skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC it comes from only of the early researcherson the subject who I think was ballparking in regards to safety.

Until people come out with some real data I would stick with the cautious approach.
"I don't get why you're being downvoted."

Because this is HN and HN has a horrible moderation system that makes no sense and pales in comparison to the BBS of olde.
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amazon has copies for about $25.

Sanctuary and liberation theology (and goats!) are near and dear, so i’m excited to see what he has to say.
Machine selling likes and followers in Helskinki
"Facebook removed more than three billion fake accounts - more than ever before."

Oy. How do you justify letting this issue fester that long / to that degree? How is that not an unprecedented mea culpa?

Edit: I'll risk the HN "downvoting not discussed mantra" for this. BILLIONS of active fake accounts is a core competency failure, full stop. World population is single digit billions...give me a break.
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2019 Internet Freedom Award Goes to Ivanka Trump
pomodoros have been mentioned quite a few times, but I love using Apple Watch as a pomodoro timer

http://redgreenrepeat.com/2016/04/01/apple-watch-beyond-fitn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCMaglev#Australia
They needed this developer to help them understand what they needed. Every project I’ve worked on (even personal projects) has a fair amount of this.
If the system works as-is, does Congress need to do anything?

Ideally, I think that we'd want the federal Congress and the individual state legislatures being reflective, making prospective decisions which anticipate future events and impose the correct structure to deal with them, rather than retrospectively doing something in order to be seen to do something.

But no-one ever got elected on a platform of 'my predecessors did a great job; I'm going to play some golf!'
Yes, there have been massive changes in DSLR/mirrorless world. The main ones are:

1) Autofocus. Check out Sony A7 III or A9 reviews, it's absolutely mindblowing. It focuses perfectly and is insanely fast.

2) Low-light sensitivity. You can get a used Sony A7s, which goes to ISO 490,000, and quite usable up to ISO 50K. At its highest ISO and with a relatively cheap f1.4 lens it's much more sensitive than my eyes - it can see in the dark, it's like night vision, but in color.

But that's what's available for purchase. Canon has demonstrated Canon ME20F-SH, which shoots up to ISO 4.5 million. Judging by the videos, it's absolutely nuts. I hope that tech becomes widely available soon.

3) The cost of RAW video cameras has plummeted. Blackmagic BMPCC 4K is $1300. Quite an amazing little camera that records straight to an external SSD via USB-C. This is cinema-level camera, though with quite weak ergonomics. Still, if you're serious about cinematography, it's an excellent choice, and it's very affordable.

4) Lenses keep improving as well. New 135mm/f1.8 is breaking MTF chart records, it outresolves all the sensors by a wide margin.

5) Medium-format digital cameras have become affordable as well.
I don't see the problem. Android, the operating system, is open source. App developers make a choice to use Google Play services? Why do developers choose to do this? Does Google provide features people want?
Great response. The fact the sherpas are indeed making money (better than nothing) is good news. I believe they ought to be making even more insane amounts of money though.

I wonder if the overcrowding has now increased the danger factor appeal?
Why? You could also just use a spring to push it out.
why not use the correct analogy?

e.g. if a journalist (in the usa or outside) knows your employer (gov or private) committed crimes against the population and kept proofs of it inside a toy safe, that you can open easily just by fiddling with it, and the journalist motivates you to go fiddle with the children's toy safe to get the evidence, is it:
a) you and the journalists high profile spy-hackers?
b) you employer a criminal, and incopetent at security?
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And yet, in two years, we've decided to change the course of our ship with regards to China.

China is rocking hard because of the wake we're leaving.
Interesting that there are plans to run this between Washington DC and Baltimore and finish it in the same year Tokyo-Nagoya is finished. Probably won't happen, but still.
> Or, if not prove, at least provide some really compelling reasons why this time it's different.

What qualifies as "really compelling" is subjective, but sure, I didn't mean to suggest that you should just try the same thing again and again.

> You do before experimenting with the lives, livelihoods and quality of life of 350 million people.

The way I see it, if an experiment fails, it does limited damage which you can recover from. Of course, the greater the possible damage the more careful you have to be and the higher the threshold to start the experiment should be. But if it succeeds, you permanently improve your society and learn what works.

When the possible loss is limited and temporary while the possible gain may last until the end of civilization, I don't think you should be too conservative. Though running experiments on 350 million is kind of overkill when there are smaller countries. Maybe it's a better policy for large countries to ask smaller ones to experiment, promising to help them recover if they fail.

> FWIW, I think that a Georgist land value tax would be better than a straight wealth tax.

