skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging by the attitudes displayed by Americans online, in general even though it could be a vocal minority, they are in so much debt to the smart American people that worked their butts off in the last century. If it weren't for the ground work laid by those brilliant scientists and politicians, the current attitude of "we rock, everyone else sucks and inferior" wouldn't have netted them much at all.
I believe the best way to separate 1 from 2 and 3 is to try and push for the removal of the artistic components of Advertising.

For example, to allow for creative expression, concepts such as puffery (unfounded claims) are explicitly allowed in adverts, and while it is true that they facilitate this kind of art, they are also prone to abuse when a profit motive is involved.
Google Play Services is the underlying app the records and uploads your location to Google Timeline, and that restarts itself if it is force quit.
I think he’s being sarcastic.
This is easily the number one for me. The amount of damage someone like that can do (while swiftly being promoted up the ranks of course) is staggering.
Whenever I identify one, I start looking for jobs.
A chromium fork named Kiwi supports extensions on Android!
Thanks to this I can play youtube music in the background and have the fastest possible browser on Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse...
This is more like walking up to the bank at night and jiggling the door handle then telling everyone it’s unlocked and the alarm isn’t on.
Did someone verify any of this?

If I recall correctly this `yoginth` is a known fraudster.

See:
https://twitter.com/sindresorhus/status/1015873644377935874
or
https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1059865722904440833
In the same way that a tiger killing a rabit is not the same thing than a human with a nuclear weapon.

Power, scale, agenda and synergies matter.
Will this apply to the English service too? That has never had a subscription option to my knowledge
Animals need cholesterol for their cell membranes; particularly for neurons. It's a precursor for Vitamin D, testosterone, and estrogen and is needed in the blood to help transport fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K).

It doesn't seem at all strange that there should be an optimum level that is non-zero.
Because it worked for a lot longer than 20 years. In 100 years, without GMO problems, we can label them safe too.

Plus evolution doesn't have an agenda that would make it creates things like the terminator gene. We are in a very peculiar situation.

I'm open to see how it plays out, as long as we don't arrogantly pretend we know for sure everything will be ok. Because we heard this one before, and it was always stated by people that wanted to sound trustworthy or smart, never the ones that wanted to make sure we are all happy.

Besides, how asking for severe and regular audits is even a bad thing ? If one is against that, I trust their judgment even less.
"much more important metric is particle count"

That is really interesting, do you have a source you can recommend for reading further?
Yup. And even for Gmail and YouTube, Google is trapped in a tab container in Firefox for being naughty.
>>b) have enough trustworthy confederates who can keep their mouths shut.

when that thing hits the fan, "trustworthy" or "brother" takes a whole new meaning. But, yeah, far, far away from people and get ready to go back 5000 years. Just in case. To be prepared for a lot of people costs next to nothing, but rewards can be immense. So it pays to be prepared.
Anthrax is "self-safe" too. It's an organism made by evolution.
I think he would. Look how the EU/NZ is not helping Taiwan - in order to not offend China. It is a shame.
Some ciphers use this method, it’s not the problem.

QC isn’t going to break all crypto traditional symmetric ciphers are safe and one of the simplest classical ciphers a one time pad is still the safest method of encryption when it’s done correctly.

QC may break some asymmetric encryption which relies on factoring numbers.

Asymmetric encryption is on some level security through obscurity as you publicly display a key from which your encryption key can be mathematically derived and you rely solely on the fact that it’s a very hard thing to do.

But as far as classical encryption goes XORing a message against a random number of bits equal to the message length would always be secure, especially for long messages the problem is that it ain’t very practical.

That said however we do have QC resistant key exchange and signature algorithms so I don’t think there is that much reason to panic.

I’m pretty sure you can still find 1024bit and lower RSA key systems still in use arguably these are less secure today than 2048 and 4096bit RSA keys will be during the first years of a post QC world.
I have a different maps app (Yandex) that keeps popping up in the process list despite me killing it off with ‘force stop.’ Probably not the only one, for that matter.

Flicking an app in the recent apps list doesn't close its background processes. And you won't see it there when such a process runs again. See e.g. the ‘OS Monitor’ app for the actual list of processes (for Android ≤6).

Google's apps are likely even more privileged. Play Store hogs the processor and network every time I enable wifi. On a past phone, Google Maps also ran conspicuously on boot and, iirc, when wifi was turned on.

Something might've changed in newer versions of Android, dunno. But I doubt it that Google would limit its own abilities.
This seems very very impressive. But I have so many questions still. The most important one being, there has to be a way to reset these tracking keys for cases like

- Resell

- Loss of a companion device that was never found and it took the private keys with it

- Got a new companion device

How do I reset the keys and how do I make sure a theif can't reset these?
Yes, but in a reactor you know the dangers you protect against.

What are the potential dangers with gmo?

edit:
"Working on GMO is ok. Trusting them to be safe because lobbists say so is not. "

And no I don't. I just dont see any reason why they should not be safe.

(their monoculture use with pesticides excluded. that is a different problem)
Yes and no. Australia has mortgage brokers and financial institutions that collateralise or group loans for resale. We don't have equivalents for the government run Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac though.
Charging money for some arbitrary work isn't some natural right, granting the ability to patent something isn't some natural right. Maths isn't patentable, for a long time it wasn't obvious that computer programs were either. Patents are a construct to encourage R & D, therefore disagreeing about the patentability of something isn't quasi religious.

Second plants breed, by themselves. Does someone deserve to patent a plant they just found growing in their garden?
What happens if someone does patent a better tomato, and then a tomato naturally does the same thing itself? Do you sue the tomato plant? What about the non obviousness test? If it's so easy a tomato can do it...

So yes plant breeding is different to other industries. Patents control how people reproduce your things, plants reproduce by themselves, and the reproductive parts are why we buy 90% of plants for.

"viruses are generally not considered to be true living organisms."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/virus.htm
Slightly but, in reality, not really.

> Early public-key systems are secure assuming that it is difficult to factor a large integer composed of two or more large prime factors. For elliptic-curve-based protocols, it is assumed that finding the discrete logarithm of a random elliptic curve element with respect to a publicly known base point is infeasible: this is the "elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem" (ECDLP). The security of elliptic curve cryptography depends on the ability to compute a point multiplication and the inability to compute the multiplicand given the original and product points. The size of the elliptic curve determines the difficulty of the problem.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography
There are a few startups disrupting the mortgage industry. In the UK, Habito [1] is doing pretty well.

Though I mostly know of Habito because I have had friends work for them as they have at least some of their systems have been written in Haskell [2].

[1] https://www.habito.com

[2] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/habito-mortgage-broker
I second this... One of my best friends moved to another country, and we regularly talk on VOIP during console games.

Hell, sometimes we talk for an hour and never even manage to start the game...
I guess it's mainly about anti-State and pro-terror financing, which is a serious issue that plagues India.
About 2% of CO2 emissions, according to this:

https://www.atag.org/facts-figures.html
Blendle didn't succeed in getting the major national newspapers on board, because providing access to all content would make them a publisher competing directly with each newspaper's own subscriptions.

If you consider the price of a full subscription to a quality newspaper, you can see why Blendle would be way too cheap to sustain as a publishing partner; especially with a monthly flat fee.

As a reader, I would love to pay what I am paying now for one newspaper to gain access to more newspapers — particularly worldwide (Volkskrant, NRC, German FAZ, some Belgian ones, some American ones, some British (although The Guardian is already accessible — I donate a small sum yearly for their efforts)).

I wouldn't necessarily read more, but a more varied selection of articles. A flat fee is a requirement though.
That seems unfair - Wear hasn't been abandoned. It hasn't been an overwhelming success, but it's not been a complete failure either.

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS44901819

I can't see Google dropping it unless Apple abandons theirs first.
The car analogy would be:

He saw a car
He tried the doors until he found one that was open
He climbed in and searched everywhere until he found personal information about other users of the system

Even though the security of this system was poor, he still (probably) broke the law. There are plenty of opportunities for people with some knowledge of IT to abuse their power, but it's our responsibility not to do so.
Seed irradiation hasn't yet been in use for 100 years -- the first commercial crop to use it was ~80 years ago -- but we consider it safe, despite that it consists of forcing completely random changes to occur. Why? Because we don't talk about the safety of the process; we talk about the safety of the result.

There's no way we can ever say "GMOs are safe" because it's like saying "crops grown during the 14th week of the year are safe". It's a technique, not a product.
Zero. Discovering demand is the first step. But maybe you mean something different by “testing demand”?
These Firefox tools are really great. One big issue right now that I have with the strict fingerprint resisting is that it zeroes the timezone to UTC+0. It messes up with websites like slack and others. I had to use an extra addon to set a custom timezone.
Not sure that turnout is over a million. Even HKFP are being cautious and only switched from “tens” to “hundreds” of thousands about an hour ago. I do hope that you are right though! And even 1 in 10 or 15 would be remarkable.

Edit: the SCMP has some turnout figures. As usual they vary wildly.¹

1. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3013725...
There is plenty of research, but here’s more consumable version: https://peterattiamd.com/the-straight-dope-on-cholesterol-pa...

