skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhh, I'm sure it's fine, but how high power are we talking?
Just when you say "high-power infrared light" my brain thinks "cooking an egg"
Show HN: Blur – Data privacy through pseudonymization
Graham Bensinger has an interview series with Niki. It goes deep into his life, struggles, and successes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OyP3eLzrbI&list=PLW5qT4HIAd...
We used to say that in Seattle.
I'd expect controls for this to improve in the future (e.g., https://bugzil.la/1547818), but for now you can use this add-on to force a dark scheme: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/dark-mode-website-s...

Or, in about:config, set the hidden ui.systemUsesDarkTheme to 0 for light, 1 for dark, and 2 for no preference
Smalltalk comes to mind. You might argue over whether it counts as modern or not, but working in Smalltalk for two years was something of a revelation to me, at least.
> Well, I have just compared them.

Brilliant retort. Next you'll compare Twitter to health insurance I bet.

> If you're incapable of understanding the comparison, please don't embarrass yourself and stop shouting.

I understand the comparison just fine, what's embarrassing is the absurdity of the comparison. The burden of proof is on you to explain why a fundamental lynchpin of our economy for 150 years is comparable in necessity to a single social media website.
> Why Aren’t You Using Our Technology?

- It's arcane/esoteric

- Its capabilities are largely unknown (I have mixed results with wolframalpha even for simple queries. Perhaps programmatic model is more deterministic)

- Its licensing model is murky and needlessly complicated
Exactly what I was asking for! Thank you.
What does that chart show exactly? Timepoints are labled, data are not.
I think you're right. I took the koan to mean that when designing any given widget the focus of the implementation should make as few contextual assumptions about the use of the widget as is it feasible to do.

There is an inverse relationship between the number of contextual assumptions made about a widget and the number of contexts the widget can operate in. Something with few contextual assumptions is typically referred to as "flexible."

Duck typing as a practice entails a focus on the capabilities of a given widget rather than the "role" (read: type) of that widget. Focus on capabilities = fewer contextual assumptions. Focus on role/type = more contextual assumptions. Thus duck typing can be thought of as one possible embodiment of the koan's intended perspective.

Of course, some detractors of static typing might take this to mean that static typing implies a focus on types which as I've just shown would imply more contextual assumptions and less flexibility. But as rust's traits show, one can keep the benefits of static typing without sacrificing flexibility so long as the focus of the overall design is still capability-centric rather than role/type-centric. But that's a different conversation :)
Also how does an expectation of privacy from a communications platform amount to a "dishonest" comparison?
As a Tesla optimist, it seems like their biggest constraints are cash and the distraction of quarterly earnings calls with analysts. Apple could use that huge stockpile of cash to allow Tesla to continue playing the long game, without having to worry about their stock price fluctuating every day.
Big companies do have satellite offices all over the place.
* until someone from Apple or Tesla denies this
The entire reason they adopted blink was YouTube putting invisible divs over the video and breaking edge’s hardware acceleration for video.

They rewarded googles shitty behaviour by becoming dependent on them for a rendering engine, and any chance of forking is pointless because they’ll be back where they started: using something different than google, and thus ripe for shit code on google properties.
eh, USPS sortation facility would be better.
Global sea-level rise could be double our current predictions
But why should they?

Both Uber and Lyft also profit from this because in the end it's the customers who pay the difference.

So I don't really see either of these companies wasting time and effort on fixing this "problem".
Apparently, it's just a registration that anyone could do. He hasn't proved he invented Bitcoin.[0]

[0] https://decryptmedia.com/7124/craig-wright-claims-patent-for...
This is an absurd slippery slope falacy.
I think they are saying that those categories of men overlap closely. The men that do not know how to interact with women in the workforce are closely overlapped with the men who cannot 'get past 3rd base'.

I'm unsure how the modern world is affecting both areas simultaneously though. Perhaps cis-hetero women are just not putting up with things that they used too put up with.
I compare this to driving. We all think we are safe drivers who will not drive when tired, not go too fast in thick fog, and pay attention to our surroundings. In practice, it's hard to live by these rules 24/7.

I thought the author did a good job describing how he rationalized away these warning signals as flakiness, and had a bad mental model of the situation ("SIM card is being weird") that prevented him taking timely action. He also mentioned outside factors (needing to sleep, stress at work) that affected his judgement.

It's easy to say this would never happen to you, but even sophisticated people get caught by this stuff, since we are in the end human. Writing this article in the aftermath of losing so much money was a brave and considerate gesture.
It’s not all he said. He also included his anecdote about the AirBnB founders.

It’s a category error in that his statement is a binary one i.e. true/false, which he is using to defeat arguments which are about continua.

That is a category error.

