skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a common misconception, and it is driven by political interests that want to dismantle public services and replace them with more expensive services that have a profit margin for themselves attached.
Somewhat eerie.. I recently installed a tab suspender because a tab crashed or lagged out so I killed its process

This version of Firefox is obviously because of me :P
> Why Meterpreter isn't controlled by an AI or achieving some other autonomous state, I'll never know

How do you think meterpreter would be controlled by an AI? Do you think there should be an AI that will automatically figure out a way to hack into a system or escalate privileges?

Regarding other tools like nmap and metasploit - they are frameworks which let you run modules specific to certain exploits. Metasploit has countless of new modules being developed all the time. And nmap has its own scripts to target new kinds of attacks.

Though the basic functionality of nmap will not change anytime soon because network protocols are largely the same since 10 years ago.
> people who want to use the Chromium engine without all the Google stuff

Why would those people not use the chromium browser?
On the other hand I grew up with technology and I'm a total geek, so computerized interfaces are in general more "intuitive" (i.e. I grokk them faster because of extensive experience) for me than for most (especially older) people... Also my vision is 20/20 so I might be less impacted by the low resolution/contrast issues highlighted in the article.
Isn’t it possible to disable gpu in about:config?
> Does this mean that adblocking (and other safety-related) extensions will suddenly stop working on private windows, unless the user knows it has to go to the settings and enable them again?

Looks like it, although if you don't know how to configure your extensions, then why even use them in the first place?

Chrome has been doing this for a while now. You have to check the 'Allow in incognito' button for the extension to work in private mode.
The Wobbly Table Theorem
That was also the case with CRT displays. If a pixel is to stay black, no electron must be emitted to light up its phosphor.

This Google search frontend has been around long enough to claim it helped save considerable amount of energy on that principle:

http://www.blackle.com/about/

What they report about LEDs and CCFL isn't entirely correct, however. It may become in the future.

Technicalities aside, what once could be regarded as an environmental measure, today is a much more practical battery saving strategy.
HWB makes a lot more sense to the average human beings than HSL/LAB. You pick a fully saturated color, and then you darken or lighten it to get the precise shade of that color that you want. It’s a huge win for UI over, say, RGB (100% red and 50% green makes no sense to anyone but designers and lighting technicians). Think of it as a magical shortcut for picking HSL, but instead of picking “orange, mostly saturated, then desaturated” you’re combining those last two into a single triangle picker whose three corners are the Hue, White, and Black.
A.I. Took a Test to Detect Lung Cancer. It Got an A
Fair enough. Anti-fascist anti-corruption fighters who are possibly not democrats.

BTW, it's not a smear if it's true. Smearing involves false accusations, but nobody denies the authenticity of the video.
Is there a way to test a specific color scheme from the web inspector instead of having to change the system appearance?
Yeah I had to disable gpu acceleration on Firefox in parallels. Otherwise it rendered black boxes for elements with certain styles.
The Dart/Flutter Package Manager requires a Google Account to upload packages
You're conflating suboptimal decisions about essentials (people need food, clothes, and transport and optimizing for good is a complex problem) with paying for something that you don't need and directly harms the cause you purport to care about.
Sure, it's bad. But it's better than all the rest.

Why?

Universal. Many many tools can access it, and will for the foreseeable future.

Transmittable. Easy to ship to different places.

Versionable. Can be stored in a wide variety of version control systems.
I like how SQL syntax is integrated into the language. That is very convenient.

Can you compare/contrast this language with q? Can I write complex queries as I can do in q? How about performance?
We're stuck in the mindset that vulnerability means a technical vulnerability, they're discussing how Huawei is vulnerable due to trade restrictions, not due to technical challenges.
Neural Network Tuning
But Chrome itself doesn't, interestingly?
How Many Truck Drivers Are in the USA?
Snippet from the page:

>Note that uploaders are identified by their Google accounts, so use a Gmail or Google Apps email address for any new uploaders.
Trains are super efficient. My uncle is a locomotive engineer. He has one or two conductors with a train that is a couple of miles long. They pay a premium to keep staffing at a minimum -- he can be called with 30 minutes notice to come in and drive a train for a 24 hour period.

