skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you had a chance to look at truecaller? It crowdsources data on who is spamming, advertising and marketing. In India where you get sales pitches even from a personal number, truecaller is a savior. Instead of having to answer questions, crowdsourcing would be a viable one
> Doesn't that just beg the question? If life originated on some other planet and made it to Earth, why did only the DNA-based lifeform(s) make it here?

Maybe Earth is just a big petri-dish for a very advanced alien species trying to reconstruct their own evolutionary history?

It's something I've thought about since I've been a kid (I've been a weird kid).

The time-scales make this kinda implausible, but there's still Clarke's third law, so who knows if properly advanced technology might even allow for artificial time dilation to facilitate such an experiment in a useful way.
Script: Making it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go
If you are in SF/Bay Area, I would highly recommend taking a course from Jaunty (http://www.jaunty.org).

I took their Co-Ed Comprehensive course (twice!). They are not cheap, (around $1600 for eight week course when I took it), but for me, there is a clear demarkation in my life pre-, and post-Jaunty.

I read a lot of books (Art of Conversation, Seduction, How to Win Friends and Influence People, etc), but none of them came close to this course.

They target social intelligence with basic conversation skills, humor, body language, etc.

I would also highly recommend taking improv comedy classes. In SF/Bay Area, I recommend Made Up Theater (https://madeuptheatre.com/). I took their classes for over 3-4 months. That really helped me build on conversations (Yes, and...) and not let them die.
Given his CV it's inconcievable that they haven't attempted to recruit him repeatedly.
And it helps to live in a famously flat country.
Too confusing. There is already a permission prompt for camera access, so now there'd be two prompts, or it's still one prompt but the text is different in either case, which users can't be expected to understand.

You can go into about:config and explicitly undo this setting if you're in some weird dev corner case where it's a problem, but you should definitely put "Stop doing AV stuff in an insecure context" near the top of your TODO list.
The article looks like BS. The main source is this link:

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&commi...

According to that web site, quite a few other companies did the same, at the same day. Some even donated exactly same amount.

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&commi...

I think it's either creative accounting, or donations matching. Probably in combination with lazy payments processing, e.g. all transactions from March are labelled "March 31"
Microsoft Attempting to Destroy the Careers of Its Critics
> The majority of markets don't care if it is 100% backed, like they don't care when their bank does fractional reserve

Fractional reserve banks' deposits are backed more than 100% with more or less liquid assets. That's why nobody cares if a bank does fractional reserve. With tether there is no reason to believe there is even close to 100% backing. Unless you count as a reason an unverified claim that they are backed.
Importantly the 727 has ventral stairs to exit!
Yawn... Call me when they actually go through their corporate ladder and fire everyone who thought this was a good idea in the first place.
If those same managers are in still place, there's no reason for me to ever trust this software again.
The camera on Macs has actually been a PCIe peripherafor quite a few years now. But your point stands; it still takes a good second or so after the LED turns on for the camera driver to start producing frames to userspace.
Maybe they are both right, and it is 4,000 4K titles
I'm not familiar with those kind of approach but why not just use SQL? I'm genuinely curious.
Firefox stores passwords in its own "password manager" (basically an encrypted file). All remembered passwords can be shown in plain text by simply clicking a button in the options – unless a Master Password is defined.

So by default, Firefox allows anyone with access to your computer to view all your stored passwords. How this can be considered "secure enough" is beyond me.

I've worked with quite a few people (regular end users) that use Firefox. None of them knew that their stored passwords are accessible this easily. None of them used a master password.

Why doesn't Firefox use the macOS keychain?
If not that, why doesn't Firefox at least prompt for the login password of the current user before showing all stored passwords?
If not that, why doesn't Firefox at least show a giant red banner, informing the user that their passwords are at risk unless they set a master password?

