skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are not that many phone manufacturers that even allow you to change the trust anchor (which makes any of this even remotely possible). For example, Samsung uses e-fuses to burn in their signing key, rewriting recovery will permanently trip their attestation (Knox); other manufacturers use similar practices. Pixels are one of the only currently available phones with user-controlled trusted boot in mind.
Not to be a Debby downer, but these posts always make me think of how many people just did this for a fad instead of meaningfully contributing. I almost think, why can't we just keep donating over and over, without the fad, at a lesser quantity if the fad produced such a significant contribution.
I can understand that giving money can be just a waste, but if it really made such a significant impact, it seems like just taxing everyone and sending it directly to ALS would've done the same thing.
Credit activity is a way to see how conscientious someone is. By knowing who is paying back their loans and not running up their credit cards, they know who is conscientious, therefore its useful.

Good landlords want to rent to conscientious people so they pay their rent on time and don't trash the place. Insurance companies want to give discounts to conscientious people because they are less likely to make a claim. Cable companies are lending you hundreds of dollars in equipment and give you a service before you're billed, so they want you to be conscientious enough to take care of their equipment and pay you bill. So they all want to see your credit score and if you have bad credit, then you are denied or you have to pay extra or pay a large deposit.

Because lenders have a quick reliable way to tell who is likely to pay them back and who isn't then they can offer very low interest rates to the good borrowers.

Credit scores are not "arbitrary," they didn't materialize out of nowhere, actuaries spent lots of time making sure that they measure what they are designed to measure, which is a probability that you're going to miss a payment in the next 24 months. The fact its "gameable" is completely irrelevant if it still measures what the lender wants it to measure.

The system prevails simply because it works on a large scale, even though a few individuals are left behind. People who have no credit at all can usually get a mortgage with manual underwriting (according to Dave Ramsey at least).

If they only knew when someone didn't pay their debts rather than knowing when someone both did and didn't pay their debts, then we wouldn't have access to the same sorts of financial products at the same rates.
Reminds me of the Aesops fable.
https://fablesofaesop.com/the-frog-and-the-ox.html

Of course, it is the FTC who will pop the bubble...
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/anticompetitive-practices
Whats your point.

Trump has a history of not paying debts, and can't get loans without going to questionable sources.

People being given loans without due respect to there payment history led to an economic crises when they failed to pay them back at the expectex rate.

Student loans, again given without normal consideration, have a higher rate of default and forgivenes.
The paper's reporting revealed that two groups were dominating Cash Winfall: the Selbee gang from Evart, Michigan, and their competition, a syndicate led by math majors from MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. These were kids young enough to be the Selbees' grandchildren.

Incredibly, the MIT group bet between $17 and $18 million on Cash Winfall over a seven-year period, earning at least $3.5 million in profits. Almost the exact same rate of return as the Selbees.

A nice illustration of the fact that there is only one mathematics, and it's equally available to everyone!
>2) my instant change in net worth does not affect my ability to handle my finances month-to-month

idk man, if I inherited 1M USD, it would definitely affect my ability to handle my 3K USD monthly expense.
I assume that it is just a money-making scheme and serves no actual, logical purpose.

I had bad credit a couple years ago because I'd never had a credit card or a loan. I decided to fix it by getting a card much like this Amazon one. I attached it to my Netflix account, turned on autopay, and forgot all about it.

A few months later my credit score had skyrocketed from the mid 500's to the mid 700's.

Nothing about my income or my job stability changed in those few months. Nothing about my spending habits changed. The only thing that changed was instead of paying $9 to Netflix via my debit card, I paid via my credit card.

But this is an advantageous situation for them because they have multiple avenues to extract money. Miss a payment? Late fee. Don't pay the whole thing? Interest. Don't read every document you get in the mail? Here's a new annual fee.

I'm in a funny situation now because my score is looking pretty good, but all of the score tracking companies tell me the best way to continue improving is by getting more credit cards. How convenient.

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I use a site frequently and am on the latest FF and I don't see this behavior - the refresh is quite quick.

Does this mean that Google knows enough about me (ie, privacy leak) that it's choosing to not having infuriating UI?
The Software/Data Carpentries focus intensely on these matters, and their founder Greg Wilson continues to work on them:

https://carpentries.org

http://third-bit.com
I feel like this is a weekly reminder that Waymo is the only company really in a position to get to fully autonomous limited release in the next 1-2 years. Cruise's "very end of 2019" target is still pretty unlikely.
Enzymatic pathway in human gut microbiome converts A to universal O type blood
Agreed, I was totally on board with the parent comment until those points. All browsers have a default search engine and start page... it's expected.
Anyone know what revenue for the next largest coworking space is?
I do believe you when you say a lot of devs are taking the easy way out and wasting device resources. But some devs do things right. And those devs are the ones being penalized. Perhaps worse, the user's choice of apps has been constrained.

