skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that sailor is unique more for being rescued than for being in that position in the first place. I don't think "trapped in an air bubble in a sunken ship" is all that rare of an occurrence. Look at the K-141 Kursk disaster for example - 23 men survived the initial explosion, and spent the next several days in a compartment before succumbing to fire.
It wasn't constructive criticism.
Pretty sure mosquito eggs don't survive in salt water.
Exactly. I think we should stick with what we do know and improve less-risky strategies, rather than opting for the nuke from orbit option we don't know. Also, with polio eradicating the virus might have been our only option. Here we have others. So it's not the same thing. Plus, I feel for mosquitoes as living things. </fulldisclosure>
I really hope one day Linux stops using package managers and switches to single-file binary installers as in Windows and Mac. Until that day, I won't feel completely comfortable using Linux.

Package managers are an inherently flawed way to distribute software, instead of obtaining your programs from whoever developed that program you get it from your OS developer!.
> don't try to cross the border illegaly then?

I'm an American citizen. I don't like that my visits to and from a mall being automatically collected by private company for a federal agency with domestic policing capabilities. One can construct a Fourth Amendment case critical of this practice that is completely agnostic towards the illegal immigration debate.
mozzie, lol
I keep emails that are waiting to be actioned upon in my inbox, and once they're done they're archived.

I make sure to never subscribe to any spam-letters or unneeded notifications so I only get like a handful of emails a day (all from human senders) and this approach works pretty well for me.

Archive is a dumping ground for all the "done" stuff and I rely on search if I ever need to find anything in there.
it’s the same as if a person standing on the street saw your plate and told someone else.

It really isn't though, is it? There is a bunch of policy and law here that remains to be worked out, but large scale ubiquitous surveillance and storage of your public "footprint" is really not the same thing as a person having been able in the past to follow you around and take notes.

This is one of the areas where scaling really matters, and you can do many things with these sort of databases that were simply intractable before. So I find the conceit that it is "just the same" to be inept.

I don't know where the courts and legislators are eventually going to arrive at on this, but if it is as cut and dried as you suggest then you can look forward to a near future where anyone who cares to can buy a detailed dossier on all of your movements for the last decade, say, with known and inferred contacts, assets, etc. It probably won't be very expensive.
Nvidia Taught an AI to Flawlessly Erase Watermarks from Photos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APxGubAkOz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWL8-dn_Uk
I've subconsciously noticed all those little UI things and it's a treat to read how much thought and engineering went into them
espionage act for non political / military related corporate secrets? Kinda glad it doesn’t work that way
You should probably have made that clear in your original comment. I missed it myself.
Which ones have fewer breaches? Is there a comparison writeup somewhere?

Lots of grimness:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/flaws_in_password_m...
You have no clue what you're talking about, you're just parroting a line you've been fed.
Not just ban the sale of iPhones in China - they could potentially stop the manufacture of all iPhones (and every other bit of Apple hardware).

> they need to do to have friendly relations with them

Yep. That sure do...
ALPR is not manual or sustained. It's a one-time photo of a vehicle at a specific location & time.

The DPPA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_Privacy_Protection_...] already restricts who has the ability to convert from plate to actual personal information.
I think they were questioning why Apple would hire a non-US citizen to work closely on valuable US trade secrets.
> I'm obligated to comply with them for as long as I choose to live here and remain a citizen.

Some would argue - me included - that morally, only just laws must be followed.
Russia shot down a civilian airliner and lied about it. Overr 50 Dutch citizens died. No kinetic response such as destroying Buks in the separatist zone.
How to get  the user name of a device owner with Xamarin.Forms
This seems hopelessly naive. "Invisible unicorns" might as well have been germs 200 years ago. But antibodies, horizontal gene transfer, is very much mainstream science. If you know the science. If you don't, I think you should not be judging utility of others suggestions. But hey, it's the internet, let's do it again sometime, indeed.
Money, obviously.
I am all for wiping out Malaria, but wouldn't it be prudent to try and develop what-if scenarios and test them to see if there is an adverse ecological impact?

I would also be curious to know the business / funding arrangement details to see if there is any possible conflict of interest. No one will look for adverse impacts if the profit motive is persuasive enough not to look very hard.
This seems to be the latest trick. The same thing was happening with the cell phone location data. We should start referring to this as "data laundering".
Most rye bread you get would be a mix of rye flour with wheat flour, and it's mostly wheat flour.
Indeed. While we’re at it, let’s institute summary execution for thieves. It’s bound to reduce crime.
The open source community is sadly lacking in UX and design in general (partly because of funding, but also stupid attitude) so maybe you could offer those services to projects that are in need?

