skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, this person's argument is basically... we have proof that Huawei spies on behalf of the Chinese government/military but that's not as bad as a hypothetical where 2 major American corporations who spend tons of money on security do no due diligence to protect their hardware from security breaches from the exact same Chinese government/military. It's an absurd argument conflating a fact with a guess.
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It’s not strictly a block. Just a pop-over that explains how Elsevier sucks and has a button to proceed to Elseviers page.

May be enough to skirt the NN law, or not.
It’s not an over exaggeration or fear based. We have overwhelmingly evidence now about weather forecasting and global temperatures WILL increase. We have to keep that under 2 deg C. When wet bulb temperatures start peaking first in places like India and then Asia, people will go to sleep and die before they can wake up because of the heat. Sea levels will rise and is getting warmed up. Data is overwhelming. This IS urgent.
There is an open question about what the source of "the arrow of time"[1] is, which is this apparent weirdness where at very small scales the laws of physics are symmetric in time but at larger scales there appears to be something dictating that they are asymmetric in time. It should be clear that at larger scales, most physical laws are still symmetric in time it's just that we generally see that the results are biased towards one direction (hence the "arrow" of time).

Now, this is a more general and complicated thing than entropy. Entropy is a statistical effect (and has very little to do with cooking eggs -- other than its link to thermodynamics). I can give you a short primer on entropy with an example:

You have 2 balls and push one so that it knocks the other one. Record it, then reverse the footage. In principle neither view of the event is more correct than the other (this is slightly untrue due to friction and the ball would appear to accelerate on the tabletop, but imagine it's a sufficiently frictionless surface for the purpose of this discussion). So motion is symmetric in time, right? As with most things in physics, the correct answer is "yes, but..."

But what happens when we add more balls? Imagine you have 100 lined up in a grid and you knock one -- you end up with a completely jumbled mess. Now reverse the footage, and a jumbled mess becomes 100 perfectly lined up balls. Which is the correct direction of the footage? Obviously there is a difference and you can tell what it is without me needing to explain it -- it's almost impossible that knocking a jumbled mess would just sort it! Why is it so improbable -- after all, isn't the motion just as time-symmetric as in the 2-ball example? Yes, but the problem is the statistics. What is the probability that a given jumbled set of balls will be sorted when you knock them? It's astronomically small.

In thermodynamics, these same statistics are the basis for what we consider entropy (imagine the 100 balls are countless numbers of particles). Effectively the idea is that because there are so many particles of matter involved in gas interactions, that the probability distributions are so skewed that you only ever see one macro-level result (that the ideal gas law is obeyed for instance). So while entropy may look like some fundamental force, it's a statistical effect that effectively guarantees that certain effects will happen.

Entropy is the thermodynamic arrow of time (and was the first thing that spawned the idea of an "arrow of time"), but there are other arrows of time. For instance, the universe is clearly expanding and thus there is a cosmological arrow (if you reversed the motion the CMBR would be different). There is a "weak" quantum arrow of time where some reactions violate CP-symmetry and thus by CPT theorem they must violate T-symmetry (the T in CPT being time).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time
”The Tweets included ones that discouraged Democratic men from voting, saying that would drown out the voice of women, according to two of the sources familiar with the flagging operation.”

So yes, they’re pretty much banning satire and jokes not aligned with the Democrats.
Apple to apple, at national interest and security level, they could be doing the same hack
you can get phones that allow AOSP. Most xiaomi phones do. I have one running exclusively FOSS apps.
If you don't mind the form factor, the Pyra is coming out this year
I have a work available at the moment, but a bit quirky as we're using our own novel Racket-influenced scheme dialect for business workflow, coupled with Python. Happy to chat.
The reason is that most of the time we have traded to do nothing in favor of a better legal system. Looking at police records here in Sweden, and it seems that the average reported crime has single digit resolve rate. We could lazily improve those numbers by simply lower the burden of proof and pay more, but through time we have chosen not to.

