skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, if you have plenty of money flowing in (whether it’s VC funds or paying customers) it’s relatively easy to provide good working conditions and benefits. Is it sustainable though? Investors will push for an exit, and once you get bought it’s out of your control. If the buyer is a publicly traded company, its shareholders will mostly care about short-term profits rather than the conditions you provide for your workers.
The face unlock from the S8 onwards had a huge disclaimer page you had to accept saying it was a convenience feature only, do not use if security is important.
Damn that’s way better
Also Hardcaml, which allows write FPGA code in OCaml.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1cgRXhpQLY
> Not sure what the solution is

A soldering iron?
Isn't the voice recognition done on Google's servers? How can Google record the voice, send it to its servers, decide that it is someone unknown and play the consent notification if the person has not already given consent?
> What is the reasonable alternative to 'neoliberal' economics?

Probably something that doesn't blow up every 5-7 years or pushes us into a climate apocalypse.
> Raise the dues by about $5 and pay for GSuite?

Not helpful and not in the spirit of Ask HN. Please read the other comments (there's only 23 to scan) on why we cannot raise the dues, it's been addressed.

Your's is a very subjective take. We've actually been very successful historically, without having to engage attorneys and going through city channels. When making a statement like that, remember that your experiences are not a universal truth.
What'll really blow your mind is that it's expanding faster, not slower.
Do you think of types and transformations between types when you write imperative code?

I mean usually the problem in FP is that you simply can't type mutation (you'd have to use dependent types and so on), okay, so use immutability, great, but then every "step" is just some franken-type-partial-whatever. And TypeScript has great support for these (first of all it infers a lot, but you can use nice type combinators to safeguard that you get what you wanted).

I don't like pure FP exactly because of this, because many times you have to use some very complicated constellation of concepts to be able to represent a specific data flow / computation / transformation / data structure. Whereas in TS / Scala you just have a nice escape hatch.
I think this is the part hidden from view when companies claim they let users opt out of data collection. Yes you can opt out, but some (possibly unrelated) features won’t be available to you.
That's good advice, thank you.
>don't let junior admins manage public-facing databases with sensitive data without supervision

Poor Yorick will never live it down, will he?
Facebook’s Libra Faceplant: Beware of CEO Bright Ideas
Space hardware costs 10X as much as ground partly because launch is very expensive. When launch is so expensive, it's worthwhile building your satellite to be extremely lightweight, but also extremely robust, since it costs so much to launch a replacement.

Starship has a 9-meter cargo space. Musk recently proposed a successor with twice that diameter. What could we do with a space telescope that size?

The real win though is lunar telescopes. Then it is ground-based. You can build it from raw materials on the moon, which is 45% silica and also has plenty of iron and aluminum. You've got no atmosphere and 1/6 gravity; you can make it huge and get perfect clarity.

This may sound far-fetched but the whole point of SpaceX is to set up permanent human habitation on the moon and Mars, in the fairly near future.
Just fyi the majority of particulate matter emitted by cars comes from brakes and tires, not gasoline (diesel changes the equation somewhat)

So electric cars still have a lot of particulate emissions, thought less so in environments where they have lots of opportunity for regenerative braking.
I thought the Planck scale was way on the QM side of things. My understanding is that the Planck scale is so small we theoretically can never test QM or any other processes below it, making the Planck scale the limits to our understanding of the extremely small.
Please. The "real hackers" are proxying their requests and sending custom headers to begin with.
* Every data collected will eventually end up at the possession of the deep state.

* Fingerprint reader that only reads and not blocks users invites more users to have their fingerprint read.
It redirects to an image with a hairy testicle and gives a low opinion of HN readers:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191014203443/https://www.jwz.o...
sometimes voice is less appropriate. I would much rather use a gesture than voice command in a library or at work
The same can be said about imperative languages supporting FP concepts: they have it, but it's just not the same.
> I don't know the history of the U.S well enough, but McCarthyism ended in the 50s, the cold war started immediately after the world war II against communism, so I can't really say U.S. was radically different from now.

I don't know what to tell you, but the Keynesianism the US applied before 1973 is fundamentally different from what followed in Reaganomics--i.e., Neoliberalism.

