skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same person maintains some builds of Ungoogled-Chromium for Linux :

https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1265177/
Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast (2014)
I believe the point here is that they claim that they care about security, while their Icelandic VPS hosting provider can just dump the host server memory, which would include the encryption keys.
We’re already seeing problems from that. It will be handled, probably without the financial bonanza of 2k, but as such will probably cause more problems.
This was the ultimate point of the EU’s approach- to make it so unpalatable that countries with weaker economies would not dare to try.
>AirPods really have almost no distinguishing features from other earphones.

You've got to be kidding. The kind of pairing made possible by Apple's W1 chip, and the completely cordless design, was absolutely and undeniably groundbreaking when the AirPods were first released. Even now you'd be hardpressed to find a pair of earphones that work as smoothly and seamlessly as AirPods do.
Graphic: Which Is the State with Most Solar Power Capacity? and in 2023?
A Tesla car is a data center on wheels.
Not op and maybe I'm misunderstanding, but the correction is part of the spec in satellite design, not something that can be kept secret[1]. The timing code that is translated into navigational data, however, is encoded and encrypted, which have some well-known keys, and that used to prevent high accuracy. My understanding is that the us government can change those to prevent GPS usage or to limit accuracy. [2]

[1] http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....

[2] https://www.trimble.com/gps_tutorial/sub_pseudo.aspx
They could offer their own compilers or runtimes. Some big companies do. But most dollars and time is spent on hardware R&D and upgrades.

Facebook and Google both have in house chip designers these days, specifically for their data centers.
If I don't keep my phone at 100% while at my desk, and then I go out somewhere after work, there's a chance my phone will run down to 0% while I'm out, potentially stranding me somewhere.

I don't think that's OCD. It's just planning ahead.
Thanks for the clarification.

My estimate was based on 2080 hrs/yr; indirect costs such as insurance coverage, paid annual/sick leave, 401(k) matching, and operating costs that one might associate with a large software distribution.

Probably worth noting that the average freelancer bills a lot lower than typical for-profit enterprise.
Not chess if no en passant, castling, etc. It’s a prototype that’s demonstrated when the programmer realizes the “exceptions” double the code length, or aren’t worth it because he’s not a chess player.
In regard to ecmascript, have you considered Haxe?
I read the article and frankly it's a pretty garbage take on philosophy.

It's an even more garbage take on where modern or even post modern philosophy has taken us in terms of understanding. He seems to think philosophy ended with Wittgenstein (apparently even ended with Wittgenstein's first book).

It makes me think immediately of how Maciej obviously felt about PG sharing his thoughts in his Hackers and Painters essay that made Idlewords write this response[1]. The ideas and concerns in the philosophy article merit much the same response.

If you're looking for a good introduction of where philosophy since Wittgenstein might take you and why it's still one of humanities best tools I recommend the podcast 'Philosophise This'[2]

[1]https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
[2]http://philosophizethis.org/
You should have limited your response to, "That is for me to decide." You can't reason with someone who's unreasonable, and you shouldn't prostrate yourself before him by trying. As you observed, he appears to be not only a fool, but an ignorant one. Only time and painful experience have a chance to get through to him.

In other words, don't be a victim of BS asymmetry.
If it breaks down to the point a product gets cancelled, that would be a dispute. However yes, usually in such circumstances it tends to go public.
I think you missed the point my post. I'm not one of the people on this board that like to decry success as just being a principle of luck, like it's some kind of lottery.

We're specifically talking about the wealthiest people in the world. The people who got that 1% advantage. I apparently made a mistake in describing those people as lucky (just meaning that there are only a handful of people that will sit at the top, so being one of those people is lucky; it's against the odds).

