skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this person doesn't want his donations, or wants people to donate to some fund against malaria, I'm sure Brave can figure out how to redirect his funds to another donation site of his choice as a feature.

Brave's attempt to find a new way to pay content creators (and, sure, insert themselves into the process) seems to be in good faith. And I'll admit that the complaints are mostly in good faith too, especially that there should be a feature to opt-out, or there should be a way to receive your funds automatically (I'm surprised and don't 100% believe that there is not).

But the complaints and arguments saying this is "fraud" seem to be in bad faith. There's no evidence that these donations are completely irretrievable from the creators they were intended to go toward. Stop emotionally throwing around the word "fraud" as if there's criminal intent here for Brave to keep every penny of donations, zero intent to ever make that money available to the intended recipients.
Really doesn't seem like it when stuff like The Haruhi Problem pops up: https://mobile.twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1054637891085...
Yes, they do.

It's a little different than it used to be though.
Historically, the carriers require their magic signal bar algorithms/network type display by contract if you wanted to sell phones in their stores.

Now, less phones target each carrier specifically than used to, but ...

Some of them also used to require display of various network types in various situations (IE you were required to display 4G in circumstances where it was on their "4g network", regardless of whether you were using a 4g protocol)
Don't reason with those contractors. As far as you both should be concerned, you've hired them to write bad code, and they think they're doing a great job.

If your own internal organization is not too fat, dumb, and slow to be able to hustle during the holidays, ramp up your own staffing immediately. Sounds like the clowns you have working as contractors were always a stopgap, and now, well, it's time to stop having the gap.

To avoid a full time version of these snowflakes, and since it's caused you such pain, try sussing out the attitude of your new candidates with case examples from your existing relationship. What would they have done differently, if anything, kind of thing, and what would they do with the contractor?

The above might be a good way to gauge technical fit, interpersonal fit, and intelligence. Obviously candidates who immediately say "fire them immediately and never look back" might be a bit rash for the role, since that would leave you with no progress to show.

You have the modern-day equivalent of a Corvair (unsafe at any speed), Pinto (bursts into flames in low-speed collisions), or Diesel VW (whoops, turns out those emissions and mileage guarantees were a bit too good to be true). You can try and rework the warts, or you can call it a wash and start from scratch. Only you know which of those you need to do, but if you start hiring expert devs, they'll be able to tell you which one will take less time.

Even though their code sounds like beginner-level JavaScript, I wouldn't rule out an expert refactor based on what I've heard; as few as 5-10% of the functions getting moved around might turn your pony into a racehorse. You just need to move up to the expert.
> "But protecting people by ending lotteries isn’t a practical solution: If anything, gambling and state-run lotteries are growing enterprises in the United States and many other countries."

What are the practical problems with banning state-run lotteries as they currently exist? The article doesn't explain this assertion. Is it just realpoltik pessimism over the ability to change the status quo and get state governments to give up an unethical source of revenue? Or is this a standard "prohibition creates criminal opportunity" issue?

The idea of gamified savings accounts seems very interesting. Legalizing gamified savings accounts while also banning traditional state-run lotteries seems like a decent idea to me.
As someone not from the US, I just had a quick look on Google images. Such a bizarre concept, kinda amazing how different cultures can end up with such ridiculousness.
You cannot use a magnifying glass to make something hotter than the source of the light. The thermodynamics principle is unyielding.

This is a tough tricky thermodynamics question because it really seems like you can use a really big magnifying glass to make say an object that is hotter than the sun. I remember working through it in a physics class.
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Personal knowledge.
I can't name the phone because it never became public that this is what the fix did. They were in fact, required not to say this is what happened. You'd have to find someone willing to break the NDA (and I know a bunch of these people hang out on hacker news, so maybe you'll get it!)

