skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jbob I truly, absolutely hope you're right on every level. It would be wonderful and if we can put this sort of monstrous society off for decades before ubiquitous surveillance truly becomes ubiquitous. Or maybe until we find some way of practically/legislatively quashing it, and all the better. What worries though is that it DOESNT have to be perfect like some people here are fearing. It simply has to be good enough so that most people never truly know when its following them rigidly and when not. We can probably safely assume that X percentage of the surveillance operating in a "total" surveillance society isn't working properly or being fucked up through human error but in such a scenario we can never be sure which percentage that is or when such a thing is the case, and that will be enough to dampen a lot of healthy civil disobedience, protest and spontaneous action by people (and im not even talking about actual criminals here).

It's like an ultra-modern version of what the 20th century totalitarian states counted on: The gestapo, KGB or NKVD type police agencies of these countries knew they couldn't watch everyone all the time, and everyone knew they weren't being watched all the time (they also knew that a lot of incompetence and corruption ruined control frequently) but they could never be sure when they were safe or not and that kept a lid on individual freedom quite effectively.
wrong angle. Would you prefer to be an unknown/invisible/unappreciated manager of a small team writing simple robust software or to be a highly visible and valuable (S)VP of an organization developing a buggy complex equivalent of that simple robust software? I've observed the same answer to that modern Hamlet's question everywhere around me through all these years at the BigCo-s :)
> A 46-year-old man who owned the crypto phone service and a 52-year old partner have been arrested on charges related to money laundering and participation in a criminal organization.
Basically a circular inductor with a ferrite core instead of air which allows it to be more compact, have a higher inductance per volume and a greater q factor (bandwidth). A different inductance (different number of wire turns) is needed depending upon several factors, especially if you are using them to make a resonant circuit (a circuit that responds to a particular frequency). It does not generate the signal. I hope I got that right.
Besides compiling code, what can’t an iPad do in terms of “creation” that a similarly priced laptop can do? You can edit movies on it, heck, you can even film movies with it, you can write, edit photos, do drafting and drawing (something that laptops can’t easily do,) you can make music on it, use it as a Logic Pro controller. The only think you can’t easily “create” on iPad is code. You can do spreadsheets, work processing, create Keynotes, take notes, manage a calendar. You can manage your HomeKit stuff.

Seems far cry from being just a consumption device. That canard is getting old. A guess since you can’t run Linux on it or run a sever with it, somehow it isn’t creative?
You are right that iOS has no native OS support for USB storage devices - precisely because Apple restricts access to them via MFI.

i.e. as a storage accessory manufacturer, you need to add an MFI DRM chipset and pass MFI certification for Apple to allow a USB link with iOS. Here [1] are a scores of iOS USB flash drives (over lightning), all communicating with iOS via the USB 2.0 bulk storage protocol, after DRM-passing via the MFI chip they are forced to include in their hardware. Further - you are right that iOS doesn't support USB mass storage at the kernel layer - the accessory manufacturer is forced to write a user-space driver within the app advertised for said accessory.

The iPad Pro doesn't work out of the box with over the shelf USB-C storage accessories because:

1. iOS has disabled USB mass storage at the kernel level to enforce DRM via the MFI program

2. Since off-the-shelf USB-C storage devices are unlikely to have added a $X MFI chip to their accessory, Apple's DRM simply blocks a USB 2.0 link from being established.

So - in conclusion, USB Mass storage - a feature widely available in mobile, and desktop computing since the dawn of the spec has been crippled by Apple on purpose to milk money

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1680&bih=939&tbm=shop&ei=b...
Plot twist: the human brain is actually running JavaScript and attention is executed on each tick of the event loop.
When you assume inherent complexity exists, and competition exists, it works out fine. The consumers will always require some support for any complex OSS, but they want to minimize it (by finding OSS with reduced accidental complexity). OSS are incentivized to increase accidental complexity, but they’re capped by reputation and competition.

Of course, you can work around the core incentives (eg by marketing), and a lack of competition changes everything (consumers take whatever they can get, producers sell as high as they possibly can without bankrupting the consumer), but in a well-behaving market it should be fine.

Your RH-upstreams examples can probably be sufficiently explained by lack of competition, due to a captured market. Which isn’t behavior specific to OSS, but to every market. Notably, breaking RH’s stranglehold would be naturally easier than say apple’s
Paying more for fewer features doesn't make sense though. I'm also guessing the commercial displays also are tuned more for endurance and less for quality.
Using Neovim for JavaScript Development
Yes, that's exactly what I'm getting at. Successful women in their mid thirties find themselves with nearly no options (because of their own preferences which are deeply rooted in culture and genetics), while the kind of men they are interested in have all the options in the world. It's really unfair - and I think it's not discussed enough that women who focus on their career first often do it at the expense of having a family. It's very hard to get both as woman - and you choose in your early twenties and find yourself locked into that decision. Men don't have the same problem.

