skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pronounced like in frown. Or like wow or how or the "low" in flower.
You're correct that it doesn't have to do with patents. But the point is about abusing the legal system to extract value from others. What Turbotax does is worse. So it is not a "new level" of abuse of the legal system.
I don't blame Epic at all for avoiding the Play store. I find it patently unacceptable that two large tech companies now act as gatekeepers for software releases. Sure, it provides extra security, but at a heavy cost. Between Facebook, Google, and Apple the vast majority of the public's digital speech (software and written language) are filtered through large corporations with immense power and few regulations. This feels very, very scary to me.

It looks like the Fortnite APK is 1.88GB. I don't have familiarity with the Android platform, can you update via patches (over a full binary download)? If updates are anywhere near that size, a 7 day disclosure after patch is patently irresponsible (play store or not). This smells like a cheap PR play by Google.
Just to further underline why Google is a dick here: this is the issue tracking the vuln https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/112630336

Timeline:

8/15/2018: Google reports issue to Epic
8/15/2018: Epic begins investigating
8/15/2018: Epic confirms bug and begins working on fix
8/16/2018: Epic is testing the fix
8/16/2018: Epic begins deploying fix
8/16/2018: Epic asks for full 90-day period to deploy and test the fix

8/24/2018: Google finally replies: "now the patched version of Fortnite Installer has been available for 7 days we will proceed to unrestrict this issue in line with Google's standard disclosure practices"

They literally waited until the last minute to go, no, sorry, we're not waiting, it's full-disclosure time, :trollface:

Epic noted in the article that the game won't auto-update until the user runs it. So they clearly would have needed to inform users that didn't play regularly to get the update. However, Epic could have notified its own users when they were ready, rather than Google outing them by default.

If Google had replied, like, 7 days earlier, and said "sorry we're not waiting", maybe Epic could have made different decisions, knowing they wouldn't get the time they requested. It's clear that Epic worked their asses off to churn out a patch. They could have announced within that time if this was properly coordinated.

Whether this was just Google being indifferent to a company's reputation, or an active attempt to penalize Epic for not forking over 30% of their revenue, is left up to the reader. But Google acting in the interest of users is not a defense here, because Google just ignored Epic and then fulldisc'd.
As long as the software world keeps intentionally writing user-hostile, obtuse ToS documents and screaming bloody murder at the mere suggestion that a professional code of ethics that can be enforced by a regulatory industry body...then yes, I think it's someone's responsibility to do this pro bono.
Deep Learning vs. Machine Learning in R
Note that this article was published over 5 months ago.

Edit: This is not a topic of expertise for me so I have no idea whether the content is as valid now as it was when it was published.

I was kinda hoping someone with expertise could inform us, given that it’s a fast-moving field.
“A republic with democratically elected representatives” (like “a monarchy in which practical authority is durably assigned to a body of democratically elected representatives”) is an example of a representative democracy, which is not only a kind of democracy, it's by far the most common kind of democracy.
Wow. This is awesome!
They crap on everything. From on high.

Who decides what the correct level of disdain should be for this? Show me the metric. I can't think of many animals that are similar.
If any of you find Oh-My-ZSH bloated and slow and ZPrezto being abandonware then check out ZIM framework that's ZPrezto fork with goal of being maintained, workable and making ZSH great again ;)
Don't know for certain, but the issue might be that it's using the same thread to scan the attachment and hang, rather than download it and hang.
I switched from iTerm+ohmyzsh to Terminal + fish.

It's basically exactly what I had before except I can't click on links in my terminal.
I don't smoke. But it's not me anyway. It's what the growers tell me is preferred by their customers, which are mainly local restaurants. The soil is the local dirt that has been amended with compost so it's nothing special. The hydroponic system they use is just roots dangling in closed tubes through which hydroponic solution is pumped at regular intervals.
>Isn't the military pretty limited in how much they can pay?

The AI researchers wouldn't literally be soldiers. They'd be contractors, side-stepping the pay limitations.

That said, military grunts would be perfect for the bootstrapping needed for some applications. "Manually label these one million images? No problem!"
I'm unable to access this site due to my work's blanket ban of any public VPN/Proxy sites. Can someone post an alternative? By the name alone, this sounds like it could possibly concern me.
By the way, why can't I still tell Google to ignore e.g. pinterest or w3schools?

