skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought in seeing this : Terry Pratchett was right all along. We’re all wizards, and this is the manifestation human neural morphology to the octarine discharge of strong magical fields :-D

FYI, I just finished “The Colour of Magic”, the first Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, a few days ago and I’m currently reading its sequel.
Ask HN: How to survive a malware discovery? (part 2)
Apple could be the most susceptible to this particular form of malware, and they have a reputation for being stingy. I don’t trust them to do the right thing. I picture myself at Infinite Loop, straw hat in hand, hands shaking, as their balding and bespectacled corporate attorney (who earns about $500k/year after bonuses and options) tells me thank you, to accept a generous $250 gift card for use at any Apple Store (which they will mail to me if everything checks out), and security (a really nice guy who lives in his car) will show me out.

No thank you.

So I decided to think different. I decided to patent software that guards against this malware (describing both malware and how to protect against it). Now, if Apple, Microsoft, and others want to patch their offerings against the malware, fine, they can buy a license or pay royalties (or engineer their own non-infringing way around it, rotsa ruck).

Which brings me to the point where I need the HN community’s advice. The ideal situation would be for me to bring this to the big companies’ attention, they see the looming danger in its entirety, license the technology for a fair price, quietly develop and push out patches, and by the time the year/year-plus has elapsed before the USPTO makes the malware approach publicly available, so few computers and devices are susceptible that nobody bothers trying to deploy this kind of malware.

What I suspect may happen is that negotiations will not result in a price both sides are happy with. Apple, as Apple is wont to do, would simply deploy the patches and tell me to sue them, as we’re seeing happened with the dual-camera patent lawsuit. Microsoft and others may do the same.

My question is: Say you’re me. Who would you contact first (specifics are good), how would you get in touch with them, how would you get Apple & the gang to keep open minds and open checkbooks, and (I’m not wealthy) how could you support yourself in the short-term with this position?
Yes, Tulsi Gabbard's comment is ridiculous scaremongering.
"Muscle memory is stored outside of the brain" -- reference?

Decapitated chickens could be entirely driven by processes already communicated just before decapitation. This claims to be much more.
Is there any API in the UK that lets you get the balance of your current account?
Just recently I spoke to my friends that literally are living in LaLa land. They are making fun of me prepping and saving dry food, water, stacking up on legal guns and munition. I took upon challenge last xmas to meetup with them and they brought my prepardness as one of laughing subjects. It really saddens me when they believe that when gloves of society are off, we all gonna be happy singing kumbaya and respecting rules that has been put in greatest part by bodies of virtual government. They laugh when I tell them the history proved the nicest kind of people turn into murders and cannibals when its their turn to die of starving.. or eat someone and survive. This example of maddnes on Hawain streets proves me I am right in my theory :(
A ballistic missile heading for Hawaii would be nuclear, the amount of additional loss of life that would incur from “damaging the public’s trust” in the early warning system would be pretty much negligible if the missile hits any major population center.
This is basically not an issue for nuclear missiles for something more like to the situation in southern Israel with conventional unguided munitions blindly shot at their general direction it might work but if a nuke could get you it would do it regardless if you duck and cover or not.
Tablet with Z8300 low end Intel CPU and 2 GB RAM. Originally ran Windows 10 fine.

MS updates have made it worse because they stopped caring about this segment. Same story with phones on Windows 10 mobile.
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So why implicate Russia at all, if its so easy? Sounds like a red herring to me, and also just as conspiratorial as the parent comment.
But it was on a Windows CE device with a resistive screen and the user lost the stylus.
A lot of people are calling for the person who did this to be instantly fired, but I've always been of the opinion that the guy that pushed that button would be an outstanding hire - because he'll never, ever do something like that again and he's learned an important lesson.
Hawaii is huge and has a large mountain. You could get far enough away from a atomic bomb fairy easily. H-Bombs are a different story, but even then you would expect some survivors.
Israeli here. We get false rocket alerts every once in a while. Usually it's a bug or a badly calibrated radar picking up something else, sometimes a human error.
Have you tried chocolatey? I’ve really enjoyed using it
I missed the original research; what guarantees are made by the learned indices? Correctness?
Machines teaching machines?
Apart from various technical reasons the workflow of essentially all linux package managers is built on the notion that the binary package is built by some well defined (and repeatable, at least in the "does same thing" sense) process from some kind of source package. Also the souce package format usually contains mechanism that allows distributions to comply with copy-left licenses while also cleanly documenting which modifications were made to the package from upstream version (it is sort of special purpose versioning system).
You keep trotting out this excuse, but the responsibility is on the people conducting the drill to plan for that possibility and you're letting them off the hook.
It trained developers to develop their apps properly to not need a prompt.
What happened to the people who were behind cover?
Also, it’s rarely one persons fault, and the next human is likely going to fail in similar (or worse, different!) ways to the previous human. Process controls variables like this, there is obviously an issue that we can learn from here and adjust to improve.
I once tried to open a personal investing account with Fidelity. When it came time to fund it, they wanted me to give them the username and password for my bank account so that they could log in on my behalf and verify that the account was owned by me.

