skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cracked screen repair on a recent iphone is $200, which I think is very high.

I think if they lowered the price of common repairs to "reasonable", then good things would happen.

If instead of becoming a source of profit, repairs became more costly to apple, maybe they might: make things more modular and repairable, make parts available, allow external repairs.

(I could be idealistic and wrong)
It's not as news-sexy as some other recent Facebook occurrences, but this could potentially be the most important to their bottom line
Small bit of pedantry: the nature of paying off a large loan over 30 years is that you gradually become wealthier at an accelerating rate. The sudden change after the mortgage is paid off is to cash flow, not wealth.
The sad irony is that the pattern of

- knowing the science enough to know they're contributing to others suffering

- knowing what might happen with reasonable certainty

- but compartmentalizing that awareness internally to avoid acting

- hiding it externally

- and keeping doing what they were doing

describes the reactions of most individuals about climate change.
Isn't ~35 days very short for a responsible disclosure timeline? This is extremely sensitive info and from the blog post it sounds like they didn't even warn the company that they were planning to disclose it.

edit: didn't notice the article does mention the problem was fixed before publishing, although they don't say how well it was fixed
I think that it is good. These functions for primitives (String, Number, etc) are good, one thing sometimes to call it, and also because of the prototype. Also, there is such thing as String.prototype.constructor and Number.prototype.constructor and so on, which I have used for parsing command-line arguments (to replace the default values with the user values, converted to the correct type).
Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018)
Sure! I'm basically looking for someone who knows the best way to run one of the OS wiki engines on AWS with minimal hassle
You also get a discount if you're still using a black-and-white TV.

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/t...
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From that page I can see that they created their own deep learning framework, their own AI conversational agents, their own data science platform, their own geospatial indexing system, their own web applications framework, etc. The list seems to go on and on and on.

Essentially they seem to be repeating whatever Google and Facebook are doing: but those are pure technology companies that serve two orders of magnitude more customers and have contributed building the web as we know it. Uber is a taxi company.
I'm not sure I followed all of that, but let me at least try to look up the links and see what I can learn. Maybe they'll help me follow the concepts you are suggesting.

Dan
I think a lot of that assumes that people only use yours, and that price isn’t a significant factor for riders. But I think in a lot of areas they’re still subsidizing riders, and once they jack it up to the true cost everywhere, people will start caring a lot more about the price. In SF I’ve noticed that they’ve bumped the price of express pools up by ~50% since IPO, and it’s gone from a no brainer to not such a no-brainer. If there was a significantly cheaper but less reliably fast option, I’d check it before falling back to the others, similar to how I currently check both Uber and Lyft for pricing.
I’m pretty sure that’s the whole point.

Who’s interest would it serve for the US to be entirely dependent technically from a company with published ties to the CCP state security apparatus.
The tutorial page lists visual studio as a prerequisite so I'd say only windows. However, the wasm code presumably works with just a framebuffer, so it could likely be ported over without too much difficulty if the windowing/input stuff were taken care of.
If this man is so targeted why would a GoFundMe not be bribed to be taken down?
Uh didn't this just happen with Bezos?

Although I heard they targeted a personal phone, I don't think it makes that much difference. Computers are insecure in all sorts of ways, whether it's your own phone or somebody's servers.

In that case they were trying to blackmail him into making some public statement, with pretty high stakes as far as I remember.

Kudos to him for not capitulating!
Everybody owes it to themselves to read Breiman's Two Cultures[1]:

> There are two cultures in the use of statistical modeling to reach conclusions from data. One assumes that the data are generated by a given stochastic data model. The other uses algorithmic models and treats the data mechanism as unknown. The statistical community has been committed to the almost exclusive use of data models. This commitment has led to irrelevant theory, questionable conclusions, and has kept statisticians from working on a large range of interesting current problems. Algorithmic modeling, both in theory and practice, has developed rapidly in fields outside statistics. It can be used both on large complex data sets and as a more accurate and informative alternative to data modeling on smaller data sets. If our goal as a field is to use data to solve problems, then we need to move away from exclusive dependence on data models and adopt a more diverse set of tools.

The difference between inference and prediction can be illustrated with something like a decision tree or a random forest. Statistical inference is "the theory, methods, and practice of forming judgments about the parameters of a population and the reliability of statistical relationships, typically on the basis of random sampling." If you look at something like linear regressions, it makes a lot of assumptions about the data[2]: the distribution of residual errors is normal, there's no multicollinearity, etc.

Random forest don't care. Random forest is a set of steps. You follow the steps, you get an answer. You made no assumptions about your data, about the distribution of it, any of it. You just followed an algorithm.

Algorithms are powerful! Not everything needs to be an inference problem. We're better off when we have lots of tools. You don't have to choose _between_ the two camps. But the "Everything is Statistics!" and the "Everything is Machine Learning!" points of view rob us of ways of thinking about our tools that helps us understand what those tools are.

