skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but that lawsuit is bogus. Apple gives developers access to my data only if I click to allow that developer access to my data. Which I, personally, almost never do. But if you do that, then yeah, that developer can take your data and do whatever he wants with it.

Which is why you shouldn't do that.

You're right about one thing though, and that is Apple not trusting me with most powers. They don't trust me, or anyone else with power. I like that stance. I think that should be the default stance of every company that deals with user data. No one gets access to it without the expressed consent of the user.

If you're saying that Apple is giving out your data willy nilly the way FB or Google does, you're just wrong. Now of course, that's a completely different issue than trusting Apple. You should trust no one. And neither should Apple. (To be completely frank, Apple shouldn't even trust you.)

What people like about Apple is that they hold up their end of the bargain. They trust no one.
China maintains their one or two child policy through forced abortions, which is murdering a child. If murdering people is an ok method for achieving the goal of protecting the environment (in a suitably 'sanitary' manner), then we might as well focus our efforts on wiping out the most fecund populations (India and Africa) with 'sanitary' methods like contraception and abortion. Oh wait, maybe we are already doing that...
The big companies and government know this. So long as they don't publicly abuse everyone's data, people won't see a problem. They're building everyone's trust, and making data collection normal.
Jacdac: A plug and play protocol for microcontrollers
Then who does the copyright belong to? Why that date?
EY had just released Nightfall:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/say-hello-nightfall-paul-brod...
Why Are the Prices So D*Mn High [pdf]
Wasn't there optical and IR footage? Seems unlikely that many discrete systems would all have ghosting artifacts at the same time and location.

Or maybe I am mixing reports. I've read about several recently.
Contract law and international arbitration do exist though. The ultimate inability to enforce seems like it is a separate issue and not limited to bilateral contracts - nation states are more powerful than international courts in many cases.
Even Apple has stopped using it, though.

Rumor is that it had reliability issues (and I'm seeing that with my own MagSafe plug), but of course no official word.
I remember when we didn't need a /s we assumed everyone got the joke. I took it seriously until I hit the /s but never would have years ago.

When did sarcasm stop registering? I was watching a webseries from the early 2000s and everything had that tone.
Anyone looked at Rio from rancher yet? It's like a light weight overlay on k3
I read the response as "I can't use any of these" - which again leads us to them not asking the "right" question.
Just searched to find the comment to upvote. Notion changed my life! It took over my life. It is my everything. My life is in Notion now. It is my repository of life. I am not exaggerating. I do not work there. It is SUCH a quality product in every way. You have features that I only even think about after using it every day for 8 months.
My goal is slightly different, though -- I'm more interested in semantic similarity than source similarity. I saw one article suggesting to run the detection algorithm on the decompiled output of the compiler to get better results, which seems like a good idea as well.
SE Asia has other factors affecting the price though. Labor costs are obviously much lower as well as the price of land and more relaxed regulations towards street food and restaurants in general.
Removal of ad-block is just talk, not actually implemented and live yet, correct?
Few questions:

1. Where can I find that algorithm you are talking about?

2. The algorithm which you stated seems a bit complex from the algos taught in the undergrad level, so what are the pre-requisites for understanding it that I must be aware of?

3. What books or papers you would suggest for reading?

4. How the hell you remember something you read decades ago :)?
I don’t think it’s a hard thing to explain though:

Serverless is marketing term that loosely describes a shared tenancy environment where you don’t manage the host.
More information on what we mean by that term can be found here: https://book.amethyst.rs/stable/glossary.html

If viewed as goals, we aren't quite there yet, but we're working on it. =)
Ask HN:Skills/Tools to Stand Out as a Data Scientist
Apart from Conventional tools like Python/R and Knowledge of Machine Learning/Statistics/SQL are there any other skills that I can pick up in order to up skill myself as a Data Scientist?

I have nearly three years experience in this field and would like to level up.
Thanks.
I think I want the services, IF they were useful.

Currently they're invasive and not useful. I would love to tinker with an fully offline smart home but it's not something I've invested time into. For me to give up my privacy though I'd need a ton of hugely useful features. Something none of them has.

The pointlessness of all the features is why I entirely left Googles ecosystem. I gave up a lot for a really, really dumb interface. If I have to specially craft my conversation with the AI, I don't want to give up my privacy for it.
My wife works in a woman's shelter and Alexa / smart home devices is a common way women in abusive relationships are harassed and monitored...

