skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The encryption/upload is streamed, but the download/decryption is not, we will work on that. Thanks for the link!
All that grade-level gaming paid off, I reckon! This was a funny, informative personal account of it :)
I guess we should have given fyre festival a chance?
iOS call blockers using the built-in API don't have this issue, it's like the content blocking for Safari but for calls. You enable them under Settings->Phone->Call blocking. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15025709
Ethereum Name Service vows to make Tor browser easier to use
The author seems to have left off his name, but I assume the Chinese or HK government could easily obtain his name/address from the domain registrar. So if the extradition bill was passed he might join the many people he lists in prison.

But the bill was declared "dead", so I guess he's probably OK besides the possibility of masked thugs.
It's also known as "putting things in perspective" and is commonly seen in rational, non-partisan, assessment of events...

People thinking (or pretending to think) their "shit doesn't smell" criticize only (or mainly) the other side, for things their side does as well, and demonize the Other, down to supporting policy implications, sometimes down to sanctions and even war.

And when someone points to their own shit they invoke "whataboutism" to continue to have their hands in the ears -- and they'd think unfair if they had the same policies/actions against them.
Scaling. Classic stagecoach designs are extremely stable; I've seen someone drift them at a rodeo. Disney's original stagecoaches were undersized and with full sized people the center of gravity was too high. There's a mention of this in "The Hollywood Posse", by Diana Serra Cary, which is about cowboy stunt riders.
Congrats on what looks like a great project.

I've been a paying YNAB customer for over a year, so I assume I'm your target market. I haven't felt a particular need for multi-currency support. What would you say the advantage is over YNAB aside from multi-currency support?

If it helps I can tell you what I really like about YNAB:

- The mobile app is very easy and intuitive for entering transactions as they occur. It prefills fields based on my location so that I often only have to enter the amount.

- Cloud sync and multi-device support means it is easy to share a budget with my wife.

- Because all accounts, loans and recurring transactions are in there the reporting feature gives me a complete overview of our financial situation, past, present and future.

- The YNAB community was very helpful when getting started, because in the beginning it can be tricky to understand how to fit edge cases into the transaction history (like loans and credit cards).

As an aside: I don't use any transaction import features. I tried it out and found it disconnected me from my spending. Within the YNAB community it is considered best practice to not import transactions automatically. For that reason you may want to choose to not offer those features, as there is a good case to be made people shouldn't use them and they are likely to drain a huge amount of your time.
> however they have access to legal due process and their rights are guaranteed in law. There certainly have been abuses and violations, but these have frequently been reported in the medial and successfully challenged in courts of law.

This point! According the the link in practise they do not have the ability to leave. So I guess that's the standard "we" should hold "them" to?

> The point is, it doesn't get them off the hook though.

I very much agree, but at the end of the day these choices were made by people - they should be held accountable. Don't hold a politicial system accountable.
Life at Zoho
Making replacement parts and (free) manuals available is not pro-consumer?
In my experience infosec people tend to be pretty awful programmers. They are experts at mining other people's code bases for common exploit patterns but not so great at the wider systems/engineering stuff.

But agreed it was probably purchased from some vuln dev and put together by some hack gov employee with some Microsoft certifications or (far less likely) some indifferent blackhat with powerful weapons well out of his scope, although 'black market zero day markets' are mostly non-existent hype. Especially for multiple iOS vulns. There's a good reason the cost of those exploits is so high given the low level of programming talent around in security.

Watering holes + "targeting sub-communities" typically mean spies hitting up some conference website or industry news thing. Who knows what country they are in and how sophisticated their local CS people are.
I got the option to play video from external device as Picture in Picture, so I'd say the inbuilt unit is quite capable of sharing the display and touch screen.
The notifications are that he violated the ‘deceptive behavior policy’. His appeal is that he is willing to change his behavior.

A reasonable question would be how his app is violating the policy. But he does not ask that, his appeal is that he was not given the chance to clean up his act, so he just should get 1 strike. Which suggests that he is aware how the app is violating the policy.
Personal anecdote;

I remember taking a standardized test, can't remember if it was SAT or CSAT (Colorado pre-SAT test). This was at a time when I'm confident that humans were the graders.

I started with an intro that would be appropriate for a standard 5 paragraph essay; i.e. the thing you write when you don't know what you're talking about and you're just following a format.

In the third paragraph I took a leaf from family guy, and just interjected "WAFFLES, NICE CRISPY WAFFLES, WITH LOTS OF SYRUP." for the next page and a half, I berated the very foundation of the essay prompt, insulting it the way only an angst ridden early teen can.

... I got a 98% on the essay.

