skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That's the thing about "Right To Repair", you already have the right to do it now.

Except that a lot of the times, you don't. The issue arises when the manufacturer adds some encryption to validate that a part is genuine (e.g. printer manufacturers using code signing to validate a printer cartridge is theirs) then suing people under the DMCA when they have to reverse-engineer the encryption just to repair their item.

Take the John Deere case for example (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/06/nebraska...) - farmers bought tractors. The tractors needed to be repaired. To do this, the farmers needed to either break John Deere's copy protection mechanisms or use John Deere's own expensive repair services. Deere sued the farmers for trying to repair their own tractors.
I think that's sort of related to #2, "to get even for some perceived slight" although parent is specifically mentioning organization and not an individual in the org.
Oh, I understood that posting the photo was propaganda, not the actual content of the notes. I guess the meaning of the parent post was ambiguous.
> It does, she drowned after she was put in the water.

Yes, I understood that, but I just mean there was a 4+ hour window when that could have actually occurred it seems, and I don't know if more surveillance could have improved the precision on that. "Traffic cameras" are common on what I would refer to as "routes" - large roadways heading outside the city. I think that might've helped in this case.

> The point is that without that tiny bit of surveillance, it would have been extremely hard to get on the track that led to discovery of incriminating evidence.

This is a good point. It's tough for me to understand the purpose of a CCTV camera that can't pick out a license plate on a public street - isn't that half the point!? Perhaps just a matter of poor positioning...

FWIW, I'm neither for nor against additional CCTV in major cities. It's got its drawbacks, and of course it's advantages.

> A second thing to realize is in Iceland, the arguments against surveillance haven't been "we don't want to be watched" nor "it will get abused" -- but rather "we don't need it". It is obvious why this case changed that sentiment.

Interesting - definitely cultural. I've noticed similar differences between the US and Canada.
Call mom and dad and thank them for enabling a corporate and political culture that allows this.

Then email your state AG. Doing nothing but shopping elsewhere is just gonna send a signal it's cool, and retail everywhere will be having to compete.

It perpetuates the race to the bottom. Hold em accountable.
I have felt whenever i had to push myself for the side project it always failed. The drive for me came from inside because the road ahead is long. Also waking up early helped alot
Hackers Found Using a New Code Injection Technique to Evade Detection
Tesla fires back at NTSB over the investigation into fatal Autopilot crash
But Is It Fun? Software Testing in the Video Game Industry
> the "world" is willing to translate and adapt its services to it

This is a pretty gross mischaracterization. China intentionally blocks foreign tech companies for protectionism.
Isn't that counter-productive though? I'll just take my business elsewhere and develop for competing environments.
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Cupertino doesn't have its own police or fire department. Get real.
The goal of the mechanism is to kill fewer people than other available methods.

Tools are, simply put, devices that increase a user's leverage.

We live in a world full of tools capable of leveraging against life. We also live in a world with individuals and groups who - for whatever reasons - choose to use that leverage.

We can't get rid of tools like this. They are very straightforward inventions, especially as technical knowledge increases. The simplest nuclear fission reactor is a bomb. That does not make nuclear fission fundamentally worthless, and whether you agree that knowledge about it is a "good" or not, that knowledge is not going to simply disappear.

> choosing to believe the claim that killing those people will save lives alters neither the purpose nor MO of the tool.

How a tool is used does not change what it is or what it does. It does, however, define the purpose. If the purpose of killing someone is to prevent that individual from taking another life - or several other lives - then the purpose of the tool used is to save lives. The goal for perfecting a tool that is to be used for that purpose is to minimize the amount of lives taken, and damage done. That means a "better" bomb takes fewer lives, saving more.

If you choose to believe that an individual taking action against the life of another has not forfeit his/her own right to live, then you might consider this tool to have no legitimate purpose. Frankly, I disagree, and hope you will reconsider.
Yes, I am always suspicious of techniques that add additional load under failure states. Good way to cascade your failure.
There are some really interesting noninvasive side channel attacks out there e.g. differential power analysis which is trickier but not impossible with a battery powered device
Actually, they certainly can - both can co-exist peacefully and feed of each other. I think really this is all kind off a non-issue and stems from a lack of understanding about standards development.

WHATWG is very much a definition of a "de facto standard" [1] vs the W3C which is more a "de jure standard" [2]. There is a conflict between the two, yes, but both can reasonably exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_standard

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_jure
This isn't new. Pulitzer and Hearst practiced "yellow journalism" that wouldn't look a day out of date compared to Fox News. Most news sources in the world and throughout history have had clear editorial biases at the very least.

Even they heyday of "unbiased", "impartial" news was anything but--there just weren't many outlets for people to express dissenting views, and the lack of transparency was shocking at times. For example, Lyndon Johnson once got annoyed at reporters asking him why the US intervened in Vietnam, exposed his genitalia to them, and shouted, "this is why!"

