skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an old RPi project released a while ago (PiRadio I think?) which simply involved attaching a jump lead to GPIO pin 4 which allowed the transmission of FM radio signals.

It worked on the principal that the Pi had a stupidly powerful clock and thus could be used as a transmitter.

I did a little experiment where I hooked it up to a yagi antenna and asked my dad to set his cars radio to the frequency I set the software to transmit on and drive around the block to test the distance.

Not only did it work well but I think I heard someone listening to the radio in their home near mine open their front door and yell out "who ever is doing that could you please stop it!" as it was interfering/jamming what they were listening to.

I'm definitely checking this project out though, thanks for posting.
Disagreeing with Apple PR (which you're repeating here ( isn't misrepresenting the issue. It's just disagreeing that Apple's official explanation is beneficial for consumers.
These floating fuel production facilities could be nice for ships too - refueling en route means you have to carry less fuel and you run more efficiently.
LineageOS + Xposed which gives you MUCH better control than iOS. In particular there are plugins that allow you to fake certain info to apps, including returning fake IMEI and fake sensor data.
Have you fact-checked those claims? In my experience, these "stupid EU" stories are more often false than not.

The banana myth is a classic, and is untrue. There are standards for grading bananas, but no ban on selling bananas of the "wrong" curvature.

I couldn't find a source for the snail story, except a single, fairly sketchy article referencing Polish news stories. I'd take it with a grain of salt.

The carrot/fruit issue apparently comes from regulation concerning what jams, spreads etc. can be made of. The directive in question outlines a number of different foodstuffs you can make jams out of, including ginger and, of course, berries. Neither of these are fruits either. The directive does not claim they are.

I didn't look up the water claim. That one sounds fairly believable to me as medical claims are usually pretty heavily regulated, but I wouldn't care to bet on it being true, either.
You’re nitpicking and not addressing the point. Substitute “friend,” and the argument remains intact.
Great Developer Habits [video]
isn't panel efficiency important for end-user-installed panels, rather than large power producers' installations?
E.g. home use, or factories.
Who cares about the music, they reduced your range by 10%...that means your batteries can do it but Tesla decides to not let them.
Bugs that you can reproduce perfectly in production but not at all in any of 20+ non-production environments is my usual one... and it usually winds up being some updated Oracle binary...
If I didn't pay for it, I'd pretty much just think, "Dang, that was nice while I had it."

The biggest downside would be having to take your car into wherever they'd remove the heated seats at. Being able to negate that inconvenience entirely with a software update brings me back to "oh man, that was nice while I had it. I guess I don't anymore."
Wait - pause - you're going to put me on a blacklist for working without being paid, despite the terms of the agreement?

Yeah, go for it.

From what I can tell, it can only reduce the number of pompous jerks attempting to milk me for free work...
Actually we do have odd laws. You can circumvent them, as some sellers do, but they exist nonetheless.

Real seeds is a British company that sells exclusively non hybrid heirloom seeds. Good stuff and loads of weird crosses. However, they're not allowed to sell them to the public because they're not on an approved list of varieties. s
So you pay a penny to join their seed club and essentially agree that you won't start a business selling crops.

http://www.realseeds.co.uk/terms.html

> In the EU, there is actually a list of 'official' vegetable varieties. And a law governing seed sellers, which states that if a variety isn’t on the official list, then seed companies cannot ‘market’ the seed to anyone. In an immediate sense, this law only affects us, not you - because there are no laws at all governing the buying of seed or what vegetables anyone can grow. Selling unlisted seed? - that’s against the law. Buying unlisted seed? - that’s completely fine! So we should stress that for you it’s perfectly legal to buy any seed you like, plant it, grow it, and do whatever you want with it.
I'm not sure there's objectively worse things than that.

But I think one could make a good argument his final post indicates he had people who probably cared for him during his deterioriation, in part because love for them had been a north star for him.

Maybe suffering such an end without that would be worse.
Firstly, love the website. But, I was going to send a link to a specific page/picture to someone and unfortunately cannot.
http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
Realizing that "coder" is largely a pejorative term and most people have no idea and appreciation for what you do.
You have a Model S. The article talks about the Model 3.

Regardless, I find it very hard to believe that an update to remove features Tesla believes it hasn't been paid for will be anything but non-consensual.
Paragraph 2:
"A fleet of five vessels belonging to six whaling operators from Abashiri in Hokkaido Prefecture, Ishimaki in Miyagi Prefecture, Minamiboso in Chiba Prefecture and Taiji in Wakayama Prefecture, who have been conducting the last round of Japan's so-called scientific whaling around Abashiri port since June 1, will embark on the mission."
What happens to sea life when we restrict the sun over a large area like this? How much microscopic sea life would be killed off in enormous quantities, and would that generate toxicity worse than the CO2 currently being absorbed by the ocean?
Female Infertility Problems
The thing is it was not a trial period. There already exists trial periods in Tesla vehicles. They're explicit and give you time remaining. You know exactly what is happening.

