skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the sort of evangelizing that is more counterproductive than is helpful, because it's arguing a fairly extreme version that distorts the truth. To wit:

* Physics Barbie: The complaint here is that a doll that gets its spoken facts from the cloud can't be overwritten by parents to have STEM-friendly phrases. Of all of the things, this is truly a stretch because... just buy a different doll if you really care?

* Meme-making DVR: It would be more accurate to say "you can't get HDCP content in a form you can composite for clip-making."

* Rein-and-Train: This is basically a complaint of "the manufacturer won't let me edit the code on my hardware devices." This has nothing to do with DRM or DMCA or even copyright law.

* Ad-free YouTube: Ad-blockers do exist. And they're not illegal, not even under stretchy definitions of DMCA. If you had the ads more or less burned into a HDCP stream, then building an ad-blocker for that might have legal repercussions, but the ad servers aren't going to want to do that for other reasons.

* Machine translation: the complaint here is effectively that the audio-extraction tools could run afoul of the DMCA's anti-copyright-circumvention provision. This is a bit of a legal stretch, but any tool but that one step would definitely be in the clear. It's worth noting that the fansubbing tools actually turned out to push the edges of video editing and distribution technology, and fansubbing is the sort of thing that is almost certainly illegal.

* Text-to-speech: Assistive technologies are, I believe, fully exempt from the copyright laws (particularly if solely for personal use). I don't know if the exemptions are only limited to Braille book production or other technologies, but you could probably get in a ADA lawsuit if you were so inclined.

* 3D printer ink: no idea what's preventing the thing here, especially because the recent Lexmark v Impression case more or less holds that you can legally do some creative things to get around the RFID DRM stuff here.

* E-Reader fonts: Again no legal issue here other than "the manufacturer won't let me do something."

* Adaptive music for mood of books: Similar issue with machine translation. Of course, given the granularity of data, the e-book metadata (which isn't encrypted in the DRM formats) is probably sufficient to drive what you'd want anyways.

Nothing in that list is persuasive that anything in copyright law is wrong, especially because half of the list doesn't actually correspond to copyright issues.
that is quite a pessimistic view on human capability (justified in current context because of shitbags) while equally bullish on human-developed AI capabilities. Sure, machine learning — blah — self-improving machines — blah - but I say, improving within bounds but cannot provide mathematical proof of the necessity of existence of such bounds blah.

machines have us beat on speed. however, let us not be blinded by this singularly awesome edge machines provide.
Everyone would have to get on board with that at the same time. If the user is forced to memorize the password your service generates, they'll use it for everything else anyway.
Just don't get stuck on their email list... After unsubscribing countless times and still receiving emails from them, I had to threaten them with contacting the FTC to finally get removed from their mailing list.
Macs retain value. Buy the spec you need, use it for 2-3 years, sell for 70 percent the original value, then buy the newer version. Besides, I highly doubt Intel CPUs are going to massively improve over the next two years since they haven't for the last 5.
Karpathy's Basilisk
I hope someone at HN is listening to that recommendation.
People have been harming themselves and others in the name of religion for millennia. You could argue that it’s easier to destroy or modify an actual AI than an imaginary god.
I feel like there should be a Ubuntu based CDE distro out there.

I spent so much time in front of CDE that I can't help but feel nostalgic for it.
I worked in a Regus facility. It got the job done, but it just felt extremely corporate and uninspiring, especially when I compare it to WeWork. If you're a solo entrepreneur, or small team it's really nice being able to have the perks you'd get in a bigger firm's office space.
Is this related at all to octopuses rewriting their RNA to pass inter-cellular information?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
But then why should I put on a headphone at the joys of others so often?
How does knowing a little python help here? Most of this seems like manual scutwork - going to each site and finding and reading the stupid password rules.
I was just trying to give some context beyond a single quarter. The highly-criticized devices have been out for a long time and have been good sellers. They've clearly got some work to do overall, though. I just don't think the Mac is in some historically-unique bad spot (not saying you said that), which one would surely think if they just went by blog posts.
You are either trolling or dangerously wrong. A modern optimizing compiler will simply remove your assert() from the generated assembly. If you are trolling, stop it.

But if you are a C programmer and speaking honestly, you need to have a better understanding of undefined behavior in C before you write any more code. Checking for signed overflow in C is extremely difficult to do correctly. This is a good starting point: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213.
Why should critical thinking be an effect of literacy? There are people who are not literate by western standards, but pretty sharp(Michael Faraday) and those who are literate but not that clever
If you have your email protected with 2FA, I think you're covered -- "An unlocked device with an active session" is the thing you have.