Mozilla doesn't seem to view the current behavior as problematic, as this 18 year old ticket has been closed as WONTFIX a few months ago...
It is usually called a gauge symmetry but it is kind of a misnomer and should better be called a gauge redundancy. It is artifical and only due to the mathematical formalism we are using. As an analogy, probably not a really good one, is that you could decide to describe temperatures with a complex number and just say temperature is invariant under translation along the imaginary axis. Sure, the symmetry is in your mathematics but it doesn't really tell you anything new or interesting. Besides of course that the imaginary part is actually redundant and you better described temperature with a real number instead.
I expect that will happen once all the supported devices have a T2. That is probably some way off though as they are still selling new hardware without it, for example the recently updated iMacs.
I agree, we can (vaguely) imagine an AI that simulates human behaviour faithfully and lies about having qualia without actually having them, just like a really accurate physics simulator can in principle simulate physics as accurately as we can hope to measure. But the implementation of a simulated physical machine is very different from the implementation of an actual physical machine. Similarly, if the AI implementation of qualia is based on lies, it does not follow that the human implementation is too. If we only care about externally observable behaviour, then yes, they can be equivalent, but I don't think that's all we should care about.

In other words, knowing how to simulate a phenomenon is not for me a sufficient explanation of the phenomenon, nor even necessarily a very strong indication of what the phenomenon's actual implementation is like.

It seems that only my brain is telling me that there is something more going on in humans but there is no evidence for that, at least none that I am aware of.

Why such distrust in your own brain? :) I think (the existence of) your own immediate subjective experience is evidence, and compelling evidence at that. It's just not the kind of evidence that's currently easily accessible by science. Over the course of history, many things have been inaccessible to science, and then science has progressed.

Science has at least one plausible angle of attack too. Qualia seem to be associated with only some processes in the brain (others are entirely subconscious), some of the time (attention can be redirected). This gives some hope of finding correlations between qualia and brain activity, which AIUI is a major topic in neuroscience currently.
I made this video today on the subject. It's an analysis of the Facebook post linked in the parent.
https://youtu.be/1BVXc3jUsSU
Wait, what!?

In Europe if you strike a pedestrian on the crosswalk you'll definitely loose your license and be looking at manslaughter charges too while your insurance company will murder you after paying the victim's medical/disability/court bills.
>casting from android phones?

Not really

>netflix, prime, youtube?

Yes

>BT headphones / speakers?

Not directly.

I never used a chrome cast because I HATE controlling my TV with my phone. I want a normal remote... I have yet to get on board with the whole "casting" fad. I may have used the YT app on my phone to start a video maybe 3 times since they added the feature.
True, although Japan is so different from the West culturally that I'm not sure you can make realistic comparisons.
By offering your services in return - physical labour, or someone like Stewart could have offered to read, write, teach - or even just entertain, by telling stories of his travels.
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Is that also why they put literal SKYNET [0] in charge of telling us who to drone?

Just can't get over that one, either somebody in the NSA has a really dark sense of humor or people working there must be living in some kind of pop-culture vacuum.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...
Funny experiment and perhaps also useful, but there are crawlers with good intentions[1] that still may ignore the disallows. I don't know of anyone else than the internet archive though.

[1] https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
Reducing your speed increases the likely hood of collisions because pedestrians tend to no care about their safety at all if they can shave off 2 seconds. They don't wait for your car to pass. If you are on the left lane and the right lane is free then they will walk onto the street and anticipate that you will pass them by the time they have reached the left lane. If you reduce your speed then their guess turns out to be wrong and you risk driving over them.
yes BTC:USDT will spike like hell but it will unpeg from BTC:USD.
Definitely an interesting idea, I should check the scene to figure out how many 'adversaries' are actually scanning robots.txt files.
Not that I am aware of. The very difficulty of building a nuclear explosive device is about premature initiation. Even if there were designs which could make use of constant high-intensity compact neutron source (perhaps in the fusion stage?), just putting it inside the weapon would be quite dangerous. Still, compact neutron sources have their uses.
We need to give this argument a rest. Cycling infrastructure has everything to do with availability and very little to do with hills. I don’t avoid biking to work because of the hills, I avoid it because it’s treacherous.
Are you talking about the website or the apps for TV's, Rokus', FireTV's, and now chromecast?