I don't think you have a strong grasp on what the word means.
well, the $150 chromebook is not going to help you with figma either way
Definitely. However, by and large in NGOs you will work with people who are intrinsically motivated, and not by their paycheck.
That's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
A bus every 5 minutes carries enough people to be worth that, and leaves plenty of space in between for pedestrians to cross. (Assuming a dedicated lane). For various reasons you should get a bus to come more than once every 5 minutes, upgrade to a train. (with great dispatch you can get down to every 3 minutes, but it is better to put in a non-grade level train at that point)
The Graboid Cryptojacking Worm Is Exploiting Unsecured Docker Hosts
You must be using Brave or a browser plugin which doesn't send referral headers. If you use a normal browser, it displays a testicle in an egg cup with a silly phrase complaining about the demographic of HN users.
Care to cite your sources?
What’s better – load testing or stress testing?
No, these objects have nothing to do with the Plank scale. They are described well by the QM and GR we already know and do not show any quantum gravity behavior.
Yes, but I think when they disable that feature, they must provide some justification that is believable right? I can't think of any for this.
I despise the UKIP as much as any one else, but I think it is a major indictment of the voting system that a party, any party, with more than 10% of the electoral vote has near to no representation in parliament.
Actually, replacing some cars with horses (though probably not horse-drawn cars) would solve some of the problems caused by cars, especially the damage they do to the environment.

Inside city bounds, small trucks could be replaced by horse-drawn carriages; they'd be clean (clean_er- horses still er, produce waste) and large trucks should never be allowed in the same areas as pedestrians and bicyclists anyway.

I'm not saying that the current pace of life in very big cities could be maintained in this way, but just the reduction in emissions would probably make up for any short-term financial loss.
I sure do, but it seems like an overkill to upgrade my phone just so I don't have to put it in a ziplock bag.

It makes more sense to upgrade the kitchen equipment to provide this functionality.

But then again, I don't see a point in sending all of my movements to a server in cloud just so I can scroll down a recipe.
Nice work.

The homepage is great from a developer perspective, select your backend on the left, frontend on the right, and you get an idea right away of what a basic implementation looks like. Very clever.
Great thanks for the reply, I'm going to star this on Github for using later, thanks for offering contact info; makes this a little less daunting.
Should Christmas lights be illegal too because they are "wasting energy"? Shouldn't consumers be allowed to choose what they will do with the energy that they pay for? Or is this soviet Russia?
It should be noted that the S10E does not suffer from this flaw, as its thumbprint sensor is a hardware button on the side of the phone that doubles as the power button. Just picked one up a week ago and very pleased with it.
as someone who is on the research side of university education, i think its rather outrageous how easily the admissions people can collect data on students without any sort of informed consent whatsoever. If my research group did it this way, we would be out of job, and even tenures could be in jeopardy.
Yes. Yes!! The gap on memory channels should get closed.
Curious if you wrote parsers for the other languages you claim are easier. YAML has problem areas, particularly around implicit booleans, but languages without any comment syntax (ie JSON) can not be considered human-friendly. And XML is not even the same sort of language as the rest of these.

I understand thinking YAML makes the wrong tradeoffs, but if you think it's less friendly than XML, then you haven't really worked with XML.
The link you shared now leads to this when clicked on hn: https://web.archive.org/web/20191014203443/https://www.jwz.o...

When copied and pasted into next tab it leads to article.
My suggested test used the gray for background, with black text or white text over it.

I can't trust the math, because I don't know how they derived it. Well the conversion from sRGB to linear RGB and from there to luminance is straightforward and standard, but the formula for contrast is a real mystery. Where'd those magic 0.05 constants come from? And does it really not make a difference if it's light on dark vs. dark on light?
Not sure if serious, but looking at referral headers is commonplace and trivial
That is because you see it as equal rights under law while the other person will see it about their religious right under law.
> The only politically palatable people even concerned about their loss of privacy are a few activists and people in the tech industry.

Slightly related, but the only protest marches held in my European country when biometric personal identification documents were announced were held by overtly religious people, the type of people that believe staff like the 666 number and the end of times being near. Even though I'm not religious at all I joined them in one of their protests, and by looking around me there weren't that many lookalike programmers/tech people attending. Quite the contrary, most of the tech people I personally know are all in when it comes to stuff like this, they look at me as a retrograde when I mention privacy-related issues.
It is a real problem. I sometimes invite a coworker traveling from a different country home for dinner.
>> or with a body part that has been removed

If I remember the order correctly:
One of the first attacks on finger print readers was to blow on them, making them read the remains on the previous fingerprint used. That was fixed by adding a temperature sensor to the reader, so to attack it you had to use a plastic bag with water at around human temperature. The easy fix was to also check for a pulse while reading the fingerprint, this also make it impossible to use a removed body part.

I have not kept up with the progress in the last years, so not sure how good creating a fake fingerprint that you put on top of your own prints work, like they do in movies. Finding and reproducing a print is not that hard.

As others have written, fingerprint are usernames. It is not secret and you can not change it
This is exactly what I thought. Sometimes a bad dish is a wonderful elixir.
I'm from a town nearby Pontevedra. I lived in the city, and outside. I really like carless cities, and move almost everywhere by bike where I live now (Coruña).