Google wants to know everything about me so they can serve me better (they claim), but a simple preference to exclude a website from my search results is not possible?
What are you looking at? I see examples with and without: the first 6 pictures in the article. Are you referring to the anisotropic examples at the end of the article?
It's ironic that Epic is going to accuse anyone of being irresponsible. I got an alert from haveibeenpwned a while back showing that my login credentials from Epic were part of a leak, including my password in plaintext. It wasn't a password that shows up in public password dictionaries.
I just did a switch from oc 10 to nc 13. The docs work fine but are missing some potential table column additions (mostly with apps) which are needed to get things working smoothly. Thankfully the logs will tell you exactly what needs to be done.
Literature does not help a lot. It's an add-on to your personal experience, nothing more. If it's your first time then it's a good idea to get someone with strong background is psychology to take part in the interview process. Psychological profile is very helpful in hiring decisions.
Also, Playstore checks for you in the background for updates even if you don't use the app in question, the Fortnite launcher doesn't.
This one managed to match up the lyrics of two similarly-themed songs surprisingly well, assumedly by accident: https://rave.dj/y0GOaTZwBsEvYw. "But mighty fine only got you somewhere half the time, the other half either got you... eighteen years, and on the eighteenth birthday he found out it wasn't his!"
We've been complacent. Thus the old saying, "Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away."[0]

Engineers have known for a long time that we aren't as efficient as we could be.

[0] Not attempting to beat up on either of those companies.
Oh I definitely agree we have nothing to worry about :) I may have to check you out though! I enjoy live house of many flavors.

But at the same time, photo style transfer is...impressive[1]. It's interesting to me that so many engineers are focused on creating machinery that learns the photographic signal subspace, but there's not too many working on the audio signal subspace.

[1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rdoiv.jpg
Sorry you're being downvoted. I don't think you're trying to detract from the accomplishment here, but you are raising an important point: at an age like this, good mentorship, leadership, and guidance is essential.

There is a very small number of truly gifted people who end up discovering things on their own at a young age. Most gifted people who discover something do so with the benefit of a mentor who can work with them to refine their talent into skill.

My masters thesis sucked largely because I tried to do it on my own and didn't even pick an advisor until I was almost done. At that point all they could do with my mess was to say "well, this is a decent descriptive paper and we need more descriptive papers in the field," and then give me proofreading comments. I didn't have a damn clue what I was doing, the end product was mediocre, and I didn't learn nearly as much as I could have. I'm not an outstanding talent by any means, but not seeking out mentorship in school is one of my only career-related regrets.

The fact of the matter is that that some people are deprived of mentorship, either through bad personal decision-making or through bad academic infrastructure. These people have a much harder road to expertise and success than the people who were mentored.
What is the use case for microsecond-accurate timekeeping?
I would say the same about bitcoin.
Mate that discussion was a year prior to the commit in reference. How can you think it backs up your point?

And I assume the commit was made in error because it was immediately reverted and is no longer present in the source.

And I do not question the legality, my only assertstion was of the ethicality of taking someone’s mistake and using it to subvert their wishes.
Is there a way to view and interact with multiple conversations at the same time? I want pop-up tabs or pop-out windows or something.

Slack always seems like a step backwards in chat to me.
>By the way, why can't I still tell Google to ignore e.g. pinterest or w3schools?

You can. Use "-site:pinterest.com -site:w3schools.com". To facilitate using it in every search, setup a keyword search so you can type "gsearch blah" and have the querystring automatically add those two filters. I agree there should be a way to add sites to a global blacklist in your user settings if you have a Google account. I'm sure Google has monetary reasons for not doing so though.
If you want to send as little data as possible to Microsoft there are other settings to consider:

"telemetry.enableCrashReporter": false,
"code-runner.enableAppInsights": false,
"update.channel": "none",
"extensions.autoUpdate": false,
"extensions.ignoreRecommendations": true,
"workbench.settings.enableNaturalLanguageSearch": false
this is just weird.. i was addressing GP's concern about performance of syncing. of course i wouldn't bother explaining how bitcoin works and what are the modes of operation and performance differences between them to a lay person. they don't care. they care that it's just an app.

so what exactly did you want to say?
I don’t personally see the need, but the fact that someone can do this should at least once and for all settle how “real” the open-sourceyness of VSCode is.
Ask HN: What is worth learning for 2050?
I'm in my 30ties and after reading Harari idea of the future https://www.wired.co.uk/article/yuval-noah-harari-extract-21-lessons-for-the-21st-century I have started thinking about what would make sense to learn now that even if made obsolete in 2050 would help me along the way.

Any Ideas of that's worth learning in the time scale of 10, 20 and 30 years? I'm aware that even 10year scale is guessing - I'm asking to broaden the scope of things to consider and maybe try to look for any recurring answers.
The U.S. Rental Market Is Increasing Inequality
Are you sure the additional telemetry isn’t from extensions? Our extensions (Salesforce) have our own telemetry setting, but we do also respect the global VSCode setting due to this exact possibility of confusion. However, I know that there are other extensions that dont respect the global setting.
One-in-two audited JavaScript projects contain at least one vulnerability
More efficient in what way? Bikes are pretty small and cheap already.
As far as the service is concerned, that's simply an entirely different email address. You might as well do shabadoo@domain.tld. Since you control domain.tld, you can of course receive any email sent to it.

