skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually that is one of the key features of the Xiaomi Qin 1s i mentioned earlier. It has built in client AI feature for simul-tran of 19 languages. Lots of other accessibility features like screen reader, voice input etc, so one doesnt have to refresh T9 input memory. Although as other posteers have pointed out T9 isnt so bad. I have found that T9 input is remarkably more accurate in word choice than Swiftkey swipe action on everyphone on which i have used it. Slower to enter (guess about 30% for me) but more accurate.
Mozilla did not move the Rust channels. We did.
And making large donations to reelection campaigns.
I like how they came right out and rejected open systems out of hand, hats off mozilla.
> the main point of a corporation is a shield of liability.

Of the shareholders. Not the executives.
You're far out of date on that story.

https://www.apnews.com/faeff4b8855c4b0daf538599ae3f9db2

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/06/oliver-schm...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-stad...

https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/20/news/porsche-arrest-volkswa...
Apple reportedly discussed buying Intel’s smartphone-modem chip business
Indeed. I had a boss like this, I wouldn’t do anything until he asked for a status, then I’d know it was a real task he cared about. Love it or hate it, agile, at least scrums and sprints mitigate this pathology, introduces a host of its own but that’s another discussion .
Gotta get that touchmove latency down at some point. I'm hoping it's just that GPU-accelerated scrolling was not yet working for that demo they posted a month or so ago.
> I look forward to have a 100% Linux phone.

Is this really what's special about it? IMO what matters is that it runs free software to the greatest extent possible.

I suspect that most people who will be buying it don't care whether it runs Linux or a BSD or even something like Minix, as long is it presents the familiar POSIX-like interface, has good software available (GNOME, Plasma Mobile), and is loyal to the user instead of to a coroporation [== the user has control over it and can hack on it].
Easy, put executives in jail.
Discussed 1-2 days ago (104 | 61 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19750014
A Small Town in the Philippines Banned Gossip
The description in this article is great, but the why is still rather mysterious. How would somebody come up with that?

If you are familiar with the method of Lagrange multipliers, then what's happening can be explained as follows. Given the Lagrangian L(x,v) the problem of classical mechanics is to find a trajectory x(t),v(t) that extremises the integral of L(x(t),v(t))dt under the constraint x'(t) = v(t). Lagrange multipliers are a method to deal with constraints in optimisation problems. Usually it's taught in the finite dimensional case, but it also works in the infinite dimensional case. We introduce a Lagrange multiplier p(t) and add the constraint to the objective: integral of L(x(t),v(t)) + p(t)(x'(t) - v(t)) dt. To solve the problem we minimise this over x,v,p. If we carry out the minimisation over v first then we're left with two variables x,p. That's the Hamiltonian formulation of the problem, and it's called the dual problem in convex optimisation. So the momentum p is the Lagrange multiplier for the constraint x' = v.

In more detail: we rewrite L(x(t),v(t)) + p(t)(x'(t) - v(t)) = L(x(t),v(t)) - p(t)v(t) + p(t)x'(t). Now we separate out H(x,p) = min_v L(x,v) - pv, so the original problem becomes to minimise the integral of H(x,p) + p(t)x'(t). After applying the Euler-Lagrange equations we obtain Hamilton's equations:

dH/dx = dp/dt

dH/dp = -dx/dt
I use the similar (in concept) android app Web Alert https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.webalert which pops up notifications when a chosen part of a web page changes; I've configured it to watch for updates to all of Randy Harmelink's newly free kindle ebook lists at Ogre's Crypt.
Well, yes there are many varieties of potatoes that you can grow as a farmer. Heck, you and your friends can get together and trademark your own and do a lot of selective breeding to make it unique. I can see some desire to grow what you have on hand however.
“Competitive product”?

I’m sorry but they released a real solution and then started to remove the anti-privacy hacks. Also people don’t seem to understand so I’ll spell it out: APPLE IS LOSING MONEY FROM THIS DECISION. Screen time makes them no money (yes you can argue maybe they make more money from devices because of its existance but that’s a stretch).

I’m betting they put up with these apps because they realized there was no good alternative. Now they they have a real solution there is no reason to allow there privacy nightmares to continue to exist (in their current form at least).
> Their interests are highly aligned.

It sure doesn't seem like it to me. Corporations are about maximizing profits, which in part means soaking people to greatest degree possible.

It would be easier to support the notion that their interests are "highly aligned" if corporations had an incentive to make a reasonable profit rather than the most profit they can get away with.
I'm not sure about the delete other peoples messages, and have that deletion propagated, but having the possibility of deciding over own messages it's basic and desirable, in my opinion.