The whole series is a gold mine tbh
ETH Zurich, by most metrics one of the better universities in the world, tracks attendance.
My take on why this isn't a nightmare: He got great support from everybody involved. No extra pressure, no artificial deadlines, no unpaid work expected from him and there was even little denying the problem (except that his statements were not taken as truth without presenting evidence, which I think is fair).
That's not how it worked in Russia at the time (don't know how it is now). You chose the profession to pursue, the curriculum was fixed and tailored to that profession. The side effect of this is class sizes were fixed, since everyone in the cohort studied the same things. In fact for my profession there were several parallel cohorts. We started out with about 100 people in total, and by graduation it was something like 30-35, the rest dropped out because shit's hard.
And pricey
Samsungs' as well
If anyone here believes this I'd happily pay $100 today for all of your assets come 2050.
Run-of-the-mill ECC is just a new implementation of discrete-log cryptography, and falls pretty much immediately to a Shor-type quantum computer.

Cryptosystems based on isogenies of elliptic curves are one form of (conjectured) post-quantum-secure cryptography.
How do people know computers are useful? How do people know you can buy one and what it costs? How do people know where to go when they want a computer?
Without advertising there is only word of mouth, which is slow and probably doesn't reach many people at all.

So if computers are useful, shouldn't it be allowed to advertise them?
I’ve seen this with my kids and their school friends when they play online together. They chat and encourage each other, its really sweet and completely different to their off line rough and tumble play. I wake up on the weekends to quiet whispers of “sick play, dude.”
Habito has a cool tagline:

“Don't go through mortgage hell.”
Cholesterol research is a mess of unproven cause and effect and conflicting results. I'd try to live a healthy life and not worry too much about it.
Love how the AD copy is bigger vs the info graphic
Hey, that is too old and I have done it without knowledge, it's my mistake and I apologized for all of them personally and publicly!

Here this app belongs to my college, it's my attendance and work is mine!
The amount of tech turned from idea to actually manufactured in order to reach the holy grail of "full screen cover" is impressive. Ultrasonic fingerprint reader, under the screen camera and sensors, ...

I am not sure I buy into the need for it on my cellphone; while I'm not like a lot of people from HN and actually enjoy a large phone and I was one of the first Note customers, lately I switched from a S9+ to a S10+ and I actually prefered the 9's screen compared to the infinity display with its hole (or concurrent and their notch), so I guess I need to wait until they finally figure out how to not need such tricks.

But despite not feeling like I need / like it, I can't stop but be impressed at the tech and the speed at wich it is made. The first Galaxy S phone was barely ten years ago.
How’s the sound quality of these gaming systems?

I hate talking on phones more than ever because rectangular “candybar” smartphones aren’t a good fit for a face, and the audio quality is terrible. I have to keep saying “What did you say?”

Of course I prefer meeting in person, and ideally in a place that isn’t pumping in music. It’s the only way to hold an actual conversation.
Anthrax is not cultivated by the most invasive specy of the planet, given artificial characteristics to be optimized only for economic incentive, and would have never be allowed by natural selection to have such things as the terminator gene.

I'm not saying nature is good and benevolent, I'm saying there is a difference in having uranium in the ground or in a bomb.

I don't think asking for serious, regular, transparent, independant audit for decades is a bad thing. Or would you let any company deal with uranium without serious follow up ?
The trick to flying is to try to fall and fail.
AWS costs every programmer should know
is there a single practical example of a real world problem being solved by a current quantum computer? all the talks i have seen involve a lot of hand waving and talk of the future. i’m very skeptical that these capabilities are around the corner
While this is pretty cool, it's quite impractical.
You could just poll their HTTP API for the currently playing song and compare the playtime. Plus this would work for any client, even mobile devices.
Food irradiation in general is yet another issue, that deserves a different threat.
seL4 based system would make most sense for security http://sel4.systems/ https://github.com/seL4

First as a hypervisor, then adding more stuff.
If you really want to go down a rabbit hole of real estate weirdness, research why title insurance is required, and read up on some examples of fuckups that have occurred with land ownership records and scams...
The Fastest Growing Startup in the UK – Renewable Energy Startup Bulb
I tried opera a while back, and while it's fast and looks good, it has a new tab page with "recommended" sites that you can't turn off - I tried, but it's protected by DRM (opera will refuse to start if the file doesn't have a valid digital signature).

So if I'm going to switch browsers because of privacy/advertising concerns, it's not going to be Opera.
Developers should think like end users – the one I often missed too
Is there any way to encrypt strings.xml file?
> Political forces you don't fully understand

This is exactly as useful and trustworthy as saying "A wizard did it".
Because of agenda, scale, speed, scale, intertia and power. See other comments.
I bet that ai’s will find a lot of physics bugs to exploit early on.
The trouble with banning 3 is how are you going to do it in practice? I mean take Coke ads which show happy healthy people having fun while the reality is similar drinks are a major cause of obesity and tooth decay. But how do you ban that?

Maybe a better approach would be to rate ads as good or bad on a scale like yours and then people could chose to use selective ad blockers?
> That said however we do have QC resistant key exchange and signature algorithms so I don’t think there is that much reason to panic.

