skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is just like any other investment I don't see how people can have "sour grapes" about it. So you knew about bitcoin or even had bitcoins when they were fractions of a cent? So what...most people would have sold when they reached $5 or $10 or $50 thinking they were at the peak.
How are these two things at all at odds with each other?

How is a post that talks about a seven year project not long term enough for you?
There's not much between them, especially freelancers and contractors, although I'd say consultants are generally more expensive and are often brought in to 'advise' rather than to 'do'.
Hollow points are designed to stay in the person you're shooting and stop the threat without over penetrating and hitting an innocent person behind the target. I understand they sound scary to people not familiar with guns but they are the safest option for everyone else around the person you are shooting.

Not using hollow points for defensive/police purposes would be insane.
> Los Angeles police have arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of making the swatting call that ended with a Wichita man being killed by police.

What crime are they charging him with? I don't think we have the right crime on the books for this at present.

The guy who phoned this in is a scumbag, no doubt.

But Andrew Finch's death is 100% on the cops who showed up. As we've seen time and time again, their selection process and training lead them to be hyper-aggressive.

Look at stories from just the last year where the cops show up and shoot someone's dog, or shoot the random lady in a nightgown, or shoot the guy running away, or shoot the guy who says he's not armed, or shoot the guy for not getting down on the pavement fast enough, or shoot the guy...

It's disturbing that in each of these cases the system protects the cops. At some point, and my preference would be soon, we need to work to dismantle and rebuild this system.
>I'm not completely sure, though, based on this article, that I would consider the officer culpable. Police are trained to react quickly and to protect one another.

If being trained to “react quickly” involves shooting people when they are not 100% sure the person has a weapon, then they are being trained to commit murder. That will likely be an aspect of the inevitable lawsuit against the police in this incident. But the mere fact that they were trained to commit murder does not absolve individual officers of criminal responsibility when they actually murder someone.

>Anyway I do hope you're not suggesting that the shooter's responsibility somehow mitigates that of the caller.

No, I’m not.
With the phone under warranty the new battery would be Apple's problem. This is about a defective product and fraud to cover it up, for reasons of cost.
> The LTSE is designed to remove the short-term pressures that plague today’s public markets and reorient companies and investors around long-term thinking.

While it's certainly a popular belief... from my understanding it's not at all proven, or even obvious, that stock markets encourage short-term thinking over long-term.

Indeed, theory would suggest the contrary: the value of a stock is the discounted entire future cash flow, which means the stock market should be focused on the long-term more than anybody else.

While managers, on the other hand, may only be around for a few years, and one could argue they have every incentive to pump the price of the stock as high as it can go in the short term, to maximize the value of their options -- to the detriment of long-term value.

Anecdotes are easy to find on both sides. But ask yourself which is more likely -- that investors are dumb and managers are smart and investors should just trust managers to do the right thing? Or that investors are smart and need to hold managers accountable because it's the investors' own money at stake, while managers are smart too but always want a longer leash to do their own thing regardless of whether it's good for the company as a whole (e.g. spend more resources on cool side projects)?

E.g. see https://www.ft.com/content/23fd921e-3b75-11e5-bbd1-b37bc06f5...
There's absolutely no good reason why iPhone batteries are not easily user-replaceable. All the reasons usually given are weak excuses for an essentially consumer-hostile hardware design.
I also still use a stock N5 and I've noticed it really taking a nosedive over the past few months.
It only works if the router is also the DNS resolver, and if the resolver uses /etc/hosts as a source.
Physical Adversarial Examples Against Deep Neural Networks
Thanks, this is excellent feedback.

- It's OK to have a small learning curve; we think users will be OK with the menu symbol.

- We've thought extensively about whether to show content to non-logged-in users. This isn't really Lyra's use case. You can see it as closer to email than social media. Our goal is not to categorise "content". The very term "content" makes us itch. We don't aim to provide searchable communities or hashtags, as these are easy avenues for harassment, abuse and targeting vulnerable communities.

- Most of Lyra's existing use cases look like this: start converstion (with existing contacts, or invite them otherwise). Have conversation, usually private, with contacts.

- The tour can be removed with a single click, it was actually a requested feature and has received positive feedback.

- The general design is constantly evolving and it will improve as we have access to more funding.

- We offer a growing number of customisable themes (left menu); the look and feel of a platform should be in the user's control. Style is very subjective; some like basic, some like glitz. If you have any suggestions for a theme you would like, we will be happy to set it up for you.