Fast forward several years. I write an essay for for an introductory college course final. My paper is returned to me with a coffee stain and a "94% - good work!" note scribbled on the top. That note was scribbled by a TA that would turn out to be my girlfriend for 2 years. One night in bed, she tilts her laptop to me, showing an article that I used as the central theme to the above essay; "can you believe this?"

"Are you joking? Of course I can believe this, it was the subject of the essay you gave me an A on 2 years ago"

She admits she didn't read past the first paragraph of anything she grades, and just bases grades on intuition based on how articulate the essays are at the outset.

...

The point I'm making:

Does AI suck at judging the amount of informative content in a student essay? YES

Do humans suck at judging the amount of informative content in a student essay? ALSO YES
I can't believe that anyone would try to automatically grade essays. This is either deeply cynical or astonishingly dumb.
Who cares? The positives must be evaluated by a human anyway.
I have several pbx systems running, and granted this is a newer concept. Maybe this will help residential calls, business calls on the other hand will most likely allow the consumer to still take the path of least resistance.
> are the Uyghur Muslims treated worse than immigrants in many western places like US / EU / AUS?

Yes, obviously. The immigrants are choosing to travel to the US / EU / AUS. Indeed, the west has a proud history of skimming the best and brightest from China because they'd rather live somewhere else. I'll stand to be corrected but I don't think the West has anything comparable to the exodus of Hong Kongers basically fleeing for political reasons, we in Australia have acquired a lot of good people from that. Nobody sane is choosing to go to Xianjing and be treated as the Uyghurs.

The west can always be more welcoming and there are ugly moments; but there is a vast reserve of people who look at western countries, think 'I want to migrate there, it is better than where I am' and act upon their thoughts.

The premise here is just a bit weird. Nobody would migrate if they expected to be treated worse afterwards than if they'd just stayed home. If they really didn't like it they'd probably even turn around and return. On an absolute scale, we'd expect migrants to be very satisfied with their migration.
So, on the one hand we've had this discussion here a ton of times: People are using Electron because it means faster shipping, easier cross-platform development, and so on. But on the other hand, the amount of hackery in Slack[1] that needs to happen just to get a level of performance and memory usage that comes within the ballpark of a native application is so high that it begs the question: At what point does the amount of work needed to get basic levels of performance negate the initial gains of building the application using a tool like Electron?

I'm not trying to troll and say "Electron bad" btw, I'm genuinely curious.

[1] See also: Optimizing VSCode, for instance: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...
As someone considering switching from Firefox, I don't trust Moz://a's willingness to disrupt the status quo. In fact, at the moment I'm not entirely sure they are not simply entrenching Chrome by blocking other niche browsers to gain market share.
> Wouldn't modern C++ be better suited than Rust because it's closer to C?

I think the point is that it would be worse because it's closer to C.
I'll bite.

C++ has quite a few powerful features that Rust doesn't have, including better platform support, but Rust has a lot of things going for it that would make it well suited to kernel development:

* no exceptions, and language features and a type system that is set up for explicit error handling - the kernel would need to disable C++ exceptions anyway, making error handling just as cumbersome as in C.

* the ML inspired type system helps to write correct code (eg sum types)

* the language is not riddled with UB and legacy C support induced cruft. You can opt in to unsafety with `unsafe` blocks, but these can be tightly scoped to where it's necessary and can be especially scrutinized

Especially in the context of a kernel, the increased safety guarantees are worth a lot.
> I'm not defending China, I'm just saying many countries do terrible things - also democratic ones (sometimes it's the goverment, sometimes it's the people).

Great, then you can write a blog post about that and post it to HN and we’ll discuss those atrocities on that post.

Meanwhile let’s stay on topic here, and discuss an article written by a HK citizen to Chinese citizens about China.

This is whataboutism, a classic conversational anti pattern that rears its head every single time China comes up on HN. It’s time to stop.
I very much agree, this is what we should focus on (and the article does mention it).
>Hopefully the person does not have Argyll Robertson pupils https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyll_Robertson_pupil which is seen in late stage syphilis and causes the pupil not to react to the light.

Or they (what percentage would that be?) could just use an alternative method. Like people with glass eyes would.
Would kernel development be one of the use-cases where the security benefit of Rust's safety guarantees would outweigh the higher performance ceiling you get with C++? I don't know much about kernel development, so I would be curious what experts think about those tradeoffs.
Nothing is perfect, but dictatorship is worse. I live close what remains of the Berlin wall. People risked their lives to jump it and escape to the democratic side. Nobody ever wanted to escape the democratic side and jump in the other direction. Why?

