skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On my aged Nexus 7 (Android), running in a Firefox tab, it's useable. A bit slow, maybe due to bottlenecks in the pipe down to T-mobile here in California.

https://www.qwant.com/maps/
In college, I worked at my school's IT helpdesk, and have bought Latitude and Vostro models ever since. Next Business Day support, no questions asked. You don't have to be part of a corporation to get that level of service. I had a busted heat sink on my cheap $500 vostro, and they sent a technician over to fix it.
“According to its last update, published in early 2017, the Obama EPA reported that the SCC in 2030, using the standard 3% discount rate, would be $50 per ton.”

Does anybody know the context in which 3% is considered the “standard” discount rate? The choice of a specific discount rate reflects/implies a philosophical stance about the value of stuff in the future. I’m interested in how 3% is the value we’ve converged on.
I have it all figured out, not gonna lie.
Interesting, I was fairly confident you were going to write about Datalog and about the flexibility of having such a minimal and evolvable schema :)

One of the motivations for Crux was that `as-of` queries still weren't powerful enough for what the business really needed, which was something like `as-of` that could cope with retroactive corrections for out-of-order and delayed ingestion (of upstream transaction data).
Your points are completely valid, I get your frustration. But you are comparing against previous generations of MacBooks. I would like to know your thoughts when comparing against e.g. a top tier ThinkPad running Windows or Linux.
I bought a new wifi router and never told the Vizio the new credentials. If it manages to somehow figure out how to log onto the new router, and transmit the data about how I don't own cable service and mostly use it to play retro games? I'm going to be kindof impressed really; at that point, Vizio can have the data.
Have you heard of Osmand? It sounds similar to this project
Standards efforts aim to improve ability to exchange images
It was a tongue in cheek statement about the fact that Mac users have long ago sworn off using Flash on their systems. It's a bloated CPU-intensive piece of crapware.
Nope, reciprocal disarmament.
Yes, but you have air conditioning in Chicago, and can pretty much live your life without stepping out into the swamp/blizzard. Because this weather is unusual here, very few people have air con, so there isn’t much escape short of standing under a cold shower.
Note: I am not an expert on ML, ANNs, etc - most of what I have done has been mainly "hobby level" and MOOC learning.

From what I understand, though, what GH is trying to accomplish with capsule networks (which I have tried to understand, and have yet to succeed) is optimizing (or possible removal of) backpropagation.

He has noted in the past how - so far (from what I know) - there isn't a biological equivalent to backpropagation for learning. Backprop is a completely artificial mathematical construct that doesn't happen in natural systems. It is also extremely energy intensive - at least in the manner that it is currently done.

So the question is - that he's hoping to answer I think - what is a proper working framework for implementing an artificial neural network that can learn, without using backpropagation (or using it differently)?

I think whoever can solve this will fundamentally remake the field of ML/AI - much in the same way that backprop (and later "deep learning") did.
What would this mean for personal web servers running HTTPS? Being forced to use a specific (NSA-breakable) algorithm? Forced obtain TLS cert from a government-controlled source?
Time Protection – TS – Data61
There's probably a number of reasons not to eat fish caught in the Pacific ocean, but nothing to do with Fukushima was ever one of them.

People grossly overestimate how much radiation there is, not to mention how dangerous it is. Bananas are much more radioactive than fish from the pacific, regardless of when or where caught. :)
What? Slack is objectively better in every way except the open source part
That would be an excellent argument to make in the issue spotter! That said, restricting E2E at a vendor level probably wouldn't be seen as infringing at the individual level - ie restricting E2E software doesn't restrict the ability to send gibberish containing a coded message any more than restricting an ink that (somehow) doubled as a plastic explosive.
> the climate data I looked up on Wikipedia

For travel abroad, I got into the habit of checking https://weatherspark.com. They have very well done charts that give a really good idea of how it's like "over there".

(Just a satisfied user.)
It may be hard to hear, but our freedom depends on people standing up to tyranny and threatening as well as carrying out violence against those who would subject us to their control. It is the only way it will be stopped.
... US supported dictatorships that displaced or prevented other, potentially more harmful dictatorships. Tough choices, but better have corrupt and murderous regimes that are friendly towards USA and allies than those that are hostile. See Egypt as a recent example.
Doesn't work that way if you ingest it, right? And obviously not all radiation is equal (alpha, beta, gamma) and even among those they have varying level of energy based on source.

The concern here - if I understand correctly - is that it's ingestion and absorption of a low half live (more energetic) beta emitter.
Show HN: Concept of real rubber-banding on Android
The question is how would you get a (consistent) GUI without some sort of "bigger" system. Maybe a modular structure?
A lot of American brands are in China. The restrictions are about censorship of information, so they affect Google, Facebook and newspapers. You can still buy Starbucks, Levi jeans, iPhones, Ford automobiles and KFC buckets.
You may be right (about Windows) but I am not going to pay $100 (for a new Windows license) or so to find out.

edit for clarity
They already cracked down on copyright, even though any picture/video/audio is just a number (a series of bits).

