skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It surprises me that non-USB DC power supply plugs haven't been standardised. I have a big box of old chargers and even when if I find a matching voltage with sufficient current, the plug usually doesn't fit or has the wrong polarity.

A huge opportunity for reducing e-waste.
I'm not totally sure of what "cracking" means in this context. Without the 4-way handshake, what does "cracking" mean? Am I discovering the wifi network password, or am I able to decrypt a client's WPA2-protected connection? That's very different!

In WPA, in contrast with WEP, knowing a network's password does not automatically let you sniff another client's traffic. So, the distinction is quite interesting.
I mean really how is that different from downloading .exe installers and running them?
I think the central premise is that faith in the American Dream is dying. I think its goal is to appeal to emotion, and it clearly succeed at it.

Perhaps you yourself would be more persuaded by facts and figures, but that's a personal preference thing. Regardless, when I've looked at the figures, I think they agree with the author (concentration of wealth in the .1%, affordability of a house for median-income individual, affordability of college)
If that quote attributed to Fred Jelineck ("Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up") is right, they should have negative linguists.
> For instance have you ever thought about how completely idiotic resisting arrest is?

If someone grabs your wrist and yanks you off balance - guess what, you're probably going to try to resist them if only to not fall over. Likewise humans are not perfectly rational beings - if someone runs towards you and you're already scared, you're going to start to run. This isn't because you somehow played out a competent mental calculus on your chances of escaping, it's because you're an animal with instincts.

Hell, this effect is counted on in martial arts - if you want someone to move, push them the opposite way.

The issue is that "resisting arrest" has grown to be a vague charge that encapsulates everything from people outright fighting police officers to people who are scared and trying to not get knocked off balance.
No, because of the electoral college, in states like California where your vote doesn't matter as much (because nearly everyone votes democrat) the turnout is lower.

It's not apathy when your vote literally isn't worth as much as someone else's, as evidenced by the fact that the number of votes didn't even determine the election.
Not trusting the network is especially helpful because routers tend to have security issues at an alarming rate and poor update cycles. Forget WPA2 being crackable; the router itself is in a botnet.
He hugged Tim Cook, bought the iPhone X, then was homeless by the roadside
IIHS automatic braking systems tests – and 2 Tesla models did the worst
To be fair the API given is pretty c*p when you have to target older Androids as well (and don't want to give them an uglier icon). If I remember right I had to simplify the icon as well (remove transparency I think) because Android doesn't like many things that are okay in svgs.
There's also the question of does HTTPS even make sense for most sites. Why bother with the extra security overhead for a simple blog with no user login and a basic comment system. Surely there's a middle ground between preventing man in the middle attacks for simple content sites and creating a complete bidirectional encrypted connection right? Signed content hashes maybe?
Modern android has a "night mode" that you can configure to turn on after a certain time of day that cuts the blue light.
An automated voting system is very efficient. You only need one person to change all the votes...

A good thing about so much people involved in voting is that is harder to cheat. Even an state agent like Russia can influence elections only so much. It was very effective because it just needed to change a few percentage points to tip the balance.

The bi-partisan system, gerrymandering and sub-standard education makes democracy fragile. Automated voting systems are much more dangerous.

> "It's internet voting on people's horribly secured devices, over our horrible networks, to servers that are very difficult to secure without a physical paper record of the vote."

This is a good summary of a few of the problems.
The voluntary control of piloerection
Would you care to share your approach?
That sounds like a very interesting idea. At the least, it would be interesting see the major classes of reproducibility problems. And there may well be a lot of low-hanging fruit, as the comments on this page suggest about data corpuses in computational fields.
Anyone non-technical who was not directly involved with the deed, perhaps. It is not at all honest to say "we were hacked" if the truth is actually "we hacked ourselves."

Honestly (and of course, I don't have anything concrete to back this up with) I'm quite sure the truth is "we hacked ourselves, maintaining just enough degrees of separation so as to preserve plausible deniability..."
This is true, but it’s also true (if you are American, at least) that we’re living through a major upheaval in our governing institutions. So another way of reading this outrage is that when your president is permitted to do outrageous things daily, to collude with a foreign power to meddle in our elections, to defend that power on the international stage, and to help his family profit by that power... well, you may start to feel a little panicked, outraged, or out of control.