You'd probably be able to run more smaller trains with automation, but competing with trucks is tough, because the efficiency gains associated with getting rid of people and adding automation are blown away by the need to cross-dock and do the last mile via local truck.
Sure, if you live by 'ignorance is strength', I totally get your sentiment.
The Legend of the Lady of Angon and the Sirens of Lake Annecy
Fake news gives an advantage to parties who are unconcerned about the truth.

This will only remain an advantage as long as we expect messages to contain verifiable facts.

We are in a transition period right now, and seem to be headed towards a post truth era, one where we will no longer agree upon a set of basic facts about the world, and where everything is merely opinion.

Once this transition is complete, then there will be no such thing as fake news, because all news will have become spin.
Oh we should worry about both I was just comparing the 2. To me currently USA is more dangerous than China hypothetical future spying through Huawei.
Someone should start a 23andMe but for whole body MRIs (To be clear: I'm kidding, this is a joke and a terrible idea.)
I took a computer architecture course in undergrad and they had us make an ARM emulator similar to this in c++. It was extremely illuminating.
Your first idea is pretty common. There's usually a very coarse "localizer" scan at the beginning of a session, which is used to set the field of view for subsequent runs. The whole body scans are (at least in theory) meant to find tiny things that are asymptotic though, so I'm not sure that searching through (say) 10mm slabs will help much.

Open, upright scanners do exist, but they're lousy. The goal of the (big) magnet is to produce an incredibly strong, uniform magnetic field. Due to physics, this is much, much easier to do with a torus-shaped magnet than a 'U'shaped one. Even so, there's one point ('isocenter') where the magnetic field is maximally flat and the quality will be best. The gurney moves to point the region of interest (e.g., your head) right to the isocenter. That's why the tech often uses a little light or laser to find your position, rather than just asking you to scooch. Motion is also, as you alluded, a huge problem.

I hate to be discouraging, but I am excited to see people actually thinking about MRI on HN!.
"Sometimes you can’t see how important something is in its moment, even if it seems kindof important. This is probably one of those times.”

> Cyber Grand Challenge highlights from DEF CON 24, August 6, 2016
We didn't choose to be undisciplined and financially illiterate. That came of ignorant or negligent parenting, among other things. (And they didn't choose, for the most part, to be bad parents. It's just that no one taught them to be suitably conscientious parents).

Expecting people to be critical thinking and deliberate in the way they conduct their lives, without first conditioning them to be so, has always been and will continue to be unrealistic.
Ok, but I think the parent is wondering in what situation you'd want to store in the browser details of a site you'd visited, but still use private mode to "hide" that you'd visited?

What data does the password use retain? IIRC password store retains the "time first used, time last used" and displays that visibly.

In short what's the use-case or user story that fits this feature?
Hey it's not senseless. Rust doesn't have subtyping (except for lifetimes), and specially not subtyping between a parent class and its child. This is on purpose. Subtyping is required for the usual class based OOP but greatly complicates type inference.

However, we don't have yet means to emulate downcasting for trait objects, except by using the Any trait (which is a footgun). Until then, class based OOP is more expressive than whatever Rust is doing now.
Took 3 minutes of concentration to remember this. Enjoy. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/MainPage.aspx
We really need a way for terminfo/termcap to indicate whether a user has Powerline fonts. Would be great for programs like this.
> "Enable FIDO U2F API, and permit registrations for Google Accounts"

Oh! Didn't expect that! Does this mean YubiKeys will now be working in GMail on Firefox?

