skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then the users who would be grateful are the police officers

The police officers benefit regardless of if they are Apple's users, so to say the move is to protect "our users" is deceptive. They would have to say it is to protect the police and/or Hong Kong residents. But if they had phrased it that way, it would be obvious they made a choice - to put the safety of the police above that of their users.

> Apple is not in a unique position to judge who’s “the good guys” and who’s the “bad guys”

But they are judging! They judged that it is better the protesters face police violence, than the other way around. They weren't legally compelled to remove the app - just criticized for allowing it. (Mind you they were criticized by the same police force that's preventing paramedics from treating injured protesters, but my opinion wouldn't change even if the police were perfect and the protesters pure evil. A phone is a tool, and tools should not betray their users.)

Now I wouldn't blame them too much if they had merely followed the law, even if the law is unethical. Usually when corporations break the law, it's to be even more unethical, not less, so I'm in no hurry of asking them to play vigilante, especially not on foreign soil. But they deliberately disempowered their users by locking them in a walled garden, so they should get a big part of the blame when their users suffer for it.
Not all that relevant, but with the new BootROM exploit you may be able to do this at some point.
I don't agree that it was mostly about ideas, Freud's main insight was to deduce the existence of the subconscious mind: i.e. the idea that we don't have direct access to our entire inner world.

It was a big departure from the way the mind was conceived till then.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/397/
That's what Cadillac is doing. I don't see why not, the mirrors are really cheap and you could easily make them slide down over the screen if needed.
> http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/js1k/

Subtle bug in this one. When the game resets, it doesn't reset your vertical velocity.

Still quite impressive.
There was a famous case of a narrow purpose AI which was supposed to learn to identify pictures of tanks, it learned to identify pictures of cloudy days instead.

In another case, an AI designed to become an oscillator, became an amplifier instead, amplifying the 60Hz noise from the electrical grid.

Kinda equivalent to a deep-frying juicer, isn't it?

Both cases, and others like them, are quite well understood in hindsight, but were not predicted beforehand by the people involved.
They're always bullshit. Even if you don't try to manipulate people all you measure is their current habits.
/. comment https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14984762&cid=59293... speculates Dyson Car was a scam intended to get outside investor to pay for their Singapore manufacturing infrastructure.
curiously, on my Windows system, I clicked 'no' to a permission prompt on something one time and now I can't seem to actually give the thing blanket permission after determining I would want it to have it.

So that just asks pretty much every 5 min or so, again it's more a subsystem than an entire program, so bla)

so. yea. yay for technology. ;) I think I'll just go read a book now. on paper. in the other room. ;)
They’re less censorable than a platform owned by a single company with a standardized process for taking down content.
Oh of course...

Sorry about that

I’ll sort it tonight, thanks for pointing that out!
> Mine gets tossed in a bag at the end of the day and toted around on my back via motorcycle, and I've never felt nervous about that at all.

Glad to hear that you are using your devices outside of a clean room. Whenever I throw my work-issued Macbook in my bag and ride home, it's got dirt in the keys by the time I get home. I was the first in the office to need a keyboard replacement...
I did something like that for awhile when my first child was born. Went to 30 hours a week, done in three 10-hour days, spending Monday and Friday home with my kid. 75% salary/vacation time, same medical/everything else. I did that for a few years and it was really great. Had to go back to full time eventually because the extra 25% salary ended up being needed, but yeah it was great while it lasted.
Because "Chinese dumping" has no value and is meaningless. How is it not right now? China has provided many inexpensive consumer goods for the US and the US has provided a lot of jobs for China. Trump is pushing the trade war (and failing) and priming US citizens for full blown war. It is painfully obvious who is and isn't playing fair.
I'm typing this on my second System76 laptop, and my first one (which is still running, in retirement as the home entertainment system) lasted over 5 years as my principal. So, something like 6-7 years of System76 as my principal laptop, and no issues of that sort or any other.
>What made things simple to focus on at Apple have gone away to colleg grads with no experience.

rather the decisions have went to the business people, and that's why Apple went bankrupt the first time around
I disagree, but you're entitled to your opinion. He's not sharing a personal experience, but rather replying to someone else's with unsolicited advice on how to better go about getting something that was never asked for in the first place.