Edit for clarity: Even if a woman has a restraining order against the abuser, the abuser will turn on music in the middle of the night, mess with the lights, turn the thermostat down etc. If the woman still lives with the abuser, smart devices (not necessarily Alexa) are used to monitoring comings and goings.

One person often sets up the devices and the other person has no understanding of how to turn these things off. Even more often: the harassed woman doesn't even realize what's happening is due to the man controlling smart devices— the harassed is "gaslighted" and thinks they're going crazy ("why does the temperature keep PLUMMETING?").
Here's the raw truth that no one in the valley will admit.

It's about two things:

1. Execution.

2. Luck.

... but it's mostly execution.

If you have a BRILLIANT idea but can't execute you're dead.

There are tons of companies in the history books as examples.

BUT... if you can EXECUTE, you can take a shitty idea, abandon it, pivot, measure, and focus BACK on a good idea. Then when you have a good idea you can keep executing it forward.

The rest of luck but this can be worked on as luck is often timing + being prepared.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
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Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
I think the antitrust argument against AMP is a bit more subtle. The argument seems to be that Google is abusing it's market dominance to push sites into using AMP. This in turn prevents them from using third party trackers, while the pages will be served via Google caches when accessed from Google search. Hence Google gets to track the visitor, while third party tracking from other providers is prevented. I.e. Google is abusing it's power to thwart competition in the analytics and ad-tech business.

Of course as a consumer, I don't really care whether it's some random company or Google who gets to violate my privacy, and I especially couldn't care less about lack of innovation in the privacy violation business, so I think the antitrust angle here is pretty slim.
Why Argo and not kubeflow Pipelines?
The problem is that when people stop believing in agency and will, everything gets worse. They're not a perfect model of things, but imposing on society a single attractive view on some pet issue of yours is almost always worse than letting people get it wrong.

Private society is actually getting better at avoiding misuse of food, drugs, and communication platforms; my young sister is well aware of a lot of the pitfalls, and monitors her use of social media rather carefully, she watches her food intake carefully and asks interesting questions about the effects of certain foods. In general, I have high hopes for the next generation, I think they will figure this stuff out fast enough.
Yeah, as I understand it there were visual sightings as well.
Aside from the party that mulched protestors with tanks and apcs then washed the remains down the sewers.

I'm sorry but how can anyone discuss with a straight face that perhaps people were moving too fast for a system to catch up. . . Which resulted in the above, then proceed to talk as if that government or system could develop from there. You don't get to come back from that.
Linked lists are the future of aircraft parts!
So sick of these companies using blockchain hype to sell what is really just a centralized database.
Here’s a sensor that’s already used by the local police to monitor the breathing of those locked up over night - to be able to respond asap if someone stops breathing after excessive drinking or drugs. Seems benevolent to me.
https://www.xethru.com/x4m200-respiration-sensor.html
You can use Eulerian image magnification for that. Just needs a normal camera: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/evm/
Origin of viruses: primordial replicators recruiting capsids from hosts
So they profile you as a person that messes with Alexa.
This is certainly terrible news for the drivers, but the companies will get by.
Here’s the ‘groundbreaking blockchain marketplace’. Looks like a shitty ad-filled Bootstrap template to me. Blockchain is vaguely mentioned halfway down the “about” page.

https://www.godirecttrade.com/about-us
Interesting how no one was born in Vatican City. Well, maybe Jesus was reborn there (har har).
How to use array reduce for more than just numbers
While this a great service for the aircraft parts industry, I am not seeing why this couldn’t be done with a database and a properly secured REST API.
Yes.

"This will not happen again, ever".

People's livelihoods are at stake in DO's hosting. Canned responses and brutal account lockouts should have NEVER been on the table to begin with.
Cross Platform simple and secure password management from commandline
Not everyone shares your value system. (I do, but that's beside the point.)

You never know when the person you're responding to might be Pentti Linkola.
We do suffer from a bit of a dearth of artists/modelers. We recently had one join who is doing a lot of nice work to the editor UI.

There's a few of us who have quite a bit of experience in the gaming industry and with game design, both from working at studios and game engine companies. We could definitely use more, if anyone is interested. =)
Happiness, satisfaction, contentment, comfort, security...the list goes on.
> I fail to understand why we should trust apple.

I don't think anyone says we should. Do I trust apple? No. Do I trust apple more than google or facebook? Yes.

It's all a balance of QoL features we personally want. I heavily enjoy the features and hardware of Apple. Yes, there are downsides. I left my vast Google ecosystem for Apple, not because Apple is perfect, but because they appeared better.

