skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Complicating the system further for something that, for practical purposes, does not improve the security of the vast bulk of people is not a trade off we're willing to make.

This is the weakest argument. Are Python devs somehow dumber than Java devs? Are they dumber than Android devs? Are they dumber than iOS devs? Everyone knows how to sign a dependency/app/project except python devs? I don't believe that. I honestly think that's the most insulting aspect of this argument.

The rest of this post seems to have turned to hand waving and personal attacks, so I won't bother responding to that. I'm just glad I got to share this perspective with you. Once you cool down, I hope you look harder at the problem. All I care about is improved security. I'm not here for the imaginary internet points.
What does immutable really mean when you only rent a domain name? I think about this occasionally with domains and email addresses, they've become a trusted piece of information, but over time the ownership of that thing changes, does make me wonder about fraud in the future when sizeable companies die off and their domains free up.
What are the cons of using Credit karma? I'm fine with them showing me as many ads as they want on their own site. But I'm not sure I want them giving over my address and phone number to other parties who can then send as much spam as they want. Anyone have extensive experience using then, or knows all the fine print?
And to make it easier to try, we just added a regular name/password login (even email is not needed). And for the throwaway accounts just start user name with '@'. I hope it will open DiskYT for more people to try.
Could you please not post like this here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
AMA I'm a product marketer and developer with ~20 launches under his belt
> If Gab.ai is built upon the premise that it does exactly ZERO curtailing

It's not. They censor child porn and a few other things that are broadly illegal.
Is 50% a reasonable number? It seems low to me, given that electric motors are ~90% efficient, and battery charge efficiencies seem to be around 80%. To get that to 50% overall, the gears and powertrain would have to be < 70% efficient.
I don't remember the exact beginner tutorials I used at first, but I do remember that I had many projects and stuff I wanted to make and googling like a madman, solving a problem after another one.

Always questioning what I was doing and searching for better ways of doing it led me to https://html5doctor.com/ and https://css-tricks.com/ for really understanding things, and w3school often popped up for basic syntax.

This way was quite hard at some points though, when I tried to do some stuff too difficult for my level at that point and I got frustrated (in exchange I learned how to manage that frustration!). If you can, definitely find someone who knows these stuff to at least guide you a bit.
>Some news sites do it as well even when you go and Pause the player, it will go on and play ahead after a few seconds

Perhaps even worse than that, some sites (including TIME, at least previously) unpause the video when you scroll.
I don't get it. This focus on FaceID seems to me some successful marketing spin by Apple, and the media seem to be drinking the Coolaid (again). Face recognition in my book is not a replacement for a fingerprint reader.

See I don't doubt that FaceID will be good. I don't doubt the quality Apple provides when they introduce features like this. I'm sure it will work amazingly well, because unlike almost all previous implementations Apple actually makes purposeful hardware for it.

The thing is, I don't want to look at my phone to unlock it. With a fingerprint reader - on my current Xperia and my current iPhone - my phone is unlocked before it faces me. I unlock it when I get it out of my pocket. I unlock it while lying on the table when it's facing the ceiling. I unlock it to peek at messages in meetings under the table. Needing to face your phone to unlock it seems to just be a really weird concession to me. As others point out, it also seems to be a minor concession security wise. It seems to be some typical form-over-function Apple thing again - UX and security concessions for a better looking phone. They should've slapped a fingerprint reader on the back once it turned out the under-the-screen fingerprint reader wasn't viable.

Having to go through some ritual to face your phone and slide it open to unlock feels like a hassle and a downgrade. Especially on a €1000+ phone. So yeah, the Apple distortion field is still a real thing it seems. Or maybe the way I use my phone is weird. But either way, I don't get it.
It would be nice to have strong resource pinning. I've been in contract situations where coordinating with in-house IT for a new server deployment would have been a massive, go-nowhere headache, while throwing a webapp together on my own and self-hosting would've been easy but a big problem wrt company policy on data export. Resource pinning solves this by bringing us into the realm of "auditable". Strong resource pinning would look something like this RFC, except the browser would refuse to accept new resource deployments without deliberate consent of the client. (Something that can be bypassed with a hard refresh, as in this RFC, is not strong enough.)

Other situations I imagine would benefit from this are web crypto and HIPAA compliance.
> Clever. It can do this because it travels uphill empty and comes downhill full.

Admitting up front I know very little about mining: Aren't most mines operating today of the strip variety? I.e. a big damn hole? My mental picture of the places most of these trucks operate is where they drive into the hole empty and come back out full, uphill. Am I wrong?
This has Russia written all over it. They've been participating unconventional "warfare" for many years now.

Think of cyber/social media activities against the West, propaganda, invading Crimea without admitting to having troops in the area, covert assassinations of adversaries in the West, and psychological operations against Western diplomats in Russia.

