skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple is becoming (already is?) a services company. And, let’s face it. Apple has never been good at anything involving the internet. I feel like they could have all the money and engineers in the world (which they basically already do) and still never completely get their services right because it’s just not in their DNA. Applications are. Hardware is. But put a network layer in there and they crap themselves. (Ok, not in every case. I’m obviously exaggerating to make a point. But the overall track record is iffy at best.)

For what it's worth, Apple is on a massive hiring spree in the Seattle area, attempting to lure developers and systems engineers from all of the Cloud companies in the area, with the goal of using all their combined experiences to start doing internet services properly. No idea if it'll work. I hear horror stories from my ex-Apple co-workers about the way things used to be.
Do kids really prefer those garish covers? When I was a kid I wanted my toys to look like adult toys.
> Pay a one-time $100 fee and you don't have to deal with re-signing your app every seven days.

Fwiw, it’s not one-time. It’s $100 every single year.
Nobel Prizes in Literature 2018 and 2019 Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke
>Desktop Linux (...) is far from perfect. Getting everything to work is a lot of effort, and then mysteriously something will stop working.

Couldn't disagree more. Gnome took a bit of tweaking but it has been performant, stable, and exactly what I want. I recently changed jobs and am forced to use a mbpro. I hate it. It's slow and painful if not impossible to customize.
If you haven't tried KDE Plasma in the last year or two, it's worth revisiting. I tentatively tried KDE 4.x back when it was the hot thing, and was disgusted by how it seemed to bring even a top-spec gaming desktop to its knees. Now I run Plasma 5 on my laptop (on Void Linux - I feel that package maintainers make a big difference here), and it's far and away the best desktop experience I've ever had.

I've finally recovered that sense I always got from the Windows 95 shell, that's been missing in every desktop environment until now - that sense of "wow, they've really thought this through".
> Constantly having to manage disk space.

This problem could be resolved by Amazon. The devices could have "infinite" storage simply by using the on-device storage as FIFO buffer with the overflow in Amazon's cloud storage.
Income taxes are paid on income earned in a given year. That is, real dollars. Long-term capital gains are paid on growth spanning multiple years. The cost basis is not inflation-adjusted. The latter therefore taxes inflation on assets. The capital gains rate should be lower than the income rate as a consequence. How much lower I take no position on.
Verdigris is a moc replacement (not a Qt fork like CopperSpice) which generates QMetaObject through macros using constexpr.
AWS: CloudWatch or CloudTrail?
Second link is acceptable :)

I don't trust wikipedia. Anyone can make any edit
Attackers exploit an iTunes zeroday to install ransomware
As a side point, looking at maven and the org.pytorch gave me a cold shudder remembering my java days.

How does CocoaPods compare to Maven, NuGet, or NPM?
For the most part the far right doesn't engage in good faith. They're not just operating from a different set of opinions, they target people based on who they are for violence and ultimately their elimination. They are not a political movement, they're a death cult.

It's not unheard of to de-radicalize some in the far right, but it's incredibly difficult work that takes a special familiarity and skillset.

Bang for buck, deplatforming is far more effective. It's hard for them to build their movement when they can't easily access vulnerable minds.
Hong Kong Is the Latest Tripwire for Tech Firms in China
> and yet it doesn't seem that whales set up a persistent and organized resistance effort

Historically, they did. One famous example is the Essex, which was sunk in 1820 by the spontaneous attack of an unusually large male sperm whale soon after pursuing a pod of whales.

The difference today is that it's effectively impossible for a whale to put a hole in a steel-hulled ship.
And that's why you should never buy Apple.

It's not your iphone/ipad/Macbook, it's Tim's iphone/ipad/Macbook that he deigns to let you use, but only at his pleasure and only to do what he thinks is OK.
inb4 russian sleep experiment
So sorry you didn’t have it better. Parents should be the absolute opposite of a bully.
I have a similar experience with the A285. Battery life is disappointing with Windows 10, and significantly more so with Ubuntu and variants.
yeah...not sure i can ditch my macbook pro yet but next phone is not going to be iphone anymore...
GCBD was nationalized by the Chinese government six months after Apple forced users to opt in to moving data to their servers.