My whole argument is you can't just take their shit because you want it, and them having a lot of shit isn't a sign that they've done something wrong that allows you to trample on their rights. I think people concerned about inequality have lost the plot. Instead of helping people pull themselves up, they focus on taking from those at the top. Granted, we'll all be more equal financially, but it's hardly a utopian outcome, and no one's lot will be improved, only worsened.
It must feel nice to work at a nonprofit. Assuming you have previous experience at for-profit companies, do you like that aspect of your job?
Pick's Theorem
Machine Learning with Differential Privacy in TensorFlow
Matomo is analytics for folks who really care about privacy (or folks who want to simply have more control over their users analytics data). Install https://matomo.org/ and run it in the same location as the project you're already running. Your own instance of Matomo is not going to be on EasyList any time soon.
>That's 43.5 billion right there.

Apple's filings show that less than one half of one percent of their revenue comes from the entirety of the MFi program, which includes not just the first-party cables they make, but every single licensed iPhone-compatible accessory of any kind anywhere in the world.

It seems silly to me to think that Apple would jeopardise the value of the number one consumer electronics product on the planet, the product that produces 60% of their revenue, by nickel-and-diming customers on cables.
I'd be interested to know the added energy cost (in terms of programmers) of writing the code in the first place and subsequently maintaining it

* edit- thinking about it it's probably negligable
He probably won't fly April 5, or April 7, either.
What is a heisenbug?
imho the motion looks entirely like a simple counter-balancing solution to keep the robot upright and the box steady. It does look like a whole-body solution, not a per-joint PID. Others have mentioned they use MPC which makes a lot of sense here. I think it's just "convergent evolution" if you want to put it that way.
How do you justify that our special forces for instance in France or Europe dont kill innocents so carelessly ? And don t tell me criminals dont have guns here. Something is definitely wrong with the US police - to the point where Im worried as a tourist
Re your edit, I always thought lgm was a reference to military garb, not police. Also, many police wear black now.
But then everybody who bought anything (that at least worked) would love it. This theory has no explanatory power to distinguish why any particular company has higher that average satisfaction ratings.
I can’t use it on a wireless charger. That kills the only use case where I might actually need to charge the device during the day. Playing movies while sick.

Any point where I can’t just charge at night in normal useage means a larger battery is going to win over easier charging.
The Curiosity-Seekers and Die-Hards at the Last True Blockbuster
Absolutely not.

Returning used anything in US is cultural courtesy.

Returning in EU is mandated by law, but for online purchases only and unused products, with hygienic exclusions - the purpose being giving you the same chance as in a brick store to see the product. Opening the box, returning, sure. Using for a week, putting it in your ears, then returning, nope.

Apple Store policy varies by country slightly, but generally they allow 14 days unconditional return. That’s rather unique, and entirely voluntary, and Apple Premium Resellers rarely (never around here) have the same policy.
The Scutoid: A geometric building block of life
This is what google okay is for. Trust me.
A bug that this one customer keeps reporting and no developer in the team can replicate, until it happens one day and it happens constantly, until you try to debug it, because then the bug will never happen again. ️

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
ripgrep does have a JSON output mode, if you're curious.

Of course, ripgrep handles coloring like GNU grep does.
Yes, hence the obstacles and limited data export by Tesla tools might be in violation of it.
> The whole point of an ad-blocker is to allow a user to consume a service in a manner that the entity running and paying for the service didn't intend. We could at least acknowledge that.

It's kind of funny that that was, originally, the very definition of "hacking", and we are in a site called "hacker news". But moving on...

The adtech industry got in its head that it can just arrive in a place that already existed (the Internet) and start inventing implicit contracts. It reminds me of the "nice guy" that does some nice gesture for a woman he likes and then gets outraged when the "implicit contract" for sex is not honored.

Hosting is not even that expensive. You know what's expensive? "SEO", buying traffic, in short polluting the very environment where you exist. That is the sort of thing many companies will do with their ad money. They do what they can to place themselves between me and the stuff I want to talk/read about, and then act all outraged when I take counter-measures against their spying and manipulation attempts. That's rich.

