skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any useful bots for scraping LI profile out there?
Oh yeah I'm not advocating tossing them. There's lots of opportunities to repurpose a chip like that.

I just see lots of people saying things like "still daily driving an abacus!" as if there's been no progress on CPU development in the last 10 years, and that's just false. Progress has _slowed_, but a modern Ryzen or i-Series is quantifiably better than older gear.
I'm curious if they already have bans on adds for candy? It seems like if you are going to ban ads for one kind of candy, you'd ban them for all.
I mean for this comment to be constructive, but it is steeped in my personal opinions about the web and the rise of social networks within it, so I would like to emphasize that any apparent animus is not directed at your product, which seems nice and good intentioned. That said:

I personally wish that any forum for discussions about the web and related professional and/or creative work would be (wait for it) open and readable by the entire web. To me, the advent of walled-garden / login-gated content silos was a milestone in a long, degenerative process for the web overall. This forum seems to follow in that mold, preventing me from viewing any of the related content without first creating an account, signing some TOS or EULA and logging in. To be honest, this whole arrangement reminds me of ExpertsExchange, which some might recall from the days before StackOverflow was a thing.

I completely agree with the premise of this product, but I will always caution my colleagues to avoid closed forums like this.

[Edit] At the time of writing, there was no obvious way to view content in the site without logging in. OP has since shared a link below showing how to browse the content without logging in.
I think what you can do now is avoid complex, binary, and/or proprietary formats for your data, because they are more difficult to back up and restore.

You can also learn to not trust software which promiess you the world, but doesn't let you see its internals.
A smartphone that's "just a computer" is probably gonna be pretty bad for most people. Even the more-restrictive Apple App Store has to be constantly on guard against apps trying to get around the rules and spy on users and eat battery for no good reason and other undesirable junk—and not just little fly-by-night scamsters, but Facebook and such. Take away any effort to keep that under control and the experience for most of the non-HN crowd would be awful.
Fortnite Season 11 event crashes Twitch as millions watch 'The End'
I prefer to being born smart over being born rich.

If you are rich, but not smart -- it is hard to avoid temptation to invest into risky projects. It is hard to identify people who just want to drain away your money.
> Why do we still allow fracking?

It allows extraction of natural gas, which will have to be part of our energy mix for the foreseeable future. Natural gas plants not only emit less CO2 than the coal plants they replace, but can serve as peaker plants to back up renewables. We’re a long ways away from battery technology being able to serve that function. (The US is also not independent in terms of critical minerals needed for battery technology.)

Fracking also allows the US to be energy independent, and reduce its dependent on unstable middle eastern regimes. Thanks to fracking, the US has the most flexibility in its Middle East policy it has had in half a century.
Ha, I see what you are saying. I’ll look at how I can word that better. Thanks for your feedback!
Eh. I want my picture and name uploaded to LinkedIn, since it's a professional network and people use it to find me for good reasons. It may seem dumb, however not having a LinkedIn with a good picture can genuinely hurt your career.

I do NOT want my picture run through facial recognition software, or my name/email sold to marketers who will add it to a drip campaign.
Lots more detail for the uninitiated:

The most complex parts of phones and computers (e.g., the CPU) are integrated circuits (ICs)[0], which are (nowadays) billions of nanometer-sized transistors on top of a piece of silicon. The way these are made is arguably the most complex, high precision manufacturing process in the world, and is usually done in multi-billion-dollar "fabs" (fabrication plant) by huge companies (e.g., Intel).

Even the most basic IC fabrication, like in the article, absolutely requires maybe ~5-10 complex tools (furnace, sputterer, etc; $1000-$10k each at current eBay prices and very low quality, if you know how to rebuild/fix all of them) and a host of supporting equipment (fume hood for seriously dangerous[1] chemical work, etc). To get reasonable results, you also need to understand the device physics and then test multiple times to get the process right. I have some serious respect for Sam Zeloof of the article for getting this to work: it's at least an order of magnitude more difficult than other home manufacturing (3D printing, woodworking, welding, sewing...), even if you're already an industry expert. And his device used 6 transistors; you'd need to get the transistor manufacturing reliability up significantly to make a useful microprocessor (instead of small analog circuits), which probably starts at several thousand transistors [2].

If (GP post) you want an automated device that makes an IC for you given a digital design file, well, hm. The closest things we have today are companies that manage and run the equipment for you (fabless semiconductor companies (Qualcom, AMD...[3]) give their chip designs to, e.g., TSMC to manufacture). Academic researchers often send parts in together to reduce costs[4], in which case you could get tens of identical (reasonably simple) chips for several thousand dollars. Someone linked to [5], which looks like an attempt at a more open, hobbyist-friendly version of the same thing. I did run across [6] once, which _does_ seem to be attempting to make an easier to use, very small, automated system. I've no idea what their status is.