The problem isn't really that the data is hosted locally, but that the servers with the Apple user data (and encryption keys to access it) are owned and operated by the Chinese government.
I do eat pig and cow products. Damn, I guess I'm a hypocrite. You caught me. Congrats on winning an internet argument.
Re: ChromeOS ban, you can use another account on that same hardware, make a new account, or use a "guest" account.

Not great, but not bricked.
U.S. Domestic Airline Fuel Efficiency Ranking, 2017-2018 [pdf]
It may be a false positive on our part. But for animals that are likely to be in contact with humans it's a true positive.
Thanks for the tip; I'll check it out!
That is a cool idea, and the recent Mercedes-Benz S-class and others with what they call "360 camera" pretty much has more than enough camera to make this possible however in practice driving around with cameras is pretty awkward, even for parking despite the very cool "3d" effect, I found using mirrors for parking much more practical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgnR4i_umhE
Serious question: If they were able to see all communications legally, and had all the snooping powers they seem to desire, would we be better off in the long run? There’s probably an implicit belief - on this site and elsewhere - that these agencies can’t be trusted with such power. Even if this were true, wouldn’t any abuse of power be ferreted out by the public sooner or later? Wouldn’t the truth eventually come to light, and everyone better off overall?
If you flag on-topic articles your flagging privileges can be revoked.
What I want fixed in the linux desktop is IT support. Everything my company does or make works with Mac or Windows, but I can’t even get config values to set for anything else.
In my mind there are two flavours of queries. The first are those which are "ctrl f" in nature, ie I want to query the entire web to find string x. Which are obviously better suited to indexes. The second are more knowledge based in nature. IE I want to find quality information about a certain topic. These benefit from curation, as anyone who has added "stackoverflow" or "reddit" or "wiki" to a google query will know.

So I would start with a curated and crowdsourced first page results for the top x% of these knowledge based queries. With wikipedia like guidelines and moderation to ensure the quality of the sites mentioned is up to scratch coupled with an inbuilt feedback mechanism from people browsing. I think wikipedia has proven that while difficult, a scheme like this is indeed possible.

I also think you can start very niche and play with the results structure. For example, I like motorcycles and after years of browsing I have discovered the best places for reviews and information. Even just this use case could benefit from a better structure of results page and removal of all the spammy sites. The same goes for other niches like cooking & programming languages.
AI senses human poses through walls using WiFi
Wow... between the linked blog post and the responses here I have to say I'm still pretty happy running Mac OS 10.11 on an late `09 Mac Mini with maxed out ram and a SSD drive so upgrading really doesn't seem necessary.

Sure, I'd love more power and a 3 monitor setup but since I only code web apps and mostly use BBEdit, Fetch, Terminal, and a few web browsers neither speed or power are really lacking.

I've figured I'd move to linux when I finally do buy a new box and this sure reinforces going that direction, especially the comments here from folks in the trenches at Apple.

That said, sounds to me like Apple needs to implement a structure of team liaisons that are assigned solely to manage product continuity between teams of coders.
> many other things Tzu said

Tzu, 子, is an honorific title along the lines of "Mister". The name is Sun, 孫.

It would be more normal to call him Sunzi, along the lines of Mozi, Xunzi, Confucius (the "ci"), or Mencius (ditto).
If you are not a gamer and don't need a beefy GPU for development (most people don't), you can also look at more "workstation" grade laptops from e.g. Lenovo (P-series, that kinda thing) or Dell. You'll get a few enterprise features and spec bumps that might be beneficial versus 'gaming' features (e.g.: Xeon, ECC, more NVMe + free slots, free RAM slot, RAM up to 32 or even 64GB).

