skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Direct to PCB InkJet Resist Printing (2006)
That bothered me for a while until I figured it out. After a while, I learned that underspent projects are your opportunity to learn new things, mentor junior people, and provide cushion to people waiting for their next projects.

The only thing I ever got reprimanded for was not spending my money - there are much harder problems to solve than that.
InnoQ coined the term "self-contained systems"[1], which seems to be related.

[1]: https://scs-architecture.org/
> Security focused and Android in the same sentence?

The whole point behind it is working on a new mobile OS, while providing Android app compatibility by using the Android Open Source Project. As the page states, the long-term goal is to turn AOSP into an application layer while moving away from entirely depending on Linux for low-level security since it's a huge liability / weakness. It already isn't 'Android' since it makes changes deviating from what's required to be Android (the Compatibility Definition Document and Compatibility Test Suite). The goal is practical compatibility with Android applications rather than conforming to what's requiring to be Android.

> All I can say is good luck with various firmware, custom services and drivers.

Hardware, firmware and drivers aren't an OS specific issue beyond drivers being tied to Linux. There's barely any content on the site yet, but it does cover how important it's going to be to make careful choices about which hardware to support in the device support section. It talks about how much of the privacy and security is tied to hardware capabilities and security support.
> the competition continues to clobber AV1 in every aspect

Which competitor beats AV1 in licensing? VP9 matches it in licensing. No other codec beats it. Even Leonardo Chiariglione (founder and chairman of MPEG) says AV1's licensing has MPEG beat:

http://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solut...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says photos of travelers were taken in breach
Yes,There are hundreds of dead children who would have been saved by vaccination - like in the days before vaccination was invented. Similarly the thousands who die unmedicated by placing trust in naturopathic meds - which they prodly claims has no medication therein, there are more. I do not censor what I do not like, I censor what is wrong, denial of the holocaust for example should be wiped off all screens. As a kid born before WW2, my family hosted a jewish family who has lost sereval members to nazi murder - dare you deny that. Remember the Nazis would not have allowed you the freedom of speech you chatter about. How would you like to be placed first in a line to the gas chambe, wearing a badge marked 'Juden', and hear the word(in german) next...
How AI is catching people who cheat on their diets, job searches and school work
Nope, see my comment above. I added some meaning.
Controlling an Epson Print Head from an FPGA
Brazil reels at claims judge who jailed Lula collaborated with prosecutors
1 rem of radiation exposure causes cancer with a probability of 0.05 % according to Wikipedia[1].

It seems such a scan causing a cancer would be due to a very low probability event on a cellular level. From that point of view the above calculation looks reasonable. It is only after that when the additional macroscopic influences caused by a specific person's body/environment come into play that your point applies.

This was interesting so I started from that 0.05 % per 1 rem and did the inverse calculation. For 2500 rem this gives about 1-(1-0.0005)^2500 = 71 % probability of developing cancer. I also made a plot from 0 up to 10000 REM[2]. The incident rate seems to be pretty much approaching 100 % around 10k, so our results differ by about a factor of 4.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_equivalent_man#cite...

[2]https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+-+(1+-+0.0005)%5Ex+f...

EDIT: The initially mentioned 2500 rem figure must be over a long enough time for the exposure not to cause more immediate issues than cancer.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20146168
I absolutely hate CAPTCHAs and have done my best to persuade developers to never use them (1).

But in fairness to Google, the promise of their new Captcha system is that it uses all of your previous browsing history across the web to determine how likely you are to be a bot. You can't do a fair apples to apples comparison unless the browsing history and behavior is the same across both browsers.

1) https://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/07/02/why-you-should-never...
> either way I don't read them, but standing up for political cartoons as being a thing worth defending, I don't think it is. I think they hurt more than they help.

I don't understand how you can understand their effects without reading them. What exactly brings you to this conclusion?
The older I get the more skeptical of people saying what can't be done. It's always based on current technology without taking in the obvious changes in trends based on the future. Like the overpopulation crowd who were telling until they figured out richer countries with educated women make fewer babies then switch to saying we'd be underpopulated.
big expensive Oracle-ish databases

Don't forget Teradata.

I found the same thing with MicroStrategy. I spent a lot of time reverse engineering what I could from MicroStrategy jars to expose additional functions in their plugin interface (which is so incomplete it shouldn't be advertised). But the reality is its 20+ year old system with front end updates, can only put so many band aids on it.

I think the only thing keeping MicroStategy alive is its cube functionality and the businesses who have invested to much into it.
The New York Times is the best paper in the world? Sounds like an absolute without any parameters or qualifiers...
GM-backed robo-taxi startup Cruise Automation struggles with self-driving tech
PowerBI is working hard to accommodate developers - for instance, we now have the ability to create custom python visualizations (https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/python-visualizatio...)

