skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting observation. It seems to be almost like light pollution, where we don't even know anymore how our ancestors perceived the night sky and just stopped looking up at night. Because landlines are also not what they used to be, now that everything is VoiP (even when your last mile is still analog copper).

Apparently, when our voice is passing congested packet networks, we need exponential backoff on OSI layer 8.
The relation of journalists to the truth is quite similar to the relation of used car salesman to road safety; I am sure every used car salesman can tell you a story about the clunker he didn't sell. (The big difference is, that for some reason newspapers don't go on and on and on about how important used car salesman are for democracy.)
It's not like at any time in the past this was any different.
All you need to do is reflash the BMC firmware. You can do that over a SPI bus, that only requires three lines (3 SPI lines + Vcc + Vss = 5 pins, just like the part...) You don't even have to rewrite the whole firmware, just patch the one section of code that does logins and then update the checksum if there is one. The firmware that is flashed in the factory is likely pulled from a read-only media and then checked against it. If you slip this implant in, you can just have the good firmware patched X hours after first turning on. Best case, you inject your patch into the BMC firmware before anyone can update to the latest that doesn't work with your patch. The adversary can then push an update to BMC again to something that can block new, good updates from killing the backdoor. Worst case, the user updates the firmware before the exploit is run. This patch corrupts the good, new firmware and the user has to reflash it. BMC keeps corrupting so RMA the old server and get a new one, maybe this one has an implant that will patch before the user can apply a good update.
The implication is that the prize is an attempt by bankers to give their self-interested policies an air of legitimacy via association with the nobel prize.
> I think you should judge these politicians by their actions, not their campaign speeches, not their heartfelt fireside chats, but what -- when the rubber meets the road -- they vote for. The votes don't lie, protestations of piety can.

Well said. When it became clear that the pentagon wanted AI imaging for AI-assisted drone strikes, instead of just Google cloud, Google Docs and other benign services, many Googlers started to speak up for what they believed was right. This wouldn’t be more than an afterthought at many other less idealistic companies.
I have BOSE QC for years now too, but they haven't been reliable at all.

I've been lucky that BOSE keep replacing / fixing them... There was a period where they were needing replaced every 8 months or so and I like to think I take good care of my stuff. I'm not rough with them. The current set has at least been good for a few years now. All I have to do is replace the ear muff bits but that's expected and I had to replace the cable about 9 months ago.

Can't fault the sound quality though and the noise cancellation is great.
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The Exile was always a little bit over the top. Their coverage, though, especially their Russia coverage, was always top notch.

I'm pretty sure the history of the prize is accurate.

> Why would that be ridiculous?

Because that's so blatant in using the reputation of the Nobel Prize to bolster their own questionable discipline.
Can you expand? Why are the IT people I talked to, working on these systems, so poorly informed about how they work?
actually improving our house has proven even more enjoyable

Plus you get to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

That was what completely killed my interest in any amount of game grind- it hit me mid-game that if I spent that time grinding my actual corporeal self, I'd have something to show for it after.

I've since improved my AeT mile pace (your "all-day" level) from around 15:00 to 10:00ish. (My dream/goal is to get to 7:00-8:00 at that level of exertion)
My understanding of unicorn is that it's worth 1 billion+ without generating profit?
Do you mean "why" as in the science mentioned above, or some other clarification or the nature of the harm? What would you have it say?

I ask because it seems to me that the simplest possible warnings are the most effective for the average consumer.
Food trucks and any other fad that burns out slowly.
> it's an almost impossible task to get parents or kids to change their habits

This has been a known challenge for centuries. How did you address it during design of your product?
That doesn't seem like a good summary. The bigger criticism is IMHO this:

> When the piece was published, he was expecting to read about how this specific hack was achieved. Instead, he said, Bloomberg appeared to be parroting the precise theory he had outlined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orris_oil

It's 85% myristic acid but I would venture a guess that the other 15% is an assemblage of plant secondary metabolites that are delicate and difficult to get just right synthetically.
I just bought a $159 Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite (Android One/Stock, US ATT or T-Mobile Compatible) to replace my original Pixel XL and I can't tell much of a difference except for the Camera. It has a much smaller notch than the Pixel 3 and will receive updates I believe until 2021 or further. Some small corners were cut, but it punches way above its price point.
Romer has made some comments about open source with the specific example of Jupyter and Mathematica.

