skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For automated texts, legally, there have to be ways of unsubscribing. Try replying to them with "STOP," as even if the spammer doesn't configure it, usually the upstream SMS provider has it built-in to remove you from getting further texts.

In general, essentially everyone in the US has an unlimited message plan, and if not, many carriers don't charge for incoming. My recommendation to how to fix this is to vote with your wallet. Switch to a prepaid provider with better SMS rules.

I'm assuming based on the $0.20/message cost, that you're using AT&T prepaid, which has some of the highest SMS fees for prepaid plans.
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It doesn't really capture 10 trillion frames per second. The laser pulses at a regular interval, and the combination of the regular pulsing + multiple pictures taken at different points along those pulses makes for 10 trillion distinct frames captured within the timeframe of 1 second. There is no actual video captured.

I get that being a tech journalist is difficult, you have to juggle between the tech and the layman. But after writing a headline, read it back to yourself and ask: will this put the wrong idea in people's minds? If the answer is yes, rewrite it... even if it sounds less cool.
Yeah, seems like memory leak to me too. streamP is leaked if open fails.

And this in modern C++ in year 2018:

if (result != Result::OK) {
goto error2;
}
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This was eye opening. Great to see these kinds of foundational or plumbing work being down to tackle the explosion of information and fisinformation out there. If anyone else has more knowledge to share about this that'd be awesome.
Ahh yeah - good call. Totally different protocol.
I guess ICMP more closely resembles UDP at the end of the day, but you're absolutely right. I edited out the incorrect UDP reference so that a person reading for the first time will not get misled. Thanks!
He already did. He'd gotten a few billion dollars out of the acquisition by then. He invested $50 million of that into the Signal Foundation, and I would hope he will invest more in the future.
> with Bootstrap

Why is this even necessary in most cases? We developed sites for years without any of these frameworks and the the latest CSS standards will hopefully make it possible again while staying sane.
The order of events is fair game to reverse so long as they are far enough away from each other that one couldn't have caused the other. The order of pairs of events like that reverse all the time. It's only a time paradox if you can actually do something paradoxical, like killing your grandfather.
LittleSnitch does tell you when LittleSnitch and MicroSwitch phone home (auto-update checks only as far as I've seen), but they're the same developers so theoretically if one could fake one, one could fake both: they could be tightly coupled.

So you have to implicitly trust the ObDev guys, and you have to implicitly trust the hardware, but beyond those two assumptions they function great for any other threat models.

Would still be nice if they were both open source but hey: I use the open source vscode and it phones home uncontrollably all the time, so source code only benefits us so much.
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Can you point to a commercial GPU database offering that doesn't distribute calculations over multiple GPUs out-of-the-box? That's table stakes, not a point of differentiation.
STOP is required for SMS short codes (5/6 digit numbers). I'm not aware of it being required (let alone working) on the ten-digit numbers. I'm quite certain I've texted "STOP" to various family members at times, and I still get texts from them.

All the text spam I get is from random ten digit numbers, a new one every time.

You can text the spam message to SPAM (7726) and it'll ask you for the number that sent it. I've no idea how effective those reports are, though.
I actually really loved GWT and it was a shame it withered and died.
The prize had to be earned, therefore it is income to the recipient, not a gift. This means it is taxable to the recipient.
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FWIW I interpreted their comment as unambiguously "liked the sentence".

There's helpful perspective seeing freedom from corporate work as something you're effectively "buying" with less income, rather than avoiding because "it's less enjoyable".

People tend to be quite loss averse, so reframing it as a feature you're buying rather than loss you'll accept can really change how it feels.
The problems transparency creates for cyber operations
Which is okay because most sites only require javascript served from 10-30% of the domains listed to actually function. The other 70-90% of domains serving the JS running on your browser are for tracking and monetization.

I don't mind JS, but when you go to a Kinja website, 20+ domains are serving up JS that runs in your browser. That's insane; but also very typical.
Apple News.
I would use the built in install function to automatically reboot after the update is downloaded. Your current schedule will reboot the router even if there is no update available.

I have a script I have been running for a year without issue. It check for an update, and then if there is an update installs it.
https://gist.github.com/tagno25/b207786b02b89700860028e4e247...
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Netlify has been very tempting these last years, and it looks like they're constantly upping their game, but still, I think will pass.

Why ? Because it's a US company. I am trying very hard to give the least data I can to companies under the Patriot Act, and by subscribing to Netlify, which afaik have their main datacenter in the US, I would be "offering" it all my most precious content. So even if it is more work, I will host my static websites on my personal Gitlab instance (which has lots of workers based on Docker to automatically deploy your Hugo/Jekyll/... website).