I'm not sure what advice I would give to my future daughters, other than make it clear to them that it's a very important choice they'll have to make.
Please don't use code indent blocks for bulleted lists. They're absolutely unreadable on mobile.

Reformatted:

* A users guide that used to be published on the Blackbox Security website hints towards their chat application being XMPP+OTR.

* Real-time access but no historical access hints towards an MITM to change the previously exchanged OTR keys (a common way to 'break' into a conversation).

* The application seemed to not enforce and/or check the key signatures for changes.
Ask HN: Why are most my charges getting declined inside Stripe and Braintree?
Hi, so I am having an extremely strange problem. About 87% of my customers' charges inside Stripe and Braintree our being declined. Most of them are generic declines: 2046, 2038, do_not_honor or service_not_allowed. I actually tried Stripe first and switched to Braintree, thinking the issue might be with Stripe, but found that between both I had the same problem. I have already talked to both Stripe and Braintree but both have basically only told me that I need to have my customers contact their banks, which is difficult for me to do since many of my customers are from all around the world and use many different international banks.

I assume that some sort of fraud rules are being triggered, but it is strange as I stated that my customers are from many different international banks from around the world. Are there worldwide fraud rules for all international banks possibly through Visa or Mastercard? As most of my customers are using either Mastercard or Visa.

What are some possible solutions that I could do to resolve this? It seems I have to see how and why my business is being flagged globally. My business, is a new business and I verify their cards for a free trial before charging, but many times through the authorization charge of $0 the card is declined which really hurts my conversion rate. It seems unlikely that 87% of people trying to sign up and customers using my service have fraudulent or bad cards. Also I would like to make clear that some charges are still going though but don't follow any specific pattern, just random customers from random places around the world. Is there anyone or an organization I can call or message that can help find the real issue behind this or how can I call the banks on behalf of my customers? Is there any other information other then MCC that is sent to the bank before validating a charge?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You.
Flow as described by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.¹

It would be interesting to see if experimental results differ between when a person is in flow-state and when they are not.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi#Flow
It's really hard to say what the memory latency is going to be, but at the very least this will mean that latency will remain consistent for access to every installed DIMM regardless of which CCX the request originates from.

On that note I'm really interested to see if a dedicated I/O chiplet will help with the memory frequency scaling issues with see with the IMC on Zen/Zen+. I'm not sure what made the integrated controller on Zen so finicky compared to Intel's IMC, but this move will at the very least allow AMD to bin memory controllers if they want to or maybe work around some issues with their design.
I'm interested in amateur radio but always feel that I can't get anything done without a big honking antenna?
Depends on your margins & efficiency. I was charging $100/hr & paying $20-$30 (which wasn't a secret to anyone, clients or employees). But it was hard to save because I needed automation I didn't have, and paying for it was not tenable for internal reasons. Eventually I sold my stake for a modest amount and became a software engineer. I decided I wanted to have the option to automate.
Well, ackshually, you can run a server from your phone.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8417321/run-a-webserver-...
https://github.com/robbiehanson/CocoaHTTPServer
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.11490.pdf
I had the option to scale more, but I chose not to. It was more work than I wanted to do, and perhaps more than I could do. I decided to cash out instead.
I'm looking at a chromecast ultra. It'll do Netflix with 4K and HDR, plus all the other chromecast apps.
Yep, your ordered pair scenario is what I'm saying. The correct set is undecidable in that it would take an infinitely large TM to correctly identify all the pairs, so it is not possible to characterize the set with a finite TM. The arbitrary set is labeled with a random oracle, or perhaps with an oracle that outputs HALT for every program, or it just says "I don't know."

This seems coherent and to capture the notion of a PHO. All of this to point out that the fact humans cannot figure out every math problem does not mean they can be reduced to some sort of finite TM, so that standard objection against the halting oracle idea fails.

Here's a proof of the idea, demonstrating a partial halting oracle can violate the law of information non-growth:

https://www.am-nat.org/site/law-of-information-non-growth/
I have a license because my high school teacher made us do it but I never quite understood what hobbyists do with it. I see how it can be a useful skill to have for people in a certain profession but as a hobbyist what do you do? Do people just talk to random people on the radio? I'm genuinely curious.
If I had to guess it would be exposure for custom work:

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Reminds me of http://www.classmatters.org/2006_07/its-not-them.php

Which has been applied in tech in https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2016/05/21/0
More akin to the Copenhagen Institute thingamijig that Biorn Lomborg hosts, that tries to get bigwig economists to prioritise interventions based on cost benefit (various low cost high impact projects like innocuoation and medical / public health top the bill)

Something that takes this concept and runs with it, taking both identifiable problems (Ebola outbreak) and solutions (do nothing, invade, stop subsidising petrol in that country)

I suspect that the equivalent of National Security Advisor in each major country does this. I guess what I want is to steal each of their daily briefing documents and make a combined one, and have it read out each day onthe daily news.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Consensus_Center
Ask HN: YC Interview tomorrow. Help us improve our interview notes
Hey guys,

My company, Manypixels, is interviewing tomorrow at YC offices (link of my startup website in my bio)

We applied late and got the interview confirmation on Sunday and flew the very same day to San Francisco.