The norms of democracy are starting to show their weaknesses. The assumed reasonable limits have proven themselves to have never been there. And it comes with a bizarre dissonance because locally speaking you may be doing just fine, stock market is up, etc. etc. That atmosphere also creates a kind of helpless anger that goes looking for targets and attention. It’s almost an existential coping mechanism, I think.
Pretty hard to call Nixon a small-government conservative. He was the last of the Rockefeller Republicans (counting Ford as part of his administration). Some Nixon Admin policies:

-Nominating Warren Burger and Harry Blackmun to the Supreme Court, who concurred in Roe v Wade.[0]

-Creating subsidies to turn corn into a commodity crop, effectively paying farmers to grow a lot of it[1]

-De-coupling the US Dollar from the value of gold and instituting price and wage controls[2]

No Republican in any district in 2018 America could get the nomination supporting these policies.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade#Supreme_Court_deci...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz#Secretary_of_Agricul...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#Domestic_policy
One of the proposals for a biologically realistic alternative to backpropagation is feedback alignment: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~tingwuwang/2546.pdf (randomly selected representative slides from Google search. See reference therein)
To add to this -

* Developing plugins (to use native code functionality) is fairly easy. I recently created a PDF viewer plugin for Android without any prior knowledge of java, in 2 days.

* Dart has smaller ecosystem but dart is a real language with a batteries included std library. I don't think I need to state the superiority of dart as a language.

* Flutter's non native components make it easier for you to customize them

* Flutter doesn't have an obvious way to use native views in apps. You can launch native views but compositing native and flutter views is a bit weird right now.

* The ease of use in the development cycle is phenomenal. Nothing like I've ever seen in UI dev.
Review: Doctor Atomic is as relevant as ever
Since mid-June it's been renamed YouTube Premium and you can get it in Canada.
The difference this time is that Google's mistake here didn't just hit one person, or a few people spuriously over a few years, but rather hit a whole class of users all at once. Once a corporation finds out that they've made that kind of mistake, they usually work quickly to fix it before it can become a media shitstorm.
Be careful not to conflate chemical and mechanical properties. They share chemical properties, but do not share the mechanical property that makes Asbestos carcinogenic.

Asbestos breaks down into particles of a dangerous size and shape. Glass and rock wool fibres are shaped differently and do not break in the same way. Glass/rock wool has been used extensively in practice and no link with cancer has been found to date.

A quick search has found a quora post about the subject that goes into more detail: https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-a-health-hazard-is-fibergl...
> They have argued in court (and won)

Do you have a reference for the case you're thinking of? Missed this one and really want to read it.
They are number one because Microsoft doesn’t break out Azure and Office 365 revenue.
Star Trek was one of my biggest influences. I’ve been trying to think of a way to modernize the series without cannibalizing Roddenberry’s ideals. Or go the other way and do a Game of Thrones style Star Trek universe.

Also https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkedd6A6_mU was one of the funniest trek videos I’ve seen.
Because the Lambda calculus is, in large part, rather messy to implement when it comes to physical computing.

When we look at what computation is, physically, we find it's a lot like a Turing machine underneath (physical rewriting systems), albeit with different kinds of structures that are being rewritten.

Anything involving trees/terms in general seems to be rather messy in terms of physical computation, because there's no straightforward way to represent a manipulatable tree regardless of the medium.

Part of the reason TM-like computing devices sprung up is because strings, i.e linear sequences of symbols, are surprisingly easy to represent and manipulate physically. Turing himself appealed to physical intuition in his original paper.

Just my thoughts as a person who's tried to bootstrap his own LC-based computing environment. I did succeed, but I'm not entirely happy with the results.
Not really.

The 'valuation' of a company is basically the present value of all it's estimated future cash flows (edit: by this I mean profit).

So think of Apple like a 'cash machine' - and it spits out profit to the bank account.

Well - the 'valuation' is just how much we think will be in that bank account.

The inherent problem with this is 'seeing the future' - both in terms of predicting future cash flows way out ... that's obviously hard, but the second part ... is the fact that the value of 'future cash flows' to you might be different than it is to someone else!

Basically, the way we calculate the 'present value' of those future cash flows is by discounting those values by some amount - $100 in 100 years is worth less than $100 tomorrow.

But what 'discount rate' do you use? That's another hard question. Typically, it's the 'risk free rate' i.e. the rate of return you can get on your money by parking it somewhere and doing nothing.

Another term for that is 'cost of capital'. Everyone's 'cost of capital' is different.

So when everyone takes there estimates of 'future Apple cash flows' and then applies their specific 'discount rate' - we then have a balance of supply and demand for their shares and voila - a 'market cap'.

Also we should point out that this is private wealth - and that massive surpluses in one part of the value chain isn't necessarily healthy for you, for me, for anyone else, or 'the economy'.

For example - what if Apple had more competition? Well, then we might be getting the very same great Apple products for 20% less. Apple might be making 'very little profit' but nevertheless be providing you and I with vast consumer surpluses.

In a funny way - every dime that a corporation makes in 'profit' is a dime that you and I (as consumers) are losing out on in terms of consumer surplus.
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flip the router over and write down the password?
I am mainly used it for live testing on various platforms. It's very easy to load & have many browser. It just Awsome!!
> So rather than tyranny of the majority, now we have tyranny of an arbitrary minority. I fail to see how that improves things.