It would have been so much better if the Play Store and SDK and Android platform could have features that clearly highlight these resource-hogging apps as bad actors. That's the kind of killer feature I expect from Google. I don't feel like they're living up to their reputation for hiring brilliant programmers. Instead they're taking out a really large hammer and hitting everyone with it.
Alchemist – A non-deterministic programming language based on chemical reactions
> In my country there are agencies that track, for example, the fact that you had a debt collector called on you

That's pretty much how US credit agencies work.

How does your system differentiate between someone who pays their debts on time and someone who has never had a debt?

In the US, the credit reporting agencies fulfill that role by receiving record of debt repayment from financial institutions.
He made investors believe in a non-sensical vision that is not rooted in any sort of financial or commercial reality in the middle of an insane bull market.

Simple.
US defense priorities have firmly shifted towards fighting potentially Russia and China (maybe even at the same time).
Might be O/T, but I'm always surprised at how much our understanding of medical science comes down to basically a set of integration tests. You don't really know if your solution is going to be a global optimum (it probably isn't); you have to memorize a bunch of stuff in order to have the full context of a problem available when you approach a subset of it at work; and sometimes the "ideal" solution is so stochastic that you need multiple opinions / consensus.

I guess it's kind of like hardware engineering; I think we only glossed over how the physics worked in a CPU worked before working on higher-level things like NPN/PNP transistors and such, but even so there's a digital abstraction layer in computer architecture that make effective reasoning so much easier (even though there's really no such thing as "digital", only analog and clear thresholds)

Am I (hopefully) wrong on this? Can modern medicine ever come from a first-principles approach?
While with each Android interaction, Google locks down the amount of C and C++ code that gets exposed to outside world.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/queue-hard...

As such I have a very hard time believing that Librem with be as secure as modern Android.
Ask HN: After 2 years of content but low traffic, is it time to give up?
I started work on a restaurant finder website about 8 years ago (so the domain is that old), took my sweet time building it(!) and finally launched it properly with plenty of content around February 2016. The site is super-fast, follows loads of good best practices & SEO tricks and has over 500 restaurants on there now.

However, when I look at my Google Analytics, my stats are pretty poor... but improving! About 6 months ago I was getting 350ish users/month. This then grew to about 460 a couple of months ago and now I'm in the 500s/month (the site's based in Dublin, Ireland, population 1.5m). Obviously this is still tiny but does the growth point to better things to come?

One thing about the inbound traffic I am getting is that it's all for direct restaurant searches (e.g. "Johnny's Diner") rather than area searches (e.g. "Newtown restaurants"); the latter is where you see the site's true value, so everyone just bounces from the restaurant page.

I was beginning to get disheartened until this new upswing, so wondering if I should be hopeful? Also, surely a domain of that age must be worth something? Thanks

P.S. I specifically didn't give the site URL, as I didn't want to be seen promoting, but am happy to give it if there are comments requesting it.
Yes and I'm saying that in practice as an architecture matures, especially in the multicore era, expensive barriers are no longer acceptable and even relaxed mode architectures have to introduce the same optimisations that stronger architectures had to introduce earlier on, negating a lot of the advantages of having a relaxed memory model in the first place.
True enough, but not sure how it's relevant. Physics didn't change.
Mesh networks at this scale are pretty complicated and messy. Also they tend to be pretty low capacity. It's an order of magnitude (or maybe two) more difficult to build and manage a high-capacity robust mesh network than to build a pure line of sight hub-and-spoke style network. (I've done both.)
>There are multiple occurrences of this statements from Microsoft employees blogs and talks, apparently some keep missing it.

The people in question are not missing it. I'm not missing it. The only thing that needs to happen is a decision in the CPython project is to drop MSVC support, move to C++, or give up on C99 and C11.

But it will have taken a long time to get there are they've wasted that time in the meantime waiting for the penny to drop. My point is that is the release channel through the Microsoft Store is held up like the C99 support that never came, then it will be an inconvenient situation for many Python application developers.

But I guess we all use nix, guix, or venv to distribute things so it's no bother at all. (I don't even use Windows on any machine so I have absolutely no skin in the game here).
Windows has been embracing composable shell tools, scripting and automation for over a decade with PowerShell; Microsoft Exchange management was powershell in 2010 including the GUI which also generated the cli code in case you wanted to automate what you just clicked through.
Solving Sudoku smartly with Prolog.

The nice thing with Prolog is that if you don't understand how to program but you understand the rules/logic of the problem. In this case you understand the rules of Sudoku, you can define the board and the rules and Prolog will brute force it for you. Harder to do in other languages.
World's largest plant survey reveals alarming extinction rate
Yes, I suspect that they're non-disclosure agreements. So violating them puts one in contempt of court. And punishments for contempt are whatever judges say they are.
Hey - I'm hacking on a product which allows you to build interactive browser-based apps/dashboards from Python and dataset blocks. You can return altair (vega) plots from your Python and they'll get rendered in the app, and we're just adding the ability to import existing Jupyter notebooks this week.

