skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm at "peak phone". I can't go to a dumb phone and I'm locked into apple and google's ecosystems, but I am underserved by them and actively working on moving away from them. I've been buying small computing platforms and testing out PCIe LTE modems as well as playing around with the LimeSDR LTE[1] networking getting ready for 5G mesh networking with the next model.

I want to carry a brick that I control in my backpack or pocket and use my own input and display devices[2][3]. I don't need another $1000 light up rectangle / digital leash. I haven't played a mobile game in years, none of the apps on my phone are increasing my enjoyment of the tool. Basically it's there for banking and so I can check Slack if if I'm running errands and something else happens.

I made the decision to start working on the DIY phone project when I found out the iPhoneX used the primesense depth camera on the front. It's 100% for more tracking and advertising stuff without any of the cool AR/Depth stuff that I want. Also potentially SUPER creepy social control when you have thousands of high detail copies of everyone's face because they posted them with goofy masks on them. As if the instagram to Deepfakes pipeline was too complicated. Then google mothballed Tango a couple weeks after I got a ZenPhoneAR.

The emperor has no clothes at this point. We don't need their phones and they don't want us to know it yet. I have a $300 Firefly[4] board that dual boots Ubuntu and Android and has HDMI in. I'm working on automating my control of an external iphone through HDMI and a hacked together capacitive touch overlay so I can control it with a mouse like stylus so I won't have to deal with the communication gap from iMessage being so wired up to my life. I'm pretty sure I can virtualize iOS or OSX with a bit of work to solve that problem too then just work on migrating out. There are starting to be very appealing X86_64 tiny computers like the LattePanda[5].

The walled media messaging garden between iOS and Android bugs the crap out of me. If I send someone a phone vid from iOS to android they get a thumbnail that looks like a 1996 RealPlayer DVD Rip.

I want an Ono Sendai but cooler, the tools are here now. Fuck the adslabs.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limenet

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16966530/intel-vaunt-smart...

[3] http://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/mobile-world-co...

[4] http://shop.t-firefly.com/goods.php?id=64

[5] http://www.lattepanda.com/
I recently talked with a Uber driver, they cannot see the destination of the client, but he said he can specify the rough area where he wants to (eventually?) go and fares will take him close enough to that direction.
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tl;dr

"An example would be using magic links or codes to authenticate your users. At a higher level, this is really just a glorified email password reset feature."

The argument comes down to "you use email to reset password anyway, so lets just use email to authenticate and not bother with the intermediate step of using passwords at all."

It's kind of pragmatic I guess but then what are we supposed to use to access our email? See this doesn't really solve a problem, it just kicks it down the road to email as the nexus for authentication.
Very true.

Although not specifically in this context, Ludwig Wittgenstein said:"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
Even though I'm also more of a cryptocurrency-skeptic (though mostly in regards to their utility vs. the environmental cost of proof-of-work), one thing I appreciate about Ethereum is that its design decisions and the building blocks of the system seem to be well-documented on their Wiki and have at least some academic rigor to them. This already differentiates them from stuff like IOTA.
I can possibly pick up the other three.
+1

Definitely in my top ten list. The text is life-changing.
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Forecast. By modelling, not by measuring - i.e. "this is what our model says is most likely to happen"; apparently the weather is not very predictable ATM.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1925
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That's good to know. Thanks!

While not an expert on this particular science, I noticed that the look of the applied bandages is entirely different. The BA bandage puffs up with moisture, while the Tegaderm visually seems as if it only creates a seal.
Still wondering what is this adds over a script like this, running weekly using cron:

./letsencrypt-auto --renew
nginx reload
Thanks. Too late to edit my post.
-To most users, probably. But if you are a high-ish profile target, the (potential) inconvenience is probably worth the effort for the added peace of mind.

After all, when was the last time you spent three days without fondling your phone?
Ask HN: How do you stay motivated when working on a side project
This is my constant struggle.
I start building something, I invest myself heavily in it for about one week but after that something breaks and my brain starts telling me that it's not such a great idea anyway, that there's something already on the market that solves this problem and that I should probably move to the next idea. How do you keep yourself motivated and deliver?
I don't know about awscli, but s3cmd has a number of times been backwards and forwards incompatible with itself making any kind of script using it have to check the s3cmd version or punt everything into a docker image.

Meanwhile, the underlying API have been fine...
I've experimented with using a bloom filter for this dataset: https://github.com/jthomas/serverless-pwned-passwords
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I lack legal experties, but I'd assume you will easily be able to sue any company and claim they infringe somehow on your rights as stated by this GDPR; maybe I'm wrong.