Together with all the other stuff, this starts to look like a really important and major release of Firefox.
Let's say Microsoft finds a way to gain a large market share with Edge. Couldn't they cause significant damage to Google if they enabled ad blocking by default? 90% of Google revenue is still ad revenue. Say they got 50% market share. If all of the sudden 50% of internet users started blocking ads, wouldn't that be a pretty bad thing for Google? Like put them out of business overnight kind of bad? While not hurting Microsoft at all?

I wonder if Google saw this vulnerability years ago and so they decided to build Chrome to protect themselves.
That's a straw man argument built on pure conjecture. We're all educated adults here, that not going work.
Can't say I've had this problem...
> I’ve yet to see anyone go “well I would’ve written this in Golang but it’s got GC”.

This is a dealbreaker in a lot of contexts where garbage collection pauses would be unacceptable.
>In Europe cars are very heavily subsidized by the government.

Maybe this is true in Belgium, but how much is it true elsewhere?
Amazon Faces Investor Pressure over Facial Recognition
Yes! Thanks! (I knew it was slightly goofy)
This just isn't accurate. Messaging solutions have always supported request-reply. Just as examples,

https://activemq.apache.org/how-should-i-implement-request-r...

https://nats.io/documentation/concepts/nats-req-rep/

https://www.rabbitmq.com/direct-reply-to.html
A valuable service which they charge money for, and should generate revenue to cover their costs.

Pension funding politics aside, I want to pay USPS postage fees which cover the cost of the service they provide. There’s no reason to be paying below cost postage to USPS. I find that their rates are extremely competitive, particularly priority mail flat rate compared to UPS or FedEx.

I think the post office could be doing a lot more digital services in 2020 and I’d love to see a lot less junk mail, it would be nice if they could centralize the opt-outs.
Self driving trains already exist, or at least remote controlled trains which is pretty close https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_control

The cost savings from getting rid of a train driver aren’t nearly as great either since the driver:passenger ratio is different between car and train.
No. The extensions that are already installed will still work in private windows. It’s only newly installed extensions that are disabled in private windows by default
I tried to read a few articles on service mesh but then still don’t understand what it tries to solve. Is it just another niche technology (I.e nodejs ecosystem)?
This was my favorite part of college too. I think it was near the end of a really good networking class I took maybe my junior year when I distinctly remember chatting on AIM and thinking about how I could visualize approximately how my key presses were going from the hardware through the OS into memory into instructions on the CPU executing the application back out onto my screen and across the network to a server and on to my friend's machine for the reverse trip. It was a powerful moment. Of course as I've gone further through my career I've realized how far off my approximation was because everything is even more complex in the details, but I still think it was a fundamentally valid and valuable moment.

This is one reason I'm ambivalent about the skepticism around computer science / engineering programs as a prerequisite for a career in software development. It bums me out to think of people toiling at this work without experiencing that kind of bottom-up knowledge of computing. But I think this is largely a projection of my own personality on others; that would be a bummer for me, but I think many people don't care about any of that and just want to do valuable work for good pay.
Previously installed extensions before this update will not be disabled automatically, only new ones
Yeah, VCL is one of the best GUI frameworks out there (although its C++ bindings had to twist and bend and extend the language a bit to work and as a result it feels a bit awkward compared to Delphi).

Although despite C#/.NET being good for that they are, WinForms even today is in several fronts (e.g. layout) worse than what you had even with Delphi 2/C++ Builder 1. It feels like it was abandoned too quickly.
Ask HN: Compare Schemas of Two Databases
Hello HN community!

I have been searching for a tool that would help me to automate schemas comparison of database instances. My current project is built on top of 15-years old legacy and they got themselves to the situation where instances comparison is required.