NATO restricts their regular military options, so they exert influence in any way they can. I believe the only reason we haven't been told Russia is number one suspect is Trump administration's warm ties to that direction.
So if I understand, this modeling, when it becomes sufficiently complex (in some way), it crosses the threshold to "consciousness." It seems reasonable to me that this might be compatible with our eventual understanding of what I'm here calling the objective fact of consciousness.

As for the "made of" stuff, let me try a different tack. Sorry, wall of text coming.

For a moment, I want you to be as profoundly skeptical as you can. For example, you cannot be certain that matter, space, etc. exist. This could all be a dream, or illusion, or simulation, etc.

But notice that there is something you can be certain of. For example, if you close your eyes and listen to a sound (ideally a continuous one), you can be certain that sound is happening. But of course, we're being skeptical, so we better reduce that to "something is happening." Or if that's not skeptical enough, "it seems like something is happening." Be as skeptical as you can, and notice that there is still "something" that you simply cannot meaningfully doubt.

(At this point, sometimes people think "oh, well maybe it's not really happening," and in a certain philosophical sense, that's useful. But no matter how much philosophizing you do, still, there that [something/nothing/whatever-you-feel-like-naming-it] is. I don't know how better to put this.)

What is it I'm certain of? It's the happening-ness of it. Put another way, my conscious experience of it. To say "it is happening" is to say "I am conscious of it." Somehow, its very "existence" is inseparable from "my consciousness of it." Two descriptions of the same "sheer subjective fact." In this sense, "sound" refers to a particular modulation of this property called "consciousness," almost as though (get ready for woo!) consciousness were an energetic property that manifests as sight, sound, smells, thoughts, emotions, memories, etc.

This property is literally the only thing I've ever encountered. I'm willing to entertain various metaphysical explanations for the patterns it makes (generally known as "physical reality") but those hypothetical constructs are forever secondary for me. I can never know if they really exist, and find myself unable to reduce a certain phenomenon to uncertain phenomena.

I realize how nonsensical this sounds. Why couldn't the whole above story be some nonsense my (real, physical) brain is concocting? I don't have a good answer.
Didn't use a website but used a ton of spreadsheets to keep track of tasks, timelines and etc. Was gifted a wedding planning book but we never used it and hiring a wedding planner was way too cost prohibitive.

If I were to use some sort of tool, it'd have to be as flexible and adaptable like spreadsheets for me to keep track of all kinds of things.
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Uber subsidizes less. Its losses as a percent of gross bookings is -8% while Lyft's is -13.5%. Uber is cheaper while subsidizing less because it's more efficient.
I get that, and I don't have any great ideas for solutions, but I hope we can find an effective way to study the people of interest rather than to study a group of decidedly different people and try to extrapolate the results to the original group.
I guess it'll be handled the same way "intrusive advertising" is going to be handled. That is, Google is always going to be acceptable and it's only non-Google services that will be blocked.
I've heard that too, Putin was saying that at a press conference. It makes sense, since we ran those other countries rampant after they gave up.

Still, that's an excuse to keep his nuclear program, not to try and capture Guam. Capturing Guam is a misguided goal, which could hint at a further addled mind.
> or the Acid3 test isn't as useful as it is today. Why do you think the Acid3 test is useful?

Having a compliance test whether a set of features is implemented correctly is nearly always a very good idea (I really have to think seriously to even find examples where it is not. There is a reason why some development teams even make it as a central principle for managing software development (TDD - test-driven development). I am of course aware of the fact that the features tested with Acid3 were chosen such that every browser of that time looked bad in Acid3. This makes Acid3 a little political, but not wrong.

A test suite can become "old-fashioned" if you will have to look hard for an implementation that fails to comply with it. Acid1 has been belonging into this category for a long time and today I would also put Acid2 into this category.

But since we can now find implementations (Chrome, Firefox) which describe themselves as cutting edge in implementing new features (opposed to Edge) and fail the test, this shows to me that Acid3 has not become "old-fashioned". The issue shown by the 97/100 in this test could also show a serious issue in backwards compatibility of the standards that it tests (cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15258700) - and this is something that should be analyzed carefully. This alone still makes Acid3 useful, I think.
But developers also want a way to get software without getting it blessed by Debian and waiting months/years for a distro release. That's why repositories like PyPI exist and are in very widespread use.

