skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not complexity, but cockroaches are some of the most adaptable animals on Earth. They are very likely more so than their ancestors.

Evolution does clearly bend on the direction of inter-generational adaptability and evolution speed. Technology clearly bends on the direction of capacity. Both do those because there is a very simple selection rule applied to them.
I would read that if it was a novel. Picturing legal thriller blended with scifi. Maybe some military/political drama thrown in. Grisham/Clancy/Crichton
Android is open source so of course the lowest tier phone OEMs are going to fork/use it. I was in Shanghai a while and could buy counterfeit iphones too despite Apple being there.
I hadn't thought about the parallel to activist investors, that's a very good point. I've seen the hell raised by folks like Carl Icahn...
I should add that this very problem also exists with video. What makes it worse is that "smartphone" video apps started regularly using video orientation metadata years before desktop video apps even seemed to acknowledge that it was a thing.
This year Apple embraced populism. People wanted better cameras and more battery life. We got the best cameras on the market and the best battery life in an iPhone. Sales are up 10%.

I’m predicting innovation will come from UWB (the new ultra wide band chip) when Apple Glasses are released.
They must've been really embarrassed to send that kind of response.
No, it does not.

The IRS specifically refers to when you recieves the tokens, on chain, in a transaction.

If there is no additional data, in the blockchain, then it is not an airdrop, according to the IRS.
Technically the minimum required by the GDPR is that you can send them an email and the company must comply within 30 days.
[I'm a googler, who works in Apps, but not directly on anything relevant here].

This article mentions Access Transparency

> By default, G Suite Enterprise enables a feature called Access Transparency, which allows administrators to see who has looked at each document within the organization.

But gets it a bit wrong. Access Transparency is a log of any Google employees who have looked at stuff in your domain. From the official site "Access Transparency logs provide information about actions of Google staff when they access your data."[1]. Which is a nice way of knowing that Google employees aren't randomly snooping on your files.

[1]: https://support.google.com/a/answer/9230979?hl=en
Given the same approach is used by organisations to manage their devices, I doubt this is likely to play out that way. However, if you're already a person of interest, this is unlikely to make you that much safer as any reasonable grounds for search would be used to exercise warrants against any computers you own. So, I suspect it's a reasonable protection for "slightly-more-tech-savvy-than-average" Joe's wishing to protect against opportunistic or capricious fishing for stuff, with sufficient plausible deniability ("yeah, it's a company phone") that would dissuade casual/random searches.
The search UI needs negations.

For example, you offer a checkbox ("Code of Conduct") to select projects with lots of nasty political fighting to distract from the engineering effort. Maybe somebody would rather focus on nerdy hacking.

Another example is "Has full documentation". That is a bad thing if you want to contribute by writing documentation.
I'd say you're not making the problem "harder" - rather, requiring that object detection be orietation-agnostic makes the problem exactly as hard as the problem actually is. Allowing the network to train only on images with a known, fixed, (correct) orientation makes the object detection too _easy_, so the network results will likely fail if you feed it any real-world data.

i.e. you should be training your image application with skew/stretch/shrink/rotation/color-pallete-shift/contrast-adjust/noise-addition/etc. applied to all training images if you want it to be useful for anything other than getting a high top-N score on the validation set.
Correct orientation is relative to the photographer, not to the ground. Most of the times the photographer is in the usual, vertical orientation but sometimes you really want to take a shot at an angle, and you have to fight with your phone to do it correctly. I really dislike these kinds of "convenience" optimizations.
>> "It would culminate the ancient human quest for knowledge, which began when the first of our ancestors asked, "Why?""

> I'm always baffled when I read these kind of quotes, especially coming from such smart people. Do they just forget that our theories are models of reality?

Some people have a relationship with "science" that bears a strong resemblance relationship some other people have with various religions and/or religious concepts. I get a strong vibe of that from the quote you cited.

> Is it just me thinking this?

No, it isn't. I agree and generally think of science is basically a kind tool-making activity. Mathematical wrenches, so to speak.
This was a really good podcast if you've been following this stuff, and cleared up many of the inquiries posted on HN. Some key points:

- The object had been tracked for 2 weeks by radars: SPY-1 (ship) and E-2 (AWACS aircraft)

- Pilot made naked-eye visual contact with the tic tac from above, watching it move over the water

- There was a cross-shaped wake under it

- It jammed their radar when they attempted a lock, which is why they switched to passive tracking (IR)

- Visual estimate of the speed puts it at faster than mach 3 (SR-71), with instantaneous acceleration

On the show, the pilot pointed out the white "aura" around object in the IR video feed. Since it was set to black-hot, this would mean the nearby air was for some reason colder than the ambient air. He said this was also visible to naked eye as a "bubble." Anyone know of any propulsion that would be associated with a temperature drop to the vehicle surface, along with optical distortion?