But the point the GP was making is that email addresses are treated by services as if the will always be tied to the same person, but that's simply not true.
Another big difference, though, is that VSCode's telemetry is publicly documented.

So, regardless of what they're able to collect, I know what they are collecting, and how personally identifiable it is, and I know that it's pretty tame compared to what I've seen elsewhere.
> It also teamed up with Lime, an electric scooter company, while forging deals in other areas such as public transit and freight.

This seems like part of a larger move to take the notorious Uber brand out of the marketing equation, while continuing to pivot around the larger problem of logistics in cities.
Show HN: Bruiserfit – A fast bodyweight workout app
> draw into a separate piece of memory and then copy that memory into the video memory

While the Apple ][ had no graphics hardware to speak of, it did have two graphics buffers that you could switch between.

So you would draw into the non-displayed buffer and switch to that.

If you had installed the vertical-blank mod, you could even do that without tearing. (I think the //e came with that).
oh, pop-out threads would be nice. I share your frustration :( and that's what compelled me to take a first stab at solving some issues.
Off topic. I do like the design of ifixit's website. It's nice and clean.
it's mostly about synchronization between systems
The march of faster and faster transistors seems to be headed for an interregnum until some new technology can replace CMOS. Price per compute might still continue to fall though. I hope that we'll see an era of more architectural diversity coming up as the end of the march of nodes mean that a design can take longer to pay off and still be economical.
Disclaimer: general comment. Not affiliated with project, etc.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t typically feel like shelling out $1000 to buy a machine specifically for an OS I don’t use, just to build a binary to non-paying users of free software.

If Apple would provide easily installable ISOs for VBox/VMWare installations (or something equivalent), I might bother setting up a build for it.

Right now it’s out of the question.
I tested without extensions back when I was following the open GH issues, so that wasn't the case then.

It could be that MS fixed the issue since, and the connections I see in logs now are from extensions, but I also presume this isn't the case as my firewall rules are IP-based rather than purely app based (since the latter would kill the market browsing functionality).
Maybe there are still companies out there that do the defunct record-actions-and-replay approach to automation, but luckily my experience was just as heavy on the engineering side as any of the software engineering work I've done since I "switched". You just don't get as much respect from the software engineer crowd because building CRUD APIs using web frameworks is considered engineering and building an automation framework from scratch is considered QA.

Sorry if I came off on the offensive, just didn't like seeing "engineer" in quotes.
I've raised this a few times in the past, but, why would we want to build an AGI modeled after the thought patterns and processes of a human brain? We have plenty of human brains. it seems that we should want to avoid the same traps fallacies, biases, etc that humans have, and, if we accurately do so we won't have an AGI that is much like a human at all. I suspect we'll have something very powerful and capable long before we have something that approximates human personality and "intelligence", and even if we get to that latter state it will almost certainly be because the machine is faking it.

OTOH, if we try to directly replicate a human as we currently are, then I expect we should start with all the various mental shortcuts and cognitive biases we have. I'm no neuroscientist, but, one thing that is apparent in the comparison of machine learning models to humans is just how sparse the data that humans learn from is. I strongly suspect that our collection of mental shortcuts and biases, as well as our superior sensory input are what makes that difference. of course, if we succeed at making an AGI just like this, it will be just as good as humans at making very human mistakes.
Can you share the firewall rules/domains to block to disable telemetry for VSCode?
Ah, that is a fair point. I hadn't looked at what they collect, I was just speculating about what they could collect if desired.
Ask HN: Short Term ML Contract Project
Hey HN,

Analytical Flavor Systems is looking for a time series prediction expert to work on a very short term project with us for the next ~72 hours.

We'll pay market rate for this fixed scope project,
and successful delivery could lead to future contract work or full-time employment in the future.

The problem statement:

Given a multivariate data.frame with 3 "products", each observed at 4 treatments (control, normal, accelerated, and super-accelerated), at a variety of time points (irregular daily observations) - build a model to predict the final multivariate outcome of any time & treatment combination.

Restrictions:

1) the solution must be in R (any external packages OK)

2) the solution must be a single model object that can be used on new data, without retraining on the new data.

If this is something that interests you,
and you'd like to start work immediately,
please email me at jason@gastrograph.com with "Time Series Trial" in the subject line.

Cheers!
- Jason
Play Store does incremental updates on the background.
Mastodon now publishes rel=me on profile links, so you can do bidirectional verification between mastodon and other rel=me publishers like github and wordpress, as well as your own site. https://xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks/100616472097157585
Author of Pinafore here. Yes, ironically for an app and userbase that is so focused on privacy, things like private browsing, Privacy Badger, adblockers, etc. can cause compat issues with Pinafore.

