skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the expected reaction is the same amount of moral outrage that would accompany the American government treating the American public the same way.
Yes it is, but what does that have to do with the nature of the comment?
May be some of your friends had this email in their address book?
Funny, I'm the opposite. I was tired of jumping through insane hoops for years to get Mac to have good window management, or make keybindings the same in all apps, or have my desktop look the way I wanted, so I switched to Ubuntu 18. I actually scheduled a PTO day for it because I thought it would take like 18 hours to get drivers config'd and all that (my last try was like Ubuntu 14 or something), but it literally worked out of the box, other than needing to mess with getting s2idle to not drain battery (a single line into the GRUB config).
I had the same thought. I'm amazed not to have seen any commentary here on it yet. Looks really, really nice. I looked for something comparable for Elixir but haven't found anything comparable yet.
Their “wonderful” hardware costs a lot of money, is chronically underpowered compared to the competition, basically doesn’t exist in some form factors, and regularly comes with unnecessary and user hostile features.

Frankly, I can get the same or better hardware in a Thinkpad, which was designed with actual users in mind rather than aesthetics, is more durable, has better battery life, still has a real keyboard, is still upgradeable and repairable, and also for less money.

I have loved Macs all my life, but they have been coasting hard on reputation over delivery for awhile now.
The rich people and companies have more money than we have all we could do is slightly raise the stakes and still lose.
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If the journalist was selling data about themselves, which is what this tool collects, I wouldn't mind.
Programming for the Expression of Ideas (Sussman)
Interested in seeing where the funding is coming from at that valuation. Potentially the biggest buyout of all time?

Other buyouts of such scale involved companies with huge cash flows/profits - think RJR Nabisco, Hilton, TXU (big US utility).

Tesla of course is a very different animal. Hard to imagine any kind of conventional financing working for this type of deal.

Beyond the Saudis maybe some other SWF or deep pocketed individual investors?
It opened at $341.50.

By 12:48 just before the tweet it had risen to $359.88. Immediately after the tweet it hit its intraday high of $371.15 and then quickly fell back to $362.

It’s been trending upwards since and now sits around $367.

Considering it was below $300 a week ago, it’s been a pretty good week for Elon.
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I don't think anyone is arguing that these are not slave labor camps. These are slave labor camps. That fact is not in question.

The question we're debating is why they are legal in the US. My theory is that the government made them legal to appease Southerners after the Civil War. Some people disagree, but the evidence in terms of the Congressional record of the time definitely points to a deal to appease Southerners.
An excerpt, which sounds shockingly similar to GDPR compliance, listed as an example:

"APPLE, AGAIN

That wasn’t the only issue Apple faced in the country. Earlier this year, Apple moved Chinese iCloud data to a state-run company after new laws were enacted requiring foreign companies to store data locally."
That LinuxBender has a sense of humor
Obviously I'm not there but it seems like it? They have a HTTP caching proxy already set up which just needs to have a software change to support TLS. I use Squid for this and it works pretty okay.
Yes, any account less than two weeks old will have a green name
Does anyone else find it old that the best engineers are basically selling ads
This is a dramatic oversimplification and somewhat beside the point.

The US is a republic/representative democracy, but that aside working with organizations to pass laws isn't zero sum - laws can be good for organizations and the public. If Google is lobbying to prevent the government from passing key escrow laws that weaken encryption that's better for everyone.

These companies are also made up of citizens and a part of the society (not enemies of the government or the people) - working with experts in the field to try and understand things better isn't 'de facto treason'.
Probably both.

My wife has seen 48 states (except Hawaii & Alaska) through the windshield of an OTR truck, because when she was young her father would take her on some of his trips when school was out. He would also go with his wife sometimes. None of that changes anything: the vast majority of trips are still with a single driver alone in the cab.

Just because you can have a passenger doesn't make the lifestyle more desirable for most. In fact, I think the drivers who do it the longest are personality types that prefer to be alone.
Since when is Twitter a public disclosure as per the law then?

Normally, announcements for stock buybacks, taking a stock private, etc. etc. need to be filed with the SEC months in advanced and announced to the general community.
Given the number of times I've personally almost hit birds while flying small aircraft, I'll take the downside risk. Give the tower some sort of override to require the drone to land if it's doing more harm than good.

There's lots of easier ways to hack our fragile ATC system than herding birds at airplanes that I'd worry about first.
That's quite a bit of hyperbole. Intel enjoys a near-monopoly in that market; when Krzanich recently stated [1] that it was "Intel's job to not let AMD capture 15-20% market share", Intel took a dive. Their worst-case scenario was only controlling 80%... That's anything but "no chance in servers".

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/11/amd-will-create-stiff-compet...