Edit: There's a good chance the "aura" is an image processing artifact: https://www.metabunk.org/nyt-gimbal-video-of-u-s-navy-jet-en...

Also since it was black, its surface was hot, not cold.
Do you really think the device manufacturer that bows to China so quickly is going to have anything to do with protecting your privacy? Get real.

Apple is trying to be all things to all people, and when that happens, the people with the least money always lose.
Is there a website that helps consumers identify brands that do not have Chinese investors and don't use Chinese manufacturing in their supply chain?
I'm not going to refute your post, as I can't think of anything more plausible.

But, I will mention that flying a Navy aircraft dangerously close to other military aircraft -- especially between aircraft in formation is aside from being highly-dangerous, is highly-frowned upon, and highly unprofessional.

I don't see US military flight crews taking this risk, even if they are piloting "black" aircraft. I don't see this scenario happening (without an accompanying court martial).

Citation: Served in military in this area. FWIW, I have no better idea of what's going on than the rest of you, other than:

1. The possibility it's a government-manufactured hoax in order to misinform somebody for some reason, or...

2. A multi-spectral (visual/IR/radar) spoofing of some sort, which would mean the US could test things on live crews without actual danger to the crews.
Dave MacArt, computer science teacher, high school
Username Mac
Passwd Cam

Easy brute force in 1989
I got in big trouble for it because I messed up the server.
My only concern with the site is some privacy implications. I entered a friend's email just to check for him and it wasn't validated at all, and I found out a few sites he had accounts with. Nothing too concerning was revealed, but privacy for its own sake is a valid goal IMO.
This analysis is whataboutism[1]. It is an attempt to create a false moral equivalency by drawing vague, factually inaccurate parallels between two radically different information dissemination structures, as a nationalistic apologetic for the PRC.

Any means of propagating information is directly and heavily censored by the government itself in China, as you yourself readily acknowledge. There are well known, open, severe criminal penalties for failure to comply. This applies not only to media outlets, but even to ordinary people posting personal opinions on the internet. None of this is hidden or controversial.

Categorically, nothing remotely similar to that use of "widespread coercive criminal penalties to control the spread of information, as a government sponsored social control apparatus" exists in the west. (This does not imply anything about the status of biases existing or not existing in western media. That is a logically unrelated issue.)

It is not a question of different degrees or forms of what's basically the same thing; it is two totally different structures: one system uses the state's monopoly on the use of violence to directly and openly enforce and restrict the spread of information. The other system explicitly prohibits this.

What the moral goodness of each structure may be is a seperate question. What is objectively clear, though, is that their respective moral analyses must necessarily be wholly differently conducted, since they are structurally different at the most basic level. There is no possible moral equivalency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Thank you, I will do this.
Blizzard survives on monthly recurring revenue streams. Boycotting disrupts this stream in a very consistent manner. 1M boycotters mean $10M lost per month plus all the addition revenue from lost streamers and watchers. Blizzard made $1.4B last quarter [0]. It doesn’t bankrupt them but losing 2.5% of earnings sucks.

[0] https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
> Or a camera in space.

Or freefall
That’s not spoofing in principal though is it? This just reinforces my point that its very easy to do this with ordinary equipment. There isn’t really any kind of technical safeguards against this stuff, probably just for the convenience of this kind of stuff.
what worries me is that cash is legal tender.
assumption of guilt without cause is also a big concern here.
i wonder how thier tune would change if they were owed money.
Nominal wages in the US have most certainly gone up since 1968 a great deal, this much is really obvious. You might be talking about real wages, but those are irrelevant when we talk about sticky prices, because people don't accurately understand the changes in their real wages over time (and those have also gone up, though not as much as some people would expect).

Similar to your point, executives don't like seeing the number on their costs go up.

Yes, but they do go up, so they try to exploit quirk of human psychology to reduce the impact of rising costs on consumers.

Isn't it possible that quality could take a hit in how the executive chooses to reduce costs?

It sure is possible, and no doubt happens with lots of products across the board. Usually, it is wrong move, and the company eventually succumbs to competitors.
Flutter or JavaFX
> I believe we should also support more open-source software here.

Yes, I concur.

> Google Docs are in no doubt best and provide a lot of good functionality to its users. Even Office(365?) is getting good. LibreOffice is developing an online version[1] which is at alpha stage I would say.

I'm having trouble understanding how you think Google Docs or Office 365 are open source.
Open Source Is Broken
> I feel like we’re moving goalposts

More semantics. Yawn. Save it for debate club.
I thought the point was to affect China's policy, not to bankrupt companies we don't like.
Given the rise of renewable energy - lithium batteries provide an alternative to fossil fuels.