Look for big open-source apps that are lacking in UX (pretty much all of them - I think Firefox is the only exception really) and see if you can help them. Keepass for example could be a good candidate - solid product, and could definitely compete with 1Password & co if it wasn't for its outdated design.
Do you consider your location data to be private? If you are out in public all day then all it takes is every business everywhere using facial recognition and conglomerating their results together to monitor your position throughout the entire day. Are you comfortable with that?

There are boundaries between reasonable use of nominally public information and the normal expectation of some degree of privacy outside the home.
I'd wager the trucks came from Texas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Motor_Manufacturing_Tex...)

I'd also wager the AKs didn't.

I'm not making a case either way, I'm not entirely sure what your argument is.
> "but it's hardly an "emotional outburst" to want to prevent swimmers from being eaten"

Considering...

> "Since 2000 there have been 15 fatal shark attacks along the West Australian coast.[9]"

Yes, it's an emotional outburst. Anybody who goes in the water should know the risks. If that's the problem, put up more signs warning people. Very few people are getting killed by sharks; the shark culls are totally unjustified. If you talk to your average Australian about the Chinese slaughtering sharks for soup, they'll condemn it. But a disturbing number will defend the slaughter of sharks for an infinitesimal chance of saving some surfer who knew the risks and chose to swim with them.
The public has no control over the incentives of private corporations, so their goals could change at any time.
While a lot of Mozilla's work is great, this seems to be the tendency of every "Test Pilot" project I've seen; NiH and always a reimplementation of ideas there are plenty of alternatives for already, without much consideration for learning from/interop with those alternatives. It's a bit odd: it all seems quite separate and "distant" from the core work I expect from Mozilla.
I’m sure that makes plenty of sense for many applications! I’m very fond of some of the benefits of cloud infrastructure, but I’m sure you’ve heard the pitch.
They would for the simple fact of approving a lease arrangement for the city property surrounding the sign.

There are many laws against political corruption and everything you've suggested would fall squarely without that category. No politician is going to risk jail and the loss of their pension so they can get their name on a tram. Additionally, what you've suggested is not an allowable part of the permitting process, so WB could simply go to court and get any such naming requirement removed.

And some increased patrolling would serve the same interests you mention, in a more direct and more immediate way

Good luck getting foreign tourists to pay...The increased patrolling would just draw cops away from other locations where there's more serious crime to deter without a meaningful decrease in the amount of tourists. (They've actually tried increasing patrolling before. It didn't work then and it won't work now that selfies are even more of a thing.)
Agreed to your last paragraph. You need distance to market a product. I am horrible at marketing my own side projects.
I noticed this too, but I have to admit that for someone with a weak mathematical background (like me), queueing theory is a bit hard to apply.
Now we just have to wait a few decades to see if it has sustained impact!
How are official Arch packages vetted?
It's an utter myth that a company can be punished by its shareholder's for paying too much tax, just as it's a myth that they could be punished for letting their employees due paid volunteer work.
In addition to outworlder's comment, note that data storage was a lot harder back then; these days we store them on a network-addressable server with automatic systems to transfer the data between different backups. Back then this was all manual and super error-prone.
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I'm intrigued - especially on what it would do with some of the data from a site of mine. But can't give much feedback without using it or seeing it in action. Are you looking for beta people?

The one thing that did notice is that some of the fonts are thin and lack contrast to the background - making them a bit hard to read.
(CCP is Chinese Communist Party, for anyone else wondering.)
What's wrong with gaining a few percentages or extra dividends?!
I should have said parabolic or quadratic but was mainly focused on the project management / team aspects and how it affects individual team members of ever-increasing team sizes.
They were supporting the Taliban already...
I thought I saw a turnip truck drive by. Did you fall off?
Fat goes first. Saying that a theoretical body builder who isn't even trying to make a certain weight loses 'significant' muscle is not something that's backed up by even common sense. If that were true, how does anyone end up with more muscle after they lose weight?

> It's not a healthy way to live, and it's not undertaken by these athletes unless strictly necesssry

That's not the discussion, this has nothing to do with whether fasting destroys muscle mass.

Do you have anything to back up your claim?
from the article, about 2700 employees have access to the specific databases from which the guy pulled sensitive data. That seems like a very large group of people to me.
We can thank the Chinese for their bold experiments in recent history to give us some significant real-world examples to back up our cautions about the risks of ecosystem engineering.

I think we should get into ecosystem engineering (it will be a tech, like anything else, capable of good or bad), but it's too powerful now and our knowledge / control is too limited. Thanks Mao.
I really didn't even notice the vice article had an embedded video (the wonders of video blocker extensions). I had assumed that the OP had gone down a youtube rabbithole much in the same way I discovered fashwave from looking into synthwave and retrowave.

Edit: wait the Trumpwave video isn't fashwave, and isn't CybernΔzi. I assumed you were referring to the vice article.
Thanks for the tips.

