skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How "modern man" forgets that the comforts of a "middle class level" are unobtainable for all but the Uber wealthy in the world.

Your problems are problems. But they're not real problems. Real problems like starving to death. And not "if I lose my job and x and y and z then I'll starve", but "I'm dying" kind of starve.
It's 2018 and Material Design still uses a floppy disk as a Save icon
>>Western Union doesn't claim to be accepting donations on creators behalfs.

Strictly speaking, Brave is not doing that. The fact that the originator of the solicitation is Brave, and that the potential end-recipient may not sign up to receive the funds, is disclosed.

It's an escrow fund that would release the funds to a particular party should they choose to claim it. That's how the contribution service is marketed.
The article is about cache effects on performance, independent of language. The example code just happened to be in C.
that was one of the best reads that I ever had! thanks for posting this.
> One would never be able to glean that based on what the western media reports on, however.

yeah. i feel this is an interesting point.

the article says that within China there are mainly disincentives to argue with or reason against the leader (Xi)

OTOH, Western media see mainly incentives to argue with and reason against the leader (Trump).

i daresay sometimes the Western media seem like theologians who already have the right answer (Trump and all of his statements and actions are by definition ignorant/wrong/bad) and have tasked themselves with constructing a path, a narrative, which supports only that answer.

and, of course, Trump himself acts a lot like a medieval theologian too, but one who belongs to a different religion than the media. also, he often commits heresy and even changes religion altogether. at unpredictable times.

so we're all rather confused about what's going on now and about what the future holds. interesting times.
> perfectly acceptable for a middleware with a valid cert from an authorized CA to intercept the traffic

Wow, that is a LOT easier said then done. With today’s Certificate Transparency Log requirements, any new certificate must have a cryptographically verifiable entry into at least two different public logs. If a bad actor at a CA were to generate this trusted cert you described, there would have to be a public record of it for it to be trusted. Beyond that, if the CA was found to be complicit, then they would lose their trusted status- looking at you Symantec.
"if we have a mechanism that takes away heat fast enough"

An interesting demonstration of this idea is putting a paper cup full of water into a fire. It won't burn where the water is touching it and eventually the water will start to boil.
If you trust the person to not be acting on malice, then I'd not worry too much about the precise semantics of those words and guess that the person is mainly expressing their frustration, hurt, etc.

What about responding to that honest emotional expression directly? "Ouch. I hadn't realize how much I'd hurt you. Truly, I'm sorry."
Oh no, it would've been worse from the fact that Microsoft and Oracle used BSD code in their proprietary OS's whose code they certainly didn't share. Plus, all the money they made let them fight against software freedoms with monopolistic schemes, lobbying, and lawsuits. It's much worse than just an open product with extensions.
I think you're making a distinction without a difference, since there is (or has been for a long time) an initial model supplied by personal recognition devices/software/etc., too. And sure, if it's not trainable by the user it's going to be using a generalized model. There are tradeoffs there, and the point of my comment was that for a personal speech recognizer it makes sense that it be trainable by the user, especially when the hardware is powerful enough.
I'm curious whether IP blocking is actually enough to comply with the spirit of a trade embargo.

Surely, the point of "not trading with Iran" is to avoid, through one's economic activity, enriching the citizens or corporations of Iran; and has nothing to do with preventing access to people who just happen to currently be within the geographic boundaries of Iran. (So: email blocking by detection of Iranian-ISP mail host = sensible; Iranian IP blocking = not-so-much.)

Unless, I suppose, you expect that a tourist accessing your service through an Iranian ISP, will be enriching the Iranian ISP to exactly the degree that you are serving them, and therefore, you are legally required to not serve the tourist, lest they enrich the ISP thereby. (That would be a hard point to prove.)

But actually, even if it was just the letter of the sanctions that you had to obey, I would expect that "not trading with Iran" would be a lot harder than it sounds—it would require, for example, that you do not trade with an Iranian citizen who is currently geographically located in, say, Mexico. How would you know? Your random IM webapp would need a KYC process (submission of ID documents, etc.) to be "sanction-compliant", wouldn't it?
> This issue will go almost unnoticed except by the techically aware minority, just as the wholesale decimation of India's environment by the current govt is also going unnoticed except by the small 'green' minority.

Would you care to expound to here? The last I checked this government has done more on renewable energy front than any other government.
This already exists... Android is MIT licensed and nearly every cell phone vendor has incompatible proprietary extensions.
Is Slack just an IM application?
There's probably more than just a financial upside, but I imagine someone like this would pretty much be considered a hero at home (even if not publicly admitted as such). It seems like this issue is pretty systemic/coordinated by a centralized party.
Internet should not be censored.
Arrests over Gatwick airport drones distruption
Don't put India in the same basket as China

We have fundamental enforceable human rights, democratic government, independent judiciary, (way too much)state-independent media, functional Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) regime while China lacks all of these.