Distro repositories are a great example of 'secure for ideal users'. They give you security if you can put up with a small selection of software and older versions. In practice, we end up working around distro repositories by installing stuff with pip, or PPAs, or downloaded from websites.
The Dangers of Replication and a Solution [pdf]
I think that's a little unfair. I'm sure they've done the maths since they're building a massive electric truck. Maybe the article was overstating it a little but it certainly not technically impossible for it to store electricity and then release some of it once it's back up the top.
I expect you'll find that your city core pays for it. Every calculation I've ever seen about the expenses of suburbs ends up with downtown paying for suburban development. It's cheaper to service a downtown property, more expensive to service a suburban one; and the suburban properties are typically paying lower property taxes, not higher. Heavily subsidized suburban residents then go to their city council meetings and complain about property taxes going to mass transit and similar uses. shrug
Biocomputer and Memory Built Inside Living Bacteria
Please don't repeat this all over the thread. High-energy, low-information repetition does not help take discussions where we want them to go.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I just spent all day yesterday debugging why my web app's font-awesome/material design icons weren't showing on IE while they were showing on chrome, ff, and edge. Turned out that to be the corporate policy to disable font downloading on IE.
https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/microsoft_internet_explorer_...
Very good point; and you get a +1 for "DefCon"
> and their shitty, shitty music blaring out

FTFY

edit: downvoted and flagged? My response was somewhat tongue in cheek but germane to the conversation: amplified music wasn't an issue when these suburbs initially came to be, but it is definitely a public space issue today.
If it were good only engineering no one would know about it
Not impressive at all. In a university lab back in 1999, we were doing this.
Countdown to Stone and Park enduring a lawsuit under the CFAA.
Maybe because PDF has been around a long time and it used to be that embedding even a basic font would have been a MASSIVE increase in file size?
The efficiency of an electric powertrain is much higher than 50%. Tesla claims that the total roundtrip efficiency for regen -> battery -> driving for the Tesla Roadster is around 64%: https://www.tesla.com/blog/magic-tesla-roadster-regenerative...
Also, the trash has to be compacted. I doubt this will be a net positive. Just a nice side effect.
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It's sad that there's still no good way to do deployment based expiration of assets without horrible hacks like sticking the asset checksum in the URL. I know that none of my assets will ever change unless a deployment occurs, and even then, most of them won't change. HTTP doesn't seem to support this use case well at all.
The keyboard shortcut for the browserAction pop-up is ctrl + . and then you should be able to tab down to whichever container you want.
The 4 hour rule sounds VERY annoying. It means for example I'll be forced to type my passcode after waking up. So many years of Touch ID will make such a burden UNBEARABLE.
Here is who is making money on Patreon:

https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators

(AvE is #9? Wow.. also lots of NSFW..)
> There's literally no reason for Apple Legal to lie.

Yes there is. Apple doesn't want to use GPLv3 for other reasons (they don't want users to have full control over their machines -- which they've proven time and time again with the iThings). But rather than saying "sorry, we don't want you to be able to control your machines" (which would be bad PR) they spread rumors about "GPLv3 means your software cannot be secure against certain attacks".

> Also, it's not like Apple Legal is telling anyone outside the company about this.

Hence this whole comment thread is a discussion about theoretical views of Apple Legal. My whole point is predicated on "someone actually knows for sure that this is the opinion of legal".
This new method seems to produce nicer results when the input deviates from what would generic model expect (e.g. stronger facial expressions).

-----

Here is the same image used as input for 3d face reconstruction using both methods:

https://imgur.com/a/bZ012

Left side is morphable face model (EOS by Patrik Huber).

Right side is this new CNN voxels method.

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Here is live 3D model on the authors' site:

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~psxasj/3dme/view.php?name=../59b41...
> Then have government provide an "official" email/youtube platform

Lol I won't ever hand that level of personal data to a government institution. Having a private company as a custodian of the data at least protects me/my data from government snooping (okay, does not apply to the US with their NSLs).

> or hell roll your own, which with email at least is perfectly possible.

No it's not, good luck setting up your own mail server - even with DKIM, SPF and whatnot configured the major mail providers will classify you as potential spammer. Thanks to greedy Viagra sellers and casinos, email is all but ruined for small-ish or even single-person operations.
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I guess that's because it's not a surprise. This has come up before, and it's basically unavoidable with the way PyPI is designed to work: if you see an unclaimed name, you can put whatever you want there.
> It's a popular request; about as popular as everyone who wants Ctrl+T to open in the default container. :)

Do you have any proof like a larger survey? I highly doubt that's a 50:50 request.

Why should one want to open a new tab in the default container with Ctrl-t? Ctrl-t is used and learned as a shortcut to open something (like a tab) in the current context. The current context would be not just your current browser window but also your current container. Ctrl-n would go more in your direction.

Would be great if we had sensible defaults without the need to get exensions.

Besides, do I need to get a Firefox account for this feature?
This would be genius and brutal all at once. I love it.
WI.
Thank you very much. That's very informative.
If you install the Test Pilot experiment (add-on), you'll be automatically migrated to AMO. We plan to "graduate" the Test Pilot listing soon.
Thank God Apple Chose Steve Jobs’s NeXT Over My BeOS
Why didn't they just set up a Patreon page for themselves?
My understanding is that FaceID and TouchID are more of convenience features than security features, so I don't see what all the fuss is about.