Pontevedra is great, and I really like how the city center feels, it got super friendly to walk by foot. But every time I see news like this I get a little angry because they don't talk about the real experience of commuting to the city or its crazy development.

Regarding development: The city has very few parks inside it compared to other Spanish cities. Mainly because they don't save spaces for them, the ones that exist have 30+ years. Building development is crazy, you can build virtually everywhere. You can see new buildings leaving very narrow alleys (example in [1]), tons of new buildings with no single "green zone" nearby (example in [2] where the only planned "park" is the little one by the roundabout)

Regarding commuting: Doing so from the multiple towns around is not easy and got way worse. . Many kids go to study to Pontevedra from 20+ km around. The road from my parent's house from my mothers job has 40 road bumpers in total. She does 4 trips a day counting 160 bumps a day. It gets old quick. The "deterrent parkings" are poorly located to avoid crossing the city and the main one we can use looks like a swamp when it rains, as you can see here: https://goo.gl/maps/N7E7jjzzC2VbAjmaA

I just want to put our two cents on a different side on the story, I wish they implemented some more policies for outsiders that work / use city services. I hope more people get the whole picture from this.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/LTDxgPevfgTyidybA
[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4267082,-8.634709,761a,35y,2...
Ah, what I understood from tfa is that you could take any mobile phone with a properly registered fingerprint (ie without having used a screen protector) and then unlock it by placing a screen protector between the fingerprint reader and any fingerprint.
Because the dog or cat would need vast incremental changes to body plan, while a tree ape does not need too much.
> This statement sounds very backwards to me. Isn't this increasing the separation between devs and ops which we want to get rid of?

I think the answer is that this can't be settled once and for all, because there are economies from specialisation and diseconomies from coordination.

My general view these days is that for a sufficiently large org, you will inevitably have a degree of separation between application engineering and platform engineering. What's important is to establish relatively clear contracts between them which avoids unnecessary complexity and delay being transmitted across the Conway boundary.

Good interfaces and technical contracts between the roles make this a lot easier. It used to be that getting something up and running was difficult because the incidence of cost and control fell on opposite sides more than once. For example: As a Dev, I need a place to run my software (cost). But someone else needs to provision and install it (control). Or: as an Operator, I don't want to be paged at 3am (cost). But someone else wrote the app (control).

When you draw the boundaries so that devs get self-service and ops get to (mostly) ignore what's inside the self-service boxes, a lot of this tension largely vanishes. That's not so much about whether folks sit in the same team and more about using technology to dissolve the tensions altogether.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we have been known to dabble in this sort of thing.
Smartphone sales are surprisingly good.

The 5G-mobile network performance is what should be expected. The US was not able to get 'ban coalition' against Huawei. Over 60 5G contracts and 400k 5G antenna units means that Huawei is still outselling Nokia and Ericsson.
Imagine if those promoted tweets were delivered to you as automated phone calls from spoofed numbers.
Well, as an ops person, I don't want to touch your code, then.
Why would they?

What happens if AWS goes down the tube?

In both cases you complain, hire some people and replace that bit with something else.
A few short years ago it was incomprehensible, even in the west, to have what is essentially a permanently bugged house. Now it has been normalised to such an extent that even people who claim to be aware of privacy use Alexa et al at home in a striking display of dissonance. The general public at large has been sold such attractive shiny toys that they don't realise that the price they pay for using them is to unconsciously disabuse themselves of any notion of assuming privacy, even in your private space and activities. This training has been so effective that they will actually defend these practices and claim that you're a 'tin foil hat wearer' and paranoid to be speaking up for reclaiming what was normal and natural as short as two generations back.
This is not accurate.

To get my US Green card, all that was required was an HIV test and a standard US doctor's affidavit that I wasn't disabled.

That's a far cry from a "rigorous physical exam".
despite my vast, vast experience with psychedelics i have never once had anything close to a spiritual or meaningful experience, its entirely possible i lack the capacity for such things i guess
I have an ordinary thermostat that doesn't need firmware, an internet connection, or to eavesdrop on my conversations. It works great!

What exactly is the advantage here?
> As a group, King tells us, the Boas circle championed positions that many of us now take for granted: that categories of race and gender are a product of culture, rather than biology

This can be proven by applying PCA to the human genome. If races were a product of biology, you would expect to see clusters approximately corresponding to them. But as can be seen from [1], and especially from [2], no such clusters exist.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Principal_compon...

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Individual-level_hum...
I have SIP turned off. More importantly, I don’t necessarily trust it—someone could find a flaw.
Braid: Synchronization for HTTP
‘typeset -U path’ would be a more simple alternative.
Very little. I use I don't care about cookies [0] for my casual surfing, it automatically dismisses them.