The notion of a kindly old Walter Crokite-esque gentleman telling us the news every night in a fair and impartial way was always an illusion, and it's one that shouldn't be mourned.
Show HN: Teleport Module for WebVR, THREE.js and VRController.js Projects
> I think a reasonable step that this guy should have to take is to explicitly state, "I am not an authorized Apple repair technician and these parts are not guaranteed to be genuine Apple parts. They do not bear an Apple warranty and are not eligible for support by Authorized Apple Technicians."

Okay. So my mechanic needs to state that for every single manufacturer of every single component that he may potentially use to fix my car, right down to the level of individual capacitors on individual circuitboards, he is not an authorized technician for that item? That seems unduly onerous.
Anyone here work with an environmental group or an ad agency that wants to win an ad award? Imagine the money and trees that would be saved if all bathrooms were required to have exit doors that pushed out. An intelligent owner would look at the waste can by the bathroom door full of paper towels that aren't free and quickly realize that changing the door hinges to the push-open exit type would pay for itself and save them lots of money and cleanup over time. Would really make for a tremendous PSA that would have an enormous impact .
Why do you need an AI to do that? A log of facial recognition matches...
There's a huge problem with these improvements. They rarely make it to the original project.

Luckily, the SIMD acceleration for progressive Huffman encoding was a rare exception [1]. So, alone with other improvements, it made this fork [2] rather pointless. Adding the NEON optimizations would have been easier with a proper rebase, and that would require less work for both to keep things up to date.

[1] https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/pull/46

[2] https://github.com/cloudflare/jpegtran
NREL Research Pushes Perovskites Closer to Market
Wouldn't domain fronting be too expensive to host for some 5 to 10 millions of users?
If you want your device to be secure against published 0days / CVEs, you have to update iOS and when iOS 11 came around, that's the only branch available containing those updates. :-/
> Google's search results are not "factual historical information". They're an index of webpages that anyone and everyone can create, saying whatever they like.

I'd argue that the fact that a webpage says something is itself an historical fact, and shouldn't be forbidden to be said.
People that use this quote to justify censorship must be in two camps. Those that are ignorant of the provenance of the quote and how it was and could be misused, and those that know it and are looking to censor as long as the idea bring censored is disagreeable to their own.

With the regularity I see it parroted I very much hope the former is more common than the latter.

As to the proposal of labeling content, who decides what is news and what isn't? The government? What agency and how will that agency be staffed and regulated? What redress does an outlet have if they feel they are unjustly labeled because their opinion differs from that censor board?

What if it's not a government body but an industry body? Many of the same issues apply since the majority will have power over the minority. This particular mode of self-censorship has precedent, as the movie, video game, and music industries created their own censor boards in lieu of government regulation (MPAA, ESRB, RIAA).
Now this is a topic I desperately need. Can anyone here by any chance explain why would one choose predictors in multilinear regression that are NOT correlated to the target? I am having trouble understanding paper [1] where authors avoid using predictors that are correlated to target. Target is ozone concentration shown by referent instrument and predictors are low cost sensor outputs.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092540051... Section 4.1 about ozone predictors
It's good for 'grinding it out' type learning tasks. Example: I sat for and passed all three ham radio exams in one shot mainly because of an android ham radio exam prep app that did SRS. No way I could have done that just by reading ham radio study guides.
Couldn't your own chosen social network "access point" just create a bunch of HTML elements with source URL attributes that point to other servers (those of your friends) with a unique ID that, along with a cookie you send that server, validates that you are in fact that friend's friend and can view whatever content is present at that URL? Then you wouldn't be handing your own server access to your friends' content.
> they never seem to quite acknowledge how bad legacy systems can be

Isn't that the ground truth that everybody starts with though? My general perception is that everybody "knows" that legacy systems are bad, hates them, and doesn't want to work with them. I view the article as attempting to moderate that base position and inject some caution by highlighting often-unforeseen costs to certain approaches to attempting to replace legacy code.

I think the OP would respond to all the cases you're referring to by advocating either a full rewrite (if they really are as bad as your observations above), or leaving the code alone (if the cost of a full rewrite or carrying a partial rewrite is higher than the cost of living with the old code).
Someone on steemit pirated my content and there is no way to reach them to take it down. Now someone is earning money with an article that took me 3 days to write.
Not OP, but we dont use docker because legacy. We developed our infrastructure before containerization was popularized.
Fair point... It's not great for emergency services.

But it's great for residential neighborhoods, and city limits.
Well you can already do that with Canvas, and as you said things like Doom or Quake have already done so, but you are basically ignoring the entire DOM and JUST using the canvas as a framebuffer.

