skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your view is exceedingly narrow and uninformed if you really believe running Cron in production to be a blanket "terminable offense". A tool not being sufficient for your use case does not make that tool worthless or poor. You should reflect a bit before making statements like that if you actually run a business.
"Stupid things" billioniares are currently funding:

- Immortality

- Transhumanism

- Flying cars

- Fusion (arguably, considering its track record)
Whalers called them Killer Whales, perhaps originally Whale killers, from observation of their behavior
No, the complaint is not that Cook is not providing direct evidence, and it is a complete misrepresentation to suggest so. It makes your protestations of disinterest rather suspect, as those of supposed "devil's advocates" so often seem to be.

The complaint is that Cook's claims are extraordinary and seemingly impossible on their face because of the fundamental nature of the app in question. Its purpose is to show the aggregated position of large concentrations of police, so as to let users avoid confrontations with them. How can such an app be used to "target individual officers for violence", since it provides no information about individual officers?

When so extraordinary a claim is made, hearsay evidence isn't the issue. What is necessary is an explanation of how the seemingly impossible is possible. Cook does not provide this or even address the apparent problem. A neutral person, reading Cook's memo without the proper background, might be mislead into believing the app in question does provide tracking of individual police officers. I don't accept this is an accident on Cook's part. I think he is deliberately attempting to mislead his own employees regarding the nature of the app, and as a consequence his decision to ban it.

Cook's cited but unenumerated "credible" information received from a government body and users only compounds the situation. Cook could provide plenty of additional material to support his claim. He could provide more detailed information on exactly what information was received, in what volume, and in what form. He could explain the efforts the company undertook to perform independent corroboration of the evidence. He could provide a detailed account of why, in this case, he believes an autocratic government currently conducting a brutal repression of its own citizens can be trusted to communicate honestly about it, given neither it, nor any similar autocratic government, has ever spoken honestly about similar situations in the past.

Fundamentally, the problem isn't whatever evidence does or does not exist. It is that Cook's memo is a weak, politician's attempt to justify a misdeed by making absurd claims for which he provides no evidence at all. He is trying to make a problem go away, not engage with a difficult situation as a human being.
I would really love if the system76 laptops had hardware kill switches for the camera and the microphone. If the camera switch also physically occludes the lens, that would be great.
A perpetual license would still activate the software you had received prior to having access prohibited. That is the issue in question. People have loaded software on their machines and they cannot use it. You are bringing up another important aspect of reproduction and the importance of maintaining access to software installers, but that is a different conversation.

This is how Steam works for example.
It can also affect people indirectly, which leads to the same reasons we have laws requiring seatbelts or motorcycle helmets.

Not everyone wants to see someone die in a horrible way and have to clean up the mess.
It is only unstoppable to the extent that there is no political will to regulate or break it up.
AOSP, which is hardly ever run on its own, is open source.

Things like the Play store are entirely closed source. A majority of the API shipped by the Play store are closed source. Many hardware drivers are closed source. The majority of the operating system is Apache licensed, allowing a handset maker to ship modified components without publishing their changes.

Many vendors also prevent the user from installing their own custom ROMs, so even a sophisticated user may not be able to run AOSP on an arbitrary device.
The article is describing and comparing legends. It makes that clear multiple times, it doesn't claim any of this actually existed as described. So how does it "offend rational thought"?
Agreed, not to hijack, but I fail to see the that $ORG not being at the table Vs. them constantly redefining morality for their actions to be at the table to be a less worse outcome.
Social Credit Scoring in China Extends to Foreign Businesses, Creates New Risks
Oh totally agreed on the diversion of resources, and even before the machine (skills hired, teams divisions etc).

However open worlds, imho, pose challenges but not to the extent that it explains or excuses the lack of 'basic' low-level (physiological almost) engagement. It's a different problem I think, e.g. consider the 'blandness' of a typical NES or early PC world, and yet how engaging some titles managed to be. That's what I'm talking about. Sure, visuals help immersion (so a great open world may help, a bland one may deter), but this is at another, higher level than controls.

For instance, even in 3D, I remember having more fun "farming" in old-school ugly MMOs — up to and including WoW 1.x — than in later very "rich" worlds. The problem is so basic: for instance, visual feedback not perfectly timed to provoke "satisfaction" or a "reward" feeling, but rather feels frustrating and/or working against me (the worst feeling ever in a game, when the part that's yours — e.g. feedback, hitpoints — seems rigged or not fair or simply deceitful / obfuscated).

I remember reading Square Enix devs for FFXIV that "yes, boss X is essentially 'cheating' but that's because hollywood experience! better this way!"... — err, no, sorry, not ever was a game better because your opponent is visibly unfair — hasn't anyone learned from Metal Gear. This was the day I knew I just couldn't keep playing the game, it would never be satisfying to me because of its design philosophy.

