skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like he did some kind of experiment related to microwaves and bugs. People reported and the channel got taken down.

Are people really that sensitive nowadays? And why they take the whole channel down, just disable the ads if the advertisers are the problem. This channel was really big, so I believe it gets plenty of attention.
>I don't know why people think competing against Apple is hard or impossible.

You just made the case against this. The fact that they won't make an IoT blender is why they're hard to compete with. Apple is the polar opposite of Google in so many ways but a big one is their organizational mentality of "more wood behind fewer arrows". Apple is the batter in a no-called-strike baseball game (to borrow a Buffett quote) which means they're only going to swing when they get a fastball right over the plate.

Apple has high margins but it's actually because they have the lowest costs. In Porter's terms, they're the benefit leader but they're also the cost leader.

>Find something Apple isn't doing, doesn't seem interested in doing, and use their business model.

This isn't actually competing with them then. This advice is probably valid, but you're basically saying to just be the Apple of some other industry (like Keurig or Nespresso).
> As much as I agree that researches deserve fair compensation for their work

Researchers don't get paid by journals for their submissions. In fact, it's usually exactly the opposite: most of the big ones have submission fees.

This is why I don't really have any sympathy for the publishers affected by Sci-Hub, when at the same I strenuously oppose software/game piracy. I just don't see what service they provide: they don't pay the researchers, they don't pay the peer reviewers, and they don't validate the papers beyond basic copy-editing and typesetting. They're just useless middlemen who provide no utility. I'll be spitting on their grave when we finally get rid of them.
Does Google not care to fix this issue, or do they fully understand the consequences to content creators and allow it to persist anyways? I.E. are they so beholden to advertisers that it has to be this way?
Google’s AI Wizard Unveils a New Twist on Neural Networks
mobile.twitter.com is one that comes to mind - it uses push notifications, lets you add to your home screen and caches at least some stuff offline, though I don't know how much.
HTTP/2 inNode.js Core
Suspended U.S. Government Twitter Accounts
Have they enabled the Cloud password sync thing?
90% of the Money You Make Online Is Here
US judge says “global de-indexing order” against Google threatens free speech
If anything it will harm availability of high quality devices as they have less competition to force them to innovate.
Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends
The remote site does not get the contents of your /etc/passwd if you do that, due to same origin policy. And you cannot see the /etc/passwd of the remote site. If you want to see your own, you can also open your /etc/passwd in vim. So, there is no vulnerability there.
It's my understanding that when content is taken down or otherwise flagged one of the first consequences is that monetization is removed. So imagine if your code got struck down in code review so they took away your last two week paycheck.
Shut the W3C down, call Mozilla, close the Acid pages, now Spivak calls out what's good for the web.

You know what's good for the web? Standards. Standards that are thoughtful and consistent.
But the key point is that they're not paid by the publisher for the publication, they're paid to produce the publication by others. The publisher is just gets it for (basically) free and then profits off the fees.
I am not going to go so far as to say breaking backward compatibility is never the right way to go, but "those sites either need to be maintained or forked" is not what is likely to happen; rather instead they'll just say "you have to use such-and-such a browser at such-and-such a version" and lock it in that way for a long time. Consider how big a business it was (is?) to have VMs specifically to keep running Web apps in IE6.
Go tools and GitLab – how to do Continuous Integration like a boss
Because most of the research is funded by tax dollars?
I bought this for RetroPie use: https://smile.amazon.com/Logitech-940-000110-Gamepad-F310/dp...

It doesn't have wireless, vibration motors, or accelerometers.

This model has wireless and vibration motors, not sure about accelerometers:

https://smile.amazon.com/Logitech-940-000117-Gamepad-F710/dp...
I agree with this sentiment. While you want to develop a scalable filter that is able to police these kind of things, the flip side may be even worse — discrimination, racism, etc. Just look at the backlash that YouTube is getting for their recent changes in their algorithm, if Facebook gets even slightly too many false negatives the backlash is likely to be a lot worse.

I would hate to stand in Zuckerberg’s shoes here. It seems like they will lose this fight, no matter what. The solution might be more political than technical; that is, to teach people to be skeptical and use proper judgement when reading news articles.

But that’s most likely too much to ask.
Back down again, also, it's probably not helping that the link on this post is to their site... causing more traffic to come into an obviously taxed system ... lol.
I liked their view ray diagram, because they included adjustments for the curvature of the earth.
In older browsers, useCapture is NOT an optional parameter, and in most cases you do NOT want to use event capture instead of event bubbling. There's no trivial way to support addEventListener(event, handler, { passive: true }) on both new and old browsers without that really ugly feature detection code in the article.
Ask HN: How to lookup email for validity?
Is there any service?
Sounds like you should start your own free journal. That's the easiest and fastest way of getting these papers out for free.
I'm one of the folks who pushed for autocomplete=off to be disabled for password fields because of abuse. Basically, browsers obeyed autocomplete=off to shut off password managers; and sites used this to shut off password managers for "idk lol security" reasons.