There's no need to apologise for good, constructive feedback!
If a person loses their job they'll get COBRA and see their premiums double or triple. And a family on government aid in this scenario is already impoverished.
Tel Aviv is not accepted as capital city because nobody declared it as capital city. All government offices are in the
west part of Jerusalem which is within the recognised borders of Israel. If anyone wanted to "recognise" a capital they could just call it west Jerusalem or something like that. Tel Aviv is one hour away. So it is a subtle political statement rather than factual news.
More importantly, why have they designed their phones to exhaust their batteries so quickly? Either their processors are overspeced or their batteries are underspeced. This puts an asterisk next to all the benchmark numbers Apple loves to tout so much.
We bow only to the Hypnotoad.
There seemed to be a movement in that direction a few years back, but I haven't seen anything in awhile.
Police don't shoot to kill. They shoot to stop the threat. That means aiming center mass (the chest) as it is the biggest target and the easiest to hit. Sometimes that means the person dies, but that's not the objective.

As someone who is very well versed in shooting, it would be insane to expect someone to hit a leg or arm of a suspect; especially with a pistol. That would lead to many stray rounds which stay lethal for up to a mile and can easily penetrate walls killing someone you did not intend to shoot.
This is making an interesting case for using an external battery case to keep the phone at 100% more often and reduce charge cycles.

I wonder if the comparable battery performance gaps perceived by for many Android users will be seen as closer than we thought - of Android devices secretly dialed down its devices would they have much better battery life.
It seems like a distraction to focus on the SWAT team instead of the gamer at this point. Gamer pulled the trigger as soon as the call was made.
You can use coconutBattery.
While many industries have an element of zero-sum competition, that's not the default. Whether you're designing a car, doing a surgery, giving a haircut, cooking a hamburger, etc. you are giving something of value to your customers.
the problem is not performance vs power usage, the problem is the cpu faults and the device reboots because they fucked up completely on engineering safe voltage margin into the thing

all cpu faults if undervolted. tipically the more the clock speed, the higher the voltage needed so that transistor keep working correctly.

on a mobile device battery degradation is normal, with that comes less viable battery life but also a lower voltage

when you put togheter the two things you just need to plan accordingly. that's what was the whole kerfuffle: they didn't

it doesn't help that they use short lived batteries in iphones (go check it, ipads are rated twice the cycles) but the whole issue comes from bad engineering of the cpu/gpu or whatever they put into that doesn't work with the degrading battery output the device should have been built to cope with
It might be cultural, but things like these start out from basic needs and just become absorbed into cultural standards. As is demonstrated by the fact that the introduction of better shoes led towards the change of heel-first walking due to laziness.
Home Alone: Here’s how they filmed its bonkers finale. (2015)
I'm using https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/battery-life-doctor/id116593...
The mouse bug seems to be gone for me (it was mainly triggered by alt-tabbing out of the window). It still has an issue with text not being rendered properly while typing.
Any good CUDA implementations and benchmarks for CSPRNG's?
But the mere fact that they were trained to commit murder does not absolve individual officers of criminal responsibility when they actually murder someone.

It also has psychological repercussions, where anybody who's not cop nor family is expendable by default. What is it like for a cop trained in this way to visit a mall?
Ironically, I regularly get a warning on my Macbook Pro that I am running out of disk space, even when I have over half left.

The kicker? They try really hard to sell me on paying for iCloud.

Scammy?

Absolutely.

Someone who is NOT computer literate will likely pay for iCloud storage based on false information.
I'm laughing at the downvotes. The OP asked what to do if getting swatted and I offered a genuine opinion, apparently this isn't allowed on HN. ;)
I think OPs point is you shouldn't be able to kill people by proxy with a simple phone call.
I tried all kinds of things. The most interesting thing (to me) was the clicks_paid_for / clicks_landed changed, depending on different targeting mechanisms I used.

I may have forgotten to acknowledge that I never really cared I didn't get all the clicks -- I was doing a CPA campaign, so I just baked in the non-visits.

Depending on targeting and platform, there was almost always a 20-70% discrepancy between the clicks I paid for (reported by the ad platform), and the visits that landed on my site (reported by GA, server logs, piwik, and analytics.js).

Also interesting - AdWords was always within 5%.
The nand memory could be degrading.
Cargo bikes require significantly thicker frames to sustain the load, so the weight difference is much more pronounced. They’re also quite heavy to begin with, so shaving an few kilos off is most often worth it. There are some bikes that actually have mixed steel/aluminum frames, Douce bikes for example use steel for the back part of the frame where the rider sits and aluminum for the front cargo section.
They traded function for form. Smaller batteries to make the phone slimmer mean less tolerances for charging and discharging (depth of discharge), causing short battery life (for the inverse, see Tesla; big batteries means less need to max charge or discharge, which means battery packs that last for a decade).
You're making an amazing effort to dream up new worst-case scenarios that could justify the speediest, least hesitant response. Great imagination and creativity, but you're violating Occam's razor by multiplying entities, ie inventing new facts to rationalize an illogical position. Yeah, maybe the murder could have taken place and the neighbors would be unaware of it because it occurred in an almost soundproof basement, but how do you know the house even has a basement?