Law is all about interpreting and enforcing ambiguous rules.
Question for Eva and Datomic users: How often does your org miss having a separate relational database around for data folks and product folks capable of (read only) SQL? Do you find yourself making a separate store/s to support them?
What was the Paywall bypass url append to the url?
> Not if you're sponsored by a hostile actor with functionally limitless resources

Like who? Russia? China?

Here's how they can compromise my device:

1. Locate me within the USA (easy)

2. Send a spy onto US soil to find me and steal my phone (hard)

3. Send another spy to work for Apple (easy)

4. Spy needs to break into Apple's vault and retrieve airgapped media containing my device's private key without a warrant (super hard)

5. Send both back to the motherland and use scanning electron microscope to complete the process (easy)

You really think that is viable? Seems extremely far fetched to me. Can you provide a more realistic scenario?
I've only just started using Go (coming from Python), and I find the existing error pattern cumbersome. It often gets in the way of understanding the function at hand. I think the intention behind the existing pattern is to not over-emphasize the happy path and ensure error conditions are dealt with so programs don't crash, but 99% of the time all I see error handling do is just print the error and then return.

There has to be a better way.
Respectfully, did you read the article? The thesis is that dragnet surveillance is stifling to political change and may result in an ossified society. There are trade-offs other then security vs safety.
Nice to see this on the front page! :D There's some more info about the Swift lessons on the TensorFlow blog here: https://medium.com/@tensorflow/3ee7dfb68387

Happy to answer any questions you all might have.
Waxosuit: A secure cloud native exosuit for WASM
Jesus Reveals God in Hiddenness
one saving grace is that if you couple AC with photovoltaics, you provide at least some of that power at the point of use. not much and the upfront cost is still high, but at least it's an option.
That water emits 3.6 Roentgen
He's a middle aged man. Doing a docu on him today isn't likely a good idea, he's still got a lot of life left to live. Numberphile on YouTube has some good stuff on him though.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=numberphile+tao
You could sort of double-down and try arch.

I enjoy using arch linux.
Anyone that thinks the SCOTUS, as it is currently comprised, will allow for a ban on encryption has no idea what the legal doctrine of The Federalist Society is, nor what it means to be an American conservative. This is the most libertarian court we've had in decades.

Talking about judges as being "assigned" is both inaccurate and betrays an ignorance of the American system.
I didn't say it was controversial, I think your statement that companies not having any chance of surviving due to stepping on human rights issues is flatly and verifiably wrong. That's evidenced by my second point that the vast majority of the most powerful corporations on Earth can and do infringe on said rights, and have done so for quite some time.

> But at the same time, western companies send their manufacturing to Asia due to lower costs despite the lax labor and environmental regulations in those countries.

Consumers have proven that they are willing to let such things slide to maintain their own convenience time and time again, your example included. I'm a staunch capitalist, but I also recognize that the market will only correct when the offense makes people uncomfortable enough to take action and stop partaking in a given product or service.

And again, not hostile to you. Only hostile to your argument. I'd be happy if you had an argument that could change my mind, as my own view is quite cynical, and not something I find comfort in in the least.
I assume they'd come up with a new encryption standard where you use an additional (government) public key to encrypt with, allowing the government to decrypt it later?

Or maybe they'll only enforce the rules on "chat applications" or things the general public uses?

I guess they're talking about this right now.
If the details of a ranking algorithm are open source, it would be easy to manipulate them.
Not in the short/medium term, at least. The stuff we covered in that Intro to ML course hasn't really changed, so the current course is nearly equally relevant today. (We used the fastai library a little for some basic utility functions, and that bit has changed, but that's not a very important detail.)
Indeed. It's a smilar thing in Scala, and I actually find it kind of limiting because Scala (like Rust, AFAIK) doesn't have "where expressions" or "declare a function without types just because", so you're actually discouraged from making really local functions that just frobnicate-the-transmogrifier because every non-anonymous function requires a declaration.

(I still very much appreciate Scala for what it is. No real experience outside of toys with Rust.)
Visualization of Earth oceanic currents:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents...

Stick around to play with the other options in the hamburger menu in the lower left.
There is a myth in the infosec community that phones, because of their tendency to be 'always on' devices; that phones are more secure/private than a standard Windows desktop machine or even a macbook machine running OSX. This is a BS concept - Phones leak data all over the place and have a higher data exhaust than a desktop computer.

