skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The court found Apple violated two of Qualcomm’s software patents around resizing photographs and managing applications on a touch screen."

Well, that's not exactly the victory they wanted, but I think Qualcomm will take anything they can get at this point.
I've quickly become addicted to longform (10+ minute) nonfiction youtube videos, whether it be a comprehensive analysis of Neverwinter Nights or 24 minutes on the advanced features of the laserdisc. Most, if not all of the content creators have Patreon pages, and I even contribute to a few. The content is so niche it's unimaginable that Netflix or any other content behemoth would develop their own version of it.
"not one person responsible for crashing the economy"

https://www.amazon.com/Stabilizing-Unstable-Economy-Hyman-Mi...

The incentives in capitalism "crash the economy". Yes, there was bad behavior. However focusing on individual behavior misses the forest for the trees.

Here's how it works.

Banks start off conservative. Banks only offer loans that pay themselves off. There's a run of good years. The incentive in capitalism is to make more money, and based off the recent history of good years, Bank A realizes they can offer more aggressive loans (e.g. interest only), take market share, and make more money. So Bank A does that.

Bank B now has the choice of matching Bank A, or losing market share (and maybe their business). So Bank B matches and maybe also offers less money down. This cycle continues with progressively more aggressive loan offerings until there's a run of bad years and things and people are stuck with too aggressive financing.
Well thank you. I'm a big fan of your newsletter as well :)
Every unit of blood is tested before use.

Many of the screening questions just reduce waste in the face of plenty of willing donors.
i’d say the bus picture classification is a pretty telling example that something’s missing in the amount of knowledge deep learning is able to extract from training data sets.

Anybody who understand what a school bus is wouldn’t mistake it for a snow plow in the other pictures.
I vividly remember banks running mortgage scam paper mills that would try and foreclose on anyone and everyone, legally or not.

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/yvxajb/what-happened-when...

Individuals have a responsibility to act realistically. But the ultimate responsibility for due diligence lies with lenders. And when banks commit fraud on an industrial scale, and get away with it, it stops being a problem of individual misbehaviour and becomes a problem of institutionalised corporate corruption.
Why? You really only need the C library to be able to pass a data pointer to the callback, and most do.

This sounds like a native compiler perspective to me; with pure VM fibers like Snigl's these are not issues.

It's not about direction, it's about controlling the world from the outside.

You sound more like you're on a mission to prove to the world it's impossible, since Rust didn't manage to get it right.
How 1 Company Pulls Carbon from the Air, Aiming to Avert a Climate Catastrophe
Why would they need cash now that they're highly cash flow positive?

Their revenues are increasing 50+% YoY and they became profitable while ramping up. Competitors are now publishing profit warnings and are quickly losing market shares in segments where EV are being produced in volume. The latest figures should be pretty scary: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/08/tesla-model-3-completel...

Some ICE manufacturers won't cross the EV chasm. They may even try to sell themselves to Tesla (too late I guess).
You're just trying to make yourself feel better or superior and you don't much like it when other people are better prepared, capable of looking after themselves, and otherwise self-sufficient, do you? It upsets you, doesn't it?

It's okay, you're not alone. There are armies of government workers who behave like you. They want all of us to live on their plantations.

Whether or not "prepping" is a useful activity, e.g. the stockpiling of goods, the MENTALITY of it is highly useful--that people can come around to the idea that there isn't secret knowledge that only a few can have, is what is most important. Democratized knowledge and being able to "make do" used to be a time-honored tradition in the US. It's only in recent memory that people have gotten too comfortable with just in time supply lines which, as we see all too often, can be gone in an instant. And then there's the cashless crowd, constantly pushing us away from being able to trade between each other without a third party involved. We never needed these assholes before and we don't need them now, either.
Trade war disguised. Qualcomm got China’s back and likely win this time
The next thing I want Apple to do:
If an app will request location services, it must:
1. Have a specific publicly available URL that contains all "location data" terms, conditions, and privacy information.
2. Monitor that URL and reset the permission dialog if the URL ever changes.
3. Immediately disable location services for that app if the URL disappears.
They tend to do that - a rapid surge in press releases and after that up to a year of silence.

