skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should make a knockoff with wwwwwwwww's since those are the widest characters (in non-fixed width fonts)
No it doesn't if not everyone has access to the ASICs. If 30% of miners use highly efficient ASICs that are twice as fast they become the majority.
As someone who only reluctantly got their first smartphone in the past year (yes, I'm a computer programmer, I dunno), I can say that cheap flip phones don't really exist anymore in the US. You can generally get a cheap smartphone cheaper than a cheap fliphone, in 2019.

For instance, you can get smartphones for well under $50 from Cricket, once every 90 days per account. They are locked to Cricket, but you don't actually have a contract, you can abandon them at any time with no penalty. Yes, the cheapest smartphones are gonna be _really bad_. But in the past year-ish, perfectly usable smartphones available around $100-$160 became a thing (carrier locked but no contract). (Flip phones have become _really bad_ too though. Flip phones available in 2019 have worse battery life and worse performance/UX than flip phones of 5 years ago. like press a button wait 1s+ for something to happen bad UX)

Flip phones are pretty much gone, I don't think they are a thing poor people use anymore. They might be a thing old people use, or that people attempting to have an anonymous disposable phone use. They don't generally make sense any more as a cost conscious thing, plus if you're poor you don't want to be reminded that you're different from "everyone else" everytime you look at your phone. Incredibly cheap (crappy) smart phones are available, and relatively affordable reasonable ones too.

(Plus, not just for poor people these days, but especially if you're poor, your phone is probably your only computer and only internet access).
What don’t they tell you about capitalism?
I wish it was Curly. We could then make jokes with Moe and Larry.
Sure, but they do have a healthy export market for their armaments...
It seems that the official rust implementation wireguard-rs[1] is currently GPL licensed.

[1]: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-rs
That's odd. I just checked this (running current version of Android Pie) and I could screenshot both my Bank of America app and my credit union.

I wonder if this is something the apps themselves have to disable or something in certain versions of Android itself.
cars brought pollution. a different kind than horse manure, but still pollution.

if the news publishers don't know how to make money then they should step aside or consolidate or a million other things.
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MCAS isn’t needed to fly the 737 MAX, you can perform a perfectly fine flight without it — the autopilot directly trims, pilots could fly via trimming themselves using the control on the stick, and there’s a manual wheel for emergencies when the jackscrew motor fails (or is disabled to override MCAS).

Rather, MCAS is needed to fly the 737 MAX like other 737 type aircraft.

MCAS has the capacity to override pilot control via continued trimming; MCAS is not a safety requirement, but can trigger a critical failure; MCAS was not built to critical failure specs; pilots were not trained on MCAS; MCAS is required to maintain the type rating, because otherwise the plane would handle differently during a stall. (This is the only purpose — tipping the nose to fake handling characteristics during a stall.)

It sounds like a reckless design, made out of political rather than safety considerations.
Yeah, pretty sure that's was what it was. It was pretty quiet in there. As soon as I walked in the security guard started following me. He asked me immediately what I was doing there and what I wanted...I said pens, so he escorted me to the pens aisle,.stood there for a bit getting impatient before telling me to hurry up. I said straight up to him that if he was suspicious of me and wanted to watch me fine, but not to sit there and tell me to hurry up. That was when he started yelling.

He never really did anything just stood there and yelled. I just kind of ignored him at that point. I found the pens I wanted and he followed me back to the register. That was when the threats of calling the cops came.

I dunno, I could understand if I'd looked or acted shady or something. But I was on my way home from work, dressed reasonably, shaved and groomed and all that.
Cultural choices of a generation on such matters make zero statistical difference if the infrastructure doesn't change to enable these choices.

I love biking, but biking in Boston was extremely scary to me. I was in dangerous situations a couple of times and then stopped doing it.

I then moved to public transport, but the green line B is slow as molasses.

This left me with only one option, and that was cars. I carpooled instead of solo driving. But, as you can see, my strong will to avoid cars was superceded by a lack of infrastructure.
"Because I have bills to pay right now."

That response pretty much spawns the existence of all of the currently-ongoing problems in America.

Our founding fathers also had bills to pay, and yet they somehow managed to find time to start a war and create a new country. That was the 1700s. Why aren't you capable of doing that now?
It's a problem of someone coming from a very incomplete view of the situation, and then issuing judgments and advice without doing any research into the actual situation on the ground (armchair warriors), which is irresponsible.

Yes, there is a possibility that they are in fact right, but they'll probably be right for the wrong reasons. It's far more likely that they'll just be plain wrong (and arrogantly so). Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Yes, there is a balance that has to be struck between how much of your economy is investment and how much is spending on real goods because they are symbiotic. The problem is that when inequality rises too high, you end up with too much money being invested and those investment returns either slowing down or being artificially accelerated by gaming the market other ways (think the 2008 collapse).
SD cards fail but they're not a house of cards. I've logged into couch dB every minute for nearly 5 years. only about a million entries bit since it's replicated to other nodes a failed card is ok.
> This was a bad use of a very old phrase.