I have a patch of the LLVM Heat Printer being reviewed and will soon be available with LLVM.
We disagree on this being a waste of money. I see it is a valuable tourist destination promotion the LA area and generating taxable tourist spending in LA. It's basically just an investment in a long-term business.

In the meantime, you see wasting $100 million on drug addicts who are voluntarily homeless because they refuse to stop using drugs as a more valuable way to spend money. (See what I did there?) LA already has $2.1 billion to spend on addressing homelessness and it hasn't spent it yet. It doesn't need another $0.1 billion from WB.
Windows 10 IoT Core lately (on the insider previews) has a graphical shell that is FAR beyond what I ever thought I'd see on that platform.

That platform is limited in ways that are difficult to describe succinctly, and even with those limitations, it is a useful platform for lightweight touch interfaces. Probably not as light as Linux can be made to be, but pretty freakin' lightweight, nonetheless.

The only graphical apps that run on IoT Core are UWP apps (except for browser applications) and UWP applications handle resizing and spontaneous display resizing and changes in orientation very well. Web browsers handle this fine also, of course.

I would bet that a motivated developer could create most of what you are describing relatively easily.
iOS my mum struggles with the android. She doesn't understand how to get her photos/videos off it cause of the folder structure. I wish I got her one.
I know plenty about him and the climbing world, and the history of it, and have been involved in it personally since 1980, and have met many of the same people has, etc.

I stand by my statement. I'm not making assumptions, just observations. If he continues to climb for the audience he will end up dead. And they won't show that on TV, but they should, to be balanced and responsible.

And, yes, 5.11 is 'easy' but there are still hazards that are beyond his control, and 5.11 involves moves that are inherently insecure..that is what the rating means. 5.10a and above implies some level of dynamicism and/or trusting "nothing" holds or some combination thereof.

And, by the way, if he is "giving the money away" then your choice of the word "profession" is poor English.
The promises and pitfalls of reporting within chat and other semi-open platforms
You wondered about the USSR. I was replying to that.
>Another important part of the scene is that it's not just a music scene, but a more general cultural movement with visuals, palettes, clothes, food, tv and so on.

I’m trying to imagine “vaporwave food” now, and the closest I can get is those weird little Kid Cuisine TV dinners with the frozen blue stuff for desert.
Unless you’re livestock, or indigent that was never going to be a problem for you.
Getting out of China is a move by Google I still admire. Perhaps “the old Google” but they never reversed that decision for the shareholders.
First time illegal border crossing is a misdemeanor. Should people have their children forcibly separated from them and shipped to detention centers for a speeding ticket? Jaywalking? Drunk in public?

Inflicting cruelty on innocent children is not a reasonable deterrent in a civilized society that has any intention of being moral or just.
People spend resources trying to discover things because they want to use them. If it turns out that when you go to use your invention, a patent troll jumps out from under the bridge to shake you down, people will be less inclined to spend resources trying to invent new things to use and instead just stick to the status quo.
I wasn't as convinced by the mathiness and speculation/explanation arguments as the others. Sure there may be a few examples of obfuscation via math, but most papers, in my view, don't do that. Adding the couple of math equations doesn't really hurt (it doesn't add anything either). I also interpret explanations in most deep learning papers as speculation, since short of rigorous experimentation or theory (not found in DL papers), there's no way to prove explanation is correct.

Comparatively, the other problems are orders of magnitude more important and troubling. Experiments which mislead people into thinking the technique matters more than the compute (like in OpenAI's Glow paper) and intentional anthropomorphization to get media coverage (OpenAI Dota bot's "cooperation and teamwork") are much more serious and could have used more attention in your paper. I think these are more serious because the former can fool even experts in the field, and the latter seriously misinforms the lay public on the topic of AI.

I'm glad you started this important conversation.
Ex-Apple employee charged with stealing self-driving car secrets
My understanding is that Spanner is optimistically immediately consistent, with very clever logic for deciding on whether to bounce the attempted transaction (TrueTime).

But strictly speaking, even inside a single multicore CPU, there is no such thing as immediate consistency. The universe doesn't allow you to update information in two places simultaneously. You can only propagate at the speed of light.

Oh, and the concept of "simultaneous" is suspect too.

Our hardware cousins have striven mightily and mostly successfully for decades to create the illusion that code runs in a Newtonian universe. But it is very much a relativistic one.
My impression is that your "vividness" metric is closed source. [0]

Your metric is wholly subjective without a derivation and formula. We have no clue what's being measured. Your results are susceptible to "Yeah, well, that's just like your opinion man".