It’s also a common method of deceptive persuasion - i.e. a dark pattern, but I don’t think PG was doing that on purpose, hence my assumption that it was an error.
Anytime someone is starting out their development career and didn't go to school for CS, I recommend this book. It's a fast read and an excellent primer.
Google has invested in KaiOS too
Your demos break or don't even load if page zoom level is set above or below 100% in Firefox btw.
I actually never considered working with universities. I'm not too sure what that would look like.

My plan was to start a non-profit organization and hire some radiologists, AI experts, and software engineers. I would also need a lot of help from lawyers and healthcare experts to make sure we're complying with laws and regulations. Then I wanted to purchase a few second-hand MRI machines and start a pilot program somewhere.

I would probably start in New Zealand (my home country), and then move to other countries with universal healthcare (Australia, Canada, UK.) Early detection of cancer should end up saving a lot of money (compared to treating cancer in the later stages), so in the future it should be possible to get government funding that covers the entire program.

I'm not too interested in starting a for-profit company, but it's probably the only way to do something in the US. So I'd leave that to someone else.

But yes, it definitely makes sense to work with a university or hospital. Maybe the Centre for Advanced MRI at Auckland University [1].

(P.S. This is just a project I would want to tackle if I ever sell a company and end up with a ton of money. There's no chance that I'll be doing something soon.)

[1] https://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/en/faculty/camri.html
> as a bonus he gets to unload the truck.

Literally unload? Does this mean something else? I wouldn't see this as a bonus.
Huawei Accuses U.S. of Bullying as It Seeks Support from Europe
And the expiration of a few patents, like the ones about simultaneous multithreading. Zen is the first AMD's architecture to implement SMT, Bulldozer had CMT (https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/zen.j...).

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3728692

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3771138

https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/the-myth-of-cmt-clu...
> I am sensitive to legislation that puts entire industries (I.e. real people's jobs) under a coal fire of "maybe we as a company literally have no viable path forward".

Good that you're sensitive, but some jobs simply deserve to die. It happened in the past; behind leaded gasoline, or CFCs, or poisons sold as miracle drugs, were real people with real jobs. Advertising as an industry proved itself to have cancerous nature and grew to do incredible damage to people; it deserves to be burned down to the ground.
Your opinion doesn't make policy.
Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order of Japanese names
Mozregression - https://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/ should help you figure out where it broke. You can open a bug with the commit you found as "regressed by" - https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO/UserGuide/BugFields#regressed_b... to help developers track down how what they need to change to resolve the issue.
I completely disagree with your maps example here. Yes, 2D currently works ok, but I can't see how it can beat a full-surround AR experience, which simply overlays a shiny string along the path you have to follow.

That is for real-time navigation.

For positioning and planning, 3D will be required to navigate a multistory mall. But a 3D map movie-style could potentially be replaced with something better, if researched.
Security researchers discover Linux version of Winnti malware
This looks intriguing, but how many wolframs does it get to the wolfram?
You can do some of these tricks with Excel 2016 or later and SharePoint Enterprise or Office 365 -- which many corporations already have.

You can embed an auto-updating Excel file in a SharePoint webpage using a "webpart" that renders as HTML. (Microsoft is getting away from web-rendering Excel with Silverlight,and allowing more functionality without the need for a browser plug-in.)

The trick is to setup the Excel data connection using the "Get External Data" -> "From Other Sources" -> "OData Data Feed" and not use the "Data Connections / Microsoft Query" method. Note: Microsoft Query connections won't update server side, the Excel file needs to be opened, data connections refreshed, and re-saved.

It does require a bit of Excel expertise to setup, but there is no need to create a Java application to get it to run.
Powerful and insightful article, resonated with me a lot.
This doesn’t make any sense. It’s kind of funny. His statements imply that he’ll show the US by still being a powerful business... but I don’t see how that changes anything about it’s relationship with the US?

I think he’s just putting on a strongman face because otherwise this is going to substantially weaken Huawei as a company.
Looks likely to ship with Chrome 76, which I believe is the current dev channel: https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5109758977638400
The comparison is misleading because Tesla had 120M shares outstanding in 2013 versus 170M shares today. $240 per share at the time is equivalent to $169 per share today or $28B in market capitalization. It’s still 15% cheaper than today’s share price.
This has been openly talked about for a while. It makes all the sense in the world - Apple wants to get into this space, and has the pieces that Tesla is missing - supply chain optimization, good capitalization and strong marketing. Tesla has what Apple is missing - vision, electronics, deep learning experience.

I'm still amazed that this hasn't happened yet.
This leads to a slippery slope to the bottom though. The reason U.S. businesses are more successful in the international market is trust in our legal and financial systems. Eroding and curtailing these protections will just make the U.S. market another China. This is why people will spend over twice as much for an iPhone than a Huawei smartphone. This is why foreign tech companies and workers come to the U.S. and instead of China. Without that trust, we're left just competing on price and China can always do it cheaper.
I can't tell if that's honest or dishonest accounting.
Double left turn lane? That is a very wise warning. People do not know how to turn.
We've had very low inflation for some time.