Sure, but what non-pigovian tax isn't worse than an LVT?
An Update on How We Are Doing at Enforcing Our Community Standards – Facebook
Using cryptography for tamper-proof election results after close of polling
The article does point out that this is exacerbated by the very small windows of opportunity when it comes to weather. Meaning there are only a few days of the year where conditions become acceptable and then everyone rushes on those days. The rest of the time, there is nobody on the moutain.

Would that taint the experience if I were a climber? Probably so. But as far as the mountain is concerned these days are few and far apart.

I wonder though: since there is a lot of tourism for people who just have money and are not strong-skilled alpinists, are there other ascents attempted when conditions are only semi-favorable and where there are only a few brave souls on the mountain due to the difficulty?
They've moved a lot of their profits out of US tax jurisdiction, is that possible with patents and technology as well so they wouldn't be affected by US export/business restrictions?
NLUUG DNS over HTTPS presentation
UK politics are a dysfunctional shitshow run by power-hungry leaders pushing policy they don't believe in putting their parties first.
if not they are on youtube
I am happy to hear this - I will be visiting Gijón next month.
Maybe a bit off topic, but do you have any recommendations?
I'm starting to find the "new" page more relevant to me than the front page...
Announcing GRBD 4, a Swift Toolkit for SQLite Databases
Platonic? It isn't exactly the spherical harmonics, because of the radial term, relativistic corrections and stray electromagnetic fields that are always around.
Wow, I had no idea about this technology!

A better look at how it's made: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/14/18181853/oppo-phone-10x-o...
That is an absolute statement without any references. Please don't quote hearsay.

I don't speak for anyone else but it does not match my experience and FWIW I've been taking it once a week for ~4.5 years.

(Explanation; I consider that dose and rate as a definite abuse of it, not sensible use, but the past few years have been just terrible god knows how I would have coped without it. I'm improving now and started cutting down, and looking forward to going out without any drugs, even alcohol).
Hi, Communiti founder here.

I built the first version to better browse and discover people (eg: who knows digital marketing or can design my new web site) in my co-working space then it turned out that different kinds of teams had a similar problem. So I built this new version where you can:

- Create custom lists such as "Skills", "Goals", "Jobs", "Events" etc
- Build the list cards with fields like text fields, phone numbers, select menus
- Edit permissions to make the list read only where only admins can add new cards.

Building an app in Slack is tricky since the UX is very limited. But I think there's a lot of potential in building the app where communities have already formed.

Looking forward to your questions and feedback.
> But what about when it has been tested and proven that people cannot discern the difference?

The way people perceive (and how to measure it) is in fact not a solved problem. There are studies done and we can often say with a high degree of certainty that something is probably not visible/distinguishable, but claiming something like that for everyone is too strong and also misrepresenting the state of our learning.
Gosh! How is it possible I missed C-x C-e for over 20 years?
None of which has anything to do with tourism.

On the contrary. Tourism is a major driving force behind the large scale conversion of long term rentals into hotels via Airbnb.
Racing at 127mph under a tunnel in LA [video]
Another website is hckrnews.com, which is an aggregate of all HN posts by time. It’s really useful if you want to capture all items, as it has a feature that shows you where left off
Probably no but they surely built goodwill with that company and as a result can help them build a good reputation. This is often overlooked but people will remember that.

Or they could just be satisfied with doing the right thing, rather than trying to extract as much money as they could.
Her party has been trying to get her out for a while. She’s been a lame duck. I’ll give her tenacity but it had to end. The negotiations are a disaster. Her own party is at odds with her. She should have stepped down last confidence vote.
On the contrary, it's perfectly normal in much of the first world. You are required to testify and jailed in contempt if you don't. The 5th is a US peculiarity.
Ever since I've started using Todoist, my life has gotten a lot more structured. With pro membership, its feature pay in dividends. From reminders to tags to "English-pseudo code" query language for task due dates and more.

It really has helped me organize my life.
Another big thank you.

I've used that to build a FORTH interpreter on an AVR micro.
The Huawei disaster reveals iron grip of the Chinese military intelligence on Huawei. What a malarkey of an article.
The actual report:

https://transparency.facebook.com/community-standards-enforc...

Fake accounts are estimated to represent 5% of all monthly active users.
It looks like the German maglev project shut down a few years ago because of lack of interest. I wouldn't be surprised if they were selling off whatever they had.
It's difficult enough to coordinate a group of 200 people under normal circumstances, being able to climb to the top of Everest by every single person is nothing short of a miracle!
During the recent Australian election there were a number of Facebook advertisements by political figures which were completely false e.g. Labor party imposing a death tax. And given that the election result was pretty close it could've easily have made a difference.