[0] https://blog.shaxpir.com/writing-vivid-prose-33283e861358
It's a sign representing the Hollywood movie industry, which almost everyone in the world loves. To them, the sign is just as amazing as the HQs, space centers, and national parks. I happen to think all of these things are amazing, which is why I include the sign in this august group.
I thought it was talking about these missing tapes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes. That would have been amazing.
Right, xenophobia.
Thanks! I got bored of looking for a yaourt replacement because they seemed all the same, and discussions of AUR helpers often turn into flamewars, but PKGBUILD diffs is a valuable feature. Trying aurman :)
I highly recommend the movie "Loving Vincent". It is a paint-animated film about part of Van Gogh's life.
Apple self-driving car secrets allegedly stolen
I for one often miss the focused, relatively small companies that are good enough to later become something bigger.

Facebook was really fun back when it was all about your profile, your friends list, and posting on other people’s walls (this was before News Feed). Communication on it was more personal and not at all about self-broadcasting or gaining an audience.
Killing off wolves has had many unintended and unforeseen consequences. Just for one example, the lack of large predators such as wolves leads to uncontrolled population explosions of deer, which leads to a massive increase in the population and prevalence of deer ticks, and consequent tick borne diseases.

As a species we’re piss poor at calculating blowback in complicated systems, ranging from the deaths of animal species, to interventions in foreign lands. Is it really surprising? We have an incomplete picture of the systems we intervene in, so the outcomes surprise us, then we rationalize our next blunder with the old saw, “this time it will be different.”
In a way, programs have evolved, just very slowly because the evolutionary pressure was from developers, whose speed and effectiveness is a bit random. Most codebases are like little cells, with pockets of non-coding technical debt still influencing the epigenetics of the software's future designs...
That because SoftBank isn't stuck with an immediate 35% tax bill when they invest in a US company.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-isnt-really-sitting-...
> and it seems quite at odds with the resistance to the FBI getting a screenlock bypass to that iPhone 5 a while back

It's not at odds at all. The US isn't going to arbitrarily blockade Apple's market access over the screenlock conflict. At worst you go to court and battle the US Government over that, with a decent chance of prevailing. China will and can do anything it likes, including entirely removing your market access, if you injure their fragile national self-esteem. They're very sensitive about perceived slights, whether due to their history or the inherent fragility of authoritarian regimes, or both. I'm not making a joke about their over-sensitivity, it's a real thing that all companies must deal with there.

Apple basically told the US Government point blank: no; on something important to the Feds. What happened to Apple in consequence? Nothing. Try that with China. They'd probably love an excuse to kick Apple out, even if briefly, to bolster their domestic alternatives (doing it briefly is ideal, because it might make it nearly impossible for Apple to recover lost market share, and then China gets to pretend they're still open to Apple's products after the damage is done).
Republicans generally oppose what they consider unnecessary public spending and public control of markets. Reasonable people can disagree on the merits of that posture, but where’s the hypocrisy?

Also, I’m not sure that law actually precludes a municipality from setting up an independent public utility that funds itself with subscription fees rather than taxes.
No one is suggesting we eradicate all mosquitoes, just the disease-vector ones in areas where they are a problem.

But yes, the law of unintended consequences will probably apply.

But it's worth keeping in mind that Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds.
djbsort
We are there: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-dataflow/docs/1.5.2.RELE...
I think that is excessive, but it isn't entirely wrong.

I worked at a place with builds that took over 8 hours. We sure would think hard about our code.
I never said this was new. What concerns me is it being done in the modern era. And not just in the modern era, but backed up by scientists too, which lends it additional credibility. In general, people in this era trust science more than they trust politicians. If a politician tells them something is a good idea, they will distrust that politician if it goes against their gut instinct. But if a scientist tells them the same, many will make an active effort to overrule their gut instinct to the contrary. This is good when the scientists are acting ethically, and bad when the scientists are acting unethically. It's easy to make a first-order argument for the eradication of certain species of mosquitoes being ethical; you just point to how many human lives it will save. But as I previously explained that analysis is incomplete; it does not take into account how the act of eradicating mosquitoes will change how people perceive the relationship between humans and the environment.

In short; a scientist demanding a cull will have more social impact than a politician demanding a cull. The more culls scientists demand, the easier it will be for fear-mongering politicians to demand culls.
No one is suggesting we eradicate all mosquitoes, just the disease-vector ones in areas where they are a problem.
But yes, the law of unintended consequences will probably apply.

But it's worth keeping in mind that Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds.

As for you last comment, well even the Dahlia Lama swats mosquitoes.
Why not integrate it with the mobile browser like Chrome does on Android?

Am I missing something?
State Management approaches in Typescript
Thanks for the friendly warning. I will try to be more civil.

Still, I'm surprised that it would be okay for one poster to actively promote dangerous drugs and defend big pharma and their psychiatrist puppets in an equally emotionally tone.
The open-ended problem solving question is a coding question.