skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I don't use my Kindle very often, but I got it primarily to read e-books from my library (which sadly doesn't always have physical copies to lend). I haven't tripped over any dark patterns yet, it seems to work smoothly?
Came here to say that.

We Just bought a RAV4 with a camera as a central console rear view mirror witch you can flip on or off.

It sounds like a great idea but the amount of time it takes your eyes to refocus when moving from the road to the camera makes it a safety hazard. And painful on the eyes.

Nice concept. Fundamentally unusable.
> The key bit is what is credible.

I strongly disagree. Our tools should not be making judgements on what is credible, or what is good, and based on that decide if they will serve or betray their owner. Power is already far too centralized.
Actually we can't assume that at all. It seems I'm going to have to repost this comment a thousand times https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904857

>Apple has already publicly said in court filings, and under threat of perjury, that they don't make any exceptions for China.
From Apple's filing [1]:

>Finally, the government attempts to disclaim the obvious international implications of its demand, asserting that any pressure to hand over the same software to foreign agents “flows from [Apple’s] decision to do business in foreign countries . . . .” Opp. 26. Contrary to the government’s misleading statistics (Opp. 26), which had to do with lawful process and did not compel the creation of software that undermines the security of its users, Apple has never built a back door of any kind into iOS, or otherwise made data stored on the iPhone or in iCloud more technically accessible to any country’s government. See Dkt. 16-28 [Apple Inc., Privacy, Gov’t Info. Requests]; Federighi Decl. ¶¶ 6–7. The government is wrong in asserting that Apple made “special accommodations” for China (Opp. 26), as Apple uses the same security protocols everywhere in the world and follows the same standards for responding to law enforcement requests. See Federighi Decl. ¶ 5.

and a declaration from Craig Federighi personally [2]:

>Apple uses the same security protocols everywhere in the world.

>Apple has never made user data, whether stored on the iPhone or in iCloud, more technologically accessible to any country's government. We believe any such access is too dangerous to allow. Apple has also not provided any government with its proprietary iOS source code. While governmental agencies in various countries, including the United States, perform regulatory reviews of new iPhone releases, all that Apple provides in those circumstances is an unmodified iPhone device.

>It is my understanding that Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a "backdoor" in any of our products and services.

>I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct.

When China wants something from iCloud they do it the same way that law enforcement does it everywhere in the world, which is through Apple.

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2762131/C-D-Cal-1...

[2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2762118-Federighi-De...
Naming and shaming companies who kowtow to Chinese censorship requests
Google Play Requiring Android 9 SDK by Nov 1st 2019
the request end is automated at least: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/create/
1) bazel can be built with a self contained bundled paired down jvm, and possibly an executable using GraalVM but I don’t know anyone who tried that yet.

2) bazel can do offline compiles, and is actually built to run in sandboxes

3) bazel can act as a build system only and delegate to externa package managers

Look at rules_nodejs for example and the managed_directories + yarn_install/npm_install rule

4) depend on already installed stuff. Toolchains already provide a way to do this, and the android_sdk_repository rule literally requires preinstallation.

Seems to me your making a lot of claims about bazel without having used it.
Yes! The geohashphrase will be free to use and open source. Right now we're working on an implementation and docs and once we have that we'll release all that under a permissive license.

Right now the problem is that we don't have anything more than a description of our idea to release...
So... dark matter?
Monocultures are a weakness and not a strength when it comes to technological innovation, physical/information security and foreign policy. From my perspective, the pie is continuing to grow and the disagreement is who takes the bigger slices from the ever growing pie.

Corporations never had a chance of filling the role because they are very undemocratic, even in the United States. Things need to get bad enough for the only democratic system we have to take action. We aren't there yet.
That will depend on state law (I don't know what the answer is for any state though). FWIW, Virginia and California's mirror laws are very different in various ways.
What do you mean by "they took [it] very seriously"?

I have absolutely zero trust in Amazon to be fair or reasonable, so I pirate the ebook then buy the paperback.
The vast majority of users are well below Android 9 ... this will decimate my app's user base ... WFT?

Google needs to step up their game so phone OS updates are seemless ... can't wait for Fuchsia (Android replacement project) to bear fruit
> Personal docs don’t sync page progress

Hmm, I never considered that because I mostly just send-to-kindle-by-email and then read those docs from only one kindle device. How many devices do you read on?
May be it could not see properly and thought seal was a baby whale.
People don't like you posting this guy because he's a weirdo, gives off intense cultish vibes, and has obsessed, weirdo followers (yes, I'm talking about you).
My mom was one of four sisters... whose mom was one of three sisters... That's a lot of unbalanced dysfunction to grow up into. I grew up with a dad who tried to get me to well adjusted and a mom who treated me like a broken girl, as opposed to a boy. They both wound up working against each other (not intentionally), and I was close to 40 before I would consider myself at a relatively well adjusted point in my life.
It’s literally designed to be used over voice, that’s the entire point.
SAP CEO – Bill McDermott Resigns
Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein are new Co-CEOs
Because they were touting the strength of staying on message as if it actually was a beneficial thing (which it isn't). It leads to very dangerous failures in society when people cannot talk about unpopular problems. It leads to them fumbling and missing obvious truths.
Thanks for reading. Merely parroting bits that resonate with my own experience, from much smarter / more experienced people.

