skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny - at least that one doesn't lie about apt-x support. Bluetooth audio sounds like crap to me, I'll be using wired headphones until the patents on non-crap Bluetooth audio expire, I guess.

Supply chain issues notwithstanding, I think you're pretty safe with a CSR bluetooth chip - they're in everything. Whether it's a clone or an original though, no idea.
Good points. It feels like we are in some kind of "learning" phase, developing our ideas of what is useful and what is not. Who knows whether it will take 2 more years or 20 before the final verdict is delivered.
Its funny that in the same comment you mention statistical physics and claim physicists don't understand statistical modelling. Physicists routinely use statistical modelling in astronomy, in condensed matter physics and in high energy physics. The emergence of the Bayesian point of view was originally spearheaded by a physicist Edward Jaynes and the torch has been carried forward by many other physicists over the decades.
Why? They were already permitted access by having the password in front of them.
How do you buy Xiaomi phones in US?
No, but it seems to be inescapable.
Good for didactic purposes but in the real world you may want to try an allocator like tcmalloc or jemalloc.
If that's really the case, they could have established the exact same thing simply by quoting real articles from the journal. Obviously, nobody would write a news story about that, and now you see the problem with this hoax.
This is... interesting.

How do people get out there? Floatplane? Panama City looks like the nearest harbor and that's a long boat trip.

What do you do for fresh water? Collect rainwater?
Really silly, mean-spirited post. Open-source software is one of the pinnacles of human culture, and it's a wonderful fact that our most capitalist economies depend on it absolutely. There is nothing impressive or honourable or wise or interesting about the sentiment expressed in the post.
Ah missed that part. That’s SLIGHTLY safer, but I’d personally still be paranoid. “He used his knowledge of the code to publish HACKING instructions on a website called HACKER NEWS. The prosecution rests.”

You’d be lucky if they don’t drop a “darknet” in there as well.
The richer we become, the more cheap oil there will be.
That's 2 years assuming you buy it on launch day, significantly less for most people.
That's one of the reasons why Apple is still one of the most innovative in the phone market. Every time they add something to the iPhone, it eventually becomes the new standard in the industry.
Explain that to the jury or your cellmate.

He was given permission to access, not permission to brute-force (blogged about it too.) Even if technically legal, why poke the bear? Lawyers cost $1000 an hour.
Not quite, (void *) is special in this regard IIRC, specifically for cases like this. It's a valid pointer but you're required to ensure that any platform requirements like alignment and size will match the requirements of what you're doing.
I work for AWS but previously worked for MongoDB.

I don't think the two are really comparable - completely different querying paradigms. Athena works by writing SQL queries against JSON, CSV, or other kinds of documents stored in S3. You pay per request and per GB scanned as part of your query.

MDB is a fully fledged database that can do aggregations, queries, etc.

I consider those two products addressing totally different problem sets but if you've found places where they're the same I'd be interested in learning more.
Notably, the video game industry pioneered the conditional embargo - where you can publish a review freely as long as it's above a certain score. There's pretty much no explanation for this other than "we want to lie to customers", and there's pretty much no definition of journalistic integrity that would permit signing it, but it happens nevertheless.

(Which, interestingly, means some sites that don't issue numeric scores are barred-by-default from those games. I think that's sometimes been used to spot these embargoes?)
I gotta say this is a very topical read. Was messing around last week or so trying to learn some x86 Assembly from scratch (Linux subsystem on Windows,) and memory was very much a sticking point. Seeing this is helping me grok just what is sorta going on, which is the best way for me to learn I think.
i feel the same.

feels better to have it out in the open at least.
The don't be evil mantra was problematic before the questions of military contracts or Chinese censorship, the answer to 'what is evil' is subjective. But I am surprised by the naivety of employees when they are upset that their company fails to live up to their literal interpretation of a company motto.
The politicians were against isolationism at that time. However even with your explanation it doesn't explain the fact they destroyed Vietnam in order to prevent the spread of communism. There is no rational world where the country was a threat to the US homeland - even if allied to the USSR. It was however a threat to US global power.
Google is crap until you set your default search engine on your mobile and desktop to something non-google. Bing is a good example. It looks almost exactly the same as Google and you probably won’t even realize it.

Until you actually use it for a few weeks. And go like “wait a minute why am I not seeing this so and so result.. I remember Googling this exact search term a few weeks back and.. oh wait..” or you click on the News tab in the search results and it, well, sucks.