Interestingly, the reason is (as I discovered) that most of these tools consider cross-origin requests as a signal of a third-party tracker or ad, and therefore block it. Pinafore works by talking directly to the instance's API, and so the instance itself is suspected to be a third-party tracker. ‍️
The problem with fish is that it's not POSIX-compliant, and it doesn't try to be (it's a design non-goal), and it's not backwards-compatible with the literally billions of POSIX-compliant scripts and tools already out there.

It doesn't even support `!!` since the maintainers don't seem to like it[0].

[0] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/288
It'd also be nice to explain what the project you're announcing is in the the link title.

For example, "Foobar v2 released!"- except, I have no clue what foobar is and I'm probably not the only one.

"Foobar- The Magnificent Music Player for Linux, v2 just released!" Would be way better.
Speaking from a linguistics point of view, you are wrong. Those people are speaking completely valid English. Who are you to say that those are mistakes? Speaking is different from writing. Native speakers can make performance errors and definition errors, but they won't make grammatical ones.

Further, words such as 'like' and 'um' play an important role in speech.
Here is a copy paste of the main text:

PROBLEM
DEAD is a potential vulnerability in the DNS system that exists due to the poor method in which it was implemented in totality. DNS, which is largely controlled by ICANN, is susceptible to third-party takeover and simple expiration.

Modern e-mail utilizes DNS extensively. E-mail users create e-mail addresses with the form user@domain.com.

Websites, all over the world, utilize e-mail to verify people’s identities (many let you reset your password with just an e-mail).

Since DNS is susceptible to third-party takeover and simple expiration, it is deterministic that many e-mail address domains will expire (e.g., death of a person and expiration of said person’s credit card), leaving people’s accounts on websites, all over the world, susceptible to account theft.

Additionally, this theft may be legal in many jurisdictions as control of an e-mail address, often times, also signifies control of an account.

STOP GAPS
The suggested stop gaps, below, are simply workarounds in lieu of properly creating accounts for people using a different identifier than e-mail. However, these may help.

Securing Content
Client-side PGP
E-mails encrypted with PGP will be unreadable by an unintended recipient, even in the event the domain/e-mail is hijacked, unless, the intended recipient was already completely owned (had their private key stolen) by the unintended recipient.
Detecting Manipulation
Server-side DNSSEC Implementation
Keep a cache of certificates provided by root and checking for change.
Requires DNSSEC to be implemented on all recipient e-mail domains which is far from the case in 2018.
Server-side Domain Ownership Monitoring:
Compile a list of all domains in an ephemeral dataset from all users’ emails.
Check if any of the domains may have changed ownership.
Check if a domain expired.
Check if a domain was newly purchased post creation of the user’s account.
Additionally, check if MX records, including IP addresses, changed.
Ideally, attempt to ‘fingerprint’ the MX as even an IP can be BGP hijacked.
In the event ownership changed
Block password resets for accounts that may have changed ownership.
Notify user that the reset was blocked due to the above reasons and get in touch with the domain vendor and attempt a different verification method
Send a message to user’s secondary e-mail if one exists.
FIX
Don’t let your critical infrastructure rely on e-mail and the currently unverifiable version of DNS.
Launch your own crypto exchange in 5 minutes
We need more games like Octopath Traveler.
More efficient for the cars being driven on the streets, or waiting at stop lights, often burning gasoline - blocked by a slower carbon-neutral transportation solution.
You can google them. :)
Telemetry should not be on by default without express user consent.
Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All
If the judge doesn't throw out the suit and decides to try it, because of that clause alone, the feeling of dread and despair that poor woman would go through is more than enough harm caused.
Ask HN: Italian language course similar to German “Warum Nicht”?
Generally speaking I find learning foreign languages very boring.

Once I found free online German course "warum nicht" [1] which I enjoyed to listen to. The idea of the course is that you listen to stories of one guy and his invisible ghost friend. I haven't learnt German though but at least I enjoyed the stories.

Do you know any similar Italian course? If not, maybe some podcasts or YouTube stories which could be interesting and possible to understand for beginner? Something in the form of pleasurable listening? Some radio programs?

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/learn-german/deutsch-warum-nicht/s-2548
Love the UI and UX and the idea, but unfortunately the end result was impossible to listen to. Might've been just me picking 2 incompatible songs.
Pretty sure that ankimono site is a knock-off. It doesn't seem to be affiliated with Anki in any way, at least.
do you object to the point of a boycott for even interoperating with CUDA?

because PyTorch is still quite pleasant to use in CPU mode. it should also have support for AMD chips quite soon (and AMD's CUDA-equivalent, ROCm, at least appears to be open source).
Yeah, that's a really good overview. I think it's interesting how progress in the DevOps field is characterized by removing things more than adding them, and I think it's great. In a way I think that's the highest and hardest aim of computing technology, not deciding what to build, but deciding what to leave out.