Lets make up some estimated numbers that the average resole rate is 8%. Would we be willing to double the police budget to get 16%, assuming falsely that we are lucky enough that double the budget doubles the result. What if we make assumptions of guilt and raises the resolve rate to 20%, but also increase the false accusations by 2000%? What about a camera in every street, testing the case that camera surveillance decrease crime (just like London).

I think authorities are mostly doing their jobs within the limits that we gave them. It can naturally be done more efficient but we are talking about such low resolve rates and that makes it look like they do nothing in most cases.
It's popular to hate the US government and US tech companies, but the US government and US tech companies are far more ethical than the Chinese.

It's ridiculous to assert otherwise.
Site is down, here's a cached page:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UqBmRU...
Four languages from forty years ago
As they say, when there's a will - there's a way.

The author clearly did not evaluate all of the alternatives, and simply jumped from one walled garden to another.

Bloatware, adware, and battery life are cited as his reasons. But he could have rooted his phone in 5 minutes then deleted all the bloatware and google apps in an instant. Add microG and adaway on top, and you have a nice ad-free system with much better battery life.

All he had to do was research.
Well that is why you would always run statistical validity tests on the RNG and other intermediate values whenever using a Monte Carlo model in production. Ideally the tests should run as part of a Continuous Integration workflow.
Sigh. I guess I wasn't explicit enough.

It turns out, if you are manufacturing original products for mass production, you are doing ID. So yes, there is no path to success manufacturing original products without doing ID. I wasn't implying one needn't have ID any more than your comment implies one needn't have engineering.

What I was referring to your comment about "hire a top-notch industrial designer" to produce distinctive designs of impeccable taste.

Yes, products with exceptional ID will sell in major ways.

It turns out, that products that are exceptional in a lot of dimensions sell in major ways. Products that are exceptionally inexpensive sell in major ways. Products that are exceptionally marketed sell in major ways. Products that are exceptionally well engineered sell in major ways.

...and if everyone is employing exceptional ID, then doing so yourself doesn't actually make your product exceptional.

And no, customers don't "notice the smallest details, perfection in every aspect of the product". There are some products that certain customers fetishize and absolutely do notice this stuff, but the vast majority of products people interact with on a daily basis barely register.

I agree that ID is a short cut for communicating quality to customers. Sometimes you shouldn't take the shortcut. Sometimes it's better to take the long way around.

Great ID can work brilliantly as a marketing tool as well as a tool to deliver actual measurable benefits to the consumer. Great engineering can do the same. Having a unique value proposition (which I'd argue is System76's case) can do the same.

There's more than one kind of market success and more than one path to market success.
I think Apple's primary source of revenue is selling dongles to fix all their hardware incompatibility issues.
> ...deleted thousands of automated accounts...

Try not to set up thousands of automated accounts to express your opinion for you. You should be fine.
Do you have proof that any of the news about China (from tons of different sources, including other countries that are not America) is propaganda or not accurate? You're implying a global conspiracy is afoot to besmirch the good Chinese name when everyone has known for a while that they're generally bad actors behind the scenes when it comes to spying and stealing of secrets/IP/tech.
> we could probably eat better quality, organic food grown in a more diverse way, it would just cost more.