The website and the apps are very very different
For years, after the first word processors were invented with cut and paste abilities, the bulk of realestate and contract work has been steadily eroded by this cut and paste work by, at first, secretaries and latterly by robotised scripts.
Each agreement has all possible variable areas (name, address, locations, special clauses etc) identified as numbered fields. Staff provide the exact data for each numbered field and special claus and removes unused special clauses of which there may be hundreds for all manner of contract or real estate aspects. In seconds the substitution is completed and the final agreement inspected by a lawyer - often in India, and then sent to the billing firm for final inspection and review and then for signature.
Same for all manner of contracts, I have a few hundreed mining agreements that I manually adapt for each situation. tens of thousands of$ saved with many of these.(although some are 1-2 pagers for minor matters) There are few situations without boilerplate ready to adapt for any situation
Either way, the results were linked to Firefox overall performance, rather than caused by outside agent.
It sounds like the Patent Examiner's issue is not necessarily with the fundamental science so much as with the enormous amount of energy required to make use of the ideas. Though this doesn't mean the science is sound (I'm definitely not one to judge!), if the patents are combined with leaked (fabricated) videos of Navy pilots encountering exotic craft then maybe this is enough to send rival states down some rabbit hole.
Surprised not to see Computerphile mentioned so far:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC9-y-6csu5WGm29I7JiwpnA
It helps, but is not necessary. Counterexample: Arhus, Denmark.
I've used MS Detours to hook my own C++ interceptor functions into dispatch from Excel to XLL extensions via the internal Excel4V interface. It worked very well, showing me the XLOPER values. But that was for a 32 bit Excel. I didn't appreciate how much trickier it is with the amd64 instruction set.
There's Sylvain Tesson, who crossed Himalaya with a friend on foot East to West in 1997, with barely any money, mostly for one guide and travel permits/visas. From what I read, they relied on people's charity for food and shelter.

They wrote a book, La Marche dans le ciel : 5 000 km à pied à travers l'Himalaya, which, AFAIK, isn't translated in English.
You’re incredibly fortunate then. Count your blessings but please don’t discount the experiences of those of us who have been victims of abuse by drivers on the road. Thank you.
If someone is interested in a similar solution for GraphQL, GRelDAL [1] (authored by me) is an alternative (though it is slightly lower level and requires mapping of data sources through code).

Also given support for multiple databases, it is possible to start out with sqlite and later migrate to a database server (postgres or mysql).

[1] https://gql-dal.github.io/greldal/
I'd say a lot has to do with cyclist behavior. Hugging the curb does not help, it invites motorists to pass even when it is not safe to do so. It is much safer to take the lane, occupy the middle of it, so other vehicles coming from behind know that they either have to wait or change lanes to pass. Segregating cyclists into cyclists-only lanes do not help either. As they usually force them to ride as if they where hugging the curb or in any case give the impression that it is not safe to take the lane. Plus of course all other problems caused at intersections.
I didnt think i had to mention how incredibly distasteful it is to compare combating malaria and other deadly diseases through pest control with the holocaust.

The method is not the important aspect for an ethical consideration, its the subject. Its like saying that a butcher is just a small step away from being a cannibalistic serial killer.

The problem starts once you no longer have "any human" as the subject of ethical considerations but start to define subgroups.
When I was young I got a good burn on my skin pinching a tiny bit of my finger between wires hooked up to a 6v remote control car battery.

Smelled awful and had a brown patch a few mm wide on my finger for a while.

This happened more or less instantaneously.
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That is what the parent comments were talking about - on the photon sphere - in case of a non-rotating black hole - photons could theoretically orbit the black hole but as pointed out by your parent comment this orbit is not stable and any tiny perturbation will either send the photons into the black hole or make them escape. And the photons would of course not stand still - they are massless particles and therefore can only move at the speed of light, neither slower nor faster - but orbit the black hole at the speed of light.
> Since her passing (1995), approximately 1 million more Americans have been killed in car crashes.

That's a huge cost.
I think the idea is to drive slower but still consistently and predictably.
Airplanes are a great hobby for people who need to get out of the office, love traveling, and need a hobby that has a lot of little detailed things to stay on top of. Flying real IMC to minimums in a small plane is like solving a real-time fluid dynamics/trig problem, where if you fail, you die.

I guess there are people who do it for the danger, but the beauty of it is that you can get really down in the details and master things so it's not that risky. Once you really master the game, your biggest danger is yourself: get-there-itis, sloppy preflights, pushing things a little at a time, getting away with them, then pushing more, and so on.