Edit: and I say this as someone who's completely behind AMD.
> Birds are already programmed for that. It's called self preservation.

Not exactly. Bird strikes are a huge problem especially in "congested" environments, aka humans sealing up more and more former forest/agricultural land with concrete... and thus forcing the birds to airports as they usually have spacious amounts of grass land with ample space for insects.

There's a reason why bird strikes are most prevalent in city airports, simply because the birds don't have anywhere else to go. Worst case IIRC was the plane that emergency-landed in an NYC river due to colliding with an entire flock of geese.
If we're discussing movie-plot scenarios, it seems like it would be much easier for an attacker to buy their own drone. And maybe figure out how to put explosives on it, too.
The obvious answer is that one or more of the assumptions in those statements is incorrect.
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Sure. I was more thinking about the bases in non-populated areas, esp. when the base is large enough that you can’t actually guard or fence the entire perimeter (like an Air Force base where the hypothetical SCIF would encompass thousands of square miles of airspace.)

People can just drive down a random stretch of desert road near Groom Lake and start catching signals from passing test craft. At some scale you’ve got to give up on the concept of an SCIF and just deal with the fact that people are going to be catching some of what you’re putting out, doing whatever you can to mitigate the damage from there. (Which—if you can at least know where such people are from a satellite view and get guards to them within 10mins of the perimeter breach when they’re still either making their way deeper in, or are driving back out through a bunch of nothing—translates to “you can catch up to them and wreck their equipment.”)

Like I said, I’m not sure how this strategy adapts to the existence of satellite phones. I don’t think it does. So far, instead, satellite phones have adapted themselves to it: you can’t get an Iridium phone without a security screening. I’m not sure what will happen if “private cubesat satphone networks” become a cheap commodity thing to insert into orbit—I think the US and other governments are simply trying to stall that process as long as possible. (Look at the history of satphone networks that competed with Iridium to see what I mean.)
The headline seems odd given Intel's market share seems to be about 98.7 per cent.

> Aaron Rakers, senior analyst at Wells Fargo, has seen the second 2018 quarter numbers. He told The Register: "Intel's server CPU share is estimated to have declined to 98.7 per cent vs 99 per cent in the prior period and 99.5 per cent a year ago.
I think the article isn't really talking about laptops, and I haven't heard anybody singing the praises of Apple desktop solutions recently.

Seems like the author depended on MacOS for their workflow?
Corals are becoming more tolerant of rising ocean temperatures
My goal is to create a docker image with all necessary dependencies deployable with WebSocket endpoint exposed. Similar Watson S2T demo (https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net) which utilizes WS.

This is after I struggled to find anything in usable form on GitHub and Google Cloud pricing is prohibitive for my free projects. Perhaps there has been progress?

web speech recognition API in Chrome

I looked at this last year (See my comments 8-12 months back) and it seems either Google or Chromium dev team removed recognition.speechURI . It was there in Chrome however later removed. Would have been really helpful to just switch out provider from the browsers default to an alternative perhaps cheaper or free option. I don't know enough about the decision behind this, or if it was actually working in the first place. To be fair the whole "SpeechRecognition" is still in draft. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog...

End goal is to easily provide ASR/S2T through WebSockets. The uses and possibilities I have thought out just myself are many and I am sure it will be of use to others.

> I don't know much about Docker or how to "use" a Docker image [....] but do you think your project would be useful for what I'm talking about? [....]

Yes. But accuracy is probably something Google is winning on here. If your app is browser based, unless my assumption is incorrect you do not need an API key therefore are not bound by quota limits/costs.
Still, since Apple uses that connector across all their products I would expect they would either use that as an exception or in turn be forced to change them all.

However this issue really is one of connectors in general, it should not be limited to phones as most rechargeable appliances could be made more similar in requirements.

The bad side is that it could hamstring any attempt to introduce new and better connectors
Well they do get some jobs, they just don't happen to keep them for very long...
As bouts with killer algae rose, Florida gutted its water quality monitoring
All music genres have a whiff of taxonomy prank to them, this is not exclusive to the guide. Sure, Ishkur tried to one-up "serious" music publications with e.g. Casiocore. But even there, life experience suggests that it must have independently co-evolved many times, so often that in this case it is even likely that some of those natural occurrences actually involved someone blurting out the name as well. They probably all forgot about it before sobering up though (if the gear is present, p(Casiocore) is approaching 1 with a rising number of drinks).
I look at it this way: change is not going to be forced on the Chinese government by US corporations. That can only come from the Chinese population (with possibly a small assist from foreign governments). So what's the best way to help their citizens with changing the government?