I've just used such a feature less than 2 hours ago, in Whatsapp. Published a secret in the wrong group, by mistake. That's the whole point of allowing editions or deletions of one's own contents: humans are fallible, and shit happens.
I absolutely loved this article. From start to finish -- all the wild threads, the transitions, the prose -- it was amazing.

I haven't been compelled to comment on how much I loved a literary piece like this since someone posted A Kingdom from Dust on HN.

If you liked this, you might like it, too: https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-du...
Maybe I’m out of sync with what really happened with Cambridge Analytica? As I understand it, CA scraped Facebook and retained the data in violation of Facebook’s ToS.

This was not a secret agreement with CA, this was CA using a publically documented API which was returning the data it was designed to return, but CA using and retaining the data improperly.

Later Facebook decided to significantly restrict the data that apps can pull out of their system (arguably making the system more closed and harder to compete with, but protecting that data from misuse).

They exposed too much of the social graph through their developer APIs. I can see an alternate universe where they are fined for exposing too little.

Like I said, I don’t use Facebook so I don’t care much about them. I don’t think they add a lot of value in the world, but their billion plus users must feel differently.

But I don’t understand why, on the basis of Cambridge Analytica, the company should be fined out of existence.

You can hate Facebook, and you can not use it if you do hate it. But there are a billion plus people who apparently don’t hate Facebook and might be damaged by Facebook being dismantled by the government.
> Importantly the general public is overwhelmingly supportive of the labor unrest.

I doubt this. And Uber's strike just pushes consumers to Lyft, so the consumer doesn't care that much of that case, the same way consumer doesnt care about paying public teachers more (their pay is disconnected from the consumer paying).

Most people are and always be reluctant to unions, because they represent a minority that is asking things from the majority.
The app isn’t currently available in the UK, any way you can change that?
True. A crawler need to differentiate generated content from "real" content somehow.

I.e. a service:
www.thenumberinsanskrit.com/?q=1
that returns the queried number in Sanskrit, need to not be indexed (except the entry page) while:
www.news.com/?article=major-jones-in-scandal-20190103
needs to be indexed.

Usually interesting pages are indexed on the site or linked somewhere on it, though.
A short ban would be a great way! They say that they make free speech available for everyone but intern they use free speech and make a tonne of money. Also turning us on one another by letting fascists reach everyone easily!
Now, I'm not sure if I used the right vocabulary. I meant, it has constraints which lead you one way in a singular path, their way.
Let’s be clear, farmers could grow any potato they want and these potatoes are specifically designed for lays chip (loser moisture content for taste). This isn’t a case where the seeds are providing special protection from pests and disease that threaten a farmer’s livelihood. Pepsi wants to protect their R&D investment and product. Because this invention is a special ingredient in their food and they don’t want it in competing products. If you don’t think IP isn’t important in innovation, VCs pass on investments all the time simply because there’s no defensibility. That means great and important products are never developed because there is no financial incentive.
While I'm not a Windows fan, I feel like Windows isn't the problem in this story.
There is a very simple answer. It's because they get clicked. They might be the only site for given search term.
Unfortunately, their solution is far worse than something like Rescue Time, so the only real winner here is Apple. My Apple devices (iPhone, iPad) are effectively a black hole where I have no idea where my time goes, while I have detailed graphs and data whenever I use my laptop (Linux) or desktop (Windows).
This is the deal you sign when you develop on someone else’s platform. It’s the same for Android, Facebook, etc.

If you don’t like then go develop for Android exclusively. Please do not prevend that these app developers didn’t 100% know they operated in a VERY gray area.
Yesterday he got in a public fight on Twitter because he announced he's developing a quiet electric leaf blower and then steadfastly denied he'd gotten the idea from the person who'd just tweeted it at him.
Indeed. Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment comes in at 2MB, obviously that can't contain anything insightful.

And then I find myself looking at the website of a restaurant or event space, and need just a phone number or opening hours or so - maybe 10 bytes of actual information - and am buried in mountains of useless blather and "design" and ads and trackers and assorted other random rubbish.
The people that say Uber exploits drivers are the ones that have 6 figure salaries and free snacks and live mostly unaware of how terrible working conditions are for the lower echelons and how sweet a deal it is to make money driving around.
Want to get this phone so badly. Won't care about the moving of shipping date at all as long as they delivered the phone with little to no problems, I'm good. (If I we're to order one)
Nobel prize awarding process needs updating
> Does it need backups? I don't think so.

When all the communications of you and your coworkers suddenly aren't there the next morning, you might think so.
I'd be weeded out as an idiot because Webex is not supported via linux even though it claims to be. I use it fine on my work laptop but if that had been used as a filter I'd have been gone.
Regarding this Ringerikspotet or the Champagne name I know better, these are labels of guarantee regarding geographic origin and respect of particular production processes.

So no Champagne outside the geographic Champagne but there are similar wines, like crémant[1]: mostly made like champagne but only called differently. (Also less pricey ;))

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkling_wine#Cr%C3%A9mant
How did he get that pirated game to run on iPad? /s
4.4 sigma ... uncertain result. You partical physicists are a funny bunch!
$5 billion is a lot of money. It is not and never can be considered “chump change”. It is irrational to think a Board or management team isn’t going to seriously implement rigorous changes to avoid a $5 billion dollar fine.

Well, seeing that the board is powerless since Zuckerberg has a controlling interest in FB....
> 3. Health care? You kidding me? That's $300+ a month in the US, which would be a $15 billion/year expense for Uber.
> oh no the horror won't somebody think of the unicorns

Spoken like someone unaware of how employment works for people that make less than 40k a year.
Who also wrote "Functional Differential Geometry": https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geome...
It's intriguing you bring up Jung. But what you are saying (that the removal of privacy helps integrate the shadow and thus "fixes jungian" duality in humans) -- is not at all what
actually happens.

Our true shadow is not what Facebook exposes. Rather it collects data and exposes a subset which is in fact the anti-shadow.

YOU choose what data to expose on facebook. The act of that data being exposed has effects that are tangible.

If you've read Foucault he describes a similar effect during the Victorian era on human sexuality -- the idea that by exposing something and quantifying it -- you in fact put a sort of control on it. When it was hidden, no one knew what was normal -- so they used their intuitions and personal judgement.

It doesn't share everything -- because it can't possibly KNOW you (or your shadow) -- people are incredibly smart and complex -- as you point out. But what it does do is expose a superficial subset of you that in turn changes your behavior and the perception of your behavior.

Jungs whole point is that the shadow is an intrinsic aspect of any social society -- something MUST be repressed in order for us to not be completely individualistic psychopaths (like the snakes we evolved from) ... simply exposing this duality doesn't just "fix it" ... instead society needs to function with the knowledge that these things exist. Jung's point is that the individual should not go into psychosis trying to balance dualistic morals... and society shouldn't be so harsh in judging morals (NOT that everything in the shadow should be made public, or even that the shadow is a bug rather than a feature)
I do it! Everything I pull is pinned with sha256 since I use Nix/Kubenix, so I'm required to pin sha256 if I'm fetching from the Docker registry (or build the package deterministically myself.)
> I get that people want to see a company crippled but wiping out a quarter of revenue is a death-blow.

So is a lengthy prison sentence for individuals. Should we get rid of those to make it fair?

> There are numerous problems with this statement. One, you don’t know ahead of time what the fine will be.

You can take an educated guess going off of what happened to you and others on previous occasions. If there are no examples of a fine that is "a death blow", your risk to receive one is low. Hell, you might not even get caught. It's hard to tell how much they get away with because there's no leak or whistleblower.

I'm pretty sure that the reason FB isn't putting bogus charges on users' credit cards isn't that they wouldn't because of ethical reasons. It's that a) they'd likely get caught and b) they'd get into a lot of trouble.

Companies aren't sex offenders or committing crimes of passion, they are much closer to rational actors, deterrence works great on them.
ppod wrote: "prescriptive aesthetic paternalism"

Made my day.
Show HN: A Screen Recorder Website
> people are so much smarter than the NYT article suggests

People are only smart some of the time, everybody can't be smart all of the time. If I followed you around for a week I'm sure I could find multiple instances of you doing something the audience would consider 'very stupid'.

>facebook is just another tool to expose our animalistic flaws

Right, much like heroin exposes our animalistic flaws of addiction, we don't allow companies to profit from it by using it as a tool.
Looks like MIT Scheme (on which the ScmUtils system runs) still gets some regular maintainence releases, though I don't know how active development is these days:

https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mit-scheme/stable.pkg/

Installation instructions for the ScmUtils package:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/index.html

As far as I know, Gerry and Jack still teach the course every year (can someone currently at MIT verify?) and still use the system.
I don't know how many times I read over the definition of the Legendre transform and never really got it. I'll definitely check out that section. I feel like as an outsider Sussman brings a much needed fresh viewpoint in explaining things in physics. His explanation of the derivatives in the Euler-Lagrange equation was similarly great.
And you’ve been able to block iTunes and the App Store through parental controls forever.
Are you opposed to all kinds of intellectual property protections or just this one domain? In particular, why should anyone put R&D into developing better varieties of crops if their innovations aren’t protected? Or perhaps improving crops (to be more drought resistant or to produce higher yields) doesn’t strike you as important—if so, how do you suppose we produce the additional food to sustain our growing population, especially in light of climate change (reduced land, increased droughts and other causes of crop failure). I don’t know about this particular case, but I wouldn’t rush to advocating for zero IP protection for crop varieties.
Governments are not really interested to “punish” FB as long as they can regularly “milk” FB for fines.

Cost of doing business for large international corps.
Well this is fun, I'm now unable to logout. I have a feeling there's more to this incident than Docker is currently disclosing...
It's probability, not rule I think.
Introduction to x86_64 Assembly on Linux
Whether people want to believe it or not, 5G is being deployed as both a biological and psychological weapon.
Millimetre waves and their effects are well studied and utilised by military in their active denial crowd control systems.
Wifi is also dangerous, why would they have chosen 2.4Ghz when this is the frequency absorption spectrum of H2O. The same frequency microwave ovens use to most effectively heat food.
Similarly, the frequency absorption spectrum of oxygen is mm wave 60Ghz, 5G is likely to use this spectrum at some point.
Next generation wifi (WiGig) has its default frequency based on the oxygen molecules absorption point.
This means they are messing with the fundamental elements of biological life.
Ethernet cables do not have these same flaws.
The surveillance and control aspect of this iot 5G network ecosystem is going to have chilling effects on freedom, liberty and sovereignty.
Social credit anyone?
As others have said, Slack is fine for businesses that can afford its extra features, and it's "good enough" for a small business with less need for search history and more of a "run anywhere" instant communication platform.

But I agree with the sentiment that it's not a good fit for open source projects. For that, an open source Slack-like tool like Mattermost or similar would be a better idea.
I still don't see how you can't imagine a legitimate usage for this class of apps. Or maybe you can and you're not even saying that in which case I have no idea what point you're making.
There is a racket port; I do not know how complete it is, though a quick look at the open issues suggests not all the pieces are there yet: https://github.com/bennn/mechanics

The most recent version of `scmutils` I see is from 2016: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/linux-instal... and https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/scmutils-tar...

Edit: There seems to be quite a few ports to various languages: https://github.com/search?q=scmutils No idea how many are fully featured/tested.
>why do you care about the runtime cost of something that makes your program crash ?

I think both parent commenters (htfy96 and Asooka) got on a tangent because htfy96 substituted a throw exception for an assert() in gp's (hermitdev) code -- as if they were equivalent. However, exceptions have fundamentally different semantics from asserts and are not substitutes for each other. (For anyone unfamiliar with the different purposes of exceptions vs asserts, please read the top 2 answers in this Stackoverflow question.[0])

Things like array bounds checking (used as a runtime safety check instead of an "impossibility" check) would not be tested with assert().

To answer your direct question, programmers who use assert() correctly for "testing their understanding of the world by testing an impossible condition" don't want to pay a runtime penalty for it.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1467568/debug-assert-vs-...
The Raisin Situation
"ToS violation" is a lame copout, especially since the CA events happened long after the 2011 decree https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb... . As a former president said, "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again"

As humans we are certainly willing to give others extra chances to do right by people, but at some point people realize that the bad actors will never rectify their behavior and should be stopped. I'd personally vote for jail time for executives.
facebook is the latest scapegoat of society

Correct: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo....

The way to punish Facebook is for users to stop using it; that most people don't, tells us a lot. Follow the data and behavior, not the speech and statements.
Was never fun of 1995 Internet design really.
I do use it, but it looks terrible, organizational capabilites are limited and ... did I say it looks terrible ?

Not to mention it always returns to default view, so you need to click html view each time.

I know its not politically correct and I am sorry that some people will have their feelings hurt, but lets pretend that we speak to grown ups for a moment and not 13 year old teenage girls: the GMail is gigantic pile of shit and due to the fact that personal or other non-shitty mails will be blocked because they do not fit Google agenda, there is really no easy way out of this lock-in. Making it euphemistic and diplomatic counts in my world as dishonesty so if you do so, go freck yourself too because you are contributing to destruction of this nice planet we live in.

At least I have freedom to express and say here that Google can go fuck themselves (minuses are welcome, counting morons is my interpretation), and please Google
PMs, take those words as my default response any time when Google Something asks me on a phone 'Hey, you were at XYZ, how was it?' during those 3 seconds I keep GPS on. Please make default answer - go fuck yourself, thats how.