I think this is actually what's happened -- people now know not to leave unlocked devices unattended, so you basically do 2FA every time you unlock your device, so the device can now stay persistently logged into all services.
The point is that they didn't even know what electricity was. If they saw a spark they wouldn't think, "Oh, high voltage", but rather "Must be supernatural, or a holy light"
"Sysadmin/devops is a nearly meaningless distinction"

It should be as you say but it isn't really. I too hire and fire. To be honest "dev ops" should not really exist but has become a thing. Many who describe themselves as such do not bother with the nuts and bolts. To be fair to them, though, quite a few sysadmins I've known are a bit slack on the networking side, for example. sigh
Until you use a non English keyboard.
Alt-F4 is perfectly acceptable OSX has its own share of stupid key bindings especially where the browser is concerned.
I never said anything was wrong with pictures of animals and I don't think I'm conflating anything. I was referring to the risque pictures of anthropomorphised animals I've seen promoted there, which to me (as a non-furry, so maybe I'm wrong) seems to be targeted at that demographic. Specifically, I've seen two sets in the trending section that have "sexy" cartoon rabbits and foxes with cleavage and other traditionally sexualized human-like features.

Anyway, I don't see anything wrong with it, to each their own. I was just offering a thought about why Apple might censor the app.
This whole "fake news" and "big tech is horrible" trope is tiresome.

That being said there is a bunch of nonsense on YouTube and it is annoying when trying to find legitimate information. Watch an informative video on history or archeology or something and two seconds later they are pushing a video about aliens creating the pyramids and the worst part is, because it's a video, you might have to watch it for a few minutes to find out it's utter rubbish unlike text where you can scan quickly and determine.

I don't really expect (nor want) YouTube to curate though, the moral hazard in that seems even more undesirable. Some kind of an expert rating layer would be cool though for objective topics (lets leave politics out, I'm not interested in that kind of a rating layer and don't watch those kind of videos). I can't follow every legit poster on every topic I might become passingly interested in and it's troubling to see nonsense presented right alongside informed commentary.
> (I haven't made an extensive study of this, but my impression is that the American right wing is prone to conspiracies about people or events, whereas the left wing is prone to conspiracies about institutions.)

No. Both the right wing and left wing are prone to conspiracies about people, events and institutions. The right wing sees conspiracies in institutions like the UN, EU, etc. The left wing sees conspiracies in people like Trump.

They are both the same. 10 years ago, it was the right wing claiming the saudis got obama elected. Now, it's the left wing claiming the russians got trump elected. 10 years ago, the right wingers claimed obama was born in kenya and serving the saudis. Now, the left wingers are claiming trump is working for putin and the russians.

> The article also mentions Trump speeches were more recommended. There's an innocent recommendation: people find Trump more engaging.

This is so funny. 10 years ago, mccain supporters were claiming that youtube was biased towards obama. And the media mocked mccain, palin and their supporters for being paranoid. Now it's the left wing media claiming youtube was biased towards trump. The hypocrisy of the media.

It's amazing how things flipped in a matter of a few years. 10 years ago, it was foxnews and the tea party ranting and raving about obama. Now it's the left leaning media ranting and raving about trump and social media.
I feel nostalgic for it too but only because I'm looking at if for a few seconds. I'm on Unity now, and I rather stare at Unity all day than CDE.
Clickable link https://lang.video/
The problem with completely ignoring the discoveries of the past are that we may miss out some solutions to current problems. No harm in learning things from the past
The most interesting part I found about this is that the decision to do JIT compilation is part of the cost-based optimization process. It's a nice way to make PG versatile enough to be performant at both OLTP and OLAP queries.
Indeed. I've spent the better part of probably 100 hours configuring KDE Neon + apps + Emacs w/ a bunch of custom keyboard shortcuts, kwin rules, etc. to do my level best to get my home and work Linux machines to have sane, memorable keyboard interfaces. After a ton of effort and some oddities (kwin rules on window-class don't seem to trigger for Firefox for some reason) it mostly works. Mostly.

One of the big benefits of the Mac-style shortcuts scheme is that there's no conflict between terminal commands and everything else... because things like Ctrl-C aren't overloaded, and I don't have to contextually remember to use Ctrl-Shift-C when in a terminal.

I've said it before, but I'd pay non-trivial amounts of money for a Linux distribution that went to significant length to configure, compile, or otherwise mimic Mac-like shortcuts in its desktop environment and packaged applications.
I used CDE when Motif was still state-of-the-art in X, and it was by far the best unix desktop environment I had used up to that point.
We deserve to know how public resources are owned and allocated. Whether it’s land, RF spectrum, or a corporation, ownership being public record is an important part of the social contract. Domains may be too opaque, but completely removing any semblance of transparency only makes it worse.
When Whimsical Anti-Theft Tea Caddies Protected the World's Most Precious Leaf
I thought I was doing a “Market Research” until I read this article
Tensorflow has been supported on AMD GPUs since at least November.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12032/amd-announces-wider-epy...
I prefer ip4.me personally.
What does the figure you make from using your computer have to do with its retail value? By that measure Mark Zuckerberg's dorm-room Dell was worth billions.
I didn't know that. I thought that chip and pin was the norm in Europe, and that getting a transaction reversed as a European customer was way harder than for American customers because of this.