Also, India has not even begun to setup the kind of real-time mass surveillance, through millions of cameras, already in place (to be fair, US is comparable here) or the upcoming dystopian big data-driven, social network-like integrated citizen evaluation program, Social Credit System(SCS) in China.

So, its wildly inappropriate to mention India and China in the same vein here
> Admittedly, Modi's government has consolidated more power in one person than most of India's past governments. But, even then it only in comparison to the nearly dysfunctional mega coalitions of the INC.

I don't like what is happening but it is far better than controlling the entire government from 10 Janpath.
One thing I definitely dislike are value/reference semantics, where arbitrary nested object structures are passed by value by default, but maps and slices are somehow magical and are passed by reference. I don't even care which one it is, but either everything non-primitive should be by reference by default, or by value.
Wanna know how I got these scars? I’ve tried to publish to the app store
Depends on the market being researched. Focus groups are one source, POS data is another. Large operators like Nielsen collect all kinds of data for all kinds of industries, which can be purchased. You collect what exists where it lies for the stuff you want to look at.
Tell HN: Vulnerable incumbent in EHR
Check out the comments from this $2.7b firm's users. The healthcare providers who are its users seem to hate it using lyrical language.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/business/epic-systems-campus-verona-wisconsin.html#commentsContainer

Can anyone familiar with the business ecosystem suggest market entry vectors for a replacement users might love?
There was no Aadhar in 1975-77.
Did they? Or did they ban people associated with specific IPs?
> there's a lot of upside to reducing the power of authoritarian oil states that gives dictatorships power to squash democracy and human rights.

Can you explain how you see that upside playing out? You're suggesting some sort of change in oil price, which alters Saudi Arabian politics, which leads to an improvement in human rights? What would that look like exactly?
Non-security upgrades probably _shouldn't_ be automated.
> So, you blocked users based on their nationality.

Where you are currently located or resident is effectively unrelated to your nationality (unless you were born a citizen of your country and have never left it, not even for a vacation).

This comment by Slack was in response to several (fairly overblown) comments that they were racially targeting users ("Slack bans Iranian in Canada"), when in fact they were disabling accounts of people who have used Slack from an embargoed country at some point. To be clear, this is still bad, just not "blocking users based on their nationality". All of the outrage was over expats (or travellers) being blocked.
Even Apple can't read iMessage. I guess in this case they will simply force you to unlock your iPhone to let them read everything in it.
Star Controll II, unlike any other game of its time, fired almost perfectly on all cylinders.

- Excellent storyline, for the most part
- Well written humor and dialogue
- Creative dialogue options
- Unique personalities for every species
- A sense of vastness in mystery in the universe that rewarded exploration.
- Great artwork
- Fun mini games, especially the "Super-Melee" combat
- Interesting RPG/upgrade element as you acquired new ships and parts for your main ship.
- Did I mention the music was both ahead of its time (tracker format when everything else was midi), and amazing?
I agree entirely with your sentiment. Still, I'm not sure corporate personhood means we should judge corporate action as we would human action. It's still not possible to expect corporations to never mistakes, but I wouldn't excuse it on the basis of their humanity.
Wow Raph is pretty busy/productive: xi, druid, a his company and this.
You’re thinking about this the wrong way. These people are on a mission for Mother China. It’s patriotism and loyalty. It’s why militaries everywhere get people signing up for a “glorious death” protecting the assets of billionaires.
"I remain worried that such games may one day get someone hurt. Not every thief will laugh it off."

I thought about that given all the violent crime in and around Memphis TN. The thugs out here are very unforgiving about stuff like this. Anyone trying to pull shit on them or any other area at that level should expect revenge that's worse than what they did in the first place. I strongly advise against doing this in any area that's high in violent crime, esp gangs or police forces with gang members.

That said, the evidence I've seen shows most violent crime happens in and around specific areas. Outside them, an action might not net a major, negative reaction. So, if productizing this, a modification that might help is making sure the thing doesn't fully go off if in a high crime or nearby area based on whatever data is available. It just records data for the police in those areas. In other cases, let it do its thing. Then, you have to worry about booby trap laws and damage to innocent folks (esp kids or anyone allergic to material). Assess the local, law scene to determine if it's still a go before doing that. I'm sure many jurisdictions would get a kick out of this entertaining themselves and the courtroom. Just gotta be careful about being in the right one.
Python 3: Ten years later
If this is an ERC 20 token I will eat my hat.
It wouldn’t be too much of an issue of their welfare system (like any other welfare system) wouldn’t be a ponzi scheme. Their tax rates are already crippling.
First Time Buyer or Seller – How Conveyancing Works
Why should anyone even bother using "Slack" when there is internet relay chat?
Maybe KJU, Khamenei, and Raul Castro has a secret slack group for plotting USA's downfall. You never know! /s

I'm betting that Slack only had to do this to comply with some dumb laws regarding sanctions because I am unable to see why anyone from these countries using civilian, commercial, non-sensitive services such as Slack would have any impact on sanction enforcement.
Right, and their blog post also says that after de-activating accounts, they have restored access to some of them. So what about all the accounts they banned but have not unbanned? What if one of those accounts has only ever connected from an embargoed country, but travels in the future to a non-embargoed country? Will it be able to use Slack?