I've stumbled upon them years ago back when they were promising 1MW/6MWh modules, 10k cycles and usage in EVs.

They backed down on these promises somewhat since, so I guess what they have now is a real product.

I expect some more news late summer when the construction of the plant will be - hopefully - already in progress.
Heh, interesting. My assumption is that even network assisted GPS is a part of AOSP versus Play Service. This assumption was that UnifiedNLP [1] scans for networks/cell towers and correlates it to location, it does not appear to implement networked assisted GPS.

[1] https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp
Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
Growing up Aaron Swartz's blog post series Raw Nerve was one of the most influential readings for me, the website that hosted them is now down:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve

Here is the archived version of it: http://archive.is/8uu5x or http://archive.fo/8uu5x
In related news, Qualcomm seems to be shutting down its Centriq division, which China announces its own similar chips. Coincidence?

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/qualcomm-lays-off-26...?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/10/qualcomm_layoffs/

AMD made the same "devil's deal" with China, essentially giving away their IP for a small price. It's interesting how China is now basically telling foreign companies "We'll just take your IP and make your product ourselves here. Here take some change for it." I can only imagine this type of "deal" will continue to be made with other companies in the coming years.

https://www.eweek.com/servers/china-s-hygon-unveils-x86-proc...
Interesting thing is Flutter was started as an experiment by guys on the chrome team, Ian Hickson, co-editor of the CSS 2.1 spec, works on Flutter as a TL.
An aim of the Flutter team is to improve the developer experience.

Google uses a design pattern to helps to separate presentation from business logic, this allows them to share code across flutter and the web.
https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/bloc

Here is the design bit from Flutter 1.0 live stream.
https://youtu.be/NQ5HVyqg1Qc?t=5940
Only two? Most of the people you are describing have >100 guns and more ammunition than they could use in two lifetimes. And yes, they're disgustingly obese.
interestingly, that was my experience using google's own image sync on ios and android as well (a few years back, to be sure).
Have you tried watching one or two? You might be the type of person prone to find them interesting, that's what the machine thinks of you anyway.
Can't confirm this experience. I have auto-upload enabled, and I've never had any issues with my pictures not syncing. Did you check the upload status on your phone during this time? Pictures can get very heavy, and it might just need more WiFi time to upload 20 of them.
> all good points in replies. i stand corrected on my understanding of this issue :)

Madoff's fund wasn't regulated, too. If you buy a house or stocks, you are into a regulated market.

Edit : by "regulated" I probably meant public. Not sure if the english term is correct ; one may want to check Shiller's course about hedge funds on youtube. My point being, those funds are only accessible to the very rich who will never spend their principal.
In your linked post, you seem to be saying "Everyone knows that positive articles are usually PR, you don't need to point it out."

Everyone doesn't know that. You know it because you were an ad exec. Educating people who aren't yet sufficiently cynical about stealth advertising is a valuable goal.
It's just one front among many in their battle. The idea is to make things difficult for Apple.
"Origin DNS Error" on the archive link.
So this is just a copy of https://haveibeenpwned.com/?
> i'd made sure I could pay off at the bank

> Then out of nowhere I lost my job, ..., and after about 3 months I was effectively homeless.

You absolutely, positively, need to have 6 months of buffer when you buy a home. If you're homeless in 3 months, then it means you're overextended.
Jeffry Picower, your number is being called.
"You just clicked on a video about making a mostly square block of metal into an even more square block of metal. Just saying." -ThisOldTony
Any gap in the market for a privacy phone? i.e. Android customised to block all telemetry by default.
What gets me, and makes me sad, is how javascript-enabled browsers (and really the magic happened with IE and its XMLHttpRequest) are clearly addressing a need the vast majority of the computing world has: running applications simply (without installing, because that's been made complicated) and with a reasonable expectation of security (sandboxed).

