skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks interesting, but how do I subscribe?
I'm used to just adding the feed URL to my podcast app (Pocket Casts).
Clicking the Google Play button opens Play Music with a message saying that the podcast isn't available.
Correct, but do student need thousands of books. Maybe 20-30 per year?
Probably forgot the <sarcasm> tag.
This reminds me of the number one rule I hear from old-money types: never touch the capital.
One of the largest Korean "anticheat" companies also sells cloud antivirus and reuses the same code signing certificate for their anticheat rootkit. I've seen a few outright change DNS resolvers to themselves instead of just looking at cache too.
-Having a barrier to entry is good useful only if your App-store search is crap.
Also, the $99 is every year. Developing on iOS has cost me $900 in certificates, compared to $25 with Google.

-That's obviously wrong, see 100% of the top selling games.

-The top developers have to make clusters of freaking mac minis just to run their continuous integration tests. Do you think they are happy about that?
Ask HN: How to Prevent Linux Browser from Leaking Location to Timezone Call?
While checking for DNS leaks I noticed that javascript querying my browser for timezone returns not only the UTC offset, but also my actual location, "America/Vancouver." See results from browserleaks.com [1]. This is because Linux specifies the TZ as Continent/City[2]. Is there a way to block this? This is especially troubling when using VPN as the mismatch between your IP and your clock can be a problem -- here's the http://doileak.com report using VPN[3].

[1] https://imgur.com/a/JBMrT

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

[3] https://imgur.com/a/S4mYS
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Ferris wheel is rusting off in the distance
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Are we suddenly living in some alternate universe where former Google engineers have any trouble finding a new job? They are after all top 1% (of the top 1% :) of the talent pool. So what you say might make sense for smaller/less respected companies, but certainly not for FAANG.
Tesla's response https://www.tesla.com/blog/not-so-revealing-story
I've been playing Guild Wars since 2005 and can tell you, there is nothing shady about the game or ArenaNet. And the idea that they are powerleveling characters and selling them to you is ridiculous. This is a competitive game. They care if you're cheating, they don't care what level your character is. Hell in the original GW you could make a character at the max level without that character hitting the story at all. In GW2 you can buy a max-level character right from the game.

What they care about is if you're cheating to get max-tier weapons/armor and if you're cheating in the PvP tournaments.
I think OLPC should have stayed in demo mode for longer, or focused getting an educational environment that could run ontop of existing PCs. They had a good vision, but the execution either fell short. I would no rather see OLPC concepts built into Chromebooks. I still high hopes for self directed constructivism that leverages low cost computing; after using an OLPC for a little bit I lost luster for the concrete implementation. !BUT! OLPC did spawn netbooks (Asus EEEPC) and then Chromebooks which can be had for nearly the targeted OLPC price point. Chromebooks need better offline modes of operation.
You might be applying your anti-Electron arguments a bit too broadly. PWA is not that easy, but the UX friction involved with downloading and installing native mobile apps is abysmal. Electron is (arguably) a shortcut for desktop apps, putting webdev convenience above UX. Whereas PWA is all about improving UX, and is also typically (in practice) more relevant to mobile than desktop.
If rainfall is normally distributed, then this outcome is expected anywhere. Are you trying to say that the average (34") is near the threshold for feast/famine?
>IIRC, it (detachment) is called vairaagya in Sanskrit.

Just remembered, I think the word used was dispassion (in the English translation of the Gita that I read), not detachment, although the meanings are about the same.
I want to emphasize the YouTube video at the bottom of the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCFo0a8V-Ag

As soon as I saw the headline, I knew I couldn't let a reference to my favourite band go unmentioned. It is almost criminal how underappreciated the Tragically Hip are as a band.
>The value of things are proportional to the human labor expended to make them

That's one theory of value--there are many others.
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> Android webviews are VERY slow

Huh?

Since KitKat I think, WebView is updatable (and is on the App Store), plus browsers like Chrome and Firefox can provide their own WebView implementation. Most people with non-ancient phones are probably using Chrome's engine in all WebViews.

And also, old engine doesn't even mean "slow".

Only Apple used to an actual problem here, because for a long long time there was no JS JIT in WebViews.
I read Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines when it came out and although it's low on specifics, the abstract concepts are solid. The main one IMHO being that once a chip can emulate the inputs and outputs of a neuron, then a human brain could slowly be replaced by silicon and the person wouldn't even be aware of when he or she became a machine.