(Put another way, it seems like they’re saying some accounts remain de-activated. So which is it? Accounts are de-activated or IP addresses are blocked?)
But the article isn't talking about the decision TSP, is it, so your objection doesn't apply?
Asian Myth about the Microwave Oven [video]
So what? What does that have to do with hardware?
Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption
There are enough fintech startups to choose from.
> Most people who want them labeled want to know because the amounts of pesticides and weed killers used on gmos.

So why aren't they asking for pesticide and weed killer labeling? This is not specific to GMOs and is not something that will apply universally to GMOs going forward.

> That’s disengenious. First your argued about label cost now you moved the goal posts to costs of not using gmos.

I didn't move the goal posts. You conceded the point that labeling increases the price of GMOs. I was responding to your argument that you can save that extra cost by not using GMOs by pointing out that this is even more expensive. GMO labeling will increase the price of food.

> I get it, any mandate on businesses, even if consumers want it, is wrong in your mind.

How did you get that? It's not true. I believe that many mandates are helpful. I'm in favor of current mandated nutrition labels on food.

> can you give a single example of labels that are bad for consumers?

Labels that are misleading are bad for consumers. Homeopathic medicine has labels that indicate it has ingredients that don't exist in the pills and labels that indicate effectiveness for conditions it has not been demonstrated to treat. This hurts consumers.

Food often has misleading non-mandated labels like saying an unhealthy snack is fat free to imply that it is healthy.

California's Prop 65 mandates labeling any thing or place that contain a known carcinogen. This results in labels everywhere with no indication as to level of risk. These labels are completely unhelpful and only train consumers to ignore warnings about carcinogens.

Some states have mandated labels on biology textbooks stating that evolution is just a theory. This is a misleading statement designed to trick people into believing falsehoods.

Again, I'm not against all labeling. I'm just against labeling that misleads consumers. We need GMOs to make food cheaper and more nutritious and increase yields. GMO labeling is just a scare tactic to get people to buy more expensive products, and it comes at the expense of disadvantaged people and the environment.
> Yeeeesss but, and it's a huge but, auto-didacticism in particular has huge risks. Misapprehension of core knowledge self acquired is remarkably hard to shift. Hence, huge numbers of ant vaxx, anti agw and like movements with self sustaining belief about science data and it's interpretation.

Are you sure the huge risks are attributable to auto-didacticism itself and not to the decreased cost of nation-state influencers to stir the pot in any or all of those categories of bunk?

I certainly wouldn't call a lot of the anti-vaxxers I've met autodidacts.
LG's Laser 4K beams a 120-inch picture from seven inches away
Of course the first thing that happens when you open qz.com is a banner ad that pushes the content past the fold by having css set to "width: 100%; height: 100%"

Of course, the author has no control of this and I'll keep reading.
Status is a powerful motivator.
If they own the device they can install trusted root CAs that are not public or have CT logs. Anyway,question is if you can call TLS end to end or not.
This isn’t a donation — they want the best return from their investment, and don’t care whom it does or doesn’t benefit externally.
They absolutely do, it’s just impossible to quantify. When the WiFi hardware is garbage on a phone non-technical people just call it “slow/buggy/glitchy” without really being able to identify why.
> This is much worst than what we saw in Australia, current Indian govt headed by right wing political party with track record of human rights abuses have passed this order without passing through Parliament using a loop hole in the IT ACT.

The main opposition party has far worse record of human rights abuses. So please spare us the propoganda

> This is likely aimed at upcoming elections for data analyses via ISP & to target journalists critical of the current govt in India.

Even prior to this government, journalists were being targeted by the regime. It has more to do with India's archaic laws(eg: defamation) than anything else.
8 GB is what I have in my 11 year old workstation, and in this day and age when 128 GB is pretty tight, it's a miniscule amount. Server hardware now has 3 TB of maximum memory.

Are you aware of the fact Sun Microsystems machines had 4 * 10 Gb... ten years ago?

None of this answers my question: when Amiga came out, it had the CustomChips and they enabled the system to wipe the floor with the competition because the hardware could do things nobody else could in that price segment. What features, other than standard P. C. bucket hardware capability does this board have that would qualify it as "cool" (the CPU with the terribly retarded mnemonics does empathically not count as "cool")?