A desktop device as simple to use as a 3D printer is barely even on the conceptual possibility level at the moment, and then only when people start talking sci-fi self-assembly and molecular nanomanufacturing and a century of R&D.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit
[1] http://lnf-wiki.eecs.umich.edu/wiki/Piranha_Etch
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
[3] https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/manufacturin...
[4] https://www.mosis.com/what-is-mosis
[5] https://libresilicon.com/
[6] https://www.minimalfab.com/en/
And not only that. The K series is the unlocked high-performance version of the desktop series. Whereas U is the low-voltage/ultrabook version of the mobile series. So they are sitting pretty much at the opposite end of the spectrum (if we remove server and phone CPUs from the picture), and it's no huge surprise that it still shows up as faster.
Ask HN: How to get traffic from Hacker News smartly?
I want to launch a product which is only from web developers or freelancers. And i want to know the best ways to launch and get traffic.
Eh, i don't know.

I would like to get a car after using and abusing the public transport for the last seven years, but beside moving in the city I would like to occasionally drive further and farther, maybe for a weekend. Besides top electric cars (read: Teslas, still prohibitively expensive here) no electric car would allow that.
So I disagree with a lot of what you wrote, but the basic claim about the backdoor was something I am interested in so I clicked through and translated some of the Russian.

That totally looks like a backdoor.

How is this not common knowledge? Like, if the reason is indeed against a bad RNG, then why not xor the server's "random" number into the private key instead? Since the server does not know the value of that (as opposed to the shared key it establishes with Bob) and (if my limited understanding of math is sufficient) the private key is what is protected by the discrete logarithm problem, there should (afaict) be no possibility of backdooring the resulting shared secret. You would be mixing the server's number into a random number, which with xor gives an equally unpredictable result. Or, y'know, solve the badly seeded RNG by adding a seed to the RNG (such as by xor'ing an output of the current state with the number from the server).

It looks like I started using Telegram about four months after this was posted on Habr, and I think I was relatively early in using it. Maybe Telegram just wasn't very well-known yet and therefore nobody cared enough to make a big issue about it? "Backdooring" is also quite a hype word, I noticed somewhere last year that every third vulnerability was being called a backdoor, so perhaps tech media wasn't as quick to use that word back then? Then again, the Snowden leaks were ongoing, so it's not as if mainstream tech media wasn't talking about backdoors already in December 2013. I don't know, it's weird, this totally looks like it could have been designed in a million different ways and this is quite likely to be intentional.

Thanks for the link to a post which links to the technical details (albeit in Russian) complete with an example of how it could be exploited, that is indeed what I "think would be sufficient evidence to call this a backdoor".
IMDB was originally crowdsourced, wasn't it?
Philosophy and its relations to the special sciences; C.D. Broad [1923) [pdf]
Maybe we'll get there. They'll put induction coils in the streets and electric cars will charge and get powered as they go. Unless you're going on a long trip there'd be no need to ever worry about power.

Or, simpler, wireless powering in most parking spaces so for most people never even having to think about power

Or, robot chargers. Put a QR code on your plug, maybe in infrared so it's invisible, and some simple device and find and start charging your car anytime you park it.

Anyway, as an old computer literate person the idea of not understanding files scares me but if people are getting by without them then it's just probably me being out of date.
Perhaps it depends on intent. Clearly, the creators of the content, and those who posted the content, did so for the sole intention of making it public and usable outside the LinkedIn system. Their posting of it on LinkedIn is incidental; what site is used or who owns it is largely irrelevant to them, whereas such things clearly do matter to any company or person creating and posting their own unique content to their own site.
Same in Italy, but with a twist, the actual work is actually done in two or three days, at the most four of five, but one day per week and a couple of weeks when noone is on site.
StyleGAN can be trained significantly faster than 5 weeks (although cost is still ridiculous). I thought StyleGAN used inception distance.
Follow-up question: did you camp along the route?
Then they’re not vanity domains anymore (;

I’ve been doing this for 20 years, all discounts found and baked in. FWIW all of my demo sites since last summer use .xyz before they become full fledged vanity domains
At this point Bel doesn't even have numbers. A character is axiomatically a character, not some other thing (like a number in a character set encoding). Isn't it premature to talk about character set encoding or even representation yet? A character is a character because it's a character. But I haven't nearly read through these documents so perhaps I'm not understanding something.
All public discussions are available on the main domain without a login: https://webwide.io/

Sorry that wasn’t clear! I’ll add a browse as guest button to the landing page.
>This is also BS. My first hand experience with HK Police has been very positive and professional. Any riots with colour revolution approach and significant violence against law enforcement, major damages to public infrastructure like subway stations, government buildings, and not a single protester was killed but hundreds of HK police officers were injured some were badly injured, a few were blind due to protester shooting high powered laser beams into the eyes of officers in short distance and doxxing against thousands of HK police officers and their spouses/children, this is practically unheard of anywhere in the history. The restraint there is unmatched.