Or do you think I am being too paranoid ?
I find this article moot. They are basically saying that applying a blank ML stamp can yield unsatisfying results on your data. That ought to be obvious and seems unnecessarily repetitive.
Who knows what kinds of things are flying through "their" systems? Maybe this thing is the most not suspicious object they could imagine ;-)
That is true, it's not uncommon for some people to try and make an end run around the process. Hopefully devs on the team know to update the Product Owner and UX folks when that happens.
heh, unfortunately, it doesn't work on family members.

That is why I specified "automated," as Twilio even seems to implement it automatically for any messages sent via the API.

It also doesn't help spam sent from physical phones with unlimited plans, and custom apps built to mass text though.
The demo is pretty cool - the thing I liked best was this line:

"You can turn off your internet connection and it will keep working."

That's nice!
Which would you vote for picovoice or snips as a voice assistant AI product? I've been meaning to do more research and maybe your comments can help gain more insights.. thanks
Sure, but if you leave your house door wide open, it's still not your fault if someone comes right in and takes stuff, but you certainly make it easier for them to do so. Picking a license is easier than trying to defend an unlicensed work in court..
Hopefull the library that the user is employing! In our case we have a few different components that actually make up BlazingSQL. We have Relational Algebra nodes that are stateless and can do nothing but receive inputs and interpret relational algebra. They are coordinated by an orchestration node whose purpose it is to divide up queries.

There are three cases to consider here for dividing up the data.

1. Data coming from the user in Python
this can be large or small, if it is large you can partition it amongst the nodes, if small you can just let every node have a copy, what is large or small depends on the size of your nodes, the interconnect, etc.
2. Data that resides in the datalake
You can partition the dataset by dividing up the files and having each node perform the i/o necessary to retrieve that data and start processing it
3. Data that resides in previous distributed result sets
this is great because well its already partitioned for you. If you have some nodes with large percentages of the result set you might make those partitions

So thats just for getting the query started. After that there are loads of operations that are not trivial to distribute. ( distributiong a + b is a heck of a lot easier than doing a distributed join). To reduce the amount of coordination we need between nodes something we do is sample before execution and generate partitioning strategies that will allow each node to PUSH its information to another node whenever this is required. This is much simpler than trying to coordinate distribution during the execution phase and allows every node to keep moving its process forward.
Someday Americans will hopefully devise a system where bad actors can be punished without fear of jeopardizing their ability to retire or receive other benefits.
Here’s a video from 2011, but it’s only at 1 trillion FPS using the same laser pulse approach - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSqFWcb4rE

Also, the music is pretty cringey, so I’d just leave it muted...
It's like one quote. SVLG is not even relevant in the article.
By the way, does someone know if Netlify offer their webserver code with an open source license ? I can't find such a repository on their github profile ...
“I don't own or understand stocks.”
And how do I know if this app itself is or is not spying on me?
very nice! first thing I noticed is that at https://github.com/syncsynchalt/illustrated-tls/blob/master/... the content and samples are hardcoded into HTML - might it be nice if this was generated from some kind of JSON file or similar such that the approach you have here could be generalized to support any network protocol someone might want to annotate with descriptions?
Not sure what you're confused about, and OP was talking about legal immigration.

Prior to 65 immigration act, California was over 90% white.

By 2010, non-hispanic white was down to %40, hispanic ~%37%.

That is a huge demographic change.
Hispanics nationally vote for Democratic/liberal politicians on avg. 70%.

So.. ergo, the dramatic blue turn California has taken politically can be accounted for by drastic change in demographics.

Your first statement is just restating the same premise: a dramatic change of the makeup of the electorate (whatever their "needs" or preferred political policies) changed the outcome of elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California

section: "Population of California according to racial/ethnic group 1960–2010"
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PDF is for long term archival.

There is no standard and widely recognized long term archival format for HTML pages (with all the extras). Web ARChive (WARC) provides method for bundling all the stuff in file in one file, but that's not enough. Plus the files will be quite large.

You just don't know how your HTML and JavaScript renders 10 - 15 years from now. If you look old Web Archieve files you start to see how they become crap over time.
I'm impressed by Acton and Koum. They built a $22bn company, scaled to hundreds of millions of users, became the dominant chat app in the world... all with a tiny team of engineers. Before Facebook acquisition, they were laser-focused on quality and infrastructure instead of gimmicks.

Maybe they made a mistake by selling, but I wouldn't have turned down total financial freedom for me and my family forever.

Whatever. I'll switch to Signal, and watch out for the next thing that these guys work on.
The EFF is wrong on that front. It's not like Epson is lying to you about needing to use Epson cartridges, is preventing other printer makers from making printers with higher up-front costs and unrestricted cartridges, or even is rolling in profits from their cheap, restricted printers (their profit margin is 5-6%). It's just a different business model: selling limited hardware for very cheap, instead of selling more expensive, unrestricted hardware. It's one that favors low-end consumers, who don't print very much, by shifting costs to high-end consumers who print a lot.

The EFF's position here is the kind of misguided idealistic thinking that has destroyed housing affordability by shutting down the less-than-ideal housing and boarding options that used to be available to day laborers, etc. There is no free lunch--if you make it illegal to sell cheap, restricted printers, manufacturers won't just sell unrestricted printers for the same price. They'll sell better printers for more money, and price out the bottom of the market.

Printers are a low-margin, highly competitive business, which means that you get what you pay for. If you want a reliable printer with low cartridge costs, get a business-grade laser printer.
An interesting approach would be to send an automated ship builder robot fleet to dismantle an asteroid and board the fully furnished ship when it makes another close approach, and then boosting it to its final destination.

I'd love to see a scenario where we'd build robot terraforming fleets that'd land on an uninhabited planet, make it habitable, complete with spaceports, cities, factories, crops (all permanently tended for robots), build a couple extra fleets and launch to their next most promising targets.

And then, for some reason, humans lose interest in all that and someone else wakes up to find a universe full of 60's futuristic utopian planets nobody ever lived in.
This is Alireza. I am the founder of Picovoice. Thanks a lot for the information and also sharing. I 100% agree we do need to work on the website and its content. It is definitely in our TODO list. Will prioritize. In the meantime happy to answer any commercial questions via email contact@picovoice.ai

Thanks again for sharing
> “Machine learning algorithms will always identify a pattern, even if there is none,” he says.

I think that's perfectly said. Humans are prone to the same thing, but we've developed better coping mechanisms.
Wouldn't it be better to expose these other schemas via FUSE mounts anyway? I suppose the main issue is one of UX— how do you make a system "Open file/path" dialog that under the hood is capable of setting up and properly lifecycling something like an sshfs mount? Almost seems like a thing you'd want support for at the systemd service level.

OTOH, doing it as a system dialog that runs safely in its own process feels a lot better to me than building the functionality into every app in a piecemeal way.
If you read all the way to the end, de Broglie-Bohm is discussed. I think the point is that the simpler, original pilot wave theory, which was never fully nailed down, is disproven.
What development environment do you use?

Edit - I realized you are probably using an online one.
Agreed with everyone who's saying reach out to the company and/or lawyers.

I hate to sling negativity on the internet, but you posted code online and are upset that someone is making money off of it.

Again, I could be way off base, but you come across in a similar fashion as a patent troll looking for a payday.
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I am going to look into this. Its a fantastic question but we are too ignorant on the matter to be able to comment properly at the time. I will respond here, eventually :).
I don't see anything unusual about their name.

Any country with "democratic" or "people's" in the name is not democratically run and the people have pretty much no say in anything (Congo, DPRK, etc).

Any armed faction that references a religious figure or text in their name commits atrocities condemned by that religion (LRA, ISIS, etc).

Any state that calls itself "commonwealth" is run by a political elite that does a piss-poor job looking out for the interests of the commoners (maybe worth granting an exception for Kentucky, I've never been there and don't know many people from there so it might be alright).

The car dealership that has radio ads talking about what a great value they are is nothing of the sort.

A political party that prioritizes business over people calling itself the "people's whatever" seems pretty standard as far as naming conventions go.
It is true! Have you tried it? :)

We will add another demo for speech-to-intent module fairly soon (over this weekend). Stay tuned!
I hope not to see any moral policing here for selling out.

Well, one of the things "FU money" allows you to say "fuck you" to in addition to bad employers are the moral police that pretend they wouldn't do the exact same thing in the same situation.

Start a commune, help solve world hunger, do what you like with your "ill-gotten" gains, but don't pretend you'd be so quick to walk away on principle alone.
They are referring to the "Premium EU Ad-Free Subscription" option where they explicitly call out "No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking"
Yes, in a database context. It's bigger than most databases. You can fit billions of items there.
i don’t think you could unequivocally say “you would too”. You’d say the same thing if Evan Spiegel sold out to fb as well but he didn’t. You can argue about whether that was wise but it proves there are people that wouldn’t take the fat paycheck from fb
Author here. Thanks for your comment. I appreciate your feedback!

Let me first comment on your C example:

> "a + b; // Oh gosh, what is the + operator?"

There is no problem with the "+" operator. It's a language builtin. You can look that up in the manual.

In the Lisp case, I did not pick on the "+" operator, at all. The problem is a line below:

> "(sum x) ;; ??? Where does "sum" come from?"