I attended a GCP event and I could practically see the hipsters pupils dilate/mouth foaming as they went in the hisper frenzy "this GDPR is a huuuge opportunity".
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> I would think Forbes Magazine would be a great customer for them

Forbes would unlock one phone and then alert Apple by way of their story. Celebrite’s ideal customer pays for lots of iPhones to be unlocked.
I don't know if that's true, but if I had the same power as a government agency, which would allow way higher salaries than Apple's or any other hi tech corporation, that's the first thing I'd attempt to do: find ex/unhappy/disgruntled engineers and offer them 5x pay plus a luxury home and lab in some tropical island.

Also don't forget the hardware. Like with most/all other phone vendors, iPhone chips aren't made in the US; most of the design maybe is, but the chips themselves are not, and finding a Chinese hardware engineer happy to help would be even easier because all he should implement is a covert channel to tunnel sensitive data (passwords?) to a known place. If you have access to the hardware that should be trivial to do: just implement a small undocumented flash memory space anywhere, then when the user taps a password an also undocumented firmware routine (that's hundreds of bytes, very easy to conceal) would add the password in that small memory that can be read only in certain conditions (say connecting power+tapping a bossa rhythm while with the phone screen is facing down+disconnecting power - that seems crazy but you get the idea: every sensor is a switch and any switch can be used to enter a code). A few spare kilobytes of memory here and there would allow this and other spying mechanisms, so I would't be surprised at all if some big agency would attack the hardware/firmware rather than the software.
Or wouldn't it be better if the compression is lossless.

Lossless, fast Codec that is Open Source and Patents Free. We have FLAC for Audio. ( I dont know why I dont like the name FLAC though ), hopefully we will have something similar for Video.
This is tangental....

I've read/heard a bunch about "rewilding" as a concept over the last year, introducing mostly megafaunal populations to their historic ranges, sometimes very historic. Hippos, lions and hyenas in scotland for a particularly quirky example. There are some very tentative efforts currently to reintroduce bison, lynxes and some other species to western europe.

Anyway... 350,000 wild african elephants. Declines notwithstanding, it's amazing that such a population still exists. Consider how much impact a herd of elephants have on human interests.. agriculture or whatnot. Imagine how hard it would be to get buy-in for a dozen elephants in spain. The african savannah's megafaunal systems still exist! They really are an amazing thing to still have. It's the system we came from.. most of our most ancient art is about them. The first famous french painting features extinct and extirpated megafauna, lions for example.
Central banks increase the supply to keep inflation stable (at a first approximation). Monetary intervention (in the form of quantitative easing) was required to keep the economy from crashing once fiscal policy couldn't. If you think it devalued the dollar you're utterly wrong.
So then why are you a Christian, if I may ask?
Yeah uBlock non-origin is abandoned (there have been 4 commits in the last 2.5 years). It's also no longer available in the Safari Extension Gallery. There is a fork of uBlock origin for Safari: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari - I use Linux so I can't vouch for it, but gorhill (author of uBlock origin) links to it in the readme so it's semi-official.
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The list of DNS APIs supported is impressive. This is the main problem with automating wildcard certificates (DNS provider specific APIs that makes using a single client challenging).
These devices allow you to perform a brute force attack.

Jailbreak requires a reboot of the device and after a reboot the encryption key for the useful data on the device is not available. If the device uses a strong passcode (as opposed to a numeric code) it cannot practically be brute forced even if you force the device to allow you to enter many attempts quickly.
That's not how biology works.

RHDV1 K5 is a strain of RHDV1. RHDV1 in all of its mutations only affects the European rabbit. As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_haemorrhagic_disease points out, it doesn't seem to affect other rabbits, like cottontails, black-tailed jackrabbits and volcano rabbits.

It also points out that birds, flies, rabbit fleas, and mosquitoes can spread the virus between rabbits, and those aren't "4 legged creatures."

The disease is endemic to most of Europe, so it's not like it doesn't have plenty of opportunities already.
Certainly does.

Here is where I overlap with you. I've watched the documentary version of manufacturing consent but not read the book. (Don't tell anyone.) I watched The Century of the Self and Hypernormalisation plus a couple of others by Curtis. McLuhan is on my radar but I've never done a deep dive though of course I'm aware of him. I've read The Master Switch by Wu but not Attention Merchants, this man obviously is someone to keep an eye on.

So that leaves McChesney and Toffler. They are now on my radar, thank you. Under general media scholars you mention: H.L. Mencken, I.F. Stone, and perhaps Walter Lippmann and John Dewey. I thought Mencken a critic, Dewey a pragmatist–Rorty rates Dewey very highly, Lippmann I seem to recall to coming across…, Stone, don't think so. Interesting list.

And if I may be so bold. Have you considered The Revolt of the Masses by Ortega y Gasset? A prescient work. Somewhat more obscure is The Reality of the Mass Media by Niklas Luhmann, Curtis mentions nearly every cyberneticist and cybernetic theorist bar Luhmann, probably for good reason come to think of it. New media theorists: Walter Benjamin obviously for his The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (but maybe others?), The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich, and finally anything by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Wendy Chun).

