skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh. It doesn't require Javascript for your computer to run logic described by others. Browsers are such complex machines that it wouldn't surprise me if you could for example craft a malicious SVG that would bypass that, or a turing-complete CSS file that triggers a vulnerability...

By the way, does NoScript actually block in-SVG javascript?
Maybe on one particular major version update. The vast majority of updates are completely painless, as evidenced by such a large percentage of people having no reservation about updating to the latest version.
> America loves to do things via tax code, which is why the US tax code is famously so complicated

This is true for all democracies.
> Anecdotally, large Animal sightings of things like Moose are rare enough that even people who have visited hundreds of times, over decades, will stop, get very excited, take photos, and then chat about the last time it happened.

Isn't this what should be expected? Even in ordinary wilderness like Maine or Canada where moose are indigenous, you could spend a year in the woods and never see one.
Just yesterday my mom called me asking me to check the logged in devices list on her email. She hasn’t been able to login and found out it had been hacked so she had to reset her password. I logged all the devices out and finally got her to stop using her last name as her password and we changed all of her passwords.

So, after years of my sister and me trying to get her to have proper passwords it took her getting hacked and seeing a bunch of failed spam emails to finally change her passwords. Maybe people reading this could “hack” their parents themselves so they could take security seriously. Yeah it’s lying but it’s safer than letting it happen organically.
Curious what happens when you call into the vector (AVX hardware).
It's just a logical fallacy because it can't be used as a concrete building block to advance a logical argument forward. Doesn't mean it's not useful, it just means that you're no longer logically air tight.
Beer Archaeologists Are Reviving Ancient Ales – With Some Strange Results
Is this a surprise? The Democrat party has historically been pro-segregation. For the bulk of its history, it was explicitly so. Hence, should we really be surprised when wealthy, white Democrat activists and policy-makers push segregation-inducing policies in CA?
That’s a great point. Do you think a platform where businesses are explicitly asked to declare other outstanding loans could reduce this problem, at least enough to reduce risk for online lenders to a more comfortable level?
Wow, I sincerely hope their project fails miserably, what an awful idea.
Origamizer is one of my favourite toys to play with on a Sunday afternoon:

http://origami.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tachi/software/

A neat paper on the algorithm for finding the origami path:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Origamizer%3A-A-Practi...
I tried to go to my office at 3 a.m. for the first time
Looking up is not a solved problem no.

I usually check the "awesome python list", ask on reddit and twitter, and then do some google foo. I select 3 packages and do some tests.

I got nothing better than that.
That’s a great question. I’m wondering the same thing.
Eventually companies will start making greener products, which will also be cheaper... so you’ll be able to spend the same amount of money on more (cheeper greener) stuff...

(If everyone does this, the carbon dividend would of course decrease, but by then the goal will have been reached.)
This has nothing to do with Anki though right? It’s the package maintainers you should be talking to.
Well, in that case, I agree. I've only unlocked my Note 2 for a specific reason, and never had to do it again in any device since. Battery life on Notes are nothing to rave about, but neither a huge issue. But yeah, it does have many issue with bloatware, locking, non-native UI, etc. Even if they don't personally bother me, I will acknowledge that.
A better solution might be to get the Sony WH1000XM3 headphones, which do not attempt to spy on you, and are in general better.

I am getting increasingly annoyed by the fact that buying anything is becoming a minefield: you have to actively scan for attempts to screw you over, and every company out there will actively try to screw you over. This goes on all over the place: think airplane ticket pricing (with all the "fees" added later), buying rental car insurance, extended warranties, security systems that suddenly enable a secret microphone, and headphones that report everything you do. There seems to be no penalty: if a company is caught doing that, they don't suffer much. They should.
It doesn't have an app as far as I know. It's a Python/Qt project as well and at a glance the code looks better, but in terms of features I think it just doesn't compare to Anki.
Yes and no. It is possible to exploit Meltdown / Spectre via Javascript. From [0]:

> This can happen when one has opened the other using window.open, or <a href="..." target="_blank">, or iframes. If a website contains user-specific data, there is a chance that another site could use these new vulnerabilities to read that user data.

Most browsers have pushed patches which eliminate known mechanisms of leveraging the exploit, but the pathway cannot be completely mitigated by browser patches, I believe.

[0] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/02/meltdown-s...
There is less cognitive ability diversity in Scandinavia than the US. Given the extreme correlation between intelligence and workplace performance, it would be expected in a locality with high levels of variance in intelligence.
I'm wondering if letting your app support very old OS versions is a good thing. You get more customers but aren't the ones with the old OS more likely be the ones causing the most problems (= work) because they aren't very tech savvy?
Multiply the prices in that issue by at least ten to adjust for inflation.

64K and 4MHz for >$30,000. Now that's affordable personal computing.
One basic thing is to get them to write down unique passwords and keep them in a safe place. Even if they're not using 2FA, making sure losing one ≠ losing all accounts is a big step.
The Shadowbrokers announced their access to EternalBlue many months before Microsoft released a patch.

The NSA was negligent in not immediately informing Microsoft after the Shadowbrokers announced their access to the NSA tools with clear proof (codenames, etc) on Reddit.
Elite spellers now can pay to get a spot in the national spelling bee
Truth seldom makes for a good product. Fiction can be optimally thrilling, engaging, easy to understand, intuitive, and on-message. The truth is whatever it is. With great skill one can make a messy truth easier to understand and more plausible... but what for truth takes great effort to construct is nearly automatic for fiction.
Anand Lal Shimpi left Anandtech 5 years ago, and the quality articles he wrote have not been replaced. It's basically a tech lite blog now.
There's been a lot of pushback on Minneapolis's 2040 plan, but ultimately I think it's a step in the right direction. Most of the objections are from people living in quiet, mostly single-family neighborhoods who don't want apartments near them. But really, most of the rezoning only takes place directly along busier corridor streets; the interiors of those blocks would still be single-family zoned.
Wait, what? We are comparing really the 90% of Android Global Market Share vs 9% of iOS?
I think this is very common, seeing it where I currently work. This theory provides a depressing take on this phenomenon. People at the top like having an insulation of middle management under them, but these people don't actually understand the business or product so they just run around parroting business and tech words in an attempt to not get found outt.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
> when compared to a theoretical ideal.

Renewable energy is not theoretical.

> nasty stuff conveniently packed into cylinders, ready for dropping into the continental shelf

Your plan for highly radioactive waste is to put it in canisters and drop them into the ocean.. sure, what could possibly go wrong?
Sure, but we all take risks every day. If you're worring about turning-complete CSS files exploiting Spectre and Meltdown then you probably don't leave the house much.
The conclusion is unexpected and stupid.

Android doesn't brag it has 75% share. Actual data is that 85% of smartphones run Android and that's market share. Fact that they are not updated to the latest version doesn't change the market share.
I hadn’t thought of it this way; but it does seem like a pragmatic framework for understanding truth at societal scale. Ultimately, the truth is messy and fiction is often easier to understand.
Fragmentation becomes an issue when you're either building services that run in the background or interact with hardware (BT, WiFi, WiFi-direct, Camera, GNSS, Gyro/Accel). I feel fragmentation hard with my app.
Maybe it's just me but maybe we should do our partisan name-calling somewhere other than Hacker News. I'm sick of these flamebait articles that do not "satisfy curiosity" in any way.
It doesn't run at 5Ghz all the time. 5GHz is it's all-core turbo. It simply means that all cores will run at 5Ghz under full load.
You don't see ads like this today:

https://www.autodesk.com/products/eagle/blog/wp-content/uplo...
Over the past several months I keep seeing people trying to equate data science with machine learning, and it made me wonder if the people doing this are trying to salvage (or perhaps enhance) the investment they made in data science by trying to blur the lines between the two.
The Historian's fallacy cuts both way. Often the legacy code is convoluted because there's a subtlety that isn't immediately obvious.
By the way: iPhone 4 supports iOS 7.1.2, released 4 years after the iPhone 4.
There's no papering over now. There may have been years ago. But there simply isn't enough to go around. Between 2011-2015 SJ added 500,000 jobs and built 65,000 housing units. Not even making a dent in the demand.
Moneyspire is a desktop money app and iOS companion app (Android coming soon)
I've had a 1+1, 1+3, and 1+5, and I never had this issue on any of them.
I switched to SE in my 30s too! I strongly recommend building a few projects on your own. Helps with learning AND getting a job! Good luck.
We're passed the early peak of the hype cycle, but now the marketers have calmed down the real world applications are maturing.

If you think of Data Science as AI sure, but if you frame it as applied statistics + good software engineering practices + cloud scale I think things are in a good place.
we should put hour meters on cars like we do on boats
I have plenty of memory, I don't want apps force closed.

If I switch from a game to a browser to look something up, being able to switch back to the (paused) game 5 minutes later is a feature, not a bug.

Apps that obey backgrounding and stop doing work (e.g. burning CPU/Power) are fine.
... and then one day you finally scale with massive traction... every single potential customer shows up on the same day, and all leave with bad impressions, never to return or consider returning again.
Well, the main software components are GPLv3. But there's also hardware released as CC-BY-SA, some modules as Apache v2.0.
I guess you are thinking of it as a library.. In that case you can argue that a copyleft license would restrict the possible adoptions of the system. But this is a framework composed of many modules, most of the time you will interface this system with your own stuff using agnostic protocols, so.. what would be the legal problem for a closed-sourced business to use it?
Thanks - good idea.
Adding in a Pihole has been good for me - keeps the ads and pop ups to a minimum.
I'm quite serious. It is a very badly written piece of software with a huge amount of legacy code. The moat for new competition is wide, because it requires knowledge of all the intricacies of dental practices as well as agreements with insurance providers and hardware manufacturers, but there is also serious money to be made here, as I'm sure you know. Your knowledge and background would be extremely valuable in a consulting capacity to a software team. I have often contemplated doing it myself, from a software engineering point-of-view it is low-hanging fruit, it just requires someone to do the legwork of logistically connecting it with the existing dental tech infrastructure.
It's been awhile since I've done Android development, but are you including the Kindle devices in your numbers? Best I can tell the latest FireOS is based on Nougat.
I work on a data science team that's growing pretty aggressively. I also frequently hear from recruiters hiring at companies big and small for analyst and scientist positions.

I'm not sure what it would mean for days science to be "just hype." I see DS work on this website alone all the time.
Fourth: for almost anything in life, knowing the truth doesn't matter in practice - instead, people believe things that make for good social objects, i.e. catalysts of discussions with other people. In cases were being wrong leads to direct and near-immediate consequences, people tend to learn the truth quickly.

The problem with that is that today, a lot more things have delayed effects, or effects that only materialize at scale. For instance, taking whatever bullshit news sources publish at face value works as long as it only matters in bar conversations; unfortunately, these things also shape public pressure on governance - in particular in democracies, where people end up voting on it.

WRT. article's point 2, politics example: I really wish people would learn better. Believing a leader - any leader - uncritically is generally unsafe for your own survival.
Based on my father and grandmother's interactions, suggesting they call if ever in doubt can be a big help. What saved her from the fake Microsoft support scam was her calling him to ask if she should go to someone cheaper to help with the non-existant issue.

Offering to do her taxes prevented some other scam. Although that did require flying out annually due to being so disorganized.
Another perspective on this is as western malfeasance in economic and actual warfare in the east, which we are now starting to pay for as China ignores our IP and denies us the ability to compete in their market.
But none of that matters for app developers.

(Also, Wintel machines are very much random pins soldered to random crap, they just do a better job papering over it with ACPI AML bytecode)
I think this fallacy is the most widely misunderstood fallacy of all. In an argument between experts, appeal-to-authority is indeed a fallacy. If both people are indeed experts, they should be able to judge something purely on its merits. This is similar to the scientific method where debates are settled by logic and evidence, not seniority.

But if either party in the debate isn't an expert, then appealing to authority is the rational thing to do. If you yourself aren't an expert, then you lack the expertise needed to evaluate any arguments purely based on merit. You'd be far better off relying on expert advice, even if the person you're debating with has suggested something different and is more knowledge than you.

It takes a lot of objectivity and humility to know which fields you are and aren't an expert in. Overestimating your skills may feel good, but will only slow your progress and lead to bad decisions. The vast majority of the time, you're better off following expert advice.
My team tried doing it once and we decided against it after running into problems with the number of Guile dependencies. We moved to Lua (0 dependencies) soon after. Guile may have more features but Lua (and Luajit) is really the undisputed king when it comes to embedding and flexibility in terms of merging it into your codebase and molding it to your exact requirements.
Do you understand how to do that? Do you have a workout an, exercises, schedule, measureable goals as milestones?

Often it's the nebulous goals ("be in great shape") that are hardest to work on, simply because tjey're vague.

Run a 5-minute mile. Or a 2-hour marathon. Climb Whitney. Ride a century. Deadlift 500#. 32" waistline.

Those are specific goals. The list isn'tan encompassing one -- pick one of those, or a congruent set. Bodybuilding or powerlifting and endurance sports tend not to be highly compatible, though strength training, as an adjunct to a primary goal, can help almost any activity. Another key is to pick goals appropriate to your morphology and abilities: smaller, thinner, long-limbed people make better distance runners, larger are better at power/strength sports, including sprint events. High coordination makes skill sports possible, competitive spirit and youth; lacrosse or ice hockey.

Logging can help you discover your interests, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as progress toward goals.

But showing up at the gym with "get into shape" is pretty vague. If you're starting at a tyical baseline, almost any introductory fitness programme incorporating strength and cardio will benefit.

Group, team, or club activities are another option.
Would love an invite if anybody is inclined.
Alarms in the building woke me up at 2:41 AM and the doors were shaking, so we evacuated the apartment buildings and only returned after half an hour.