But yeah, gaming machines always make for great dev stations, whether desktop or laptop.
>If China had an app that allowed US alt-right or antifa to target PoC/whatever antifa equivalent owned stores and attack the police, it would be pulled in a heart beat.

If you’re going to end with this sort of false equivalence, it kind of colors the rest of your argument and makes me wonder if you are being disingenuous here. I further note that you make a lot of assertions with no facts to substantiate them, and refer to news reports on Hong Kong as propaganda, so perhaps I don’t need to wonder anymore.
Has anyone made an open-source micro-violin yet?

Well, there are open-source violins...

http://www.hovalabs.com/hova-instruments/hovalin
I think you should do it to learn and try something new (publishing a Chrome extension). I’m sure you could also write an interesting blog post about how you chose and implemented the spaced repetition.

Worst case scenario no one download it, but it’s like most side projects, where doing it for your own growth is the important part.
For extra mischief points, you get to map these four groups to the four groups of developers listed above :)
TransUnion says 37,000 Canadians may have had personal info compromised
Ethanol fuel as a green alternative to gasoline, maybe.
> Apple caved under pressure from China. The explanation Cook gave is not just an embarrassment, it calls into question the veracity of all of his other statements.

I was thinking about the complexity of the world the other day, and how so many people hold diametrically opposed beliefs, but often based on solid reasoning and genuine facts. How could this be?

If you think about it, the modern world is so complex, with so many facts (some of which are actual facts, some of which are popular opinions now considered to be fact), with all of the inter-connected, Nth order cause and effect going on, how is a person who wants to be as objective as possible supposed to actually come up with a reasonable model of what's going on, even if they're willing to put in the work? People skilled in communications and the psychology of persuasion can pick and choose a subset of "facts" and put together plausible and completely contradictory descriptions of the very same story, and done correctly it's very difficult even for the vigilant to know you're being duped. So what's a person to do?

What I came up with is the idea that yes, one should indeed take "facts" into consideration, including some sort of notion of trustworthiness for each fact, but what's missing is the value of lies in coming up with one's model of reality. So, when trying to figure out what the real deal is on any given situation, don't first look for the facts, but rather the obvious lies - if you can find obvious lies or misrepresentations of reality coming from powerful (politicians or corporate leaders) or influential people (the media), this is probably a good trail to follow to lead you toward the most important parts of the truth. Of course, there's lots of complexity involved here as well, you have to consider the nature of the bias from the messenger, compare versions of the lie across different outlets, etc etc etc, but in many cases I suspect this is a highly productive approach for maximizing the correctness of one's models.

So in this case, as the article points out, "However, over the past several days we received credible information....that the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence". Obviously a lie, although in this case, considering Tim Cook's no dummy I expect he knew everyone would know he's lying, so I wouldn't form any specific conclusions on this, other than money >>> honesty and principles for him, but why should we expect more from him than any other important person in Western society....this is just how we are. Despite the wonderful sounding platitudes we tell ourselves, this is our culture. And the Achilles heel that I believe China will be able to continue to exploit indefinitely, because I simply can't see it ever changing, it has become so normalized that hardly anyone can even recognize it anymore.

EDIT: Thinking more, with this being so obvious once you're aware of it, I can't imagine this is a unique theory I've come up with. Does anyone know a name for this style of thinking?
Algorithms for Efficient Deep Learning Inference on Small Devices
I'd assume this isn't really a problem these days? Aren't OLED screen capable of high resolution, dynamic range (include true black) and low latency?

The main issue would probably be cost, but at a technical level having a suitable screen for car mirrors shouldn't be a problem.
I'm not sure why there's so much negativity in the comments. Other than a lot of people commenting on the concept of cameras instead of what the FA is about: whether they should be allowed at all legally.

I really can't see why not.