I love China and I have a lot of empathy for the Chinese people. You have an amazing and ancient culture and I hope that you can release yourselves from oppression, gain control of your own government as a people, prosper and be happy. We are all human beings, fuck the dictators.
Very entertaining presentation, not about opening day, but about operations at Disney parks in general: https://resources.qt.io/videos/qtws18-keynote-beyond-the-ux-...

Spoiler: ... ah, watch it yourself
What's wrong with Facebook calendar? Just get the ical url and add it to your Google calendar
I thought this would be about implementing custom notification server and not using google's or apple's.
>Sure, you could replicate anything given enough budget

You just killed a person and extracted their eyes to use to open some door. I think you have the budget for something that you can make for $200 with Lego Technic...
The ES6 Map Method
Again, why should Apple have a monopoly on doing or permitting repairs with genuine components on devices sold in millions.
Preventive by nature (tech used to prevent intrusions using such method), not by timeline (tech used before the first such intrusion attempt to prevent it from ever happening).
Yes, that is π in Euclidean space, but that is rare (¿nonexistent?) according to our current understanding of nature.
Which SIP client do you use? I'm having trouble finding a good voip client. The telecom world is full of bad software with 1990s designs.

Endless confusing configuration forms with vague repetitive labels.
"I don't understand your capital gains comment"

I mean this ruling doesn't strip all tax liability from everything bitcoin touches.

It is just about Vat not being due in fairly limited circumstances. I don't think we are in disagreement here.
...and I don't know about iOS, but I've had this happen at the very worst of times on Android. I've need to click on a dialog in Google Maps to accept a route change, and just then a pop-over dialog appeared that I accidentally clicked. Now the routing is backgrounded and you have some other app open.
> The problem is that the callers disguise their identity and in most cases are overseas beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement.

The problem is that the US telco providers let them disguise their identity.

In Germany, there are anonymous calls, and calls where you see the caller's numbers. I've never once been called by a spoofed number.

So, it's possible to prevent that, given the political will, and the necessary investments in infrastructure.
If you truly want to make it better, the solution is not to bring it up in response to external criticisms, where it lessens the impact of both, but in context where it can be assessed in semi-isolation, to preserve forward momentum of both subjects.

What you've done here, whether on purpose or accident, is partake in a variant of whataboutism. The only people it helps are those against progress in both situations.
A number of states found out their schools were graduating students who genuinely could not read or write effectively. If you want to quantify that, you're forced to test it somehow. How would you test writing ability without asking them to write something?
>According the the link in practise they do not have the ability to leave...

That's a rally weird and kind of irrelevant technical point. In that specific case 'leave' means pay for their own flight back to their own country, instead of being deported there by the US government. It does not mean simply walk out of the detention centre. They are in violation of US law and in US custody. The argument is about their humane and fair treatment.

I'm in no way saying the western system is perfect, it's been terribly abused, and still is. My point is that independent journalism, an informed public and independent judicial review are powerful things and do make a difference. It is entirely morally consistent to both argue for fair treatment of people in the west, and advocate it for people in China.

As for political systems, they are created by people. When I say 'China' or 'The Chinese Government' I mean the individuals in power in the Chinese government. They are accountable.
> That’s the type of media blackout which I understand is currently imposed on Xinjiang.

I personally think the UN human rights council is at least as important, as the international media's role in fixing human rights problems is debatable. In that light:

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jan/04/trump-administra...

as the article states:

> “They are sending a very dangerous message to other countries: that if you don’t cooperate with UN experts they will just go away. That’s a serious setback to the system created after World War II to ensure that domestic human rights violations could no longer be seen as an internal matter,” Dakwar said.

Maybe China received this message loud and clear?
Frankly, I can't believe what I am reading. The idea that some "AI" grades essays automatically is idiotic and has nothing to do with education. Where is the place for discussions? Where is the place for ideas confrontation? Where is the place for writing style development? How this AI is supposed to grade things like repetitions (that can be either good rhetorical tool or a mistake, depending on context), etc?

Who the hell came out with such an idea. I would even hesitate to use "AI" for automatic spell checking as it is sufficient to give some character unusual name and it will be marked as error.

My guess is that soon or later people will learn how to game that AI. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some software that will generate essay that Utah "AI" likes.
If anyone wants to use these tools practically I urge you to have a good look at this paper : https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1439/

My take away - pretraining achieves excellent paper results but robust application is hard. There is still quite a way to go down this road for fault intolerant users and applications.
Yes, we've reverted to the article title now.

Submitters: please follow the site guidelines. They include: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As someone in the market for a truck, why specifically USA and not somewhere else?