Sure, you want to get police into position as quickly as possible, but you can also direct other people to investigate at the same time. And instead of just yelling directions at the guy from a distance when he came to the door, they could have tried asking questions when he appeared.

I mean, you can just as easily imagine other non-threatening factors. What if it was real, but the person at the door was actually one of the hostages who had been released but was scared and disoriented? What if it was an innocent person who was deaf? Police in Oklahoma shot a deaf guy 3 months ago even though people were yelling at the officers to tell them he was deaf. Police know what swatting is, and it's a common enough term that newscasters can use it in a sentence these days, so why didn't they consider that possibility?

I realize you're trying to be objective, but almost every one of your posts on this subject actually depends on a logical fallacy.
Is that surprising? Economic expansions are largely driven by monetary (stimulus, QE<N>) and fiscal policy (bailout, contracting), as a part of deliberate politics ("we need to create jobs", e.g.). As these events are derived from centralized, hierarchical organizations (Fed, us gov't, ECB, EC), the benefits will disproportionately flow to those that have access; part of the reason why the richest are the richest is because they have had success in the past obtaining exactly that access.

It's rather ironic that the keynesian perspective in the article is that the policies "aren't targeted" but in reality they couldn't be anything but.
Discussion: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/9076/using-a-hash...

& http://xoroshiro.di.unimi.it makes reference to how on x86 cpus with AES one could get a very fast prng similar to how you're implying

As a change of 1 bit in an input ideally flips half the bits of the output for a cryptographic hash, this scheme should work

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna_(PRNG)
Do you, though? That sounds like a bug. I have also seen that warning, but only when I have about 10% free space.
What does a bike race have to do with it :)
> a family on government aid in this scenario is already impoverished.

No, CoveredCA, for example, provides aid to families with income up to 400% of the poverty line.
Are you suggesting that SWAT don't kill people, people kill people?
My understanding is that to the extent it's not uniformly distributed, that's viewed as a cryptographic vulnerability.
Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
the long awaited paper from Geoffrey Hinton (although Sara Sabour is principal author, Hinton has been hinting at this for a while now) on an alternative to back-propagation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09829
Battery physics? No. But they're definitely pioneers in the field of covert downclocking.
There are various apps on the App Store. The data is available in a public API. I won’t recommend any particulat App because I don’t trust any of them.
"Conceal" is the wrong word to use. It implies intentionally hiding something that was previously visible.

"Failing to disclose" is a better description of what happened.
I don't think this is true beyond benchmarks. They stress test the CPU and that's when the throttling hits the hardest. It's throttling peaks in CPU usage, and a benchmark is all peak.

So this sounds like a worst case scenario. Actual use can be completely different.

Not defending Apple though. This complete lack of communication over an obviously controversial choice is amateurish. So much of this could have been easily avoided by clearly mentioning it in a Beta release, along with of course implmenting an on/off switch!
The gamer knowingly made a statement inciting violence at the victim. I would say that's more of the problem and should be categorized as the murderer. Being a shithead troll gamer shouldn't mean you are insulated from conviction over the officer.
In 2017, I discovered that books are becoming increasingly obsolete as a medium of sharing knowledge. I've found that more condensed and/or interactive forms are much more useful to me and enable me to learn at an increased pace.
Most libertarians I've talked to at least see the role for a minimal state. That state does manage external threats and contract enforcement. I can't imagine those being free things, so at least some taxes would be necessary.
As pointed out in the replies to Nassim's tweet, he chose a more volatile Silver model from 538 (NowCast) to suit his argument as opposed to Polls+Plus. While his thesis may be correct he chose to represent it in a biased fashion causing me to question his entire motivation in attacking Nate Silver.

It doesn't seem like "I'm trying to raise awareness about this" but more "I could do that too, but it's wrong, so you should ignore him." Given Nate's success during the previous election cycles I can't help but suspect that Nassim's ego is at play here.
It's not globalism, per se, globalism is a symptom of monetary policy implemented in tandem by most of the world's central banks.

The root cause is that every developed nation on earth runs an inflationary monetary policy coupled with perpetual deficit spending. Money creation via central banks and deficits is not uniform, it pours into economies via cheap credit, subsidies, spending on boondoggles, and it's the people who have first access to this newly created money who benefit the most, and these tend to be the people with a lot of capital, political connections, etc. The average person simply sees their limited buying power decreasing over time.
I agree. To me, this is indicative of a deeper cultural problem. It sometimes happens if engineers don't speak up and get involved with the product. This causes a culture of engineers turning into executers, where they just execute the feature or the bugfix, without even _trying_ to think of the end user, or possible repercussions.

