skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the purpose is advertising targeting kids disguised as child safety.

> KidSwitch works by evaluating a number of signals in a content session (gesture patterns, content interaction, hardware inputs etc).

These are all the sorts of things that advertising platforms already do.

> Prove you're not an adult"

And I think any machine learning based on that is a false sense of security.

Kids are humans and there's nothing inherently unique about them that distinguishes them reliably from adults enough to not have a by-pass feature. I would bet an adult who wants to "fool" the system would be capable of doing so.
The servers are probably only in the great firewall, so any outside of china connection will be make horrible on purpose by the chinese government.
Except it's not a someone else's life, but a state of mind, most often a delusion or even a deliberate bullshit.
Central books are few
I doubt we will be using USB 3.0 cables 5000 years later. Lol!
But not a lot of British citizens get this violently or persistently up in arms about American independence, despite that war happening only a few years earlier.

The remaining descendants of French aristocratic families aren't trying to claim their rights stolen in that revolution.

There does come a point in time where past difficulties should be laid to rest.
Citadels: Faster response and better information integration than datacenters
Surely on F-Droid there must be a contacts app that isn't spyware.
I mean investors, schools, companies, and societies are all made up of people. It isn't only aimed at developers.

That said, even with those factors, many employees in tech today 100% have ways they can influence the way companies interact with these values, even in small ways. More nuanced yes but I don't think its fair to say it's out of touch. Especially if this hits its goal and is displayed in many places, social pressures can help at both the developer and company level.
My senior thesis was writing a transpiler from Alloy to SMT-Lib. I attended the Future of Alloy workshop with my advisor. Very intelligent, passionate group of people who care a lot about the language. I believe that its current primary use case is in education -- I remember one attendee described using the language to teach high school students first-order logic -- but its community hopes to further its use in industry as well.
This is incredibly useful and the on boarding is effortless.

Great job - I'd love to know if you plan on charging for this.
With compilers come responsibilities. And sometimes a usable debugger.
Mouseless for Firefox is great, too.
We store enough identifying data to do business with our customers, we do not collect data for data's sake. Not for metrics, nor for ads, not to sell, etc.
Hard disagree. Correctness means conformance with the spec. The spec says, for example, you get a page fault if you access privileged memory. That’s what Intel does. The spec doesn’t make any guarantees beyond that.

The software stack is at fault for building their security model on assumptions about what the hardware did that aren’t guaranteed in the spec. The software assumes the existence of this magical isolation that the CPU never promised to provide.
Related:

* Kurt Gödel's Letter to John von Neumann (1956)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281633

Gödel was asking John von Neumann the number of steps for solving the Entscheidungsproblem. I asked on HN for its background, and I was told it was one of the earliest discussions of computational complexity theory, unfortunately John von Neumann did not have a chance to reply.

Thanks for posting it, now I see the bigger picture: even without seeing Gödel's letter, John von Neumann had already grasped the idea of computational complexity independently around the same time.
Practical Lossless Compression with Latent Variables Using Bits Back Coding [pdf]
Sounds like a refreshingly simple method. Why did you stop?
To sum up: screen readers critically depend on a proper document structure for efficient navigation, So, build a correct logical structure, then style it. Do not make everything out of divs and rely on CSS to render it nicely.
This looks really polished, well designed, and most importantly: simple.

The privacy policy [0] also shines: it's five points and very specific.

[0]: https://www.nextdns.io/privacy
Subgrid Is Here
I disagree. It bugs me not to have an image of the person together with its contact information.

Vignette approach is way too plastic for my taste. I carefully curate my contacts and associate photos I take to them. Many people use avatars they do not reflect who they are, I can’t stand that on my contacts. That, mainly, and the fact that the app costs $5 (way too much in my opinion) are the only reason that will keep me away from it.
I went down into these a few times with more knowledgable (or foolhardy?) friends as a teen ager. I found it pretty frightening.
I am tired of this too. No more QA people, in a lot of cases no more PMs. Just take on more and more roles and responsibilities and everything is your problem and your fault. You figure out the customer impact. You do the scoping and the development and the QA and the SRE work. Eat it. It sucks.

