skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing 'teaser trailer' for Blindsight: https://rifters.com/real/progress.htm
The T2 is used for:

- image signal processing

- an audio controller

- a mass storage controller

- a dedicated AES engine for encryption.

- secure enclave for touch id
Thanks, I wasn’t aware that flatten is recursive.
> You just need to be able to execute code on their computer

means cookies are not encrypted, or rather are automagically decrypted by DPAPI layer, anything can read them
This is a reason to keep iterating on and fixing "economies" until we can get as close match as possible between "seeming" the best and actually being the best.
> The light is connected to the actual power of the camera and cannot be disabled unless the camera is also disabled.

This was proven false when malware was discovered that accessed the camera on Mac laptops without activating the LED light. It's mentioned in the article.
"Affordable housing and rising home values are mutually incompatible."[1]

[1] https://medium.com/yimby/why-a-healthy-housing-market-is-bad...
The Guardian has been doing this for many years. I don't know when it started, but there are some examples linked from this overview from 2011.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/mar/28/data-v...
A switch is more likely to break than a sensor and there’s already one for closed lid.
Relative to the old analog phones which had to reach out over enormous distances? Extremely unlikely. I imagine that my single analog phone call while I crossed northern Nevada probably exposed my head to more radiation than the rest of my cell phone usage combined.

With 5G, the carriers are having to densify the cell towers significantly. So, on average you are going to have to transmit less distance for less time.

A good test would probably be: does your battery last longer doing radio things? Energy in a battery is fixed. If the battery is lasting longer and hasn't gotten bigger, it's turning less of that energy into radio power.
All link to Amazon - but for me for a lot of the products on the page AliExpress is cheaper/better.
I lived in San Francisco from 2011 - 2016 then moved to Pittsburgh, PA for a job opportunity. This past August, I went back to SF for a team building activity and I was blown away by how many fewer homeless people there were on the streets (excluding Tenderloin).

When I lived in SF, there were blocks that I would place money on being a homeless person there, and it seemed like most of them were relocated. Tons of familiar streets in SOMA were at or near zero homeless people. The interesting part is that my co-workers, who never lived in SF, remarked about how many homeless people were still out in the streets. To them, there were tons of homeless people and to me there were hardly any. I was so shocked that I even called one of my friends who is from the Bay Area and asked him what was going on?
> While speakers can certainly be used as microphones, I doubt they'd be connected to an ADC so probably won't be useful

In most modern PCs with two audio jacks software will ask you what kind of device you just connected and reconfigure the sound chip to treat it as input or output. I wouldn't be surprised if clever software was able to convince Apple hardware to treat the built in speaker as a microphone.
StarLink will end up pricing out that kind of demand in populated areas. It will be useful for traffic that needs low latency, and the people who need that will price others in the area out of StarLink services.

So the surgeon conducting teleoperated surgery will be able to price out the gamer who just wants CS:GO to be a few milliseconds more responsive.
Of course it's possible, but all the charts I'm looking at very confidently predict otherwise.
Seriously I thought QT was just a UI library. I stand corrected.
I recently discovered the wild world of OPC and its variants and the huge community of paid middleware around it. Sure goes deep. Wrote something to pull OPC stuff into InfluxDB and then moved on with my life not having to worry about... or remember how DCOM works again. Hopefully...!
MS lDOS: the New linux distro for 2019?
> March 16, 2016

It's 2018. A lot has changed since 2016. The line between sw engineering & data engineering is much thinner.
> The simplest, and in my view strongest, argument for why we as a society should accept and tolerate advertising is that it provides a mechanism for consumers to learn about things they want.

This is a solid argument, but it's used mostly as motte-and-bailey, a bait-and-switch. Ads are important because they are the mechanism for product discovery. But in reality, most ads are not like that - they're no longer about discovery, but about shifting where the spending goes. Personally, I'd be fine if all ads except purely discovery-related were to disappear.
That's OK, but it seems reasonable to follow up on whether the bus ticket was useful or not.

Otherwise it's just conveniently moving the problem elsewhere.
Finding loopholes or under-specified gray areas in rules to gain an advantage is the secondary activity, besides actually racing, in almost all motorsports.
Cool idea and an awesome effort! I've been a mentor for Thinkful (an online code school) for five years and have helped students build many, many MVPs so lots of experience in the trenches helping beginners build new projects.

I mostly like your choices. Using full-stack JavaScript is excellent, only one language across client and server. I also like the use of Next and MobX to simplify things like routing and state management.