Unless the phone is flashed with LineageOS[0], it will phone home data to Google nonstop and beacon out its presence to hackers 24/7. To make matters worse, there is a huge fragmentation problem with Android and some phones are disallowed from updating to the latest Android version. The same goes for iOS; a user can often be locked into using the same iOS version and cant upgrade to the latest version (a huge security hole)

[0] https://www.lineageos.org/
I don't know for sure, but I suspect there is a significant usability difference between an "EAV pattern" and something engineered from the ground up to make EAV practical.
Lessons from 40 years spent studying how you can better predict the future
You can get more strings in that line with obj-c ;P

NSString * string = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:@"myString"];
Maybe. If the average winter temperatures go up, the air conditioning will be at least partially offset by lower heating costs. Of course, there are also theories of global climate change where both the high and low extremes will increase, in which case there's a double-whammy effect.
Europe plays good cop because the US allows it to by playing the bad cop.

The problem is Europe not the US.
> and abandoning progress

Change is not, itself alone, progress.

Progress can be a lack of change, if that change was regression in functionality, q.v. the large and growing number of shitty interfaces.

And by interface I mean everything from boeing's mistake right down to the controls on a fan heater of mine.

I guess I need to explain the latter. I've had a period of joint pain in my hands due to a developing food intolerance (now under control). The fan heater control was a dial, partly flanged for grip. But just a fucking little flange, so as not to stick out too much. Trying to operate that with your digits hurting was a bitch. It would have been literally unusable for someone with strength loss from advanced age and some decent arthritis on top.

Interfaces are a very broad category in my view, and we have far too many bad ones. Anyway, sorry for the rant, but don't confuse change with better.
They are actually concerned about your privacy, except in the cases where they can sell it for profit.
Jerry Springer to Speak at Edinburgh TV Festival This August
New Dridex malware strain avoids antivirus
Not only that. It also increases ambient temperatures, which adds to the local heat amplification already occurring in big cities due to dense concrete buildings and streets.
Iran seizes 1k Bitcoin mining machines after power spike
The Chilling Effect was thoroughly covered in my Constitutional Law class during my year in law school. I understand that this is what any argument for First Amendment protection of E2E would ultimately rely on, but you generally have to actually need to measure or "plainly observe" said effect. Since most people couldn't tell you the difference between end to end encryption and encryption in transit (I can only sort of do it myself), it's really difficult to argue that restricting E2E encryption would actually have a chilling effect.
Wow, I studied latin for many years, and this would have definitely been interesting to know then.
In the short term, moving to China is always the right move, the labor is cheaper, the regulation is lighter, the market is gigantic and the middle class is growing every day.

In the long term, I believe we are mortgaging our future. Not only is China ripping off IP but companies like Apple who try to be "woke" have no buisness advocating for equality at home while doing buisness with a nation that has imprisoned thousands of religious minorities in re-education camps.

America's approach to China is that of an overconfident fiancee who thinks once they're married they will change their partners ways. It rarely works out.
Remember that stable democracies always have the potential become authoritarian dictatorships. History is littered with examples: France, Germany, Japan, Chile, Turkey and to a lesser extent, the authoritarian strongmen who were elected in the US, India, Brazil, Venezuela and many more.
It seems like there are a mountain of health related challenges that would benefit from some application of a little tech. I came here to ask what were some other hacking opportunities, how to find them, and how to collaborate with the med/bio people that need it.

Billg funded this project, and of course he's got something to say:
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/William-Wu-changed-hi...
Europe endures and prospers at the expense of the US military forces.
Consistent GUIs is the problem of enforcing guidelines, not software problem, implementation details are irrelevant.
Ditto on favorite. The man has the knack and the knowledge to put out some fantastic stories. I've often wondered why no one has picked up Crytonomicon for a film. I think with the right directors and actors, the movie would be fantastic. I envision a full 3-hour film (it would almost have to be).
We're already in bad shape--every phone call and Internet data stream is already bugged and being hoovered up. Crypto is the last line in the sand and the NSA probably has a way to crack most everything that is out there.

I am 100% for unbreakable crypto or as hard to break as it can be. I don't care about terrorism or any of the other statist arguments for whey "they" need to be in there. Fuck "them" I'll take my chances because at the end of the day, state terror is just as bad as any other kind, usually worse. Let's head this off right now and let's put an end to these intelligence agencies running the deep state show because that's no damn good, either.
If you browse through GNU documents, you sometimes come across strange ancient passages like

> "Avoid arbitrary limits on the length or number of any data structure, including file names, lines, files, and symbols, by allocating all data structures dynamically. In most Unix utilities, “long lines are silently truncated”. This is not acceptable in a GNU utility. "

What do you suppose the ancients meant by this? Some have taken it as evidence that in ancient times before GNU, Unix tools were not in fact "doing one thing and doing it well" as the Unix priests so often claim. This of course is blasphemy and the guilty are punished accordingly... but are they wrong?
Louis Rossmann and his cult followers - they seem to feed on the righteousness cause that Rossmann has cultivated over the years. His rants do have truth but the way he conveys is emotion driven and designed to lure people into this cult of Apple haters.