I'm always a bit bemused by this. We were urged to buy British in the late seventies and early eighties. My dad lapped it up and the reward for his loyalty was a string of really crap cars.
> leveraged zero-days for iOS for years

Isn't that a problem with the iOS walled garden, not even security researchers can properly investigate users devices and detect infections like this, like they can with desktop operating systems...?
Or it is partial and a temporary ploy to sway away the legislation while its support is active and strong.
I think that more people should understand that shitty people do shitty things. And they when they do they should be held accountable. We get a lot closer to fixing them.

I'm just highlighting endless bikeshedding, imo human right violations just don't always have very much to do with the political system of a country. As such changing the political system in a country doesn't make all the human right violations magically disappear.
Interesting, thanks for teaching me something today :)
Two points. First studies that consist of surveys aren't really very useful because they don't measure how people act or think, they measure how people answer surveys. It is extraordinarily easy to change how people answer by wording things in different ways. People lie on surveys and surveys ask bad questions.

Second, if you want to make a difference you have to train people to have the confidence to report and train leadership to actively reinforce that confidence.

I have involved myself in a few situations where someone would tell me about an incident and how it was reported which made it abundantly obvious that even though an incident had been reported, the manner in which it was reported was soft-balled in a wishy washy forgiving way to management instead of directly reporting what happened and how it made the victim feel. Really good managers will see through the wobbly report and drive to discover the truth but good intentioned managers often take soft reports at face value and maybe respond with a warning for an action that warranted immediate dismissal.

The most vulnerable people often have the most self doubt and even when those people have the courage to report something, that doubt plays a big role in the reports and translates into weak responses.
Arguably, Hemingway's texts are well written. One of the sources of power of his prose is the use of simple words, and basic sentence structures. I bet Word would classify that as below 12th grade.

The point I am trying to make in agreement with the parent is: there are qualities that are very hard to score with algorithms. The difficulty of solving this problem equals if not exceeds that of automated translation, which still only works properly for specialized and limited domains, e.g. weather forecasts.
My guess is that soon or later people will learn how to game that AI.

Already been done. http://lesperelman.com/writing-assessment-robo-grading/babel...

Here's a sample essay that is complete nonsense and got a perfect score on the GRE.

http://lesperelman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/6-6_ScoreI...
Legislative bodies is in trouble. Britain seems to have just had a coup. Look at how Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, not by popular election but by vote of Conservative Party members only. And now he's suspending Parliament.

The problems of the US Congress are well known. It used to run the country. Now it barely does anything.
Reminds me of the plagiarism checker they had at my partners university, they would check identical words on specific subjects... Meaning every word in any order, so naturally there is a high % of overlap not only with quotes but also the words used regarding the subject, the teacher would take this literally as "you did not write this yourself" if 10% of words would be similar.

Don't think anyone passed that class.
Beware the Salesperson’s Incentives
> In the Mankhurd slum in Mumbai, where the average life expectancy is 39

I wish articles didn't use life expectancy which is always misleading and confusing since it's severely affected by infant mortality. What would be more interesting would be 2 numbers, infant mortality and life expectancy at age 5.
On topic:

He wants a different political system (democratic) and his arguments are that the current one did many bad things. My point is that changing the political system doesn't change the bad things he's talking about. As we can clearly see in many democratic systems in the world.

I don't think I'll write a blogpost. Given the initial responses of my current comments I am sure it would get downvoted anyway.
> a great use case where a school nurse called the speaker about their child, and she was very lucky to pick up and not let it go to voicemail.

a) if you're a sloppy enough parent that you don't even have your kids' school phone number saved as a contact, I suspect you're accustomed to relying on luck.

b) "Use our service or your children might die" is fairly over the top marketing, even for marketers.
I thought my memories of seeing in the water were false. I used to swim in deep crevasses in the river by my home and look for glimpses of trout and steelhead. I could dive down and get crayfish after spotting them from fairly high up. I remember needing to equalize many times and my body would lose buoyancy. Sometimes I'd lay on the sand or rocks and those are my most vivid memories of seeing under water. The algae on the rocks would be swaying, sunlight refracting all over, and the sound was nothing but a gentle, deep, soothing vibration of the water tumbling over stones.

I recall my vision being far from perfect past 6 or 7 feet, but still pretty usable.

These days I need a low volume mask and contacts if I want to see anything in the water.
Nicely done. did you using shunting yard algorithm for parsing the expressions?

I also developed developers calculator, but I didn't add support for float as you did.
https://www.github.com/mellowcandle/bitwise
It's intellectually dishonest to say that Congress barely does anything.
University lowers entry score for female applicants in engineering and IT
Hong Kong Tensions Rise as Key Activists Arrested, March Banned