Personally, I don't want it. Personally I think the reduced aerodynamic drag mentioned in other comments isn't a big deal. The highest number I saw on savings is $2000 on 200,000 miles. I'd think those cameras would probably need maintenance and replacement over that time which will come to a similar cost as the energy savings. But even if there was the full $2k in savings over 200,000 miles, I'd still not want it due to reliability and complexity of maintenance concerns.

The other comments against the tech mention challenging conditions for cameras, but these seem to forget those conditions can affect mirrors and windows too. It's all about the details of implementation (i.e. badly installed cameras are an issue, badly installed mirrors/windows/blindspots are an issue)

Just because I don't like something doesn't mean I think others shouldn't be able to prefer it that way. So I support legalizing this technology. I mean, it might even turn out better than a curmudgeon like me would anticipate. That's the beauty of freedom, ideas get to stand on their own merit.

Overall, the meat of the article IMO was this part:

"NHTSA’s 2017 tests of a prototype camera monitoring system found it was “generally usable” in most situations, and produced better-quality images than mirrors at dusk and dawn. It also found potential flaws, including displays that were too bright at night, distorted images and camera lenses that would become obscured by raindrops."
got it. thanks for the response.

Just worried that HN could be a target for concerted manipulation just like facebook/reddit/twitter
just curious: is that separate tool open source?
Not OP but I think it would be too insane if GitHub tried to cut off access to a particular organization. It would cause a weird mirror and forking of projects just to distribute projects. It would also increase pressure on other repos.
> This app specifically lists where the police are.

Since when is that a crime?

When news reporters cover a protest in US and show live where the police is, are they committing a crime?
Being from the town Moby Dick gets going in, I was thinking of the 18-19th century variety, where the whale boats were entirely vulnerable.

The variety employed in the last 100 years, you're right there's nothing they can do.
Merely maintaining balance on an e-bike would exercise some amount of muscle. Probably not enough to matter, but still.

And you get the option to put the effort in when you feel like it—you don’t ever get that choice behind the wheel.
AlphaGo Was a Thinkpad* Running Ubuntu
Another example is Presto SQL Engine.
Fascinating - thanks for sharing. Another request for dosage levels here.
All good ideas face little more than rejection and resistance.
I think OP is thinking of ancient concrete/cement used by ancient cultures such as the Romans.
”The letter received more than 150 signatures out of roughly 1,300 GitHub employees...”

I wish more articles would include really important basic facts like the percentage of people on a petition. Knowing that 10% of a company did something is more useful than just knowing a number.
I have an x210. The main reasons I bought it were the keyboard and the screen (2880x1920, which is a 3:2 aspect ratio). If you want a small laptop with 32GB of RAM, the X390 and L390 seem like decent options.
Another interesting one is illustrating "depth" of knowledge in a results page. For example, I type "Sagittarius A*". It would be nice to have the results grouped into depth. From initial general-audience explainer videos on youtube down to arvix results. With current news seperated from general informational content.

This works for a lot of niches. For example motorcycle reviews run from entertaining comparisons down to detailed analysis. Recipies for omelettes run from the basics, through adding interesting ingredients, right through to the art of perfectly preparing a difficult to make french omelette.
Methane is measured in parts per billion, co2 in parts per million... So, what is your point?
borgbackup encrypted to external hdd
What's the problem with it?
It's not much of a dance now I've figured it out.

It's worth it to me and like I say - it works better than than windows or even OS X on the same screen setup.

If that's of no value to you, that's up to you I guess. I'm in my 40s so no spring chicken...
My first real experience with sleep deprivation was when I was 12 1/2. My friends and I stayed up all night and sometime the next afternoon decided to go for a short hike. I made it down the street and then realized I was tired and said I was going back to the house. Next I knew I was sitting at the kitchen table with a Dr. Pepper in front of me, surrounded by my friend's parents and the rest of my buddies. Apparently I had been walking around the house talking to myself, and I still have vague recollections of being pursued by my 7th grade journalism teacher demanding that I name the world's oceans.