There is one thing to criticize Apple on objective basis and another to develop a deep sense of hatred, vulgar insults, angry rants, personal attacks and fostering despicable contemptful culture with an emotional agenda. He has built a huge community of people that love watching him rant just about anything.

May be its just me but I don't enjoy this type of content even if I agree with their general assessment or opinions.

That said, I do like what he is doing for Right-To-Repair movement along with folks from iFixit and EFF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMtDuv48XsQ
I think it's been a misunderstanding, because I agree with what you just said.
Single purchase licenses are way better but a company with a cloud component can not be sustainable on that model. One option is to provide a way to offload the cloud storage to another company (such as Dropbox syncing).
You can't even insert a usb flash stick without an adapter.

Top 3 dedicated ports for me would be:

- USB-A

- HDMI

- ethernet

The humorous post that made me smile, then made me sad: https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the...
I don't think they would need to?

Cellebrite sells law enforcement an on-premise method to unlock devices. At that point it's no longer Cellebrite unlocking the phones, it's Law enforcement who is unlocking the devices.

Since they (at glance) only sell to law enforcement I think it's reasonable to assume that they expect their device to be used legally (they aren't selling it to @xxXRUSKI1337Hax04xXX who we all no is up to no good.)

Disclaimer: My understanding is mostly of US law, the company is Israeli and I'm not familiar with Israeli law, or the laws of other countries Cellebrite contracts with, although I think this would similarly apply to most jurisdictions
I can’t wait for the mass hacks that come from this, with millions of people’s payment and other information getting snooped. People would stop using the internet for serious things again and our industry would die after enough of them
part of this is because of an ongoing disinformation campaign by the companies and individuals who benefit the most from not addressing the climate crisis. People aren't willing to pay $100 more a year to stop climate change because from all the information they've been fed, it's not a big deal. There's very good reason to believe that if people understood the current and future effects better there would be a much more drastic response.

Just look at similar failures in the past where corporate interest spread disinformation to continue making money (cigarettes, lead in gasoline, health insurance companies today, sugar industry, etc.). When people learn the actual facts the prevailing opinion tends to change pretty heavily. Sure suppliers must cater to demand, but that ignores the fact that often suppliers play a large role in cultivating that demand regardless of the moral value of that demand.
>If your going to tone police me spell the words right

If you're going to tell someone else to spell right, you should make sure to spell "you're" correctly yourself.
"It was none of the US business." When China and Russia are propping up a hostile regime, it's a threat to US interests in the region. The US has made it its business to fight refugees and drugs, what happens in Venezuela impacts its Business.

"For debatable values of "doing fine"." It's doing better politically, and economically than most countries in Latin America. Almost any value that you evaluate it by, its doing fine compared to most countries in the Americas.
Once you get used to it it’s not that bad. Editors make a macro of it so you hardly ever type it out.
I don't fully understand the comment - but I think it's my lack of knowledge here. If I stand next to a sign made with a small amount of tritium I get a small dose of radiation. If I live near a river or ocean that has 0.76 PBq dumped into it, isn't that high concentration going to be a lot worse for me even if I drive past every exit sign in Tokyo? What if I end up growing a Tritium vegetable garden?
I wish HN had gold to give.
Do research on the laptop so you get supported hardware and find one with an SSD.

OBSD works fine on a laptop
I have always found strange things to happen when my held down finger (on the "virtual button") moves too much or changes pressure - on both Windows and Mac. That's just one more thing to think about in the back of my head.

I especially hate the click and drag with a single finger, especially if I have multiple external monitors connected.

Personally, I prefer that a physical button only has two states (on/off), and that there be a physical division between the left and right buttons (so I don't have to look down and see whether my thumb is "over enough" - on a buttonless pad, it seems to never be over enough to the right when I want a context menu).

In the end, I just want the track pad to track, and buttons to be buttons. I don't want a unified trackpad with buttons and a software-based solution to guess what I'm trying to do. This is just me and my use case, obviously ymmv.
Tritium undergoes beta decay and has a 12 year half life. Beta decay from a sign or your watch can only partially get through your skin (and skin is continuously shed and contains melanin). If you drink (or eat plants/animals in a tritium contaminated foodchain) then you bypass that protective layer and can damage organs that have far less resilience to radiation exposure.
Then why do you always read stories about the police having a hard time getting into terrorist's phones and going to extreme lengths to get into the phone?

Shouldn't the metadata be more than enough for them?

Like the San Bernadino shooter, for example[1] (jump to decryption section)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack