skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My original post is the TLDR.

As for control, intense power struggle is happening at the top right now, between Xi fraction and his opponents. Of course due to the opaque nature of Chinese politics nobody is sure.

Xi wants to be China's most powerful man since Mao but he is very insecure. So he is tightening control of the whole China, including Hong Kong (the extradition bill). It is working in the mainland but in Hong Kong it caused a blowback.
I am not a physicist, but I listen to a lot of technical lectures from the institute of advanced study and other universities that post their colloquia on youtube, and the impression I've gotten is that string theory has pretty much fused with quantum field theory. A lot of the people in the string theory discussions identify themselves simply as field theorists, with string theories being just another set of concepts in their model-building tool box.
I have jailed each server doing anything to the internet, putting all their dynamic data (like mails for postfix) and doing periodic checks using /.zfs to detect any anomaly on jail fs and automatically revert them last snapshot. You just cant not love them <3
This guy taxes.

In seriousness, though, how do you build up this level of comfort/familiarity with the tax code? Did you do it professionally?
> it can create an interactive chart containing 150,000 data points in 50ms

Very impressive in a world of over engineering and over designed charts!
once the API is a bit more developed it will definitely have a way to hook into cursor onmove events and a method to set the cursor to specific x/y or data offsets. that's pretty much all you'll need for sync.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)
One of the problems being faced in HK is that there are times when it's difficult to identify when the police are HK police, or when the police are actually Chinese military in HK uniform.

One of the signs (as it always is) is the footwear used by the officers differs between actual HK police and Chinese military forces in HK police uniform.

Another problem is that there are times when it's difficult to identify when the protestors are HK citizens, or when the protestors are Chinese military in plain clothes.

There was an incident a few weeks back where a fire was set outside Central MTR station which was reported to have been set by HK protestors. There was graffiti on the wall to this effect. The graffiti was written in simplified Chinese, which is used in the mainland. In Hong Kong, they use traditional Chinese in written communications.

The difficulty is in accurate attribution. Terrorist groups will take credit for atrocities they didn't commit because it's beneficial for them and their cause. Which then leads down the rabbit hole of asking who benefits from violence in HK? It's also worth looking at the history of protests in HK, how frequently they have occurred, and how often violence has actually erupted.

It's a country that successfully peacefully protested numerous times, to great effect.

> The way things are going, though, I don’t see how else this can go.

Fortunately, the people in HK don't share this view, and continue to protest for their rights and their freedoms. They're not giving up, they're not giving in. It's easy to be this pessimistic when you live in a western country, where peaceful protests in recent history (~20 years or so) are almost completely ineffective. When you've lived in a place where peaceful protests have historically been effective, it's a different story. Especially when it's literally your own life on the line.
You are correct. I misread the source of the quote
How does one go about integrating an USB Killer inside an iPhone?
Isle of Man has zero percent corporate tax on (most) money earned outside the Isle of Man, which includes money earned in the UK. If you're a non-resident citizen of the UK, you can deposit your dividends from your Isle of Man company in your UK bank account, tax free.

For the time being, IOM companies have GB VAT numbers, and a banking system that integrates seamlessly with the UK one, as well as a postal system (quick, which country is 15 Hope Street, Douglas, IM1 1AQ, British Islands?). This makes the sales process to UK and EU companies painless.

So if you're a British citizen who's managed to convince HMRC you're not resident in the UK, this is a great way to pay very little tax. BUT WAIT, there's more!

If you _are_ resident in the UK, and a British citizen, but you can convince HMRC that you are in fact not _domiciled_ in the UK, you can pay HMRC £30,000 a year flat-tax, and only pay tax on the money you bring into the UK -- so if you keep it in IOM, or send it to Guernsey, it's tax-free, as long as you manage to avoid CFC regulations, which are left as an exercise for the reader.

None of this should be considered as tax advice, although if you genuinely don't live in the UK, and aren't anywhere else long enough to be resident (that DigiNomadLyfe), then the top three points should be of significant interest.

If you think the owner of the Daily Mail and similar glitterati[0] should be paying more tax than a Senior Developer in London, paragraph 4 needs some scrutiny.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_non-domici...
There is zero evidence of covert mainland Chinese participation in the protests on either side, although as you demonstrate the rumors about it are nonstop.
In my understanding, this depends on what action Apple exactly takes. If it just removes it from the App Store, all existing installations on devices would remain and continue to work. If Apple revokes the developer's certificate, then the app would likely fail to launch sometime soon and would be removed.

I'm sure there are gaps in my understanding. Corrections are welcome.
Not recommended to rely on in court but if your friend wants to borrow your phone, there are androids that can unlock to different accounts depending on what finger you use to unlock with the fingerprint sensor.
I'm just super disappointed.
Sorry, if it's not PG&E it will be some guy with a cigarette, drunk campers, or lightning.

The root cause of this is hotter temperatures than the area is adapted to. They're up 3 deg F over average and rising. It's killing trees with drought paired with hotter fires than the native trees evolved to tolerate.

I don't mean to be gloomy but this is the just the beginning, it's getting much worse.
Does this provide any protection? I've never undergone any sort of 'digital search' do they force you to provide your passcode? Do the forensics tools they use bypass user level protections like pin codes/finger prints?
Thanks for letting me know! It’s interesting because I don’t get an issue. I’ll get in touch with Gitbook since they issued the certificate.
if anything, it demonstrates how fast raw Canvas can be in the absence of extra baggage, like mem allocation and inefficient algorithms

Obviously using an efficient algorithm is important, but your point about memory allocation is more interesting. The closest you can get to malloc in a browser is a fixed length typed array, and if you're working with a canvas that's probably Uint8ClampedArray(xSize * ySize * 4) for 24bit color. They're really fast. Why wouldn't you use that? It's definitely not "baggage".
Volusion Hacked to skim credit cards
Yeah. To me this is the biggest indicator that it is of terrestrial origin.
Why is plus or minus a few days an important distinction here?
They just removed tbe app. They caved. Shocked now?
I guess the issue is that they are the exact same proven tactics everyone uses no matter who they are marketing to. Bright colors attract attention and young healthy people sell products. Companies that have zero interest in marketing to children employee both regularly in ads/media.
Its unit price as required by directive 98/6/EC.

A unit is how the product is customarily sold (singly) in the member state.

So for items typically sold as 500g in Germany, all items of that type in Germany would be labelled with 500g as the unit size for comparison. That same product may typically be sold in the UK as 1kg, so in the UK they would use 1kg.
MS claimed to have changed their minds, but it's hard to say what really went on there. Due to the nature of the whole enterprise people would be very conscious of what to put on paper / email. It seems plausible that the SVP was just paid a lot of money to quit and not refute the blame placed on him after the rest of MS decided to wash their hands.

(And in any event, actions by the responsible executives are actions of the company, and going back to say "it was just this guy, not MS the company" is not really the right way to think about it)
Just another Britain, just another east India company, just another empire.
Allow six-year-olds to vote? No, but it’s not as crazy as it sounds (2018)
His company is China's inroad to the Western games distribution industry. China is totally cool with Epic allowing anti-China statements as long as it brings the users into China arms.
For those not reading the article, it's battery storage. Specifically "Samsung SDI batteries". This is a great use case to see how well grid-scale battery storage will perform at the point of power generation in comparison to things like pumped water or thermal.
I don’t see much of the point of WWIII. What assets would they be looking to take by military force from western nations? Oil fields? Cities? Seems like this is more of an economic war. Even if you could invade the US mainland for instance, what’s the point? More land, more problems, plus everybody has a gun.
> it was a private email sent to users, so it's not like they're showing off.

Of course. Companies tell their customers about new products in the hope that they will keep that info secret.

I think the salient point about your list is that while 1 and 2 have been done separately for some time, the only timeline we have for them happening concurrently is "soon"
FBI has released documents on the Melissa Virus
> if an AI driver didn’t slow down and then killed a kid

An AI driver would have 360 degree coverage with much faster reaction time - think about the cases where a car brakes before the passenger even realises there is danger ahead.
Out of curiosity, I reviewed the App Store guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#leg...

The Legal Section states:

"Apps must comply with all legal requirements in any location where you make them available (if you’re not sure, check with a lawyer). We know this stuff is complicated, but it is your responsibility to understand and make sure your app conforms with all local laws, not just the guidelines below. And of course, apps that solicit, promote, or encourage criminal or clearly reckless behavior will be rejected. In extreme cases, such as apps that are found to facilitate human trafficking and/or the exploitation of children, appropriate authorities will be notified."

There is also a sub-section, which states:

"(iii) Apps should not attempt to surreptitiously build a user profile based on collected data and may not attempt, facilitate, or encourage others to identify anonymous users or reconstruct user profiles based on data collected from Apple-provided APIs or any data that you say has been collected in an “anonymized,” “aggregated,” or otherwise non-identifiable way."

Obviously, with HK and China, the stringency of Apple adhering to their guidelines on decisioning is politically contentious.

From a broader perspective though, there is something about this type of app functionality that is interesting for other cases - What are Apple's rules about app users tracking other people without their knowledge/consent, and then sharing that information with others?

This is also important because it influences levels of privacy protection.

As a low-level example, Waze tracks locations of police, cameras, roadwork, etc., which helps drivers avoid tickets for speeding (generally, this seems pretty accepted and I don't know of any major complaints).