I’m hoping I can make enough in the next few years so I don’t have to do it anymore at all. This industry is rotten.
I think the underlying problem is that parents want the entire internet to babysit their kids for them.

edit: Maybe what we need is a kids.txt to go along with robots.txt. Some file on websites with some kind list of what interactions a site has (can you leave a message, chat, access hardcore pornography, etc) so auto-blockers can block (or even just limit usage).

So what if a site doesn't have a kids.txt? Block it I guess? Prompt to go into some special mode (no video, no posts, alert parents)?

I guess sites lying might be an issue, then you'd either need whitelists or blacklists. Maybe tie compliance to whether the browser bar goes green.
As I read this article, I thought to myself, "oh, this must be why we must make such good decisions, huh?"
How to Steal a Tesla and What You Should Do to Protect Yourself
Rep. Thompson Works to Secure Our Elections
(Me too, and Occam's Razor makes me think it's probably what the GGGP meant.)
Digital Advertising, Consumer Privacy and More
Is your source code open?

This looks really cool. I'm nervous about entrusting someone with stuff as sensitive as DNS. If this is all it appears to be, I may be a paying customer (tho I try to only use/pay for free-as-in-speech software).
For Cybersecurity, Computer Science Must Rely on Strongly-Typed Actors
That’s not been my experience in LA. Most buildings I visit are just ventilated to the outside.

Note: I don’t live in the valley.
Starlink Satellites captured as they fly over Holland
Huawei Shows the Chinese Internet Will Win
Over 2000 years back at that
High-paying jobs for creative people
Please make Linux apps less ugly. The visual design is always a decade behind mainstream OSes.
Is anyone having problem with redeeming this testflight code "AFDFPLP3" It does not accept "A" at the beginning.
I think there are two use cases: the first is a naive "to prevent pedophiles from having access to children". If you don't think too critically about it, I can understand the enthusiasm for it. The second, and I think potentially more legitimate, is to offer children a space to socialize with their peers without having to worry about parental investigation. Whether or not you agree with the parenting style, it's an underserved market segment. A side benefit could be having your juvenile social media sealed somewhat like juvenile criminal records. Something like offering you the option when you turn 18 to delete your profile, or archive it with read-only access to those over 18.

Legally, I think it would face troubles in some countries, but countries with laws granting more self-determination to minors might make it a useful environment for exploring ideas with your peers without constant fear that someone may now, or in the future, be offended by your teenage-angst fueled rants. I know I would have enjoyed that, I had a constant fear of retribution through highschool that prevented me from significantly engaging in social media. It wasn't particularly out of line, the usual "my parents suck, my school sucks, let me be a poorly adjusted adult right now!" kind of thing.

But I also grew up during the start of the "social media is forever" age, where it started to be common for years-old social media posts by celebrities to become common. And the posts are always judged by today; not the person you were then, or the environment you were in.

Frankly I still maintain very little social media presence. I would love to interact with people like that, but I also know that all it takes is one slip-up or vaguely phrased statement to sink you anymore. I like that this might be am opportunity to let kids be kids, and say the darndest thing; but still allow them to be full-fledged members of an online and in-person community without fear that their half-baked childhood ideas might ruin their future.
velocity != bit depth of a recording
How does the keypad generates a new position? So the keypad has a digital display on the buttons?
Personally I run either pihole or something similar however setting something similar for all the friends is a bit cumbersome as it at least requires getting a raspberry pi. This seems like a really intriguing alternative although will voice similar concerns as others are expressing that the site does not indicate the source of the funding, motivations for the project, etc. As such that could be a barrier to entrust something as personal as DNS to a service without understanding their motivations and future plans. Would be great if that could be better outlined on the site.
Not OP, but I was an early contributor to Draft.

Draft JS lacks a few features, notably nested block support (tables) and a schema definition and sanitization. Slate is more focused on providing a nice plugin experience.

On the plus side Draft’s core is battle tested and has just picked up Android support, and has the excellent Draft JS Plugins resource.
Which are the fastest freely available decoders available, no necessary open source?
YC Summer 2019 Late application response
Has anyone received an response email from YCombinator summer 2019 batch yet.
Its been 17 days since I submitted the late application form and got no response email.
I should have mentioned, it is my impression that this has as much or more to do with asphalt than rooftops, but anyway...
Well Marco did outsource porting Instapaper to Android before he sold it...

https://marco.org/2012/06/06/instapaper-for-android

But I doubt he would do the same for Overcast.
Static typing should be viewed as a tool for long term prosperity/health of a codebase rather than competing in the short term with a Python/s (etc.) - Modern one's can, but static typing isn't always obviously useful until it is.
Damn you're right, we have no idea why.

Clicking this link in iOS will work though, for some reason:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/AFDFPLP3
This is slightly tangential, but if you haven’t already seen it, you should check out Danny Hillis’ story of Richard Feynman working at Thinking Machines. He solved how big the buffers needed to be for the communications between processors by modeling the bit streams with partial differential equations. http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
Bingo. Hyperthreading does not pay for itself, overclocking. Period. End of discussion. I turn it off, or buy chips without it.
Yes. This is something I have given a lot of thought to. I mean, A LOT.

Before about, 1996-- (I'm estimating)-- before network connectivity was the norm-- I understood how every processor in every system I dealt with worked. Two things happened in the mid to late 90s.

First-- an explosion of silicon. The days of understanding how the system worked, in its entirety, were over. I had a copy of "80386 systems designers guide", and I can't remember the name- but the Michael Abrash's guide to VGA video cards and a PC Interrupts were all that were needed to master computer architecture. If you were super fancy you understood the Pentium math extensions (whose names I cannot recall), that let you do a crossbar in a few cycles, and you understood how common chips like the 16550 worked, which is an addendum to PC Interrupts if I recall.

Second, and this is the key thing, technology started working AGAINST us. As complexity exploded, so did network connectivity. We had this era in which Operating Systems complexity exploded (win95), silicon complexity exploded, and connectivity exploded. The thing about connectivity is this-- that's when our computers went from isolated things to these things that are always online-- they started working against us. They could now talk to other computers, other people, and that changed computing fundamentally.

Computers went from these things that were our helpmates to our masters. This is what I lament the most. I don't miss bit-banging, assembly programming (well, a little). I fudging love Ruby/Python, as opposed to C++ being considered "High Level." I love that I can buy a computer for 35$ (RPI) that is fantastic. RPi's are so cheap I employ half a dozen just to run my 3d printers (yes I have a problem). But I do so much not miss being scared of my computer. Miss being scared of the ne5work. I miss the sense of wonder at what a computer could be or do. You have to understand technology as it exists now, is beyond my wildest dreams. I watched Star Trek TNG as a child and the devices we have now, legitimately have exceeded my wildest dreams. The simplest cell phone now has as much computational power as every computer combined at the time I graduated high school.

But, I do miss simplicity. So much so, I've been considering writing an NES or Sega game; I'm precisely 40 years old, and I've finally come to understand that art and constraints are intimately connected. That they press on each other, and neither is possible without each other.

I have so few restraints on modern systems that I... am constrained. I miss the constraints of my earlier years that were, in fact, my freedom. I miss software that shipped and worked on the first day. I, like everyone, miss my childhood. Because the universe is an explosion of complexity-- and when we look back, we will always feel like things were simpler-- because they god damned actually were.
1. How would you compare your service with paid service "Circle" https://meetcircle.com/

2. How effective is it at blocking apps?

3. Will you OpenSource it?

4. Can you add some kind of Bash/scripts to configure profiles/settings on OpenSource routers such as OpenWRT, etc?

5. Will there be an API to control settings?
During my stay at various research institutes throughout Europe where I met a lot of Chinese PhD students and Researchers, it was surprising to know that many of these highly educated intelligent people didn’t see anything wrong with Chinese leadership. And insisted Tibet is theirs and Hong Kong is part of China. I was really shocked at first but a friend from Hong Kong explained me that many Chinese are highly patriotic and brainwashed from Chinese media to distrust western media. And anything bad western media says about china they think it’s all false.
>It becomes a right when enough people in a democratic society want it to be one, it's that simple.

That's not what a right is; a right is something that some logical/philosophical moral argument has detetermined people should have, regardless of what other people think. That is the whole point of rights in the US constitution: to protect people against the government and the "tyrrany of the majority". Otherwise you could call something like "the right of the German people to have no Jews within one kilometre nearby" a right if the majority voted on it, and the term loses all meaning.
yes, Probably an apple bug. Will check with few folks.
I typed the link manually. using it now!
Great product. Have sent you few questions.
Are you comparing the what happened to the Chinese in the Opium Wars to what happened to the British in the American revolution?
Yes, she does. The kind of street harassment she experiences in SF: “catcalling me, yelling at me, following me around closely.” She’s also been robbed at gunpoint on Market Street.
Nice. DNS has grown notoriously complex over the years and it is hard work to run a standards compliant service. Congratulations.

A few suggestions:

- Auto-detect OS and suggest specific setup instructions right on the landing page?

- The website goes blank when I block third-party JavaScript from loading. Can you please see if you can fix that?

- simplednscrypt has been handy for me to DoT/DoH/DNSCrypt with AdGuard DNS on PC. You could include instructions in the Windows section for that? https://dnscrypt.info/implementations/

- Provide a generic DNS endpoint like AdGuard does?

A few questions:

- What's the backend that fronts DoH, DoT, and DNSCrypt queries? Is it simply relayed to Cloudflare underneath the covers? How do you do that?

- Re: Privacy Policy: "We store user data following modern security standards". What user data is stored using what modern standards? I like the terse policy document, but I feel there needs to be a fine print detailing data collection and data retention. Examples: https://s3.amazonaws.com/lantern/LanternPrivacyPolicy.pdf and https://info.ecosia.org/privacy

Thanks.
> If you’ve got untrusted machine code running on your system, you’ve already been compromised.

You are exactly correct. However, the advent of "The Cloud" changed that.

"The Cloud" by definition runs untrusted machine code right next to yours. IBM and other players have been screaming about Intel being insecure for decades--and it fell on deaf ears.

Well, suck it up buttercup, all your data are belong to us.

While I hear lots of whingeing, I don't see IBM's volumes rising as people move off of Intel chips onto something with real security. When it comes down to actually paying for security, people still blow it off.

And so it goes.
The Huawei Ban Is Protectionist, Hypocritical, and Imperialist
Sometimes the idea of Wikipedia excels the actual site.
I'm in the midst of a major decision... Just quit my job with a year of runway and I'm either considering putting that towards graduate school abroad or settling down, finding a better job, and buying a home. My emotions tell me to go study, but my rational mind tells me to settle down and buy a home.
ATP is one of my favorite podcasts and I wanted to like this app.

A long time ago, FB for iOS would sync contacts to your iPhone and include an fb:/... link. I still have a few old contacts with the link. Those are the only ones that were updated and one that had a gravitar link.

None of my more recent contacts with FB links worked nor did my professional contacts from LinkedIn. The app was kind of useless to me.
Beyond privacy implications, what are they doing to make sure those with physical differences such as disability aren't negatively effected?
There are definitely parts of Medellín worse than the worst parts of SF. There are also commercial zones in Medellín that are nicer than any commercial zone in SF, and I live near one of them.