Instead, what happened is Tesla couldn't provide the configuration of cars that people wanted because it wasn't economical for them to do so. So instead they sent them another model of the vehicle with different hardware. It was a stop gap solution. It appears that many people were unaware either by their own lack of attention, or because they were mislead, or because Tesla didn't make it clear enough what was happening.

So:

1. Tesla offered to sell a product.

2. People bought the product.

3. Tesla realized it was not economical to sell the product.

4. Tesla decided not to manufacture the product that they offered.

5. Tesla gave the customers a different product in order to retain the sale rather than cancel the orders. (Even to the degree that the sales documentation refers to the product as SR+ and not SR.)

6. Months pass.

7. Tesla develops software that will after-the-fact modify the product that customers were provided.

Tesla is part and parcel of the problem here. This "it's not fair" rings hollow to me.
In a large NN a lot of nodes end up being useless. You can remove them without degrading the performance of the NN.

To be more concrete, here's a link [1] to Google's neural network playground. I built a network with 5 layers and 37 hidden nodes. It trains quite well, but the last layer has 2 nodes that contribute with very little weight to the final output. The app allows you to change their weight (you click on the corresponding line and edit). If you change the weight to zero (effectively dropping the node), the classifier, if anything, gets better. My guess is that you can easily remove about half of the nodes. Conversely, if you look at the nodes with the highest weights out, you can in principle clone them and halve the weight out both for the original and for the clone. With this configuration, the network output is exactly the same, but if you continue training, it allows more flexibility, as the original and the clone are allowed to diverge.

This type of operations are not possible in Keras. Are they in PyTorch? If not, then what type of dynamic graphs are possible? What can one do with PyTorch that one can't do with Keras?

[1] https://playground.tensorflow.org/#activation=relu&regulariz...
I will loose my job because of AI epidemic :D
Yes that is the idea of BadGAN, which had a long run of being SoA for semisupervised learning (SSL).

Instead of fake/real you have fake/0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9. In the setting for this article that would mean to distinguish between real news and fake news your generator would learn to generate news that is neither, whatever that means. But BadGAN works really well for images to improve your classifier, not sure if anyone has used it elsewhere. Maybe for text SSL isn't that important.

Really for NN generated text in the wild now that I think of it you'd probably want a more standard technique like looking at the metadata. Or you could form some knowledge graph tying together nouns and just say anything that hits too many unconnected topics is NN generated.
Come on now. It should be perfectly clear that playing video games and beer pong with colleagues is not a requirement for a job as a software developer.
The answer is Texas.
my feeling was that Skype killed all other IMs.
It solved the need for chats while also allowing calls.
The fact it's still not totally erased after a decade of worsening is a testament to its original status.

EDIT: And popular chat clients like pidgin did not support skype, so you had to have skype + pidgin/adium or whatever. And then at some point you just drop one..
So you have seat heating elements, but software has disabled them? Nice. Feels like a multi-core processor with half of the processors disabled.
People here would probably have no problem with the music trial, because that's clearly a service being provided, and not the hardware that you've "bought" and ostensibly own.
I recently bought a car and seriously considered a Tesla, but ended up buying another. At first my thinking was about the support costs and maintenance (cheaper service vs absurdly expensive accident repairs), but what did it for me was this kind of stuff. Shipping a car with heated seats but only enabling them if they are paid for is very annoying. And not allowing me to write software for my own car is annoying.

I’ve always disliked DLC and seeing it move into other areas turns me off.

Lots of people don’t mind this, but I think it’s unethical to ship hardware that is enabled by software that is forbidden for the owner to modify.
If you ever have the opportunity, I highly recommend the show about Polynesian voyaging at the Bishop Museum planetarium in Honolulu. You learn a little bit about navigation by stars (in particular you get a taste of how unbelievably complex it is), some of the history of Polynesian voyaging and the recent history of the PVS, the Hokule’a and the amazing modern voyagers who’ve revived ancient Polynesian cultural traditions. It just leaves you in awe of Polynesian culture, knowledge, and accomplishments. I always make sure to catch the show whenever I visit Honolulu.
Not to mention all the pure oxygen you get out of electrolysis. It seems this system would produce a lot of potentially useful byproducts that could have a big effect on ROI calculations.
Do these leaks happen with other providers and if so, do they happen statistically-significantly more often with Chinese ones?
Is there any way to hide keys from the extractions? I tried it before and ended up to find that users can do that if they really want to.
This is a part of something which could become a very powerful pattern: community-wide templates which include many best practices in a single commit:

- Pre-commit hooks for linting/formatting and unit tests.

