skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I'm 100% GUI. I use Parallels to test how my Win32 based apps work on different versions of Windows. I'm also testing against different Photoshop plug-in compatible graphics programs, so its useful to be able to restore to a clean snapshot taken just after installing Corel Paint Shop Pro, for instance. Everything in Parallels has been running at near native speed lately.

On the Mac I was also using Parallels to test GUI apps I was writing for different versions of ElementaryOS / Ubuntu and also for different macOS versions, but I realize I'll lose the Mac compatibility with the switch back to Windows.
and for beginners to programming and Python, the same site provides this excellent course: https://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/ind...
While I agree with you in principle, we are talking about journeying to a far-reaching corner of the earth here. Had we been talking about space travel, this woman would have immediately been barred from consideration to journey over a thousand other people who were equally qualified yet did not have such dietary restrictions. I don’t think we are at the point yet where travel to Antarctica and supplies are normalized enough that we should expect to be able to cater to these kind of restrictions.
I would say your comment was the unfair one. Sure, it cannot tell the weather without internet. But it can still do plenty of more important home automation functions, namely automation. No one owns one of these home assistants for it to tell the weather. You get it for controlling other devices with your voice and this can do that without access to thr world wide web.
Desktop KDE (and native-looking Qt apps) uses Qt Widgets, whereas mobile basically uses Qt Quick. The GUI apis are completely separate (I'm not sure how much is shared internally, or how similar the apis are).
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library.

I largely agree with what you have written above, however things work very differently now in NHS Digital.

Every piece of work we embark upon is based on strict requirements from a commissioning body (typically NHS England or Public Health England) and is managed tightly according to budget and demonstrated realised benefits.

We have a highly capable layer of delivery managers who help translate and interpret these "business goals" into things which our agile teams of developers can work towards.

It's not perfect, but we're improving all the time. If we fail then the money taps get turned off quickly, and we move onto something else.
If I get any of this wrong, I claim Cunningham's Law. :)

From the "Cryptographic Right Answers" [https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-a...]:

> Latacora, 2018: In order of preference, use scrypt, argon2, bcrypt, and then if nothing else is available PBKDF2.

> Avoid: SHA-3, naked SHA-2, SHA-1, MD5.

SHA2 is a decent cryptographic hashing algorithm, that is true. But a cryptographic hashing algorithm isn't what you want when storing passwords, at least, not on its own.

Some of the problems with just using a hash algorithm: same passwords have the same hash; hash algos are typically fast, so brute forcing can make many attempts quickly, and they can be pre-computed into rainbow tables. There are ways to fix this (salts, work factors), but generally you shouldn't "do it yourself."; functions like those named in the quote from Cryptographic Right Answers put all that together in a nice package. scrypt, I believe, even uses SHA-2 in its construction, but also solves the aforementioned problems.

The "Purpose and operation" part of the Wikipedia article for PBKDF2 (also mentioned above) goes into some of this, as well (even if it is only recommended as a last resort, I think this paragraph is educational w.r.t. the problems around passwords): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2#Purpose_and_operation
Can't wait to read this. Well done
Things that existed for decades?
Academia, Publishing, and Scholarly Communication
Their inaction on being notified is quite damning.
If you have to hire 10x more staff then usual and have them sit around.
It's not going to be easy to pass this kind of bill. James Tresmond, a gun rights lawyer, said it violates multiple constitutional rights.

"The first, the second amendment, the fifth amendment, the fourth amendment, and the 14th amendment," Tresmond said.
SHA2 is fine for guaranteeing integrity. But that's different from coming up with a way to store a password that can't be brute forced in a small amount of time.

The goal is to make the hashing function expensive. That is a different goal than making it reliable or authentic.
Huntsville: 1
Arlington: 1
Florida: 1
Virginia: 1
Greenville: 1
Melbourne: 1
State College: 1
Maryland: 1
Austin: 1
San Antonio: 1
Texas: 2
> Imagine if every single state required every alcohol manufacturer to have a full operation in every state.

You should try running a startup that hires remote workers. We already have to deal with this when it comes to taxation, filings fees, nexus laws, and health insurance. It makes it extremely difficult to run a "remote only" organization without utilizing a PEO.
That's not decomposition. To decompose means to break down into simpler substances. "micro"plastic is still the same plastic that made up the original object, just smaller.
If you have to even ask, throw it out.
Taking Down Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior in Bangladesh
It's interesting it's used in so many games (This video only has some of them) at what point are they not copying him but a common dance move in games?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imK18LfWt7w
they're optimistic. they're calling it a success. they're motivated to keep working on this device. who knows?
> Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything?