Ironically (or maybe not), he's recursively "mansplanined" why "mansplaining" is a term that makes him feel insecure. And I say insecure because of the false dichotomy between having empathy and being "suspicious about a hidden agenda" -- that screams "I feel threatened, so let me explain to you why your approach is wrong".
Excerpt:

"The Maillard reaction is responsible for many colors and flavors in foods, such as the browning of various meats when seared or grilled, the browning and umami taste in fried onions, and coffee roasting. It is similarly responsible for the darkened crust of baked goods, the golden-brown color of French fries and other crisps, of malted barley as found in malt whiskey and beer, and the color and taste of dried and condensed milk, dulce de leche, the Sri Lankan confection milk toffee, black garlic, chocolate, and roasted peanuts."

My thoughts:

The above also includes the flavor imbued in toasted marshmallows... <g>
Webinars are a big thing and most users get invited to many of them, however, usually there is no interaction. If there is a chance to ask a question, it is usually confined to some VIP's who are involved in the webinars themselves.

I think Google just makes things just in case it magically goes viral. But in this case, you're going to have to make this grow by targeting the right customers.

You could also partner with a company that has PowerPoint libraries and offer this type of service to extend their functionality. (I guess they COULD copy some aspect of it as well but that's something else you'd need to plan for in any case) In the fire service we use target solutions (aka target slavery) , which is essentially a platform that lets users upload powerpoints as part of a training library. But there is NO interactivity, you are lucky to get survey monkey at the end.
"Advances in genetics, neuroscience and psychopharmacology all at once reminded psychiatrists that biology ruled, that talk could be dispensed with, and a truly medical psychiatry could finally emerge"

I don't know if this is true for a good chunk of mental illnesses, tbh. How does one use a purely biological model and treatment for PTSD, BPD, ASPD, etc?
I really feel for the people who HAVE to be on the latest OS. Thankfully I'm able to always operate at n-1 for ~6mo and once the dust has settled I can upgrade safely. I might speed that up a little now that I have a work and a personal MacBook but only on my personal and only to play with SwiftUI. Even then, it's probably better to just run a VM with a throwaway iCloud account.

I love my mac and have no intention of switching but I really hope this is their Vista moment, or close to it, and they start doing better on the desktop.
disappointing to see this grey, because i think there's a lot of truth in here.

i think a lot of developers are used to wielding great power with technology, getting immediate visceral feedback, shipping, and whatever else. this gives them an impression that fixing people problems is just as easy - the equivalent of opening up the ol' IDE and rocking out for 8 uninterrupted hours, getting an MVP up.

the differences, though, are crucial. the compiler doesn't lie to you - you missed a semicolon; that's not the case with people. the in memory database doesn't have another agenda; again, not the case with people. the UI doesn't aspire to be something greater, or protect itself; managers often do.

i really appreciate that individuals try - i just don't think it's really worth it, if the org is > 15 or so people.
Meltdown is absolutely cheating as it speculates through permission boundaries. I don't see how anyone could argue otherwise in good faith, especially considering that it was only Intel and IBM effected. AMD and SPARC were immune, and the extent of ARM's vulnerability was a single register, which seems like a bug, not reflective of an architectural design decision.

You can't design your software to protect against Meltdown, which makes the ISA guarantees useless. Whereas Spectre-type side channels can be mitigated through software, which is what cryptographic algorithm implementations have been doing for years.

There's far more room for debate regarding culpability for Spectre class attacks, though it's pretty clear that Intel deliberately pushed the envelope in ways that AMD and ARM weren't prepared to do.
There are lawmakers - both GOP and Democrat - who are in favor of recognizing social and app platforms as public squares. Such regulation would limit arbitrary corporate deplatforming.
> Yeah copyright doesn't work like that. You don't get to violate it just because you need to for interoperability (unfortunately).