1) https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/100921372...

2) https://thestatsgeek.com/2013/08/07/assumptions-for-linear-r...
Thanks, any idea if there's also one with no ATM fees?
Yep, I know, but I’d rather not reimplement them if I don’t have to.
I did not see any Linux desktop support.
Yes, that works. The motherboard doesn't need to do anything special so any should work, unless they did something silly like forget to put the IOV toggle in BIOS.

Caveats:

- Anti-cheat systems used in multiplayer games generally don't like running in VMs.
- Consumer Nvidia cards don't get reset on VM reboot, you need to reboot the machine.
- IIRC Nvidia cards need a KVM hack to get the driver to work.
Managing physical custody of something is just easier.

Any cloud solution is one credit card expiration away from destruction. Other solutions are difficult for loved ones to find.
Absolutely if they're too stupid to move away from a broken (hopefully soon to be) unprofitable advertising model.

You are aware the advertising industry was immense before the web existed and there was no such thing as a third party ad? Network television, cable, newspapers, magazines, billboards and so on. There is literally no reason for the internet not to be like that if we want it to be. Massively profitibable for ads. Less bulls&^t surveillance. None ideally. Yeah bad for google. I am entirely happy for google to go bankrupt if they can't make money without surveillance that should be illegal and is immoral and for which they do not have informed consent. If you work there and get fired, I'm only slightly more sorry about that than I am if phillip morris employees get fired as people stop smoking.

You 100% need surveillance in your business model and we shut that down, sure, go bankrupt. Good.
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Maybe, but I’d say the market is significantly different now.
That's about the email RFC, not about regex syntax.
No, what I’m saying is if law is not being enforced, it’s useless, and so pointing at it as some kind of advantage of taxis over Uber is severely misguided.
Having all the tooling being integrated makes it a lot easier to offer good feature interaction. Right now the atomisation of "software project management features" means that your project is run over 10 servers all held together by flaky webhooks, and requests that should be instant instead take 30 seconds because everything has to be remotely queried.

Though really the thing that should happen in this case is that we should be seeing more tooling that can be run on a local machine that has a deeper understanding of what a "project" is. Git is great for version control. But stuff like issue tracking and CI also exist. So if there was some meta-tool that could tie all that together.

A bonus: if you make some simple-ish CLI tool that ties all this together, the "Github as the controller of everything" risk goes down because it would become easier for other people to spin up all-encompasing services.

A tool like this would do to project hosting what Microsoft's language server tooling has done to building IDEs. A mostly unified meta-model would mean that we wouldn't spend our times rewriting things to store issue lists.
I agree that the ineffective privacy setting is broken, but I feel like an app which has as part of its functionality finding users near you, naturally needs to tell others your location, and vice-versa. I assume any app which asks for GPS permissions is going to phone home with your location.
Can you contact gofundme. He probably needs help and some of these larger companies have ways of informing local authorities if someone is at risk of harming themselves or others.
Related: My daughter's second grade teacher was Mrs. Emily Chewning, of Scottish extraction. She told me that when the first parent-teacher conferences happened, a number of parents were surprised at her appearance: kids always referred to her as "Miss Chew" and from the sound of the name, parents assumed she was Chinese.
Why do you feel entitled to a payout for an event in which you were not involved and for which you experienced no damages?
Not sure if this answers your question, but some of those rascal scooters are pretty fast...
I imagine a driver-passenger matchmaking system could be craigslist level of simplicity, but Uber and Lyft want to suck up every piece of data: ingesting and analyzing where people are when they open the app, how many people give up on finding a driver, how long every driver is idling on the side of the road, whether a user is probably a cop, etc etc

They use this data to update their surge pricing by the minute for all these different geofences all over the world... yeah, I think having the self image of a technology company that wanted to attract the best talent definitely created a lot of expensive problems for itself.
> It's actually a lot simpler, stealing gold works.

Except how did the West get into a position of being more powerful than the rest of the world?

Around 1600, Western countries, the Ottomans, Mughal-ruled India, and Imperial China weren't too different in development (the non-Euro folks could actually have been considered more developed). By the late-1700s / early-1800s the Europeans were steamrolling over everyone.

What changed in those ~150 years?

A good book on the topic is Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution by Toby Huff:

* https://www.cambridge.org/9780521170529

It explores an interesting accidental historical experiment: the telescope was invented in 1608 in the Netherlands, and in the next ~20 years had spread to most of the world's major civilizations. What various cultures did with it (or not) explains why Europe took off.

See also The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West by the same author:

* https://www.cambridge.org/9781107130210
As I said, I'm partial to lisp. I just suspect that no language is defensible with any real data.

