skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subtly visible in fotoforensics:

http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=9c41c242d475089ea8c...
Well I mean this seems entirely reasonable to me - I’m not sure but I suspect he isn’t an engineer, and even if he is, why waste time and money on designing something that has already been designed and built?

I’m also surprised that so many people in the comments are against this, especially given how often I’ve seen people on HN arguing we should be getting rid of IP law.
Props for shipping!

Also initially read - lazydog as name, it would be cool name as well :)

I see it being useful for doing quick testing or hackathons, when setting up some infrastructure is not worth it the hassle or time.

Would suggest adding PayPal donate button for free tear users.

As an additional feature would suggest adding export of logs as archive or export/import to some other log aggregators.
> So in some recent version of ios 12, Apple changed the way they resize photos and manage applications on screen to get around Qualcomm's patents.

How did they change it?
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How do you guarantee this, Cullen?
We're using the PA PCM method in our student association. Works good enough.
I think it has been shown since then that for modern computer chess engine the human member of the centaur team is always detrimental. It's strictly superior to systematically ignore the human suggestions.
A lot of pubs are very close to residential addresses, so the house next door gets Sky and runs a cable through to the pub.
Obviously I'm not saying that you absolutely _need_ to start young, but I suspect there's a very strong correlation between people who discover and stick at programming when they are young and those who are good at it.

I also suspect that if you flex those particular muscles hard from a relatively early age, they will become stronger relative to someone who doesn't. The original author believes that programming requires a unique combination of skills/abilities which is why he is fond of it. If that's genuinely the case you're better off starting practicing that earlier than later, surely?
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I'm not entirely sure... Wireless is shared bandwidth and fairly constrained, even with 5G tech. Interference is another huge issue if they tried. It would be somewhat nice for more rural areas where broadband feels like it's stuck in the late 90's (even in areas not so rural).

It's also worth noting that Verizon is also the most expensive wireless carrier out there by a pretty good margin. I only use them because when I'm on road trips, they're often the only provider I get signal with. If I were just in town, I'd probably switch to a lower cost carrier, and rely on wifi more.
When I say three times the cost, I primarily mean for the web, mobile and desktop. Not for the varying OS distributions.

Electron provides a means to handle all of those environments with some admitted drawbacks on desktop. I'm not a proponent of Electron, just stating (IMO) the likely reason for it's adoption.
Thanks. Looks like something I need a Raspberry Pi to run? I'd like something that just works out of the box, zero building or fiddling with hardware.
There's not even a marketing stunt. This was a question in an interview and Elon answered offhandedly. No marketing involved. Nothing deep involved. No actual plans involved.

Yes, very likely nothing will come of it as it was just an offhand comment.
Are you saying that the more complicated things are, the more it hints at a simulation?

Here, let me ask the most important question: What evidence about how things work on earth would make you less likely to believe the world is a simulation? Because it's always possible to come up with a justification after seeing evidence.

(Other planets are a different issue entirely.)
He wasn't killed, they were ("only") going to imprison him.
> For someone who claims to like and respect Aaron, you are rather dismissive of him and his "rant".

People you like and respect can have very naive ideas.

>but it isn't today as most news ( local, national and international ) is owned by a handful of conglomerates who more or less share the same value.

You might be thinking of broadcast news? It's definitely not true of all local news sources.

All journalism is full of biases (of the institution, of the individual reporter, etc). You can (and should) still get the news out of them. Learning that your local council is holding a big vote in a week is still important news whether or not its coming from a source on the payroll of a company owned by clearchannel.
I don't know, but the whole Circles things was overcomplicated and average users didn't bother to put their followers into different circles, I am not sure how they thought this would work.
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When you have a good plan for getting out of something you're that much more likely to get into it. Think about it -- this the easiest way to get more people to try creating more startups.
Useful to know if you want to keep your digestion running predictably, without hidden disruptors: "One thing you might not know is that a lot of bakeries put a substance called a mold inhibitor on bread. This stuff, which is called mycoban, is going to suppress the fungus, so you should probably use bread that you baked yourself."
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> especially given how often I’ve seen people on HN arguing we should be getting rid of IP law.

Anecdotally, after years of being on HN I can't recall anyone arguing to get rid of copyright.

Tons of arguments for getting rid of software patents, strengthening fair use, and putting abandonware in the public domain but flat out against copyright as a concept is a bit extreme for NH.

Again, just an anecdote based on my experience.
>It sounds like the Szilard petition wanted to incentivize Japan to surrender by conceding to them some post-war self-determination.