Node and Express are also solid choices, however the use of Mongo is a recipe for disaster. Mongo has a very narrow use case, and it does not include storing relational data for a SaaS business. Compounding that problem is a poorly designed schema that at first glance stuffs everything into one massive user document. While this back-end implementation obviously works, it will lead to problems down the road that could just as easily be avoided by using Postgres and Knex for your database and migrations, and Objection for your models...a very straightforward setup.

The one other piece of feedback I have is that while I haven't used TypeScript, I'd say it adds a layer of complexity that isn't needed in an MVP.

I'd be happy to discuss further and am eager to learn more about why you built this and how you're using it! Also curious if you're based in Seattle? I was born there and love that city....
This begs the question: how prevalent was mic spying prior?

Why knew it was or could or might be happening, but at what scale?
Which institution are you talking about?
Physical switch could be done with a very small magnet behind the lid surface and an opposed micro-reed switch (or other magnetically actuated on/off device) buried behind the body surface. No surface penetrations, no exposed moving parts (reed relays are hermetically sealed).
Mesothelioma has a specific and distinctive set of symptoms, so people took notice and look for a root cause.

Hypothetically, if EMF radiation were to cause a wide range of low-level effects such that common diseases had increasing prevalence rates over time, how would we be able to link that back? Cell towers are ubiquitous, there's no non-exposed control group that epidemiologists can easily compare to.
embrace it
The reasearch to prove that vulnerability was done on Macs made up until 2008 if I’m not mistaken. It’s not clear if that attack is still possible.
Reveal Hidden Structures in Data
Prediction markets are not complicated to conceptualize or create. The reason there is interest in the crypto space is because you cannot shut off a smart contract. If a truly decentralized prediction market is invented and works well, there will be no one to prosecute except its users. The government has outlawed prediction markets because it might incentivize criminal activity, like insider trading or assassination, but I believe these fears are incorrect. A robust prediction market could be a very useful indicator.
Ugliness is subjective. Where do you get the data to back up the claim that "the number of people [who] want this is ridiculously small"?
Is the proof-of-work likely to be too much for a mobile to be able to do? If a mobile client were to be made, that is.

Also, does the proof-of-work scale, eg how the bitcoin network gets harder and harder as the hashing power increases.
I disagree - my daughter is at this age now and I’ve reviewed the materials they cover. My mother was also a junior high history teacher for about fourty years, so I saw a lot of history textbooks. So while a datapoint of one, especially after reading books like “lies my teachers told me”, I’m pretty well convinced my data is not an outlier
Well, the rate of some cancers have increased steadily in the last 50 years, same with Alzheimer's, with no clear cause. Part might be due to the global aging of the population, it's also theorized increasing pollution or use of pesticides might be involved. If the link with electromagnetic fields exists but is very tenuous, it could be very hard to prove, but when considering that virtually everyone is explosed to artificial EM fields it could still have a sizeable effect.
Why you should watch movies and TV shows with subtitles on
this is the Nash Equilibrium type problem that exists with US federalism and extreme poverty. Cities just ship people around hoping to reduce their share of cost, while the homeless just become more physically sick or addicted, and mentally traumatized, so they become more costly to care for in aggregate over a lifetime. Everyone is worse off. It would be so much simpler, cheaper if society just got people back on their feet as quickly as possible with focused care & rapid re-housing.
Yeah good connection there. The Redux chrome plugin does indeed show a log of actions and you can rewind through time.

That's another nice way of doing things that way, better diagnostics eh?
We don't commonly have figures on that, however the combination of proprietary (non-free, user subjugating) OS and application software plus built-in camera/mic hardware doesn't bode well for one's privacy.
I actually thought for the longest time that they would eventually acquire red hat. But now I'm thinking it will be canonical
That's a good question. But is that data even available, especially in the format that would allow to tease out how much each aspect of the enterprise contributed to the financial situation?

As an addition to the GP's argument, consider that these days, news stories are meant to be linked to on social media. People have friends and audiences in many places in the world. If someone with parts of their audience in Europe wants to share a news story, will they choose an article on GDPR-blocking site, or on a GDPR-compliant one?
> not very good for HLL

I think it's worth noting that it's very easy to treat the 6502 as having 128 16-bit general purpose registers. If you're okay with poorly optimised code, that makes for a very nice compiler target, while still allowing you to break out to hand-written assembly for inner loops and other sensitive areas.

