.
Homeschooling is illegal in Germany and its harder to avoid covid vaccines (idk if these items matter to you)
I run my own email server an never had any issues with email deliverability. There must be a reason for these bounces. Any SMTP logs?
This is possible. The goal is that the server knows as little as possible, while the client has full information. It's order revealing encryption. The server side knows the ordering of the values, but doesn't know any specific value. When queried, it is always getting prefixes (or exact matches) following the same encryption scheme, so it can compare those to the corpus and select results since the query parameters fall into the same ordering. The server doesn't have access to the keys needed to generate query parameters, so in theory it would be difficult for the server to perform narrowing queries on its own. Over time the server could gather statistical results that may reveal more about the data it's holding. Also, these schemes may need to produce the same cipher text for the same input, so frequency distributions can be used to reveal information.
What are the odds this brings GCP closer to https://killedbygoogle.com/ ?

Nobody pays retail for GCP anyways. Always wondered how much they were losing on it.
I'm willing to be proven wrong, but it seems fairy reasonable to assume if a strong pattern emerges across a variety of different disjoint and poorly connected traditional societies with unique religious systems, that the pattern isn't likely to be explained away by simply pointing to recent (past few centuries) religious anachronisms.

Of course if a pattern were to emerge in the vast majority of religions across time and cultures I may be tempted to speculate it's a display of common human traits and rather than something to be assigned to a particular religion. In that same vein one draws the conclusion favoring non-cis behavior is probably a minority (but common) human trait (all humans may enjoy some non-cis behavior but most seem to favor cis behavior) and polyandry is unlikely to counterbalance polygny.
The reaction to his company is weird. It's not a charity, and I don't think he claims its a charity. We have plenty of charities the deal with healthcare and plenty of non-profit hospitals. Doesn't really do much in the grand scheme of things. He wants to lower price the same way Bezos wants to lower price. Your margin is my opportunity.

Why do you have this reaction to just this particular business? Do you have it for other businesses? Like a low-cost supermarket opens up and you're upset that they're not really growing their own food? At this point, I would applaud any competition in the US health care space, especially if it adds transparency.
Sometimes that's a 504 − Gateway Timeout Error.
> A co-worker told me to move all my 2FA to Authy as a means to avoid locking 2FA to hardware, but I haven't sufficently looked into it yet.

I've heard this approach of cloud-based second-factor auth keys called "1.5FA". It's probably enough for most people, most of the time.

That said, in the case of a broken phone and away from your computer, you'd still need either a second device that's already logged into your vault or a backup recovery code. That's a good thing for all of us to keep in mind the next time we're traveling.