Obviously, I didn't follow through with that, because that's a terrible sign of how Fidelity treats security and when it comes to entrusting large sums of money with an investment firm, I'd prefer one that's demonstrated a better security policy all around.

Anyway, this article was hilariously scant of technical details, but if the API they're creating allows different privileges to be associated with each API user, it's possible that I could use it to provide a company like Fidelty read-only access to only the information they need to verify that I am the account owner, and nothing more.
False Alarm Adds to Real Alarm About Trump’s Nuclear Risk
This strongly depends on what field you are in and can vary even between minor sub-disciplines. Also that statement is frequently meaningless and authors get added for politics target than contribution.
In order to make sure you actually have the freedom to modify the software, you want packagers to have the ability to rebuild the package from source - and preferably using just their OS as a build environment, not a black-box build environment from upstream like a Docker configured just so and make sure they have an equivalent binary. Even if there's nothing to patch today, there might be something to patch tomorrow.

I have seen many times Debian packagers try to build something from upstream and find that it just does not build anywhere other than the maintainer's computer. The fact that Debian requires that every package it ships can be built buy anyone in a generic environment is immensely valuable to free software, even if nobody used the binaries that Debian built. (And to be clear, other distros do the same, I'm just most familiar with Debian.)

I'd agree that in an ideal world, all the patches would be upstream and the binary would not just be equivalent but bit-for-bit reproducible. Some practical reasons why it wouldn't be are that various dependencies are of slightly different versions (e.g., one distro manages to get a new libc uploaded a little bit before another), that downstream conventions are different in different distros (e.g., Red Hat-style distros use /lib64 and Debian-style distros use /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu), or that a dependency has some shortcoming which many but not all distros patch in the same way, and the patch impacts things that use the dependency (e.g., upstream OpenSSL <1.1 does not have symbol versions, but most Linux distros patch them in). Yes, in an ideal world, all these things would be resolved, but there are going to be so many tiny things like this that come up that having infrastructure to accommodate them is the right plan.
You don't have to use Play Services, and this is very easy to do. You can also use Play Services piecemeal. The choice really is between open or closed.

You can use Firefox as your default browser on Android but are limited to a bastardized version on iOS. You can run an OpenStreetMap app as your default map on Android, but you have no choice on iOS. You can build your own apps and run them indefinitely on Android, but you have to pay a $99 yearly fee (on top of the Mac tax) or rebuild every 7 days on iOS.

I don't recommend iOS to anybody. People who think it is more secure don't understand defense in depth, and people who think it is more private don't understand that Pixel and Android One builds actually collect less information by default (before opting in on any of the dialogs).
It kind of is. For a specific example, a decade ago face recognition, speech recognition and machine translation each incorporated a lot of domain-specific knowledge and were largely disjoint fields, since doing anything remotely useful required the specialized knowledge that the subfield had accumulated over the last decade; but nowadays a face recognition ML expert can achieve state of art speech recognition while not knowing a thing about phonetics, and a speech recognition expert can train a decent end-to-end MT solution while being ignorant about all the language/text specific cases that required particular attention and specialized solutions and subsystems some 5 years ago.

This is quite a big practical shift in ML; we moved from research on specialized solutions for separate problems to generalized solutions that work on large classes of problems with minimal adaptation, highly reducing the need for domain-specific knowledge. I mean, it's still usually useful, but not absolutely necessary as it was before.
No one wants to put up the money. Inevitably it's governments that are on the hook, because they're the insurer of last resort. The builder and operator insist upon that. And then for some reason in the U.S. we see the same kind of explosion in cost during construction that we see with NYC's 2nd Ave subway line, and that turns people off even more.

The only plant being constructed in the U.S. right now is fraught with cost overruns; the builder, Toshiba, nearly went out of business. A plant that came online in Tennessee in 2016 was started in 1976.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/georg...
While I agree prisoners aren't treated well, I'm not convinced that vitamin pills are necessarily worth while.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/do-multivitamins-...