This is not the case, the petition was to prevent the US from dropping a bomb unless Japan had been given the terms of surrender and refused them. This did not happen, and thus the situation can't be boiled down to "nuke or invasion" as there was a third option was not tried. I'm not making any further arguments, my positions on them are extreme and I don't want to try to convince others of them.
The fear of contracting something from equipment is one reason why I go to an eye doctor who uses contactless air-puff glaucoma diagnostic machines rather than the older style which touches the eye.

In my last several visits, nothing has touched my eye at all.
Wow, surprised this hasn’t generated more coverage. They’ve turned a giant chunk of their userbase, likely completely unknown to a majority of users who understandably won’t read the small print, into snitches/whistleblowers.

This presumably also inadvertently returns the home address of anyone opening the app while watching a game in their own living room? Not a huge stretch to move from pursuing public places without the correct licensing to pursuing individuals for pirate streams.

> "It also specifies that the feature is only deployed in its Android app."

Probably because this nonsense would cause a hellstorm in App Review on iOS.
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> No, the diodes don't, the drivers do. You are speaking to a technical audience ;)

Pulse width modulation. ;)
> The US is structured as a representative democracy, specifically because following politics and making reasoned decisions on all this stuff is a full time job.

I don’t think the original intent was that government would be involved in “all this stuff”, but I agree that representative democracy works for the system we’ve built since then.
But they do reproduce, by causing other proteins to misfold. If they didn't reproduce at all, then ingesting a few prions wouldn't cause any problems.

They can't reproduce outside of the body, but neither can viruses.
Possibly also helped to find NSA leaker Reality Winner, after the Intercept published good-quality scans of documents she'd printed at work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner#Intelligence_re...
I get you're trying to make a joke, but it's a weird criticism of Verizon specifically. Every FiOS circuit I've had over the last 15 years, except for some growing pains with gigabit, has tested at 10% over its rated speed. Verizon also has particularly generous compensation: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/verizon-workers-... (union members make $130,000 on average in salary and benefits).
> Looking at research and listening to experts in this fields, it is really fascinating how anything can be made into a value system for social status

Do you have any resources that you recommend?
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I'm in the process of porting a reasonably complex hobby app that I built in RN to Flutter.

Things I like better about Flutter:

- Cleaner upgrades. For mere mortals like myself, RN can be really painful to upgrade sometimes. This is imho the most frustrating part of working in RN.

- Navigation makes sense out of the box in Flutter. react-navigation is getting better, but there has been a lot of churn there and there's still no community consensus on the "right" navigation library for RN.

- More opinionated stylized components. It takes a lot less work to get something that looks good using the standard components in Flutter.

- Dart is typed (yes I could use TypeScript with RN, but at least when I started building my app in RN, Flow was in some circles the preferred typing system and it took non-trivial effort to get TS working in RN in earlier versions).

Things I like better about RN:

- I think the debug tools, especially if you're using redux is superior in RN

- Greater portability to the web. Yes, the Flutter team is beginning to address this with Hummingbird, but there are many more options with RN

- React is still my go-to for building webapps, and even though Dart is quite similar to JS, improvements/maintenance of React skills while working on a mobile app is quite nice.
Could be a great way to get someone you hate fired or sued. Just leak something with an image using your enemies' watermark on it. Or something else that can be tracked back to them.
Yes. Directional antenna with EXTREMELY low bitrates so that the bits have a long time to accumulate any noise out of the signal. Specifically its at 160 bits per second at a transmit frequency of 8 GHz.
>I grew up in a place practicing one-candidate votes (i.e., you choose between "in favor" that in the end will show 95+% and "against" with no alternatives) so acquired immunity to "citizen votes solve all problems" mentality.

I grew up in a place with effectively single party rule, and it was imbued into our culture that it's pointless to vote because you'll never unseat that party anyway. A big recent change was when, in a semi-recent election, an opposition party won an electoral constituency, worth a mere 5% of parliamentary votes, by the thinest of margins. I couldn't tell you what the opposition platform was today. But regardless of the fact that the opposition still wielded absolutely no legislative power, this led to an era of what many would consider a very electorate friendly legislative push.

This "don't vote for the lesser of two evils" business is nonsense. Use your right to vote relentlessly: to punish arrogant politicians, to press on single issues, to fight for the lesser of two evils because it is the LESSER of two evils. Finding and balancing the lesser of two evils is your job as a voter.