Disclaimer: I work for PowerBI
I imagine humans would die off and plants would rebound and diversify before the planet became barren.
In my lifetime we will learn if 'tech' companies are overvalued.

The fact that my friend, a total casual, is investing in Tesla and Apple via Robin Hood has me concerned the market is inflated with dumb money.
The App Store came after the GPL. Also, Apple could let developers opt out of the restrictions.
Spacemaker: Designing Better Cities with AI
pmOS should support the Librem 5 when it comes out, as well. We have several contributors working on them.
> I do it because I get a 1-3% rebate on all my purchases. That's free money for me.

In your mind it's a 1-3% rebate, but in actuality you're paying for it anyway due to merchant fees, etc.

If we're going to question the overall system, then not having credit cards would likely mean savings for pretty much everything you would buy today that uses a credit card as a facilitation of payment.
Based on some CAPTCHA solving sites it costs about $3 per 1000 ReCAPTCHAs solved. That shows you how worthless adding ReCAPTCHA to your site is. All it'll do is slow bots down a bit and cost $0.003.

Here's an extension to use those services in the browser so you never have to solve one again: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recaptcha-sol...

That's assuming you can't get Buster to work.
Buzzfeed News is fairly well respected among people who don’t immediately blow off everything with the Buzzfeed name attached. Arguably more respected than TechCrunch.
Church can be a lucrative business too. A well run church can generate nice profit.
Peter Norvig's Sudoku solver using constrain propagation is a nice demonstration of the mini-Kanren approach.[0]

I spoke at RubyConf a few years ago on the basics of logic programming and constraint propagation, and demoed a (poorly-coded) solver interface.[1]

[0]https://norvig.com/sudoku.html

[1]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Bi6_GOIB8
>I believe that the climate has warmed lately, but not nearly as much as is being claimed. That this warming is largely natural and cyclical, and that while man may very well be playing a role in it, his influence on it is not nearly as dramatic as is being claimed.

Are there any sorts of future developments, either in temperature or new scientific research, that could persuade you either of those ideas is mistaken and the anthropogenic global climate change danger position is correct?
It sounds really interesting - looking at the Wikipedia summary, it also mentions a potential downfall of the nation-state in favor of the market-state, which is a trend I see happening around me. I'll have to read it when I get a chance.
If licensed seeds accidentally spread and grow in your farm, you get sued. That's why GMO patents are the worst. Also because they are mostly engineered for resisting their awful pesticides and herbicides instead of health and nutrition.
Ha. In the private sector, we discovered a vendor was using an actually health database with real users in it for testing their app. It was all covered up, with no monitoring, because we recently bought that vendor.
I'm not sure I agree with your first paragraph. I mean no disrespect to you or your abilities, but being a C-level executive, especially in a large corporation, isn't something that someone can just "train up to". These types of positions really do require a specific personality, specific desires, often a specific ethic (work ethic and otherwise), specific connections, and more. These are the things, along with the fact that due to organizational hierarchy, there are naturally less CEOs in the world than there are entry level workers, that limit the pool.

I'm certainly not saying that all C-levels possess these necessary traits in a positive way, and there are definitely some C-levels that only got where they are because of nepotism or luck, but I also disagree that there is a significant 'stifling' of newcomers. Nearly every company I have worked at has had a specific "track" for its employees to pursue management (including C level) positions, but my experience is that most people just aren't cut out for it (either because they self-selected that they didn't want/enjoy it, or because they didn't have the necessary personality for it). More specific to the tech industry, I've often seen/heard of Silicon Valley companies having separate "Individual Contributor" versus "Management" tracks. Many engineers self-select the IC track because they don't enjoy management aspects.

And that's not necessarily a bad thing, either. Not everyone is destined to be a CEO, nor should that be everyone's goal, and there's definitely nothing wrong with not being a possessor of the negative-in-many-aspects cutthroat ethics that being a CEO often requires. It's not all too dissimilar to how not everyone is destined to be a programmer, and you can't take just anyone off the street, hand them a programming textbook, and turn them into Linus Torvalds, nor should you.
> I am not certain how it'd be best to define a rule that predicates on an absence of a token but that syntax is terrible.

That would be pretty confusing. Instead, transitions can always be allowed to happen if the left hand side is satisfied and then the "don't transition if there's an Eve" semantics -- when necessary/desired -- can be made explicit by adding assertions to each nondeterministic transition.

For example, if you want 1 Adam and 1 Bob to transition to 1 AliceBob regardless of Eves then you write:

Alice + Bob -> AliceBob

but if you want to insist there are no Eves for this rule to hold, then you write:

assert(0Eve);
Alice + Bob -> AliceBob

in which case there must be 0 Evens in order for the Alicebob transition to happen.