Also if you’re in a good neighborhood and not involved in the drug trade, the occurrence of violent crime is very low.
Tried using: set my Meraki to serve up the IP address given by the dashboard. The my.nextdns.io dashboard says something like "this device is using a different configuration with nextdns".

I think it happens after you configure an anonymous DNS, then you create an account. It feels like my configuration got disconnected or something. Hard to describe.

Regardless, the blacklist/whitelist didn't work. Maybe a caching problem? Will try back later.
The author has added a welcome screen that it seems (haven't tried the build myself yet) won't enable google analytics until specifically authorised by the user (https://github.com/Eugeny/terminus/issues/845#issuecomment-4...)
Yeah this is great. To make it scale, you need to put one additional camera in the bedroom of the parents. /s
I kind of blame Google for creating the whole trend of hosting all this mission critical stuff on x86 PCs: https://www.pcworld.com/article/112891/article.html. (Altavista was run in DEC iron. Google pioneered running these services in disposable commodity hardware.) That being said, POWER got hit with some of this stuff too.
The facebook link problem is fixed in today's 2019.4 update

https://twitter.com/caseyliss/status/1132335799817691136
Sure, my email is my last name at gmail.
It certainly says something about influencer culture that they just go along with this.
Even if you put in your company’s info, they need a real person connected to the account.
Israel is very similar. After several decades of “this is ours”, people don’t even remember what the world used to look like before.
Do you think that the population of potential NBA players is determined solely by height?
Rational advice from a complete stranger; settle down, study, and consider buying a home. Buying a home can consume a year of runway quickly depending on how you go about it.
> $5 (way too much in my opinion)

I wish people considered how much it costs to develop an app and then looked at the cost, keeping in mind that somebody out there needs to make a living, and apps do not sell in millions.

I am really annoyed by what Apple did to software pricing: it seems most people want stuff to be FREE or $1.99 these days. If that is your expectation, do not expect good apps, because it simply doesn't make any sense to write them.
I'm not sure how this is different than OpenDNS?
Facebook Messenger on Android does something similar. Names and pictures from Facebook are shown by phone numbers
I don’t get it either. If that’s the API in question, the user has to give the iOS app permission to access the user’s playlist and it still doesn’t give demographic data.

Also, the story is devoid of any technical information about like most NYT’s articles discussing an Apple controversy.
Not the earliest evidence of domesticated dogs (eg dog bones with human bones in close proximity), but the earliest known depictions of dogs (that is generally not as durable). They're some of the earliest art of dogs and they happen to be depicted as domesticated. As opposed to an animal that was the subject of a hunt.
After Reddit and HN which is the best sane and content friendly discussion site?
Both of them are great platforms but we need alternatives (for the sheer reason of increased competition, if not anything else).

I'm not a huge fan of "design heavy" platforms like quora, twitter and FB, I mostly prefer "content heavy" platforms like reddit and HN but unfortunately it doesn't seem like more people prefer them. There are hardly any active ones on any platforms apart from these two. I know about hubski and raddle but they are mostly empty these days (at least for my tags/interests). Do you know of any other good ones?
I went to the public part, on a guided tour.

You only get to see a small part of the many, many millions of bones, piled from floor to ceiling. And somehow, while you're down there, you adapt quickly to the "new normal" and it's simply morbidly fascinating. Like being in a haunted house.

But then, once you take the elevator back up to the surface, and you walk down the same street in normal life with normal people... and you realize the many, many, many millions of bones (an estimated 6-7 million people) weren't a horror movie you saw that's now ended, but are still right there, just a mere five stories beneath your feet. And they're not going anywhere. It was only then that I realized... it was real. Not a movie, not fake. It's a crazy experience.
There is an enjoyable book, written by someone who has explored these and (many) other deep places in the world. I think I saw it posted on HN originally.

Book name: Underground

Author: Will hunt

amazon search url: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=under+ground+will+hunt