I have no clue how lithium mining + solar panels, etc vs fossil fuels compare environmentally though. But they are at least lowering fossil fuel usage.
Well, after you've read in your data, read them back out and display them on the screen.
Stallman insists he's still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out
>If Hong Kong becomes a Palestine-style cause celebre it will be bad for China.

Nope. Like Palestine, it'd just be another showcase of the British strategy of "divide and quit". Heck, someone wrote a book about it:

https://www.amazon.com/Divide-Quit-late-Penderel-Moon/dp/019...
its also faster, and a bit more sanitary to use a counting machine.
>I never once used it for evil: never read anyone's email, never viewed anyone's private files, never poked around the academic file shares for test solutions, never tried to steal credit card numbers or social security numbers from the finance office's file share.

I don't understand this justification. The system owners can't know that to be true and have to proceed as if the systems are compromised. Would you still feel safe if a burglar broke into your house and left a note saying they didn't take anything?
You may personally have "no idea" what percentage of the Chinese population have any particular view. However those of us who know more than one mainland Chinese actually are not totally ignorant about this. We can simply talk to our friends to get some idea. And it's always hilarious to me when Chinese people post on HN and are immediately dismissed by the armchair experts here and downvoted into oblivion just because they don't conform to expectations.
I once anonymously emailed administrators of a multiuser unix system that perhaps they should handle the numerous users that had home directories and .bashrc files that were both writable by everyone. After a week I had the users themselves email when they logged in. It was fixed that day.
You don't think the special character could be a mistake?

Seems plausible the correct password might be j(6vl4JO...
I agree, it's probably not intentional, would that even be legal?. Is there even a place to see how many active accounts they have/are losing because of this?

The fact that they fail at basic account management/authentication doesn't say good things for them. I wouldn't be surprised if they drag their feet a little getting it fixed, but I doubt it's going to matter.
WFC is under compliance pressure to have proper paper trail for everything or else.

US Gov printed so much paper money lately so it's getting hard to track it all.
The Perseverance of Eve Babitz’s Vision
https://old.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/dfehjt/an_explana...

> The US Navy has made it abundantly clear that they have this technology .. When motionless, the craft point their gravitational waveguides DOWN, which causes them to hover.

OK then, tell us why they allowed two shuttles to explode rather than use this gravitational waveguide technology?
> FWIW, the interpretation I adopted was that I've just sold fork quickly as soon as I could reasonably move them to a place to sell them, then reconized as income the value I actually received in selling them. ... at least the forks I knew about, but there have likely been other forks that I've never heard of.

Yup, I did the same. If the IRS audits us we may have to change our calculations but the absolute difference in tax owed should be small.

My understanding is that despite their reputation the IRS is usually fairly chill about this sort of thing if you demonstrate you had good intent. I hope I never have to test that though. Unambiguous guidance sure would be nice!
Well, even humans find it more difficult to process upside-down faces or objects. There's power in assumptions that are correct 99% of the time.

Regardless, the article isn't really shifting blame, in so much as explaining what's happening in the real world, with the real tools. The tools don't care about EXIF. Consumer software uses EXIF to abstract over reality. A lot of people playing with ML don't know about either.
"It Depends" as always. They are already using React - that probably tells you something about the kind of site they are designing. Likely a very interactive web experience or even a SPA. It'll have image assets > 5kb, and probably 100k's of JS. The user needs to weigh up an extra 5kb vs. the developer utility of this.
Twitter “Unintentionally” Used Your Phone Number for Targeted Advertising
apropos of fuego
Richard Gere says that it's affected his career.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/04/richard-gere-ho...
There's a book called Year Zero, by Rob Reid about our first contact with aliens.

It turns out that humans are the only species in the universe capable of creating good music and as soon as other races detected our radio waves, they started listening to and reproducing our music.

Eventually, the radio waves with our licensing information reach them and every alien race realizes they've been committing copyright infringement on an absolutely massive scale.

Chaos and hijinks ensue.
Aka PBKAC
Not sure what you mean by NSUTF8StringEncoding. The important fact about encoding is that -encodedString:prefix: limits the output that iTerm2 produces to a very small set of characters from which it's hard to build an exploit.
Thanks - I'll check it out later. All these links require the jumping through a significant number of inconvenient hoops, and I don't have time just now.
>perhaps the best approach is to use the official translated word from Chinese

Sadly, the "best approach" has a good track record of being the approach that is usually not taken.
A lot of good, decent human beings justify doing awful things in their day job. Wasn’t there just a post on here a few days ago about someone who worked at Capital One writing about how everyone working there justified getting poor people deeper in debt?
Oh, I'm super privileged. Loadsamoney white male Oxford graduate. I don't quite have all the boxes ticked - I had a poor upbringing (though in a wealthy country).