I live in Bogotá, Colombia, about 1200 kilometers away from the epicentre.
According to siliconlottery.com 38% of 9900K are overclockable to 5 GHz. Probably they just decided to select good chips from 9900K at factory, those not exactly new chips.
Well, if the countries don't want to implement a carbon tax of their own, products from their country will be more expensive, regardless of how carbon neutral they are. That should put pressure on them to get with the times and implement the tax.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I don't have time to find and filter out decent followers. I signed up back in 2005 and couldn't tell you when it wasn't a cesspool for awful posts and comments.
camera apps are an exception : here hardware fragmentation can be a pain

Yes. The backwards sensors in the Nexus 5x and 6 were particularly amusing/irritating: https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/9/9696774/google-nexus-5x-u....
This is what devicetree is supposed to be.

However, as with the arctic machine, the incentives are misaligned - they actively don't want to be commoditized.
My info was from the iOS version of the app which does not need Location Services for BLE.
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I'd say there's also an element of enjoying a narrative, whether we call them memes or myths, that is satisfying and fits a story we know.

Some time around 2000 I started seeing most news (especially long form) through this lens and I discount/research it a bit more the more it follows a standard narrative. Usually, it's a sign that facts have been cherry picked or out of context to fit, thought that's not always the case. It's rare that there's a story (or scientific research) that doesn't have some warts and things that don't fit, and to me those aspects are part of what give it a ring of authenticity... although they are also falsifiable.

Many current memes (and science press releases) are terribly simplistic and made for those who truly don't care about truth, but are looking for that hit of satisfaction of discovering they were always right.
I think what companies really want is smart generalists with advanced math, programming, and modeling skills coupled with domain knowledge. That skill set will always carry high value in technical companies.

The reason it carries value is the skills are difficult to acquire. I think the recent decline in interest reflects the rise of new data science candidates that are taking the path of least resistance to a career in data science. Rather than pursuing problem solving, people are pursuing "data science" which is a nebulous term in and of itself.
I'm in no-way a power user in this space so the simplicity and descriptions were very helpful and I'm looking forward to supporting this when you release a payment model. Excellent results so far, only a few pages had trouble loading and a simple reload fixed it.
In which a community dominated by nerds and physicists pretend to understand the longstanding and largely irrefutable arguments against nuclear because nerds and physicists understand nukes and don't have a clue about

- public health & epidemiology (c.f. 1999 report on deformities throughout Eastern Europe post-chernobyl)

- ecosystemology (c.f. radiation from Fukushima showing up in seafood on US Pacific coasts)

- politics (c.f. the fully-captured regulator DOE in US with a rotating door into GE et al)

Yay let's talk about all the next-gen reactor designs that have never seen the light of day, and ignore Indian Point waiting for a terrorist attack just north of NYC.

Yay let's decry anti-nuke as "hysteria" and ignore all the contaminated sites we haven't cleaned up (c.f. Hanford WA).

Please proceed.
Why no Android version?
OK has such serious problems, though, not really a comparison.
Thanks a lot for all the tips!
I only know a little bit of JavaScript, not nearly enough to get an entry-level job though. I've been thinking about getting a degree in CS.
"Addressable" market share maybe? A developer can target iOS current version and current version-1, and cover the large majority of iOS devices. How far back does an Android developer have to target? Maybe it doesn't matter since the Android marketshare is so much larger that targeting current - 1 stills gets more devices than iOS.
I got a “senior” job once with no experience just so the company could bill me at a higher rate.
You then have to trust that the app respects your settings. Years later when it's discovered that it doesn't, they can claim that it was a bug. Woops. Sorry.
If they introduced ads 2 years after their incorporation. How long were they working on it?
Since LBJ's signing of the Civil Rights act in 1964

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

and Nixon's embracement of the Southern Strategy (initially pioneered by Barry Goldwater) in the 1960s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

the two parties have largely swapped places on issues regarding minority rights. In many cases, the pro-segregationist democratic politicians switched parties completely (like Strom Thurmond).

Another article that discusses the demographic shifts between the democratic and republican parties in the 60s is here:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/07/14/331298996...
>Parents might be old, but they're not dumb. People underestimate older people.

They aren't dumb, but many in that generation are willfully ignorant.

There was a great article in the NYT recently titled "Why high class people get away with incompetence":

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class-conf...

If you've gone your entire life being able to bluster away criticism or force someone to do things for you ("delegate"), it can lead to a type of person who is not teachable, and when they inevitably suffer a breach will blame everyone but themselves.
The other thing most Americans don’t realize is that many people would be financially better off paying out of pocket and taking a deduction on your tax returns.

Trump made that harder for lower and middle class workers with his “tax cut”, but it’s still viable in certain tax brackets. But something tells me that ending risk-pooling in favor of individual tax deductions is the endgame the current GOP has in mind...
So what should one do when one finds themselves being turned into roadkill under the wheels of someone else's socially useful fiction?

I feel like the author of the piece might even advocate going along with-- or at least not wasting your energies fighting-- many cases of socially useful fiction. But that hardly works when you happen to be the person or of the creed one targets.