skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"most spies are highly efficient and useful to our governments goals / protecting people from bad things. the hand-full of derps we see in the news are unfortunate but shouldn't be taken as the general state of spying / intelligence work."

Sources?

Because there is this other theory, that the "handful of derps" we see in the media are just the tip of the iceberg, because most failures can and do get shoved easily under the carpet, with a "top secret" stamp.
I'm guessing some lawyer at the Montreal transit authority decided to report that app for violating some kind of intellectual property. And, due to Google's consistent cover-their-asses policy (of Youtube fame), they decided to shut down that app.
> I used to think like that

Such arrogance.. ..and unfortunately so typical for TS proponents..
> Has anyone ever got any app flagged by PlayProtect?

I know it famously flags the Apptoide app store (a Google Play rival) as malware[1]

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/04/aptoide-a-play-store-rival...
> Where else could you find commenters that know better than the scientists authoring the Nature article in question,

They don't know better, they try to understand better. Why not?
I use escape all the time. It's useful for canceling a cmd-tab, and also canceling actions.
Never heard of Google Drive Scan, but I can't find it in the Play Store either?
I actually thought that this is what they were doing:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-microsoft-is-taking-on-the...
> 1. As you stated, Google forces devs to rely on presence of the Google Play Services

Not forcing per se. Google just provides a convenient services that devs are happy to use.
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The company I work for has banned the use of Google Cloud due to how they treat their Play Store developers, in particular that there never seems to be any human being that you can talk to and find out what you need to do to fix the situation. We do not want the same to occur to our servers or if there is an overflow from Play Store ban to GCP etc.
No, they are not. As an owner of LG OLED TV, I know it for sure.
Can I ask the question, is this the “Bozo Effect” or the “bozo explosion” that Steve Jobs talked about? Bozos hire bozos so they then proliferate within an organisation, wreaking havoc?
Hello, is it possible to work as a freelancer or remote for this position? I just moved to Denmark but this sounds like a great opportunity!
It's not that men are "afraid of women", they're worried that they might do something completely innocent that is misinterpreted as harassment, and then they're dragged through the legal system for it.

So yeah, not "afraid of women" at all.
There's no fundamental difference between a news site and a blog. A lot of them even use the same software.

News sites just tend to have lower quality entries than blogs and often engage
in blogspam instead of providing links to superior sources or adding something of value.

Obviously. Since they want to keep people on their site.

I wonder what the average time spent on a "news article" vs. a "blog post" is.
At the risk of alienating the same people that Gerald Ratner did (and in full knowledge that all generalisations are false), the people buying the stuff he sold didn't read the broadsheets.

It was the tabloid press, targeting their readers, that brought Ratners down. I don't know why they did it though apart from increasing their sales by generating buzz about a subject maybe.
I am using an Apple wireless keyboard (~2014? model, before they changed to thin keys) and I love it. I've used a load of keyboards in my time including some very good mechanical ones, and it's my favourite.

"Shit" is in a lot of ways subjective.
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For someone that used to advocate C, did not like C++ features, I find peculiar that he now stands behind C#.

Yes, I do know that HPC# is somehow constrained, yet even as C# subset, it still supports quite a few features that Mike wasn't so found of having to deal with in C++, as per his CppCon talk.
I'm developing a consumer facing service right now, and it's stories like this that steer me away from expending the effort to develop as an Android and iOS app. At least on the web we're not (entirely) beholden to a single company that can unilaterally remove you with no recourse.
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Hand soldering is the basis of tin-lead soldering technology. Although modern enterprises have generally used the production process of automatic insertion and automatic welding, the products are trial-produced, small-volume production, and high-reliability products with special requirements are also used for manual welding.
We already have an implementation of general AI in our brains that we should eventually be able to mimic.

Do you think it will take centuries to figure out how it works to understand its algorithm?
> How do you check that?

searched for "Great firewall latency" on my mobile. Took the first result with numbers, and saw mainland latency around 100ms higher than HK.

> The DPI works mostly in async way, mirror traffic to standalone servers to extract key data points, if found a match, send RST to drop the TCP stream and maybe further blacklist the IP indefinitely.

If it works async like you describe then it invalidates my worries about latency. But it doesn't solve the "why the hell is my SSH stream getting a RST?!" because their firewall is dropping SSH by policy or because of a false positive in the traffic.
"buggy NT kernel" is a stretch. There's nothing particularly wrong about the NT kernel in its design or implementation, any more than other kernels.

MS don't have to drop Windows to support Linux. They can walk and chew gum at the same time.
This is an example of doing manual SIMD. In some cases, it's still needed. Manual SIMD tend to be faster than what even the most modern compiler can provide.

Because it is low level, it won't be fancy, but you can find several library that wrap those low-level ops in more fancy APIs.

Comparing it with CUDA is hardly a good comparison. Even if the GPU is basically a bunch of SIMD unit, GPGPU programming is still very different than adding SIMD capability to an x86 program.
There are two types of laptop users - those wanting a portable machine, light, good enough for a short amount of ssh or vim and maybe a webpage or two

The other type are those looking for a luggable desktop, those who hotdesk but don’t really work on the go.

There’s then who want both, but that has proven to be a mugs game. No matter how much money you throw at it you end up with compromises on portability it power.

I for one stick with a 2015 era desktop and a 2013 11” MacBook air and don’t have problems.
Would not it be better to make it difficult to collect data (e.g. show a popup asking access to those data every time) instead of just requiring a privacy policy that nobody reads?
The analogy given in the article is interesting. Some organisms perform certain actions even before they start to learn. I myself have seen some animals start running immediately after birth. Less number of parameters (shared parameters) could also be thought of as less complexity and hence less processing power requirements; which implies faster training. Phew! too much similarity.
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Using Wi-Fi Like Sonar to Measure Speed and Distance of Indoor Movement
It's the other way around. ECE standards are meant for lower speed crashes than the American standards. SNELL is the racing standard.
Nevertheless, then comes along someone like (SHARP)[https://sharp.dft.gov.uk/] and performs helmet tests with objective ratings and you see that all helmets vary, regardless of standards.

Because there's no one way to crash, there's hardly one way to test. Buy the most expensive helmet you can afford, more likely than not that it's a better product.
This seems like a strange move on Teslas part.

Insurance is a business of quantifying risk, charging people appropriately and making your money by investing those sums before claims are paid out.

That doesn't seem like a great fit for Tesla. They cant reasonably invest all that money in Tesla and Tesla bonds, Tesla just becomes a confusing story of car maker and insurance that won't be greater than the sum of its parts.

As others have mentioned, prices indicate this isn't some Muskian disruption of the market so why the distraction? Am I looking for reason in what is intended to be a nice little earner on the side?
I bet he claims to be a feminist as well.
I don't agree with the shame at all, and my personal opinion is it's probably better because it's cheaper and equipment-free as you say and years of evolution mean that it works well enough in most cases.

While looking into this though I noticed that a manufacturer's site (https://nutricia.com.au/early-life-nutrition/karicare.html) actually has a popup saying that breastfeeding is better. I wonder what prompted that, community outrage?
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Forbes is such a pathetic joke now.

Lately they churn out another "Apple headed for disaster" article every day. Someone there is shorting AAPL and thinking no one will figure it out.
I'm the opposite, nothing gets me out of the house as a big, extremely windy and wet storm; I adore walking during a storm :)
[citation-needed]

Most USB flash disks I've seen (and I've seen many) are even nowadays mostly FAT32. "Portable drives" aka USB-to-SATA are shipped preformatted to NTFS, and only with the advent of SDXC did preformatted exFAT start to appear.

(It has to do with driver support, I would guess - exFAT works in Win7+, but as long as the world runs on WinXP kiosks (ugh), vendors go with the lowest common denominator. Note that a flash disk will go places - what's your car entertainment system running? Linux? Android? Windows CE? Anfient Embedded Monftrofity? Will it support exFAT? Unlikely.)
When someone talks about how "scientists fall for the same simplistic patterns of thinking that the men on the street fall for every day", while explaining how "in fact reality is much more complex than that", does it feel like they're humbly trying to better understand the world?

To me it sounds like someone who clearly has a deeper understanding of the topic than those scientists. And I love that.
Is it an official new policy? Having a hard time finding any solid information about it.
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Sneek looks really good. I like the idea of taking periodical snapshots to have a feel that you are almost connected with your team mates.

Any rough idea on the number of teams using sneek ?
I have a 2019 (I think) model and I really enjoy the typing experience.
So what do they do?

Revoke the app and developer account of that guy who wrote the free transit-mapping app for Montreal.

Google: hypocrisy on a colossal scale.
It's because they just use the name of the actual AVX ops (https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide...).

This is a low-level lib. They don't want to hide anything. If you see _mm* you know you are using AVX and which version (which is important to know which CPU is supported).

High level lib do use more natural names.
> computation expressions, unit of measure, operator overloading.

We have `let` operators instead.

And F# doesn't have proper overloading, it has an SML-like hack working for built-in types only, and only within a function, as far as I understand. It needs typeclasses for proper overloading. There is an ongoing work on Modular Implicits for proper overloading (and even dependent types in core language), but they are not there yet.
Yes, you can. However, since the last few years, the electricity company has started to charge something (about € 1,50 per month I think) for that. (Netherlands)
I do. I have each set to fire “as-it-happens,” but it’ll often be a few hours before it appears in my email.
https://github.com/grafana/loki is very promising in this space. Dead-easy to run.
Linux NTFS support is useful for that. It doesn't support them so you can just access/nuke any files you want through it even if Windows won't let you.
Branding is an important solution to the problem of validating product quality..