So I couldn't care less whether Facebook culled 3 billion profiles or not. What I need is for Facebook to make the hard choice and stop allowing political advertising on their platform. It's almost single handedly undermining democracy around the world.
> Prohibition doesn't work

You're appropriating sociological behaviors of the individual to maxims at the corporate level, which is ridiculous. Corporations need to be regulated, not coddled in some kind of convoluted, scaled-up, harm-reduction policy.
This one always stuck with me too.
Does it mean we can decode 128 bit SSL/HTTPS encrypted traffic in few minutes ?
Static web: back to the roots? The shift to static to sanitize web dev practices
Colombia’s Indomitable ‘Horse Whisperer’
Juicero was right after all. /s
Making HAL Your Pal
Arguably Huawei wouldn’t be where they were today if they wrote their own OS from scratch. People complain about the power of Google. They’re complaining about the power of a great product. Anyone is welcome to build on top of Android it’s just really really hard so they let Google do that work.
I have never seen 'mts' used before, why would you, when 'm' is both more concise, and more correct?

I may have seen 'gms', but I can't think when.

I have seen kmph before, but not for several years.

'Kph' it's definitely current in spoken language, but increasingly rare in written form.
Confused by Date Labels on Packaged Foods?
Are there organizations that provide validation standards for this type of software?

I'm thinking something analogous to ASME for mechanical systems. Or is the technology still very much in the wild west phase?
For me, not having any Google code would be a selling point if anything.
I don't know that it so much that the essential complexity is being pushed into the global state - a global constraint, for example, is global regardless of how you implement the system - but factoring into tiny modules puts more layers below that level. That is not the wrong way to do things, but it has not gotten rid of the complexity.

And using only small classes and methods does not guarantee the elimination of accidental complexity either; I have seen enough cases where the code has become a sort of shell game, were you go from class to class looking for where something actually gets done. As a rule of thumb, code with classes having 'helper' in their names probably has this problem, though it would usually be easy enough to rename them to conform to the single-responsibility principle.
Even if it is banned, how on earth are you going to enforce it in any meaningful way? Truth, lies, boots, World...
Wow I’ve been pondering exactly this. China has no influence over my life (yet) and I feel it’s more likely that my information could be used against me by the Five Eyes. Not now necessarily but who knows what the future holds for western politics, surveillance etc.
You don't get that many updates on most Android phones anyway.
> it might become more interesting to dig long tunnels under cities for these trains rather than increasing the train's maximum speed.

South Korea built >50 km tunnel out of Seoul for this reason. It opened in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulhyeon_Tunnel
"The label on container would say: “STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAFETY WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) may contribute to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and tooth decay.”" Drop the STATE OF CALIFORNIA. Gets to the point. Easier for other states to adopt.
Invest time into thinking about and listing specific things you've learned (technical, but also organizational, managerial, etc.) from maintaining this horrible legacy system.

This list will show you that it hasn't been a complete waste of your time, and it will show future employers that you're thoughtful, observant, respectful of your own time, and healthily critical.
So ... most of those 3B were throw-aways?
I heard this referred to recently as the "automation fallacy"
If you're interested in more context around this ship and one of the slaves it brought to the US, I highly recommend "the story of the last slave" written by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s, and only recently published (original title: the story of the last black cargo). It's essentially a long interview with one of the people who were on the ship.

More background on the book is available in this article, including why it was only now published:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/26/why-the-extrao...
But VLC has many many more options and possibilities, if you need it.
It's not necessarily a thing of being professional. There is this mental trick of being able to switch your mind from a symbolic to a visual processing style, which is easy to do once you learn it. [1] (Betty Edwards[2] uses this explanation to sell her books, but the first free exercises are enough to understand what it's all about).

In the article, Stephen King's and Queen Victoria's doodles are clearly using the symbolic brain, creating "drawings" equivalent to writing in hieroglyphs - the parts of the drawn objects are unrelated to how something looks in real life, only to what each shape means.

You don't need to become a professional of visual arts to overcome that style, only realize that you're doing it and practice drawing from pure visuals, without symbolism, and turning off the analytical brain.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOh4eIEjqvY

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Edwards
Sounds like the OP fessed up to the problem at the top: despite hating large companies, they signed up to a fixed bid project as an independent contractor. Given how big companies work, that’s recipe for danger.

Scale is very powerful, but it takes a lot of work to get things done. Large companies have a ton of waste, but getting to “this can work for all of us” has a very big impact.
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Replacing 225 mph trains with 400 mph maglevs should be worth it, especially on long routes like the 800 mile trip between Shanghai and Beijing.

I didn’t say it would be easy or cheap. I’m sure there are lots of details to consider.