As a friend in game dev at Capcom explained to me once, player controls is a very tedious work of finding the "ideal" timing windows and key combinations / orders that just make it "fun", subjectively. It's a lot of back-and-forth between code and testing some alpha — hundreds of times over a typical day. It's almost biological in nature, like good music. And stupid loads of time + great tooling are paramount to do this job well — one reason PlayStation SDKs are so appreciated in the industry ever since day 1, 1994; a polar opposite to Nintendo's for instance (I hear they got better, but look no further to explain 'lack of third-party support' on many of their platforms).

Controls may be "precise" but above all need to be predictable, learnable — like Sonic has always been 'sloppy', unlike Mario, but this ties in well with his speed (hence inertia) and persona (go-getter), and it's a small learning curve for players, but one that sets 'experienced' players appart. A great "sloppy" implementation, nonetheless precise mathematically.

I definitely have to check out Hollow Knight, though!

Sorry for a long piece, it's one of my 'truths' in game 'quality'. Note that this is all good advice to design UI in general for any kind of software — especially the timing of action, feedback, effect on events. There's a way — through testing — to make it all just 'flow' 'naturally' and with a weirdly 'satisfying' feeling.
Support for running same model on both Android and iOS, for one.
tldr: Leave it alone, nature will find a way
I used to dream of setting up a company that sold solid hardware laptops with solid components and paying really good kernel hackers to write really good drivers just for those devices, and then running BSD and XFCE and selling it as the uber-menace choice for silicon valley types

Just saying simple and bullet proof goes a long way
The answer is probably: Stay Tuned.
Tactical API Obsolescence
Maybe.

Another thing that jumped out to me is why the top 400? Why not 500? Why not 100? 400 is an odd number to choose.

We know the very top earners tend to be cases of windfalls. You sell your company, you offload all your shares, you sell a ton of land. Those can have odd tax implications.

My guess is that they cherry picked the top 400 because it supported their conclusion. And the tax rates were a 1-off event that doesn’t normally happen.
I am all in on the kindle ecosystem as well but everything that isn’t in the buy path is really a second class citizen.

Personal docs don’t sync page progress

Library checkout process has a sign out button right next to the borrow button

It is all subtle nudges that feel designed to keep you in ecosystem.
Or octopus.
The first duty of public companies is to the shareholders. Users fuzzy feelings figure very little in the incentive structure. Sideloading is probably too damaging to the short term profits of the company to be on the table. Or it might not even be a question worth considering for the board .
Wouldn't it be kind of like "DNS for locations" where any string phrase could be associated with the OLC/Plus Code (many human descriptive names to one location identifier)? Better, what if you could then universally translate between that and the many other kinds of location encodings, both human descriptive and computer identifier?

That's what we do at QA Locate with our LNS (Location Naming Service) and our ULT (Universal Location Translator). See our technical two pagers located here: https://www.qalocate.com/resources/
I've never been convinced that the software-hardware analogy is especially enlightening when it comes to the brain and the mind, in my informed opinion.
I'm on an internal tooling team @ PlayStation and man do I appreciate how much the company encourages cross-site and cross-team collaboration. Reading your comment made me cringe :/ so so sorry for you folks working at Apple.
Idk about your experiences but I've been using Linux Mint for over a year now and it's just been working smoothly out of the box (better than Windows even). The only part where I had some problems initially were graphics drivers but that's only because I messed with them unnecessarily.
How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2019
I like this topic a lot.

Obviously, the easiest is to build on top of existing index. This in turn makes it a purely marketing play (DDG's marketing play is "privacy").

Here is one exploration of the following concept: search engine built on top of high quality sites only (as vetted by HN submission history)

https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=014479775183020491825:c2lrlzro...

Described in full here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21209358
100%.

Just drove a car with multiple sensors and cameras and it wouldn't stop freaking out in the rain. Even while parked in an empty lot. It also slammed the brakes automatically while I was driving. Scared the crap out of me so I immediately turned it off after that incident.
Harry Potter, then?
Our favorite Go 1.13 features
> This illustrates my pointer perfectly.

Well your point was that it wasn't used as guidance for war until we showed that it was...

> While true, pretty much every leader since the dawn of time has known that.

No I don't think they have. I think it has been constantly forgotten and rediscovered. Today when we talk about how to fight we might say this in terms of 'shatter the enemy's cohesion and will to fight' rather than fighting them directly. Get inside their OODA loop, match strength with weakness, in other words. It turns out people don't naturally do this! It has to be taught!