" At a time when trust and truth are in retreat, the social dimension is the one that matters. Jupyter rewards transparency; Mathematica rationalizes secrecy. Jupyter encourages individual integrity; Mathematica lets individuals hide behind corporate evasion. Jupyter exemplifies the social systems that emerged from the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, systems that make it possible for people to cooperate by committing to objective truth; Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of private gain threatens a far greater pubic loss–the collapse of social systems that took centuries to build."
I don't necessarily agree with the below, but one could argue that classification is necessary to prevent mass panic/prevent attempted vigilante justice/protect the government's image/buy the government time to investigate/respond appropriately.
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I was asking the question in the context of my comparison with the cold war era. Doing business with Russia then wouldn't have been called just “doing business” either, especially if it happened in support of practices diametrically opposed to our own professed values like Democracy and Freedom.

How much of a sellout or a cynic do you have to be to call betraying those values for money merely “doing business”?

(edit: added last sentence)
Me. The many warehouses and such I have been to, though not Amazon, and perhaps smaller than an Amazon building, have been lit with artificial daylight levels of brightness. Hard to be sure but it sounds like it's describing sodium lights. I would expect fluorescent tubes, floodlights, or LED equivalents.

Even the damn lorry bays and car parks outside such things are usually spitting out far too much light.

The one thing I'd absolutely not imagine or expect would be "gloomy". That I would imagine for a mushroom farm and precious little else. How the hell would they pick the correct product in what sounds like gloomy yellow sodium lighting from years ago?
A very low COL country is not without it's own risks and problems.

* It could be political unstable.

* You might have to pay for 24/7 armed security due to local crime and bad police.

* Locals will constantly be trying to rip you off.

* You will have to learn the local language or be at a huge disadvantage.

* Buying property is going to be tricky and you could get screwed.

* Buying stuff is more difficult because you are in a foreign country. No more amazon.com or any of the cool tech stuff you see on HN (most of that stuff is US/EU only)

* Your family & friends are back in the US. You are very very isolated unless you really want to build a whole new life in the new country.

I have experienced some of these challenges myself, living in Germany and not speaking the language. It's not easy. You might not realize how different it is from the US until you try to do more than just be a tourist. Like, you think you understand the govt and what paperwork you need to do, but it will be completely different in this other country, and all the documentation and forms are in a foreign language. Good luck figuring this out unless you have a trusted local to help you.

So it's not a total slam dunk, there are a lot of trade offs here. That isn't to say it isn't a good option for some people, especially if they know the language. I know a family doing this kind of thing in Indonesia and they are living a great life just by monetizing their youtube videos.

I think for me, it would be a better option if you had some kind of tie to the new country. Maybe a SO that was from there, some extended family, some close friends, just something.
Where's the best place to get a new/refurb Pixel 1 cheap? It's the last Google phone I'd want to own, and I'm guessing the price will drop even further now that the 3 is out.
Looks like it's not linking to "gstore-internal.corp.google.com" anymore.
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John Harris is one of the few journalists at The Guardian I have respect for. His series "Anywhere but Westminster" is very good. He also did a smaller "Anywhere but Washington" series.
Technical people like to talk about technical things and non-technical reporters are torn-up about it. Then some outlets have reasons to report one side not in totally good faith. Here is a prior case:

>For a journalist, the fear of getting it wrong is a mortal one. Experts loudly calling me wrongheaded were hard to shake. Many of their objections were highly technical—and I would never pass myself off as someone with an expert’s grasp of computer science. (Less than 24 hours after my piece went live, The Intercept published a very long, very detailed piece that suggested my piece was likely bunk.)…

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/trump-o...
It only need to power it every few minutes for it to works, hell if you consider any interesting auction would be announced at least one month before, you can power it every month with something stronger like 3G to get a more precise day to be active.
Well, that depends on your definition of tampering, but if you want to exclude manufacturing something that is not what was specced then I am fine with that but please do supply a new term.

I would definitely spot that device if it were on these boards because it was described in detail and there were some pictures of what it supposedly looked like.

A device like that is not on either side of the board and it isn't in between the outer board layers (where it would be much harder to spot, especially if the cavity would be covered by a ground plane on one side).

I am not saying it is impossible, it is just very hard to hide something like that once you know it is there. The only candidate spots left that I can not check without destruction is underneath some of the devices or inside some of the devices. That would be a different level of sophistication than the original article alluded to.
Thank you for the advice! Been out of school for about a year now, but that class was my favorite by far.
> And yet, the news of the day put a rain cloud over their heads and they started making emotionally-fueled decisions about tightening up on this investment, or that investment...