I gather that media-philosophie is an actual research programme in German-land whereas here we'd call it media studies or communication studies or new media studies and it's looked down upon to the same extent as cultural studies programmes are or courses on semiotics. I'd like to see media-philosophy (what you use to communicate your message) become an actual branch of philosophy like aesthetics/rhetoric (how you communicate your message).

It's been stimulating, ciao!
This looks really interesting. There are a number of "peak identification" tools for scipy but this is the first anomaly detection set I've seen. It will be interesting to see how, from a process point of view, it handles things like SPC rules.
The desire to remain consistent with one's previously established positions is one of the great psychological motivators:

https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busin...

People will often act against their own best interests to do so.
No mention of gravitational lensing (except in a dead comment here)? 20 years ago those images were in all the pop-sci media as evidence of black holes. They seem as strong evidence as x-ray sources.
> At least when someone drives their own car, they are actually paying their own way.

Do they? The sheer amount of infrastructure for cars and parking make me question that statement.
The new camera technologies are, for me at least, a reason to upgrade to the current generation. I'm going to grab an IPhone X along with some telephoto lenses for my wife so she can stop taking both her phone and DLSR camera on trips.

I agree that, in general, the reasons for upgrading your phone are less and less. I don't know how new that actually is though, I was using my first generation ipad until a couple of years ago; Apple kit tends to last forever and a lot of new features came in software upgrades. Same with the Nexus/Pixel series in Android world.
I would prefer if black holes were called "Dark Stars".

Because that really is what they are. A weird star that is so massive, its gravitational field distorted the fabric of its local space, that not even light can escape it.

It is theoretically possible that the black hole is still performing fusion, and emitting light and heat, like a regular star. But its gravitational field is so intense, that even light cannot escape it. So, from the outside, the black hole appears dark. Hence, a dark star.

Perhaps if you are inside the Event Horizon of the black hole, then you can still see the light from the fusion of the star. But if you are outside of the Event Horizon, then you will only see the star as pitch black, since light can't even escape it.
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I don't understand. Is the temperature now at the north pole above freezing, if so where can I see the temperature? Is WaPo forecasting that the temperature will be above freezing? According to the article:

> While there are no direct measurements of temperature there, Zack Labe, a climate scientist working on his PhD at the University of California at Irvine, confirmed that several independent analyses showed “it was very close to freezing,”

What does that mean? Do they not have a device measuring the temperature at the north pole at all times?
It doesn't use SV yet (as evidenced by the fact it's stil using Arabic numerals).
Amazon buys 'smart' doorbell firm Ring
Only with decoded text. If you used encoded text through the "bytes" type, you'll get a unique value as an integer.
> In a transitional phase to a distributed web I'd expect a lot of websites to employ a similar approach of using CDNs at first (since not everybode has local nodes running)

I'd like to think so, but a more cynical take is that efforts like this to trade on 'distributed' will either (and most likely) fail or, if they do get traction, ditch the distributed backend once it's served its purpose as a selling-point to attract early adoption.
We JS folks just need 1 good deep-learning system in JS. I really want that system to be propel as it leverages the work that has gone in on tensorflow. Let that piece fall into place, and just watch as the last bastion of python gets overrun.
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> Does this mean fat in diet is unnecessary

goalpost has shifted? his wording was "body needs carbs for energy". no, body doesn't need carbs for energy.

besides, there definitely are essential fatty acids that our body cannot produce and cannot survive without, so you're wrong implying that body can survive without fats just like it can without carbs. there are no essential carbohydrates.
> then you will only see the star as pitch black, since light can't even escape it

Would it be black? Right above the event horizon is flaming relativistic matter.
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It bugs me how almost never in astronomy-related animated gifs authors never tell explicitly how long is 1 frame.

In that blue x-ray burst image, am I looking at 1000 years per frame, 1 second? 1 minute?

Really frustrating
And Jesus was born just a little too late to be a millenial. :(
You can write a complaint to responsible institutions that then chose how to act (send a warning to violating company, issue them fine, start an investigation etc.) You cannot sue companies yourself, unless you can prove that (big) damage was done to you as a direct consequence of violation, then you can seek compensation via civil lawsuit.
This is a great tool!

I noted, though, that the Linkedin import didn't seem to work flawlessly – after uploading, I was redirected to the resume list and I have no clue of what actually happened.

Would you like more feedback?
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How do you figure that deep learning is "the last bastion of python". From where I'm sitting deep learning is just the newest of many bastions.
The term “Dark Star” actually predates the term “Black Hole” by a very long margin (first recorded usage 1783) [0] for classical Newtonian objects whose mass is so large that the escape velocity at their surface exceeds the finite speed of light. Black Holes are very different beasts (self-sustaining concentrations of space-time curvature), despite their popular explanation as being “objects so massive space cannot escape”.