"If you take a multivitamin, it's probably because you want to do everything you can to protect your health. But there is still limited evidence that a daily cocktail of essential vitamins and minerals actually delivers what you expect. The latest round of studies, published in December in Annals of Internal Medicine, found no benefit from multivitamins in protecting the brain or heart."

We've seen that deficiencies cause disease, but there seems to be little evidence that vitamin supplement pills prevent it.
This system is NOT designed to help you or tell you what to do. Its mostly designed to take off liability from the government... so that when the dust settles down, you don't go en masses to sue the government for NOT warning you. Besides, places like Amazon and your local library are filled with sections on preparedness. Waiting for Government megaphone to tell you what to do with clear instruction while intercontinental ballistic missile is approaching in few minutes, is already too late.
This is irrational. If you know a false alarm has occurred then you are endangering people by allowing them to believe the existence of an active threat. I feel like I'm stuck in a car with someone driving off a cliff because the GPS said so even though the edge of the cliff is perfectly visible though the windscreen.
I’ll take that bet that you are wrong. I assume you believe this but not enough to bet money that you R right
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You forgot a very important factor many people fail to account for: a major inflection point or what Bill Gates characterizes as "eventually, the market will turn left".
I don't trust any multi-billion dollar international corporation, period. To do otherwise is naïve, especially when they have a list a mile long of anti-consumer decisions (sending local file searches to Apple HQ, soldering down your RAM, anyone?)
Ballistic missile warning sent in error by Hawaii authorities
Interesting Google Trends Pattern for “Impeach Trump”
I think you're reading too much in to it. They just don't want to have to support WINE users and have their brand associated with their problems.
BINGO. If someone makes a mistake like this, unless it was deliberate or negligent (e.g. he/she didn't follow established procedures), you don't fire them! You fix the technical or procedural failures that allowed them to make the mistake in the first place. Heck, you should probably THANK them for making the system better by uncovering a bug!

When I was still mostly a Noogler, I took a large portion of Google completely down worldwide for 6 minutes. Guess what? We did a postmortem, fixed the procedural and technical problems that allowed it to happen, and I'm still here!
Perhaps they don't think the gloves of society will come off - that is, that no catastrophic event will occur which will affect their life/area, so that life will continue as normal for the foreseeable future. In that case, no preparations would be necessary.
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Punishing prisoners by feeding them unappetizing food is also a practice in some American (and Canadian) prisons, although some authorities have been reducing or banning this practice [1]. Since it's theoretically wholesome and contains enough calories, the prisons can claim that they're not doing anything abusive. In practice, it promotes outcomes similar to severely restricting the amount of food served.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/nyregion/new-york-prisons...
> you can, like, use software that other people write on your own computer

Sounds like your issue boils down to whether this is done with SaaS vs local app
That's amazing. Never knew that. Learn something today.
Actual critique: The before and after should have been shown side-by-side so that the user can decide for themselves whether or not the changes are an improvement.

The real reason that I clicked on the link: To read the comments. A lot of people don't want to give up Calibri!
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'Swatting' suspect faces manslaughter charge in fatal shooting by police – CNN
It wasn't just a promise: they took 15% of my salary for it against my will. If I don't get it back, then it's a tax, and not only that, but it makes the tax on the middle class significantly higher than on the uber rich. The Boston Tea Party ain't nothing compared to what's going to happen in this country if they mess with Social Security.
For debugging on remote servers this is pretty handy (at least, one it makes its way into the server versions).

Now I have hope they'll put in a text editor that understands unix line endings.
Now I'm curious. How is \r\n more right than \n or \r? In which situations? Advantages? Disadvantages?
Hard to respond to this. Hard to believe it has already been five years.

Thank you for writing that, not a week goes by that I don't see your brothers hand in something I'm using or that I read about. The whole open access movement and what has been achieved in those five years would have made Aaron both very happy and would have probably had him bouncing off the walls because 'it goes so slow'.

Very few people appear to me to be all good but your brother was one of those. Cherish his memory and be proud, like any brother would be, and I'm pretty sure he'd be just as proud of you.
Remember that there's microG - free Play Services reimplementation: https://microg.org/
> There's also an issue with that system: it gives a ruling party an easy excuse for not keeping their promises to their voters. You can always say: "We tried, but we didn't have a majority and our allied party was against that".I can't count how many times I heard that being said in my country.

Well yes, but since you have more than three parties (I don't know what country you're from, or how many viable parties you have), voters can be less forgiving.

I heard somewhere[0] that a market needs at least four somewhat viable players, in the sense that one is a monopoly (bad), but two and three players can still control the market in an undesirable manner.