Better quality combined with eating less, both would be good and producing less waste.
For now. The question of "where does it stop" is still on the table.
So we have Twitter taking down accounts at the behest of a political party?
I'm not sure what HN policies are on sharing retailer links, but amazon, ebay, ali-express are all retailers that sell the iPhone SE. The major US cellular providers also still sell the SE, though at a much higher price.
Ok, you don’t have to buy your way in. But being ranked 300 in median family income out of 3000 universities isn’t exactly encouraging. Even at the schools you mentioned, most students still come from the top 20%, save UCLA and Florida, with 48%.
I made the switch recently and have been very pleased. I love the customizability of it. Instead of having to Go back in forth between Gnome Shell/Unity/Cinnamon/etc. to find a desktop that works for me, I can get a very similar experience to any of those environments just by tweaking some settings and using the right plugins. Right now I have a setup that feels very similar to macOS just by adding a dock, using the Global Menu panel plugin, changing some keybindings, and installing Albert to replace Spotlight. Now I barely have any context switching issues moving back and forth from my Macbook and my desktop. It's a much nicer experience to the KDE I tried 4-5 years ago.
Apple's new anti-tracking feature in Safari takes toll
Pedantry, I know, but I imagine you meant E^2 = (mc^2)^2 + (pc)^2. Right?
Senzing – The First Real Time, Plug N Play AI for Entity Resolution
Ask HN: Is working for Huawei a bad career move?
I received a very attractive offer from Huawei to working in cutting-edge machine learning research. This offer was for an office in the US, which operates via their subsidiary, FutureWei.

However, given recent news about security concerns of Huawei, I'm concerned whether working for them would be a blemish on my resume for future opportunities with American companies. I keep seeing news articles pop up here and there, and one of my friends warned me of certain American companies having "blacklists" for hiring former Huawei employees (this may or may not be true, but the sentiment may still be there).

I'm not sure if future recruiters or hiring managers might look upon this experience with distrust. I'm early career (mid 20s), and I have large career aspirations in machine learning research/engineering. I do not want future employers, especially Silicon Valley companies or government-related work, to be concerned of any potential security risk of hiring me. Or, just the fact that I worked at this company to be some sort of red flag in my application.

On the other hand, the money is good, and the team seems strong. I would be working on very interesting topics, which would be great for my career advancement.

The offer almost seemed too good to be true, so HN - are my concerns justified?
A political party that isn't exactly a bastion of integrity or honesty either.

(I'm not saying either side is better)
The browser privacy handbook
> ...deleted thousands of automated accounts...

This article is not about deleting accounts of normal human users. It’s about halting coordinated propaganda campaigns.
There is a lot of skepticism and charges of exaggeration about this threat to the planet. Is it ok to make a book recommendation here? https://www.amazon.com/Sixth-Extinction-Unnatural-History/dp... : Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert. And it’s not a new book either. Many people have been warning about this and 2020 is a pivotal year for answers about our survival. Media..as usual..is getting hysterical about it too late and all in unison. But that doesn’t negate the overwhelming evidence that the threats are real.
DMT Is the Drug for Our Collective Crisis of Meaning
The RTL can be open without the ISA being open.

> "The "Scalable" in SPARC comes from the fact that the SPARC specification allows implementations to scale from embedded processors up through large server processors, all sharing the same core (non-privileged) instruction set" - Wikipedia

Yes. SPARC is a RISC and therefore it can scale well in implementation. RISC-V however has taken the modular approach to ISA design far further then anything else has so far.

Again, maybe you should actually read about the design of RISC-V and why the didn't want to adopt SPARC.

You accuse me of spreading misinformation, but you don't seem to know what the difference between SPARC and RISC-V are.
That's sad to hear. I started learning Racket as my first Lisp. Not because I had to, but because I wanted to. I guess that's a major point, especially when it comes to exotic languages like Racket, that just don't look and feel like the everyday programming language you play around with in your college time.
The Snowden revelations caused tech companies to implement strong encryption for consumer facing communications. Apple, Google, and Facebook all offer encryption protocols that now piss off the US government and caused friction between the private and public sectors.

People saying "but PRISM" have missed the past five years of US politics. Even Obama was getting mad at US tech.
I am not surprised.

http://vbn.aau.dk/files/240065248/Mobile_Phone_Antenna_Perfo...
> It's really easy to complain about this, but it's very hard to actually come up with a solution.