This seems like a bit of a stretch. Just because you haven't heard a term used in different contexts doesn't mean it's invalid. On review of the same text I may have rephrased it, but while imperfect, it's still understandable in the context.
why does google need to do anything? why is it google's fault that the news publishers don't know how to make money?
> Your Chinese coworkers likely nap not because they are so tired they have to, but because they and everyone else have done it their whole lives (and why not, napping feels good).

...unless institutionalized scheduled napping was established to extact just a tad more of energy from overworked servants.

Just saying.
Google Plus is dead. Long live Plus Codes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code
This is the crux of the problem that gbl08ma isn't realizing.

"User choice is what all of this boils down to, really. Android used to give me the choice of being slightly insecure in exchange for having more powerful and innovative features in the apps I install..."

You're dead on about the average user. Watch someone install and app, and less than a second is spent looking at the permissions.

Google's solution makes sense for their platform, not for power users. Leaving security up to users will result in insecure devices, increasing support costs as well as denigrating the brand.

If people are going to do things like financial transactions shudder on their phone, then the platform has to be rock-solid secure. That leaves those who might know and do better with their devices with less options.

It's the price of maturity.
That's a good point! We should try that as an alternative next :)
Why does an active MCAS system need to exist in order to tamp down on pitch up? I wonder if modifying the surface of the wing and or tail could achieve this. Eg, make a computer model of the plane, verify that it captures the real pitch up behavior, and “evolve” a wing that counteracts it. I suppose the hard part is that we are searching for a perhaps complicated non-linear response, that needs to behave differently across speed, atmospheric conditions, pitch and turning. But maybe there are enough degrees of freedom when evolving a surface that it can capture it all?
Universities are businesses. They sell qualifications. Their customers are students. If there's demand from their customers for the thing they're selling, then they sell it... they have no idea if the demand for PhDs in that discipline is suddenly going to boom.

The example of Data Science is telling: from too many to not nearly enough graduates within a few years. In Australia we had the opposite with geoscience graduates. The mining industry was starved of them, they were earning a fortune the minute they graduated, then suddenly the exploration boom stopped and the place is full of unemployed geologists. How is a university supposed to predict this?

And I don't get what the alternative is...?

Only having the same number of PhD students as there are tenure places?

Refusing to let people start a PhD unless they can prove they have a viable career plan that uses it?
If does provide a cleaner answer, but only in the same way that the flu can be more easily described as a witches curse.
What a weird expectation
Sea turtle shell trade much bigger than scientists suspected
Proxy raises $13.6M to unlock anything with Bluetooth identity
Just curious, are you working as an employee or a freelance contractor?
Not mentioned in this NPR article, but Kingsnorth is also one of the main people behind the Dark Mountain Project, an attempt to formulate a cultural response to our ongoing ecological collapse: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/magazine/its-the-end-of-t...
Another possible concern is that the employee sues for wrongful termination, alleging they were "just following the law" (which they would have been). The employee shouldn't lose his job for following the law, the company shouldn't have such problems for trying to protect its users, and this whole mess was caused by government intervention.

But yes, it will be interesting to see how the courts rule. Not familiar with Australian law, so if anybody has thoughts about this, please feel free to enlighten me.
Current Tesla autopilot is sometimes blind to stopped cars
Librarians prepare to take a harder line with publishers
Take a look at http://dag.wiee.rs/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/ for one example.

Essentially, you tell ssh to use another program to proxy the connection. That program (such as proxytunnel) connects to an http / https server on port 443, and issues a "CONNECT" method (such as "CONNECT anotherhost 22"). Then accept the status message, and pass the connection back over to ssh.

You need to configure the target HTTPS server to allow that connect method to the target host / port, and it is advisable to protect it behind at least https basic authentication.

And the best part of this, is that since it starts off as an SSL (https) connection, they can't even tell that you are doing a proxy (the "CONNECT" message is encrypted). It looks like a regular https connection at that point. The only thing they can do is either use a MITM proxy and require you to load their certificate (common in corporate and government environments), or do pattern analysis on the traffic.
> Bad power-grab legislation like the bill being discussed still happen, as do bad laws as a result of general incompetence, but in my experience there are far less laws that happen as a result of corporate lobbying.