China, however, has no problem doing large infrastructure projects.
If you have the time, a lot of good stuff flies through without getting upvoted (enough). But this is great for me as my job is to curate such stuff for elsewhere ;-)
Show HN: Cloud Environment Inspector
that is not a full news story
My only remaining dependency on Google is YouTube, and I could do without that in a pinch, although I’d definitely miss it.
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In my experience it is relatively easy to migrate off of Google services, except for the cloud messaging stuff. Unless you don't care when you get messages and only want to see them when you check (or god forbid only use email), you want GCM/firebase to work.
Why do some people have ‘two brains’?
The US buyer can ship their goods, they just need to ship it to a warehouse in the US and then apply the branding domestically. But it does suck and blow.
Europe’s Energy Insurance Policy Depends on Improving Storage Infrastructure
If that;s from your experience, what lens are you paring it with? (A7 III owner here looking for shiny lens toys)
Decoder is completely deterministic. In fact the normative part of most MPEG standards is implementation of the decoder in C-like pseudocode (which is horribly slow because it is not optimized in any way and mostly deals with discrete bits).

On the other hand how encoder works is not specified at all apart from the obvious requirement that it has to produce something decodable by the above mentioned decoder.
Actually yes, because it is possible to write correct C, and because they could have chosen other language less conducive to those pitfalls. But your analogy doesn't hold, because in case of shell, the situation is different: the pitfalls are easy to avoid, and for unix admin tasks, there is no compelling alternative to shell.
How to Remove Duplicates from Array Without Using Java Collection API
As much as I enjoy seeing local 'must-see' sights of a place, I have to admit that seeing what a local mall and grocery store looks like is every bit as interesting.
Is Bitcoin Too Risky to Own?
Missile Guidance
Even without political advertising, the amount of fake news spread in Groups in the form of memes and images is absolutely fracking staggering.

If you go through the facebook feed of a conservative facebook user in their 50s+, you quite literally will see all lies and propaganda, and nothing real (for one ex: see the horribly faked Nancy Pelosi video that spread like wildfire yesterday, despite it's obvious fakeness). I'm not being hyperbolic, it's literally all "fake news". It's a completely shocking problem to have but the current state of politics is that there are a lot of people whose media diet consists of mainly of fake facebook group posts.

There is no viable solution either. If you democratize the printing press/mass media so far that every single person can print whatever they want whenever they want to, you will get this race to the bottom where absolute bullshit beats out hard truths every time. Lies getting around the world before the truth is out the door and all that. (Also the reality that this is clickbait x 1000, it's not a business picking articles that drive revenue, it's bad political actors picking stories that drive unrest).

Facebook isn't salvageable. It's destroying democracy around the world and there is nothing that can be done to fix it. I see not just correlation but causation between the rise of facebook and the rise of the fake news fueled far-right that is destroying modern democracy around the world.

(And it's no surprise that with each declassified DoJ report, we learn of yet-another-nation-state running these fake news groups with the explicit intention to subvert democracy and increase civil unrest).

Please delete Facebook before it's too late.
Both Apple and Google rarely reinstate an app, they don't care, they hide behind the corporate machine, they have plenty of other apps to take their cut from.
Where's the reference implementation? And is there actually more than one competing implementation out there?
US uses mph for miles per hour, so it's natural to use kph.
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This is actually a good thing, and should be international. A lot of the drinks available in stores are absolutely terrible for you - some people consume such drinks on a daily basis, even multiple times.
Unlikely as Huawei disabled Bootloader unlocking starting with the P30. See https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-p30-pro/help/huawei-... for example.
Without platform-level support from HiSilicon for the Kirin CPU you won't get that far with community-OS either.
And as a wholly owned Huawei subsidiary, HiSilicon is also on that sanction list.
What’s the difference between a dual account and a fake account? Is it activism? Is it when the accounts are bought and sold, is it politics?
> SV as a whole is way more meritocratic and willing to take a chance on smart candidates.

That was funny. Have you tried doing standup?

Yes, there are startups that do take those chances. But SV as a whole... not really. It's just as bad on using degrees as a filter as any other place.

> Try telling Goldman that you're a hard working candidate who has been studying up econ and finance textbooks on your own and would like an internship.

Try telling that to a large number of companies in SV and you'll find similar results.

> Lastly, discriminating against someone for NOT wearing a $1k sounds a lot worse than wearing one.

It sounds about equally bad to me. It's not a matter what people can or cannot do about it, it's about the fact that you use completely irrelevant details to guide your decision.
Sweep-Gson: (un)wrapping extensions for Gson
I moved my domains (50) from namecheap to porkbun and cloudflare for these reasons:

* the price of a domain would change after placing it in my cart or purchasing it (the purchase would be refunded, but it was still frustrating.)

* WhoisGaurd renewal messages and "warnings"; I needed a registrar that provides whois privacy - without a fuss.

* namecheap's dashboard only shows 5 domains on the first page, and they are not sorted by soonest to expire.

* slowness experienced when using their website

* their competitors are cheaper

https://tld-list.com/ is pretty nice for comparing pricing.