I found great stack thread however it's a bit old and tools listed there are also either abandoned or incomplete ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4804779/how-to-check-difference-between-two-databases-in-postgresql )

Have anybody had any luck with this kind of problem? If so would you share what you used?
An Alexa scientist on how to detect speakers' emotions from speech signals
Building a To-Do List with Cloudflare Workers and KV
PC Hardware, in Pictures
When writing, start from the conclusion and work forwards.
My answer would be the exact same which is why I asked the question.
You Suck at Excel [video]
Alexander Zverev vs. Ernests Gulbis – ATP Geneva Predictions
> my confused reply, which I didn't mean to say it loud but being exhausted it slipped part my filter and I mumbled it out loud, was cited as sexual harassment

Whatever he said, he immediately apologized for it, and still to this day blames fatigue and confusion and says he didn't mean to say it out loud. So no, it is completely unreasonable to infer anything other than an inappropriate comment.

There is not a real world in which people are making innocent statements innocently and losing their jobs. That is a fantasy world that exists in the fever dreams of men who have trouble treating women as people.
The company making these self-driving trucks - enormously complex products which could kill people if they go wrong - is called "TuSimple"?

Really?
I wish I had so much money that you'd have to convince me not to drop $1000 whenever something new comes along.
EDIT: It is a fair point that it is difficult to say what is easier to implement (the below expands on this). By type theory being natural I was mostly thinking of the fact that it is basically a functional programming language with a very strict compiler.

Actually, Metamath is not tied to ZFC. As the name implies it is a meta-theory where you could implement a lot of different theories. That said, most Metamath developments use ZFC. I haven’t seen anyone doing type theory in Metamath, but from what I understand it may be possible.

Also, this means if you are counting lines you need to include the formalisation of the logic and the axioms of ZFC inside metamath. The kernel of Coq is similarly a quite short program.

Certainly there is a wealth of systems available. But the ones based on type theory, such as Coq, seem to be at least as popular as the set theory based ones (For instance the first formalised proof of the four colour theorem and Gödel’s theorems were in Coq).
But isn't the junk mail where they make a ton of their money?
Curious, are these pilot programs sending the trucks out completely driverless? Or are there going to be humans in the "cockpit" sort of managing things and taking occasional naps?
> People being "afraid" of each other seems a bit dramatic.

In universities and colleges people are afraid voicing their political opinion, or just disagreeing in general with the mainstream. Not just because they would meet lot of counter arguments, but actual physical violence and even getting expelled from school.

Nobody is defending sexual predators and abusive behaviour. But there is a clear bias towards men when it comes to accusations. You don't have to be a predator to say, or do something in a way where the other person will take it as abuse. You don't have to be a man either, but it would make much easier.
Everybody can be in this situation. Just fail to identify a transgender person and use a wrong pronoun and you will find yourself in front of HR so fast that you won't have time to say sorry.

If a joke can get you in trouble so much that you even lose your job just because a woman's feelings were hurt, then there is a problem with the system. Is one person's feeling more important than another's life?

This whole situation is a slippery-slope as there will be always someone being offended by something.

I think the key is tolerance. Understanding that everybody makes mistakes. Nobody is perfect. And when they apologise we should stop the witch hunt. Also we should embrace differences between sexes and not trying blurring the lines.
Jamie Oliver’s UK Restaurants Declare Bankruptcy
IIRC the movie Space Camp (80s?) features a mail-robot, perhaps the kid hides in it?
Totally self driving.

Well, except for the driver. And also the engineer sitting next to the driver.

But otherwise, self driving.
Blackle: Google with a Black Background
That fear feels overblown to me. This isn’t some autonomous vehicle, it’s a learned mapping of electrical signals to specific motions. I don’t see a need for over the air firmware updates. And the model can’t generalize because everyone’s brain works differently so you’ll need to retrain every single time.

Perhaps I wasn’t clear but that technology already exists and is in use. It’s much easier to do prosthetics because you can just hook it up to the nerves on former limb stub.
I think the best solution is Ford's blind spot mirror. Use your own eyes and look where you're used to looking.

https://thefutureofthings.com/5963-ford-blind-spot-mirror/
> Take a look to see how simple is working of a CPU, and by how many MAGNITUDES does the code size grow when any modern "programming paradigm" is involved.