And like you said Qt already knows that (somewhat, there have been tech demos showing this but no real applications built on it), but it still means that YOUR APPLICATION must handle all of that, meaning at best you are downloading all the code for all of that at runtime, and at worst you just won't handle it because most people don't want to spend the time.
> Not all languages are created equal

No language is inherently "better" than another. They are each useful for specific cases, and understanding more languages means understanding their contextual strengths and weaknesses.
> If yoğurt was oxygala Greeks would continue to call it oxygala.

Modern Greek has seen a great deal of lexical replacement. It uses new words for things like "bread" and "water" that are different from what were used in the Classical era, even though bread and water have never changed. There are even cases where Ottoman vocabulary has replaced native Greek words. It is not inconceivable that the word for oxygala changed but the dairy product didn’t.
Could you release some part of that script too? It sounds really interesting.
>Before long they could even choose to make you buy an expensive Mac Pro or iMac Pro, or even require an 'iOS dev kit' if you want to develop for their platform.

Hopefully this was sarcasm, since this is literally what is required right now to develop for iOS - you need a Mac (windows is not allowed) and a $99 developer account.
I would say Azure is one of Microsoft's core products at this point (and maybe Bing as well)
The same as for the first drug manufacturer, I suppose. And if you really have a superior product, you should be able to take all the customers, assuming that the customers are smart enough.
Source?

https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/life...

Manufacturing a mid-sized EV with an 84-mile range results in about 15 percent more emissions than manufacturing an equivalent gasoline vehicle. For larger, longer-range EVs that travel more than 250 miles per charge, the manufacturing emissions can be as much as 68 percent higher.

These differences change as soon as the cars are driven. EVs are powered by electricity, which is generally a cleaner energy source than gasoline. Battery electric cars make up for their higher manufacturing emissions within eighteen months of driving—shorter range models can offset the extra emissions within 6 months—and continue to outperform gasoline cars until the end of their lives.
Thank you Bulgaria. Hopefully the real thing without thickeners will always be available. A lot of crap is being sold as yogurt by the usual multinational culprits.

I guess we can make it at home if need be.
Diaspora can optionally pull some information from Facebook, but nowhere to that extent. It might allow you to connect with FB friends who also use Diaspora, though, so if that's the cast it'd help people migrate.
Did you have a look at https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ ?
“Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?” Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale [pdf]
I totally agree, in case it wasn’t clear. Go, like many others, was designed by people who thought the users of the language are not as smart as themselves. They seem to have forgotten that after writing a few thousand lines, even a novice can become a power user and start demanding more of the language.
The earth is like an apple pie
Let's eat it and let's die

Do you want some more? It's delicious...

Grow theee...
Grow theee...
Grow the economy!

More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16671373 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16718258
No, but they are making it very difficult for anyone to use, for example, non-Apple-branded cloud storage. And they are making it nearly impossible for anyone to use non-Apple-approved apps.
But this shouldn't be the case at least for the PyBench and PHPBench benchmarks, or am I wrong?
I really didn't expect such a huge difference in those single-threaded tests (especially taking into account the Power9 CPU running at 3.8Ghz...).
It is both. Roughly one-third of a person's lifetime healthcare costs occur in middle age, and half occur when they are seniors. This is based on US data from 2004 but it is a large sample (almost 4M patients)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/
Sorry, but unless your site is an open directory full of plain text files, it's not "brutalist."
> What a monumental waste of time. Why not just ignore W3C entirely?

Transition costs are probably a factor: as long as the W3C exists and there are web developers who might think it is authoritative, browser vendors will get flack for deviations between browser behavior and W3C specs. If they abandoned W3C that would eventually taper off as people would come to disregard W3C, but it would take time. It's in the browser vendors interest to keep W3C standards as meaningful as possible until W3C gives up entirely, but their involvement makes it less likely that it will be abandoned even if it is largely superfluous.
For those looking for cryptocurrency news I've been working on ThinkLiberte over the past several months: https://www.thinkliberte.com/hub/cryptocurrency
Here’s How Fast China’s Economy Is Catching Up to the U.S (2016)
Without seperate point sources, its more like 1.5
> My first honest reaction: it does seem fairly incestuous. And then I'm not even getting into. well, let's say more diversity would be a great thing here.

To play devil's advocate, Marie Curie was worse. She, her husband, her daughter, and her daughter's husband all won Nobel Prizes. Marie even won it twice in two fields.
There were plenty of leaks while Jobs was there.
The way credit cards work in the U.S. is incredibly behind how they work in every other developed nation.

I studied abroad in New Zealand in 2004. Even back then, everything was chip-and-pin, with computerized machines at every merchant to take orders. I never had to hand my NZ bank card to a merchant, just insert it into an EFTPOS reader and enter my PIN. My American credit card needed a swipe, signature, and handover to the cashier, because unlike in the U.S, they actually checked signatures in NZ.

Meanwhile, in the U.S, we just moved to chip cards 2 years ago, and just yesterday I had a POS reader reject it for "chip malfunction - swipe instead". The major merchants just stopped collecting signatures last month, though cashiers have been ignoring the signature for decades now.

I blame the innovator's dilemma and first-mover disadvantage, like sanxiyn's comment mentions. The U.S. has a "good enough" system that everyone's adopted; it's not worth it to force everyone to adapt to a system that's a little better. Same goes for many other broken systems in the U.S. - electricity, measurement, public education, public transportation, health insurance, etc.
One shot cures bad business model – Goldman Sachs
I thought it was invented in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC. But, there is always an alternate story invented by some idiot.
My MB Pro cost 2.5k, and I use it primarily to develop for iOS, so there you have your expensive dev kit.
It is interesting that the newest Pacific Rim mentions that the alien's objective is the "rare-earth" minerals in Japan.
Was this just a coincidence or did the writers do some actual research?
That is true.

What parent was trying to explain is that an individual is not defined by a specific subset of his/her experience.

Just as fluency in Spanish does not make me Hispanic, experience in python does not make me a "python developer". That title puts focus in the wrong place.
It's not that simple.

Some ridiculous percentage of startups fail, yet not all startups have the same risk of failure.

That's also why it's not a good idea to dismiss a candidate on a single criterion unless you're randomly hiring.
From the horses mouth (Rob Pike) on why they chose to do what they did in Go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM
WTF?

It takes a 'team' to provide any sort of professional level of support for an organization of their size. If the one-person "CMS/tech wizard" decides to stop working, or die, or get sick, or take an extra 4 hours to be with their family, the entirety of the NYT operations should just say "oh well, we'll just wait around for a while until we find our next one person to be our tech saviour"?
FCC doesnt seem like it's protecting consumers. I think if I were POTUS I'd be using this section of its mandate.

"Communications during emergencies and crisis must be available for public safety, health, defense, and emergency personnel, as well as all consumers in need. The Nation's critical communications infrastructure must be reliable, interoperable, redundant, and rapidly restorable."

The honest thing is that the FCC has already shown itself to be a problem by allowing the media mergers and aquisitions in the first place, and the people who made those decisions should be held to account as far as the statue of limitations allows, but also should the institution (preferably by congress).

I'm starting to get really tired of "independent" government agencies being at the heart of root problems.
If you are in Germany (guessing by the nickname), there is very good and inexpensive yoghurt based on live Lact. Bulg. I buy about 10 tubs every week. It's not that sour like in Bulgaria, but very tasty anyway.

http://www.hansano.de/unsere-produkte/produkt/joghurt/bulgar...
https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2016/pr16_092....
It compares badly. Unfortunately too much private research is allowed to be kept secret - but what is known indicates it's of poorer quality - judged by the kind of metrics the Cochrane Institute use.

Goldacre's book (he also has a blog) is well worth reading - describing _many_ ways in which drug companies can cheat.
Does he address the issue of the massive waste caused by pull-handle style exit doors? This is the saddest example of bad design (the door mechanism that requires touching to pull open) causing a situation that perpetually generates a tremendous amount of paper towel waste. Push-open bathroom exit doors seem like an easy fix with no downside.
In my industry (e-commerce, sell on Amazon FBA) my biggest bottleneck is funding and I'm able to generate triple digit yearly returns on capital. It's gotten to the point I sometimes carry a balance on credit cards at 20% rates just to get more inventory.

But of course it's not quite comparable, it's extremely time / labor / logistics intensive, it's hard to put large amounts of money to work, and risk is high (can diversify across different products and categories but will always be some risk).

If you make 20% ROI and turn inventory every 2 months, that's a 120% return per year and very doable. A popular factoring company in the space, Payability, is charging an effective ~200% APR on funds (2% of gross sales for an average of one week to advance 80% of net, simple factoring math). That should give you an idea of the kind of returns people are making on capital, if the companies that finance them can ask for and get triple digit effective interest rates.

But it's not something you can put $100 million into. If you look at the bigger companies doing this, they have much lower returns (e.g. etailz sells ~150 million a year, profit of 3 million, they carry inventory in the 15-20 million range - so something like 20% net ROI per year).

If someone told me they were making 6-7% per month selling inventory direct to consumer, I'd consider it average, probably room for improvement.
'Silicon Valley' and 'Wall Street' have become sort of extreme synecdoches that carry tons of baggage when used. While often useful, I find they are becoming increasingly disingenuous in regards to current state or at least in regards to the way things are changing for the better (in contrast to the negative meanings implied when one of these terms are used as a derogative).