We used to say that artificial general intelligence (AGI) was 20 or 30 years away. Now it's more like 10. The main thing stopping it is the utter lack of exploration in computer science of highly parallelized/concurrent processing. So hardware-wise that means we need a DSP with perhaps a million cores with local memory (like map reduce), this would be like a video card but with general-purpose cores that can run any traditional language instead of OpenCL/CUDA etc. The software side means that we need more experience with languages like MATLAB/Octave, Elixer, Erlang, Go etc so that we can build other tools like TensorFlow on top of them from first principles.

Given those two foundations, many of the methods in neural nets, genetic algorithms, etc become one-liners and kids could play around with them the way we might have written ray casters and fractal explorers when we were young. They'll quickly discover novel ways of solving problems, combining intelligent agents in various layers, automatically assigning hyperparameters, basically all the things we struggle with today. And not long after that, there will be a repo on GitHub where you can download a brute force AGI and see how fast it can do your homework.

This seems completely inevitable to me and I would have loved to have made a career of it but now there's no time. Any idea you can think of is between 2 weeks and 2 years away from being manifested by someone on the web. Which is why I think we're looking at 5 or 10 advances over the next decade that will make AGI all but certain (barring a global recession like the dot-bomb followed by an embrace of fear like the global war on terror that set tech advances back 10-15 years, but I digress).
NYC should stop building subways with tunnel boring. Instead, tear up the street, build the darn thing and then rebuild the street over it. This method is called cut and cover and it's what many countries do because it's substantially cheaper and faster:

https://ny.curbed.com/2017/9/19/16335068/nyc-subway-mta-stat...

Imagine if the 2nd ave line was done this way - sure you'd get a lot of pissed Upper East Siders, but their property value is going to skyrocket from the project anyway. As far as I'm concerned, they could deal with a year of inconvenience instead of getting it built over decades for magnitudes of money more.

Of course, the City Council would never agree to this plan. It's easier for them not to disturb anyone if they want to be re-elected...
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It's been a little while since I played with it, but I was wondering how the "private" soundcloud embeds worked. I was seeing musicians and music sites utilize them. The main difference with them is that you can't click on them to listen to the track on Soundcloud.com, you can only listen to them when they're embedded elsewhere.

Turns out, if you view the source on one of those embeds the full URL is right there. It's even called "permalink_url" and has the secret_token for the track as well, which is what lets you listen to private tracks directly on Soundcloud.com. The url structure is:

https://soundcloud.com/[user]/[track]/[secret_token]

If I recall correctly, the API also lets you look up some info on private tracks with that secret_token. Not sure if all of this was intentional, but I reported it back in 2016 via their "whitehat" channel and didn't receive any type of response back.
My Amazon RSUs more than knocked out my significant student loans, so I have to say that's a reasonable strategy.
That's a pity. NYC subway could greatly benefit form circular lines or lines that go from west to east in addition to those from north to south. It's often required to take completely convoluted subway routes because of lacking connections.
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Feast or famine was a turn of phrase, meant to illustrate that we're either flooding or in a drought along this 100th Meridian.
That's the future of the low paid work.

US poultry workers wear diapers on job over lack of bathroom breaks – report
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/12/poultry-work...
Sorry about that! The feed is here: https://rss.simplecast.com/podcasts/5271/rss

[EDIT] Updated the site w/ the RSS feed link in the header. Thanks for pointing this out.
I think that gets to the core of it --

It follows standards that you need to know if you want to be able to easily hack it.

Which means learning standards.

Ruby On Rails is really powerful, but it is not easy to start hacking on without a fair amount of base knowledge. In addition, discourse uses a lot of javascript, which makes it even more difficult to modify. The barrier to entry, in terms of creating a custom template, is quite high. You need to learn quite a few things before getting started.

On the other hand, hacking something like a Wordpress template takes almost zero knowledge. You can just start poking at things.

The lack of a relatively simple templating system is a big drawback in Discourse. Especially if you're not a rails developer, and you're running a community forum as a hobby.

I know how to program because of software such as phpbb and Wordpress, which are pretty much hacked together. Maybe because they're hacks, they have easier entry points.

I do think the Discourse people have different goals than I'm talking about here, however. If their goal was to make software that was easy to modify, hack, and deploy, they would have made different choices.
An excellent point. This is also congruent: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/ne....