Setting alarms and reminders
Someone needs to RTFC (Read The Fine Constitution)
So, according to you, ML is only tangentially related to AGI. Therefore we should listen to you, not ML experts - because you are a layman.

Even if I accept your absurd logic quoted above - how do you explain your contradictory goal of stopping all ML research. All the top AI experts are conducting ML research, which according to you is only tangentially related to AGI.

Going further, no AI researcher has managed to build even something as smart as a rat.

I, therefore conclude that the human race is at a greater danger of being out competed by evolution and chance mutations of chimpanzees and dolphins. These are our real competitors and next position leaders in IQ. We should focus on banning and eliminating chimpanzees and dolphins instead of foolishly protecting them. Why waste time blocking ML research which is only tangentially related to AGI. Let's take the war to www.reddit.com/r/dolphins and
www.reddit.com/r/chimpanzees .

No point wasting time on hacker news.

> I can’t believe I put up with all this for YOUR benefit.

Thanks for looking out for my benefit. I will reciprocate by fighting the chimpanzees for YOUR benefit.
It doesn't take "thousands of hours" to learn how to launch a web browser and type some words into a search engine box.
I use Beamer with TextMate and Skim.
Sure, there's a quantitative difference but not necessarily a qualitative one.
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library.

Your comment is a good explanation of how things work.

My employer, NHS Digital, is working on this frontend library as a way to spread good practice throughout the federated health and care system you describe.

In short, we spend money doing the research on how best to provide information to users/patients and then we promote the uptake of the technology we develop to best satisfy them - with the overall goal of improving self-care and reducing the need for costly GP appointments and hospital visits.
Advocating for privacy in Australia
Will My Children Have Pearly Penile Papules If I Have?
The state of our industry?
It's absurd that you even suggest not blaming China
What is a PEO and have you had this problem with remote workers in other countries?
SIPC insures money “intended to buy securities”. How is intent determined?
There is a lot of scrutiny regarding Robinhood's attempt to use SIPC to insure money in their proposed checking/savings account offering, which they are now rebranding as a cash management account. This seems to have struck a particular nerve for the "traditional" (non "fintech") folk.

But why? The argument that I keep reading is that SIPC is meant only to insure money "intended to buy securities" (see full quote and source below). But that seems entirely vague, to the point where I'm somewhat encouraged that Robinhood attempted to exploit the vagueness to pass on better rates to customers. I'm more inclined to be upset that someone else gets to decide what my "intent" is when I have money parked somewhere and, based on that decision, gets to dictate whether or not my money is insured.

Thoughts? Insights? Thanks!

Full quote and source:

"Brokerage cash management accounts are meant to hold cash until it can be invested in securities, and aren't intended strictly for savings, Harbeck said. Money sitting in such accounts but not intended to buy securities may not be covered by the SIPC, which insures accounts for up to $250,000 of cash in the case of a broker's failure."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/20/senators-call-on-sec-and-other-financial-watchdogs-to-look-into-fintech-regulation-after-robinhood-debacle.html
I should hope that nobody reads this article as a denial of the reality of celiac disease. I think it is possible to acknowledge that gluten-free diets are a fad while understanding that to some people, they are a medical necessity.
The reason for this entire conflict is Qualcomm asking for a percentage royalty of the entire device.

When you use an Intel radio, sure Intel needs to license the 2G-5G patents, but those are FRAND, and no legal interpretation in the world would ever entitle Qualcomm to a percentage of an iPhone using an Intel radio.
Alcohol is special. We didn't merely undo prohibition. With that constitutional amendment, we removed most federal authority over alcohol. The commerce clause does not apply anymore (State Board of Equalization v. Young's Market Co.), and thus can't be abused to regulate alcohol. About the only thing the federal government can do about alcohol is arm-twist the states into regulating it via things like highway funding being conditional on the existence of state regulations.
OUC coal plants linked to east Orange County cancer spike, lawsuit claims
When Corel was looking for a new CEO I applied :-)
Also from NYT: "How to Delete Facebook and Instagram from Your Life Forever"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215171

240 points
I mainly blame the market because there's been highly-secure technology for a long time, including some NSA pentesting didn't break during evaluation, that they refuse to use for even their most sensitive stuff. Security is like an after-thought or non-thought in the markets. Many concerned about I.P. thieves even outsource R&D or manufacturing to countries with high, I.P. theft mainly to help executives hit short-term goals for personal profit. They also keep buying and using stuff that's shown to be horribly insecure. They also don't follow good security practices despite being billion dollar businesses. That part will lead to most hacks.

Given this market, anyone developing high-security solutions has to loose money on them constantly or charge exorbitant prices to recover their investment. Pretty much only Defense and regulated sectors will buy those. So, the number of high-security products goes down or stays minimum while easily-hacked garbage grows in number. That's all people see to the point that many buyers don't even know something better is possible. Situation keeps reenforcing itself with the buyers all getting what they're paying for or not guarding against.