I believe the best way is to make them prosperous and informed; people who are hungry or worried about their job are less likely to question the political status quo. Are US corporations helping with either of those? Not much with the latter but I believe more trade helps the former, as long as it also doesn't make it easier for the government to oppress the Chinese population.

Is there much of a difference between US corporations doing business in China and the rest of us buying inexpensive goods from Chinese companies?
Checklist Manifesto (by Atul Gawande) makes a strong case that the systems and processes in flight planning are an unsung "hero" in the consistent safety record of the complex affair that is flying. I don't think it's resentment so much as it is acknowledgement of normal human bias (to find and credit heroes), and an attempt to provide context that frames that bias in a proper and realistic way.

Sully was a hero! Is a hero! And he gets, and deserves, a lot of credit. But he was the first to say that he was just doing his job, and he means it literally. He and his copilot worked together (very effectively) to apply the proper checklists and procedures in order to effect a safe water landing and evacuation.
Small Dogs Pee Higher to Lie About Their Size
Louis CK is master of story telling. Ali Wong is to d but I don't think her jokes are smart funny.
Is it simply a piece of AMD commercials? Or the author just hates Intel? It feels like fake new stamped all over the article. Or is it just another onion that excels at bashing Intel?
"the trucking industry is hurting for long-haul drivers"

I think that is the story they like to tell, because it gets on the news and leads some people to seek jobs as truck drivers. But I don't think it's really true.

I think they have all the drivers they are willing to pay for. If they really had a shortage of drivers, they would pay more to attract more drivers.
Canada is not on path to copy the US when it comes to gang violence, unless you have some numbers to back that up. Yes, it's gone up lately, back to levels 10 years ago, while overall criminality and especially gun crimes have gone down. Please find some evidence to compare rate changes between the US and Canada. [1]

You should really look at the numbers. The rape rate in the US is 17X Canada. Murders 3X. And the US age of criminal responsibility is SIX?! [2] It's pretty clear whatever system you advocate for isn't working.

[1] https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/7-charts-that-tell-the-s...

[2] http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Canada/Unit...
> Few if any were ever printed in a way that made it easy to to from number to name

Law enforcement, most libraries and other phone companies always had access to public printed reverse number phone books in the late 1980-1990's.
This generalized hate towards change is typically a symptom of age, not technology. It happens to the best of us.
Depends on the size, altitude and your affinity towards birds/drones. First wind turbines now robotic nuance drones, birds have had it to good for too long I guess.
The legality of announcing it on Twitter has pretty much nothing to do with wether it is a joke or not though.
> Google doesn't fix the problem -> They don't care about their users. They suck.

> Google fixes the problem -> Yes, but how many users suffered the problem before? They suck.

You're missing the point. It's not about whether they fixed the problem or not, but but what has to happen to get them to even take a look when someone has a problem.
> semiaccurate.com
Umm - how is that relevant? OP is still running Mac.
At what point does it become a moral imperative to stop doing business with a government? I assume we can all agree that US businesses should not sell more efficient gas chambers to Nazi Germany. So where does the line get drawn?
> The Securities and Exchange Commission today issued a report that makes clear that companies can use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information in compliance with Regulation Fair Disclosure (Regulation FD) so long as investors have been alerted about which social media will be used to disseminate such information.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2013-2013-51htm
This sort of pessimism is depressing.

We have to at least try, and we have more than enough capability if we cared to try - we put men on the moon while fighting a major war and engaging in a nuclear arms race, with computers orders of magnitudes less powerful than a raspberry pi.
But my house and my kids don't exist in the Cambrian period, the greenhouse effect is going to change our coastlines and weather patterns in the next century.
No need to overthink it. Just reply "I don't think this was assigned to me" and move on
I hate to be that guy, but it was a guided bomb. The Germans made the Fritz X, also a glide-bomb, and it came before the Bat.

I believe the V-1 is still the first "guided missile", i.e. self-propelled.
I thought that the ISP were providing that service as part of the package. Given they do a lot of IP traffic alteration (acknowledging TCP packets at the gateway level instead of letting the client doing it), this is not much.
From the beginning...

"[Steve Jobs] decreed that the Macintosh would remain perpetually bereft of slots, enclosed in a tightly sealed case, with only the limited expandability of the two serial ports."

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
Electronic voting has been tried in a bunch of countries, and subsequently scrapped. We had these abominations in the Netherlands too, they turned out to be insecure, and now we're back to pencil and paper.

And still, despite all the solid arguments against electronic voting and the actual experience with those machines, a certain class of influential people keeps bringing it up. Sometimes they're gadget-crazy policy makers who just can't fathom why we're still using a pencil in 2018 (because it works, is transparent, can be understood by any layperson, and instils trust). Sometimes they're politicians who absolutely must have the all the results of an election the same night, and only computers can do that (despite exit polls working pretty well, and there really is no rush).