[0] https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
And you're just going to ignore that we can do layer 2 technologies like lightning network?
Many photons are invisible. The point is that not that dark matter is similar to other things in general, but that it's similar to a large list of things we take for granted in that you can't see it with the unaided eye and it would have sounded like woo a few hundred years ago.
Not all big tech are at it.

The reason you hear a global sigh that “my battery life is terrible!” at every major iOS release, is the photo face to people clustering is done entirely on-device, and which photos are in the cluster is not shared across devices through iCloud.

There are several such features where Apple has made life difficult for themselves and the UX a little less seamless for users, in service of not giving themselves all the data.

Depending how the politics of privacy go, we could find an aggregation of personal data is not an asset, but a liability.

In such an environment, avoiding “hoovering up all data” is both a marketing point, and a reduction of risk exposure.
The Braid Protocol: Synchronization for HTTP
That's the point though, if your Nest device starts automatically recording your guests and you don't warn them, could you be liable in a 2-party consent state?

But on the flip side, Google Assistant devices don't start recording unless it gets the "OK Google" keyword, so it's not like it's randomly recording everything. You specifically have to turn it on (albeit it can be turned on accidentally if it misdetects an OK Google). Is this somehow different from Nest devices?
Releases with Elixir >= 1.9 are now quite good. Run mix release.init, write some configuration, then just mix release and you get a tarball ready to deploy.

We use a multistage Dockerfile to build the release and run it on a barebone alpine image, and it's never given me a single issue since I set this system up almost 2 years ago when Distillery was still the release library of choice.

And it's never crashed once, but that's the magic of OTP :-)
But if you need the FIDO key to use the phone you actually are likely to lose both at once, surely?
Google has implemented this asshole design/nagware in many products to push unnecessary to me and invasive data collection or functionality I want won’t be available.

For example, their maps app on iOS won’t save locations for me unless I sign in an enable web history tracking. I get prompted every time I try to save a pin as well as every once in a while I’m case I change my mind.

It’s a free app and it’s Google’s prerogative to try to get value out of it. But it’s annoying to me that they purposely don’t implement client tech (eg, save to app cache, device cookie not tied to individual) that would make their app better for me. And that they nag with no way to turn off forever. Their app already shows ads and makes money for them, they just want more money from the data stream.

I also worry about less savvy customers who don’t understand the prompt and unwittingly opt in to data collection that exists forever. The Facebook privacy explosion of last year is an example of users who accepted terms, but didn’t understand them, and got upset when data was used in ways that upset them.
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Ask HN: Please increase the width of expand/collapse button
I browse HN several times a day on my mobile phone. It is difficult for me to collapse and expand the comments to reach the last read comment after a few hours.

More than half the time I can't tap on the Toggle anchor, and when I do, I accidentally tap on the timestamp instead of the [-] or [+].

I think adding a space around - and + would save me (and probably many others) a lot of frustration.

NB: Ask HN, because I am also looking for feedback from the community. Thanks!
Oh yeah. We alread had crazy people who identifies a rain clouds. now we can have people who identifies as weird slime....
No he will not.

He stated that he would rather back an extension + General Election to go for a deal with the Brexit Party, than back Boris's deal due to the agreement mentioning a placement of an internal border between the UK and NI.

At this point, he would rather go for a no deal.
I do both search and ML solutions in the area that Rekognition targets.

In both cases they are great 80/20 solutions (actually Algoria is more like a 95/5 solution in most cases).
The plank scale is derived by saying "what length scale appears if we mash together the constants describing gravity and the constants describing QM". One definition of it is "what wavelength photons have enough energy to collapse on themselves and form a black hole". The only thing we know is that when an object is at that or smaller scale we need to consider both QM and GR. It is not "on the QM side of things", because making small wavelengths requires more energy, and more energy is more massive, and mass bends spacetime which requires GR.
That isn't a counter to the claim that electrical activity we don't see is something we take for granted that happens all the time around us.
For small probabilities, approximating

(1-p)^n

by

1 - n × x

is absolutely fine. For example

(1-0.00002)^5 = 0.999900004

Rounding gives you that “one in 10,000”
Looks to me like the Gizmotron is only for bowing while this can do both bowing and plucking.
Adding the probabilities is a good enough approximation when the probabilities and number of trials are very low, though - as in this case. The true value for at least one failure in 5 trials with an individual 1/50000 probability of failure is 1/10000.4 rather than 1/10000, but it seems clear that the original 1/50000 isn't that precise anyway.
Haha, wanna watch these clowns crawling on knees again.
Which words would you remove from Shakespeare to make his plays objectively better?
Google is probably Mozilla biggest "customer" so I'm not surprised if Mozilla is ok with whatever Google is doing.

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-firefox-search-deal-gives-m...
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