I really want to move off Google but they are just so. damn. good. right now it’s actually scary. It feels almost like search is a “winner takes all” game. Even if the runner up is really good, it’s still not good enough.
deco is easy to use way to do all the hard parts of multiprocessing pool in python

https://github.com/alex-sherman/deco
Link now returns a 404.
Apple Genius Bar Employee Reportedly Overestimates Repair Charges
I think the idea for the pricing is giving the consumer that it is not a cheap knockoff alternative to Samsung or Huawei. And Google allows heavy discount to Carriers, so consumers "saves" a few hundred dollars when they sign it with a mobile contracts. Compared to Apple you get less than 10% discount from Wholesale.
Buying discs is fine, but you still need a license/key. That license then often needs to be activated online or tied to an account and... no benefit to having discs at all.
I think the point is, whenever I fork a piece of code, fix something, and push the fix back upstream, there’s a whole set of things I apparently didn’t do to the maintainers liking.

I don’t want to deal with that...
Government Watchdog Says US Weapons Systems Vulnerable to Hacks
I’m surprised we don’t see a modern reinterpretation of security awareness / counter intelligence communication reminders.

During the Cold War if the Soviets acquired state of the art semiconductors there would be little chance in them reverse engineering it successfully without a massive investment of further IP theft and CAPEX in the form of a chip fab.

Nowadays the vast majority of total R&D is for commercial use(with military application) rather than trickle down commercial use from military R&D in the post WWII environment.

An argument could be made that with an increasing proportion of military capability being a combination of Commercial technology “A” mashed up with Commercial technology “B”(with some minor modifications) that the need for security is greater due to accessibility of commercial technology being near ubiquitous.

Were the powers that be too paranoid back then, and not paranoid enough now?

Steve Blank’s Secret History of Silicon Valley is relevant:

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

Especially the inversion of R&D from military to commercial.
How to find you on QRZ ?

thank you for your post
It's a well known and not uncommon failure mode:

https://youtu.be/8XMTALBYRNA?t=40

https://youtu.be/LB9wwTmrMYA?t=15

Fireproofing steel beams has been practiced since the 1950s. (https://www.asbestos.com/products/fireproofing-fire-preventi...)
I have experienced this happening every time I visit the genius bar. Usually some older couple being scammed. It's actually pretty sad.
> The whole point is freedom and sharing code that transcends arbitrary human defined barriers.

Whose point is this?

It is not the point of the free software movement as seen by the FSF, which calls the APSL 1.x non-free because it requires you to publish changes https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/historical-apsl.html , nor of the (largely similar) free software movement as seen by Debian, which has a "dissident test" that explicitly requires you have the option of keeping changes among your trusted friends (assuming you trust them not to republish, of course) https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html . It is certainly not the point of the open-source movement nor the Linux Foundation, both of which are firmly supportive of companies making internal improvements and not publishing any of them.

If it is your point, I urge you to reconsider a position that focuses on individuals not publishing code instead of corporations not publishing code.
Ask HN: What mistake have you made that caused problems for your entire company?
Could be someone else. Also, how did the team respond to it?
I think you may be presuming that every UI that consumes this data is able to display a map showing the bus’s location. We do make real-time bus lat/lng available through our API and lots of clients use that data. But there are other applications where a time prediction is still helpful. For example in many of our stations that serve bus routes, we don’t have the infrastructure (yet) to display a live map but we do have digital signs that tell when the next bus is expected to arrive.
Consumer Response to Facebook’s New Home Camera Is Pretty Much What You’d Expect
Journey on the Trans-Siberian: Yekaterinburg
Everything you've already heard about on HN and/or your favorite this-leaning or that-leaning web site.

This is a legitimate question, and I have an answer, but I don't think many people are going to like it.

My response to this is to say "wow, look at how screwed up these communities are", and then tag on "just like I always suspected", and then finally I add "and that reinforces my decision to stay out of them".

Makes me wonder why her writing does so well here.
The underlying premise of this, if real, is that these companies and their centralized platforms ought to exist. "Never expect a man to understand something his salary depends upon him not understanding" and all that.
I think MBA in its usage implicit means 'with no domain experience' because otherwise there would be a reference to as their most relevant skillset in the field. If someone has domain experience they are a 'senior engineer' with the MBA only coming up if that aspect is relevant. If someone doesn't have and they make it they are just a MBA.
I've been involved with open source communities off and on for over a decade, as well as other, non-computer communities. News flash: It's not the community that becomes toxic, it's humanity.

Every community that I've ever witnessed gets toxic at some point. As in-groups grow more insular and people become more involved, they get more toxic. But the solution to this phenomenon doesn't have to be black & white. I have always stayed on the margins of communities, and still dip my toes in the water occasionally to get something done. But do I need to keep private forks of patches to avoid messy interactions? Nope.

It's pretty easy to fire off a pull request or patch set and then forget about it. I'm not investing great deals of effort or emotion. I'm just sharing my crap. If they merge it, fine, if they don't, fine. But I'm certainly not keeping super secret private repos for just the cool kids to use. That would be even more involved than what little I am already.
FWIW I don’t do any of what you describe as a matter of normal practice.