I hope EasyList continues to do its job of acting on behalf of the users and does not get swayed by bullshit.
It’s nowhere near unconditional and not even close to anything goes culture in US.
You just described a good CEO. Considering you limited it to engineers and designers, maybe a miniature CEO.
Efficiency over Speed: Getting More Performance Out of Kafka Consumer
It’s exactly that:
https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/15/apple-hong-kong-scalpers/
How do you feel about older screen readers that don't handle JavaScript well and probably won't load the ads (which probably aren't accessible anyway) to read them to the user? Has the user "stolen" or simply used their _user-agent_ to do what is best and most accessible for them?
In the US at least I’m not aware of a single certified aircraft that relies on GPS as the primary and only means of navigation. Even brand new Airbus 320/321s and Boeing 737-700/800/900s have INS installed and is considered primary. GPS and radio based navigation add correction and cross checking to the INS derived position. GPS is necessary for RNP but RNP procedures are not yet widespread enough to cause major disruption to the national airspace system.

As we move closer and closer to primarily an RNP system a GPS outage may become more disruptive but for at least several more decades the infrastructure and equipment to navigate using INS and radio based means such as VORs will provide a proven and safe backup.
How'd you do your math? 50k every year @ 8% would result in 317k and 782k in 5 and 10 years respectively.
Yup. Have it replaced if under warranty.
Other car manufacturers call it ‘certified pre-owned’, or CPO.
A comparison of population cancer risks between alcohol and tobacco
The headline is the fraud here...
Or unless you’re in a business that has disproportionate number of asshole customers. Sony probably couldn’t afford to offer unconditional returns in the PlayStation store...
These robots go only up to 15 Kg according to their designers.

I would not call 15 Kg "heavy". I can carry that myself on a single arm...
Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support
Online shop prototype (front end) written in React
Wanted to share a project: Online shop prototype (front end) written in React.

https://github.com/giorgi-m/online-shop
Small forums and comment sections can moderate themselves, no?
If you take a tour of a factory with industrial robots there will be black and yellow tape on the floor or some other equivalent way of warning:

Do not step inside this perimeter or you may die.

If a 200kg robot arm gives you a love tap because you were just barely in the perimeter you may not survive.

We’ll fix it in post is ok for film production. Move fast and break things is ok in free to consumer services or SaaS where 0.99 uptime is great. It is not ok with industrial automation.
Matomo is blocked by many ad blockers by default, not based on the domain name or URL but based on the name of the js files downloaded by the browser.
I don't even know where to begin trying to use this for something, but other than that it seems brilliant, and it is not at all surprising that Douglas Hofstadter had some hand in it.
Yes, because it will extract literals from your regex and seaech for those first. When a match of the literal is found, all you then need to do is find the line boundaries of that match and run the regex engine on just that line. It ends up working pretty well.

Of course, if your regex has no required literals at all, then this optimization can't be performed. GNU grep can slow down quite a bit in these cases, especially if you have a non-C locale enabled and use some Unicode aware features such as \w.
They are not extreme.
That would enforce actual transparency. We can't allow that to happen!
Here's how it works: You tells us who you are and what you're looking for, then we'll see what we can show you and what we can't.
No. Skipping bytes is only done when you can prove there isn't a match. Please see my other comments in this thread.

If you want case insensitive matching by default, then use:

alias grep="grep -i"
I was really hoping for Apple and Google to create a bidirectional standard similar to PCoIP (a la VMware), and be able to essentially use the car’s touchscreen as a thinclient to the phone.
Stop attacking people with off-topic issues and go away.