We prepared those interview notes in the last two days, what do you guys think? https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iyv_sxpmdFg8EZV7vuRbvhcHltZj3cZ3iUukMTPPRhQ/
Capitalists are not workers. You can create this utopian society by distributing capital in a way that all individuals have their basic needs provided. At that point everyone is a capitalist and is free to pursue whatever interests they desire.

Note that all economic systems are concerned with distribution of resources so the idea of distributing capital is not unique to a "welfare state".
My Bachelor's (of engineering) thesis was in biometrics and if there's one thing I remember from the seminars it's that gait along with typing rhythm and voice are these modalities that pop up every now and then only to disappear after a while after their proponents figure out that it's no use.

These modalities simply don't carry enough information to reliably identify anyone.

Facial recognition works best when you need the subject to be unaware that they are being identified.
Upvote just because I love Factorio.
Samsung doesn't make OLEDS, so I'm guessing you are on a different brand running a different OS.
I'm sorry, but this didn't cut it for me. It suggested mostly inappropriate substitutions. It is using a simplistic model, when there are already much better ones available. If you need to inject vitality into your prose, try this instead: http://writersdiet.com/test.php
democrats are huge supporters of the media companies pushing for stronger enforcement of copyrights. Obama was deep in bed with the RIAA and MPAA. Several of his appointments were RIAA lawyers. Don't automatically expect them to lead the way in copyright reform.
I worked on Ubuntu Touch (specifically convergence) for a few years.

I think it's really interesting what Apple are trying to do (with Marzipan, pro apps for iPad, desktop level SoC's) but I think they still have a couple of years work ahead of them. It's not an easy task, especially with so much legacy.

Getting Adobe and Autodesk to rewrite their flagship software for iOS was quite a good win, though I still wonder how those compare to the desktop versions
Well, I once was operating from the Caribbean on 40m and had such a huge number of people calling me, I couldn't make any contacts for many minutes. I guest that would be a 508 error.
You know what else is cheaper than court fees AND this ISP 'court' thing? Giving me $25. It's about as effective as this ISP 'court' thing too, maybe more since I promise that I will at least tell you "thank you."
Why You Should Be Unit Testing Your Functional Acceptance Tests
Although I deeply disagree with Jacobin Magazine's politics I find this article really right on point:

> Today, spin classes, artisanal food, and the college application process ...make no mistake, they serve the same purpose: transforming class privilege into individual virtue, thereby shoring up social dominance.
> our trial was an incredibly idealistic view of what is a terribly broken court system

What were they supposed to do, have your defendant spend years in jail waiting for a trial because they can't make bail? Automatically dismiss all the jurors with the same skin color?
I was up to a point, except that a really long press of the button still goes to bixby.
Counter counter counter measure: train yourself so your gait parameters exactly match those of a target, to generate a false positive.
For anyone interested in further reading on the topic of the placebo effect, I'd recommend the book 'Cure'[0] by Jo Marchant

[0]:https://www.amazon.com/Cure-Journey-into-Science-Mind/dp/038...
Machine learning is used widely across a huge number of industries and fields from internet search, pharmaceuticals, mining/energy, digital security, entertainment, etc... So the commercial benefits are definitely tangible and not just "media hype".

On computability of intelligence. I'm not an expert on this, but many people study the dynamics of biological neural networks and can represent these dynamics as PDEs which can then be mapped to electrical circuits. Granted approximations happen along the way and it has been difficult to scale these methods to large population of neurons. It still points to a solid argument that biological neural networks can be represented on a silicon substrate. This is basically what the entire field of neuromorphic engineering is focused on.
Self-driving cars could function as moving brothels, academics predict
Darn, now I'm going to have to go back and re-read Dune considering the worm as a metaphor for the surveillance state. Walk without rhythm!
Scaling the Monolith (Ruby on Rails)
ZTE Axon M phone is as you described, but it didn't really catch on. Reviewers of the device did not like the gap from the bezels. I think it hit a sort of uncanny Valley of a gap that the Nintendo DS didn't hit.
Doesn't stripe usually charge 3%?
Maybe. My thing has adjustable pressure, it oscillates, and one can adjust the location.