These sorts of nondeterministic transitions with optional guards are expressible in dynamic logic; see see A3 + A8 in [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_logic_(modal_logic)
American culture very much shames thin, healthy men because they're not fat like everyone else. I've been told many times "you need to eat more!" (and they weren't talking about healthy food either), even though my weight is right where it should be. As you might expect, the people saying this are all overweight.

Being fat is normal now in American society, and anyone who isn't is seen as a deviant.
Agree and wasn't really saying that
They don't; The New York Times detects my Safari as being in private mode when it's not.
OurTube: WebTorrent-Based Video Sharing Site
Oh hey! My article got shared here! Awesome!

I'm the author. AMA!
> I don't see AV1 getting adopted for game streaming purposes

Twitch will be doing exactly that. They're using VP9 now:

https://blog.twitch.tv/how-does-vp9-deliver-value-for-twitch...

They will be moving to AV1 in the future. They've contributed features to AV1 specifically for the low latency live streaming use case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5sJX6VA34o
Unlike WeWork, the Catholic Church (and the mormons and scientologists) have realized that the best tax shelters come from actually owning the property that is used, not leasing it.
Cloudflare Bot Management
Every US company has to comply with lawful US government orders if they're going to continue operating. I highly recommend reading carefully through the details on the page you linked. It doesn't only apply to a few companies. It's very difficult to fight the government even in cases where it's arguably unconstitutional, etc. You have to assume that all US companies are going to comply with US warrants to obtain information, including when those warrants come from a secret court with a gag order.

There were consequences to the US passing draconian surveillance laws like the Patriot Act and the updates to it. Companies / organizations and individuals based in the US are subject to those laws. Many other countries have similar or even more oppressive laws when it comes to these things.

A company being based in for example France doesn't mean that the same kind of things don't apply.

If you don't want data to be subject to warrants requesting the information from companies, you need to either avoid having your data there or make sure it's encrypted with a key that the company doesn't have. End-to-end encryption is important. The companies could also have the data exposed by a malicious insider or a data breach. Many countries will happily demand the key from you and then treat you as a criminal for not turning it over but that doesn't work for mass surveillance.
Don't worry folks, I'm sure this won't hinder the CBP and other related agencies from continuing to roll out systems that capture ever more of our data.
Social media isn't the problem, low-information mob behavior has always been a thing. Pretty much all of the lynchings that ever happened in the USA occurred way before Jack Dorsey was a twinkle in his father's eye.

The problem is the structural flaws built into our brains.

Consider vision. If I showed you a wall of visual noise with a human face somewhere in the middle, you'd likely pick out the face in an instant. That's because we have physical structures in our visual cortex that specifically filter the information coming down the optic nerve for human faces.

What's funny is that higher judgement seems to work the same way. For most of the history of homo sapiens, we've lived in relatively small groups, and only interacted with comparatively limited amounts of information (compared to the typical internet feed). Think about all the things represented by scrolling down instagram: products and their place in your life, hundreds of people you've met over many years, trends and fads and memes which are themselves complex multi-layered ideas requiring lots of insider knowledge to grasp.

All of this is way more information than what a typical person had to deal with until about 100 years ago at the earliest.

So what's a brain to do? Our minds filter the incoming information until it's distilled down to the simplest possible version, the one with little nuance and zero subtlety. That's the idea that catches, because we lack the machinery to process 10,000 minor details for every little thing we do all the time.

Apply this to political discourse and you'll see why major political candidates spend precious minutes arguing over whether "socialism is bad," or "capitalism is bad." I'm sure many here understand it's way more complicated than that, but if you tried to get a real discussion going about nit-picky policy stuff, it'd go nowhere.

I'm not about to decry "attention spans these days" or anything, because frankly I don't think people are any different than they were 500 years ago, not really. And that's the problem. The only thing that's changed is what amounts to "common knowledge" these days, which is usually also an oversimplification of scientific reality.

The problem is that the world is just too big and too complex for our ill-adapted chimp brains to fully grasp, at least at the population scale, and Twitter and the like amplify this effect.

I don't have any solutions. But I know that we should keep doing the one thing humans are good at: building better tools. We can't exactly make society less complex, but we can probably make tools to understand it without losing (as much) nuance.