However, say I have an app that tracks celebrities, musicians, businesspeople, athletes, etc., and I share that location data on a live map for others to see, and also contribute to. I imagine that would not go over too well with the people being tracked, even if they were being tracked out of admiration. This presents its own set of problems too for app abilities.
Most people are passionate about little more than having free time and a bit of money to spend with friends and family, safety, enough food. That's about it. I know that just about everything else has fallen away over the years.

It's getting increasingly difficult to achieve these passions -- requiring people to feign "passion" just so they can work jobs that often negate these real passions (namely, free time, but often more) just burns people out and sucks their souls dry.
While you may have missed it, you're the best judge of whether he gave it to you out of genuine goodwill. If he did, then you're good.
It won't disappear from anyone's device. New users simply won't be able to download it.
driverless cars will save thousands, and kill hundreds

... assuming that they are never, ever hacked, compromised, or sabotaged... especially from the inside.
Layer 2 and Layer 3 of the internet continue to permit routing around damage at Layer 1.

Layer 8 continues to be able to create new damage at Layer 7. There's no technology in the world that can prevent people doing things that other people disagree with.
https://www.zoho.com/writer - no content scanning, no ads. Just pay and use. Free for personal use.
Great. Let's build a million of them.
Yep, that's what we keep telling ourselves.
Show HN: An automation experiment to replace myself
The point is to copy selections. You select a span of text, and it gets copied without needing to type Cmd-C.
That's probably a good reason to choose an organisation name that looks enough like your employer, for added believability...
And when I think about it, those are 2 items I’d like to buy by the kilogram.
Yeah, but that guy doesn't have the liability (judgement proof)
Actually there are powerful techniques to predict what a person will do based on current position, velocity, body language and other cues. They can be trained by trying to predict future actions from past state, and self driving cars apply these models to all objects - people, cars, other things on the road.
Looks great, nice work! Quick heads up, there seems to be a slight bug in the zoom/selection functionality on desktop Chrome.

On the example page https://leeoniya.github.io/uPlot/bench/uPlot.html

- Right click on the plot, click on any context menu item

- The zoom selection area highlight appears, a second click highlights an area but does not zoom. That highlight stays visible through zooming out by double clicking and only goes away with a regular zoom in action.
Is there a clear boundary where string theory ends and Standard Model starts?
buses would be cheaper to run if they didn't need a driver

But those drivers will be paid regardless, given the strength of public sector unions. So, no savings.
(Lyme Disease) Progress October 2018
Revolution of Our Times: HK Protest Role-Playing Game Suspended from Google Play
Well, the use case for create-react-app is for JavaScript/React developers to create a new JSX-based React application and most of those JavaScript/React developers…

- have no idea what you are talking about,

- have no desire to use/learn anything else than JavaScript or something really close like TypeScript and will barf at the sight of ClosureScript's syntax,

- like their JSX and will barf at the sight of reagent's syntax,

- are used to infinitely large node_modules directories anyway.

The promise of re-frame is definitely interesting, but comparing directory size won't get you far when the real obstacles to adoption are elsewhere.
Taiwan and the mainland actually claim each other like Israel and Palestine.
That’s my feeling as well, I try to follow best practices at the level I work at and hope everyone on the levels below me did the same.
I got kicked out of school when I was fifteen for doing this. My class was the first year to have a mandatory laptop program. Each laptop was running Windows XP on the schools AD domain. I booted up OPH-crack at home, and didn't get a result. So then I torrented a larger rainbow table and ran it again for three days. Boom, there I had it.

My motivation for this was wanting to install my own software on the laptop that my (underprivileged) family was forced to pay for (much more than what it was worth). This was not an optional item, it was a requirement of the state-run school. The student user account was not given local administrator rights on the computer.

After using the administrator account for six months to install my own software (this is when I first taught myself how to program), the school did a random "computer" check, where they confiscated everyone's computer - unannounced, at random, and simultaneously. My computer was asleep, signed onto the administrator account.

During the inspection, the school's IT administrators and an external contractor not only went through all of the files on the local computer, but they also my Gmail account which had credentials saved in Firefox.

When my father was called into the office to discuss what they found, the school had the state police there to discuss charges. After listening to them rant on for about thirty minutes, my father turned to the female police officer and calmly said "I would like to press charges against [ ...... ] school, and Mr [ ...... ] personally for accessing my child's email account in an unauthorized manner". The head master agreed to not proceed with charges but I was no longer welcome at the school.

Unrelated, but five years later, Mr [ ...... ] was charged with possession of child pornography and jailed for fifteen years.
Which ERP System to Implement?
Site is up but empty of content for me.
Redirects to the Disney.com.au homepage for me (Australia).
The right to remain silent isn’t the right to intentionally lie.
At least on Android you can (at least, for now) load an .apk from a developer website,or install an alternative store, or even F-droid.