Shouldn't one just disable both of them and use a long passlock code if they are serious about security?
You are incorrect. This is called refinancing and happens frequently. It's possible SOFI assumed his/her debt at a lower interest rate which in some scenarios could mean a lower payment and lower term. The lower rate could be due to a variety of factors including overall interest rates, a change (or different viewpoint) in creditworthiness of the debtor, etc.

Your ego and lack of financial fluency is showing - this scenario is entirely possible.
Not free anymore. Hulu has the rights now and almost all of the episodes are locked behind their paywall.
Zelma's work to buy back the catalog was a great move.
It carries 45 tons + 65 tons downhill and then has to carry 45 tons back up. That's the hard part.
Yeah, each app varies a lot depending on where you live. HERE works fine in Argentina, but Apple maps will constantly send you to other continents (even if clicking on a contact's address that already has a preview of the map only a few miles away).

I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened to others in other regions.

As for GMaps, I find their UX/UI awful and too complex. They really need to go back to the old-school google that did simple things.
From what I gather, WI has Nexus and you should be collecting sales tax (depending on what you're providing). Do you mind me asking what you sell online?
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/908786987049533440

Okay. Lets be more precise. Does 'Zero curtailing of hate speech' work for you?
Absolutely unbearable. Borderline inhumane!
It always felt to me like when people use words like "intuitiveness" or "usability", they're all pointing at slightly different things. Matt Fuller's partitioning of user-friendliness into "easy to use", "easy to learn", and "easy to use without learning"[0] feels like it might be easier to set objective criteria for. For your example, you might say functional programming tends to be easy to use, but hard to learn and hard to use without learning.

(I'm not current on PL/HCI literature, so it wouldn't surprise me if they already have these concepts, just with different labels.)

[0] https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/userfriendly/2
I think that's a misinterpretation. Here is the full quote:

> You’ll also get a passcode request if you haven’t unlocked the phone using a passcode or at all in 6.5 days and if Face ID hasn’t unlocked it in 4 hours.

You already need a password if you haven't used TouchID in 48 hours.

This rule seems to exist to make sure you have to enter your password after about a week if by then you go over 4 hours without using FaceID.

You don't need to use a password any time you go more than 4 hours. I agree that would be insane and would be much stricter than what they apply to TouchID (which they say is less secure).

EDIT: I notice the GP's comment seems to have been edited since the time you posted yours.
I think you want to read this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15258485
I think your efficiency numbers are too low.

Large electric motors, 90-95% efficient.

Battery round trip efficiency, 80-85%.

High voltage inverters, likely above 98%.

Roughly seems like regen round trip efficiency would be at least 63.5%.

The weight ratio is (45 tons)/(65tons + 45 tons) = .409

Unfactored are rolling friction loses.
Cassini is plutonium powered, which is the main problem.
There is one big reason and that's privacy!
Once a week. It must be 6.5 days with FaceID-only unlocks AND 4 hours without FaceID unlock.
I'm late to the party, I've been doing work instead of keeping up with HN, but this was discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246659
Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech
> That's the thing. I worry less about popular packages. I can check that Django's GitHub repo links to PyPI and vice versa.

I worry about the most popular, and there the small and next-to-unmaintained. Just think back to the left-pad desaster that broke builds all over the world and imagine it was not a deleted package but an update containing malware. I assume there are lots of such "hidden gems" where the maintainer has gone away... the consequences of hacking just one improperly secured account are severe.
YouTube is trying things like tips (superchat), but their cut is enormous, something like 30%, plus processing. I'm glad YouTube isn't the one solving this though, because it means that I get to support folks who YouTube is screwing over, when I watch their content on vid.me and bitchute.
Being rejected by robots makes people :(
It is another Linux distribution, but it's a radically different one: NixOS.

I'm betting that within a few years, Nix will be huge. You can tell when people start to glimpse how it works. It's like, ohhhh, wooow, this really deprecates basically all other ways of structuring distribution management.

Have a look at the PhD thesis of Eelco Dolstra who invented the system. It's both extremely practical and theoretically beautiful. And it happens to be based on a simple lazy functional language.

I installed it on my laptop and servers a couple of years ago and I wouldn't voluntarily
switch to any other distro again. It has benefits and advantages that just cascade out from its design, it's almost ridiculous.

I'm really grateful for Nix and NixOS and I've started to contribute to the ecosystem. It basically made me feel happy and optimistic about GNU/Linux again!

Oops, I think I'm a bit tipsy...
For vehicle of that size to have a controlled descent using only the magnetic field (from the generator) as the braking force, it has to be one massive magnet, no? In which case, it is also adding to the overall weight of the vehicle.
I think you'd have to use two old-style profiles (separate windows) and then containers in each.
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