This isn't what the autocomplete attribute was for in the first place; password managers have a different workflow and saving a password is prompted to the user, so we removed it. Password managers are not autocomplete features, basically.

Disabling autocomplete=off on everything doesn't seem to be a good change. Would love to be proven wrong but I don't think there are any ways autocomplete=off can be abused besides the password manager thing, and it's not worked on password managers for years.
The problem with large platforms is that they are open to abuse you see the same problems at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc, it's basically an infinite problem.

All of the "machine learning" algorithms aren't really that intelligent, because they have no real human context, so then you augment that with a trust and safety team to do manual review.

When you couple that with a platform that has millions, or billions of users, you simply do not have enough trained people doing the review process so legitimate users, even with large followings, sometimes get nabbed.

Just like legitimate people with less subscribers can be caught in the same web.

Then you are basically at the mercy of the queue and the number of actual people they have doing the manual review work, which in YouTube's case I'm guessing is rather massive.
The best opportunity for something true and meaningful like Justicedemocrats[1] to come and revitalize the Democratic party.

1) https://justicedemocrats.com/
Day 13 of 100 Days of VR: Attacking Enemies, Health System, and Death Animation
I don't think he meant _that_ kind of bug, ha!
Facebook and twitter have many criminal organizations cat fishing people for money and black mail. Its larger problem that should be tackled than botnets posting memes. (IMHO)
I completely agree with you, in principle. Though sometimes we have to reevaluate the system and a good way to do this is civil disobedience, which I consider what SciHub is doing.

>We've decided copyright is reasonable as a concept

I disagree here, I think copyright is a great idea, but more and more often, executed poorly.

>Absolutely nothing prevents scientists and academics from publishing in open-access journals

To some extent you are correct, but if you want your paper to be read and spread your knowledge this is the only way. And yes recognition and money is also a factor

As for your question, the law should absolutely step in, but just because it's the law doesn't mean it's right and it can't be corrected

Edit: formatting
I once traded an original Hayes 2400 baud modem for a Honda CB360 motorcycle. The Hayes was a thing of beauty in its milled aluminum case.
http://www.cetusnews.com/tech/How-Smart-Weed-Could-Make-Pot-... No paywall.
Taxpayers are subsidizing hush money for sexual harassment and assault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abapFJN6glo
Rafael Nadal not recognised by guard at Paris Masters
Regardless of people's sensitivity, I think the system functioned the way it is supposed to function, enough people report the content, it gets taken down, and apparently this isn't the channel's first strike. The only criticism I see fit is that they should add a manual check of the content if the channel is big enough, that is before it gets automatically taken down.
Alcohol and tobacco kill far more people than opioids
A Reference Stack for Modern Data Science
I've seen those docs. I tried implementing webpack to replace our gulp bundler (which was initially an ASP.NET Core Bundler) for an ASP.NET Core project.

Unanswered questions that I left the project with (I time-boxed myself to 4 hours; as that was the initial length of time it took me to get gulp up and running in totality):

- Why do I need a require for my CSS? I literally want to replace the css with its minified form. Maybe even bundle it together (I'd settle for the former).

- How the heck is web-pack doing all this; and why is the package called 'extract-css-loader'? I don't want to extract CSS; I want to minify it.

- If I want a source folder and a dist/ folder for my CSS; how would I get Webpack to update the URLs in the .html files?

- Am I crazy for still doing this through HTML? Is there a 'better way' ?
I have airpods and although the _initial_ sync is magical, it's just like every other set of bluetooth headphones when you've got more than 1 device to choose from. If I have my macbook and phone side by side and put in my airpods, they always connect to the phone. I have to go to the mac's bluetooth menu to choose airpods if I want to listen from my mac (icloud sync doesn't seem to work).
I use the 'prev' key to fast-rewind to the beginning of a track, for really quick needle drops on a downbeat. I don't use a lot of cue points and usually find it easier to start my mixing into the feed from the first downbeat.

Workflow is: drop from beginning, play+tweak til roughly beatmatched, rewind to beginning and needle drop on first beat again, then begin fading into the mix
It's carbonated from all the CO2 it's pumping into the environment.
A few thoughts on Elm
I think many will see this as a type of tyranny, and therefore will be worried about the future implications of yielding authority to a single monolith.
The beauty of actually free open source licences is that you don't need Microsoft to give a fuck. All that stands between you and fixing something is one click on "Fork".