I think I care a bit less about corporate welfare lobbying than infringements on my civil rights. You can fix corporate lobbying if you have real civil rights, but if you don't have the right to communicate privately, the corporations can literally just stop you from organizing, with the littlest nudges (just make the messages of dissent mysteriously not deliver). It might not even be illegal.
An AoA disagree indicator was an option. But it was never an option for this to disable MCAS, as this would have resulted in a change of the flight characteristics that would have required training.
Worked for EC2 as an SE ~ 5 years ago. We used to handle rack downs and page the relevant team if there was a large
set of instances for the said team impacted. We once had a couple of hundreds of Amazon.com (merchant team) instances impacted. We paged the team and they were like "don't page us for anything less than 10 racks of our instances down". The burgers didn't even feel the impact. Their automation was insane.
I think they gave it away here - they're trying to get metrics and analytics they don't get through other apps. Podcasts have always offered really limited data, Apple do offer some data now - and I'm sure Google are collecting plenty but obviously they're keeping it to themselves.

There was a play for a new podcasting standard by I think Gimlet (or one of them big companies in the space), that let you have user identifiers, inject ads based on whatever at different times, and send tracking messages at different times. I listened to an interview with the guy who makes Overcast and he basically said there's no reason any podcast app except theirs would want to support that, so I guess owning your own app for your own content is really the only way to get those analytics if you want them.
The usual pattern is that the generation N - 1 of a tool didn't solve for some dimension D_n of the problem, so generation N is created that handles D_n.

The usual defect is that generation N isn't very good at D_n-x where x is greater than the mean experience of the implementing engineer(s), and often isn't even very good at D_n-1.
Ah, but does it? China is currently going through a period of peace and incredible growth (per capita income has grown about 130x since 1960, in constant dollars). The people are safe, secure, and enjoying opportunities their grandparents couldn't even imagine.

And I suspect that if you polled in China, you'd find a majority agree with the regulations on speech, and sincerely so (not saying yes out of fear). Meanwhile, things are much freer than they were. I'm currently reading a Chinese novel, The Three Body Problem, set partly in the Cultural Revolution, and it pulls no punches about how awful it was.
Ask HN: Would you support a unionization effort at your company?
I frankly have no clue about enterprise IT but the funding and their growth sound impressive. Would someone ELI5 to me what problem Kong solves (bonus points for business model because it sounds like Kong is Open Source)?
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i would argue that cars, for all their benefits, contributed and still do to global pollution. so you get the benefits of private transport, but also you're indirectly killing off other humans.
isn't killing off local press and replacing it with national the same?
Actually there is a problem with the BBC.

In the UK how do you compete for news eyeballs and try and make it pay when the BBC news is for free?

Imagine your business is weather forecasting, the same applies.

Then there is the small matter of the license fee. Most people just pay it out of fear of being caught by one of the legendary detector vans. But you can't have a TV or a monitor that also does TV without being hassled for the rest of your days.

It is getting that way online. I only listen to the BBC on DAB radio, if I sign in to their player thing I know I can't trust myself not to watch some lame series on iPlayer meaning I will have to pay up.

The BBC has an important propaganda role in informing the national conversation and keeping British people British. I am not saying that cynically, that is what the voice of empire is there for. They aren't trying to sell you product, it is more subtle than that, essentially propaganda though, controlling the latitude of available thinking.

They need to be more careful about closing down their reach as people like me go off-piste and start listening to stuff that would never make it onto the BBC. Once you have done that and realise the world thinks differently to the allowed BBC viewpoints there is no going back.

I don't see this as the BBC standing up to the monopolistic evil Google, I also think the BBC are not whiter than white.
I think the intention is that someone with malicious code placed in the users device still won't be able to access bank details
We are armchair engineering the issue on hn, can there be “credible” journalism on this?

I feel for the engineers involved, I assume they all had good intentions and did their best. This seems like one of those things we’d read about in 2030 where some clever engineering and software allowed Boeing to fend off the rivals for a fraction of the cost, or likewise it took them to the brink of survival. As startup and entrepreneur people, we live this stuff daily with smaller stakes, I can’t help but sort of admire their attempt.
So far, none. Google podcast is pretty basic (feature-wise) to be honest. But being forced to give access to location and web history was a big turn off to me. However I found PodByte on the PlayStore that fit my small podcast needs without giving away all my personal data.
Ethereum Flavored WebAssembly (Ewasm)
Let me know when pride is accepted as currency to pay bills or when insubordination due to personal pride is seen as a desirable quality in a candidate. At the very least, how much are you willing to pay a person for not implementing the fix you disagree with (including engaging in a legal contract to pay them if they lose their employment due to not implementing the fix). From my past experiences with others, moral high grounds rarely survive personal stake.
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The race is to get the longest shortened URL
Earth’s continental plate movement can cause problems for GPS (2016)
Edit: to be a bit clearer about what I’m saying:

There’s no indication that before these accidents an airline buying the optional AoA disagree package got extra training to tell them about handling MCAS. And therefore it’s not clear that if these planes had this package they would’ve been saved. The pilots would’ve had a new warning light but not known that it means they need to disable MCAS because there was no training to that effect. If anything I assume the pilots being unaware of MCAS would only think an AoA disagree light impacted autopilot, which is separate from MCAS and disabled at these times. They would still have needed to identify the trim and MCAS problem another way.