Uhh have you seen the videos protesters are posting on Reddit? HK police ganging up on someone and kicking them while they're down, shooting someone in the torso point blank, going in plainclothes among protesters and throwing Molotov cocktails. I hope you get paid a bonus when they order you to drive the tank.
> Alcohol is 4x the price in SG vs the USA because of taxes. Has that lowered the percentage of drinkers? SG also has a high tax on cigarettes I believe and they have those really disgusting images of disfigured people from smoking issues on every package yet I believe smoking is growing in SG (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Singaporean here. I can get my $2 beers and $12 bottles of wine at the supermarket, so alcohol isn't that expensive. On the other hand, drinking at a restaurant or bar is expensive, but moreso because rent in Singapore is crazy.

I'm not sure about the smoking rates, but I reckon that it has gone down among the younger generation because there's so much else to spend their money on these days — and smoking was recently banned on Orchard Road, which is the main shopping district.
You highlight flaws in faceid, etc but passwords also have flaws.

- Fingerprints can be lifted from pictures.
- Passwords can be forgotten and thus have seriously flawed reset schemes that often fallback to something as simple as having the right phone or backup code.
- passwords can be lifted by keyloggers
- passwords can easily be phished
- passwords can be shared

Authenticating access can come from 1 or more of: something you know, something you have, something you are.

They each have flaws. They all do the same thing.
Then banks should recommend a good password manager. It's on them to make their users happy after all.

One part of that is a proper risk analysis. Password reuse and weak passwords are much bigger risks than a rouge autocompleter.
> The IRA is in part to explain

I’ll bite. Why?
What's scarier is when they editorialize their platforms (also read censorship), therefore becoming content producers themselves. Today it's whoever you disagree with being censored, tomorrow it's your own voice.
Or line of business applications which (when rendered with Chrome) wants me to pick from my credit cards when I enter a certain field which has nothing to do with credit cards. I think it depends on the field name, but there seems to be a very loose correlation.
It feels like JAX doesn't have any of the high-level APIs that PT/TF/MXNet that are vital for fast prototyping of model architectures. Is that correct?
Thanks, I definitely looked through your landing page more than once trying to find something like that.
> I thought it was pretty established that putting something on a website didn't eliminate your copyright. Has that changed now?

No, if anything, that supports the decision.

To the extent that the material is copyrightable, it belongs to the users, who have chosen to make it public; copying incidental and necessary to that access is allowed under an implied license doctrine. Microsoft's efforts to restrict access had nothing to do with copyright, but ToS.
Not sure "isn't LinkedIn property" is accurate here. They still retain ownership and control of redistribution just like any other IP. This is more of a philosophical question about whether "viewing" itself is a violation of their ownership rights and really about the definitions of "viewing" and "public" in the context of the internet.

Seems like they've simply determined that viewing any freely accessible URL is "public" and that "viewing" does include scraping. This seems like a very reasonable determination as it maps pretty neatly to how we think about viewing public content IRL where I am free to drive down the road (for profit or pleasure) and record publicly viewable signage and activities and use that data any way I see fit.
Mutable objects can't be hashed right?
Facts and tables are not copyrightable. The phone numbers in a phone book are not copyrightable, merely their presentation order[0]. If you were to copy, say, the linkedin website, or the linkedin branding, or the name linkedin, or any of their ads, those would be eligible, but the simple collection of names, emails, and phone numbers is ineligible for copyright.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
I tried browsing the documentation for several minutes, but it does not answer this question: which Jupyter kernels are supported? Is it only Python like Google colab?
More details on how this works, for Google at least, here:

https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/update-api#ch...
I think vastly more people are reading and writing due to modern computer literacy, and I can't stand the way they are changing the meaning of words because they don't read books. It appears vocabulary is increasing, but people get their vocabulary from inadequate online dictionary entries and/or peers that don't read books either. So to me, because I grew up reading books, it's incredibly aggravating because it seems like a new and inferior language that grew out of ignorance.
> Sounds great, but what's a "library", in the world of file formats?