Yeah, but you can't scale that to teams of programmers working on complex business logic.
Did you read the first paragraph?

> San Diego-based startup TuSimple said its self-driving trucks will begin hauling mail between USPS facilities in Phoenix and Dallas to see how the nascent technology might improve delivery times and costs. A safety driver will sit behind the wheel to intervene if necessary and an engineer will ride in the passenger seat.
Yes, GC is a negative. There is a huge literature in measures to mitigate its negatives. These always involve trading off one against another, and libraries are frequently incompatible with any particular mix of them.
You’re repeating the same thing. There’s nothing wrong with advertising, ads and tracking are different things, and consent is the issue at hand which allows you to engage with what you feel comfortable — and that choice is indeed ethical by all measures.
I realize this is a Tesla tear down (and I agree with a lot of it, having driven different Tesla’s myself) but I would like to see a more comprehensive analysis comparing different other infotainment systems on the market because there are much better ones than Tesla’s.

For example, one of the biggest complaints of touch screens mentioned in the article is lack of haptic feedback. I believe Audi/Porsche solved that really well in their latest models by using (multiple) touch screens that provide physical feedback upon pressing. In addition, half of the “buttons” have a fixed placement and can be blindly operated.
IQ is an output of environmental factors.
Nobody is disagreeing.
... That is an gargantuan task. According to https://www.openhub.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_... they have over 5.5 million lines of code written in C++.

That is an insane amount of code that would need to be rewritten, rechecked, retested and so on. Not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.
Yalp is currently abandoned, try using Aurora Store instead: https://f-droid.org/app/com.aurora.store
> It seems like a messaging system like this would require all calling components to micro-manage...

I think that's part of the trick, actually. When every component of a system behaves in similar ways, it's easier to extract that behavior into re-usable patterns.

Rather than each component worrying about handling failure and micromanagement, that job is delegated to an another component, a supervisor or orchestrator. Supervision trees, automatic service discovery, and elastic resource managers all come to mind.

What payment systems don't send messages to communicate with the credit card company, or the eCheck service, or Venmo/PayPal/Apple pay? Websites and native apps alike have spinning graphics and loading bars, messages that say "please don't refresh the page while we do this". These systems are fundamentally asynchronous to begin with. By uniformly applying the practices you get consistency, in exchange for a higher low-bar of complexity (which you're likely to exceed anyway).
> Do you own ocean front property or did you just list that for some abstract reason?

For one thing, "rising sea levels" is often used as a symbol, representing all the varied consequences of global warming, the most depressing of which may be global ecological turmoil, so you might consider taking it less literally.

For another, rising see levels are going to wipe some island countries off the map and displace a quarter of the Bangladeshi population, among other things. It doesn't seem unreasonable to be dismayed by the social unrest that will surely accompany those events.
Yep, though technically one could enable this before now by tweaking the about:config security.webauth.u2f setting. (Which is something I've been having to do for a while now).

As a side note... the way Google handles U2F is somewhat out of spec. For example, you haven't been able to register a u2f device with Firefox on google. I wonder if that's been worked around with this release? That would be great!

Otherwise, u2f has worked perfect with sites like GitLab and GitHub for example.
Are these publicly-available sites, or private web apps?

I can't remember seeing sites that break Safari, but I'm sure I'm just lucky.
US issues temporary license to scale back restrictions on Huawei
FWIW, WebRender is enabled by default on Nightly on Linux with a subset of modern Intel hardware.
Was this said under oath or something?
Of course not.

> A safety driver will sit behind the wheel to intervene if necessary and an engineer will ride in the passenger seat.

There are no self driving cars in existence. At least not ones that are even remotely competitive with human drivers.
It's still delivering mail, just from one post office to another.
Collection of CMake code and snippets to expand its possibilities
I sometimes use private browsing to temporarily access a site with a secondary account, without logging it if my main account.