It's still really early, but feel free to have a play and create an app. Here is an example app examining using the Prophet forecasting library: https://nstack.com/apps/rdA647Q/

I'd love any feedback, and if you'd like to chat to learn more, reach out to me on leo@nstack.com.
That method just instructs the OS to send keepalive packets on a system thread.

It saves some CPU power by letting your process sleep, but still requires waking the cell radio up periodically.

The implementation can be found here: https://github.com/aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base/blob...
At least for HTTP, you're hopefully using TLS for anything important and failing if the certificate isn't valid. That certainly won't remove all the risks of losing control of your DNS, but it's one good safeguard.
Why do people buy on ebay when they can just as well get stuff locally?
I don't understand why this is an issue since each drawing's odds are independent. Perhaps I don't understand how these pools work.
The downside to that is that Discover is accepted at significantly fewer online vendors and retailers than Visa or Mastercard.
Well, it might have been too close to the storyline of Hyperion Cantos (which probably got it from somewhere else).
I'm not sure what you mean?

If Earth wouldn't dominate the space in which the Moon moves, the Moon wouldn't be in orbit around Earth at all and the Sun couldn't perturbe this orbit (as you even stated yourself)?
Don't forget to read their customer agreement:

> Residential customers are not allowed to . . . consume more bandwidth than required to support typical residential Internet activities. PhillyWisper may disconnect or limit the bandwidth for residential customers who use residential service for activities deemed atypical at PhillyWisper’s discretion.

That sounds to me like exactly what Comcast does. Torrent too many files of open data? No internet for you.
Outputted to your 1080p screen 8 feet away from your head
> and no significant problems finding apartments and opening bank accounts

Firstly, opening a bank account almost never requires a credit check. Think about it: what risk is the bank taking on by giving you an account with nothing in it?

Secondly, renting an apartment typically involves a credit check in my experience. I had my father co-sign my first lease to avoid the security deposit (~$1000, 1 month of rent). There is also a separate renter's score (?) that evaluates how "good" of a renter you are in general.
You mean the one that had 68% of CVE exploits reported in 2018 due to memory corruption errors?

Source, the Kernel Self Preservation Google's talk at the Linux Kernel Summit 2018.
This is basically anti-tax rhetoric. I don't think there's a single thing in the world that everyone would willfully agree to spend their money on.
Which is kind of why taxes exist in the first place.
Website generates fake human faces that look real
You got it slightly wrong: He made investors believe that there will be bigger more stupid investors that will eventually buy out the shares for a higher price than those investors.

(Also, see Uber, Lyft and other ponzy scheme based companies)
Please don't post generic ideological comments to HN. Such discussions are all the same, therefore boring, therefore off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think this is spot on. The problem lies in the incompatible interfaces.

I've been studying category theory recently and it is amazing how well things compose when interfaces follow monoidal / monad design patterns. They are so generalized that they can be used in so many different places. Unfortunately it is so rarely used outside of more academic environments.

If libraries/frameworks were structured to follow these kind of well defined "interfaces" I think we would have a very different experience than the one we have now.
In a normal lottery, if the pot gets large enough, even with the normal rules the "expected payout" of a ticket becomes higher than its list price. It's just that the chances of actually winning are so astronomically low that you'd have to be Jeff Bezos to stand a good chance of winning your bet (i.e. being able to buy enough tickets such that your chances of winning are worth the play, and then especially being able to absorb the loss when you lose anyway because it's still random).

What's interesting with the rolldown mechanism is not just that the "expected payout" of a ticket becomes worth more than its price, but that the number of winners is such that you can actually reasonably expect to turn a profit by buying a modest number of tickets.
Looks like the PRC still wants to turn Hong Kong into paste.
Pretty sure they're breaking the law regarding the 2009 CARD Act. It took a search on that page for % to find the actual APR, which is 28.24% -- That was the 26th result on the page out of 38. The first 25 being provisions regarding their 5% back.

The APR is required to be prominently displayed so consumers can do their due diligence on deciding on a card.