Often the only difference between a brand item and the generic version is the label. The contents are identical. Branding doesn't validate quality in that case.

Here in the UK Kellogs actually ran a campaign telling consumers "We don't make breakfast cereals for anyone else." The generic shop brands cereals started to get good enough that people thought Kellogs were making the cheaper stuff as well.
Regarding the multiple human ancestors aspect, here is an diagram of human species or groups if you want to avoid the "what is a species discussion" : https://imgur.com/a/AfrYjqF
It is from a recent symposium [1] on human evolution
The vertical axis is the age. The horizontal axis represent the geographical spread and the color represents the continent.

We can see multiples things:

- Disregard the 2010, it is indeed up-to-date. These past few years new bars have been added regularly.

- A single homo species is a new development and is an exception and not the rule

- Not only did different species live at the same time they sometimes lived in the same places

- There is no edges between the groups to represent ancestors as a simple "single ancestor" link is not easy to establish.

[1] https://www.college-de-france.fr/media/jean-jacques-hublin/U...
What are those valid reasons?
It might depend on popularity and download count. I am sure if there are some issues with Facebook app, they won't have to talk to a bot and they won't be banned in 12 hours.
At least for Google, "safe and following best practices" is really a stronger guarantee than they offer of being in the play store. "has paid us $25 and hasn't yet been caught doing anything sketchy" is it, but I don't think they want to promise safety when they can't deliver.
I would, if there was something like a global Netflix for newspapers. I'm European, what point do I have in subscribing in a shitload of US newspapers?

Media desperately needs a convenient and affordable financing model that does not depend on selling off their users' data to the highest bidder.
I got a mid-2015 MacBook Pro 15" because of the keyboard problems. The screen is beautiful and the processor is fast enough for Java development using IntelliJ.

Too bad I can't take this laptop with me when I'm flying because it's on the no-fly list.

My options for Apple laptops are pretty much zero right now.
My wife recently bought a macbook pro and I hate the keyboard (her comment was "you get used to it"). My 2015 MBP is running real slow and I didn't want to wait for next year's refreshed keyboard so I just ordered an oryx pro with ridiculous specs for less than I would have spent on a MBP (although probably the screen is worse and definitely the battery too - we'll see about the rest of the hardware). Really curious to see how it will feel to back to linux.
Apple has insulted users and embarrassed itself with this dogshit keyboard and the pathetic emoji bar... on a $4000 "pro" computer, no less.

Then there's the glued-together chassis, the soldered-in RAM and drives... when those go bad (and they will), you get to just throw the computer away instead of performing a routine replacement.

Apple's shoddily-made computers should be hanging from pegs in blister packs at Walgreen's.

It's too bad that Apple has given up on real computers. And Windows is a pathetic mess... so in the end, computers are returning whence they came: to the domain of scientists, hobbyists, and other serious users.
...as long as it's in euro. In other currencies, you may get lucky, you may not. I recently got charged € 6 for a payment from euro to zloty.
I don't dispute the importance of architecture!

But there was nothing new about architecture, essentially it is the choice of multidimensional function one tries to fit. In physics we have been fitting functions for hundreds of years. If you look at some experimental plot of say interference then you might decide to fit a sinusoid to it plus a background constant etc... the importance of fitting the right kind of function is obviously important, but we didn't know about algorithmic differentiation for hundreds of years (and it surely would have been welcome back then, even if performed by hand, it beats trial and error gradients).

That RM automatic differentiation is simple is easy to say in hindsight!

I don't think a richer diversity of functions is a bad idea, but it's already being used, softmax, exponents, sums, squares, ... why not perform gradient descent over a differentiable family of function that encompass these?

It's really disingenious to pretend RM AD was so very simple and then watch approvingly how someone throws it out the window and reverts to ... genetic programming? You want to let the computer find the best functions? fine, but then give the computer a superfunction which for certain values of an extra parameter differentiably reaches the functions you want to be considered.

Most of the architectures ... end up looking suspiciously much like plain old statistical physics! It's like we repeatedly witness how yet another introductory statistical physics expression turns out to perform well on very general sets of tasks (it really comes across as if everything should be treated like a dumb mole of water, and we never tried before because we simply refused to believe it could be that simple).
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That time has passed. There's functionality on Android that can only be reliably provided through play services these days (push notifications being the big one).
That is the enduring appeal of James Bond movies - the comforting fantasy that the spy agencies are competent
>Sometimes I think scientists fall for the same simplistic patterns of thinking that the men on the street fall for every day.

From the article:

>The term "missing link" drives anthropologists crazy when they hear anyone, especially journalists, use it to describe a fossil that is part-ape and part-human.