Will we please stop with swooning over and pandering to trends and fashions and start looking at hardware critically rather than ideologically?
Are there any groups pushing their agenda with strong information campaigns as opposed to resorting to coercion? Isn't a problem of everyone being able to vote a problem of people mostly being vulnerable to coercion as opposed to being open to quality information?
The concept of natural rights that underlies the Constitution developed over thousands of years through a process that involved both extensive deliberation, and extensive practical experience.

We ignore the wisdom of moral tradition to our own detriment.
My definition isn't wrong - NP-hard is a superset of NP. There are problems in NP hard whose solutions can't be verified in polynomial time.

Also, you're wrong about being able to verify a solution easily. The decision version of the TSP is NP-complete, which means you can't solve it efficiently unless you can solve NP complete problems. You're confusing _solving_ the decision problem with _verifying a solution_ to the decision problem.
Good Idea actually. In Norway this issue was studied when it still was still politically possible. The probability of a baby becoming "marginaliserad" ie social fuck-up was 40% for single mothers, 20% for working mothers and "incredibly low" for full-time mothers. Babies have no absolute intrinsic value perse, this is why replacing natives with imported IQ-72 people does not work.
How exactly having an overseas call centre is better service? It’s hideous service.

Since American Express in the UK outsourced their live chat to the Phillipines and India, I’m not even bothering with using it.
There's no reason to be mean about it. You could have just politely provided the citation without the condescension. You made it personal.
I'm shadowbanned right now, so I doubt anybody will read this, but I worked in EHR/health IT for a couple of years.

"replacement users might love?"

Users loving these systems is completely immaterial. The key to these systems is that they:

a) integrate with the massively nutzo installations of health infrastructure devices

b) provide flexibility to capture really arbitrary workflows and business logic

c) provide compliance and auditing to ensure that billing and security for patient data is handled correctly

d) most importantly, come from a company that is Too Big to Fail and which can be payed gigantic sums to offers absurd SLAs and to take on the liability of killing people using their software.

That's before you even touch on the "boring" issues of multi-year sales cycles, truly byzantine and absurd legal requirements (because the only thing hospital legal teams want to do is tell you no), FDA certification for certain types of systems (itself a very tricky and expensive process), and all sorts of other bullshit.

Epic is not something you just "replace".
That CPU has one of the worst instruction sets ever: the mnemonics are even worse than intel, which was hereto considered the stupidest up until this point. That's an achievement. They will have to be hidden by compilers because they're otherwise complicated and a pain in the ass to program.
That logic doesn’t generalize too well.
What the hell does it mean for something to be “ok” and why should I care?
Humans harass and attack self-driving Waymo cars
Fairly sure the government’s stake was sold off sometime last year.
This is especially scary with SSO systems. Google/Facebook blocks your account? Guess what else you can't log into.
Is this type of question really that relevant? It's almost like the kind of survey Facebook would want to do itself, because it knows the outcome could be quite misleading.

If I remember correctly, there was another question like this a few years ago in regards to how much they'd like to be paid to quit the internet for life. Most people responded with "a billion dollars". Let's be real here - most people would be content with much less than that if they think that will set them for life.
I also don't think this really ruins his credibility as a YouTuber (or an engineer) at all. It's quite normal to act out and stage events for videos, especially in this case where the success of the video depended on recovering the device (for recording multiple takes, and because it just cost a lot of effort) and staying safe (since retaliation is a serious risk for people who fool porch pirates).

I'm not sure if he intended this to be the case, but I'll still be a subscriber.
Not in my book. In my book the only legitimate roles of the government are law enforcement and courts.
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> I get the idea that copyleft gives people the freedom to see the code and modify, but the limitations it imposes for using that code in derivative works is what makes me think it's a utopian ideal.

The problem is you can't get the benefits without the cost. And all of the derivative works problems are political -- the issue is that companies don't want to (or can't for various reasons) give you their changes. Personally I view this as antisocial and shortsighted behaviour (when a company fails, the work in their fork is lost).

Though to be honest, most proprietary changes aren't very good. The GPL is just one more (political) hiccup that gives an incentive for companies to contribute upstream -- in addition to general out-of-tree problems.
The guy who stole the wind turbine software and gave it to a Chinese competitor was promised a 5-year $200k/year employment deal. Although, it sounds like he may not have gotten it in the end. (Maybe there was a clause about getting caught.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanlappin/2011/09/27/american-...

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626683457/judge-orders-chines...
For the Good of Society – And Traffic – Delete Your Map App (2017)
Because passing the coding interview is its own skill and rarely reflective of the job itself.
Question about bitwarden: I found this issue saying there are no tests.
https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/399

Also in the comments here someone said there are no tests.
Does anyone have any info about that? I am interested in the software but no tests would be worrying. (Had no time to browse the code yet.)
I am not perfect and I am trying to be better.