I don't quite understand the linked programming language design advice (i.e., if existence of SKI is a sufficient argument to discard languages based on cleaner models and fewer axioms, it seems that any language can be discarded on step 4 because there are Turing complete languages already), but I think a sensible course of action that would fit the "language versus library" analogy is to use an existing serialization format and/or data model, only defining its schema/ontology (if there is no suitable one). Similarly to separation of layers (particularly presentation and application ones, and perhaps down to transport layer, given the article's advice to include checksums) in network protocols.
Probably one of the best investments in the past decade. I had a 2500K for 6 years and only sold it since I moved and didn't carry the old desktop with me. Performance-wise it was still going strong and left nothing to be desired. Definitely faster than the 2015 Macbook Pro I had been using since then - which is also not that bad as an everyday PC.
Different sugars affect properties like texture and moisture retention differently, and aren't equivalently sweet.
Agreed! I wrote the author of the paper to get his input. If you want a copy of his response when I get it, shoot me an email tito@impossiblelabs.io (tho you may be attempting anonymity here...I can post his response to this thread in a few days if of interest.
I got a buy out offer about 14 months ago, fantastic offer and I was planning on leaving to pursue my own business anyways. It's turned out great; the buy out gave me a years runway to not have to worry about income so much, meanwhile I was able to pursue my own product. Making more now than I did before the buy out.
Hi, w/r/t your "short-term" comment, please read here: https://ipcc.ch/sr15

Particularly the graph in the bottom left corner here:
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SPM1...

There is no more time left for the fracking/gas transition argument. While the argument is true in the abstract, and was true in a logistical sense 10 - 20 years ago, to continue to advance the argument after that report was published (which to be fair was only a year ago this week) is to be misinformed and spread misinformation.

We should have used nuclear and domestic gas to power the 00's and 201X's. We didn't. Its too late now. The remaining available carbon budget does not afford for a two-step transition. All investment in carbon emission producing generation needs to be replaced with investment in non-carbon-emitting generation, starting "in 2020" but honestly that's just politician talk. The real deadline is "fucking yesterday".
You're not wrong. In the general case though, adding law can mandate that a certain already occurring activity must be done.
This is about the copyright on the items that people post, i.e. creative works, right? But what if LinkedIn collects facts (where you work, your age, etc.), wouldn't that be covered by sui generis property right (better known as database copyright)?

Does this judgement say anything about that, i.e. whether it matters that users contributed the facts in their collection (so I'm not talking about posts, descriptions, etc.) rather than that they collected it themselves and therefore get a form of property right?

Edit: wait, database copyright is not a thing in the USA. Of course they wouldn't say anything about that.
Let me know if anybody had a chance to try this out - if you are a writer or blogger, does this analysis make sense? thanks! @amunategui
One reason is that traditionally any device that accepts PINs for payment cards needs to meet special tamper-proofing requirements. This was a big challenge that Square was working on when I worked there. Here's a thread on SO about it: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/159118/how-does...
https://medium.com/@nchelluri/you-deserve-a-pull-up-bar-84ec... is my alternative
From the research I did as an Illinois resident: Your body is divided into organs (heart, kidneys, liver, etc.) and tissues (skin, cornea, tendons, etc.). Organs are the real life-saving donations and they must be transplanted fresh within a few hours of death. Tissues like skin and bones get ground up/processed and sold - occasionally for really great purposes like helping burn victims or people with torn ligaments/tendons or cornea transplants, but also for things like making penises & lips bigger. Dunno where heart valves fit into this... maybe the entire heart is an organ but if they cut it up and only take the valves those count as tissues?

The chart in the article with prices of body parts only lists tissues - probably because it is illegal in the US to buy/sell organs; organs go to a match through the central first-come-first-serve registry. It does mention instances of organs also being harvested and the negative externalities of that, but at least those organs had a large effect on someone else's life. The same often can't be said about tissues.

I have taken myself off of the state's 'organ donor' list, which is actually for both organs and tissues. IL also seems to have a harvesting racket like CA; there are two harvesting ('procurement') organizations that have computerized access to morgues and coroners. I'm going to find a way to specify that I only want organs to be donated, and perhaps tissues but only to an organization that I trust.
That's straining credulity, especially considering the waning influence of religion in modern societies.
Anything that causes the guest to go to sleep (HLT) a lot, for example message passing between two processes on two different VMs. You can try TCP_RR from netperf.
We'd call this karma, I think. On the one hand these big corps create siloed software environments that not only take all control away from users, but also remove the necessity to think. From their pov, users are as dumb as rocks and should stay at that level. At the same time the same corps cry about the lack of supply of new engineers and pretend to promote CS in college (by giving out ipads and watching a colorful presentation about software, I guess).
I mean this in the kindest nicest way possible... you are doing it wrong.

Please worry about solving a problem that once solved reduces human suffering (developer suffering). Once you are there learning how to distribute that solution will be much simpler.
Very nice work! Thanks for sharing.

I can personally recommend Upright Pose, https://www.uprightpose.com/en-try/
I strongly suggest you make it user-configurable, history shows it's difficult for any individual to reliably predict what news is fake vs not. Rather, tools such as this might actually help one differentiate, provided the news sources aren't censored.