For all the time browsers have been providing this, no one's ever come even close to a good alternative.

That's why the JS-powered browsing experience will never go away, there's nothing like it for how people actually use computers now.
Another field is being upended by deep learning methods, that's what happened.

A small team from DeepMind with mainly AI/ML expertise won first place at a prominent academic competition, besting teams of experts by a surprising margin.

Academics who have invested a lifetime studying and working on the problem are suddenly wondering if their skills and experience are at risk of becoming less relevant. They're wondering, how could a bunch of neophytes pull this off? Is this just the opening salvo?

A natural reaction will be to dismiss this as "nothing new, just better engineering and clever hacking with more resources." Another reaction will be to dismiss deep learning techniques as "curve-fitting without insight."

Such dismissals are misguided in my view. Judging by how quickly deep learning methods have become the dominant approach for producing state-of-the-art results in other fields, I would expect the same thing to happen in this field.
I cannot imagine how its possible for a regulatory body to be financially liable in place of the actual players for wrongdoing. The economics are wacky. The SEC doesn't get a portion of the profits how is it supposed to secure investors against malfeasance by the actual players?

You are basically asking for the government to insure that nothing bad ever happens and accept unlimited liability if it ever does.
A possible cause is that not all file systems support the same character sets in paths, so syncing can fail due to invalid names. In this syncthing issue, someone mentions that e.g. Hangouts inserts colons in image names: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/1734#issuecomm...

Maybe Seafile somehow found a good solution that doesn't cause breakage in other places. Any specific reason you want to switch to them?
What has meaning to you? What tugs at your soul when you can't sleep? Where does your mind go between tasks during the day?
I think it is possible and also very true. IMO, the reason this is treated different is two fold. One, it gives everyone a fall guy and is intended to be a deterrent for any other individual to try to do the same thing in the future. Two, the large investment companies and companies that rated their vehicles have lots of culpable people but it was all systemic. Which of the 1000 people involved should go to jail? I know it would have caused major problems but we should have let them fail. We are in an even worse position now with companies that are even much too big to fail and they've been trained that the government will bail them out if mistakes are made.
CastlevaniaBot is a plugin for the Nintaco NES emulator that plays Castlevania
That is easy. Try linking gab.com, bitchute.com, sputniknews.com, usareally.com, dangerous.com, rt.com, vk.com, etc, etc, etc.

You will get some rude words and maybe IP-ban too.
Well at least you aren't mad enough to revolt because then change might occur. Ah right, revolt is impossible due to economic conditions.
Correct. The goal was to have your lights automagically adjust during the day / evening, provide a gentle wakeup for winter countries / months with more blue light, and have a soft light for 3AM when you stumble to the bathroom.

I do reasonable amounts of manufacturing of other products, so had existing contacts on the ground.

The prototype build was a fully functioning strip with wifi control (and a very basic / terrible app attached).

Sticking points were marketing and bricks and mortar distributions - which are always large problems to solve.
LEDs also use phosphors -- in that way an LED is like a miniature fluorescent tube. Just like fluorescents, LEDs (at least those used for illumination) have an undesirable emission spectrum that's converted to "white" with a phosphor coated enclosure. (LEDs generally have a very narrow spectrum, and the GaN system used for lighting can produce blue and shorter wavelengths, depending on doping.)
Didn't RIM try something like that?
Webinar on Make a Right Shoring Choice
I watched the first couple of episodes of that and while I do enjoy it I wouldn't pay a monthly for a YouTube Premium subscription just to watch one show. The other show that it keeps suggesting to me is Origin which looks interesting too, but it's still not enough.