Tons of preferences. But that will be dominated by the dislike most non self motivated learners will have. That is, most students are, I suppose, extrinsically motivated.

Now, tooling would be awesome. But for some reason, the tooling we expose students to is super expensive for personal use. Or requires a lot of investment in time. I'm thinking Mathematica and emacs.

Python is trying with notebooks. But has a lot of ground to catch up on. And seems to breed bad habits in the process.
I live in downtown Toronto so it's rarely more than 2 minutes. But even when travelling it's a rare day when it hits 10 minutes.
Punched in the face, later, at our option or through our incompetence and we kept that secret from you and never got informed consent.

The analogy breaks down.

You aren't given the option, you wrote the option that websites and their 3rd party providers have to punch you without your knowledge. Stop reading Ars. Does that help you now you wrote that option? Maybe it does.

Better is to exercise your option to disrupt evil with uMatrix, pi-hole etc. Prosletyse it. The less money there is in the evil, the less it happens. How we defeated popups, for example.
Well we already know Tesla (RoboTaxi) and Google (Waymo One) are entering the ride sharing market (Waymo One is currently live), not sure about GM's ambitions.
George Lucas’ ex-wife was the no-woman on the original trilogy. She was his editor!
Sure doesn't seem that way to me. Blue rocket flame is coming out, and the operators talk about "ignition" and percentage thrust and shut down (when all the icicles fly off).
Mostly this yeah. We're not talk therapy, we don't claim to connect you with a therapist, and we don't take health insurance.
They did their research.
I'm not sure if its a production quality issue or what but your timing and tone is off.
Might wanna re-record this.
I don't know how Canada does it, but a lot of those smiles would change at least a little bit in the US when they get a 1099-C in February and realize the IRS counts debt forgiveness as taxable lump-sum income.
cross-device I think
And you can tell. The page reloads when you want to edit a comment. Also hacker News is one of the simplest use cases ever.
Text Summarization in the Biomedical Domain
You are fine with it by exercising your option to avoid them in the normal, rational and informed manner. Don't like watching tv ads, don't watch commerical tv. Done. Clear, obvious, simple, rational and all consent is informed.
Google started using recaptcha to shadowban me from posting on any site using it yesterday. This evil must stop. I'm being censored for completely non-violent beneficial posts that simply expose wrong doing by the otherwise unaccountable "intelligence" "services".
Surely they can use those single person electric kart things.
As pointed out in the article, it could be someone having a bit of cheap fun with a spoofed GPS.
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Google offers a digital leak prevention service as part of GCP. You could use it for offensive security to find likely PII without much concern about the noise.

Google runs this (or an internal version) of this service to make sure people serving third party ads aren't sending sensitive data. At one of my past companies our customers would send out email marketing campaigns that contained URLs with tracking parameters with PII. We wound up having to just strip off any query parameters we didn't explicitly need because Google kept flagging us for PII leaks caused by our customers.

So yeah, there's a lot of noise. But, people are listening out there!
According to the article, it's only the case if you were using the card for business.

And if you were a business that couldn't pay your 27.99% credit card for 16+ months, you have losses to count it against.
Yep, they actually have no power to search your premises (obv). They are, literally, just some guys herded off the street by a dodgy company that get paid a commission to squeeze money out/scare people.

Nonetheless, I have heard of them: forcing entry into people's homes, claiming to have powers of search, claiming to have power to issue fines, claiming to work on behalf of the police and that they can request arrest...it is kind of incredible.

Britain is a very odd place (I say this as a Brit).
Whatever it is, I imagine it's similar to the difference between math, stats, ml, ai, logic, econometrics, actuaries, epidemiology, etc.

For the record, I don't consider those intellectually separate fields, but do accept them to be culturally separate, for better or worse...

But then I could never understand why physics, biology or chemistry were considered separate fields either...

Or psychology, economics, philosophy, etc etc etc...
Reminds me of a SFGate story a few years back, tech whiz 'retires' to scrubbing barnacles off boat bottoms, and finds it more gratifying.
African dictators care for mobile OS hacks for staying in power?
Came here to post this exact sentiment... I mean that one long haul trucker was so ecstatic his almost 7k debt was forgiven and said something to the effect of "I'm glad the number was up there." Really?
Samsung Note 10 Review
The documentation mentions Mac support, but no Linux
more likely the cost of operating in another country to collect minimum payments for n+ years is higher than the value of the debt.
That’s not a nice way to talk about the old generals. :D
I was about to share the same joke, which I was recently told by a worker at a California vineyard. In the major wine-growing valleys of California, land now sells for millions of dollars an acre, hence the large fortune necessary for entry.
I think its seriously such a hard problem to solve in tech. Its so easy and beneficial even for customers if one company does everything. Github can (and does!) offer the most open, accessible, and integrated APIs possible for CI/CD to plug into. But, when Github builds it, its just another tab in your PR, which is much more convenient.