Not that the engineers are the ones at fault, it just seems that a culture change is needed to get everyone to care more about the customer.
No, Apple invented crippling phone performance without informing its users.
That's an excellent point. When CEOs are measured by, and compensated with, stock (and stock price), their own judgement runs counter to long range thinking. After all if they can double their net worth with a couple of short term tricks and move on, then they will be much more inclined to drive the company that way.
A Kaggle competition just started a week ago, hosted by Jigsaw (part of Alphabet) for classifying toxic content (insults, threats, vulgarity, etc) in online comments. $35,000 prize pool.
https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-toxic-comment-classification...

Also interesting, they already have an API for doing this sort of classification:
https://perspectiveapi.com/
The salt is the seed. Presumably initialized with /dev/random or whichever system entropy source is available. Any PRNG is weak if the seed is weak
And you've just described how Instagram and Snapchat took off. You don't need a work-station to post the content. All you need is a camera and a couple of seconds of your life and you're contributing something.

Sure, that content might be crappy photo of your breakfast or a short video of you puking rainbow, but it's a content that regular people submitted with little or no effort simply because they had a phone with a camera that they spend most of their time on the Internet on, not a laptop or a desktop.
You do not assume a call is fraudulent in a situation like that. You assume the worst.

How about not assuming anything until you have more information to go on? The fake caller is definitely at fault here, and so are the police.
The only aspect that left 20th century is the cost of it.
Determining file format using Python
Do I what? I have a 512gb disk. It has over 300gb free.
I don't think so. The EU isn't better off than the US when it comes to cellphone standards as such and it certainly haven't made them any better at building successful companies.

EU is trying to solve a bunch of things through legislation which the market should be solving on it it's own.
Yes, it is standard to refer to capital city as a short hand for its government or state. Different news organizations dance around this issue differently for Israel given the context. Many say Tel Aviv, as this article does. Some say Israeli government, Jerusalem government, or describe Jerusalem as the seat of Israel's government, saying nothing about what Israel's capital is. Others describe Jerusalem as Israel's capital. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next couple years given the US's recent announcement. My guess is more of the same.
I personally don’t think that those two things are causally related.

And that’s not with the ‘benefit of the doubt’, either. If you’ve run out of disk/swap space, then it doesn’t matter how much iCloud storage you have, your Mac will still be slow.
Well, all phones intentionally slow themselves down (throttle) when they get too hot; peak CPU performance can only be maintained for a certain amount of time until it cools back down. I don't think any mobile OS directly exposes this to the user. Lowering peak performance in the long term is different, but I suspect they didn't see it as all that different.
There are people right here in this thread who think the shooting was justified because the guy at the house didn't follow instructions carefully enough and the police (supposedly) had to assume the worst.
Well, so is NCIS then, and they love guns and rule-breaking...
Even the visual design of HN (grey usernames in a smaller font) minimizes identity in favor of the content.

Also, for whatever reason, convention seems to favor all-lowercase names.
The biggest problem with the entire Apple lineup at the moment is that it isn't upgradeable after purchase - you need to max out the RAM before you pay, or you're stuck with that forever. Much as I hate to say, you'll definitely need to max out to 16GB for web dev. I imagine you'll need RAM more than CPU - resource consumption of pretty much all the apps you list is a burst of activity followed by slow user interaction. An i5 would likely be fine for this use pattern. The entire i-series is pretty long-lived; the i7 only really comes into its own for intense gaming and the like.

My company buys MBPs fairly regularly and we always max them out, even for our web team (our product is native C++). The trouble is that even a mid-range MBP is going to hit $2,000 easily, which is an insane amount of money for a disposable, non-upgradeable machine. If you're not completely tied to Mac, you're likely to find a cheaper machine elsewhere.
>With the phone under warranty the new battery would be Apple's problem.

The warranty only covers defects, not "wear from normal use". Unless your battery fails completely, Apple aren't going to replace it under warranty.
It's funny that most everyone I know with 6 or 6s has problems (slow, bad battery) and everyone I know (including mysel) with 7 has no problems what-so-ever. Maybe 6 was just a bad product?
Doesn't mean we shouldn't try. I love unions, and I love companies too. One represents the capital and the other the labour; both should be forced to compete. But of course if a company tried to deal with only one union to force the hands of the others then the one they dealt with would wound up being broken up too. So problems wouldn't go away. And employees could chose the union that represents their interests best; i.e. charges reasonable fees, negotiates reasonable wages, etc.
Competition, till nothing is left of us.
Makes me grateful every day, that brain implants are not yet here. Every day before that is a present, else we would have our heads chopped up on the altar of progress to become twitching, spasming prosthetic gods for the common good, until there was nothing left to ask why we did this to ourselves in the first place.