Deflationary spirals have caused more damage than low inflation by far historically. There's ample evidence central banking has reduced volatility across hundreds of countries, which is why every single country on earth has adopted it.

Inflation also benefits borrowers, which is the middle class. It makes house payments relatively lower over time, for example, while wages tend to track inflation on the whole.
20k Linksys routers leak historic record of every device
Don't get me wrong: Doing all the approximations to get a fast, visually appealing animation is perfect for what this demo aims to do.

Fluid simulations for science or engineering (think airflow around the next Boeing design or simulations of planet formation) are still very hard. And that is not because physicists are stupid, bad at coding or easily replaced with machine learning.
A few resources I've found useful:

- lighthouse (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse). You can implement this with their Node CLI to automate in your pipeline and output the results somewhere.

- calibre (https://calibreapp.com/). Gives you nice graphs and snapshots over time.
I agree that "set theory" itself is a bit of an overloaded term, as there are in fact many set theories.

However, as you're probably well aware, naïve set theory can quickly lead to disaster because it leads to well-known paradoxes (like Russell's paradox). So if you're going to have foundations for mathematics (and it needs foundations!), it needs to avoid the paradoxes. ZFC does so, and in a way that many people have found satisfying enough.
Pythia: Open-source framework for multimodal AI models
Recently I did a list of AutoML open and close source packages https://mljar.com/blog/automl-software-list/
Chrome has it in their dev build (Chrome Canary).

https://caniuse.com/#search=prefers-color-scheme
Let’s throw in our toasters, fridges and washing machines as well. Then some data scientist can correlate the best before dates of foods in my fridge by the number of panties in the washer in order to target me with ads for tummy meds.
If the Metal debug layer doesn’t warn you, then it is a bug (either in the driver or in the debug layer depending on the intended behaviour).
HN as also full of smug SFers and SVers who love to brag (masking it as a half-hearthed complaint) how much the pay for housing, implying that they can afford it.

Usually, neither type is able to provide meaningful discussion about the topic at hand.

Not being from US, but often traveling there, I have always wondered how mimimum-wage workers are able to afford living even remotely close to Manhattan or SF.

The answer seems to be that they increasingly can't.
You dont have to look hard to find them, 1/3 of EU members are against the second Ribbentrop/Molotov.
What’s the consensus on HN? Is this guy just a chancer or is he really Satoshi?
Latest Firefox Release Is Faster Than Ever
Show HN: ttl.sh – Anonymous, ephemeral (& free) Docker image registry
If data is generated by something I own then it is my data and I don't care if it affects someone's business model or whatever perceived future benefit they are promising.

And trying to maintain status quo is not extreme privacy movement, it's common sense.
It was sarcasm. Lots of truck driver jobs are hands-on.
Because car manufacturers tried to sell the data to advertisers, until they backed down because of the PR shitstorm (the article doesn't go into sufficient detail about this). If people are over-reacting towards privacy, that's understandable and well-deserved considering the over-reaches of data owners.

I think we need better privacy regulation. And "better" doesn't necessarily mean more restrictive, although quit a few players will feel restricted. It makes sense to separate data for safety from data for advertising (e.g. GDPR provides a framework for this). "Public benefit" can be a nebulous grey area.
Those parentheses are meaningless, since IFF (aka NOT-XOR) is associative and commutative.

IFF is a parity counter like XOR.

XOR counts how many bits are true. IFF is NOT of how many bits are false. (This shows why XOR is used much more than IFF, because it is cleaner.)

(a XOR false is a, and a XOR true is NOT a, aka a+1 mod 2; a IFF true is a, and a IFF false is a+1 mod 2)
Tools to Write Better Medium Articles Faster
What?

> We know our smartphones, Nests and Alexas collect data, and we’ve come to accept an implicit contract: We trade personal information for convenience. With cars, we have no such expectation ... What carmakers are doing with the collected data isn’t clear.

At least Tesla has demonstrated that their data collection is for training their full self-driving capability. That represents tremendous end-user value, in my opinion.

To me, this NY Times article is an argument that smartphones and smart agents should exfiltrate less data than they do. It's the purported end-user value of smartphone and smart agent data collection that I find less credible. Yes, they should collect data, but it's quite unclear why so much of the data needs to be hoarded and used by cloud motherships. That data can be stored and worked with on-device; the premise that on-device computation is too limited is just flimsy.

Frankly the value of smart agents as a whole is a bit murky, especially when lined up against full self-driving cars.
Great article. The idea that software should learn from billions of years of biological evolution is super interesting.
Do you have a blog post or something like that about React performance or the mental model you got? It would be an interesting read.
Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and body tags
>Taxpayers still pay for fed expenditures

And they benefit from Fed gains, which are passed Treasury by law, and which happened in this case, of over $100 billion.

That is why I linked the data. Feel free to link other data if you think it's relevant.
Thanks a lot, this is something I was specifically looking for!
The first step should have been to call the bank. For businesses, banks usually have a website that she could log into to: 1) get more up-to-date or more indicative rates, 2) execute the trade. Will save dev & maintenance time.
This makes no sense. Apple makes computers. A car company is completely different, even it if Tesla's have bigger screens than other cars. There is no money in making cars, Apple is worth more than all the other car companies put together.
What if the data revealed your predilection for visiting strip clubs? Would you want to have control over that information? At least with Google maps you control when it is on - and there is a privacy policy of some sort.
Hey, how about instead of parking, they’re self-driving and they just drive themselves around the block all night? I think we just solved the housing crisis!
Silk Road goes parabolic after founder changes username??
Check out languages in the OTP ecosystem, especially Erlang and Elixir.
I think that the fact that either Alphabet or Apple could easily buy Tesla in cash is a great reason not to short the stock.
The irony is that they put their campus where it could be supported by the local city, but the city refuses to do so, then complains.

Two regional train systems have a major station a mile or so from google hq. Three freeways intersect near there as well. There is also a bus system that should be able to service local trips.

Google HQ was built by SGI in the 90s so Mountain View has had 20 years to increase the capacity (car and mass transit/bus) of the stretches of road between downtown and the amphitheater, but have repeatedly chosen not to.

Similarly, there is no sane freeway connector between the Dumbarton and Palo Alto / Mountain View, and the need for that has been obvious for at least a decade as well.
The New Yorker is a magazine, and not a news outlet. By definition they are an analysis publication—that means their articles are essentially opinion pieces. They have no journalistic obligation to post sources.

Your positing that its about money might be correct, but for different reasons than you suggest. News and magazine publications often do link to a number of different documents. Many articles published are written pretty quickly and cheaply these days due to the demands of "no paywalls" and advertising that doesn't pay enough.

The situation isn't so black and white.
> In hyperion, the AI are very useful to the general population...

Yes, but there is also a large gap between a general purpose AI capable of generating teleportation portals and a device barely capable of discerning electronic noise from the brain signals.

> Safety nets should be placed now, not as an afterthough.

I agree. However:

1. Many of people working on this do read a lot of SF.

2. Initial motivation for BCIs is to bring the dream of being able to walk/talk/interact with the world to people who were deprived from it.

3. The whole purpose of non invasive interfaces is to not need to jack anything in. This is important mainly because there are prohibitive safety nets around anything that goes inside a person's body.

Especially in this case do not overestimate the usefulness of reading brain waves. For example, in absence of disease, it is currently impossible to identify people using their EEG.

This being said, I am somewhat concerned about the writing part, mostly because I have seen experimental protocols which seemed to hand wave quite a lot of potential issues.
That sounds like a Parallels / driver problem, not a Firefox problem.
We're defaulting to profile-per-install to make it easier to run different versions side-by-side, but you can still manually specify your original profile.

Docs on the profile manager are at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

...or, as a super weird hack, you can set the envvar SNAP_NAME=firefox to get the old behavior (see https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla/issues/163 for context)
Hopefully this is the first step in a series of steps to get there.

Doing it in one big jump would probably impact revenue so much that it would take too long for them to grow out of it. Hopefully this change will increase their growth rate without much change to revenue, making it faster to grow out of, and prepare the way for further changes.
Actually, you're right and I have it installed, though still tend to use Chrome (incognito) on account of performance.
One must wonder why the income doesn't rise to match. My guess is that technology allows cities to buy such labor from low-COL areas. Improved communications, of course, but there's less obvious stuff like food conservation[1] or precision manufacturing that allows for standard, easy-to-assemble housing parts.

[1] For example, in a recent discussion about Seattle raising the minimum wage, a restaurant association exec said they had ways of reducing the needed labor, like buying pre-chopped vegetables.
On the one hand, Apple has a lot of experience in domains where Tesla has been less than great (supply chain, manufacturing) and software is slowly becoming a key differentiator for the automobile industry so I can somewhat see where synergies might exist.

On the other hand, automobile is quite far from Apple core business. I know that there is not much growth remaining in Apple key markets but still if I were a shareholder, I'm not sure I would be comfortable with Apple making such a move.

I guess we are entering a new golden age for conglomerates.
I mean that when I build out an application / site, I build the Dark Mode first then convert the dark mode into the light mode. (Most of my users choose to use dark mode over light mode if the option is given to them)
Well I would expect Apple's biggest contribution would be better supply chain management, product focus, and UI improvements.

Tesla suffers from Musk's lack of focus. There are well past the time someone who is not a product person provide some structure to operate within.