I try not to stay awake that long anymore.
Wow, I didn’t realize they went under.

It’ll be interesting to see if platforms like Boiler Room meet a similar fate. Mostly because they’re no longer fringe enough to support their original values (I stopped following them after a Call of Duty collaboration haha).
Tesla's Autopilot has purportedly caused crashes already: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49594260

Good news is there were no injuries in this incident.

But there are also cases of fatality blamed on Autopilot:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/tesla-sue...
We need a WazeWaze which show the false police warnings so it's safe to drive over the speed limit. But soon the cops will notice it so it could lead to WazeWazeWaze and then...
Just one example, there are probably hundreds of divers in the ocean between San Francisco and Alaska every day, and there also hundreds of Orca in those same waters every day. And yet the record stands. And that's just one coast line.
Do you mean, being a victim of prism? When tech companies found out about the NSA wiretapping unencrypted connections between their datacenters they pretty much flipped out and got serious about security against nation-state attacks.
What I keep hoping for is for Microsoft to announce a new Windows with a Windows desktop & API on top of Linux--a gradual, parallel transition like the decade-long DOS- to NT-based Windows transition.

Since MS seems to have grown tired of trying to "sell" Windows, not sure whether to fight pirates or support them, etc., and is looking to services, most of which run on Linux, they could give "Lindows" away, like Google with Android but with more thought behind it, and create the kind of focus that could get all the things working reliably in a desktop Linux. Other Linux distros could then start with working versions of everything and offer customization options in only the areas that a specific customer segment wanted to manage for themselves.
I agree about the deal; I think brexit would look different under Labor but that would mostly be in terms of UK law and less the agreement with the EU. In terms of the future relationship it seems like Labor would aim for customs union plus whatever they can get (as you say not much, although maybe something due to closer regulatory alignment in some areas). The withdrawal agreement seems unlikely to change.

I support BDS but I don't agree that is the main issue with Labor. The main issue I see is bullying personal comments that MPs make to each other and sometimes in public (similar to sexism, also a major issue) and the particularly bad way Corbyn has responded to it. In general, even when BDS is involved it is often the particular language used that is the issue (and many people who support BDS are also antisemitic). Some people argue that BDS is inherently antisemitic, but I don't see that being much of the issue with Labor (or in the US).
Bazel incremental build is much much faster than Gradle, if you follow the one-package-per-build rule.
Ten statistical mistakes to watch out for when writing or reviewing a manuscript
Does systemd not bother you?
> Any company larger than a few dozen people is entrenched - there will be a hierarchy and the top will dictate the order of things.

To a point, but have you ever tried changing something purely through a dictate from the top? People will just say ‘Yes boss!’ and then keep working exactly as they had been.
From the very same wikipedia article you referenced, under "Current Outlook":

Most deposits of methane clathrate are in sediments too deep to respond rapidly, and modelling by Archer (2007) suggests the methane forcing should remain a minor component of the overall greenhouse effect.[28] Clathrate deposits destabilize from the deepest part of their stability zone, which is typically hundreds of metres below the seabed. A sustained increase in sea temperature will warm its way through the sediment eventually, and cause the shallowest, most marginal clathrate to start to break down; but it will typically take on the order of a thousand years or more for the temperature signal to get through.
They eat deer and moose swimming by (transients), not to mention sea lions. There are a lot of divers in their waters world wide.
I think the Apple touchpads are the best in the industry, along with the displays as well.
Latency caused by packet loss. TCP needs microsecond timestamps and the ability to tune RTOmin down to 1ms before it is suitable for use in a datacenter. With the mainline kernel TCP stack you are looking at, at a minimum, a 20ms penalty whenever a packet is dropped.
I honestly don't care about the hardware at all. The hardware/camera/storage/whatever has been good enough for years. I care about the customer support, service, and overall UX of using the device. The fact that I can't side load apks or ipas is a feature to me.
True enough they can, but they don't.