I don't want to be rude, but I'm really not sure what you mean by this. "Don't show suggested friends, at least for private groups" seems simple, obvious, and effective.
I built Android phones for a living for many years and I could probably root a device very quickly and get it up and running just like in the old days, but I seriously cannot be bothered anymore. Only viable alternative for me right now is an Apple device. I wish there was an alternative that just worked out of the box - and I even work for Apple these days...
don't use a VPN. as developers we have other tools available that work. of course if you are attached to youtube then maybe the experience can get frustrating, but everything else can be made to work.

as for surveillance, at this point i don't know a country on this planet where surveillance is not a concern.

for safety, you need to learn how to keep yourself safe. but that applies to china as well as eg. downtown los angeles. i have been warned not to go there as it would not be safe. but i never had any issues. china is very safe. yes, you hear horror stories. but you need to scale those in relation to the size of the country. for every horror story about china, you can find you 10 such stories about the US.

greetings, eMBee.
Isn't that the exact point they are making?

They either not block or block anything.
Jonathan’s real standout qualities are game design, self promotion and shipping a hit game. As a game dev that has worked on 20 or more games I wouldn’t put one like Braid at the top of my hard to program list. It’s a 2d puzzler. The time manipulation stuff is really great but again not technically difficult. That he is making his own language is more a sign that he’s indepently wealthy and has the time to do so. Many programmers have tried and failed to do the same. I will be impressed if he delivers a game that uses the language even more so if the language spreads further.
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Florence Ilott Runs Across Westminster Bridge Beating the Chimes of Big Ben
> Twitter said Friday that it had deleted thousands of automated accounts...

Key word: automated.
Tkpgp: Encrypt, Decrypt, Verify, Sign, E-mail Messages with a GUI Interface
Not device-type, looks famous.co can infer battery mode from Safari: https://imgur.com/a/XvAGvWS
Large telecoms are already talking about edge computing at the base stations for 5G. It makes a lot of sense with modern distributed systems and would be great for gaming.
This happened in 1934. It's a nice bit of one family's history.
My son is changing out of computer science as his major after a semester of Scheme. Not sure it’s a direct correlation but I think it had a lot to do with it.
It's also frustrating that Twitter didn't proactively do this - the DCCC had to figure it out and tell them. Twitter itself is obviously best positioned to detect patterns of suspicious activity, intervene before too much damage is done, and investigate and publish their findings. But they don't seem to take this problem very seriously.

Twitter is being brazenly used as a propaganda tool by terrible actors with terrible agendas. It's infested with strange accounts of dubious authenticity - which I think is fairly obvious looking through the replies to prominent political accounts.
You're being downvoted. I too voted this post of yours down, let me explain why; sheer hubris.

> Besides, humans will never die out because of lack of "resources".

We are in grave danger of dying out; because of lack resources and because of our mind-boggling stupidity, sheer arrogance and our inability to deal with our tribal instincts.

You might (or not) have noticed that humans don't exist outside of the ecological system that our plant harbors. We're part of this ecological network, we're fully, totally, no-exceptions dependent on it. Techno-utopian dreams (nightmares, more like it) of being independent of the 'natural' world are not going to save mankind; we're part of 'nature', we exist within nature, there's no existence for humans outside nature. We need an ecosystem that provides us with calories and oxygen. The only ecosystem in existence that is capable of providing that is the very ecosystem we're working tirelessly to dismantle and destroy. So yes; we might die out because of lack of resources. We very probably will. Maybe

There's only so much damage that an ecosystem can take. And there are tons of signs that signal that our earthly ecosystem is reaching it's breaking point;
- we've lost about a third of the arable land in the last forty years.
- we've lost about 30% of bio diversity in the last twenty years.
- we've lost almost 75% of insect biomass in the last thirty years.

The loss of insects is especially alarming; insects play a major role in all food webs on earth. The disappearance of 75% of insects (biomass, not species) has a catastrophic impact of everything further up the food chain. Yes, including humans.