Edit: On rereading, TFA links to https://dwheeler.com/6502/a-lang.txt, where this is approach is discussed under solution 3.
Obamacare exploded the cost. It’s hollow succor to say the rocketing costs are accelerating less. All your supposed evidence shows is that the markets are getting worse. The ACA is plagued by dine and dashers. https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/06/aca-dropouts.html
> The graphics and web design are very cool, definitely enhancing the story.

The web design is not intuitive. Why the need to break the browser's most basic functionality of vertical scrolling. The chart "visualizing" the data in 3 stages made me think the page was at the bottom. The animation finished, and then I tried to scroll past, except nothing happened. I had to continue "scrolling" to get the page to not move but have the next stage of animation start. Also, scrolling text over background text just looks confusing
NWS Damage Survey, Baltimore EF-1 Tornado (Amazon Fulfillment Center Fatalities)
Using Deep Learning to Weaponize Controversy – Slate Star Codex [Fiction]
The problem with the "change the time we do things" approach is that we write down times in permanent or semi-permanent places. Buildings have hours of operation signs. Streets have lane restriction and parking hours signs. We print schedules for buses, planes, boats, and trains.

If we just change so we do all of these things an hour earlier in summer we either have to change a whole bunch of signs and other printed material twice a year, or we just have to remember that we need to mentally take an hour off the printed time during that time of year.

The former would be a major hassle and possibly an expensive one, and the later would confuse a lot of people for days or weeks after the switches.

Clocks, on the other hand, are designed to be changed.

If we want things to start an hour earlier in summer, and we want that to apply to everything, than implementing that by moving the clocks an hour forward is easier, cheaper, and less confusing.

The main hassle with changing the clocks is that there are so many of the damn things, although I think we may be getting past that.

(I say this is the main hassle, rather than the hassle of dealing with biological rhythms getting messed up for a while around the time changes because this post is about how, if we are going to have DST, it should be implemented--change schedules or change clocks. The biology thing is the same under both, so is not relevant in this comment)

At one time, say before the 1970s, it wasn't much of an issue because we didn't actually have all that many clocks. A typical family might have wall clocks in the kitchen and living room, table top alarm clocks in the bedrooms, and watches.

It was in the '70s and '80s that clocks started appearing everywhere, and worse, no two seemed to have the same mechanism for setting them and the mechanisms were usually almost impossible to figure out without the instructions. DST changing could be a frustrating evening of alternating trying to guess how to set a clock and searching through every place you might have left the manual.

But now, although everything still has a clock whether it needs it or not, those clocks are more and more likely to be self-setting. I think I have 15 clocks in my house and garage right now, and only 3 of them did not handle this morning's return to PST from PDT automatically. (And all three are or are in old things that if bought today probably would automatically handle the time change).
The PDF copy of the presentation is better: https://rifters.com/real/shorts/VampireDomestication.pdf
> I'm not sure why you have such hope.

Hey, I work at the Library Innovation Lab -- being hopeful about open access scenarios is just one of the services I provide. :)

But basically I'm hopeful in this instance because (a) there's less and less incentive for commercial publishers to try to control this particular low-bandwidth stream of public domain text; (b) there's more and more platforms that would benefit from a standard open feed; and (c) the courts have had a lot more time to think about it (in the grand scheme of how old courts are vs. how old the internet is) and see other courts try it first.

On that last point, we have a dozen or so state supreme courts already using another service of ours, Perma.cc, so we do have some idea how they think about adopting new technology.

Would love to chat more with you or anyone else who's been thinking about how to crack this -- your experience sounds really interesting, and "hopeful" doesn't mean I think it'll be easy. Contact info is in my profile.
Using MEMS Accelerometers as Acoustic Pickups in Musical Instruments - https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/mems-acce...
Heh. And yet case.law has a 500 case download limit except those who have been approved by research agreements that are mandatory by lexis nexis. I've been waiting since release night to get a research license approved. Granted, it's been less than a week.

What do you think would happen if somebody with a research agreement downloaded everything and released it all to the public? You'd probably then find that the two situations are very similar.
The authors observed nothing. There is no experiment and no result in the underlying paper. It's a low quality meta-review of literature.
The way I see it, it has some privacy. No node after the first hop will have any way to get ip information of the poster, or even know how many hops they are away from the poster.
I wonder if they still hold the rights to the Xenix name? Looks like no - the product was sold to SCO in 1987.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
> Especially their kind-of claim that even 60 Hz EMF can influence DNA in damaging way is still very... let's say, suspicious, to me.

Yeah, I really don't understand why these kinds of people always mumble about 60Hz. That's the biggest red flag for bogosity. We have had so much extremely high intensity 60Hz flying around for so long that the effects should be obvious.

If you just simply don't mention 60Hz at all, your claims get a lot harder to refute.
It seems like the main difference with a reducer is that the reducer just returns `state`, not `(state, action)`. I'm reading this for the first time but that's how I'm reading it.

But y'all must be storing this `(point-in-time-state, action-that-produced-state)` somewhere, because the Redux Chrome plugin displays this data. Was I wrong in thinking the Chrome plugin was just visualizing data already stored by Redux?
Light doesn't have a helical shape, it's just diagrammatically drawn that way to illustrate the orthogonality of fields.
How does vim-notes compare?
Having to download HD videos an many MB of other stuff to read few pages of text on poverty.

Oh the sad irony :(
Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line
Having a home is frequently a prerequisite to be able to

A: show up to work on time

B: be groomed

C: establish a pattern of living

It’s hard to go to work not knowing if your car will be towed. Granted, where people COULD afford to live isn’t the city centers, where the services are and where people congregate. And the suburbs don’t want them either. Pretty sad state of affairs - we need to provide a real safety net so people aren’t stuck below the line of employability.
I'm not sure why the NYT is trying to make this sound somehow nefarious? All political movements have slogans and talking points.
They seem to just be relocating to other parts of the city as formerly homeless-heavy areas like parts of SOMA and the mission "gentrify." I walk through the loin twice a day on my way to my office on market st near the post-apocalyptic parts of SOMA and see a higher concentration of homeless in those areas than I used to. Perhaps you're revisiting the parts they've left or my un-scientific observations are wrong.
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I think there must be more pillars than that. Biology and chemistry while related to physics are distinct (in the same way physics is not maths). More broadly, humanities and the arts are still valid areas of knowledge. Hacker news has a bias towards your three pillars, but I think it is important to acknowledge that human knowledge does go beyond CS, maths and physics.
> there's no non-exposed control group that epidemiologists can easily compare to.

Incorrect. Time of onset is a control.

Look at the results on breast cancer from when they stopped giving post-menopausal women hormone replacement therapy.

Different countries and areas of the country get different generations of cell phone and towers at different times.

While there may not be a huge amount of funding going into this, the result of finding an effect between cell phones and biology would be so huge, that researchers in relevant fields very much pay attention.

If someone they thought they could get any correlation, even with massive p-hacking, someone would publish it.
But plenty of other franchises just ignore things in the past as though they never happened, even up to and including characters.
The guy from Key West is bummed because he can't go back to the shelter he was living at. His plan was to return there, even as a fallback. He was COUNTING on it being there for him.

I think that's part of the problem.
Now that IBM bought Red Hat I think that would actually be good for Linux.
"Delete Facebook. Delete Twitter. Throw away your cell phone. Unsubscribe from the newspaper. Tell your friends and relatives not to discuss politics or society. If they slip up, break off all contact.

Then, buy canned food. Stockpile water. Learn to shoot a gun. If you can afford a bunker, get a bunker.

Because one day, whoever keeps feeding us Scissor statements is going to release one of the bad ones."
I mean, isn't morality all about doing the right thing in the face of perverse incentives? If status gains can be used to excuse anything we do, where will it all end?
They won't bother unless they start running out of space.
Seems like the author is talking about the pre-big data version of business intelligence with star schemas and attempts at drag and drop tools, which has been supplanted somewhere around 2010-2015 by open source big data tools. I wasn't at a big enough company to have a proper BI department pre the data science renaming, so I can't really opine on whether it's true.
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"Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?"

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Why would they have any interest in Linux on the desktop? I could see them having their own distro, but I feel like that would have to be geared towards servers.
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The standard of "something to show for it" is reproduction, not personal experiences. Society simply doesn't give a shit about anyone's personal experiences unless they can be reproduced and shared. Otherwise, you may as well have dreamed it.
The Amish. Their water and soil is no less contaminated by other factors, so the only thing left is far reduced EMF exposure.
Several of these already. Here is one from 2014, https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/

Seem to remember an impressive one from this year using modern deep learning, but could not find it now.
Open Source Community for Collaboration Skill Practice (2015)
China: The world’s best playground for AI and blockchain
Because you're the client. You seeing your doctor will always make the doc more money.

To carry this metaphor a step further, you asking for help on a ticket is more like going to the emergency room. If your ticket is a tummy ache you're going to wait. If it's a gunshot wound to the chest you're going to have all the best staff on hand immediately to put out the fire.
Photos of families all over the world sorted by income