- Basic CI pipeline configuration with at least build, test and release/deploy phases.

- Package installation configuration for the frameworks you want.

- Container/VM configuration for the languages you want to enable cross-platform and future-proof development.

- Documentation to get started with it all.
What other brand of car can you write software for?
> but it's still crazy more efficient than a internal combustion engine.

The alternative in this situation isn't an ICE, it's the non-limited Tesla.

And in your argument, those other drivers should be pissed off, because you're saying they're getting worse value for money with less lifetime, for more cost.
I agree. Fairness in the sense of “equal ability to do the job results in the same outcome” would, indeed, get us there. The problem is that interviews don’t actually represent ability to do the job, not in this industry, at least.
Ask HN: Are there venture capitalists for ideas that are not in tech?
Entertainment business, per say, or other similar endeavors. Not necessarily tech related.

How does one get in touch with these people?
Is Apple going to know that an app is not offering a discount?
I thought this was pretty common in all makes to some extent. Like LoJack and the alarm? Maybe not? I just always thought so
Ironic that so much caution is given to the harmless genetically modified plant, when the real danger is with the Roundup chemical itself.
Reinforcement Learning from Imperfect Demonstrations
Understanding Your Cloud Adoption Maturity Level
The funny thing is that copper sulphate is actually an inorganic substance while glyphosate is an organic substance.
Visible key isn't the bug. The bug is that the app should not have read access to other students.
What's next, seats and doors disabled in software?

"The car has detected someone sitting in the passenger seat, but you haven't paid for that option, so the car will refuse to move." or "the rear doors cannot be opened, because you've only paid for the front door." WTF.
Highly recommend the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee which covers the last half of the 19th century time period and recounts the absolutely heartbreaking history of Native Americans going from having a reasonable amount of land, much of it useful, to having almost nothing after betrayal after betrayal by the US government. It’s unfortunate that this kind of treatment of indigenous peoples is so common around the world throughout history.
This is an unusual comment and raised my Sunday morning curiosity. Was he a loon in 1997 when the linked to article was published?

Do you post this comment any time Stallman is mentioned? If so, are there others on your autoinsult list? Or is there a particular reason it’s important here to insult Stallman?
Some of those job postings are so high on requirements to deter outside folks, and hire someone internal. Most companies have a policy of posting a job x amount of days before internals can officially be offered.
You can shuffle your mac but not your gsm/3g ids broadcasted in the open as per spec.

I first saw this tech, I think, 9 years ago when I first encountered a "bluetooth spam" device
Privacy violation using local service detection
No, but I think the idea is to create a web API that connects to the database instead of having the phone connect directly to it.
It is not a secret that some famous game studios turned away experienced software engineers simply because they didn't play video games.

Expecting employees to work on weekends is even more common, and not just in the gaming industry.

Please remove "partying" from my list; it was dumb of me to mention it, it only makes my example less realistic.
Sorry buddy, but https://illumos.org/man/1/filesync predates rsync.

Borgbackup is a third party, unbundled application. I don't see what it has to do with people hacking on GNU/Linux like mad.

"I just think it's quite ludicrous that you're saying that any engineer who didn't work at Sun pre-2010 never invented anything."

You didn't get it quite right: I'm saying that professional engineers worked at Sun Microsystems, hp and SGI. That's statement #1. Statement #2 is that people working on GNU/Linux are amateurs who didn't invent anything. Statement #3 is that because they are amateurs who are incapable of learning, they just keep hacking shit together haphazardly and will never be engineers like the people from Sun, hp and SGI. Especially SGI: SGI had the best engineers. Those people were way ahead of their time in every technical aspect imaginable.

"I refuse to believe that you honestly believe that, purely based on how ludicrous of a concept it is."

Believe it. GNU/Linux people are amateurs. They don't have it in them. They want to be thought of as engineers but they aren't. They just aren't capable of it. That's why GNU and GNU/Linux are garbage and will never be anything more than a pile of haphazard, shoddily slapped together hacks. That's the world we live in now, where IT is shit thanks to their shitty, shoddy work.
Understanding unfamiliar legacy code with a bunch of kludges and "domain knowledge" or "business logic" baked into it, when the original authors are uninterested/unavailable and management has zero respect or understanding for the fact that it often takes an order of magnitude longer to modify/maintain this stuff than it does to write it.