We use Jira for ticketing and Github for code storage, like many companies. We've had SOC2 auditors tell us that they'd prefer to see us on Bitbucket just because the integration with Jira is more seamless; it guarantees a much deeper audit trail to go from RFC in Confluence -> Ticket in Jira -> Code in Bitbucket -> Deploy in whateverthefuck atlassian does for CI/CD. They didn't dock us, certainly.

But they're not wrong! I agree with them entirely! There's a part of me that hates that monopolization of our stack into one company, but there's another part of me that's like "that auditability and integration is so nice, and we literally will never see it if we're using ten different SaaS providers for each thing". How do you rectify those competing viewpoints? I don't know if you can.
Nvidias Linux drivers are buggy and awful and regularly break systems. My bf switched to an AMD card and the experience has been much better. It all just works since the drivers are mainlined.
(NVIDIAn here but speaking for myself) - We still have a ways to go, but we're working on it! Really trying to integrate with open data/ML standards, though sometimes an existing codebase doesn't exactly match the GPU approach, so the best thing we can do is to match their APIs...

TensorRT is now integrated with Tensorflow: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorrt
and it speaks ONNX, which is PyTorch's and MXNet's inference format.

cuDF (open source) supports the Pandas API on GPUs, using the Arrow standard for interop https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf
and cuML (also open source) matches the scikit-learn interface: https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml

PyTorch and a bunch of other DL libraries can interop with cuDF/cuML (as in, do your ETL in those libs and get zero-copy, on-GPU transfer to the DL framework) via the dlpack standard. This is a general standard from DMLC that any similar ML library can adopt.

Also, if you're doing nvJpeg decompression on GPU, also check out Dali, which implements super-fast data loading and augmentation steps all on GPU. For this one, there wasn't an existing standard, so we had to build our own approach, but it integrates with PyTorch, TF, and MXNet pipelines nicely: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/sdk/dali-developer-guid...
Hopefully it becomes like the cuDNN of data prep - integrated into all the frameworks well enough that you don't even have to think about it.
Also work in games and agree with the sentiment on VTune. I've also enjoyed using Razor, but that is limited to specific hardware as well.

I built a Threadripper 2 machine recently for home, but I don't know that it would have similar utility in a work environment where I could use something like Incredibuild to farm out compiles. Is that not an option for you in your work?
Don't believe so. If there are, they're in the $100+/year annual fee club.
That’s just not true - they all became depth electives or not required at all.

OS is 140. Not required. Multi var calculus is math 51. Not required. As you note, compilers is not required. They also removed the EE hardware class in favor of a mishmash of core cs classes that are easier.
Apple Pay Buttons Can Make Websites Unsafe
Way to prove my point. You wanting to deny others right to peaceful assembly is you getting political. You just don't realize because you (obviously) agree with yourself.
Nah, technology is pretty cool for this shit. Everyone likes their friends' posts. It's like an acknowledgement - I see you and I like that I do. iMessage reactions and FB messenger reactions are the same. I think if I looked through my group chats, most messages have reactions. And Find my Friends? You have that shit broadcasting and you'll run into each other all the time.

I feel so thoroughly connected with my friends. They're like a mesh that catches me when I'm down and bounces me back up. And it's so easy with tech.
My favorite patent so far came out of Apple.

They received a patent on receiving data, recognizing it was a certain type of data, and performing an action on it.

And what was this used for? A user clicks a phone number and it brings up the phone app.
Fair points and a fair perspective. I would still say that Facebook's near monopoly status on 21st century social interaction (through it and its subsidiaries) does give it a unique position here, and you don't even need it to rise to the level of an addiction to see it.

Or: the gambling addict isn't typically nearly-forced into using a casino to keep in touch with loved ones.
Is that the case anywhere else on the universe - besides totalitarian dystopias?
To be apolitical is to make the tacit political statement, "Things are okay enough for me to not care." It's very difficult to be truly apolitical in a nation where a birthright to political interest in whatever you deem fit has been vested in you since... well, birth. Assuming you're American.
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I see no connection between a person being a so-called "SJW" and an inability to perform more rigorous engineering work. I have no idea where you draw that connection from.
I refuse to believe that "one click buy" was "transformational". It's overwhelmingly obvious. One click buy is not more impressive an invention than 2, or n click buy. It's a better system because it's fewer clicks, and that's the obvious part.
Do We Create Shoplifters?
It’s well known that the FBI had dossiers on political opponents that were used to silence them, or attempt to silence them (Daniel Ellsberg, Martin Luther King). What you’re proposing would merely be the same concept with a different leverage mechanism. I’m sure private interests would also have the same ideas.