Sure, it would be better if they were interested in building and engaging a community (and who says they're not? It's a huge company and a lot has changed in the past few years, but fair, you don't want to take anything for granted), but releasing code, tests and build instructions under one of the most liberal licenses around is so close to the mark that no, complaining isn't really warranted.
The conversations I've had with them have lead me to the opposite conclusion -- they are so good at their presentation, I figure they may be working on their acting or debate skills. A true test of how good someone is at debate, is if they can win arguing for the opposite of what they believe.
This presents some pretty extreme view points as if they're perfectly reasonable.

I doubt you could find any member of the public who would say "Yes" if asked "Should research you paid for cost you money to read?".

No reasonable person would agree with the rules as they are if they were introduced today, we got here because it's not an election issue and special interests and lobbyists have distorted rules written centuries ago massively in their favour.
Dane here. Our ISPs blocked a lot of sites and claimed they were all cp, but when the list (or partial they wouldn't comment) got leaked on wikileaks it turned out to be also a bunch of gay sites as well as a dutch company selling trucks for warehouses - not exactly dressed, but also not CP.

So I wouldn't trust the integrity of any system which we are being denied information about.
Those were the days you could hack a mainframe with a cassette player. Boy did we have fun with that.
Aren't cookies a web standard? I can assure you that Safari's policies w.r.t. cookies "break" a lot of website functionality, and quite intentionally so. You may not like that functionality, but the website marketers like it and have spent lots of time implementing it.

So - what's ok to break, and what isn't? In the end, it's a judgement call on the browser developer. I like what another person said here - the browser is an "user agent", as long as the actions are clearly motivated by user interest, I think they're ok even if/when they break some standards.
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL adds high availability and replication
I know, most of the drivers still don't support it properly after two years, and there are no good debuggers available.

Meanwhile on the CUDA C++ side,

"Designing (New) C++ Hardware” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86seb-iZCnI
Maybe, does UBS have a branch in the US that you can sue? Alternatively, does the country you are in treat foreign standards as admissible in their court in some form? Does the country have their own version of NIST that is willing to "leverage" the work of another country into their own standards, thus making the NIST standard a national standard for their country? Does the country have their own version of NIST that has already issued a standard? Any of the above are angles to consider before you reject legal approaches to the problem just because the country doens't apply.

Your question is one of the reasons I didn't say the legal route was a better way. It is an option that may get better results in some cases. Even in the US it may not always get the best result.
The book "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" is exactly that. Minus the cautionary tales, I guess (haven't read it).
USB mouse and keyboard is already possible on ESP8266: https://github.com/cnlohr/espusb

As for VGA i think you are out of luck, or need a faster/specialized co-processor. VGA requires 3 analog inputs of at least ~30MHz, and an ESP8266 has one analog input in the low (I think I've seen 20) kHz range, so more than 1000 times too slow.
What's the difference between this and a Kickstarter project?

The problem isn't the funding format, it's the politics of getting people to agree on decision making.

Design by committee doesn't work, that's why all organizations empower a head honcho to make important decisions.

Any kind of project would be better off centralizing decision making in a few people, and the rest of the participators can passively fund or promote.
Have you tried, or even heard about, any of the other options like Bragi and Doppr?
Show HN: Nihongo Safari Extension – Add Furigana to Japanese Webpages on iOS
Naughty spoilers dude, that's not cool.
Hey, I'm putting some thought into a more thorough reply. I have a reply partially written at home but am now at the office lol. I see the comment thread has garnered a lot of replies in the intervening time though, so I'll just post a quick tl;dr:

okay yes the web is more "useful" to most people, and maybe only slightly more useful to me, but that usefulness is significantly offset by some majorly-serious concerns about privacy, performance, and reliability.

I'll have a better reply later :)
Have hyperscale, will travel
Indeed. A big, giant, unqualified, huge deal.

I for one am definitely concerned about server lag on my FPS server, as one example of an extremely important mission-critical application.
This is actually part of the reason I built a project I call Piglet:

https://projectpiglet.com/

Google is really good for general information, but really bad for domain specific information. Piglet (in contrast) is really good at domain specific, but can be poor in the general case (although I haven't seen that yet).

For instance, this article appears right at the top of the search results: https://imgur.com/a/AkUTb

I recommend reaching out to me if you're interested - we are currently doing a private beta. Spcifically, the application is for investing (we are building an AI financial advisor), but I personally use it as a search engine as well.
Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjYUfrQW7W0

Hey HN! I’m the creator of the Nihongo Safari Extension, a new tool that can add furigana or romaji to Japanese webpages from within Safari on iOS. It will also make all of the words on the page tappable, so that you can tap them and view the definition without leaving Safari. When you tap on the definition, it will jump over to the main Nihongo dictionary app where you can see example sentences, related words, etc.