(Now it is a different matter since everyone knows it’s there.)
Yeah, evolution didn't get started until after the Earth had already originated. Not saying that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" is the best explanation, but it's certainly better than what evolution gives, which is "after the earth already existed..."
That's my criticism of the F-35 as well. I don't know anything about fighter planes, but as a taxpayer it just seems way to expensive.

Denmark is buying 27 F-35. That not nearly enough to do anything meaningful against an enemy like Russia. Buying a plane, like the SAAB JAS 39 Gripen, would have allowed the Danish Airforce to do basically the same operations, for much much less money. The Danish airforce isn't going to intercept Russian fighters. The missions are patrol and bombings for NATO.

For a country like the US, sure, maybe the F-35 is something they need for the type of missions they fly. I just can see any country do anything with 27 planes. 27 is less planes than an aircraft carrier has.
The number of "bits" something takes is not an absolute value. It is relative to the encoding scheme that is being used for the bits.

Converting a large word list to a small number of bits has been a computer science hobby for a long time. Here's a pretty good search result to start working through for more details: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=building+a+small+spell+checker+suf... It was especially important to write small and fast spell checkers in the 1980s and early 1990s, when you couldn't expect to have enough RAM sitting around to simply load up a naively-encoded list of words, and the act of spell checking a few thousand words could take noticeable time.

So in an encoding scheme chosen to represent English compactly, I'm not too surprised that you can get things down quite small.

However, the question is, what relevance does that encoding scheme have to the human brain? Having just scanned through the paper, the answer is "probably not that much", which the researchers are well aware of. They explicitly present this as a lower-bound, which is a reasonable thing to do. It is obvious that the brain does not simply store 1.5MB of data in the way a computer does, in many ways.

To be honest, this amounts to an exercise in recreational mathematics more than anything else. There's nothing wrong with that, and that's not a criticism. My point is that I'm not sure it's worth trying to read the paper as anything else.
Tesla Model 3 registrations in Norway in March 65% higher than previous record
I am not familiar with this company but I find what they are doing almost as funny as the Indiana Pi Bill . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
Well it says they didn't discover MAL until 2018 after they'd been working on creating compilers for quite a few years. So yes their implementation of MAL wasn't 10 years long. And they also wrote an interpreter in Rust and then a compiler in C in the time after discovering MAL. Safe to say the MAL portion takes quite a bit less than 10 years.
There are plenty of alternatives to W3W, most notably Open Location Codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code

Alternatively, try a W3W parody:

https://what3emojis.com/

http://www.what3fucks.com (NSFW text)
Oh! thank you I didn’t make that connection.
Their point is that evolution doesn't explain the origin of Earth, a planet, at all. While the Bible's explanation may be fiction, it does offer an explanation for the origin of Earth, and is therefor the better explanation by virtue of providing an explanation.
This essay was entirely sarcastic, in case you missed that.
FWIW UC Browser is prob the most popular web browser used on Android phones in China. Every device ive seen, or owned, has it pre-loaded or is top choice for getting loaded. I have also tried it out myself, but as other posters has written already, its awful.

Wondering out loud i would ask if the vulnerability to MiTM is actually required. From reports here in HN 2-3 years ago MiTM is basically what the GFW achieves, and it inserts its own headers to route away from intended(and blocked) servers and to benign local China servers(such as baidu). Perhaps this vulnerability exists in their need to be compliant to local Chinese law which basically prevents one bypassing/nullifying the GFW without permission?

This is an open and honest question, not an opinion. Hope someone can answer with facts. I lived in China past 12 years and have had enough hearsay, rumour, and opinion to last me multiple lifetimes :-)
Well I for one don't mind it because that's how I found out about the service in question and am really enjoying using it. If the OP has something of interest to say in the comment, the "signature" link is no problem IMHO.
Used Kong but don’t know too much about the internals other than I’ve heard it’s a wrapper on Nginx intended to be used as a proxy. Looking at some features around caching I was thinking about implementing they seem to have implemented a typical upsell tier around “plugins” or “features” not core to the product to charge for.
Forget helpful, maybe it's more kind? I don't know if it's "societal training" or not, but it's not our job, nor is it that of a company, to try to "train people". Deliberately introducing something that makes your customers uncomfortable is not a responsible action for a company to take upon the part of its shareholders.