skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like they are starting to get seriously concerned about projecting non-monoplistic "fair competition" image. Unfortunately most devs know it's not the case in reality.
https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/
The frame of the phone is darker, and even that is not #000. The web page background is, though.
I always take people saying things like that with a grain of salt.

If the job is easily done (i.e. legally) then anyone can do it. If you have to break that law that's a way of advertising that you're motivated in the extreme - "I'll do anything for my client up to and beyond breaking the law"
How does the pressure manifest?
I've got a V750 and these days I can get a better scan with my Nikon D850 and a good macro lens.

I don't know if I'd say hand-printing is faster, but I guess it depends on how fussy you are about prints. I mean, you've got to do your test prints, your 'straight' print, then figure out your dodging and burning, though once you've got a good print then making copies is fairly straightforward. But oh man, paper is expensive these days.
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The international reply coupon racket was legitimate, though. It was kind of shitty, since it was abusing a loophole in the rules to extract money from postal services, but it was legal. In terms of morality, it’s little different from arbitraging stocks.

The problem was that this racket sucked, and instead of giving up on it he decided to turn it into a proper scam.
as dumb as it sounds, nobody likes to be a green bubble
There's a setting to turn on flagged/dead comment viewing, which I find very helpful. I feel like many don't realize the underbelly HN has, and I think many should.
Apparently the 'hacker' himself revealed he had an easy password, not the FBI. What does he gain by making himself look stupid? Have they released him from prison early?
> With Android 10, you’re in control of your privacy.

With privacy being the latest buzzword in the tech industry and all this news about privacy blunders I keep seeing, For Google to market something like this for Android makes you wonder what other nefarious features that have been added to Android that they didn't tell you about.

In terms of privacy, Android 10 instead screams "Upgrade and lose control of your privacy".
* See what you look like in a certain outfit being put through its paces. A stock video of a bride walking down the aisle or dancing in a dress could have the real bride's face put in place so the bride can visualize how she'll look in different situations.

* A demo video of what life in a new house would be like. Pre-recorded video featuring actors waking up, eating breakfast, and living life in a home could have the actors replaced with the potential home buyers.

* Security tests... for facilities that have to look for "banned" people, occasionally a face could be replaced on the video to see if the security guard notices. This is similar to the TSA sometimes testing workers by putting in fake images of guns or bombs into the X-Ray display to make sure their workers are actually paying attention.

* Retroactively correcting visual media that is no longer appropriate. I would love a version of "The Cosby Show" where Bill Cosby was replaced by another famous black actor just because it would trigger my liberal guilt less. This could allow studios to craft contracts where if a star committed a grievous act or if they die, their likeness could be replaced throughout the series and they would stop receiving royalties for their visual appearance. Dialog could be re-dubbed as well to complete the retroactive continuity.

* Updating low-res video... If there is a very poor and grainy interview with someone, the image might be able to be enhanced more completely by replacing the subjects face with a higher resolution copy of their own face!

* Smart therapy mirrors... people who have had disfigurements or have body image problems could have a smart mirror that displays a modified image for either self-esteem purposes or to help them psychologically.

* Same applies for funhouse/haunted house mirrors... seeing a mirror image of yourself with a zombie-ified head would be a great illusion.

* Real-world facial masking... You know how people can 3d map the exterior of a building and then project an image onto it using that 3d map taken into account to pull off some spectacular illusions? [1]

Something similar, sans holographic technology, could be done to make someone appear like someone else. A camera and 3d scanner environment to track the facial contours and location, with a projector projecting the image of another face onto the real face. Similar to the scene in Bladerunner 2049 where the AI girlfriend rents a real-world avatar for a personal encounter with her boyfriend. [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSR0Xady02o

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuV2c-6js8w
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Looks like 65% of purchases are financed with a $250 down payment and monthly payments of $85 at an APR of 17% with 10% delinquency rate (no credit checks).

Interesting risk factor.
Does Smart Reply send your messages to Google?
Is there anything about how breaches are currently remediated that might contribute to better outcomes than if we adopted a higher and harsher penalty system?

It seems like it might create some perverse incentives as the risk escalates.
so turn it off?
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I don't use forth personally, but it is at a very interesting corner of the envelope.

I find it both easier to implement than C and easier to develop in than C, while being nearly as fast as C, and often lower footprint than C. It's a really good language for "I really don't want to write in assembly, but there are no decent HLLs already implemented for my target"
How many other decisions made by kernel developers are you supposed to second-guess because you know better?
Yes, a 1000x error there :).

The numbers I read was that since 1950 the railway infrastructure budget has only increased by 30%. US budget in 1950 was around 70 billions, while 2018 it is 7 trillions. (https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/fed_spending_1950USbn)

The proportional funding should thus have went down by basically the same amount as the government spending went up. I might very well be wrong, and The Federal Railroad Administration was created in 1966 so I am not sure exactly which part of the government paid for railway before that point, and the 30% claim could of course be wrong. Department of Transportation has had a increase in funding by about 10x from 1970 to 2008, but I could not find exact numbers for the Federal Railroad Administration.
>By Mark Molloy and AP 4:09PM GMT 13 Nov 2014

[2014]
Due to the sensitive nature of the data and the need to keep it encrypted, breaking it down by columns into a schema we could query was a non goal.
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Huawei Accuses the U.S. of Cyberattacks and Staff Threats
Your sarcasm misses the mark. There are gas cars with phone apps to unlock the door.