We're currently working non-stop to destroy our ecosystem's capacity to carry animals in the upper food chain. Guess who's on top of that food chain. Yes, us humans.

Don't kid yourself; we're currently rushing full-speed ahead towards a full-scale ecosystem collapse. And don't fool yourself on our ability to create and maintain a man-made closed ecosystem as a replacement; we're not able to do that and we probably won't for many, many, many decades to come.

The only ecosystem we have to save our collective asses is the one we're currently punishing every day with our overproduction, overconsumption, with our fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides and waste.

It's so past high times that we - humans, as a collective - have a hard talk how much longer we want to exist as a 'civilized' species, with global trade, no struggle for survival, boundless capitalism.

Because if we keep going, we've got a dozen or so decades left. It's back to hunter gathering for the rest of mankind's existence after that.

If we leave enough prey species alive, that is. Otherwise that will be the end of mankind's short stint.
Those were requested be removed by the DCCC themselves, not Twitter. The OP's point stands.
Can't you embed a REPL?
Seems like REPL.it will be the de-facto standard for most cases in the near future? Maybe it's too heavy for some applications? Why would you use anything other than REPL?
Ive tried a BSD laptop before, and my concerns always boil down to the same nonsense...can anyone offer some advice?:

- how do i read ext4/fat/etc usb sticks from coworkers.
- is 3d or video support good with AMD?
- soundcard and full disk encryption? what about EFI boot?
Don't hurt yourself reaching.
Extinction will come from
Climate change. And the surge of climate change refugees and subsequent migrations will impact food supply and density.
Agreed, but if he's already ditching all his apps then there's no single app that seems absolutely required...

Some core apps have replacements on the other side, like maps, might be why a full leap is better than half measures. /e/ should help with those. Ideally. Maybe it's not there yet.
pretty neat. what would be the best way for me to block this
You forgot climate change.
But realistically speaking, ad networks are going to add this to their code to gather even more information about you.
Are there any good opensource WYSIWYG/drag and drop website builders? I've always been curious if folks like leadpages, wix, etc build their own from scratch or start with something off the shelf.
I Like having a familiar desktop environment for the cases when family/friends/coworkers need to use my computer. It's not a frequent use case, but it happens enough that it started being an annoyance when I was using a tiling window manager. These days I just use Emacs like a window manager and do all my work inside of it, and can still have an environment that's comfortable for other people when I pair program, or when a family member wants to add some of their shows to my Plex server.
A quick check of Amazon brought up a hundred or so resellers. Unfortunately you can no longer get them via Apple refurb program, but an online retailer like Amazon is probably the next best thing if you are careful to vet the seller.
Sounds like the DCCC pointed out to Twitter that these accounts were violating Twitter’s terms of service and Twitter agreed. Twitter made the decision to remove the accounts.
IT infrastructure is debt, not cost
Life expectancy in 1946 was 64.4 for men and 69.4 for women for an average of 66.9. Now it’s an averages 78.6, 12 years longer.

And US life expectancy has dropped 1.5 years recently due to opioid deaths. Drop that from the equation and you’re looking at nice even 80.

I’m sure there’s a lot of legitimate quibbling to be done over my numbers. Obviously 20 wasnt the right number, but also obviously the general point stands: Boomers have lived a lot longer than anyone expected them to. If they lived as long as their parents had on average, we would be running out of them already.

As an aside. The above numbers really explain why social security and other pensions are in so much trouble. The greatest generation expected to receive only a few years of benefits on average, 1.4 for men and 4.4 for women. A tiny proportion of a worker’s lifetime wages would be required to cover these costs, better still since multiple workers would exist per retiree. Boomers on the other hand are legally entitled to a solid decade or more worth of benefits, an increase of an order of magnitude in time, not to mention increasing health costs. This combined with the unusually high ratio of retirees to workers, again caused by the unusual size of the Boomers, is a recipe for disaster.