The warmed water is nice, but it has an "eco" mode so there are definitely times when it's not warmed and it's no big deal. I'd guess the biggest advantage would be the ability to just sit there and have the robotic arm take care of things for you without having to move around.
Check out the Pixie kits, they're extraordinarily cheap, like $5 on ebay cheap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwtErr2E1kQ
2000 on top of your current income or instead of it?
On LG OLEDs, when you press the Home button, there's a sidebar on the left that consumes about 1/5th of the screen with an ad. Free trial of Starz, that sort of thing.
If you have alot of copy pasted code this might work great if you fixed a bug in one place but not the 219 other ones.
Not to mention that lots of those parameters only apply to people doing certain things with the component, so that two people who work in different domains with the same part could have very different ideas of what the important parameters are.
This. I think I even have a cheaper version than that. Check Amazon for available washlets.

The mass-market Toto toilets are ~$250. Make sure you get the elongated bowl version. I have two in my house, one elongated and one round. The washlet for the round bowl was hard to source and it makes things somewhat cramped for larger people.

If I were doing it again, I'd replace the toilet with an elongated bowl version before adding a washlet.
> Every such paper I've seen assumes AGI is possible, and is only concerned with the how question.

Human brains exist, human brains are AGI, human brains are manufactured on a daily basis, ergo, it is in theory possible to manufacture an AGI.
this super computer isn't a control system either. it's running computational experiments, much like they might do on their T61s
I got my license (KE0RYU) a few months ago partly out of curiosity and partly because I wanted to mess around with software-defined radio. So far I've volunteered for communications at a major half-marathon and done a little bit of storm spotting for the NWS.

It seems like the majority of serious amatuer radio hobbyists are retired man, many of whom have a background in military communications or electrical engineering.
I used to have a CB and it was fun to talk to mates on there and muck around. At the time I liked the idea of HAM radio because you could go longer distance, and the idea of speaking to someone in another country was really cool. However now with the internet etc. it may seem a little less cool. (The internet was around when I was young but was pretty expensive to get connected).

I remember a time when someone on the CB got 64kbps connection to the internet through packet radio, faster than dial up!

It's a bit like how mucking around with microcomputers was very cool back in the day, but now why would you bother when you can run a C64 in an emulator? But there is something nostalgic about it that makes me sometimes want to buy and old computer.
It's not for everyone, but projectors are mostly bereft of "smart" features. You plug in input sources, and that's it.
I received a tour from u/alienth when I dropped by the Wired office in 2012 on a cross-country motorcycle trip. I appreciated the visit!
Ambient computing doesn't mean that all the computing devices can do the same thing, i.e. that a phone or a watch or a tablet will do everything a laptop can do. It means that distinct devices are integrated into a single experience in a complementary way.

> If you could wirelessly and seamlessly use the same device to do that work on a larger screen, powered by that phone, they would absolutely want to push that.

This vision works just as well if the larger screen is powered by its own computer instead of the phone.
Ie, the present you has no way of overcoming your past self or your environment.

You are answering to someone that clearly expressed that you are your past self. Why would you want getting rid of yourself?

This means that you're essentially sitting in a roller-coaster ride, with no levers to pull or opportunity for change.

Not at all. Human being can learn, practice and make all kind of efforts to change ourselves. Sports, arts, science are all fields where humans show how to improve.

You are getting to the no-levers problem by drawing a line between "you" and "what you do", as if you have nothing to do with what you do. Why?
Here are the interview notes:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iyv_sxpmdFg8EZV7vuRb...
There's a fascinating report about how Dr. Horst Voelz (the most popular computer scientist in Eastern Germany) for the first time in 1987 (edit: 1986) sent BASIC programs "illegally" (meaning without notifying government officials) in a live broadcast from his living room on the GDR "national school radio", which quickly became the most popular radio show in Eastern Germany (the all-in-all 60 radio shows received 50,000 letters which was unheard of), all despite attempts from the Ministry of Education to shut it down.

Here's the PDF of the report written by Dr.Voelz himself:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181107231024/http://r-h-voelz....
Why sell us one device when they can sell us two or three? I own an iPhone and a MacBook Pro. Why would Apple want to leave all that money on the table by converging these two devices?
> his role in Apple is to provide strategic direction and guidance

That's the feeling I got, as well as perhaps being a human abstraction layer between the engineers and the executives. If you can describe in relatively understandable terms something that is technically difficult to thousands of laypeople (well, that's unfair - Anandtech was for nerds but being a nerd doesn't make you an IC/EE engineer), you'd be an asset to both the corporate and engineering teams.

And that translation works both ways - understanding the direction of the company with regards to future products vs what you want to get out of your silicon teams (e.g. when Anand mentions thermal envelopes, that might include an understanding of the limitations stemming from the potential form/design and material of a future product).
When I hear a roommate or family member walking down the stairs somewhere else in the house, I can immediately tell who it is based on the sound of the pattern of how fast and how hard they are walking.