skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting things patched is awful. A reasonably simple thing I'd like is to secure myself against meddling by Subaru. That includes updates I don't agree with and tracking of my vehicle.

Disabling the network connection would pretty much stop the tracking. Alternately, disabling GPS would work. Anybody worried about both stored data and about cellular companies reporting tower locations would need to disable both.

Undesired updates can mostly be stopped by disabling the network connection. Dealer service could be trouble; they might do an update without asking for my permission. Scrambling the crypto keys would probably stop the dealer service people from making updates.

Some of the above would also be needed to keep Subaru from uploading camera data taken in my garage. As it is now, Subaru could be watching me in my house!

So, take the above as the high-priority goals.
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> The codewords thing may sound silly, and it's certainly not a complete solution, but why not let that be a step towards helping all of us be safe?

The often quoted mantra “don’t just stand there, do something!” is terrible advice to solve a problem — and unserious social LARPing is part of what’s wrecking the social fabric of our nation.

The suggestion is problematic for several reasons: it doesn’t provide a real solution, but diffuses energy meant to solve the problem; it portrays the issue of sexual assault as a gendered issue, and fails to help male victims; it creates drama and victimhood mentality for no reason, by portraying sexual assault as James Bond style crime, when really, you generally just need to firmly say no. (No, that doesn’t always work — but there’s a real segment of sexual assaults where a person quietly submits to the assault, often out of fear or embarrassment. Teaching people to say no is probably the biggest change we can make, because it radically decreases that category of assaults.)

Every part of that unserious solution distorts the problem and causes ancillary harm, but the proposed solution fails to usefully work — that is, her unserious LARPing is worse than doing nothing.

> In the mean time, though, if the worst thing about a partial solution is that it sounds silly, then maybe don't tear it down too much.

This doesn’t seem like an intellectually honest reply, when in the post above yours I listed several better mechanisms that this detracts from, and when you seem to be avoiding discussing the negatives I’ve mentioned — such as the general harm to treating a serious issue as something to respond to with drama and hysteronics, and the detracting from treating other forms of bullying by failing to deliver those general mechanisms in favor of niche (at best) solutions.

> I think this piece was meant for groups that don't enjoy that level of resources.

Yes, and her suggestion to have a code of conduct for such small groups is additional evidence she’s focused on the social performance aspect, and not actual group performance in the chosen domain.

Which makes the poor suggestion of codewords even sillier: such a mechanism is absurd for a group that doesn’t have trained staff.
Stop trying to re-solve already-solved problems.
> Have you ever been to a restaurant? Most people throw out over 25% of the food on their plates.

It is easy to order a smaller portion of most meals. The problem lies on the client in this case.
I also started with Location history years ago and I most definitely do remember Android specifically asking if I want it or not, and I remember checking what turning it on meant.

Maybe you don't remember it, but you can look at old version of Android and they all ask very clearly if you want it or not.

I guess maybe you didn't understand what was implied? But it was definitely asked.
Maybe these companies have some responsibility to push awareness in the faces of the customers, that the only way to offer these services reliably is to study actual user stimulus.

I don't understand why people have so little restraint though. If you don't like these devices (I don't like them, and don't want one in my own home), then you can't complain when the things you don't like about them come to bite you in the ass.

I can understand being upset at being subtly betrayed by some ubiquitous and inescapable tool, some might argue that social media sites are becoming an effective privately-owned public square, deserving of some of the protections that offers (as established by the norms of the courts); but in this case you have absolutely every right and convenience not to buy personal assistant terminals and fit them in your homes.

I don't trust smartphones, so I don't use them as phones; there are certain banks here in Canada I won't do business with because of bad reputations. It's all well and good to be concerned about a product, but if you're not willing to walk away from a luxury good which is not essential in your life, even though it violates your basic principles of good living, you have nobody to blame but yourself.

If you won't take the most basic, simple, and convenient steps to uphold your principles, do you really have any?
That's one way to get rid of your introvert customers
> not continuing to eat what you've served yourself in the name of preventing food waste

You could also cover your plate and put it in the fridge. Doing that requires the same amount of self-control as your prescription of clearing your plate in the trash once you're full. Both are hard for many people to do.

It's easier to exercise restraint when serving than when eating. For example, Google successfully reduced food consumption and food waste by reducing the plate size in cafes. [1]

> Portion control is unrelated to how much food you make

Not entirely. Even in the fridge, food will only stay good for a certain amount of time. Most people won't want to eat the same thing more than 3 meals in a row. These are also reasons for overeating or throwing food out.

1. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-lost-30-pounds-over-two...
Take heart! All culture, and especially music, is about retracing steps. “Pioneering” in music is about capturing the Zeitgeist in just the right manner and with extraordinary expertise to be undeniable, which then creates a new normal. That’s not exactly pioneering, it’s standard setting. The perfection of a musical meme is retroactively confirmed by virtue of its proliferation. It’s genius, while undeniable, as a strong relationship with luck.
Operating under the assumption that config files will be handled by a plain text editor and not an IDE seems unreasonable.
Came across a pain point with TOML yesterday in use.

When trying out a CLI I've been writing recently, this time on Windows... the TOML config file (generated on first run) wasn't usable.

The problem turned out to be TOML not handling single slashes "\" in strings, instead treating them as escape characters.

Annoying as on Windows the paths are (eg): "C:\Program Files\stuff". Which then needs changing to "C:\\Program Files\\stuff" to work ok.

I can see both good and bad points of TOML's string handling there. But it's annoying it needs a workaround for one of the signature aspects (slash vs backslash) of windows. Especially when paths are very common in config files, regardless of OS. :/
Is the GP wrong? Of not then I don't see why you're bothered.
> According to a group of biologists in Japan, the newfound species — named Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 — breaks down the plastic by using two enzymes to hydrolyze poly[ethylene terephthalate], or PET.

http://www.sci-news.com/biology/ideonella-sakaiensis-bacteri...

Also, see list of citing articles to this old review:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073497500...
And if you are callous to a psychopath level, you can always create your own 'cab' company just so you can drive your Mercedes S500L everywhere, including public transport priority lanes and public transport only zones.

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/ryanair-boss-michael-olear...
It would. As it was mentioned earlier on HN, a woman can get 100k in tax-free alimony payments from a guy making 250k. She can even get his house.
To be fair, the Swedish Academy is only responsible for the literature prize. While the Academy has done some fantastic things (for example, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok) they have been a social club for the intellectual elite for a long time.

The economy prize (which isn't even a real Nobel prize) is given by the Swedish National Bank.
The improvements would have to be either massive, or the fraction of new cars on the road would have to be much higher than I'd expect.
Yeah he puts out a ton of music. I'd recommend starting with the most recent releases and working backwards. Most of his music is available on streaming services.
It's a sad commentary on the current state of society that pretty much the only constructive advice people can find to offer the OP is to try to use social media or a sympathetic journalist to create outrage.
Seems like it's been there since April 11th.
Compare https://web.archive.org/web/20190410111213/https://www.nytim... with https://web.archive.org/web/20190411112326/https://www.nytim...

Maybe a rogue employee or some kind of joke?
The type and amount of data transmitted, and the type and amount of data preserved depend on what is being done. Exceeding the minimum amount of data transmitted/preserved is a violation of privacy.

- Case 1: local action, such as playing music, making a calendar event, setting an alarm. These have no need to be sent to

- Case 2: remote action, such as performing a search. The audio can be parsed locally, with the search terms then sent externally to get the results.

In neither case is it necessary to send the raw audio anywhere. In neither case is it necessary to record the audio for future use.
Smokers are actually cheaper for the healthcare system because they die early and don't require years and years of intensive medical care during old age.
Personal transportation doesn't have to be a three ton hunk of steel.
I'd go with shared housing first. While looking for a part time Dev job. Inform the business-owner about what you are trying and that it's possible to go full-time after x months.

Set a deadline and know when to call quits. You want us to assure you, that you did the right thing. But you have the odds against you, so prepare for a worst-case.

Ps. I have multiple side projects running, profitable while working full-time.

PS2. Don't ever work on your side projects during working hours, except handling email.
I understand the spirit of the tweet storm - but please let me lulz myself a bit => Tencent is an African majority owned company ;)
That is, you cannot borrow someone else's money and try to run with them to a different country? Seems only logical.
There are a lot of spots where x86 still makes sense for embedded. A lot of the ARM SoCs are wimpy for I/O, plenty of devices have poor vendor driver support outside x86, and there's many software tasks that are easier on Windows than an arbitrary ARM/Linux stack.

We don't need Threadripper performance there, but we do need cheap, predictable, and not subject to supply whims. If you're a Chinese firm on a 10-year time horizon, "supply whims" includes making sure you've got domestic production.
Anywhere in particular you would recommend exploring for a future visit?

I was there for two days earlier this year and felt like I
just scratched the surface.
It's largely about him saying things directly instead of using the traditional dog whistles, at least on the issues that his target audience was most concerned about. In "normal" politics, you're allowed to imply it all, so long as you coach it in the language that is appropriate for the times. Here's one historical example:

"You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger". By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this", is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger". So, any way you look at it, race is coming on the backbone."