Apple must be coerced by law to allow app sideloading and third-party app stores on iOS devices.
That lacks any sort of context.

For one, its last dividend was paid in September 2017 before concerns about wildfires. Its dividend yield in 2017 was around 3.2%, and its profit was $1.6B. 3.2% isn't getting rich, and people don't buy utilities to get rich, but they expect dividends for their troubles, and the dividend kept up with inflation.

In hindsight, would it have been better to try to prevent wildfires? Yes, but it wasn't clear this was an issue, so in the absence of that, utilities pay out their profits to shareholders.

Its profit margin in 2017 was almost 10% (high than you'd expect for a utility), but if you look at earlier years, its all over the map, and its revenue isn't growing.
When would a team name even be used? Just for those who don't have one yet. I'll tell you where: executive emails to allhands. So because CxO time is so valuable, everybody gets a team identity. I think Gavin de Becker wrote somehting about this.
You got it in reverse. Batteries power humans, not humans are batteries.
If the algoritm fails with a rotated image, then I would claim its a bad algorithm that is over-fit and not at all generalising what it has learnt. What about slight rotation? Where does it start failing, and would a human?

Also, making an algorithm for detecting rotated images should be easy if it affect the results so much.
> The problem is the machine being able to predict what pedestrians and other drivers are going to do.

That's something machine learning can do pretty well, actually. There has been a lot of research on this topic, and not applied just to self driving - natural language generation, stock prediction, playing games with multiple agents, even content recommendation do future prediction based on past information.
Most people can afford a used car or a handbag from a vaguely popular brand, but they're still a status symbol. The status it symbolises isn't particularly high, but it's still status.
You can't beat the government or law with clever technological tricks. So you pull that stunt, then the border agent reminds you that lying to a federal border agent is a crime. You give a hesitant, non-confidant, shift your eyes wrong and you're detained. Heck they might even just detain you for shits and giggles because there is no repercussions to them.

Have fun.
I mentioned this in another post. But Vy has their own developers, and the development teams here contains a mix of Vy and Bekk developers. As such, Vy has enough Elm experience to handle any future turnover.
The site redirects with javascript based on the location you view it from. You can see the redirect table in the source.
Consider the Tubb's fire that PG&E is being sued over and which triggered their filing for bankrupcy protection: Cal Fire's investigation concluded that the fire was caused by a private electrical system and not PG&E.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5032/tubbscause1v.pdf
> Plus, we always have the right to remain silent.

No you don't. Not at the border.
> If you are a US citizen, you can't be turned away at the border or forced to unlock the device.

A warrant is not required. Federal agents can search your phone at the US border, even if you're a US citizen [1]. If they can't unlock it, they can seize it [2].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/can-us-border-agents-search-...

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/01/u-s-customs-c...
i considered using typed arrays for the input data, but most data is gonna come from JSON parsing, which will automatically allocate at least the size of a non-typed array, so i used that as the lowest common denominator for the demos.

my point was more that many charting libs use record-based datasets like [[a,b],[c,d]] which would need to allocate possibly hundreds of thousands of arrays or objects. uPlot uses something closer to a column store for its data format, which saves a lot of mem, in addition to not duplicating the same timestamps for every series.
> I think the real advantage for this might be for low-power, long-duration applications where battery cycles can be a challenge

Correct me if I'm wrong but I guess it wouldn't make much sense to use something like that on a LEO small satellite right? But sounds pretty cool and handy to have such a setup on something larger like a lunar base right?
The purpose of the whole system is education. He used it exactly for that.

Just make it more secure so the next people can have a bigger challenge.
Not the GP, but presumably because opting in to being a beta tester isn't something they're interested in, especially since the risks involved are less 'my app doesnt work' and more 'my life may stop working' if something goes wrong.

Note that while that risk remains true of every transportation journey you take, there is a lot of press generated when an autonomous vehicle takes a life or causes injury, which plays a part in a lot of peoples decision making.

Also note recent articles about automatic stop detection failing >50% of the time. This may or may not be relevant to AVs, but I personally would definitely not want to be in an AV that hit a child. That (theoretical) child's life is worth more than pushing driverless cars into the world before they're potentially ready.
Political Confessional: Democracy Is Overrated. I Want an Oligarchy
Nonsense. Few countries rely more on nuclear energy than Japan. Even Fukushima didn't manage to change that.
yep, i need to add filtering for which button was clicked. thanks!
Why would they remove this for no reason when it helps me to not be in the area or travel to the area where those events are happening?

The logic is the same as removing the AppStore since criminals are also using it.
Integrating Notarization into Your CI
Still works in Switzerland.