Recently, some are arguing for electronic voting because it would mean people with sight impairments can vote assisted by headphones rather than by a trusted person (there a solutions for the classic paper ballot in the form of a Braille-embossed mould that work pretty well in Germany, you don't need a computer for this).

It's a constant battle to keep the public informed about the problems with, and undesirability of, electronic voting after each assault in the media. Why can't we keep this cornerstone of democracy a process powered by pencils, paper, and people instead of opaque IT solutions?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_by_country#N...
> Smart, well-meaning people on boards such as this refuse to see the Prison Industrial Complex for what it really is

Random. When your recidivism rate exceeds 50%, you might as well flip a coin at sentencing to decide whether they go to jail or not; will likely be just as effective as the current system.
>so long as investors have been alerted about which social media will be used to disseminate such information.
I've been in your boat so many times, and I similarly thought good performance was impossible.

Just out of curiousity, did you spend much time tweaking the VM? Out of the box, for example, a Debian VM on my fast hardware does not perform very well. However, if I tweak the amount of RAM it gets (not too much, not too little, juuuuust right), the number of processors, amp up the video memory, try switching on/off 3d acceleration, and mess around with the actual Debian settings as well, I now have near perfect performance on it.

There's usually big threads out there on stackoverflow and forums with performance tips for your given host/guest/VM software.
dickbars:

https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/medium_dickbars
If those were the only two options I would agree with you. But you can intercept and cache TLS with your own CA so we can have our cake and eat it too.
Honestly I don't understand the point of this article. The evidence that "we" as a collective whole have not given enough attention to the paradox is lacking. I'm not even sure what he's calling for - more research into specific areas? More people chatting about it on Twitter?

Based on the evidence we have, the proposition that "there are no interstellar civilizations that have colonized our galaxy" seems reasonable. This whole psychological thing about how we think we're special and how we treat animals...I don't see how that is relevant at all. Is the assertion that this attitude is preventing massive amounts of funding for SETI programs? We don't have a single shred of evidence of extraterrestrial life, nor much of a clue on how to go about finding it. All the evidence we have says that, yes, life on earth actually is quite special. Didn't find any argument against that in this article.
But it's perfectly reasonable to expect the people tasked with evaluating voting systems to be experts on voting systems.
Is this caused by natural selection, or are they smart enough to do this intentionally?
Flagged for hyperbole. Intel will hopefully have more competition but it’ll take more than The Register-esque blithe sniping to support “no chance”, especially given how much inertia the enterprise market has.
I think that's one of the key things about using Apple products. If you want to have a good time, you need to embrace the way Apple wants you to use the product. And then generally, you'll find that it really does "just work", most of their decisions were right and you can get on with just using the thing.

For the more "power users" who prefer to customise things to a fine degree and make particular choices a typical user doesn't want/need, Apple products aren't always the right option.
trading halted.
This same site was saying Nvidia was dead/dying for years. I'd take anything they say with a grain of salt.
> In 10 years, the fixes made to existing websites will have been replaced with a new set of inefficiencies

The point I took from parent's comment is that we should consider not thinking this way, that it's not a fact set in stone. That individual sites can and should be built on better foundations that don't involve building our own transport layers
Just looked at all the submissions to HN from semiaccurate. No surprise there.

I guess I really need a filter on HN.
Hmm the halt code appears to be T1, which is for pending news:

https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=TradeHalts#
Depends on the system, but Maricopa County used this machine in 2016, where a polling place official only sees a tally at the end: https://www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/voting-equipment/se...

Your idea is feasible if you can break into a warehouse and hack hundreds of these machines, but do you think it's possible to change ~150,000 votes, resulting in a a 10 point swing from recent polls and exit polls, and remain undetected? Remember you're in a big city with lots of news organizations and big elections departments.
Hi sytelus, Nature is piloting (analytical/computational) reproducibility as part of peer review with, disclosure, the company I work for, Code Ocean:

http://blogs.nature.com/ofschemesandmemes/2018/08/01/nature-...

A few political science journals also hire staff to make sure that the code reproduce the results in the article:

https://ajps.org/ajps-replication-policy/

A nice writeup of the AJPS's experiences:

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/rethinking-research/sho...
Thanks. Can you expand on what you mean in step 2?

What is involved in selectively allowing domains to load?

Could you do it if the domain is a completely unrelated string to whatever site you are visiting? (Say for site example.com, it requires something from whwehkhsfasfs.com in order to load)... how does step 2 work exactly in this case? Are you being prompted for a small subset of domains that the page is trying to load, for example?