This is only sort of true; it's a messy and complex area of law. For instance, interoperability was one of the defenses Google raised in the Oracle lawsuit over Android's use of Java APIs. (It ended up not helping them much, on the grounds that Android isn't actually that interoperable with other Java implementations, which is different from interoperability not being a usable defense at all.)

And the DMCA has specific exceptions allowing reverse-engineering for the purposes of interoperability.
> Serious question, how is that possible?

You see, it is possible. Take a step back and look again to see the evidence: The site is called Hacker News, the first goal of this site was to prove that something useful can be created in an entirely custom programming language, and the site handles a huge amount of traffic, so it is a challenging task to let this run on a single core.

So the answer from a hacker's mind to why they let it run on a single core might simply be: Because they can.

On the other hand, YCombinator is a successful company, so buying a larger server would certainly be in their latitude. But that would be less intellectually appealing, and part of their success come from the fact that they decide as hackers, and don't always take the easiest path.
I’m fairly satisfied with running Ubuntu as the main OS, and Windows 10 in VirtualBox for the scanner software that Ubuntu won’t run.
I migrated after bitbucket decided to kill hg support. I could probably get by using git, but I like that I don't have to :)

All in all, I have been very happy.
True. But all of that would be pretty applicable to Turkey, as well.
aaaaand it's back again (at least right now)
Ask HN: Blockchain Storage?
Hi. Just wondering if any of you guys are using secure blockchain storage. And, if you are, who/what you're using. Would like to get away from commercial cloud (i.e. Google, MSFT, etc.). But, am not really sure who or which platform to use. Any insights or suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated.
However he is not japanese.
> A good way to host the site would be to put it on a Tor onion service [...] If you know how to help set this up please get in touch.

This is not very difficult. The Tor website explains it pretty clearly [0]. Alternatively since y'all are familiar with Go, there is a library [1] that makes listening on an onion address almost as easy as a regular address.

0 - https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/tor-onion-service.html....
1 - https://github.com/cretz/bine
It's not just cultures, it's languages!

In my native Hebrew, I'd greet a man like "מה שלומך" "Ma Shlomcha" ("How Are You" literally, "How is your peace?") and a woman gets the female noun form/pronounciation "Ma Shlomech").

Nouns and Verbs have gender in Hebrew
Did Russia screw up American politics or did American media unrelentingly obsessing over Russia screwing up American politics screw up American politics?
Wait, the Waymo Lyft drives - the ones that are supposedly public - are under NDA?! Well I guess that explains why I've never heard of it happening.
As another person whose livelihood is tied up in the use of OS X, I agree that apple continues to drop the ball. Hardware, software, 'security', cloud services. It's just painful. I don't understand why a company with so many resources cannot produce better results. I really love the mac, and so many Apple products, but I fear that the long term trend is downwards, and I see no sign of it abating.
But see, by saying "don't bow to state actors", you're making a moral judgement about when it is and is not okay to bow to pressure.

Was it okay when Apple got rid of Alex Jones's app? He was spreading misinformation about vaccines, that's pretty darn dangerous. I guess you could argue that wasn't due to a "state actor", but is anti-Hong-Kong pressure from Chinese citizens all that different?