Even if your desired choice has no chance of winning, grinding down the margin, year after year, makes the other side nervous and more willing to compromise. Even if your desired choice has no chance of losing, expanding the margin gives them more room to take less "centrist" stances and push for the things you want. If there's a lesser of two evils, keep voting until the more of two evils has no choice but to compromise and become less evil. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The Neapolitan Novels were quite well recieved. Eventhough they are widely loved, it never felt like the story was simplified in order to reach a large audience. Ferrante wove together the culture and politics of Naples over the decades with the intimate personal lives of the characters. I look forward to revisiting these books when I'm older, since I'm sure my perspective on main character’s various life stages will change as my own life changes (I'm 28 now).
Hello Raf. Someone in the comments below confirmed it, as well as on twitter :-)

As a side note, I don’t see why after not having any substantial interaction in nearly a decade you continue to see the need to follow me around and harass me.
My name is Alex, I'm the author of the original article on Percona Blog. I wanted to thank everyone for the great comments and discussion! Additional SQL examples are great as well.
Does all this stuff lately where companies are pulling out of china or the US or the US is arresting heads of companies etc feel like thucydides trap is just getting closer and closer?
Reminds me of the $100 iphone x clone
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmkdd/counterfei...
When a bug can save a life :D
Really it doesn’t.

Sure there are some times where having source access to other projects helps, but in most cases it really doesn’t.

Essentially at best it turns “this function takes more time than I would expect” into the same thing with “... I think because of X”.

You may think “I could fix it” but again in most cases any fix will require you knowing why certain trade offs were made. Designing around internal design also means you may end up having overly complex code that continues to exist if the library changes design to improve that case. It may even become slower, or worse if your software is important enough may prevent future improvements that would benefit everyone.

So no, being open source does not magically make all bugs trivially fixable.
Can you explain why? I'm not saying this is wrong, but they definitely replicate (by encountering and warping other proteins), so are you (and grandparent) saying that the replication rate is too slow? If so, why? Are you saying we have no means of transmitting proteins? (that sounds wrong, though I've been wrong before)

From my (ignorant, despite being interested in prions for decades now) perspective, you have something that (1) can replicate, (2) is durable (3) is harmful, and only the relative rarity of prions in general (because 1 and 3 are physically unusual to combine) have kept them from being a general problem. As we tinker with DNA and thus look into creating new proteins and factors that would influence protein-folding, I'd think it's worth taking the matter seriously (though not fear-mongering), certainly as part of our need to understand proteins better anyway.

What are my faulty assumptions?
Well, that's true. But being able to follow people (like on Twitter, not like friending on Facebook) is nice. As is not having character limits.
When shutting down, founders need somehow magically to know how to do it "right" or as best possible, when they have no experience of that.

I think investors should consider requiring founders prove they know how to shut down properly before giving money to grow in the first place.

Here are the basics:

-- what the ethical issues, how to "do the right thing"

-- how to shut down when they can still do so without debt being incurred.

-- what to say to which staff members and investors and when to say it

-- what the legal obligations are

-- how to either get acquihired, or how to find jobs for existing exployees

-- what legal bombs to avoid and how

-- what the biggest legals traps are in shutting down, such as leases which will remain fully payable
Because Steven has literally talked about this on Twitter.
I'm on mobile right now and couldn't play it, but looks good. Nice work!
They're the most expensive carrier in a highly competitive market that will likely get more so in the next 3-5 years.
What do you mean by "not on the web"? It is accessible on the web. Everybody with a web browser can see public posts and replies. For writing new posts, you need an account though. Here is the public account of Mastodon's founder: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron
In my imagination this would initially be like your SAFE template or perhaps a checklist. A legally vetted document that tries to take into account the interests of both founders and investors while covering the important bases.

I'm glad it's being thought about one way or another!
One of my major career regrets was leaving a job about 6 months before they offered voluntary layoffs with generous severance. I was already grumpy with the job. If only I held my nose and stuck around those six months, I would have been first in line for the package!
IMO nagging, scolding, etc only serves to motivate people to get you off their back, not to become better.
>for not voting. I vote in local government matters

"I vote in local government matters" doesn't really put you in the "not voting" camp.

>while I'm a blue voter in a permanently very blue state.

It provides signals. Vote for other blue candidates to show support.

>your dismissal of youthful naivety

The dismissal is of people who don't vote. Those people are the issue because voting is the only way to get changes into your local governments, etc.
Huh, you may be right - in JSC and webkit the timer precision is deliberately limited for precisely that reason.
There's a kind of shutting down not covered here: getting acquired. Too often a phrase similar to "our incredible journey"[0] appears, in which case as an end-user you know the time for enjoying the service is at an end just as surely as if the startup went bankrupt.