It probably also depends very much on the particulars of the government, how much power the opposition parties still have versus the coalition, if there's multiple Houses and how they interact, etc.

Either way, I do believe that having multiple viable parties (and preferably at least four?) is a good thing compared to having only two real contenders. But this is mainly because I'm looking at the UK and US for examples of two-party systems. From both I understand that a very large portion of the voting population are rationally aware that their votes will almost certainly not make any difference whatsoever. If anyone knows about other countries with two-party systems that actually make many voters feel well (or at least fairly) represented, I'm curious to hear about them.

[0] I don't have a citation sorry. It was on the news, in the context of the number of mobile network operators in the Netherlands being down to three, due to a merger. And afaik all of them are now multinationals. But not only do I not have a citation, neither can I really say whether the same holds for political parties in a democracy. So take this for what you like :)
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I should not have presented my skepticism as a certainty, but it is based on a couple of things. Firstly, there is the length of time it took for this version of the story to come out: this you would expect from an organisation that is threading a story to be consistent with all the information about the event that has leaked (including an explanation for the delay in promulgating that story itself), without making statements that might be contradicted by further disclosures. Conversely, an entity that is just trying to get the facts straight would be best served by being forthright. Secondly, the journalists seem to be too ready to accept what they have been told, such as "Mr. Fletcher drew further details about the hacker out through emails, including ... proof that he deleted his copy of Uber’s downloaded data by looking at a virtual copy of his system provided by his host" - that cannot prove anything of consequence. Therefore, I am skeptical that the reporters have seen all the relevant communications.

I accept that this may be too conspiracy-theoretical.
>With their immense data collection architectures and ties to large tech companies, they could easily filter the keywords and images they want, and get measurements of how quickly this information propagates and how people react.

Ok, but what would be the point of that?

You would either discover that people are terrified of nuclear war, in which case... you can't do anything useful with that information. Or, you'd discover that people don't respond to the message, in which case... you can't do anything with that information.

Why would anyone who wasn't a particularly stupid villain intentionally do this?
You need to be accredited to angel invest in the US, which means $200k in annual solo income, $300k in joint income, or $1m in net worth. The net worth number is hard to hit, but the income levels are attainable if you work at a bigger company (Google, FB, etc).

In my case, I got very lucky at my first job out of college by joining LinkedIn when it was ~15 people. That eventually gave me some capital to angel invest. But to start the seed fund I currently work at, I partnered up with several people who had venture investing experience and we ended up raising money from outside investors. FWIW, fundraising for (unknown/first-time) VCs is as much of a slog as for founders. If I recall correctly, it took us about 10 months to raise our fund, and we talked to 100s of investors in the process.
As a related story, meet Mike, the headless chicken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasympathetic_nervous_system
I can think of a few reasons

(1) Use of a different libc (alpine linux with musl)

(2) most builds are not reproducible, rebuilds are needed for security reasons

(3) non-rolling release distros (-> most distros) fork the upstream projects to backport fixes for their older releases

(4) Different filesystem structure (Gobo Linux)

(6) Most distros want to use the build system associated with their own package manager

There are probably many more than that. Most distros don't even try to stay close the upstream repo and instead maintain a lot of patches.

In the future we will most likely have an distro-specific basic system build and container apps (snap, appimage, flatpak) build directly by upstream on non-server systems.
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(In mammals) neurons lace the gut and other organs, and are implicated both in cognition and recall. For example Damasio's Somatic Marker Hypothesis holds that affective decision making 'polls' physiological responses which direct affect, providing intuitive 'system 1' information to aid decision making.

There's a whole field of embodied cognition which studies the interaction of the body and brain / central nervous system in behaviour and decision making.

While all this is a far cry from regenerating memories in the sense we think of them; the authors are merely referring to conditioned information, which could certainly be stored in the extra-cortical nervous system.
Fuck you and fuck this bullshit conspiracy nonsense.

Evolve a bit, idiot.
> India does have very large middle class population and most of their income is unaccounted.

At least until Nov 2016, wouldn't this income have been cash given that cash transactions accounted for 95+% of transactions[1]? (Percentage by total amount would have been useful too but I couldn't find that stat.) If these were 'unaccounted' then demonetization would have caught that. But only 1% of banned currency wasn't deposited (as of Aug 2017) [2]. The initial estimates given were for about 20% to not show up [3]. That didn't turn out to be the case.

So while I'm sure there is unaccounted income, I'm not sure this is most of the income of a very large middle class.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/12/14/inside-i...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/12/10/indias-c...
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