I remember having read that at one moment in late September 2008 the US Secretary of Treasury Hank Paulson had kneeled in front of a room of big-bank CEOs begging them to do I don’t remember exactly what (I’m on mobile, too lazy to look for the exact reference). Also, the money market rates had dropped bellow 0% for the first time in recorded modern capitalist memory, an event that lots of economists had said that it wouldn’t ever happen. These are the two main apocalyptic-like events that I remember back from those days, there were many others, and I’d say that we were pretty damn close to a very deep and ugly financial black hole. As such I don’t blame those people who took the safe way out back in those days, I mean, I’m sure there were also people who hang on to their investments back in 1930 or 1931 thinking that the worse was over but we don’t read any happy stories about them because most probably there were none.
To compete with Netlify's paid tiers.
You are right a chemical is a chemical.
It is just that the smell Orris (or any other smelling flower) is made up of hundreds of chemicals each with its own volatility profile. No one has been able to get it right even with modern spectrography tools.
Now the real kicker is even with the actual rose (or any other flower) oil, you can't recreate the smell of fresh rose. There is the whole field of headspace analysis that tries to cover that.
Will definitely add this to my study list. Thank you for sharing!
If I were to rationalize this, it would be that the App Store is a platform that Apple hosts and curates. Google indexes content that Google does not host or curate outside of responding algorithmically to specific input.

I do think if Google hadn't left, it would probably have been more normalized by now.

I think I'd be a lot more critical of Apple if, for example, the Chinese government got a special ability to unlock iDevices, if they already have this, I'm not well informed, so feel free to let me know.
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I've had a little less luck with wear on my QC25s, but repair was easy. I've just had to replace the earpads and the cord, both were easy and inexpensive repairs. And I'm happy with the noise cancellation.
Ernst & Young also give a positive audit to Startssl/Wosign even though they had problems at the time.

For that reason Mozilla "no longer accept audits carried out by Ernst & Young Hong Kong." [0].

[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/10/24/distrusting-new...
Perhaps by LED they're referring to LED-backlit LCD displays. There's pretty much full coverage of the visible spectrum across different LED types, so the only way to block them is with completely opaque lenses.
That's true, but the Galaxy S series has used AMOLED since it was introduced in 2010.[0] Looking in more detail my guess is it's not majority market share but it's definitely significant.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_series
Obvious suggestion, but: this is why I have my phone automatically copy new pictures to Google Pictures, OneDrive, and Dropbox as soon as my phone gets on a good wifi connection.
In that case, you should be comparing engineered wood with concrete that includes basalt fiber composite rebar [0] and weight-cutting aggregates like expanded polystyrene beads [1] and loose (basalt|carbon|glass) fiber. In small-building construction, a no-steel concrete wall could be just 2 inches thick where steel-concrete building code might mandate minimum 8 inches just to prevent swelling rebar from destroying the wall from the inside. Also, basalt rebar is trivially bendable, so curved shells can add strength from geometry where straight steel rebar would be limited to using rollers to bend every bar to the correct curvature or to use doubly ruled surfaces like one-sheet hyperboloids and hyperbolic parabolas. And more non-sand aggregate means sand shortage has less impact, right?

There are a lot of ways to save weight on buildings, but not all of them translate well to building codes that can be used by building contractors without having a staff engineer on site to determine whether the equations work out to acceptable structural strength or not. And all the building codes out there for wood are going to be for standard dimension lumber, and not specific types of engineered wood. Until the codes are updated, the building inspector will look at your cross-laminated composite wood beams, look them up in his book, and tell you that your plans don't conform to code.

Not to mention that once your houses are light enough to blow away in a strong wind, now you need to anchor them to the ground with cables and hooks, and wind forces and the stresses at the anchor points become a whole new engineering problem.

Cities aren't going to be made of "wood". They'll have to be made of ANSI/ISO-standard-X-conformant structural members and ANSI/ISO-standard-Y-conformant processes. We'll get there. Slowly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basalt_fiber

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_polystyrene_concrete
In my experience as a parent, a lot of parents are just as bad as their kids when it comes to smartphone addiction, phubbing, or whatever you call it.
I think they have a vision of SPAs powered by serverless workers and static assets but they've mostly delivered the static part so far.
Then there will be? As someone apparently/allegedly blabbed to Bloomberg?