Edit: Origin, not Origins.
I'd like to know more about the telemetry

So what do you base “These days consumer Win10 seems to be a data harvesting tool” on?
>people do care enough to stop but they don't know how

I'd guess the vast majority of HN users will be primarily users of Windows/Mac OS and proprietary software. Many HN users will use GMail, Google Maps, Google Play Services... an so on.

Are we going to pretend that your average HN user doesn't understand the pros/cons of their software choices? Personally, I'd prefer to credit them with the intelligence to have made a balance and reasoned decision (albeit one I fundamentally disagree with).

This trickles down to less tech savvy users too. Many of my colleagues in Medicine are more than aware of such issues due to rules and regulation on data storage and the like. They know, for example, why patient data should never be on Google Drive or GMail. They still continue to use those services for personal use, despite being aware, because they simply aren't sufficiently motivated to change their habits. GMail is familiar, and hence easy, so why switch to ProtonMail (for example)?

>How can you get a job if you don't have a phone? How can you get a job when literally every affordable phone tracks you?

I have a very good career and have used Replicant OS and Lineage OS. I now use a dumbphone because I dislike smartphones for other reasons. There are many, many successful people who can function perfectly well without the latest iPhone.

>People that say that consumers don't care enough to stop is living in their own bubble insulated from real people.

Please don't resort to ad hominem attacks on Hacker News. It is uncalled for, and there are more appropriate ways to put your point across.
Not exactly. Makers of woodworking tools consider football a bigger competitor than other woodworking tool manufactures. If you buy a nice tool from a different brand - well there is a chance you will buy from them latter. If you get addicted to football and quit doing woodworking you won't buy from them at all.
Slightly worrying given that I had a cataract operation in my mid-30s. OTOH, I suspect I should be far more worried about the health impact of filthy diesel.
You're welcome to try your way to provide good careers to these people. Just because other entrepreneurs didn't do it doesn't mean you should let it stop you!
No. a and b are things I better understand - they're just "two facts otherwise unspecified". Sally and Bob bring with them all this baggage about humans and names and stuff, so it's kind of stupid to use them as descriptors. Two things: firstly, everybody and their grandma knows about de Morgan's laws, so this is a bad example, and secondly, humans best learn abstract ideas through concrete examples, yes, but if you really need to explain something using examples like "Milk" and "Sugar", then that is best done in comments, not in the code, whose very purpose is to unambiguously specify the abstract idea.

This brings up an interesting idea, though - are there any programming languages that "learn" what the user wants by example? What would that even look like?
Yes, it was published before it was ready, it'll be live properly tomorrow.
Google doesn't want you to know that you can program websites in the middle of nowhere with very relaxed hours and have a content life that doesn't require you selling your soul to FAANG.

I haven't looked deep into it because I just don't care at this point, but 200k in Mountain View isn't the same 200k in other places.
Actually, for the wealthy I know, finding accounting and tax loop holes is better than the Superbowl for them. They treat the activity like a Sherlock Holmes adventure.
And I still like my incandescent light bulbs.

Sure, when the AC is on in late spring/summer, LED makes a heck of a lot more sense. But when the heat is on, filament lightbulbs serve as space heaters as well as glowy-warm lights.

And with the whole open question of blue light and retinopathy, tells me that until this is resolved that again, incandescents are better than LEDs. I already knew that those damned 'blue LEDs' are painful at night. I now know why.
I was shocked reading it — truly horrified: I once hesitated to invest in what proved suspicious companies, and I definitely thought about the possibility of getting out. Experiencing claw-back after that because others were not as considerate… Wow. However, the article names people who definitely should have known better: people who know what are reasonable returns, but also what you need and can do to get unreasonable ones. People who absolutely could have decided this was fishy.

There is a principle in banking around your level of expertise: you can’t invest too much if you are not knowledgeable enough. It’s a little unfair to the young aspiring investors, but it allows to put strict requirements on large institutions without hurting people who legitimately couldn’t have known.