[0] https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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This is another "Forbes Contributor" post. This means that it's just a blog post, though, admittedly, Cohan is a smart guy.

Does anyone else think Forbes should do more to separate volunteer content from editorially directed and reviewed journalistic content? Or is this just a moot point since folks don't trust "Forbes" as a brand?

It feels like, to me, someone saying "I went to Stanford" in a conversation because they walked on the campus. Just because Forbes hosts the content doesn't mean it's at the same quality as a true Forbes spawned story.

Since the Forbes.com front page appears to now be almost 3/4 contributors, I guess it's working for them. Still feels wrong.
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> Every office except senator was decided by majority vote

For some values of "majority vote". The voting was by centuries / tribes, both of them being extremely unbalanced in voting power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Roman_Republi...
I've worked on AAA games that have had similar watermarks to catch leak sources.
Not quite biology, but sulfanilamide is simple enough to synthesize at home, as is dapsone and maybe isoniazid. Most antibiotics (e.g. cipro) are way out of reach, though.
Who would be the aggressor? China? Or the US?

Also - I had to look up "thucydides trap" so thanks for the new knowledge!
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Circles was fantastic, and continues to be what I wish for in a lot of other networks. Mainly because there are people I follow loosely (don't mind seeing the occasional update from), and people I follow religiously (because I know them personally or care about every single thing they say). I used to maintain really primarily two feeds. One I cared to always read all the time, and one I'd browse when I was bored.

G+ mostly mitigated the frustration of it for people who didn't care years ago: You can just click follow and it puts them in a default following circle.
There was a post a few weeks about getting rid of IP laws, with many comments from many people arguing that we should definitely get rid of all IP laws, including copyright.
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>and we can get our information from better sources than the news.

I'm not convinced. Reading books just subjects you to different biases from those authors. How are they supposed to be immune to problems periodicals have?
The population BECOMES the tyranny.

Tell 51% of the population that they are gods and if they don't feel like that it must be because of the other 49% percent.

fascists. tyrants. populists.
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Sure? Privately Aricent used to claim they did a bunch of their R&D
Google Maps used to display a message "please log in to see recent searches" or something like this. Which is ridiculous, there's nothing preventing them from storing search history on the device.

It was really annoying, because there is no back button in the app, so if you search for your hotel, then for a restaurant, and then want to show the hotel again, you had to type the full address again.

They seem to have stopped doing that, it's now possible to use Google Maps on iOS without signing in, and you still see recent searches.

They still display a message "sign in to get better search results". And a second message: "Add your phone contacts to search for their addresses". But it's a lot better than it used to be.
yeah, you're right about that, but given how difficult these things can be to actually measure in reality, I think an indirect measure is better than no measure at all (or a gut feeling). A lot of these races with heavy suppression were extremely close races, which obviously begs the question of how effective the voter suppression was and if it turned the tide (my money is on "almost certainly).

It turned out my vote was not particularly instrumental in the election I was participating in, but if just assumed that from the start I definitely wouldn't have gone out canvassing and trying to convince other people that their votes matter. If other people like me made similar decisions and didn't vote and didn't try to mobilize, would the election I participated in still have gone favorably? Maybe, but I know I sure felt a hell of a lot better doing everything I could than sitting on the couch worrying and fretting about things instead of actively trying to influence them.
> GoPro has been trying to drive demand for its trademark action-cameras - once a must-have for surfers, skydivers and other action junkies — as competition ramps up.

What are some better alternatives to GoPro available in Europe now? I mean original brands, not cheaper clones.
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There are an infinite number of shades of grey between “slap brand on an OEM product” and “the full Apple”. Companies often shift their approach (in both directions!) over time, and it will vary for different product lines.
I too have a Pebble that I'm happy to provide to anyone as well. OG Kickstarter edition. Free to a good home.
Currently reading "The Storm Before the Storm" and, though (or perhaps because) it is quite detailed with great depth, it's an enjoyable and engaging read.

I highly recommend it.
Former EVE player (Nulli Secunda) and long-time software engineer.

I saw this way back when and now assume any kind of NDA'd or questionable text has uniquely-identifiable unicode replacement character sequences and invisible watermarks. It's just too easy to do.
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I don't care whether or not it's a "twist". I care that there is an entire class of pathogen that we don't know how to sterilize a surface of.
HN thinks it doesn't.
I think the point he was making is that the news is broken. I want to invent a better a news app.
That is a scam. Severance should be paid as earned money, not as a debt.