They forgot this, for example, during WW1 when they fought attrition warfare. They focused on meeting the enemy and having a fight, toe-to-toe, force against force. There's something about human nature that seems to always lead people toward this approach by default, and we have to constantly remind ourselves of advice, using for example Tzu, to avoid it and instead of looking to fight the enemy, to break the enemy's cohesion.
Scalar Dark Matter in Radio-Frequency Band: Atomic-Spectroscopy Search Results
I'm presuming a local company would be even more willing to bend than Apple is, and would do so more often.
I believe the same applies to Amazon to an extent, too.
It's just a SQLite file, so you should be able to perform operations on it pretty easily (make a backup first!)
I don't understand why people would flag comments as 'suspect', have we reached McCarthyism or the hyper sensitive Chinese level yet? Why is it impossible for people to address the opinions and reasons within a comment specifically without resorting to 'suspecting the motives of the individual'? In other words, why does the motives of the individual matters to you if the opinion expressed within the comments can stand by themselves?
More anecdata: we consistently outperform lightgbm, xgboost, random forests, linear models, etc. using neural networks even on smaller datasets. This applies whether we implemented the other algorithms ourselves or simply compared to someone else’s results with them. In my experience it really comes down to how many “tricks” you know for each algorithm and how well can you apply and combine these “tricks”. The difference is that neural networks have many more of these tricks and a broader coverage of research detailing the interactions between them.

I call them “tricks” but really they’re just design decisions based on what current research indicates about certain problems. This is largely where the “art” part of neural networks comes from that many people refer. The search space is simply too big to try everything and hope for the best. Therefore, how a problem is approached and how solutions are narrowed and applied really matter. Even simple things like which optimizer you use, how you leverage learning rate schedules, how the loss function is formulated, how weights are updated, feature engineering (often neglected in neural networks), and architectural priors make a big difference on both sample efficiency and overall performance. Most people, if they’re not just fine-tuning an existing model, simply load up a neural network framework, stack some layers together and throw data at it expecting better results than other approaches. But there’s a huge spectrum from that naive approach to architecting a custom model.

This is why neural networks are so powerful and why we tend to favor it (though not for every problem). It’s much easier to design a model from the ground up with neural networks than it is for e.g. xgboost because not only are the components more easily composable thanks to the available frameworks but there’s a ton more research on the specific interactions between those components.

That doesn’t mean than every problem is appropriate for neural networks. I completely agree with you that no matter what the problem is you should never jump to an approach just because its popular. Neural networks are a tool and for many problems you need to be comfortable with every one of those decision points to get the best results and even if you’re comfortable it can take time and that isn’t always appropriate for every problem. My other point is that I wouldn’t draw too many conclusions about a particular algorithm being better or worse than another. I’m not saying that was the intention with your comment but I know many people in the ML industry tend to take a similar position. It really depends on current experience with the applied algorithms, not just experience with ML in general.
They finally figured out[1] why some docks would brick the Switch. The bad docks were implementing USB-PD in microcontroller and putting too much voltage on pin. Proper USB-PD adapters are fine; it is only a couple Switch-specific docks that were problematic.

1: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-sw...
Projected increase in the spatial extent of contiguous U.S. summer heat waves
Archive Lush
Ah, what do we have here? A brand new account that spams a Japanese learning website:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=learnjapanese.best

We can see from the above that this site was also spammed by another, established account that spams similar Japanese learning websites at roughly the same intervals:
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sova

So, I'm guessing that this new spam account is also sova. Don't give clicks to spammers, please.
> iCloud in China is operated by a state-owned telecom ... so they could use the data to track the protestors.

Please stop spreading lies unless you have evidence to back up your claim.

From [0]: "Apple has never made user data, whether stored on the iPhone or in iCloud, more technologically accessible to any country's government."

Disclaimer: mainlander here.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21209190
For one thing, pretty much every Android device made for the Chinese market has had its OS adulterated in some way, at OEM build time, at the behest of the Chinese government. Whereas, Chinese resellers can't really adulterate an iPhone's OS; there's just the one OS image (per model), signed and sealed by Apple, and if China wants to put a rootkit on it, they'd have to convince Apple to put it into that same base-image where any random security researcher (outside of China's reach to quash publication) might find it.

(And yes, either way the phone's baseband will be adulterated by Chinese ISPs at the government's behest, but modern smartphones isolate themselves from their baseband pretty well, so this only matters if you're using your phone as a phone [calling/texting], instead of as a tablet with a data modem.)
Again, I don't see that as cheating or violating a spec (or at least any guarantee made by Intel about x86(-64) behavior that I know of). I would assume that speculation can do just about anything (access protected memory, run illegal/protected instructions, etc), as long as any effects aren't committed to architectural state until the speculated path retires. The existence of side channels (timing information of subsequent memory accesses) for retrieving information from speculative execution paths is a different issue. Perhaps it was naive of the architects to assume this wouldn't have any consequences beyond improving performance, but I don't know what spec it is supposed to violate.
We screwed up politics ourselves. Russia is just piling on.
Seems like a number of people here don't think cameras will be reliable enough (I am among them). Yes, lots of people think self driving cars are a possibility.