But whatever, obviously Amazon is getting into the slave credit business. Like they care, and like anyone would bother holding them accountable.
Thanks for the reply! I didn't know the standardized IPA was in fact with an "r." Strange though, because to me the umlauted-o sound is probably one of the easiest German pronunciations to do for an English speaker. Also, good point on the compiled/interpreted (using a programming analogy) divide in pronunciation of borrowed words. I do suppose there is plenty of evidence of butchered French terms already, so why not ruin some other language's beautiful sounds too! groaning laughter

Though, I should not be all that surprised. For my entire life in the U.S. people have pronounced my last name of "Wiese" as either "Wise" or "Why-se," both of which are totally incorrect (my family says "Weese" when anglicized). I much prefer the German pronunciation of my last name, though; too bad it's too much of a pain to explain the discrepancy between how it's spelt and what it sounds like to native English speakers. :P
The primary attraction of CLP, i.e., the combination of constraint programming (CP) and logic programming (LP), is that you get a full-blown programming language (most frequently: Prolog) and in addition seamlessly integrated solvers (over integers, rational numbers, Herbrand terms etc.).

CP can of course be hosted on — or provided as library for — other languages too. However, it blends in most seamlessly with a logic programming language like Prolog as its host language.

Regarding efficiency, the top-of-the-line Prolog systems provide many of the most efficient and most sophisticated algorithms for combinatorial optimization tasks that are commercially used.

See for example the customers page of SICStus Prolog for several interesting applications:

https://sicstus.sics.se/customers.html
Insys, the Opioid Drug Maker, Files for Bankruptcy
Strange to see images from my specialty here on HN, but no. On the right hand side you have a classic planar OctreoScan (and from posterior view at that). What you have on the left side is a 68Ga-DOTA-(TOC/NOC/TATE) scan, not the new 68Ga-FAPI scan which I believe is only available in Heidelberg, Germany for now. While 68Ga-DOTA-(TOC/NOC/TATE) are probably not as good as 68Ga-FAPI (we don't know that yet, pending research) it is markedly better than OctreoScan, especially for small primary lesions, as is often the case in NETs. Source: I am an MD specialized in nuclear medicine.
Why not move to a low-cost of living country with good internet ?
compassionate

I think you mean dispassionate. By your own words, there is a calculated effect, decoupled from the emotional aspects of radical events. Additionally, it might just be that there is no rehabilitation in the cards, and only stalemate in the equation between the two players.
So I have been putting together a way for people to more easily make their own blogging platform. It would kind of mimic a blog or social media platform, but since everything is committed to a repository using the JAMstack it could easily be converted to a fully managed platform. Any feedback would be wonderful. https://your-media.netlify.com/post/make-your-own-media/ Everything is owned by the end user. This is only providing a recipe for people to use. I will also mention that https://www.stackbit.com/ is doing basically the same thing but more from a “Make life easier for Website designers” perspective.
I don't know about "western nations" generally, but "American exceptionalism" is well known.

And about TFA, millions of prisoners, mostly male and mostly black, suffer in arguably worse conditions. Especially, I gather from a recently posted article, prisoners in county jails.
Vega is nice for its declarative, portable nature. Also, it makes certain things very easy such as embedding interactive Vega charts and generating images of charts without needing something like PhantomJS.
It’s not slippery at all. Life isn’t fair. Keeping prisoners means you’re responsible for them, and that means that sometimes you’re going to be responsible for problems. There doesn’t have to be a way out of this.
> The problem with recaptcha alternatives is that they either are insecure or require time and money to continue to be ahead of bots.

Sure great, but when I see behavior like the above, I just hit back and add the site to my routers firewall black list. If its this much of a PITA to "solve" a captcha, CORRECTLY but I keep getting the middle finger I don't give a crap anymore. Your site isn't worth going to if I have to spend literally minutes "solving" captchas for googles stupid ai which is treating me like prove i'm a bot even when I prove i'm not.

Just realize by using recaptcha this is what you're forcing some users to deal with. And I deal with it by making sure I never come back to your site ever again when you've wasted minutes of my time just to try to get to your page. Even if its googles fault for being jerks, I don't care. You choose to implement it.

Ok rant mode off and stepping off my personal soap box.
Yes, experts who have driven many cars, from many manufacturers at many price points over many years. Or you can go with the anonymous HackerNews account.
It's literally a press release on the ALS associations website. Did you believe you were making an insightful comment when you hit the submit button?
I think relying on the discretion of a bank manager / individuals is apt to be far more biased and unfair than credit score is. I do agree it's kind of scary how far and wide these scores affect you.
If you just want a chart based on a DB query, then yes, it's a waste of time and money. The value of a lot of these products is that they have query/charting builders, which takes a lot more effort to implement. These days a lot of business aren't willing to accept analytics being controlled by a single person or team, as they're used to anyone being able to do their own custom thing.
I still use vim keyboard bindings to navigate code. It's helpful, but not necessary if you already have native commands wired in your brain.
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Large majority of Android security exploits are in C and C++ written drivers, hence why with each release the amount of freedom with native code gets further locked down.

Android Q has another round of such measures.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/queue-hard...
Neither of those increase costs.
Make your prisons humane, don’t force-feed anyone, and accept the condemnation that occurs when one of your prisoners decides to starve himself to death anyway.