There's nothing arbitrary about it. The United States is a federated government and the electoral college is a system designed to ensure smaller state governments maintain some influence.

We have granted more and more power to the federal government over the years. You could argue that's a good thing. We are forcing the states to "catch up" their policies with the rest of the nation. You could also argue it's a bad thing. Each state is distinct by its culture, geography, demographics, etc. Therefore it makes sense that each state would need its own government and policies to handle its unique situations. Heavy-handed policies on the federal level could ruin the systems created by those governments.

You can argue the point either way but it's not fair to consider the electoral college as an "arbitrary" system. And it was no more of a bargaining chip than the Bill of Rights. It is a deliberate mechanic designed for a government that has changed significantly over more than two centuries.
That would never hold up in Canadian court. Any sane court, really.
edited: Lobbying should be considered treasonous.
already posted 7 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651454
Except Palin was laughed at, and Jeong got hired by the NYT.
People often spin refusing to vote as an explicit rejection of the current system, but I've always seen it as an implicit acceptance of the current system. By refusing to vote you are implicitly trusting the other voters to choose for you, so you get what they pick and have absolutely no right to complain about it.
> there is a wider range of values to ascribe to changes in temperature from 60F-100F or approx 16-38C

And why is that important? Are our bodies so finely tuned that it's important to know the difference between 104 and 105 F?

Even in the less granular celsius, unless it's just about bragging rights everything is about brackets anyway.

30+: wear shorts and hydrate

20-30: comfortable in short sleeves

10-20: bring a light jacket

0-10: wear a sweater

n10-0: wear a winter coat

n20-n10: wear gloves and a hat

n40-n20: no exposed skin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/07/11/a...

Or we can get to the real reasons why and get downvoted and flagged regardless.
'who' benefit, not 'whom'
"Even in the highly-wired world, you can still find older installs of operating systems and browsers: public libraries, to pick but one example. Securing the web literally made it less accessible to many, many people around the world."

I'm a librarian and I talk to hundreds of other librarians a year about technology and security and all this stuff. In my experience it is incredible rare to find a library that is running anything THAT old.
Scientifically speaking, no, that's not even remotely true. What on Earth gave you that impression?
Don’t manipulate upvotes.
Nixon created the EPA...
We need artificial meat. Research and production should be funded by meat taxation.

We need environmentally friendly travel. Research and manufacturing should be funded by fossil fuel taxation.

These tasks should be implemented using the boiling frog principle. Increase taxes and funding by ~1.5% per year until we have met a goal of 50/50% meat/artificial meat consumption and 50/50% fossil fuel/renewable fuel. At which point the taxes and funding could be freezed until a 90/10 ratio is reached and then phased out by 1.5% each year.

It wouldn't shock anyone. You'd be "boiled" into a functioning world.

This should be sanctioned by UN.
Yes! I've been waiting years for some language designer to notice that code and data shown side-by-side[1] is what makes debuggers and spreadsheets adequate for easy iterative development. We've seen recently a number of code editors featuring "notebook" preview panels, but not a language fully designed around that idea.

"WYSIWYG data processing" is a nice termp to express the concept.

[1] https://luna-lang.org/#Features
Open source computing hardware. RISC V[0]

[0] https://riscv.org/risc-v-foundation/
Gerbil Scheme
When do you think flutter will support running on a stock Linux system?
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If your photo has been associated with an other than cash transaction, pretty much game over. You will have to up your game and put on zebra makeup when out making cash purchases
I put mine on router with dnsmasq.
Entire Turkish village lives mostly off German taxpayer money
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Panics are not meant to be retried, as they are used exclusively for handling bugs. Examples include: division by zero, sending a message to an object that doesn't support it (if you manage to bypass the compiler), etc. Whenever these occur, your program is broken. Restarting a process in that case won't change anything, as it will run into the same problem again and again.

Expected errors such as network timeouts will use exceptions, and these have to be explicitly handled. For example, if you try to open a file that you don't have access to, an exception is raised.
How's dart as a server ?
Amazing product. Have been using this tool from one month, their service is really satisfying.
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It has been able to do this for some time.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/11/16460120/...
> Signed content hashes maybe?

Isn't signing and verification arguably just as complex as HTTPS? I'd argue ignore signing and verification entirely, and make it immutable.

That's why I like immutable designs like IPFS. No trust needed when viewing content, your client can verify the content is what you're requesting.
> sparenly

?!
It does make sense, and I get frustrated by the blanket reactions below. In my line of work redeveloping historic buildings, asbestos is just another item to deal with. Some of the asbestos we encounter is friable, where we have to seal off a room with plastic, have all workers in hazmat suits, keep the material wet at all times, double bag it, and send it off to a special landfill in a sealed-top dumpster. Non-friables are much easier to safely remediate. Furthermore, asbestos that is encapsulated is safe to be left in place undisturbed.