That decision does introduce a precedent and a new level of responsibility: if it is too good to be true, you are liable for it all. This might also introduce interesting trickle-down decisions: you could be on the hook for alerting authorities if you come across one of those because you have to check, and if you found something uninspiring, you can’t claim deniability.

It’s uncomfortable at first, but as long as that responsibility is carried by reasonably large investors only, it makes sense. Whether it might have negative consequences (typically, gatekeeping the best opportunities) is debatable.
The Senate binned Republicanism when they murdered the Gracchi.
Indeed. Plenty of wealthy people love this.
> I mean I do think the general level of quality of movies and TV shows is going down

I'd say it's the opposite, at least for TV. We're in the golden age, as they say. There are so many damn good shows out there.

And if you compare modern remakes to the old school versions, usually the difference in quality is drastic. Been watching She-Ra, and the old one is basically garbage compared to the remake. Same thing for Ducktales: the new one doesn't just have better animation, it's way smarter too (and I loved Ducktales as a kid).
‘Hyperactive’ comet to make one of closest approaches ever
I like it when you express a different concept in each dimension (typically, likelihood and amount of a payoff) but in this case, it’s odd. You can have horizontal bars if you are tight for space.
In light of how regulated hedge funds are, it doesn’t seem so bad.

I think that if you’re ever insentivized to be ignorant, then that suggests some ethical shenanigans. If someone like Madoff can live the charmed life he had and pay the price while other investors that profit from it can just keep the profits, it creates some very perverse incentives in the market.
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I think the OP was talking about quality differences on watches than the utility of a watch itself.

A 10$ watch does everything the $1000 watch does. The $990 are purely a fashion statement. The quartz being low quality doesn't affect the usability of the watch in anyway. If anything, the cheap digital watch with silicone straps is the e most comfortable and fuctional of all watches.

This is unlike clothing, where the 300$ suit or jacket does often have genuinely better fit, comfort and lasts longer.
Yes, the problem is that people associate what you have with what you are. Which are not the same thing. And therefor, make money the root of all evil today.

If we traded in goats, it'd be how many goats you have. It doesn't matter at all the medium, as long as the value is tenable.
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I understand what it means and it quite succinctly describes an article that is bought and paid for but not disclosed as such.

Regarding the link, I can see why an ex-marking executive would be annoyed about a way to easily communicate such tactics with a "buzzword". Submarine articles probably work quite well when trying to build an image for a company.
I got 3/6 right using the iPhone XR built-in speakers (other three were 320k). I then tried it again with someone else clicking the buttons (in case they weren’t randomized order) using my DAC/amp and headphones and got 5/6.

The thing that gives it away for me is the extreme highs and lows, both are clipped when compressed usually. I should note, I wasn’t picking which “sounded better”, but rather which “sounded uncompressed”. Several of the tracks sounded better at 320k than they did uncompressed to me. Despite being rather close to 40, I am still able to easily hear sounds well over 20kHz.
I think any place that mandates TDD will have a lot of "normalization of deviance".

Often the unknowns in software development aren't the kind of things you can test in a unit test.

As for Kent Beck, he's like Tony Robbins. Kent Beck might have been a software developer but now his business is giving talks.

My experience is that "TDD" works best in a "plan it all ahead of time" scenario. For instance if you wanted to write a C compiler you know what the syntax and behavior is ahead of time and you can start with an extensive test suite.
De Morgan's law is just "not all true <=> at least one's false". I'm not sure why people complicate it beyond that.
Point of symphony was the privacy focus. If you are a bank you could imagine the issue with have all your data in Slack or a Bloomberg chat DB.
I completely agree with you, but the parent's comment is saying that the very people who need to be protected are the very ones who don't want government involvement.

> Especially in a country like US where people don't like to be limited/controlled (read protected) by laws.

Not sure what a good solution is, but it's difficult to help those who don't want to be helped.