And here's the thing—I do think platform holders sometimes need to make moral judgements, and I'm glad Alex Jones is banned from the App Store. I'm significantly less glad that it's completely impossible to install his app anymore. It's the difference between not actively giving someone a megaphone, and actually banning speech.
I’ve had multiple PRP injections on my ankle and it helped dramatically. I had chronic ankle pain and found it painful just walking. After 2-3 PRP injections it helped reduce the pain by 80%.
I wonder if there's a hardware method to disable ME, something involving the processor lines on the motherboard, before it even gets powered on?
And that my friends is called bootstrapping.
In the sense that everyone wants cake and to eat it sure.. But really everything anyone wants is stack ranked and their management prefers the apple demo to the world format long after the luster has gone in no small part because of the secrecy, silos and paranoia it requires. In a financial sense their management is right and an employee wanting to be part of something less bland and Oracle like is wrong.
nope! they have lots of money, they dont need more.
seeing as this would be electronic payment, token 1cent per search, would likely intersect with a data grab as a brass ring.
It would create one more reason to do "other than google"
I have worked as data scientist on a lot of finance domain problems - forecasting default, fraud, conversion probability ect.

Lightgbm library has consistently performed well. I've been interested in how many colleagues instantly jump to neural nets when in my experience this often doesn't beat lightgbm on medium sized datasets not related to text/images.
I have the opposite problem in that the backup camera is perfectly visible even when partially obscured and the mirrors become almost useless with ice particles, fog, and water droplets scattering my perception through them.
You’re being downvoted because you’re using Hacker News for your political battle, which is frowned upon: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Oh, and commenting on downvotes is also usually not rewarded either.
You must not have ever used Windows 98.
Is there any truth to Apple's claims in their statement regarding why they removed it?

EDIT- good questioning of Apple's reasoning: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/10/10/cook-hkmap-live...
Unless you can compress at a higher throughout than your network speed, don’t do this. I’m not familiar with too many machines that can gzip at greater than 120 Mbytes/sec, which is the network bandwidth of a switched gigabit network. There’s no point in making your task take longer with unnecessary compression steps. This also applies to encryption but that’s a much more context dependent decision.
Orthopedic surgeon here. Articular cartilage regeneration is definitely the holy grail of my field, but for all of the promises of biologics (growth factors, stem cells, collagen matrices) it always seems to be “another five years away”.

The part of this article that I find most interesting was identifying a marker that can differentiate ankle cartilage vs the hip. This is certainly a phenomenon that we all observe clinically, hip and knee arthritis is vastly more common than ankle arthritis despite the weight bearing surface of the ankle being significantly smaller (meaning more force per square area). When we do encounter ankle arthritis, it is almost always the result of prior intra-articular fractures or instability from chronic ligamenous injuries, not the normal osteoarthritic age related degeneration we see in hips and knees.

Let’s find out what makes ankle articular cartilage so special and sprinkle it in our hips and knees.
I used to work at Dyson and it was a similar story. I think the secrecy thing is key. They went on and on about "protecting our secrets" (ha) and operating on a need-to-know basis. It just meant communication was really bad, and getting help from anyone who didn't know you was impossible.
I switched from macOS to Linux [Fedora now] about a year and a half ago, out of the same frustrations that affect a lotta folks --

It took a little while to adjust, but since there are a lot of similarities between the Linux and Darwin command lines [and Linux package management being better than homebrew by my lights] , it wasn't very long before I was like "Damn, why didn't I switch 20 years ago!!!" Plus now my hardware works [edit : and is user-serviceable], is reasonably ergonomic, and OS updates don't break my existing programs...
I hope this can fix one of my biggest problems driving at night, car beams reflecting off of the side mirrors and right into my eyes. Dimmable rear view mirrors are standard, but the side mirrors are still enough to tire out my eyes and make driving long hours at night much harder.
If upper management wants culture to change they will take the action necessary to change it. The last people to be powerless to inflict change on a corporation are the executives running said business.
> If a company says that American Civil War and Lincoln is evil and illegal. It's free speech. How American think about it?

Well it's not like Americans have a long history of television, movies, music, and literature that are harshly critical and even outright mocking of past and current US presidents. Nobody ever depicts Donald Trump as an orange-skinned combover-wearing loon, or Michelle Obama as a health-fascist, or George W. Bush as a big-eared warmongering idiot. That would surely be unacceptable to any American!
Seems you didn't read the post very carefully, author did everything he could except using a separate apple id.
Are the mobile AMD GPU options all that great? The RX 5500M that's coming out soon looks interesting.