The myChevrolet app at https://www.chevrolet.com/my-chevrolet-mobile-app can "Remotely start and stop your vehicle, lock and unlock the doors, and even sound the horn (if properly equipped)."

Perhaps ".. pedals away on his bike" works better?
AI Deep-Dive: From 0 to Graph Neural Networks
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They can still fly long enough on a set of batteries to spray a reasonably-sized field. They can be much more precise than spraying from a plane and are much cheaper.

They have a real use-case though of course they are not always the best option.
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There's another plant, Onagawa, which is closer to epicenter than either Fukushima and experienced bigger tsunami yet it survived just fine.
We know that having a fairly constant source of baseline power works because that is what we are currently doing. The onus to prove that some combination of wind solar and batteries costs less and will deliver sufficient power across all use cases should be on the wind / solar advocates. We know nuclear plants work because they're currently in use all over the world.

Why demand numbers from others when you can't provide any yourself?
Which bar?
Here's a list of high yield savings accounts, many options at or above 2%: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/high-interest-savings-to-get/
I want to make it clear I'm not advocating for any action with this post, but it did make me curious. Given the parenthetical of this article

>After costs, the Jockey Club’s take goes to charity and the state, providing as much as a tenth of Hong Kong’s tax revenue.

and previously,

>Hong Kong’s population was then only about 5.5 million, but it bet more on horses than the entire U.S., reaching about $10 billion annually by the 1990s.

Isn't horse racing gambling a ripe area for the Hong Kong protesters to disrupt?
> Windmills can’t provide steady base load power all the time. They need to be paired with some sort of storage technology.

Nuclear can't provide power that adapts to changing load demands. They need to be paired with storage or peaker plants.
Would it be that difficult to run chips in a secure mode with no hyperthreading or branch prediction when handling sensitive information and then takes the brakes off for normal operation? I mean, I wouldn't really care if someone was watching everything I do for 95% of my computer use time.
This looks nice and clean. Is it all domain based, or can I drill down to view hits of individual URLs.

+1 for self-hosting analytics, something I encourage everyone to do if you have the time to devote to it. I dislike sites handing my browsing habits off to random third-parties.

Obviously, really large sites need more sophisticated analytics but for most sites something like GoogleAnalytics is complete overkill. It grabs information that nobody except Google's machine learning bots are ever going to look at.
Looks like the pool on the roof might have a leak.
That works too, just not a scalable solution for all diacritic characters.
Somewhere around 2009 or so, our Mac users wanted 'real' keyboards, and they almost universally started using the Dell OEM keyboard of the time.

It wasn't anything fancy, but it worked. They were dirt cheap, like $7 on eBay, and we had piles of them from buying new PC's for teh rest of the office.
Linux uses a bunch of package managers, it doesn't solve anything yet creates the problem of "X isn't in the repo, now what?".
> can't for the love of god get used to anything else. Mechanical keyboards are often quite thick. Palm pads don't help, I'd still feel my hands are uncomfortably elevated.

I've had a similar problem (although I'm using Windows). I bought a surface keyboard for its thinness, but my wrists were still at a semi-painful angle when typing.

I looked at many wrist pads, but they're all "mushy" and not "wide" enough to support my forearms.

So, to deal with the wrist issue, I "built" this (https://imgur.com/a/cYBksBO) from my kids' Legos. YMMV, but it has worked tremendously well for my wrists and forearms.
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Actually there are a number of new privacy-enhancing features in this release. Probably the most prominent is that it will help you choose which apps should be able to get location information in the background. Google obviously has a tricky relationship with privacy, but as far as I know Android 10 is strictly better in that regard.
Somehow looks it's not so easy to do in EU. Especially with mobile phone numbers. Or i'm just bad at googling.
How to Use Google Chrome Tab Groups
How is hyperthreading being insecure not a defect?
Varnish 6.0 denial of service
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I'm really surprised that ergonomic, split-key designs aren't more popular. Do you all enjoy unnaturally squishing your hands or something? Fans of RSI?
Vulnerabilities in Broadcom/Cypress wifi chips' firmware have been known for a while now:

https://blog.exodusintel.com/2017/07/26/broadpwn/
Show HN: Reimagining My CV as an iOS App
TLDR:
The UX of viewing a PDF CV on a mobile device is subpar, so I tried designing a better experience.

InVision link:
https://invis.io/6AT12ROPEWN

Details:
I saw someone view my CV on a mobile device, trying to pinch and zoom their way to read the content. As a fun project, a way to differentiate myself in job applications (alongside my traditional CV and an excuse to learn Swift (which I am now starting), I decided to design something better. This is version 1.0, so any feedback or guidance would be very much appreciated :)

Viewing notes:
The prototype was made using Sketch and InVision. It is optimised for the iPhone X, working best when downloaded to the X’s home screen or when viewed on a laptop/desktop browser.
The more PL-focused aspects of this timeline (prior to the 1990s) are covered in Part 1 of "Semantics Engineering with PLT Redex". We used it for my operational semantics class and I thought it was good, but I also had one of the authors as the professor haha.
> HEIF Imaging

> Support for new file format (.heic) to save still images.

What is the advantage of .heic images?
Note that "true black" saves almost no additional power on an OLED vs a dark grey.