Oddly, the GAO effort to figure out why infrastructure costs so much isn't in the budget, last time I checked: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/24/15681560/g...
(sarcastic, but not completely) when you paid for it.
"This article was viscerally and emotionally terrifying at the time. For whatever reason it seemed really real."

Maybe for some, but certainly not for me. It was just another doomsday scenario. Just like the kind that have been cropping up in science fiction for at least a hundred years, and religious tracts for thousands of years before that.

"I remember overhearing people talking about "grey goo" over cocktails at startup events -- the scenario here seemed real and imminent."

Just because they talked about it doesn't mean they thought it was real or imminent. Honestly, I don't think most people were any more scared of it back then than now. Just something to consider, and maybe keep an eye on.
This is cool! Thanks for posting. I can see how this is useful if building images is part of your CI process.

I’ve been using https://github.com/dminkovsky/kube-cloud-build to build images on Google Cloud Container Builder. It handles generating Cloud Container Builder build requests based on the images specified in my Kubernetes manifests, which was a big deal for me since writing build requests by hand was a total pain.
Nir is his first name, Sofer last, which in Hebrew means “writer” (as in scripture etc.)
> We have very good (and reasonably precise) emulators for a lot of the PC and mobile space

If that was true, services such as AWS Device Farm wouldn't exist: https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/
well one thing to realize back then and you can see it in the video, horses made one hell of a mess. there are many stories of cities with dead horses being all to common and a famous NYC photo of kids playing in a dirty street with one
> GCT south then across the Hudson to... Hoboken

Effectively the PATH & 4/5 train already do this with a transfer at Fulton Street. And while unifying the system may look good on paper, I'd hate for the PATH to descend to the MTA's low standards of reliability and cleanliness. Better part of the system work well than all of it work poorly.
Almost as good as Mike Rowe ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
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Not to offend you or your work, but IMO Amazon makes the worst software out of all the big tech companies. I think that this is related to their ability to attract and retain talent due to their poor work culture.
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"That project is only likely to succeed if the rebuilt web is compatible with what we have today, including Facebook"

Yeah the ONLY way forward is to get everything compatible with FB. Sure.
How selfish and arrogant. They should have been using the system and testing the system with end users as often as possible with the goal of shipping a totally functional 1.0 by a fixed date. Look at the totally baked systems with long lifetimes (C64, 512k Mac, Apple 2e) in the education space. OLPC was too ambitious with not enough clarity.
How professional technologists are treated by their giant tech employer is utterly orthogonal to how lower-skilled, hourly warehouse workers are treated by the same company.

Why do technologists reliably chime in with completely irrelevant details of a technologist's experience of working for a tech company, in response to articles talking about how poorly those companies treat their non-technologist staff?

What does the one have to do with the other? "Amazon can't be all bad, if they aren't abusing (some of) the subset of their workforce that can meaningfully vote with its feet"?

EDIT: not singling you out specifically, but you did the thing here, so you get the follow-up.
Well, yes, online games should be resilient to memory modification, but few are coded perfectly to prevent this (and many games, even AAA MMORPGs like WoW, let the client get away with way more than it should).

The smart thing to do is to look for when tools are actually injecting themselves into your process, not just looking for the presence of the process itself. That is just a completely inept way of going about it.
This idea that F-droid apps are garbage largely stems from the time when Firefox was the only open source browser available. Objectively speaking, Firefox for Android is terrible. Newer open source Android apps like Chromium and NewPipe are actually in many ways superior to their respective Google Play counterparts, Chrome and YouTube.
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it's not just inhumane, it's extremely dangerous. I don't want to be driving on the road while the guy handling a 10 tonne truck next to me is concentrating on pissing in a bottle.

I'd rather pay the external costs, i.e. an extra few pennies on my delivery and/or wait a day extra, this is exactly why we need regulation in these spaces.
> Does any cross state combined public transit effort even exist in the US?

Yes, AMTRAK [0]

[0] https://history.amtrak.com/amtraks-history/historic-timeline
More then last 2 than the first one. Getting money from investors is much harder than getting MAbs from animals. Probably more gruesome, too.
Also greed is not just the Pharma. Some Hospitals/physicians use Clinical Trials as a profit center, and see Pharma as a bottomless pit of cash-- its a bit of a vicious circle.
Really this is all about your aversion to paying the fee and to learning how to develop for the respective platforms. JavaScript does not offer performance or optimization near the same levels of native code, etc. On top of that, there are guidelines, accessibility features, and carefully crafted UI components for a respective OS (that have thousands of hours of user research).