The reasons for going with Nvidia are:

* Nvidia is more power efficient. This is really critical for mobile devices
* Nvidia has CUDA, which is important for (among other things) folks that use machine learning frameworks
* System76 has put in work to make using Nvidia GPUs more seamless on Linux (pre-installing the drivers, etc.)

Zen 2 really gave AMD the power-efficiency over Intel. Intel's 10nm is still largely absent from the market, and even then I'm not sure how much more efficient the 10nm process is.

I don't think the same can be said for Navi vs. Nvidia's architecture. Also, Nvidia is working on their own 7nm based GPUs.
Is this the 'disconnected lever' problem of AI, applied to vehicle driving?

Of course I'm not saying it's magic; there's obviously some kind of signal to our subconscious that we're able to process and make useful.

That signal is connected to some much larger dataset of years of human experience - things like what a distracted driver might do, what a tired driver might do, what an old unmaintained vehicle looks like, what hints at an out-of-state or out-of-country driver who might not be aware of local routes or problems, how people tend to behave differently at dawn/rush hour/day/night.

An AI car should be able to tell which is a busy junction pretty easily, but watching a car swerve in a way that might indicate the driver is not paying full attention will make you more cautious around that car for a long time up ahead.

Still, AI cars which don't tailgate, will get an ENORMOUS safety advantage over the people who drive 2ft behind me at highway speeds. That alone might be enough to overcome every other benefit. "AI car doesn't get involved in multi-car pileup", "AI car didn't get shunted at traffic lights", "AI car let me in at that junction" will keep happening and keep boosting people's confidence in them little by little.
I spent a lot of time deliberating on what to replace my 13” MBP with. The idea of more open hardware is attractive, but both system76 and purism fell short (mainly battery life)

I ended up going with a Lenovo x1 carbón extreme and threw ArchLinux on it. The trackpad is worse, and battery life isn’t quite as good (I feel like I can optimize this, but haven’t had the chance yet), but it’s such a capable machine. I feel quite happy with it.
Use the CDPATH environment variable and you'll be able to CD to your regularly used directories from anywhere:

https://jcode.me/cdpath-with-zsh/

much much saner than having your user files in the root directory, and works the same in any OS.
Totally fair, it would probably be closer to an hour on an ebike depending, but that is rough. I will say that it is super fun though!
Honda is awesome! The only other car manufacturer I would buy from beside them is probably Toyota. That being said... Please don't let them touch ANY of the software... The head unit in my car is a UI/UX disaster, if you try to use it in any capacity while driving its definitely worse then just texting and driving. The only saving grace of the Honda head unit is that they finally started implementing Android Auto in them. Also, the Lane Keep Assist and Anti-Collision features leave a lot to be desired.
I had a Lubuntu installation in virtualbox in win7 that worked just fine for several years, as a java development environment. Just sayin'.
We will need that for the computer driver... so it is probably good to beta test on humans first.
> If a company says that American Civil War and Lincoln is evil and illegal. It's free speech. How American think about it?

Plenty of Americans would agree with that, hence the popularity in America of the banner of the losers of that conflict.
Not to be a dick, but this just feels like an ad for their training product. There's no re-enaction, 'Re-Enact' is referring to their training course that they want you to buy. The meat of the article takes up 2 out of the 13 paragraphs.

Am I just being overly critical?
New detected asteroid “2019 SU3” considered as fourth most dangerous by ESA
I haven't worked with Clevo, but apparently they provide quite some flexibility. A vendor can use their own choice of keyboard, extra buttons, ports placements, hinges, ...

I guess Clevo would even be up to designing a new PCB around a different CPU by a different vendor, but "use this type of keyboard" will be much cheaper to commission than "swap out the CPU vendor".

So I'd expect keyboard issues to be more up to Metabox choosing the cheapest option for that part, rather than a systemic Clevo failure.