But... it sounds like I'm wrong.
None, leave it and find an available .com
Interesting to see this on HN.

I've seen this link being passed around in the paranormal/conspiracy circles as a possible Earthly explanation for those UFOs the NYT reported a while back:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-prog...

One theory is these "tic tacs" are yet another example of test aircraft being mistaken for extraterrestrial aircraft and this paper's findings were noted and expanded on, in secret, to create some novel form of propulsion by either the US or China.

There's precedent for human test craft being mistaken for "alien" technology. The best example being a rash of "triangle shaped UFOs" in the early/mid 80s was eventually revealed in 1988 to have been the F117.
The differences between English and Korean
If I understand https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/ correctly it's slightly better to front-load because then the acquired asset has a couple of months longer to grow.

"Max out 401(k) pre and post-tax by April or contribute evenly throughout the year?" https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/7kay74/max...

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/401k
I think has something to do with older Outlook clients and how they pass credentials.

You can bypass the limit with ADFS.
I love reading about the end of the commercial UNIX wars. Definitely watch this documentary filmed during a NeXT company retreat, if you haven't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNeXlJW70KQ
Convention = arbitary. It's conventional. For convenience. Relative. Not absolute. Same as your lines defining what is and isn't conscious.
The board is already cost-prohibitive for most people! They probably lose money on these alone -- the tape-out for a 28nm ASIC is millions alone, they're never getting that back off niche development kits.

Plus, given it has a custom ASIC and rather newer components like DDR4 (DDR4 controllers aren't exactly trivial on their own) and FMC (not simple, high cost), I'm having a hard time feeling sympathetic for this particular complaint, especially considering bottom-of-the-barrel boards like the OrangePi & networking competitors like MacchiatoBin can stack in multiple SATA ports on devices in the $50 to $350 range.

I mean, the board is already $1k, and I doubt they're going as far as home grown USB/UART/JTAG chips -- probably FTDI chips, so some of the open hardware claim is a bit fluff in practice, I'm guessing (I don't think this is a huge deal, but many people do). You'd probably use an off the shelf SATA controller & chip, it's not like you really get a lot from rolling your own.

Then again, I've never taped out a board with SATA, so what do I know? But I find it hard to believe the difficulty/cost of acquiring the chip/controller, or integrating it, is a limiting factor in a run like this. Unless they actually planned on rolling it themselves, and I don't know why they would. I'm honestly guessing they're just leaving it to expansions for whatever reason, but we'll see.
MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence – Lecture 1
> I put on some science video and walked away recently... came back latter and the autoplay had navigated itself deep into k00ky flat earther stuff.

That's the point of youtube autoplay. You leave it running long enough it'll go through all the videos. That's what makes youtube interesting. At least that's what made youtube deep diving interesting before all the censorship.

You go through enough books in the library and you will eventually find books on alchemy.

Also, you could turn off autoplay with a click of a button...
Charge doesn't work the same way. All of the charge is on the surface of the sphere (that is how a Van deGraff generator works). Unlike gravity, like charged things inside the sphere are repulsed by the surface just as things outside the sphere are.
It was definitely in Win98. You could edit system.ini and change the shell from explorer to progman; I did this once when explorer got corrupted somehow and me and my brothers just wanted to play games while waiting for it to be fixed.
Eh, I disagree with that. Using a third party solution for password management/account logins has its benefits, but it also has quite a lot of downsides too. Such as:

1. Forcing people to create an account on a service they don't use or trust to access your website. Remember, quite a lot of people despise Facebook and Google, and by forcing them to use those services, you're making them choose between their privacy and your service.

2. Giving said services too much leeway on how the setup works. Do Facebook or Google or Twitter or whoever now charge money to use their account login system? If so, tough luck; you're gonna have to either rework your whole system or pay up.

3. Giving said services too much control in general, and letting them centralise the internet. This is a bad thing for numerous related reasons, ranging from easy access to personal data for tyrants to dependence on a walled garden run by a large corporation).

4. Making them the world's number 1 target for hackers. Admittedly they're already likely this, and homegrown systems have their own security issues in this department, but I certainly don't like the idea that the whole of the internet is basically now compromised the minute a data breach hits Google or what not. Any centralised system is basically a giant bullseye for every bad actor on the planet.