So, I blame them as much as the attackers if not more than the attackers when it's the same preventable stuff happening. Especially the times it didn't cost extra or what they bought cost more than secure stuff.
Your iPhone is also a $1k device that's faster than some laptops. And it still cant do convincing on-device text to speech a-la Google Tacotron, and its NLU capabilities _even in the cloud_ leave much to be desired.
> but a voice activated assistant that doesn't spy on you on by the orders of some company is pretty much possible

You're missing the part where said company has no motivation to not spy on you. There's absolutely nothing preventing companies from doing so today (in the US), while on the upside the opportunity and motivation for them to collect all your data for possible profit gains later is extremely high.
Its been about 2 months since I came back. I haven't started looking for a job yet. I haven't even started preparing for interviews. Feeling very lazy. Weirdly, I am not even that worried.

As for money, I have a good savings in bank thanks to the 6 years in US. And my wife has a government job. We were in a dilemma on whether she should give up her job and come to US. All these talks about revoking h4 ead made that decision easier. Wife and I are staying at her parents house (they gave part of their house for us to stay). So, I dont have any immediate financial constraints. We don't have any kids either.

Other than driving in Indian traffic and the oocassional family drama involving my parents and in laws, things are going smooth so far.
> Won't it just find it's way back to the ocean?

No. The plastic from land that ends up in the ocean originates from 3rd world countries with no trash service, and people dump their garbage in rivers.

Countries with normal trash service do not contribute plastic to the ocean.

(There is another category of trash that started on a boat.)
If I had $20 mil for helping the oceans I would try to build a few miles of netting around the mouth of a polluting asian river. But I don't know how I'd pay for the continual maintenance and cleaning.
I didn't want to come across as advertising any particular entity but they are organizations [1] that are registered in every state, provide benefits, retirement plans, payroll, etc. They technically hire your employees for you, and then contract them to you while taking a fee on top. It's a good way for remote-only companies to expand within the states, or simply companies that don't want to deal with HR/Payroll/etc.

All of our non-US hires have been as contractors entirely to avoid potential complexities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_employer_organiza...
Yep. A garbled duplicate of a reminder or note doesn't cost anything and even alarms aren't a major issue unless they're set for the middle of the night, so if anything hiccups I just retry.

Your analogy touches on another important factor, which is that the human brain has a titanic amount of hardware dedicated to accelerating and reducing the overhead of voice. It's so good that it even participates in basic cognition, so most of the time the note you want to take is already right there and properly formatted for speech. There's a reason that "thinking out loud" is a thing. :P
So this means that the FDA is now regulating the chemicals as drugs. The implications are:

- you can't claim to cure/heal anything unless your product undergoes FDA formal approval. Then you can market it as a drug.

- you can't mix the chemicals into food and call it food. If they are present, it's classified as a drug.

- THC and CBD are considered "active" therefore you can't slide them into supplements or market supplements with those chemicals. The use of those chemicals as supplements is still being evaluated and they haven't issued a regulation on it.

- other subtances of the plant are recognized as generally safe so they can be used for other food / cosmetic applications

Finally they put out a FAQ: https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm421168.h...
Looks like we're going to WAR
I'm with you, until you lost me on:

> Now try teaching a non-technical user about cron, its flags, and its relationship to other shell commands, using natural language.

I'm just not sure what you mean with this statement. Are you talking about setting up cron jobs via voice? Or are you just making an analogy about the (perceived?) complexity of cron and teaching it to a non-technical user?
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library.

With respect, I think you fail to appreciate the importance of effective communication of health and care information to members of the public.

The NHS is under incredible financial strain due to an ageing population and one of the UK government's key strategic goals is to reduce demand on GPs and hospitals through channel shift, i.e. providing much better information online so that citizens can prevent illness and also find better avenues for care (e.g. their pharmacist).

This is much more difficult than you might think. For example, a very large number of people seeking health and care advice in the UK are "old" and not used to using the internet. At NHS Digital we have had to carry out extensive research into how best to communicate advice in a way that is suitable for all audiences.

NHS Digital has a key role in the UK health and care system and our goal is to share (and perhaps mandate) our technical solutions to these communication problems. Through this we aim to save the NHS money and promote better citizen health and care.
The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism
Use 4chan as 'anonymous' instead. Or better, a throwaway account on HN. Remember your VPN.
The book Ordinary Men covers this. It is quite fascinating. Regular people became the Nazis. People on HN could become Nazis. This is an uncomfortable truth not many people are willing to confront. I’ll give HNers some credit, but still, the way it progresses is subtle and nefarious. (It being Authoritarianism into Totlitsrianism with a dictator$
The term “App Store” wasn’t a thing until Marc Benioff creates it, abandoning the mark to Apple in 2008 when he and Steve Jobs discusses it (Benioff gave App Store to Apple and Salesforce used the more enterprise-sounding AppExchange.) The only reason that phrase became “generic” is because Apple made it into a household name. It wasn’t like people were using App Store in conversation until Apple’s App Store became a thing. Claiming it’s generic is a weak argument because that term as a description of a store used to sell computer programs didn’t happen until Benioff and Apple. You didn’t get “bullied”: you were using a phrase that had a valid trademark issued, knowing good and well that it was an Apple trademark. And, at the time of the trademark filing, it was anything but generic. It wasn’t like the term “Coffee Shop” which has been in common use for a very long time. App Store has a very specific meaning: it referred to Apple’s App Store, that others have attempted to use it doesn’t make it less novel. It was novel at the time of filing. It would be like trying to challenge the copyright on Kleenex or Chlorox: names that are in very common use, but common use arguments don’t work retroactively, which is what you seemed to have been arguing: “App Store is in common use so I should be able to use it.” It came into common use after Apple trademarked it, that doesn’t weaken the original filing. You could have used Application Shop, App Shop, App Emporium — a myriad of options. Instead, you specifically wanted Apple’s mark because Apple had done the work to legitimize the term so you wouldn’t have had to. You weren’t bullied: the trademark is valid and you infringed it. That it’s being challenged now is of no consequence— the mark is still, at present, valid.
The Farey sequence that is central to this book also appears in the functional pearl on "Enumerating the Rationals" that recently appeared on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18515413
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWsoft
is it really different from the data collection of other grocery store shopper cards though?
Thats not exactly accurate - the feds do have various rules about booze, including what constitutes bourbon, for example.
Science can't predict the economic effects of such a change over a 100 year period. Economic forecasting just isn't that good.

That's also not the right way to look at Iraq war costs. A lot of the war cost is just "shuffling".

Eg pay $1,000,000 in soldier salaries, the money is moved from taxpayers to soldiers. Then the soldiers spend the money. What was lost?

The real cost is the alternative work the soldiers could have done. The private sector could presumably have put them to better use. This would be more acute if the economy had full employment.

Bombs and munitions are worse, as there is real destruction of material. But much of the money is still recycled back into the domestic economy.

By contrast, a trillion simply lost from a catastrophe is just lost. It's a loss of real infrastructure. It's a loss of whole cities such as Miami, etc

To speak of "science" in this context is to misuse the term.
If he wanted to prove his thesis, he should have adopted.
I don't work for google.
Because they're paying recruiters 15-25% of the first year's salary just to get qualified applicants and two grand on travel is just a drop in the bucket.
The strange thing is that the gentleman who designed the chip in question was not called as a witness despite being present at the trial so he could offer his own testimony.

>Mr. Mike Kay spent almost 12 hours waiting [outside the court] on November 8, for an opportunity to testify in a Qualcomm v. Apple patent infringement trial

Mike Kay is a Qorvo employee and designed the envelope tracker chip used in some iPhones models that Qualcomm alleges infringe on its European patent EP2724461 ("low-voltage power-efficient envelope tracker").

http://www.fosspatents.com/2018/11/hoping-to-defend-iphone-a...
Hmm not too sure about using it in the industry and their over-promises. However, I did buy a TX2 to build my portfolio personally and it's been pretty fun so far. 256 CUDA cores is definitely not a lot to play with though.
THIS.

20m is a drop in the ocean (sorry!) compared to what other projects get funded with. To me, climate change is like the white walker threat in the Game of Thrones series. Everyone's squabbling over petty politics while the real threat gets increasingly worse.

I'm actually annoyed that they only got 20m. A few weeks ago, I sat in as a judge for a university startup challenge. The students were given all semester to build a product and present their attempts in commercializing it. I was seated next to another startup founder and we both came to the same conclusion. The projects that had a social good / environmentally positive objective were the ones we WANTED to support but the least attractive investment wise. Social good has little intrinsic market value. Investors want to invest $1 and make $10 - that's grossly incompatible with these kind of projects. Ironically, it's probably where we need the best minds and investment focused on.

Props to to this guy for trying something, and inspiring others to contribute to the project. I hope there's more like him...
I've never hears an actual explanation for why wikileaks is accused of being a Russian puppet besides circumstantial things. Is there any hard (or medium hard) evidence?
I also didn't think butter had a strong smell until I removed it from my diet entirely (became vegan). It's a strong and unique odor, especially when warm. I can often smell it well before I visually identify the source.