Oh, and there's no test suite.

That is my nightmare. I've been there a few times and it can be literally impossible to shine in that role.

"What do you mean, it will take you ten hours to add a button? They coded this whole module in one week and there are 100 buttons!"

aarrrrgh

Now, as an engineer, I understand and embrace the challenge of explaining this sort of thing to management. I get it. That's the type of skill that separates code monkeys from senior developers and architects. But, no matter how good you are, you can't force management to listen nor understand.
No, you can only obfuscate it but the correct way to do this is to limit the access scope of the access key.
You can transfer money in your bank without a second factor check? (an SMS with a code for instance?)

An my accounts do that by default (France), except for pre-approved recipients.
As far as I know, none of these keys (except the email/password) are considered a secret. The real problem here is that they aren't using Firebase/Firestore rules to correctly limit database access.
Yes I am aware they are different cars but the upgrade process from my understanding is pretty much the same.

Also look at my UPDATE post. It looks like this is 100% consensual. As I expected the people who were effected by this knew when they accepted delivery of the car that these features were a sort of free trial. They could have declined the car and waited until the the features were locked out but they accepted it knowing they were a free trial.
And yet in other threads here on HN, we're decrying the breakdown of the family, epidemics of loneliness, and low rates of relationships and marriage for young people.

Given that the workplace is now the only place to interact with the opposite sex (for many people), I think it would be healthier to acknowledge it as a relationship foundry, and figure out how to use it to forge healthy adult relationships, whilst avoiding adultery and abuse.
"Hey, Joe, it's your buddy the Oil lobbyist. Yeah, the Senator is asking about school textbooks again. I know that's your area. You got anything?"

"Sure, buddy. I'll have a thousand page report ready in a couple days. By the way, yesterday a Congressman asked me about the safety of fracking..."
Oh, I agree that Leetcode can improve certain coding skills. But, are they the ones that matter for doing most software engineering jobs? The ability to write down algorithms on a whiteboard from memory alone is not a skill I’ve ever seen anyone use at any workplace outside of an interview room.
I think we can't hide keys up to my knowledge!

But make sure you just switched firebase to production mode.

In my case, the firebase was in development mode and the data is available public!

https://yoginth.com/college-hack#mitigations
Another sets of examples is that of Christian missionaries
in foreign lands and remote monasteries trying to get permission to stretch the rules about fasting days to accommodate local wildlife. Beavers and capybara
spend much of their time in and near water - can they be considered fish? How about turtles? Mollusks? How
about a species of bird thought (at the time) to
develop from a shellfish? Were land-going crabs meat,
or seafood? Rules-lawyering for hungry holy men,
trying to comply with strictures applied from a distance.
Yes, very much so to the generations of Western executives who have made these decisions over the last 25 years.
Twitter has implemented a soft word ban
I'm not a mobile dev, but aren't there utilities like KeyStore for this?

https://developer.android.com/training/articles/keystore.htm...
> Shipping a car with heated seats but only enabling them if they are paid for is very annoying.

I get this kind of thinking and also realize that it prevents stupid greed from companies.

But at the same time it makes me think that this is why we can't have nice things. We're not just paying for the materials but also the business costs that go into making a product. If they can optimize by including something and enabling it by software then is that really so wrong?
Ask HN: What are code reviews like at your company?
I'm pretty sure you can turn this feature off on your device if you want.
os x 10.11.6
Did you miss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure... ?
Ask HN: At what point do you hire a UX designer?
Well, the trick is that using a KeyStore ensures that the key doesn't leak into the application (but is only used for cryptographic operations in a trusted environment).

However, you would need the plain key to authenticate against the database so using this wouldn't work.
Reading the parent makes it sound exceptionally skeevy. I tend to distrust a company that will spend money to make sure that their customers 'don't get something for free' when the cost is already sunk.
But less than the person who has it taken away. Kahneman and Tversky did a bunch of research in this area measuring loss aversion [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
The map's attribution link is to a site with the poignant (if anachronistic) title "Invasion of America".

If history is written by the victors, surely Americans are now the vanquished.
If they can remove the feature via an OTA update, why do you have to go into a service station to get the features back?
You accept updates on Teslas also (there is a screen that pops up and asks if you're ready to install them now or later).

The people affected by this update accepted it when they bought their car and were told they would be receiving these features temporarily for free, and were told they would be removed when the software was ready.
Sounds like the typical working conditions of an Apple Inc satellite. Also unrelated.
And more importantly: opt-in.