>Indeed Dr Henry Gee, a senior editor at Nature, once threatened to "rip my liver out and eat it with onions, borlotti beans and a glass of claret" if I did so when reporting a previous discovery.

>There are many reasons for Henry's irritation, but chief among them is the recognition that there are many links in the chain of human evolution and most if not nearly all of them are still missing.
Oh wow, I'd be shocked if I see this. There's already to many malware vectors to have it from your OS and browser supplier ..

Crazy.
The whole idea that humans have evolved from apes is something so stupid that I still cannot digest since the first day I heard of it in primary school. But besides the bone structure, we do have some resemblance, especially the impaired brain functionality to actually believe that shit.
>>but seems laughable to pay 3-6X for something unlikely to help.

I just bought a new helmet and the one with MIPS was among the cheapest options at the bike store I went to. There were many many other helmets without it that were vastly more expensive. I paid £50 for a Scott helmet that had MIPS, most other helmets were in the £80-150 range and most of them didn't have it. So I don't exactly feel like I paid extra for this technology, it just happened to be included with the helmet that was 1) within my budget 2) fit comfortably.
Well of course. But Facebook also has the resources and manpower to review and fix vague issues in a short timespan.

And lawyers who'd be happy to bill thousands of hours making a scene.
For a 13 inch or smaller laptop it is understandable to strike a balance between size, battery and specifications.

A 15 inch laptop is never going to be portable or easy to carry. We don't care about thickness. Just make it a bit thicker to add a full-travel keyboard.
Calming sounds of storms are great to relax to, reading a book or having a rainy day activity are quite nice.

However, storms are loved probably because when it storms predators are also hiding, it is a moment of peace in the animal kingdom.

It also means that the ecosystem is getting life from water, plants will grow and there will be food to eat.

Just like the Sun rising everyday, it is comforting to have something that contributes to being alive show up.
At least with Dell's on-site service, I have had two keyboards fixed for me at my desk in about about 5 minutes.
IMHO the title should say ad-supported instead of free.
I dislike Zuck as much as anyone, and probably more than most. But. I really don't understand why people whine about this particular quote. I think this may be one of the best things I've seen come from him. He is perfectly, one hundred percent correct.

They are dumb fucks for trusting him.

Zuck isn't a terrible person for saying that dumb fucks are dumb fucks. He's a terrible person for building a platform exploiting dumb fucks. He's a terrible person for everything except this particular conversation. Not the other way around.
We do a similar thing. Additionally, we use logrotate to move these files into S3, which later get ETLed into Parquet so we can scoop it for long term analytics.
>>I’m sure you’ve heard this but they say to replace a helmet every two-three years even if it hasn’t been in a crash.

Just like the sofa store tells me that ideally you need to flip all cushions on my sofa every day? It's a load of marketing nonsense.
Go scheduler Implementing language with lightweight concurrency [pdf]
Because languages with the same speed are generally a lot less flexible. If you have access to allegro CL or LispWorks and you and your team know CL you must have some very good reasons not to use it.

SBCL (the implementation they use) was(is?) known to have a pretty bad GC situation.
Very nice implementation Emkaka. I built a sticky notes replacement app too called Thought Train, but I really like your implementation :)
The thing about Thunderbird's "old annoying UI" is that it's incredibly compact. It fist 3 to 4 times the information in the same space. That looks ugly when you are used to the modern web trend of lots of padding and whitespace, but the ugly way is just way more practical to me. It's the reason I use Thunderbird and not Apple Mail.
Pretty sure the latest iteration of mobile search result ads on google.com would get banned by google
I find this conundrum fascinating and during a deep dive into obscure corners of Youtube I discovered there is a number of people that carried this logic throughout. They are called "life extinctionists". They indeed believe that life is suffering and thus it would be a net positive if all life went extinct. You may have thought the "Voluntary Human Extinction Movement" was fringe but this is so outrageous it becomes interesting to understand the logic. I can't find more links at the moment.

The debate between living vs avoiding suffering has very important implications for artificial life, artificial consciousness, artificial intelligence, and even space colonization and curing aging.
My time in computing started during the mid-80's, C had hardly any meaning outside UNIX clones, on our home computers running CP/M, AmigaDOS, MS-DOS, TOS, or other mainframe platforms like VAX/VMS, ClearPath, OS/400, z/OS,....

So those of my generation know that C being the very first systems programming language, the only way to write portable code across platforms in high level languages, is a kind of cargo cult from C devs.

Yes, I should have been more explicitly regarding ESP32's SDK. Point being that ESP-IDF Tools Installer supports C++.
Does Tesla own and run all their own repair shops or do they license and certify third party shops.
maybe if you could somehow set up sensors in every axon, but the level of analysis you can do with EEG isn't very informative