Sure, I could throw away my watch, change to linux, get a flip phone (because I don't want to use hand-downs from Google's OS), but Apple is where I chose to draw my line between privacy and convenience.
So, the US was testing unknown and presumably expensive drone technology on Carrier Air Groups? Why would they do that in a "live" situation with people who would report it? I would think (and perhaps I'm wrong) that keeping advanced craft secret would be in the US interest.

I don't buy the ET explanation and I don't buy this one either.

If it is real and it is a craft it's much more likely it was a state actor testing us.
Conversely, there is the XY fallacy: when one [frequently condescendingly] assumes they know better than the person asking, errantly classifies it as an XY problem, and fails to answer the original question.
The actual text would seem to be: "Require an active license from the State of California and involve the practice of one of the following recognized professions: law, dentistry, architecture, engineering, or accounting." http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml...

So, presumably no. Only engineers with a P.E. license (which has been pretty much phased out for software engineering).
It's quite funny, the number of replies in this thread saying: "No, I really do need Y because I'm special!"

Just remember where you are. The XY problem is a far larger problem in a far larger population than HN.
Stylometry is getting better by the day :)
I highly recommend "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
https://www.amazon.com/Gene-Intimate-History-Siddhartha-Mukh...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513576
> China is still opening up politically

Not true. The control was tighter and tighter, day by day after 2008.
How about the concurrent/earlier genocides of Turks and other Muslim ethnicities in the Balkans and Hellas supported by the Great Powers of the era? Those are also related. Action and reaction, as it is.

Edit: both are, after all, caused by religious nationalism. Let's not ignore one of them.
Because that ends in never ending (truly, never ending) litigation of the rules by bad faith parties. It dosen't matter what the rules say, or even if you point to exact rules, they will still endlessly bog down discussions, and the more rules there are, the more effectively they can achieve that, that is their entire goal from the outset.

Its like a legal system, but with no penalty whatsoever for acting in malicious bad faith to disrupt the system itself, and the bad faith disruption generates even more avenues to disrupt, like some troll hall of mirrors.

Only thing you end up achieving is giving bad actors more ammunition, and meanwhile nobody who is truly unjustly banned is going to navigate 100000 sub threads of "case law".

Great example of how dysfunctional this ultimately becomes is Wikipedia, where you get the book thrown at you by wikilawyers (which is ironically against the rules itself, yeah ok...) for innocent infractions, but people operating in bad faith have no issues making Wikipedia say what they want it to.
Reduces risk of fraud or information getting corrupted accidentally, as changing one bit of data would corrupt the blockchain.

I’m not saying you couldn’t do it without blockchain, but there is an argument about why that property is inherently useful in this market.
Now imagine for a moment that you're not better than everyone else at thinking for them.

Agency is the only option. It's not like the concept of agency was thought up in a society with no dumb people.

If you want to live in a society where the state doesn't believe in agency, and where your difficult decisions will be made by people who are (on average) more intelligent than you, go ahead and move to the PRC, they're right up your alley!

People are actively opting out of advertising, which is why major advertising businesses are pulling out all the stops (see Google's recent announcement that they will restrict advertisement and tracking blockers); these businesses will suffer with the new generation of "consumers".
Military is the mechanism of enforcing intent.

Lets agree to do this or there will be a war.
> Source: have shipped multiple games on multiple custom engines

Nice! Which games? We'd certainly welcome more feedback from experienced game devs and engine devs on what they want in a game engine.
> Is the Economist really implying that Cook, the CEO of Apple, one of the world's largest publicly traded corporations, has not thought about forming a future facing outlook that is comprehensive in its strategy and planning?

Looking at Uber, is is really that far fetched that executives are very good at achieving short and medium term success while completely lacking any viable long term vision? Given that even economist cannot predict the future (see the trade war) despite what certain outlets want us to believe, that's not so dumb after all (in the case of Apple).
I 1000% support people hacking on things to learn.

But I don’t think Amethyst is a “just to learn” thing. They setup an actual foundation. There are sponsors. A lot of work has gone into a website and documentation. There is community outreach.

I really dislike the negativity of the internet. I don’t want to be a negative Nancy. I want Amethyst to succeed and be a useful tool in the Rust gaming ecosystem.

But right now I’m not seeing a path to that. I don’t think the engine makers need to switch focus to shipping an actual game. But I do think they need to clone a bunch of existing games with their engine to find the weak points.