It stands to reason that if there is a non-friable, encapsulated use where asbestos' natural properties make a significant impact, them we should at least consider their potential benefits as well.

Asbestos is a cheap and natural product with dangerous side effects. Much like oil. Allowing ways to use it safely is a worthwhile consideration.

EDIT: thinking back, the real pain in the ass with asbestos in my buildings is when it is glued down or otherwise affixed, and cannot be lifted away cleanly. Even in friable asbestos applications, if it can be removed or replaced relatively cleanly, then its not a big deal.

EDIT 2: to put numbers to the abatement discussion, we typically spend 1.5% of our construction budget on abatement. $30mm construction budget will cost $450k to remove it all properly, and in these buildings, asbestos and lead is everywhere. The bigger hit to us is on schedule, where we have to set aside an additional month or 2 to let the abatement guys have a whole floor at time, sometimes having to make 2 passes to abate the surface finishes like floor and ceiling tile, then come back through after general demo to remove pipe insulation, mastics, etc. The schedule hurts.
I worked for a client that got hit by WannaCry. We billed them a ton of hours for remediating the systems they had to reimage. Ransom would have been cheaper probably.
I became deeply concerned when the article seemed to suggest that Gizmodo was more worried about losing their Facebook page, or being sued, than sticking to a high standard of journalistic integrity. By the sound of things Gizmodo was saved by a Cambridge Analytica deus ex machina.

I can't help but think that there will be ever more regulation because of it.
The majority of "vim users" are painful to watch berating other programmers out of a misguided sense of self importance and overblown massive egos all because someone else dares to use the mouse to do something when they could save less than 1 second by using a hotkey instead.

People are most productive when they use the tools they know best. I use vim all the time, but I also like to use the right tool for the job, and sometimes that tool is an IDE and other times that tool is a gasp mouse.

( P.S. Please don't take this comment too seriously or personally, I am mostly kidding and am being extra hyperbolic on purpose because this thread seems like such a wonderful opportunity to rehash the never ending vim vs sublime debate and I wanted to get the sublime side of the argument off on a strong footing ;) )
PcapPlusPlus v18.08 released – C++ network packet sniffing and crafting library
Is there a new hardware dependency for supporting WPA3? Or could most existing 802.11ac era APs be firmware flashed to support WPA3? (Setting aside the business case where there's probably insufficient economies of scale for paid software upgrades for existing hardware that would enable WPA3, rather than just selling a new product.)
Not true. There is a reason why presidential candidates spend more time in bumfuck Ohio than New York City. Swing states are very predictable.
That could work in our world, but nobody verifies hashes, let alone signatures.
I don't disagree, but this it partially the fault of the leadership of the House of Representatives. If they wanted to increase the voting power of Californians, then they'd repeal the Reapportionment Act of 1929 that caps the number of representatives at 435 and reapportion based on the Constitutionally suggested 30,000 people per representative in the House, which would equalize the weight of each Californian's vote by increasing the number of electors.
Personal convenience beats doing the right ting.

Yes, I am moving more and more towards that camp too. I don't own a car, never fly, eat mainly chicken instead of beef, and consistently vote green. But I refuse to take more responsibility when the rest of the world is so obviously not picking up its share.

Like another parent said, this is a coordination problem. The collective action that people have been clamouring for for decades hasn't happened, and my personal contribution is small enough to not make a hint of a dent. Frankly, I have resigned myself to the reality that peak civilization is behind us.
I don't think carbon is that volatile.
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Actually, "classical liberalism" is what I thought, too. But from the Wikipedia article:

> Classical liberalism is a political ideology and a branch of liberalism which advocates civil liberties under the rule of law with an emphasis on economic freedom.

From the Mises article:

> "Classical liberalism" is the term used to designate the ideology advocating private property, an unhampered market economy, the rule of law, constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion and of the press, and international peace based on free trade.

To me, neither of those looks very much like "Liberalism is based on the assumption that you have privileged access to your own inner world of feelings and thoughts and choices, and nobody outside you can really understand you. This is why your feelings are the highest authority in your life..."
Ha, for some reason it never occurred to me that the "bestos" in "Raybestos" was a reference to asbestos.
One road not taken would have been to port the Lisp Machine software to a commercial CPU, not on top of a multitasking Operating System. Then add a native compiler. A fast 68020 plus a custom MMU would have been competitive with the microcoded machines.

A unikernel like MirageOS is basically an OCaml Machine, except that you don't develop software within it. Someone could create a Lisp on Xen equivalent.
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Over the span of 15000 to 20000 years.