Interesting. Then shouldn't we
(and PR people involved in QC) stop focusing on the cryptographical capabilities of QC, and start focusing on its other potential applications, like protein folding? Until now in the media, it seems like QC is synonymous with crypto
...
Yeah, a completely insurmountable problem at hand there that totally ruins any utility anyone could get from something like this…
No I mean stuff like building out a landingpage to test demand etc.

But I think this is different for digital vs. physical products, right?
Moral of the story, do not be in debt, do not get into debt
We were told they could and would contain it to the designated fields. We were told that we should not worry about it spreading.
I just gathered it from live video, local forum posts, news and my intuition of the size of Hong Kong island (it's all full with people still being stuck in the train system from Kowloon side). From images, it's also visually much bigger than the previous ~500K turnout protest.

But yeah it's intuition after all so I could be wrong.
Still, numbers in the 60K range is just impossible.

Edit: By gather and intuition, I mean I'm getting quite a volume of confirmation bias from forum post, video comments and the hosts of the protest.
‘Discovered’ is entirely different than being genetically engineered.
I predict apps will spam location requests to induce decision fatigue on the 'share once' users, who will switch to 'share while using' or 'share always'
I made true friends through Ventrilo/TeamSpeak and different games (but mostly Counter-Strike). I’ve never made a phone call to a friend unless truly necessary but I’ve spent several hours talking through these.

Nowadays with Discord it’s just so much easier and fun for everyone. I’m happy that it was invented and just wish it was open-source but oh well.
Sound quality and audio codec compression of these services (Discord, Mumble, Teamspeak, Ventrilo) is generally quite good, they are designed to support rapid coordination of large groups in high intensity situations and e-sports tournaments. It was not uncommon to have 40+ people in a single voice channel for MMO raids 10 years ago, and things have only improved since then. However, your experience will be significantly affected by your choice of headset and microphone. I have spent a lot of time in voice channels and it's common to have long conversations among groups of friends or online acquaintances there.
Technically ROT13 can only handle 26 characters. The "good" version would be to deny any inputs outside an accepted character set.

Ok so this doesn't really matter for a joke algorithm like ROT13 but in more serious cases it's important to refuse any inputs that aren't handled and not try ad-hoc fixes to make them "work".
Plenty of us would rather trust China than the US, mostly because China has less influence in our countries than the US does.
Ask HN: Where to find remote tutoring jobs?
Preferably part time.
> Panel efficiency is mostly of interest for space flight

Surely fundamental research is beneficial to all applications. That said, and as you say, price performance is and should be the primary (research) driver.
> What about space implies fast?

Oh, sorry, I though you were going to argue that we don't have to put science on hold just to let all the world stream gagnam style via Elon owned infrastructure.

In any case, a single SpaceX heavy costs about the same as 9 2.5 m telescopes, so good luck making the argument that science won't suffer.

If you put a science instrument in space, you do it because it's the only option, not because Elon says so.
Which democracy are you thinking of that 'became worse after switching'? I can't think of any, though I can think of a few countries that mostly botched the switch and ended up in a sort of pseudo-democracy.
> I don't think asking for serious, regular, transparent, independant audit for decades is a bad thing.

You're right! It's a great thing, in fact. That's why there are over 3000 studies on GMO crops so far, with hundreds more happening each year.

Also, I'm a touch baffled by the mention of Terminator genes. 1) They've never existed. There's a patent on it, owned by a company who has pledged to never use it or allow any other company to do so. 2) It solves all the issues regarding drift, which is often a thing anti-GMO folks are concerned about. Never quite understood that.
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I found that rather annoying.

How much time do you think they spent to write an algo to detect dirty lenses, and how much megacycles is spent to run it? So much for an annoying popup.
How does one plagiarize and attempt to profit off somebody else's work without knowing it?

It's ingenious to say you've apologized while at the same time saying you didn't knowingly do anything.
16 pomodoro
Generally there is an expectation in business that mistakes made by the business are to the benefit of the customer.

For instance, if you order 3 croissants but the bakery puts 5 in your box and seals the box, and then you walk out the shop, what would you do if the bakery employee comes running down the street after you and demands you open the box and return the extra 2 croissants? Well this would never happen, the business would just write it off and let the customer have the two extra croissants.
Relatively few. Have you walked into a supermarket since 1952?
What does healthy even mean?
SCons: A Software Construction Tool
You've built an entire online presence by copying everything from other people's work - from your blog theme to your content "without knowing"?

Adorable.

Also, by briefly reading the docs on the "platform" you are trying to peddle, I'm getting fairly certain you also copied that as well, as it is too well written in comparison to the drivel on your blog.
You're the one with the extraordinary claim so you should be providing extraordinary evidence.
Doing work that ultimately neither makes anyone happier or healthier nor furthers progress in any other way is essential to all of us having (full-time) jobs. So you aren't wrong.