It’s kind of like rikai-chan (the old firefox extension), but since it uses the same natural language processing that Nihongo uses for its Clippings feature, it can take into account more of the context of the page, and give more accurate results. Plus, it doesn’t look like it was built in 1997 :P

Under the hood, it uses a Safari Action Extension to grab all the text elements from the page, import them into native code, and run them through my parser. I then generate HTML with <ruby> tags for each piece of text, and inject it back into the page via JavaScript. I inject the bootstrap popover library into the page, and configure each word with a bootstrap popover of its definition.

I bundled the extension in with the Japanese dictionary & study app I publish called Nihongo, which I posted on here a couple years back. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094326).

Would love to hear your feedback, or answer any questions!
And of course, https://status.stripe.com says everything is up and fine...
"If I have not seen further, it is because I have been standing in the footprints of giants"
Had a chance to chat with Ken, really enjoyed hearing about the history of the Alto and the process they take for troubleshooting what is effectively priceless hardware (given the fact that so few are remaining): https://theamphour.com/361-an-interview-with-ken-shirriff/
Everyone knows that speculation is outpacing the current value of crypto, but unlike the .coms of the 2000s, there is inherent long term utility in the biggest cryptocurrencies. I can't tell what the true value will be, but there is value in these currencies independent of the fact they are trendy investments.
This sounds like the perfect use case for IPFS.
The world is a better place with CodysLab, youtube need to sort their shit out. He may have made a couple of slightly dodgy videos, but the vast majority are really good and sometimes very impressive science videos.
The startup bubble separated the companies with some value (Amazon) from companies with no real value, or not enough to justify their existence.

It is challenging for me to separate rampant FOMO speculation from the use of cryptocurrency as a currency (Zimbabwe), but I suspect something similar will happen. The technologies and platforms that enable true digital currency use will end up flourishing for the long term.
EW comes to cameras...
>> RISC-V is an instruction set architecture right? What do you mean by it will make CPUs a commodity?

Yep. The spec is publicly available for anyone to use. There are also several instances of CPUs that implement the instruction set available to download and incorporate into your designs at no cost. There are companies selling services to help integrate it into SoC devices and such.

Until now, if you wanted to put a CPU on a chip your choices were basically ARM, MIPS, and a couple others. You had to license the core from someone or pay to license the instruction set. Today you can integrate RISC-V with no royalties to anyone. Everyone can have a CPU on their chip.

In terms of performance, the available designs are already beating ARM in terms of power and area metrics at the same or better benchmark performance (at the low end). The BOOM cores (also available for free) are closing in on the ARM high end performance metrics. I have little doubt that a high end design could match or beat the performance of the best Intel or AMD chip, but that has yet to happen. My point is that it's not only freely available, but that it's also competitive with some of the best out there. That combination should make CPUs a commodity in the near future.

If anyone is still paying for a CPU license in 2020 I think they will have missed the boat.
I always wondered if it would be feasible to setup a modem connection wireless. In a way that you would have a loudspeaker and microphone at each end of a field and just transmit the noises through the air.
That law was repealed some time ago.
"If a paralegal is writing a document and every few seconds is switching to Hipchat, Outlook and Word then there’s an issue that can be resolved by addressing it with the employee"

Wait, what? Are they trying to do ADHD diagnosis from window activity?
I think you'll find that a heck of a lot more travelers on a given plane only have carry-on than are planning to stay in a hostel.
Many other Bluetooth headphones have a variation of a feature called 'multipoint' which allows you to be connected to both devices at once so you don't have to choose and switch choices each time
this sound will make an awesome voicemail announcement.
Red Hatters intro Ceph 3: OpenStacked, object-stored, containertastic filer
Sorry, I am not convinced with your arguments. Anyway, have a nice day.
OK, but you have one picosecond to assemble your bomb. Let me know how much explosive power you manage to accumulate in that time. Also let me know how far away from your manufacturing facility you manage to move it before it goes off...
Or you can shot a several shots with different exposure simultaneously (see e. g. Light L16). It may not work for an astronomy but should work in many other cases.
As an aside, it's interesting that Bitcoin can lose 10% of its value in a single day, and the media/bloggers will use language like "slight decrease" or "faded value" to downplay how serious that amount really is. (Bonus points for "The price is stabilizing" when it dips)

If it were possible to short bitcoin, we'd be hearing a very different choir (Edit: I was mistaken, it is possible)