I'll add that Go's community has real lasting power for a number of positive reasons, and it seems to attract HN-level of smart thus you learn a lot, quite fast.
first search result that I found: https://www.cheatsheet.com/technology/apple/is-apple-lying-a... (didn't read it though, but they lied about being part of PRISM)
Karli (Character, Sesame Street) reveals her mom's troubled past with addiction
In this case it's a Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid. It gets ~30 miles on the battery which more than covers our around-town driving (we average 2,500 miles between fill ups), and it feels like driving a spaceship...
Thanks for exemplifying!
Nit: filesystem is fixed in C++17.
From the FAQ:

> "Are paywalls ok?"

> "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds."

> "In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

If you've got a concern about a post and the paywall, search for a workaround, ask if someone knows a workaround, or contact the mods using the Contact link in the footer. Berating an OP is likely not going to be effective and is arguably counter to the guidelines and FAQ.
behaviorism is still ridiculously influential, unfortunately.
> Personal docs don’t sync page progress

From what I recall (though I haven't used a Kindle in a few years), email-imported .mobi files show up in your library and sync progress just fine. It's just other filetypes that don't sync.
>It's done them well

Just hasn't done much for the thousands slaughtered in Congo.

Guy's a murderous turd and the worst kind of genocidal thieving resource warlord. Represents everything Ghana, Senegal, South Africa etc are trying to relegate to history books in Africa. Sooner he's gone, the better for Africa. People won't look at Africa as being quite so barbaric when a certain set of leaders finally die off. Kagame is definitely chief among them.
Cyber’s Most Wanted – FBI
James Dyson scraps plans to build electric car
I think you could physically implement demos (especially very very small ones) in such a way as to demonstrate just how compact their implementation is. E.g. use ancient computer hardware, load from 5.25" floppy when you press a button to start it, etc.
1 yes, because I can have a long weekend for side projects.

2 maybe. I don’t want to climb the corporate ladder. I want to start a business. I need free time to polish my skills on that front.

But I prefer 4*10 hours
I did not say that greater efficiency in coal use was the cause of US coal's decline. My last post was contra to:

Take a look at US coal production [0]. There is no evidence there that energy use from coal will decrease with improved technology.

There is ample evidence that improved technology is driving declines in American coal use/production. The combined cycle gas turbine made it possible to extract more electricity from a megajoule (thermal) of natural gas than a megajoule of coal. Hydraulic fracturing made natural gas cheap in the US. Improved technologies and economies of scale made wind and solar electricity more efficient and cheaper. These are all electricity production technologies. They are what what I had in mind with my up-thread Alice and Bob example. US electricity production is getting more efficient (more electricity per ton of material inputs consumed); Bob believes that any efficiency increase must be more-than-offset by increased electricity consumption, and exclaims "Jevons Paradox!" before even reviewing the numbers.
Me too. Absolutely one of the best products I’ve ever used. It’s also the product that taught me that I can’t trust a SaaS business with important work. Wish they still existed.
Isn't it the case that you still need original BPF for seccomp?
What was he supposed to say? We were asked to take it down and did just that?
Sure they can. They banned explosives (which I agree with) and you can probably do that with a few hundred dollars.
Does the market need yet another browser extension scraper like this? No, I don't think it does.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/scraper?_category=...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?platform=wi...
What else so you think there is? It seems patently obvious at this point that our brains house our minds, given how manipulating someone’s brain causes them to act much differently and report perceptual and behavioral changes.

Your post sounds suspiciously new age to me. I’m aware that our bodies feed into our minds, and that things like hormonal levels, nutrition, gut flora and fauna, etc all have a fairly profound impact on things like mood, but that’s different that saying the mind is not the brain. Social isolation and long periods of darkness also have profound impact on the mind. That doesn’t mean that the night sky or society somehow “is” our mind, or that our minds are somehow housed outside as well as in our brains.

There’s a tendency to belittle things that we understand mechanically, which is why I believe people tend to believe the mind is somehow “beyond” the brain. But we can still have deep respect for the sovereign, spiritual like divinity associated with consciousness while recognizing that it’s all happening within the confined, physical space that constitutes a person’s brain, and that there’s a physical basis for it.
Yea, something seems fishy. My E485 (one 3-cell battery) gets 3-4 hours on Arch
its been my observation that most researchers/DS prefer PyTorch because it lets them hack in python and most production software engineers will prefer models be written TF because of effortless portability and performance of TF Graphs.

I work on a team that does the latter and lately DS have been handing off PyTorch models that we cant scale or make performant because Torchscript doesnt really work with any realistic code complexity and authors include all sorts of random python libraries. So we can't load models in C++ or get them under 50ms.

So the framework divide very much feels like dynamic vs statically typed languages. People that dont have real production demands love dynamic languages for the productivity.
I agree with you. Thankfully, the kindle ebook format has been entirely reverse engineered and the encryption is easy to crack (you can find your own account key very quickly). Kindles are also very easy to root. That personally gives me enough confidence to buy into the ecosystem but it sucks these aren't consumer guarantees in the first place…
After Sparring, NASA and SpaceX Declare a Shared Mission
Are we talking about stuff that can vary in size but isn't weighted? Like kiwi's or cucumbers have a fixed price each while apples or bananas have a kg price. But I don't remember seeing processed food without a kg price.

The only time I remember having difficulty comparing was different formats of toilet paper when our usual brand was out of stock... #rolls × #sheets / pack price was a bit to much for me to do in my head. Yeah, I'm not really complaining.
Yes, I'd say he was right in the main points, but wrong in the details.

It's trivially true that, while we can observe some of the workings of our mind, we cannot observe all of it.

That part that we can't observe can easily be mapped onto his ideas of the unconscious mind.
Apple still provides a means for "professionals" to sign and run their own code on iOS devices, it just requires jumping through a few hoops. Pay a one-time $100 fee and you don't have to deal with re-signing your app every seven days. This is enough of a barrier to entry that I think it solves the "dancing bunnies" problem without making it impossible to run what I want. I do fully understand why some people think that this is still too extreme.

My two real beefs with this arrangement are the requirement of a Mac, and the potential use of the App Store curation to block apps for political reasons, as is happening with HKmap.live.
> - performance (why is it slow? why does it allocate this much?)

One of the pieces of fleet-wide tooling that heavily uses eBPF is PyPerf, which we talked about publicly at Systems@Scale in September ("Service Efficiency at Instagram Scale" - https://atscaleconference.com/events/systems-scale-2/ - video also coming soon, I think).
Is there no way to (mostly) automate GDPR responses? I too want to see Blizzard crash, but I don't like abuse of the law, and even less when the law in question has as many upsides as the GDPR.
It works for me as a share-holder. Apple's iPhone 11 is again popular in China and there are even reports of Apple increasing the 11's production to meet the high demand. Apple should not be doing anything to mess with the Chinese consumers and the Chinese government as China is a very difficult growth market to crack into. I believe that Tim Cook has done a great job of appeasing China and at the same time has worked a very fine line with Trump to keep i Phones out of the Trump's tariffs .
I have a purism 13 first version. I didn't have to unblock non-free repos when installing linux at first. (I now run arch)

As to booting, it originally shipped with a bios, but later offered coreboot which I believe disabled the ME.

https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disab...

https://puri.sm/learn/blobs/

https://puri.sm/coreboot/
Why Apple's rumored partnership with 3rd party AR glasses makes sense
Purported letter that was sent to employees
https://imgur.com/2pkIFNu

You have likely seen the news that we made the decision to remove an app from the App Store entitled HKmap.live. These decisions are never easy, and it is harder still to discuss these topics during moments of furious public debate. It's out of my great respect for the work you do every day that I want to share the way we went about making this decision.
It is no secret that technology can be used for good or for ill. This case is no different. The app in question allowed for the crowdsourced reporting and mapping of police checkpoints, protest hotspots, and other information. On its own, this information is benign. However, over the past several days we received credible information, from the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, as well as from users in Hong Kong, that the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present. This use put the app in violation of Hong Kong law. Similarly, widespread abuse clearly violates our App Store guidelines barring personal harm.
We built the App Store to be a safe and trusted place for every user. It's a responsibility that we take very seriously, and it's one that we aim to preserve. National and international debates will outlive us all, and, while important, they do not govern the facts. In this case, we thoroughly reviewed them, and we believe this decision best protects our users.
I did use Anki for scheduling my math problems' reviews and the results were pretty satisfactory.

Do you think I should publish the chrome extension that I made for LeetCode or does Anki do the job?
Try something a bit further from the big city coasts... There's a lot of stability in Phoenix, Austin and Atlanta and not nearly as polarizing. Yeah some of the politics are a bit different if you're part of SF culture, but generally you can avoid it out here (I'm in Phoenix).

Phoenix in particular, regarding software jobs is mostly backend business work, with a surprising amount of line of business and banking work. Austin, from what I understand is heading more progressive, and Atlanta is some where in between. Definitely going to see less brogramming or "only progressive views allowed" cultures.
Most X1s are also Ubuntu certified - it doesn’t mean much.
The sad thing here is that people think pressuring apple is the way to change this. The mistake was giving apple that much power over your life in the first place and people that do deserve to face the repercussions from that.

Apple customers aren't victims of apples policies (and now the CCP), they're collaborators.
Anxiety, at least medically speaking, seems to be a loaded word. I've been told I had "anxiety" for some health related symptoms I had experienced, though I feel nothing like excitement nor dread. It's a very strange thought...almost what I might call 'subconscious anxiety'. As in, I don't mind people and am not anti social. But sometimes, in large noisy crowds, would feel lightheaded as if were going to pass out. Never really figured that one out - just wanted to point out that anxiety isn't always just a person thinking negatively.
DNA storage for steganography was, in fact, the basis for a Star Trek episode!
Nobody likes being made to feel like a loser, but not everybody feels some sort of entitlement to hurt others as a way of coping.
Indeed very cool. I was recently surprised to see so much Rust via Pop_os.
This is gen 7. I do run tlp and latest firmware and they do help a bit.
The AES contest process by NIST from 1997-2000
Tim purportedly sent this out today, found it on reddit:

You have likely seen the news that we made the decision to remove an app from the App Store entitled HKmap.live. These decisions are never easy, and it is harder still to discuss these topics during moments of furious public debate. It's out of my great respect for the work you do every day that I want to share the way we went about making this decision.
It is no secret that technology can be used for good or for ill. This case is no different. The app in question allowed for the crowdsourced reporting and mapping of police checkpoints, protest hotspots, and other information. On its own, this information is benign. However, over the past several days we received credible information, from the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, as well as from users in Hong Kong, that the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present. This use put the app in violation of Hong Kong law. Similarly, widespread abuse clearly violates our App Store guidelines barring personal harm.
We built the App Store to be a safe and trusted place for every user. It's a responsibility that we take very seriously, and it's one that we aim to preserve. National and international debates will outlive us all, and, while important, they do not govern the facts. In this case, we thoroughly reviewed them, and we believe this decision best protects our users.

https://imgur.com/2pkIFNu
I personally think Sun Tzu is very readable and has layers of meaning. Some of its lines hit like lightning bolts but much of it is very subtle. I think a lot of Chinese philosophy of the era in this style is about how you approach, not what you're approaching.

This is one of my favorite lines (standing in for the whole chapter). I don't think it's very obvious what it means or how to apply it but after taking it to heart it helps me avoid bad fads and bad orthodoxy alike:

...
Thus the battles of the skilled are without extraordinary victory, without reputation for wisdom, and without merit for courage.
Neat! One idea you might try is to have co-founder "speed dating", where you work on a side project or hackathon contest or something to try and find out how you work together. Perhaps you "go on" 10 or 20 side projects with potential matches over the course of a year, and you find a few that might click.

I've found no faster way to figure out how well you work with someone than to just do something with them (anything), and see how it goes over a few months.

Site looks good. nice job!
Collaborating with a genocidal government to disarm protesters is not doing a great job. Too strong of a statement? Consider this tribunal's findings of genocide on the part of the PRC, harvesting organs from political prisoners and minorities.

https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgement-report/
It came from the ocean after the ocean was heated by the sun.
I think that w3w is over optimized and suffers from a large number of failure modes that interact poorly with a typical human's memory.

For example, it is really easy to mis-remember and accidentally pluralize or re-order words. Our memories just don't maintain that kind of precision. Yet w3w will happily accept your mis-pluralized word, or re-ordered words, and spit out a location, with no indication that maybe you made a mistake.

w3w forces you to remember and use exactly the 3 words they gave and nothing else, without risking a garbage-in-garbage-out scenario.

In fairness, they do try to put similar words very far from each other, but unfortunately this only mitigates the risk and doesn't eliminate it.

Our design is resilient to these issues in human memory with the geohashphrase. If you re-order words in the phrase, pluralize (or singularize) a word, or even go so far as to change part-of-speech (e.g. noun a verb) then you'll still get back the same geohash.

Btw we hope to offer 4-base-word phrases for well populated locations. Those phrases should be easy enough to use in everday situations. Outside of that you can get complete coverage with a 5-base word phrase.
Please don't copy-paste the same comments on Hacker News. It lowers the signal-noise ratio. Threads are supposed to be conversations. In good conversation, people don't recite boilerplate at each other.