PS: of course I claim Rust isn't free of race conditions. Its own designers also claim it:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html

You won't even believe the official docs of Rust? :)
I'm curious, are they notified when their ads are taken down? Or does facebook do "shadowbanning" themselves? I'd expect them to do it when nation-state interests are involved, but I guess nothing stops them from taking in the money from the regular folk and lying about ad impressions when an ad goes against their interests.
Unpatched Zero-Days in Microsoft Edge and IE Browsers Disclosed Publicly
Yeah, I've looked at glushkov based primarily on your comments about it, but Unicode is always where I get stuck. In my regex engine, Unicode is enabled by default and \w is fairly common, so it needs to be handled well.

And of course, one doesn't need to bet the farm on a lazy DFA if you have one, although it is quite robust in a large number of practical scenarios. (I think RE2 does bet the farm, to be fair.)
Yeah I bought some wireless charger off amazon (I think it supports up to 10W, but you know how amazon is) just to try it out and haven’t stopped using it. I really thought it was going to be super gimmicky and that I was going to just keep using a cable.
The Self Is Other People (2018)
nREPL 0.6
Sorry, I'm not a military buff, but that article refers to beast mode being:
- either 16 Air-to-air missiles
- or 4 guided bombs and 2 air-to-air missiles.

That seems incredibly underwhelming. Isn't that less than the capacity of a single ground based vehicle?

And wouldn't a fixed position defensive system have hundreds of missiles?

I can't quite see when four bombs per mission is ever going to be "an unbelievable amount of firepower".
Ah, maybe this is the one I was thinking of and I misremembered it a little. It certainly looks familiar.
Origins of the name: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#int...
Having worked on gps chipsets, one of the corrections that need to be applied is for relativistic effects,those calculations are happening in every GPS chipset as it needs to iterate down to a very precise position estimation of the satellites in order to produce an estimation of your position.
There is no magic involved, relativity/time-dilation is not a disputed effect.

As an example, clone https://github.com/gnss-sdr/gnss-sdr
and search for "relativistic correction"
To the point of less wear. My iPhone 5’s Lightening port still works just fine but the phone itself needs replacing. My perfectly usable iPad Air however now has a Lightening port which is so worn out that I need to engage in a voodoo ritual of supporting the cable with a matchbox to ensure sufficient contact and _just_ the right angle to get it charging... then walk away carefully so as to not disturb the tech spirits.

I’ve warmed significantly to wireless charging just because of that, and the lowered charging speed wouldn’t be a problem since I could leave devices overnight on the AirPower mat. I was especially excited about the proposed design of AirPower because precise placement wasn’t needed. I could easily imagine that making it much more handy than precisely aligning everything in the dark when putting away my iPad.
...and those could be easily avoided by referencing "js/" instead of "piwik.js"[0], or by running Matomo's log analytics tool[1].

Which leads back to the following quote from the author:

> But what happens if we block alternatives even if those alternatives are taking the privacy of the user very serious. I care about the privacy of the individual. I don't collect any personal information (I don't even store IP's). Even if you have your Do Not Track-setting turned on in the browser I do not collect any information (see our script).

[0] https://ericmathison.com/blog/bypass-ad-blockers-and-track-y...

[1] https://matomo.org/docs/log-analytics-tool-how-to/
I did, and I do, but to be sure, the organization I work for isn't a non-profit.

Our branch's projects manifest when: 1) data rights are on lockdown and can't legally be distributed; 2) data is limited, making acquisition risk too high; or 3) bids from the private sector far exceed what acquisition estimates suggest they should reasonably be. In general, these constraints tend to keep things both interesting and challenging.
Odd that you'd jump to Samsung as the example and not Apple's own exploding Macbook batteries from a few years back...
Can AI be a fair judge in court? Estonia thinks so
answered above.... every GPS chipset does this.
People take what they have for granted. There has been so much good provided by the internet. People do not remember what it was like when media consumption was one to many, with a handful of broadcasters and newspapers publishing to an audience of millions of people who passively consumed whatever was produced by this media elite.

Now with all the fearmongering from the Radical Left about the evils of the internet and big internet companies, and the apathy of voters as their elected representatives move to centralize control, we're in the process of repealing the legal protections that made the modern internet, with all of its chaos, innovation and empowerment, possible.
That's not really being fair; Windows was created decades before Android (one decade if you only count NT). The security model is different, because it was created in a different computing era.

I think the difference in API stability is a result of the different financial motivations between Microsoft and Google. For Microsoft, the OS itself was the product; to not make the APIs backward-compatible would have meant significantly less revenue and market share.

For Google, the OS is not the product. Google doesn't make any less money when someone continues to run an old version of Android. There is no monetary incentive to make new versions of the OS API-compatible with older versions, nor is there any monetary incentive to make new versions of the OS run on old devices.

Consider also that the cost of upgrading to a new (non-flagship) device in 2019 is much cheaper than in 1995. A typical PC circa 1995 could cost $2000 or more (price adjusted for inflation). Today, you can get an entry-level mobile phone for 1/10 that price. Back then, a family might hold on to a computer for five or ten years, because it was so expensive to upgrade. That makes paying $100 or so for an OS upgrade every few years worthwhile, because it's much cheaper than buying a new PC.
But muder is illegal. Tap-dance dostraction might not be.
What Was It Like When Venus and Mars Became Uninhabitable Planets?
And behind WhatsApp. Messaging came later.
Lessons from Creating and Maintaining Open Source Projects at a Startup
Smoldering? What? Your cables are burning?

I’ve seen cracked plastic around the end of the cable, but never burning.
That's more a Ruby issue than a Rails issue.

https://sorbet.run/

Stripe have been working on a type-checker. No idea when they're going to release it to the public though.
How we ended up here? Many of us make $100K+ per year yet important projects we use every day get little to no funding. It's Debian! And I'm as guilty as the next guy for not donating.
What Ancient Rivers on Mars Reveal About Its “Great Drying”
I think that distinction in the text was not the intended point. With 'the plastic' they mean the products, not the plastic packaging. Because of it was the packaging, made of common materials, entire supermarkets would be off limits.

And no, I don't think most people feel no smell in the cleaning aisle.
I'm pretty sure the phonebook thing is OBEX. You probably don't want the car hitting your phone for the phonebook every time you want to make a call. IVI systems are slow enough as it is.
Agree. Perhaps, if nothing else, to read some interesting Scheme source code.
...year or so... they update to a new version, I pay them when I decide to

Not: every 12 months I pay them if I want to keep using my password manager.

I do prefer to pay for software. I do not appreciate the sea change toward monthly subscriptions.
One issue is that most programming languages links their version to a particular unicode version, by example, .NET 4 supports Unicode 5.1 while .NET 4.5 supports Unicode 6, etc.

The new Era will be soon supported by Unicode 12.1 [1].
For older version of .Net (or Java) you also need to support the new Era without supporting the whole Unicode 12.1 spec, introducing a non backward compatibility behavior because the new code point U+32FF has now a different meaning.

Currently we have already added tests for the new code point in all our supported applications and are ready to update them using the same channel as a security issue.

[1] http://blog.unicode.org/2018/09/new-japanese-era.html
Widespread, and only for apple product.
Thank you for sharing this. I think this is a very good idea.

>I would like a desk [...] and have both power and a high speed LAN [...]

Based on what I've seen I think there is a huge (untapped) demand for desks like these in coworking spaces. The tough part in making something like this is actually the design. So you'll have to work with someone who is skilled in carpentry/ sketching and go through a few iterations before you can have a good product/ something to show prospects.

Like a self contained cubicle but essentially a workdesk. I like this idea very much. You should work on it.
> So that this doesn't happen again any time soon, GPS devices made in the past decade use 13 bits for the week counter, yielding a total of 8,192 weeks or 157 years. Those devices will not have to restart time until 2137, by which time our descendants will have created a whole new set of technological problems.

I love the snarky final sarcasm.
Any examples of TCM / smell patterns?