I have done nothing in my life that I loved as much as flying. Mankind has been staring up into the sky for eons wishing we could fly. Now we can. Who wouldn't want to be part of that?
Apple has come down hard on devs attempting to do that.
sqlite doesn't need the full server, it runs directly off a file on disk so there's minimal setup. However sqlite is supposed to be single-user only so idk.
It's mildly dangerous, but far less dangerous than speeding (I'm guilty of driving recklessly tuned/modded cars in my youth), and a lot more interesting. There is also the satisfaction of operating a complicated machine (to which, I guess, a lot of HN'ers will relate).

I can hardly wait for my electric VTOL PAV.
Does this have hardcore locking in it? Last I knew sqlite doesn't support multi-users so this would just fall over with more than one client concurrently inserting data unless you throttle them into synchronous access.
Related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnoUBfLxZz0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX0ozxrZlEQ
In Europe, if you strike a pedestrian outside a crosswalk, the same might happen to you depending on the jurisdiction. Pedestrians create their own right of way, practically speaking (if not judicially). :-)
Only in the literal sense. A commonly cited issue on the term "responsible disclosure" is that the discoverer is responsible for one's action, even though the action indeed benefits the public. In this viewpoint the vender can argue that it is not responsible to ignore the vendor, even though the vendor itself is being unreasonable. The term "coordinated disclosure" is invented to fix this abuse. You can't literally interpret "responsible" or "coordinated" without this context.
There's some speculation that Venus may have been far more earthlike for some, possibly much, of its history.

Similarly, Earth wasn't particularly earthlike, in contemporary terms, for much of its history -- sometimes far hotter, frequently far colder.
Erm yes it does. That's how it is supposed to work on Mac and that's how it would work if they didn't sneakily install a web server.
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I guess it’s a good place to mention https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest as well
Agreed. Same here.
I fully understand your hatred towards the Chinese government.

I want to point out what I believe is the root cause. It has nothing to do with communism. Chinese has a deep rooted culture of long range thinking (think "Sun Tzu"). It has always been willing to sacrifice piece for the whole, sacrifice short term for the long term. We read those historical stories as we grow up. It is very scary at times, especially when you end up at the wrong side of the table and you are being sacrificed. This moral code probably is very different from yours. From your perspective, what happens in Xinjiang is severe violation of human rights; from those top guys' perspective, this is sacrificing the freedom of a minority for the stability and prosperity of a whole people. I am not saying I approve this policy as I certainly do not want to be those interned. And you might argue that this "long range thinking" is really servicing communism party's self interest. But your response demonstrates that the chasm is deep. And the chasm is on a cultural level and wont bridge easily.

What this trade war scares me the most is also related with this chasm - it is just so hard to transcend cultures and reach slightest bit of mutual understanding. For a while west thinks China could turn, but now it is really starting to realize there is fundamental difference. It is very scary to me. Like most people on this forum, I do not want to see any escalation in any form of conflict. I just want a peaceful globe and we could continue do our thing that occasionally crosses border.

And speaking of this Hong Kong protest, many Hong Kong friends disapprove it. I read WSj every day and there is no mentioning of what a normal Hong Kong resident think of it. In the end, what do you expect a 18 year old high school protester to understand in regards to what "democracy" mean? At that age, we easily aggrandize our self-righteousness and self-importance and are easily influenced. It is a matter of age. I think fundamentally what is driving such grievance is that Hong Kong is no longer as important as before. And younger generation see no hope. But this is simply inevitable capitalistic evolution. Smart young Hong Kong natives are now looking for opportunities in Beijing. This is the future and we have to embrace it.
I do not have the biosafety data for neutron radiation nearby (there are some nice calculators for beta and gamma emitters online), but I strongly suspect that 18g of californium lie somewhere in between of "instant death" and "certain death in a few hours" (closer to the "instant death"). Anyway, it is also an alpha emitter, so the entire scenario is impossible -- it would be white hot in such amounts.

Regarding that airport thriller -- you can't bring any nuclear materials (particularly neutron emitters) through any major airport, they are all equipped with radiation detectors and neutron detectors, specifically to prevent that.

I do know a thing or two about nuclear forensics; unfortunately, I do not have any talent for writing fiction, so this thriller is not coming anytime soon. :)
Not an expert, but I'm curious - what use case is not sufficiently solved by savepoints?
I checked that and around here (in Ireland) it's about €200 for a short flight. How is that in the US?
I don’t understand why the child comment is dead. Being forced to stay in a shitty job because there are no other jobs is definitely a thing, especially in Europe.