However, the fact that this kind of thing is required is public knowledge through source code, so i'll repeat the link someone else posted:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

(my particular story was not about LTE, however)
There’s a 1000 yrd rifle range in Wolcottville, IN (near Elkhart). Young’s Long Shot Range.
Kathy Sierra – A Computer of One's Own
Do your figures include unfunded retirement debt? That is a number that is hard to find and/or calculate. The Fed has relatively small amounts of this debt (if you don't count social security, laugh/cry). The states and munis, much more.
In Defense of Male Stoicism
according to the urquan master (UQM) site, the 3DO port was only half-finished when it was publicly released.

Wiki implies there was a full release on the 3DO? It's on the available platforms list anyways, but so is OSX, which would imply they're including UQM-supported platforms
Android/etc allow carriers to customize the signal bar thresholds, etc.

So even if the baseband didn't lie (which is one mechanism), the carriers can control the thresholds used on their network.
Search for TOTP or HOTP, basically one time passwords, usually shown to end users as QR codes stored in an authenticator on a mobile phone.
That's not the title of the article, and the premise behind the HN version of the title is at best confused. "5G" is not a specific technology. What you might be thinking of as "5G" is 3GPP's "5G NR" which is a new air interface. But 3GPP will continue to evolve LTE in parallel alongside 5G NR into the "5G" era: https://www.grandmetric.com/2018/10/29/3gpp-release-16-furth.... The reason for that is that the really big benefits of 5G NR come at higher frequency bands which will not always be appropriate for cellular service. At lower frequency bands, evolved versions of LTE will continue to be relevant for the foreseeable future.
(2013)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279864
I think the primary issue is replacing the revenue stream the finances along with a host of other state government provided sources. Simultaneously raising taxes and banning the lottery could be a very difficult move politically.
Seeing a lot of comments here that are along the lines of, "this is typical marketing aka lying." Just wanted to say (as a marketing major and former marketing guy) these are most assuredly not the same thing, and I think we make a grave error by normalizing the idea that lying == marketing. Lying is not ok. Marketing is perfectly ok. Let's be careful lest we make excuses like, "Oh they're just marketing"
That was an actual design/manufacturing defect, where touching the wrong part of the case would cause a short-circuit and immediately drop the call.
LibriVox recordings are what the LibriSpeech corpus [1, 2] is based on. That's what they use in the paper.

[1] Panayotov, V., Chen, G., Povey, D. and Khudanpur, S. (2015). LibriSpeech: an ASR corpus based on public domain audio books. Proc. ICASSP. http://www.danielpovey.com/files/2015_icassp_librispeech.pdf

[2] http://openslr.org/12/
You sound like you have a pretty good understanding in this area. Are you in an executive position or work with that type a lot?
it's not really innovation if he just copies something he saw abroad

i guess they could get inspired by military solutions in emergency situations which must be also hacked from what's available
PewDiePie's Battle for the Soul of the Internet
At one time the FCC policed lies in advertising, although I am not sure what the status on that is now.
Thermodynamics argument seems iffy to me. I can cover the entire surface of the earth with solar panels to harvest the moon light and use the combined electricity to melt iron. If this is ok with thermodynamics then so is using lenses.

The rest of the argument seems to be that light cannot be optically condensed to a single point as there will always be some dispersion due to diffraction, and the size and shape of the dispersion is dictated by that of the source. That is you can't make the target denser then source, hence the temperature must be less.

EDIT: Several commenters submitted that lenses are reversible while solar panels are not, and this makes all the difference. My retort is that I can make non-reversible lenses by covering them in a thin layer of dust. Since the lense system is now non-reversible can I use these sub-par lenses to create higher temperature than I could with clear lenses?
Maker of glitter bomb device (not Mark Rober) explains how it was done
I don't understand the downvotes. Wouldn't QUIC be the perfect fit for a secure transport of DNS requests? The IETF already has a draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-huitema-quic-dnsoquic-05
If you find some of these notes worthwhile, I highly recommend reading the book it is from. I think the book is also readable in somewhat random order, the chapters are mostly independent of each other. Also, I think you could read a few chapters then put it down and return to it months later and not really have to pick up the thread of where you were.

I read this book carefully and cover-to-cover close to a decade ago, and have returned to it often. I give it a 10 out of 10.
The only things people actually agree are the government's job are to uphold the law and defend the country from invasion.

Giving citizens hot chocolate and tomato soup when they're sick is far from an agreed purpose of government.
Let cell networks fake LTE signal bars in Android
The interesting thing is that powder particles will leave the barrel before the bullet does. My guess is they have enough energy to squirt around the bullet before the rifling can deform it and create a seal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPwdlEgLn5Q
One thing that makes me uncertain about this is the fact that the sun is generating the light from a fusion reaction, thus expending energy. In other words, the system entropy does not decrease because the fusion reaction makes up for any lost entropy by the cold-to-hot temperature flow. This is the same reason why a system consisting of a battery and a fridge would work.
I would like to release a software with Commons Clause, but I don't entirely like the "Commons" name. Would it be accurate to call it "Apache 2 + Do-not-resell Clause"?
> The only things people actually agree are the government's job are to uphold the law

People often don't agree with that except when they agree with the law.
This law will be welcome when my team of lobbyists bring the enforcement apparatus to the light, explaining to them how it is really my competitors who are doing all of the lying (especially the ones without lobbyists of their own).
And because it's using GPG one can easily have secrets unlocked with a Yubikey and only when the blinking button is touched. On a PC and Android both using the same Yubikey token.

For me the combination of features in pass is just perfect! But it's from the same person that created Wireguard so it's no surprise...
My scarification experience
I've often wondered how big of a lens you would need to grow a plant using a light source from outside of the solar system, if it's even possible.
I love xkcd, but this is completely wrong.

It is well known that the spectral temperature of the moon is about 4000K. See for example : http://www.lumec.com/newsletter/architect_06-10/the_sun_the_... or https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/244922/why-does-... . That is the maximum temperature that you can achieve with light from the moon, no matter how concentrated. 4000 K is plenty hot enough to start a fire.
Heh, the Star Trek thing might have been a bit of an overreach based on people's reactions, but let me see if I can restate the point I was trying to make with that little bit.

Licenses like MIT give the most possible freedom, particularly with how derivative works are commercialized. Copyleft licenses limit the freedoms of derivative works by forcing them to be copyleft (although with some hacks and exceptions). This limitation means that options for creating a derivative commercial product from copyleft sources are very limited.

If you are able to get around the copyleft restriction (like SaaS products developed on GPL and AGPL'd software) then you are able to build a commercial product. But if you want to ship that software to a customer in a licensed product or a piece of hardware, you won't be able to do it without exposing your entire source code to be copyleft.

I've heard people argue that copyleft is better because it forces this opening of source on everyone. It's a utopian ideal that I think limits its utility, particularly with regard to derivative works.
The premise of the article is that by making the interest on savings accounts a lottery (lower base interest rate with the chance for large lump payouts) seems to appeal to people while simultaneously reducing their lottery spending.

At least in theory, this seems like a great idea. Potentially ripe for abuse, just like a lot of lottery systems (eg. the McDonald's Monopoly conspiracy where employees hoarded the winning tickets).

Hopefully the law can be changed enough to start a larger sized trial.
These are just platitudes about "heroes" and "public servants". I want police that are effective.

If someone is threatening you with a weapon, you had better hope that there is at least one other weapon in this situation.

Well trained police that frequently go to the shooting range and are highly trained and experienced can be highly effective at minimizing harm in areas where criminals are well armed. There is ample data from real life. It is sad that we have to apply policing methodologies that are effective in places like South Africa or Brazil, but this is the country we live in now.
If you directed all the input to the penny, then you've created a close system that can't lose energy, and doesn't the whole system - including the sun - keep rising in temperature anyway?

Ultimately the outside of this inverted sun system needs to vent the whole of the energy, the energy can't just fall inwards.

What you're describing is a reversal though; it requires the penny to be much hotter than the sun, only as a result of the sun's energy flowing into it.
Facebook Is Building Its Own Digital Currency for WhatsApp
In my experience, real grocery stores that then offer delivery do it well, because they understand groceries. Anecdotally, Lunds and Byerlys in Minneapolis/St Paul has an excellent grocery delivery service. But big retailers, or "disruptive" SV companies, don't really understand groceries, and so don't do grocery delivery well. Not every experience is easily Amazon-ified.
Not a short circuit, if I recall correctly, but it added a lot of capacitance and therefore impedance to the antenna.
Go was influenced by Modula-2, but even more so by Oberon, which one of Go's designers, Robert Griesemer, worked on with Wirth at ETH Zürich. Oberon is in many ways a minimalist version of Modula-2.
I live in the east coast in the suburbs of Baltimore. Mostly happy re: cost of living here though a new townhouse runs from $300 to 600k. I bet similar housing there is over a million to millions. How and who are able to buy such costly housing? Thus, I thought these salaries could be legit... could then see software devs out there being able to afford a townhouse.
Nulify transforms in Node.getBoundingClientRect()
I'm not sure why I'm struggling to find an answer to this question, but does anyone know if the plan for 5G is to have cell phones transmitting at 28 and 39 GHz with the new sample rates? Or are mm wave freqs primarily for infrastructure? I'd love to read about mm transceivers on UE's if anyone has any information about it.
Adding an entry in /etc/hosts for 1.1.1.1 would not encrypt your DNS. You would either have to implement DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS. For your home network, you would need to see if your router can be configured to tunnel DNS over TLS to a few DNS providers that you feel you can trust. For your laptop, this could be implementing something like Unbound DNS and configure upstream TLS DNS servers.

A true VPN (not a https proxy, but an actual VPN) can force all of your traffic through your VPN provider. Not all VPN providers are equal. You can test them by looking for leaks with BrowserLeaks [1] and IP Leak [2] The DNS between the VPN provider and the authoritative servers would still be unencrypted unless you are using DNS over TLS or DoH.

[1] - https://browserleaks.com/

[2] - https://ipleak.net/
I find that when my iPhone has one bar, web pages often load much more slowly than when I have five bars. So I find the distinction moderately useful.
Ok, but the line I quoted wasn't about infinity, it was about numbers that were "too large", which I assume means bignums.
Certain tiers of creator accounts are exempt from that limit.
Why not boil tapwater? In most places the regulations and safety standards for public tap water are stricter than the ones for bottled water.
Interpret the spoken text in posted videos? E.g. for automatic subtitling?
The Secret History of the Arcade Trackball Controller
> Now, imagine your TV was advertised as 4Ke when it was actually 1080p.

This happens with projectors. Many projectors are advertised as "4K" when in fact they only accept a 4K signal, but still project a 1080p picture.

Some of them have a kind of hacky trick which involves vibrating the image chip, so that it can project a second set of pixels offset from the first by half a pixel, which gets you a ~2K picture - kinda sorta.
This is a non story, at least insofar as it concerns complexity. The result would be no more or less interesting if the amoebas sorted an array or did some other polynomial time task. Here's why:

1. Finding approximate or near-optimal solutions for hard optimization problems is almost always easy. So in this case, an amoeba did something that is also easy to do with a classical computer.

2. 8 is a small number. There are 8! possible paths, which is about 40,000, which means you could find the optimal solution to this problem in a millisecond or two with a classical computer. To be remotely interesting, you'd need to solve a TSP for a number like, say, 50 or 100.

3. Even if you had an amoeba that somehow could find solutions for large numbers of cities, how would you know? You can't solve the problem instance yourself, so you don't know how close it is to the optimum. This is because TSP is not in NP, which are the set of problems whose solutions can be verified in polynomial time. Rather, its NP-hard, meaning its at least as hard as any NP problem, but its solutions can't be verified in polynomial time. So if amoebas had some magic TSP solving algorithm, we probably wouldn't be able to tell that they did unless we had our own magic algorithm to test it against.

4. Also, even if the amoeba could solve this optimally for large instances, _most_ instances of hard problems are actually easy. Therefore, simply showing that the amoebas can do this for some finite number of instances is not sufficient. An efficient algorithm for TSP or some other hard problem has to be able to solve _any possible instance_ efficiently, in order for this to have any implications for questions like P=NP. So if you wanted to show that amoebas had a magic TSP algorithm, you'd have to formally prove that their algorithm works on all instances. Since amoebas themselves are not easily formalizable, I don't see how you'd do this.
It's Perf Review time, gotta get that Impact without affecting production
GCP Employee here.

You can run a container on a f1-micro VM for free forever:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/deploying-c...

If you want something more similar to Hyper.sh, serverless containers are coming out publicly soon, and you can sign up for the alpha here:
https://g.co/serverlesscontainers
You have a point, but to be honest there are specifications of Go available to the public and also FLOSS compiler implementations.

To draw a parallel with Java, eventhough Oracle is ruling the project with an iron fist the FLOSS implementations ensure that developers won't find themselves SOL if Oracle decides to pull the trigger and kill their Java business.
For reference this is Viking photo (so 1975) of the pole:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA00161

See that circular crater filled with ice in the top part of the picture. That's the same crater. So it is not exactly unknown feature on Mars.

Also this is more close to the "true" picture, without the fake 3d perspective applied:

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/12/Plan_view_of...

Final detail that Mars Express is still satellite, buzzing around at 300+ km altitude. The pretty pictures we see are composites of pictures like these:

https://i.imgur.com/leNaYkM.jpg

(which is also not completely raw)
https://portal.facebook.com for one
Stardock has acted like scum through the whole ordeal. On top of the lawsuit against P/R...

1. They attempted to trick the UQM project leadership into signing a document that said Stardock owned the rights to everything in Star Control II. Stardock would then "generously" license rights back to the UQM project as "protection". In reality it would put the free game under Stardock's thumb[1]

2. There are leaked conversations of the owner of Stardock labeling the UQM forum and star-control.com as hostile to his company and how he is going to shut them down

3. There are two subreddits for Star Control. The fan owned /r/starcontrol and the Stardock owned /r/StarControlOfficial. An unknown reddit account took over /r/starcontrol under strange circumstances and sowed havoc for a couple of days before reddit intervened and removed the new mod. There are theories that Stardock was behind it.

[1] http://forum.uqm.stack.nl/index.php?topic=7396.0
"4.5G" is in fact what it's called by engineers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_Advanced_Pro
I don't agree with that
Huh, I was under this mistaken impression too. I know many, many, companies and projects using go as a foundation, but I don't think I've heard of any using swift. Any I should read up on?
And like other Applegates it was overblown. Apple kept selling the same GSM iPhone 4 design for 3 years.
It is a token issued on Ethereum blockchain and is traded on many exchanges. So yes, you can buy and sell them. Your 60 BAT are worth $8.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/basic-attention-token/
I always felt obligated to kill Drizzt as a matter of literary criticism.
> As much as I sometimes criticize FB and Google over privacy issues, they also do a lot of good by realeasing open source systems.

You realize that they do this so top researchers still want to work for them?
to not look at phone for every notification you receive (which also save battery) or to see the time? also it should be stated that thanks to notifications on my wrist i have my phone basically 24/7 in DND mode not bothering other people with any sounds, only sound i user it's alarm maybe twice a day just in case and timer when cooking, although they bought go also to my watch. i can also track my sleep and heart rate, but the real reason to buy it were notifications

i was also watch hater but it's very light, you when forget it's on hand absolutely not comparable to my father's Garmin fenix brick with battery life few hours