Sometimes I will listen to a podcast while doing a routine task.

Otherwise I don’t multitask at all, for at least 90% of my working hours.
Apple used to have this integrated directly into MacOS but they've recently removed it: https://9to5mac.com/2018/07/12/photo-print-products-disconti...
No argument.

But I'm a developer on Linux who uses a couple of languages that compile to machine code. Which means that I don't care if AMD has something twice as fast, I'm going to buy Intel for one reason alone: their performance counters support running rr.

That's at least a factor of two improvement in my productivity right there.

Last I heard, Ryzen's perfcounters weren't deterministic enough for rr, so it's dead to me.
After loving Google for years, I've finally migrated over to using Firefox and DDG as my primary daily browser. Slightly painful but I'm getting used to it. I recommend giving it a try.
Today I learnt OogleBot is ignoring the robots.txt file on my private Gitea server:

git[dot]habd.as/robots.txt

A quick search for "after dark habdas" reveals the second of two rules in the robots file, which explicitly blocks Oogle at the site root, is clearly being ignored.

Of course I created this rule before putting this server online and Andex is the only webmaster console I registered this site with. But that's besides the point. There's obviously a lack of respect for the robots file or a gross error in OogleBot as far as I can tell.

So now you know.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181010030152/https://blog.jonl...
2012 or 2013 Nexus 7?
Even just aiming to spend 1 minute now can be enough if it's an open ended task I can enter flow on. Add doc comments for a class. Fix a few typos. Wash a dish. One, tiny little thing.

"I'll just get this one thing done real quick" instead of "I'll just check reddit real quick" - makes the lies one tells oneself work in your productivity's favor instead of against it for once ;)

I'm using a weekly checklist to keep routine chores small and "1 minute"able. Instead of letting mail pile up for months, once a week makes it a trivial task of immediately dumping a few opened letters into the recycling, and occasionally putting one in a filing cabinet.

Practice self care: Sleep, eat, groom, exercise, organize, relax, and socialize well (even if that's just a few minutes with a trusted friend for an introvert.) A tired, ill-fed, slovenly, disorganized, stressed out, anti-social couch potato will have difficulty being as motivated no matter how many productivity hacks they practice. Speaking from experience. (The mindset: "That's not important right now - I should be working on X instead! But I'm lazy...")
Why did this have to be leaked? Seemed like a good summary on why things are the way it is with social media v moderation.

A whole lot of platforms could do with the conclusion.

Be consistent, be responsive and be transparent.

Who wouldn't love Google to be more transparent?
Apple's questionable business practices
Have you got a link to the motherboards?
Right now Google is learning to make and sell end user devices. Distribution, manufacturing, etc, are no trivial matters and Google isn't a hardware company like Apple.

I think today the endgame for these devices is pure marketing. The Slate in particular is intended to bring some cool factor into the ChromeOS world which is seriously lacking.

Longer term, I'd say Google is preparing to become a major hardware manufacturer and maybe give a shot at beating Apple at its own game. We know Google is making its own universal OS, we know Google is keeping its hardware business relatively small. I think Google is preparing for the second coming of Fuchsia.
I have had thousands of hours of experience with latex and dozens with tikz. I still struggle with it. Its just that Latex has terrible syntax for function declaration, loops and conditionals and tikz inherits all these problems. My workflow is usually to go to http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/ a lot and use the examples as reference code to whatever I am doing.

The manual for tikz exists but I have never really read it.
I'm not very educated on this aspect, but could the US gov potentially be pushing Google to get more involved in China for this reason? More data on their lives.
http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/
I wonder if the same internal people who protested "project dragonfly" would object so vehemently to this "research" project as well. I would hope that they would, but I'm a bit hesitant to be sure --which is a bit frightening as it kind of would confirm people can hold two opposing views simultaneously as long as it fits their framework.
While I don't think her solution is the best, I can't say I disagree with the spirit of this post. With politics being dragged ever more into the software world, people attacking everyone for any perceived transgression, attempts to get people kicked out of communities, or even fired, over social media comments, you really need to consider what you're exposing yourself to by getting involved in the open source community. You would think that a community based on giving away typically very expensive effort would be more welcoming, but somehow we've ended up with this.

It does seem like this is just part of some wider trend though. It's not just the software world, public communities in general seem to be destabilizing and radicalizing.
That's awesome! How big was your community?
Ask the Roman Republic how the "wisdom" of governance by the landed gentry worked out.
In my mind the even bigger questions is whether it being "cheaper" will stay true once we actually try to scale the use of the technology. As in can we use this to actually produce most of our energy needs and still have the cost benefit?