There is no function "sum" at all!
It just looks like a function call, which is it not.
You have to know what the enclosing special form "let" does to it's arguments.

You could have those problems with C macros as well, but not in this example.

> Can you obfuscate the meaning? Hell, yes!

> Is that a reason not to allow it and to force obfuscated code by using unsuitable evaluation orders everywhere? Hell, no!

I am not picking sides here. I am pinpointing a source of confusion.
The Python/Ruby authors took another path and made the language less powerful, so they don't give developers the power to obfuscate the code in this way.
I don't quite understand how your original point refutes the headline. They are saying that it captures frames at a rate that, measured in seconds, would be ten trillion frames per second.

The headline seems entirely accurate.
> a binary file that stored administrator passwords in plaintext.

I understand what they mean, but that sentence still hurts to read.
Curiosity and Persistance
There's some cool videos at the end of this article. Not the article posted, but similar concept if I understood correctly.

Observation of laser pulse propagation in optical fibers with a SPAD camera

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep43302

http://i.giphy.com/3og0IQ5k6PP9KspN9m.gif (gif version of one of the mov files)
Could you explain this further? The Wikipedia article doesn't go into much depth, especially w.r.t. de Broglie-Bohm interpretation.
Did you actually try to sign up with it? It does not work outside the EU.
Yeah that is what I meant, sorry for being unclear.
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The TLS overhead is pretty negligible for gmail. Even though there are a lot of steps here it is only 2 round trips for the handshake. Gmail will also use TLS 1.3 (this is 1.2) if your browser supports it which cuts that down to one round trip.[0]

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning-resources/tls-1-3/
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Reading this again, I realize that the variable name "sum" was chosen badly. I'll change that in the post.
I have no need to look at that page at length ... but I am. This is very well made and interesting.
Yup, you sold out, made billions, secured your life, then bit the hand that feeds you and then pretend to stand for something. Donate the entire pay off from Facebook to privacy groups and then I will listen to you.
I always get mad when you read after the fact why a market crashed. Why didn't you talk about all this before the market crashed. Half of it I have heard about, but some of of this I hadn't heard about.
I'd prefer to use light seconds/minutes for that. Not only it's easier to grasp (0.163 AU seems awfully close, but 81 light seconds sounds reassuringly far) but it'll probably be more helpful when we have to communicate across these distances.
I guess privacy will be destined to become a purchaseable product. I guess that's just a inevitable conclusion considering our economic system.

But it's okay so long as it is a corporation doing it to us and not the government right? Never mind how corporations have grown to be bigger and more powerful than some nation states.

On the internet, humanity can be it's true self, and we are ugly. Marketing has been ugly forever (or at least since the introduction of psychology to the field post WWII).

It makes sense that marketing on the net is malicious to the point of attacking the user. That's who we are deep down inside.
I agree that Brother is probably the best of the bunch. My specific question didn't ask it the way I led up to it, but I was wondering if there was a potential disruptor of the old guard. But as another commenter mentioned, the space is likely not lucrative and has already raced as far to the bottom as it will (whether consumers will pay a bit more to encourage an upstart is unlikely).
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“I wanted to stay insecure dam it” - Them probably
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Hi Tim and thanks for your submission. The idea is to increase the database of experts (in the lasts 2 days 9 news experts added) and then you can handpick expert review. I'm working in the promotion part of the product! Stay tunned
I just did some research and wrote an article on the most in demand skills for data scientists. Thought some of you data science folks might find it interesting.
> pilot wave theory still requires the fewest number of assumptions, roughly on par with Many-Worlds, which means it's axiomatically simpler than other interpretations

Isn't the most common complaint about pilot-wave that the wave corresponds to normal QM and the pilot is a superfluous detail? I would not pick minimalism as one of its strengths.
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I'd second this.

I'm guessing from the OP that the issue is the current state of affairs, and that will be tough.

In fact, I've never heard of a company significantly increasing its engineering culture without significant turnover.
Has anyone of you seen such beautiful explanation for other protocols (TCP, 4-way handshake)?
Because there is none, this is for Apple devices. For android you have that SDK, though I didn't check the licensing terms:

https://superpowered.com
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I am the founder of Picovoice. I am NOT going to comment on comparison as obviously I will be biased ;)

With Picovoice you can use the voice control engine to accomplish this. Maybe something similar to this demo?

https://picovoice.ai/#voice-control-demo

The cool thing about this engine is that it is tiny. It uses less than 8% CPU on RPi3 and altogether it is less than 2MB (code, model, etc). Technically you can run it on something much smaller and cheaper than RPi.

Alternatively, the speech-to-intent engine could be a good candidate. More information on this along with an interactive demo will be released this weekend.