That's the only option I can see for fixing this sort of thing in the near-future, because even if these social media problems created selection pressure on humans (which I doubt), it'd be a long long time before we were cranking out baby Homo Interneticus.
How many business users are going to use Juypter notebooks? Meanwhile, someone with basic computing experience can create in-depth reports with Tableau in less than an hour.
Yes it's a free service which developers choose to use (though many sites use it without knowing through CloudFlare), but that doesn't change the fact that Google has decided to use it as a method of getting free labour out of internet users.

reCAPTCHA used to be far more reasonable and ethical when it was being used to digitise books. And when you got reCAPTCHA'd constantly as a Tor user, it wasn't so bad. These days I have to spend several minutes of my life giving training data to Google on every site which uses reCAPTCHA, with nothing in return except for the privilege to be able to access the internet.
Early in my career, during and right after college, I did a lot of consulting for simple sites, many of which used word press. Even in that short time I frequently encountered clients who had their servers owned, and then used for spamming or hosting illegal content. This would go unnoticed by the company until their web host noticed and froze their account.

From some reps at the hosting companies I would contact, I got the sense that such incidents were quite common. And as a consultant, it made me hesitant to recommend WP to clients.

I think those kinds of issues are probably much more likely to be a culprit for people seeking other platforms, rather than WP just not being "cool."

If WP is better security-wise now, that's good, but it can understandably take a while to repair a reputation.
> If they downloaded all my photos and never used them? Am I supposed to be angry?

Send them to me then. I promise I'll never look at them.
That's what OK Labs did before GD bought them:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111130031013/http://www.ok-lab...

CompSci folks have been doing it, too. Here's a paper describing the design style:

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/nizza.pdf

Genode OS Framework is only one I know building something like this in FOSS. The rest, esp used in phones, were commercial. One might port Android to something like it or seL4 with dynamic, resource management. Rewrite drivers or anything that's moved to kernel mode for performance in safe language or lots of verification tooling thrown at it.
That's exactly the ones that I mean :)
It's not a dichotomy, we can and must hold both accountable. This race-to-the-bottom thinking is ruinous.
So then what is the cause of the ugliness? Is it inconsistent appearance between components? Or that it's too busy and cluttered, which would probably be true with a monolith as well?
That particular cartoon is pretty bad. There's a lot of other mocking you can get away with.
Yes. You can buy ads for your own keywords. Some companies do, to deny their competition the option to. Much like you can buy the billboard outside your office to prevent your competitors from putting up a huge sign saying "i_am_proteus is a bad person, don't do business with him, do it with us: evilcorp7!"
I think if you could educate people on their expected return from a lottery ticket purchase, they wouldn't play at all.

Telling people that they have a 95% chance of winning nothing at all is not a good way of selling lottery tickets.
marcus Aurelius
Yeah. I still don’t see why wework is meaningfully different to regus.
Are the statistics underlying the gender pay gap sound and accurate?
As long as it is sustainable business it should be fine for companies in this domain.
Not sure what your suggesting. Are you saying there is room for some new identity provider?

Fwiw, people have been hyping what an “interesting unsolved problem” identity is for a long time.

As far as I can tell, the existing solutions are more than good enough that any additional hacks are already built on top of them.
> But these two things are not directly comparable

Correct. You simplified my comment nicely here (though I'm trying to find papers about smaller scales):

> While species diversity as a whole in the Hawaiian islands is likely increasing, due to introduced species, the diversity at smaller spatial scales is likely decreasing as endemics become rarer.

How do conservationists make value judgements in cases like this?
To me the real question is why is a subcontractor able to copy the entire database? Why wouldn't the government only allow limited access to the database to these contractors?
You're right. At least for frontend they go hand in hand.
The GPL group has given up on Apple, whereas they adopted Android because it was pitched as an open source platform.
I am shocked. SHOCKED.
That's funny, I see the NYT as a mid-conservative publisher that regularly equates modern leftist thought with communism in defense of their rich conservative owners. NYT regularly normalizes far-right fascists and runs over moderately liberal thinkers.

I also know people who work at the NYT who share this view. Maybe it's our priors having more influence on our thought than we think, but NYT owners are the among the most wealthy so I tend to believe basic psychological principles/people acting in their own interest is what is closest to truth.
uh, captchas don't just appear on Google products. Third parties use it -- government services, online shopping, all kinds of things you take for granted because clearly you aren't one of the people affected by it (ie you're fingerprinted). Many things we used to do in physical space now occurs virtually. There is a serious philosophical and moral case to be made for the relevance of privacy and anonymity that captcha is specifically and nefariously working to erode. And in that sense it's worse than bad building codes.
It sounds funny but I don't get it. ReCaptcha doesn't identify you does it?
>Something isn't a monopoly just because it's popular.

If you're a state missing out on tax because the options that provide it to you are unpopular it sure is.

This isn't a discussion about consumers.
Except that you do still have to worry, because it is metered, they're just being coy about the precise figures, and they're really just outright lying to you by using the word 'unmetered'.

Am I missing something? I'm not seeing another side to this. Secret fair-use rules are exactly as dishonest as when the telcos lie about 'unlimited' data plans, no?
I am waiting to buy Herman Miller chairs for pennies on the dollar. Remember those days?