Show me a page with Amethyst clones of Pong, PacMan, Super Mario, Doom, Warcraft 1, Quake 2, etc. Not complete games of course. But sufficient to convince me that a full clone could conceivably be made.
I’m not interested at all in the distributor business but wow, what a valuable shift in perspective from the company’s to the customer’s!
But that's not a bad thing. To me it appears better than previous attempts, I heavily look forward to it.

The HN drama around WASM and cries of the days of Java always leave me perplexed. Makes me wish Java didn't suck so bad so these convos could end haha.
It's not an image. Just Unicode characters for the various pieces.
>One should at least consider the possibility that they are machine-generated artifacts

I'll certainly consider that as a partial explanation, but IIRC some pilots made visual contact as well.
> The encrypted digital trail cuts the need for paperwork and makes it quick and easy to check the certification and origin of a part ...

> Many websites list used aircraft parts but omit details like final prices or provenance documents.
> “It has long been accepted that 'intellectual information', a mathematical algorithm, mere working directions and a scheme without effect are not patentable.”

http://manuals.ipaustralia.gov.au/patents/national/patentabl...
I probably wouldn’t be so cavalier about writing off and calling BS the legacy of legal definitions that are successfully protecting citizens. It has taken a long time and a lot of smart people to get to where we are with expectation of privacy, and while it might not be perfect, it has been battle tested in court, so it’s presumptuous to assume your untested opinions are clearly better.

The problem I see with your suggestion is then society must pro-actively make some sort of decision for each and every domain in advance, which isn’t possible. The goal of expectation of privacy is as a test to determine when privacy would be or has been violated on a case by case basis. In that sense it’s already somewhat doing what you’re talking about; it is a way to determine whether society deems privacy beneficial in a given domain.

Whether privacy is achievable does not make a good criteria at all, because it’s always possible to compromise privacy. The entire point of the “expectation of privacy” test is to determine whether someone who did violate another’s privacy should be allowed to, it’s a pre-cursor to determining right to privacy.
The Munich agreement was very detailed and formal. That made no practical difference. Everybody and their dog rushed to take a bite out of Czechoslovakia.
It's just like the IBM Food Trust and a million other big corporate digitization projects - it's just marketing.

It is likely not a blockchain but just a web application with a ledger database behind the curtain.
to be honest why as consumers do we not object to Apple pursuing China profits from both sales and manufacture when China's human right abuses keep coming right and left and their never ending threat toward Taiwan?

Apple touts their stance on human rights at every opportunity in the West but looks away in the East and this hypocrisy is something they need to be called to the carpet on. They need to move manufacturing out of China as the rest of world should until China ends the threat towards Taiwan and end the persecution of Hindu and Muslim citizens, if not others.
"Honeywell Aerospace first deployed the system based on open-source blockchain technology called Hyperledger and tested it on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. The company moved the blockchain to an internal cloud to be able to control security and data privacy, Mr. Muthukrishnan said."

So in other words, they might as well have built a normal application on a reliable database like MySQL.

I expected more from WSJ, but apparently their journalists are morons and don't exercise even iota of skepticism in the face of blockchain hype.

Blockchain offers real benefits ... but this application is not one of them.

WSJ: HIRE PEOPLE THAT DO THEIR JOBS PROPERLY.
Going from a model where social media is a new instance of the public square I guess I would agree there is no expectation of privacy in the public square, but where the public square metaphor breaks down is that this square is actually owned by a corporation that is taking pictures and wiretapping all the individual conversations taking place in their square and selling the contents thereof to other corporations.

Not just that. Also selling the ability to remote control boom mics and remote control telephoto cameras, so they can send you an advertisement based on what you were looking at.
> If some newly-introduced device in 2019 uses a USB connector to charge its integrated battery (a misfeature in itself if you ask me), it's almost never USB-C.

Because there's a much smaller market of people that have enough USB-C hosts so that they're able to make full use of such devices. I, for one, don't have a single device with USB-C. In fact, only my company laptop has USB-3; everything else is USB-2. I don't think I'm an outlier on this.

> but USB-C phones have been on the market since 2015 and pretty much standard since not long after that.

On new models, yes, but for many it makes more financial sense to buy phones 2 or 3 generations back to avoid the premiums of having "the latest and greatest", and those are still microUSB. For example, the latest Motorola phone in the G-family is the G7, and the G5 is microUSB. So, there's still a lot of people buying phones with microUSB.
I remember the old fractal antennas for handling different frequencies. Maybe those will still be used.