It’s extremely improbable that any “classical” (non exotic-quantum) processes are going on within the horizon because it’s very clear that the strength of the gravitational field would far exceed the hydrostatic pressure generated by fusion reactions. It far exceeds the degeneracy forces that prevent neutron stars from collapsing further under their own mass.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_star_(Newtonian_mechanics...
s3cmd seems to be an unofficial tool, from what I see.

The awscli, on the other hand, is the official CLI from Amazon.
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You can't. The Green card quotas are based upon country of birth, not country of citizenship.
Note though that the CPM billed to the advertiser is for when their ad isn't skipped, whereas the views for the YouTuber include those that skipped (or blocked) the ad, so the numbers do not compare directly. I'd be curious how large the skip-rates are (Candy Japan mentions 70%, but I don't know how far that generalizes)
You mean certbot, the official client? It's not supported on Amazon Linux, for example.
Some environments use code-signing as a security mechanism.

Arbitrary execution via pickle creates holes in this mechanism, requiring additional mitigations.

PEP-551 briefly discusses security motivations and potential mechanisms for environments where code execution is locked down:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0551/
that's a filtering problem which should be user-tailored.
I'm a big fan of BookStack. It's a Laravel based (PHP/Mysql) based app that performs well, is very stable, has a good interface, good features, etc.

[1] https://www.bookstackapp.com/
by the time anyone would challenge in court how an iOS 11 was broken, Apple would have released iOS 15, and the iOS 11 exploit would be public knowledge.
I believe the term "frozen star" was also used for a time to describe black holes. I'm no physicist but I'm not sure this is an appropriate term either: blackholes are supposed to be really cold inside but really hot from the outside.
> A convenient way of providing the film over the coatings 11 and 12 and the electrode 13 is to spatter metallic copper by heating copper wire with in a vacuum, or by depositing copper from a colloidal suspension, over the entire upper surface and then sulphurizing the deposited copper in sulphur vapor, or by exposure to a suitable gas as hydrogen sulphide or a liquid containing sulphur, as sulphur dissolved in carbon bisulfide.

Nice use of the word "convenient" to mean "impossible to almost everyone, even 100 years in the future".

Still, it's a lovely piece of writing compared to most modern patents I've seen.
If you want examples of where the free market you can look at any of the tragedy of the commons. In these situations, government helps. There is an endless list of the stupidity of the free market.
And the design of the phones is made in Finland, by HMD Gobal, which is staffed with a lot of former Nokia engineers.
One that I think comes up often is the robots/automation metaphor. Technology has reduced 90% or more of farm labour needs, multiplied industrial output many times, etc. We've seen a lot of automation, but it's been vague economics.

When we think back on these things, we see technology, tools, & machines like tractors and looms. When we look forward we see robots and automation.

Practically this has 2 effects. First, we come back with a Jetsons lime picture, everything is the same as a regular hotel but the maid is a robot, the front desk is an ATM, the barman is a robot arm and the resteraunt is a Japanese conveyor belt. Robots are human shaped metaphors for technology, placeholders for unknowns.

Second, we think in terms of replacement. In reality, it's really more like efficiency. A tractor still uses a farmer, but requires a lot less time and effort to get a field ploughed. Again, there's a difference in how we think when looking back or forward.
Moving to Emacs and org-mode
TBH, I'm not sure how big of a future video "platforms" will even have. With IPFS+Filecoin and a few other parts, it might become quite trivial to host your own video content. With that the focus could possibly shift to platforms like Patreon, and if the payment parts of that can be commoditized (via things like Stellar and SatoshiPay), maybe even back to the good old website. One can only dream...
Means "take the function recurse, execute it, then take the thing it returns and execute that, and then take the thing that returns and execute that."
Duo Finds SAML Vulnerabilities Affecting Multiple SSO Implementations
This flaw only affected generated RSA keys, ECC keys should still be OK. Yubikey provided an excellent service for replacing their products when I went through them. However, I hear the story is quite different if you bought one via Amazon.
edit: https://steemit.com/faq.html#How_does_Steemit_work
might be better.

"Every day, the Steem blockchain mints new STEEM tokens and adds them to a community's "rewards pool". These tokens are then awarded to users for their contributions, based on the votes that their content receives. Users who hold more tokens in their account as "Steem Power" will get to decide where a larger portion of the rewards pool is distributed."
That isn't even happening in NYC, where most people in fact don't own a car, and virtually nobody (who lives in the 5 boroughs) commutes in one.

We're still prioritizing on street parking above transit, cycling, and even pedestrianism - and the streets are clogged with Ubers and with the vehicles of suburban commuters, to the point that buses might as well be pedal powered for how fast they move, and cycling is suicidal.