I'm not an expert on energy production but a study I recently read on this topic for the German "Energiewende" over here did not sound so great [1]. In Germany the renewables we can scale are mostly Wind + PV. However according to the study their seasonal patterns combined with the demand curve seem to make it pretty much impossible to actually expand them meaningfully. Over the year you'll get peak production far outstripping demand (we've already seen negative prices in our markets with current installed capacity) and in the troughs you will need huge production from other energy sources (mostly old coal plants at this point). As these are seasonal patterns this means you would need to store TWh over many months to average that out and make new installed renewable capacity actually useful. The study did some back on the envelope calculations for various options for that but none seemed to come close to achieving that.

If that is true, system wide such nice looking renewable price calculations are preconditioned on a backup structure of conventional plants being on standby to fill in the throughs. As this is highly uneconomical for them the cost for that will still have to be paid by the system. At the same time due to the extreme variability prices will drop to zero during peak times (well...unless you have feed-in tarifs) making cheap production prices still be a loss.

I imagine the calculations might look much more favorable in other locales where demand is better correlated with renewable production but I would be surprised if Germany is the total exception here.

[1] http://www.hanswernersinn.de/dcs/2017%20Buffering%20Volatili...
> Maybe corporations are the ones who can be pressured to take the lead.

Yes. They absolutely will. But only after they have the right incentives. Those incentives can be created over night by having governments put in place a carbon tax.

It gets even worse. If a large group of people reduced their energy consumption to help climate change it has the consequence of reducing demand and therefore energy costs will come down. That will make green energy cost uncompetitive and slow down the transition to green fuels.

This change really does need to come from government. So get politically involved.
I worked in a very similar system for a very different company and I tend to think that a good reason to implement your own OCR models (if you can afford it) would be optimizing CPU cost. Tesseract can be quite expensive to run in scale, maxing out 100% for a simple page and taking about 5-30 seconds for full page extraction. Also, most Tesseract pipelines take entire PDF files for processing, whilst you could achieve better latency by processing pages in parallel and merge the results, as they suggest in the post.
So where's the video? Or was that censored too?
The most annoying part of this document is the watermark. It seems like a cogent summary of different ideas in the space - and doesn't advocate for "good censorship" (I think the title of the deck is provocative and unhelpful).
I've been living in Japan for about 25 years and a lot of Westerners get confused over this.

Concepts like "blue" and "green" are abstract. The word 青 covers a different part of the spectrum than the word "blue".

People get hung up on "what's the Japanese word that means X", but often there is no word that means X. There is no distinct concept for X in Japanese. And this goes far beyond color names.

European languages largely share a common cultural heritage and concepts tend to map between them relatively easily, but many cultures aren't like that.

The Japanese stoplight colors are just the tip of a very, very deep iceberg.
Grumble. The 6.1 was an emergency upgrade for dad when the Nexus 5X started bootlooping in the airport. He hasn't mentioned the camera (damn, the 5X set a really high bar for a $400 phone) or audio issues yet
I'm shocked they don't have a filter for that. If you input an obscure term with no common misspellings it should be the main key used. Instead they just omit it entirely. They do seem introspective enough to include a "must include this word" link in the results.
I'll throw in a few buck to the winner just to hear about the result.
Except that sometimes "those you don't agree with" don't really care about the repo, they just want to push their political agenda.

Other times your conscience might feel cleaner just knowing that you aren't part of a group that does things you don't like, for example: discrimination based on race. Some big projects have partnered with programs like Outreachy, that decide who to help based on the ethnicity, gender, and sexuality of the applicant.

Would you feel comfortable working for a project that openly partners with the KKK to foster adoption of open source in the white supremacist community?. This is an extreme example, but I'm using it for the sake of the argument: Most of us wouldn't want to work for such a project, even though some people might be more malleable than others.
Why would it be real when it was leaked by breitbart? Are the lizard people also real? Is the earth flat? Do vaccines cause autism?
Why? It's no different from the logo on a TV network news video feed. It's just a news agency trying to make things painful for competitors trying to steal a story without credit.

If not for Breitbart being censored (fitting this story...) by Hacker News, the original article might have been linked:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/09/the-good-censor-le...
Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
To solve this crisis in 12 years would require overthrowing the government of every country with an industrial base and replacing them with much more progressive people. You can try if you want but I don't see it happening. As far as actually convincing people of global warming, the older generation will absolutely never believe it no matter how much evidence you present. They are truly lost. Change will only be possible after they have died. This is going to be a sad, tragic period in human history, and nobody in the future is going to understand why we made such self destructive decisions. It will pass though. Hundreds of years from now the climate will slowly begin to return to normal.
Despite the fact that the fight is hopeless, though, I'll continue to try.