That said - I don't think it's even meaningful to discuss whether someone earned their place in life. Personally I pretty much figure I was born with a reasonably "useful" organization of neurons or whatever and so lo and behold, I get rewards whilst random other people suffer. Nature is a bitch.

But I digress.

What I'm trying to get at, I think, is that the personality traits govern what you actually end up doing in life, right.

One does not simply "run for public office". You make an active choice to do that - at least if you believe in free will anyway - and so you've intentionally limited your capacity to stand out of line.

I mean, in some sense, you could even say that running for public office is precisely the opposite of that. You're intentionally choosing to fall in line with a large portion of society - you're going to be their representative!

I could expand on this more (your other examples are fairly similar - top secret classification? like that just happens?), but really what I'm trying to get at is - the level of privilege required in order to stand for what you believe in really depends on what you want to do.

You probably can't simultaneously be an oil executive and a climate protestor. No amount of money will change that.

But anyone - anyone can stand up for what they believe in. There might be sacrifice. You allude to it in 'avoid consequences which you can ignore'.

Some people - a _lot_ of people - are loss averse to the extent that they just won't do anything interesting. It's income / career / whatever maximization to the end.

I've been a stubborn prick since as far back as I can remember. Before the money. It's my defining characteristic - for good and bad.
And if you can't pull it off, stop pushing everyone to use the cloud and your services.
> If someone has such super technology, why patent it so people can easily steal the idea with a google search? Why not keep it secret and use it to fuel a giddy ride to the top of the power hierarchy?

UFOlogy is a form of religious cult?
His statement can be true if you restrict it to "quantum gravity" jobs (of which string theory is one of many approaches, abeit the overwhelmingly most popular one). The other jobs you're talking about just don't try to answer the questions that string theory purports to addresses.
Attackers might discover the change before the rest of the world. This way you are all on even footing.
Ha, journalists would be pretty high on a list of people to avoid annoying with your product errors.
There is still one more method: call your bank and have them issue a stop payment on any charges from Blizzard. This is the nuclear option but it is an option.
It really depends which country you're from, it doesn't make much sense to throw around numbers.

Market structure also plays a big part in the final number, e.g. Switzerland or the US have much higher 'net' salaries (after taxes) but conversely must spend ~2x what more socialist markets like France or Germany have already included in taxes for various insurances (health, retirement, savings, etc) and rents (housing, commodities, subs...)

Some examples (loose statistics from memory but the gist is good)

In Zurich, Switzerland you can expect a net salary almost as high as the US or Asia (top 10 cities; I'd say it's 80% to all the way there, just less exponential because top paying jobs are not in Switzerland vs SF or HK).

In France, accross the border, you can expect between 25-60K€ (junior-senior) if not in Paris, bump to 35-80K€ there. It goes higher, but you're much better off starting a small contractor/consulting business (being 'sponsored' by ex-company is a thing in France for top dogs) if you want mid-six figures.
Isn't this more like duplicating everyones house key? He never actually went into the houses.
Not that I know of. Doing this at the consumer level requires a lot of convincing, grassroots movements, etc. It's messy and ends up creating xenophobic groups.

IMHO, it's more efficient done at the government level where it can impact big state-owned companies.

Reading what I just wrote, it may sound like I support Trump's tax war, which is not true at all. He's not doing that to forward an agenda of human rights, which I think it's the point of this whole discussion.
Once you get beyond a few instances you'll need a fulltime person to manage your cloud assets anyway. VPC & associated networking + managing different services is not a trivial task. You'll still have an ops team. Whether it's old school sys admins or devops coders is down to your choice of where you run your system.
We don’t have data on what millennials will believe 20 years from now. What we do know is that baby boomers are much more conservative than millennials are now, but were no more conservative and possibly where more liberal back when they were the age millennials are today. So we can infer that millennials, as a group, got more conservative as they aged.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that any given person got more conservative as they aged. But most people must have done so, because the group as a whole did.

Of course this is, as you say, based on self identification. But conservative and liberal are best described in terms of self identification, because they’re relative terms. As recently as the 1990s, a “conservative” view of the family would have meant two parents of the same race. Today, that wouldn’t be a conservative viewpoint, but a far right or reactionary viewpoint. Given how quickly the acceptance of gay marriage has accelerated (much faster, after Obergefell, than the acceptance of mixed race marriage after Loving), a “conservative” view of family could soon be two people, regardless of sexual orientation. (And that doesn’t only move in one direction, either. In the 1960s, a “liberal” might have actually believed in government ownership of the means of production. Today, most “liberals” identify “socialism” as a strong welfare state within a free market framework.)
I think I am the only user for now. It takes discipline. It helps me focus and do what I should to do.
Only downside over a self-hosted solution is that legal requests won't always create an entry in access transparency.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/9230474?hl=en
Pike was piqued, too.