I say again to Bloomberg: picture (x-Ray) or it didn't happen.
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This is the first criticism of Bloomberg's story that made a decent point (along with several bad ones). I definitely believe Apple or Amazon would lie, I definitely believe they might get told to by the feds, I definitely believe the Chinese government has at least looked into the idea of using their hold on the supply chain to get intelligence. The idea that there are much easier ways to do this, however, is an important one.
Could someone enlighten me how does Netlify differ from Github pages? If I want to put up a static website, what's the advantage of using Netlify over Github pages?
As someone who works in a garage most of the day as a mechanic

As someone who has worked as a mechanic professionally, and now slings code for a living, I'll take a whack. You've put a set of brakes on a Chevy, you've put brakes on about all of them. Hell, put disc brakes on a car of any make, and you've got the general idea. I'm not saying it's not a tough job, hey, I've been there. But he nature of the work is different. What makes an alignment hard is not the same as what makes implementing this piece of code hard. What makes an alignment hard is frozen fasteners and having to go reference the manual because Mercedes decided that fifty years of prior art on caster adjustment just wasn't good enough for them, and invented their own. What makes this morning's software task difficult is that, though similar work has been done, no one has had to make it work quite like I need to do today (otherwise, I'd just buy something off the shelf). I'm making a new invention; not on the scale of the light bulb, but it's still new and there is no reference manual.

So, in the shop I can be fine with lots of noise and music as m 3/8" air ratchet backs out the brake caliper bolts. I don't need to concentrate on that much, I'm not going to bring the whole shop down if I screw it up. Pull the bolts, pull the caliper like I've done a hundred times. That Mercedes alignment, yeah, I might turn the radio down while I think about what I'm doing. But an oil change? Crank it up! (But even for an oil change, I recall having forgotten the drain bolt before putting in oil at least once.)

Software, OTOH, I need to mentally hold fleeting abstractions in my head. Someone droning on about the fscking SeaPigeons game on Sunday can easily break the tenuous grasp I had. I didn't even like being interrupted in the middle of a brake job if I were in the flow, but at least the brakes are right there in front of me when I have to go back to it. Not so with that algorithm for...oh, what the hell was it?

In summary, the nature of the work is quite different, such that mechanical work can be more interrupt-tolerant than software work.
I was a dev contractor for the US Army for a few years. None of this surprises me.

They had some goofballs policies that made it seem like vulnerabilities were the goal. I could bitch at length. Their TSA style security theater practices were the order of the day. The IA training was an embarrassing joke and they made you do it often enough to make you a little crazy.

I just checked the certificate of networthiness page and they don't have a valid SSL certificate. I recall that being the case years ago too. I wonder if it's been that way for the last 7 years? That's a cute little terrarium of the whole biome I remember.

Off topic a bit, but that all aside... I am more proud of the work I did there than at any other place in my career. I got a lot of excitement and engaged feedback about the interactive learning materials I created.

I'll never know if it made any difference, but the mere fact that someone's son or daughter COULD have noticed an IED threat they wouldn't have otherwise because of my work gives me all sorts of proud fuzzies.

That work had way more meaning than all the other CRUD/ML/Advertainment schlock I'll get to do for the rest of my life :)
And he is a python programmer. Thomas Sargant another Nobel economist at NYU is a rabid Julia fanbou.
Personally, I'd rather have a bit of bezel... nothing sucks more than using my Pixel 2 XL without a case, invariably the edge of my finger is touching part of the screen, which messes with input more often than not.

Trying to get rid of it, while looking cool actually makes using the thing worse.
If you look into deep learning, I think you'll quickly learn that the programming language doesn't matter that much. I think a great place to start would be the "Two Minute Papers"[1] Youtube channel. A lot of what he presents there is deep learning material, with links to the actual papers and often the source code as well as a plain English explanation of what's going on and why it's important. After looking at the source code of a handful, I think you'll realize that focusing on learning a single language won't be of any use.

I think it's also important to point out that it's not a great way to ask for help without giving some details about your background and your motives. If you've been programming in any language for quite a while, you'll need a completely different approach to "learning C++ for deep learning" than someone who's never programmed before. Likewise, if your goal is to work in the industry producing cutting edge work, you'll take a completely different approach than someone who just wants a rough understanding of the details just to satisfy your curiosity. So, without providing that context, you're going to get answers that are all over the place, almost all of which will be useless to you.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg
Based on what? He's quoting people he talked to and reports what he's seen. Whereas you just naysay.
We are about to feed them fermented pine wood, we'll see how that turns out.
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I appreciate the bit about looking into other firms in the supply chain, as I hadn't thought of that whatsoever. I'll start looking into how I fit entry level reqs for safety critical software roles. Thank you for the advice!
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I found plenty of reports of similar issues on google groups and reddit/r/android. Phone Calling functionality would stop working, screen would glitch out, and then force a restart. At some point it just didn't wake up. Poor guy.
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Impact wrenches hurt your ears. People talking hurts your brain.