The amount of standard APIs developed in JS are nowhere near native APIs, also JS has barely gotten to the point of good enough for native development, whereas, mobile platforms have had 10 years of mature development.

It's quite the fantasy to pretend that PWAs can offer the user anything better than a native experience at this point.
You can do it either way. The risk threshold from my perspective is how much you charge in rent, with how large your deposit is, along with how often you inspect your properties.

Also, you have to be prepared to sue, file liens, and use sheriff evictions.

Everything is easier if you're local. If your investment is large enough, flying in to deal with your properties is a reasonable business expense (I wouldn't do it outside setting up a company and having general liability in addition to your normal house insurance).
Does Siri understand you well, or do you have any cases where you have to scribble, send typos, etc?

What do you do for taking notes? Do you have a system for processing later on a phone or a computer?

Any apps like whatsapp where you can't initiate a message? How do you get around it?

Do you carry a phone? If not, do you carry a camera?

I'm interested in doing the same myself.
I'd be interested in seeing evidence of South Korea and Japan considering they are in trade leagues with us.

Japan did a lot of IP theft in the 50s/60s but I don't think those two are really in the same camp as Russia or China.
Bit like been a lawyer for one of the big firms.

They work you like a dog but proof that you can 'graduate' from them gets you better offers afterwards.

Crazy system when you think about it.
Agreed. And GW2, like other MMOs, has a trading post where players can sell to other players. If you're cheating, you can crash the in-game economy which certainly does have an impact on other players.
> It's the same as advocating for more women and minorities in industry; white men lose.

With lines like that I'm sure you'll make lots of friends here. /s

The world economy has profited handily from globalism at the same time that it has concentrated power and has made a very few people insanely rich.

If we want to get to a more sustainable model for the longer term then we will have to forego short term profits and our hunt for the cheapest priced items. It's an open problem on whether or not capitalism combined with democracies and the power of money in politics is sustainable or not. I'd bet against it, but time will tell.
fair enough.

I think US is playing the game pretty well. US is threatening to block their huge customer base from China, unless China plays fair, allows 100% ownership from foreigners and opens up their market and stop stealing IP, like they promised when they got into WTO. Via trade wars and protectionism. Not sure what else US can do besides completely stop trading with China.

And remember you're now dealing with a dictator. Dictators are irrational, stupid with economics, and lots of arrogance. They only respond to massive threat, which they did (thus saying they want to reduce tariff on cars)
Books, stationery; need to be stored properly to protect them from climate and insects. Need to be protected from unscrupulous adults who desire fire tinder.

Solar-charged laptops can be weather-sealed and are much less useful for unintended destructive uses.
> Are there any laptops available that have this feature now?

Nope. At one point, there were two netbooks that could have an off-the-shelf [0] pixel qi display fitted into them [1].

> I would kill to be able to write blog posts and work on my book or do terminal work outside on a sunny day.

That's the main reason I keep my 2 OLPC XO-1 laptops around. I have Debian running on them, and am working to be able to use them for working out-of-doors.

I've read lots of comments on HN expressing similar interest. Maybe I should develop some hardware for that.

[0] https://www.adafruit.com/product/1303

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/how-to-install-pixel-qis...
2nd avenue already got pretty torn up with access tunnels, it's not like tunnel boring helped a ton.

Also a good chunk of NYC subways were built with cut & cover (sections of IRT 2/3 lines as an example).
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You don't think stagnation in wages can be attributed to the massive increase in women in the workforce?

Supply and demand, after all.
I suppose one could just create a different wallet and use that one.
>The Obama DOJ saw fit to fine ZTE 1.2 billion as part of the plea deal. So the conduct was serious.

this presupposes that punishments fit crimes for corporations in our country, and that there isn't rampant partiality

See the separate events in the last decade or so with major players getting minuscule punishments: Goldman Sachs et al, BOA, HSBC, Wells Fargo, etc etc
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I hope it was okay to share your story! It's honestly one of the most inspirational science research stories I know of.

Turning sci-fi into science speaks volumes to your creativity and intellectual capacity to run an idea to ground.
This is a really interesting point I haven't heard before: that the silver lining of everyone making electron apps is better Linux support!
Why would ZTE pay the fine if they are no longer allowed to source parts?
What software specifically? The AWS cloud is still the leader in most products.