So no, it's not necessarily accurate that no one should try and implement password management or account systems or farm it out to third parties. That's a good way to give whatever controls remains over to large corporations.
pro tip: never fall asleep to youtube without disabling autoplay. conspiracy nut vids make for some interesting dreams.
I never really understood why randomness would be needed for free will. If that's the only thing keeping the will "free" would it even matter if our decisions are made deterministically or by a dice roll?

Guess I have some reading to do.
5 secure smartphone settings that’ll protect you from hackers – ONENAIJA
The main thing that irks me on Macs is the non-standard behavior of the Home and End keys. I expect them to go the beginning or end of the line I'm typing, and in every other system they do, whereas in MacOS they usually scroll to the top or bottom of the entire page.
"It's why Mac OS looked above and beyond better than anything else in 1984, an era still typified by command-line interfaces and overwhelming GUIs that simply vomited everything at you."

I'm sorry, but it's not Steve's artistry, it's his ability to "steal like an artist". Look at the Xerox Star, it had everything the Mac had (and more) years earlier. The difference was in its price. At the time, nobody needed convincing that GUIs would be great to work with, they needed convincing that they were worth the price.
Can someone post the .plist?
Yes, as dated as it looks now, it was the first unix desktop that felt 'polished' to me up to that point. It's also the first desktop I had that was in colour though, so maybe that's part of it.
I think the last time I used CDE was on a Solaris/Intel box. At least I think it was CDE .. looked like it ... took over 30 minutes to load (literally).
> https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/os221

Is... Is that a version of Notepad with _tabs_?
Yes, apple pay, I think, occupies a similar place to paypal I have run a business that recieved payments through paypal; I have not run a business that recieved payments through apple pay, but my impression is that they both do the same thing... they let a business accept payments without knowing the user's credit card number, which would be essential to businesses if there was significant liability associated with credit card breaches.
> The guardian certainly has a strong editorial position, but I've never found its' reporting to be anything other than honest, well researched, and written with integrity.

You got to be kidding me. If you think the guardian has integrity then it's because you agree with their viewpoints.

They have no more integrity than foxnews does.

It's ridiculous how much certain news organizations get on a "hacker" forum.
Exactly this. Today we don’t think much about electricity, we take it for granted but at least know it’s dangerous.
Always intrigued by memory RNA
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_RNA since reading Larry Niven's Rammer, but the role here is probably more like a neurotransmitter. It's curious that it seems to transport RNA, but (for the memory RNA hypothesis) why would you transport memories between cells?
Do you have info on the battery range increase? For example a tesla 2017 model X 100D has a claimed range of 330 miles. How many years would it take the battery range to double, to say 600 or 1,800 per charge?
serious question: what's the issue? 16 characters alphanumeric = 95 bits of entropy, which is enough for most purposes.
i made a note to check this a few weeks later.. lo' and behold, equifax lawyers up, appeals, and now this guy gets to play in big boys court.

2018-01-31	CASE_TRANSFERRED TO SUPERIOR COURT, RECORD AND EXHIBITS TRANSFERRED

2018-01-30	NOTICE OF APPEAL FILED BY APPELLANT EQUIFAX CREDIT INFORMATION SERVICES, INC MAILED TO RESPONDENT HAIGH, CHRISTIAN G.

2018-01-30	SUBSTITUION OF ATTORNEY-CIVIL AS TO PLAINTIFF HAIGH, CHRISTIAN G.
With password generation, nothing really. If you want to choose the password yourself, it limits your options (for no good reason for the user).
Yep. Also sometimes it's nice to have a language used for more than just the MVC app. Like the many many Python libraries. Or Javascript. And even further, sometimes these big fat MVC frameworks are just really not needed server side and folks are maybe wising up to that.
I don't usually see the two terms used together, because of the "application specific" vs "general purpose" thing. So I thought there might be something I was missing.
Regus has converted many of its offices to a new modern style and call it “spaces”: https://www.spacesworks.com
You could probably get very close with a well-configured twm or fvwm2
A Whistleblower Prayer
I’m not sure if you’re being intentionally obtuse or if you honestly can’t see the difference between what you’re describing and what I am.
If the algorithms are designed to maximize engagement, then the opposite is true from a certain point of view. The result is an _undistorted_ reflection of our nature.
I think putting in the effort and basically hard coding many popular solutions is an underutilized strategy in dealing with these sorts of things. Many times I see programmers try to come up with a general solutions which becomes a much more difficult sort of problem.
There's an argument I've seen - no idea whether it's correct - that users acclimatise to new advertising technology and eventually regress back to the mean. I suppose this would mean that newer and more invasive ads cause a spike in consumer spending, which drops over time until the next innovation.
Basic emacs keybindings work in most MacOS text boxes. CTRL-A goes to the beginning of the line, CTRL-E the end, CTRL-P prior line, CTRL-F forward, CTRL-B backwards, CTRL-N next line. I think this was originally a NEXTSTEP thing.