This is Lee Atwater, explaining the Republican "southern strategy", and its evolution over time. But the same happened on most everything else.

And then comes Trump, and straight up says that Mexican immigrants are rapists, and Muslims need to be banned. Which is exactly what most of his base were thinking - so hearing him say it out loud earned him that "honest man who says things as they are" reputation among them.
Its an extension of Loco Parentis. They aren't children, they have some agency and responsibility hence the "court". But clearly society doesn't think they are quite ready to be left solely to the whims of the justice system. The court covers other offenses as well.
It seems to be so.

Assange and his mother both hinted at it. One interview Assange did is particularly notable; he practically said the leaker was Seth Rich and then backed off a bit. It was like he was struggling with his promise to not reveal sources.

Seth Rich had the means to leak, being an IT person just like Snowden was. Seth Rich had the motive to leak, being a very upset Bernie supporter. In one of John Podesta's emails, there were some very ominous words about making an example of leakers.
Totally agree. The raw audio shouldn't be sent back or at a minimum not stored.
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It certainly accompanies it (can you imagine a world where there was needless and wasteful consumption, but no one bothered to advertise?). I wouldn't be so sure about causation.
Theft removes the incentive to do r&d. If you are just going to get it stolen, others will just invest in stealing. No one will waste on r&d. There are reasons we have laws. You are making infantile arguments for pro theft with no thought to the obvious consequences. The fact that you’re getting upvoted on HN is alarming.
He knows enough about it to be enthusiastic about it, at least back when it helped him get elected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n7VyHbqkas
Use getBounds() function
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Instead of haversine for each marker
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been revealed with a stunning trailer
Moving to a provenance-aware memory object model for C: proposal for C2x
I like Coach Red Pill on You Tube. Some of his stuff is pretty insightful.
> Not everything is about San Francisco, even if HN wants to think otherwise.

Perhaps, but if we're talking about bulldozing and rebuilding the place to get rent down, San Francisco is at the top of the list.
It turned out many web browsers still blocking it. See this video published at Apr 12, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohinJAkPPU
Org-mode syntax is no better than that of AsciiDoc, or arguably Markdown.

But I can assign keywords and unique id to sections, include sections from another file, generate indexes and sitemaps in fully customizable manners, incorporate other programming environments. What markup languages can do that?

Org-Mode syntax is an interface to a powerful writing/authoring environment. To dismiss it as a `markup language' is not a good way to advocate its adoption. Something similar can be said to ways people appreciate the power of Emacs.
Yea, the point is why is there a random political shot at Pence? It makes no sense. It’s shoehorning a totally petty and not relevant potshot. Every space mission has been “political”, and of course everyone agrees you shouldn’t do a bad job at it.
If anyone is looking for an accessible Aphex Twin track, I would give “Alberto Balsalm” a try. One of my favourites on my University radio show. (That no one listened to back in the early 2000s. :)
That sounds like fun. Please drop a link if you post it.
A very powerful one. You could in theory stream multiple files into jq and have it output effectively arbitrary JSON based on their contents since it supports conditionals.

I don't think it would be very pretty since it's not designed for that use case, but the jq language is certainly powerful enough to allow it.
I would welcome fact finders instead. The point is the focus on attacking one woman who wound up being an accidental figurehead instead of - after the creator already told them that he wanted no part in it. If not operating under an ulterior motive (transparent misogyny) they would tear apart the reporting.

If one is concerned about poor accuracy of say a report on 9/11 that claimed Steve Buschemi rescued the most survivors then it makes sense to slam the report as inaccurate tripe. Certainly not start harassing a guy actually involved with the rescue but had a role exaggerated. That is why I refer to it as transparent misogyny - since in what world does it make sense to lash out against the people who are misreported?

It is possible to act as a fact finder. By all means compile a complete list of contributions and itemize it in excruciating detail. Calling it fact-finding is just trying to use it as a rhetorical motte and bailey.
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On the other hand, it could people to identity theft you and open cards in your name abroad and good luck dealing with that shit show.
> Does enabling location tracking suddenly causes Firebase to report location data without our knowledge?

> Does enabling calendar access suddenly cause Firebase to read the calendar data on its own and report that, too?

These are good questions to be thinking about. As for Firebase specifically, I have never seen it automatically collect additional data based on user-granted permissions (at least in iOS apps).

However, there may be a few other SDKs with this sort of issue. It is important for app developers to be careful of this.

For example, when working on similar location tracking research (see: https://guardianapp.com/research/ios-app-location-report-sep...), I noticed that quite a few prominent apps use an SDK from “Braze” (https://www.braze.com/), and if location permission was granted to the “host” app, the SDK automatically sends back the user’s GPS coordinates when communicating with the Braze API. I remember at least one such app developer had no idea Braze was doing that and rushed a fix out soonafter to make it stop sending the GPS information to Braze.

I hope we see more pressure on analytics companies to offer more open source SDKs instead of compiled binaries and headers. This sort of issue would be easier to spot and deal with, instead of being unsure what exactly the SDK was doing.
Google still stores location history even if you switch it off. There was a report on this just a couple of weeks ago.

The point about carriers is the most valid though. That’s the weakest point in location privacy.
> Most of this can be disabled simply by disabling Location History

That disables the location tracking specifically for the purposes of location history, but not any of google’s location tracking for other purposes. Who’s to say whether that other data like “was at X when you opened google maps” ends up in the same location database that these warrants are querying?

https://www.wired.com/story/google-location-tracking-turn-of...
Basics of OpenAI Gym
Heads up for your friends, the home page is not very legible on mobile and the menu doesn't work (when you click the icon it disappears and leaves no options).
There's a real need for JSON templating languages not targeting developers.

Tools like Zapier, Customer.io's webhooks, etc. allow integration with arbitrary APIs and have become a standard part of many marketing/sales stacks. These apps use things like Jinja, Mustache, or Liquid which are great for text but not JSON templates.

Curly braces as primary delimiters, not allowing trailing commas on final elements, and other features of JSON make generating it a real hassle.

Jsonnet is too complex to be that tool, but I'm glad people are working in the space.
> The audio can be parsed locally

Speech recognition doesn't work like that, there's no yacc/lex for you to just "run locally". Device-local recognition is limited, and not very agile. It often takes years for it to recognize new words, and it usually has extreme bias toward a handful of urban centres.

I don't like sending my data away, and I choose not to, but it is simply not realistic to expect Google-quality or Amazon-quality continuous real time speech recognition and nlp to happen entirely on-device.
I think job prospects for most engineering majors is still very good even if they don't want to do dev work.
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A lot of natural gas is stranded or considered a waste product of oil production.

So fertilizer plants in those areas suck up that cheap CH4 to reform it into H2 and heat up the Haber-Bosch process to make ammonia and then into more transportable fertilizers like urea.
Bitcoin is to unstable in day hour to hour price levels. Example Bitcoin is 5000 usd at 9 am and 5026 at 10 am so I pay 9 am price to go to work via uber and my partner pays 10 am price to go to work ??? Will never work until stability is something we can count on. going home you don't want to hear that one.
I've edited the VSCode config in JSON form by hand when adding snippets and overriding how the vim plugin handles some keys. Instead of the normal settings view, it was just the JSON in the text editing view.
Is there a way to browse all questions posted on HN?
The 'Ask' section shows only the latest 60 questions.
The script to generate that JSON is code. Jsonnet also generates JSON. So his script is filling the same role as Jsonnet would. The point stands.

He might trust his code, but I was highlighting reasons why this is not true everywhere, and indeed the ability to evaluate untrusted code can open up previously unavailable avenues. For example, storing server-side Jsonnet that can be safely evaluated by a multitenant backend.
It's not a new dump:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1117123131804737541
Also, how did a right-wing conspiracy nut job website hit the front page of HN?
> That assumes everyone knows all the words which trigger a recording device and that those devices actually remotely record sound. Including a 90 year who hasn't use anything beyond a rotary telephone.

Don't put a Google Home in babushka's apartment, she wasn't going to buy one anyway, and she doesn't need it!
I dunno, on the other hand, I got a B.S. in Ecology and have about 5 years of experience doing field work, long term monitoring, and data analysis and report writing on said research. Ostensibly that should be plenty of experience to prove I know my field and can learn new methods and skills related to it. Despite that I can't seem to find anything that isn't more seasonal work below my worth now or wanting a Masters degree even though I have plenty of real-world experience.

I agree that there's some serious gap between steps 1 and 2, but I did alright in finding internships and experience and still can't find squat.I admit I knew going into my undergrad that a Masters would be needed to find a /good/ job, but I didn't think I'd need one to find any job at all. I'm sure there are a multitude of reasons to explain it, but this job market blows. I never want to hear someone tell me they can't find good employees or fill positions fast enough when I apply to five or six jobs at a time every week and don't even get a rejection email from half of them, let alone an interview.