I don't. Humans currently have 7 nine's of reliability when driving. Are computers that reliable?
Very interesting.

Read a 2012 study a few days ago on what kills coral. Have not found a more recent follow up yet. (I was snorkelling on the reef a few days ago, the parts I saw looked pretty good, so wanted to find out more.)

They studied a fair number of reefs, on the Great Barrier / Coral Sea area. My quick summary, from memory, about half of reef coral "cover" damaged at that time. Only 10% from bleaching, the rest split between cyclone damage and crown of thorns. Their conclusion, if crown of thorns are eliminated the reefs will recover naturally.

Fortunately in my 3 days of snorkelling I didn't see a single crown of thorns. The crown killing operation is hopefully that effective on most of the reef.
How Facebook Ads Are Influencing The Brexit Debate
You can definitely give an answer in the WIPO dispute, and I would absolutely try to do so. The WIPO is a joke though in my opinion - there is no appeal process whatsoever. We lost a case that we should have clearly won with jdownloader.com (our domain being .org, and us having started the project and having all the copyrights registered..) There was no way for us to answer in any way to the claims that the defendant made, and the decision was final..

In any way - I would definitely try to write an appeal.., but of course a lawyer and legal advise would be very helpful..
On the contrary:

”They can account for as much as three to six percent of the total aerodynamic drag of a car. That may not sound like a lot, but it adds up. Over the course of 200,000 miles, that could cost you as much as $2,000. A study of big trucks (with really humongous mirrors) found they can add a whopping 10 percent to drag.“

(0) https://www.cartalk.com/blogs/staff-blog/what-drag-time-get-...
I think the act of them being at the table is more likely to move the needle on the Chinese side.
Thanks @ai_ia!

Looks like someone created this landing page in March 2019. It’s not launched yet. I wonder if it’s still being worked on.

http://layoffers.com/
Ask HN: Easter Eggs in Your Software
I remember being in school and being the only person who knew about the Microsoft Word Pinball easter egg. It required some special key presses, clicking the word logo in the right spot and then bam you could play a game in class :)

Easter eggs seem a lot more rare these days but I'm sure we all are still putting some in.

What easter eggs have you put into your software that you are most proud of?
>Does the hardware actually work?

Considering that HN is full of programmers and technical users, and literally every time Linux is mentioned people go "I had a problem getting Z working, but I did that and...", "X and Y did not work", "U is not supported", I'd say hit and miss.

Case in point, just from this thread, and from people who say they are otherwise satisfied:

"The worst of my Linux woes were the usual suspend/hibernate issues running Ubuntu on company-provided Thinkpads."

"Suspend/hibernate works on thinkpads with a moderately recent Linux kernel and a bios toggle."

"The only issues I have had is that the sound output sometimes does not automatically switch to/from HDMI when I unplug a TV, and that gnome gets slightly laggy after a really long uptime (its a really weak laptop performance wise)."

"I did have issues setting up certain drivers (i.e. the bloody wifi which tbh is still a bit iffy on my machine) but otherwise it's been amazing."

"actually, on one of my workstations I have a ten-year-old Quadro 4000 that was being a pain in the neck on Fedora 29 -- but the fellows over at LinuxQuestions sorted me out in two shakes."

"I have the latest X1 and almost nobody has a working mic. Also battery life sucks and Bluetoothd always needs a restart after suspends."

"I have a gen 6 and no issues. Is it a 7th gen? BTW what disto? Im on Fedora 30. I would check that you have linux compat turned on in firmware and patch to latest firmware."

"My only Linux laptop was a Fujitsu Lifebook. Turns out laptop manufacturers are garbage at writing ACPI drivers for their own hardware, and so Microsoft has been going around quietly patching them so nobody notices. I ended up having to create my own driver for the lifebook. I cobbled from two other people's failed attempts at making a better one (each fixed different problems) and some fixes from the newest model in that product line. At no point in time did I think it would be fun to write ACPI drivers."
L-type voltage-gated Ca2 channel CaV1.2 regulates limb chondrogenesis
It isn't?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/52.7870/5.4190

The third largest port of Europe, Hamburg, is 110 kilometers away from the coast.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/53.6002/10.1280
Um, Art of War does indeed cover the importance of logistics and supply. And espionage (from using deception to spies to scouting). And morale (both yours and the enemies). And many other factors. Tech not so much because armies don't generally develop new tech in the field.
Does anyone else have to maintain backend PyTorch based services? Is it just me or is it a complete mess?

Members of my team have spent literal months tracking down memory leaks, the performance of these services are always sub-par to Tensorflow based ones and the less said about the atrocious memory/cpu usage the better.

What's the advantage of using PyTorch when you have things like Tensorflow Serving ready to productionize any model with ease?