skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with existing OSs is that if you don't make it the default and force everybody to adapt you end up with a half-assed solution with bad support that just gets in the way. I tried to use firejail to sandbox critical apps (mainly my browser, but also the closed source Spotify client for instance) but eventually gave up because it would just break too often.

On top of that the one app I'd like to sandbox more is obviously the web browser, but since nowadays web browsers are like a full OS on top of another it's really hard to finely grain permissions unless you want one profile per website. The browser needs access to the filesystem if you want to upload and download files, the graphics card if you want good performance and webgl, the sound API if you want audio, the ability to fullscreen if you want to be able to play games and videos that way, the printer if you want to print stuff, the USB stack if you want to use security tokens etc...
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I think that, in general, there is always a good-sounding case for every form of mass surveillance. The trouble is that overall, mass surveillance is inhumane and turns a nation into a jail, which is something we would like to avoid.
It's important to consider that most businesses that start in new areas/ try re-defining the market don't have business models, as they are too small to build a model from. Sure they can bootstrap from one idea to the next until something takes hold, but unless it's a new paradigm that is on the cusp, you're many years (think 5+) from attaining a scalable model.
The funding is to be able to hire people, and iterate quickly to expand the business, and find a scalable business model. Trying to build a business model with out a pre-existing business is like trying to solve for x when the right side of the equation is missing. You'll come up with answers, but they're probably wrong once tested.
There was an actual bug in the golang standard library precisely due to this feature, so it's far from theoretical.

Secondly, I found that in practice, it doesn't buy you much, and on the contrary, makes working with code more difficult (even with an IDE).

It's valuable information to know what interface(s) a type implements, not to mention finding all types down the hierarchy that implement a given interface (much more tedious and resource hungry with golang).
I've only tried the Terroir, but heard there's three in the 'range'?

In Australia we're spoiled for variety with local products, but I'm guessing because of the pain of doing so, only the larger foreign distilleries export over to Australia, and presumably not their full ranges of spirits.

Will keep an eye out for Botanivore, in any case, as I'm quite taken with the Terroir.
As a user I can confirm Alexa devices offer zero value.
> You can't make a security feature with a backdoor, or it's not security feature anymore.

Why are you so 100% sure that there's no way that Apple could design a system to keep it secure and allow recycling? There's hundreds of ways they could design their security flow where recycling is possible.
I suspect you are keying on some of the Rust language bits in the middle of his syntax.

_ is "don't complain because I don't use this variable"

|| is the syntax around Rust closures

foo! is a Rust macro

Why this is desirable is that we can program in real Rust while using some simple macro expansion not to create a free standing language for gui building?

Learning Rust via this gui library might not be the best choice(?) and I think it's better he focus on people that know Rust already.
Except the whole point of this subthread is that Boeing's stock price never faces any actual consequences, regardless of how badly the company screws up.

Boeing will not be allowed to fail, even if it personally bankrupts every taxpayer in the United States. And they know it.
Premium economy is profitable and robbing economy and business. We might see a return to a happy medium
Refactoring by renaming things is like renovating a house by
painting it in another color. I like to refactor using a wrecking ball.
Many people actually think that connecting a Ring to the local police is a good thing. Someone even announced this as a great feature at our department wide standup the other day.
Was kinda shocked, but how can I be the guy to go against having more safety? All everyone wants is more safety.
Which is the correct solution?

1. Send them to jail with their parents.

2. Separate them and send them back to their country (either with family or social services).

3. Separate them and keep them in America (either with family or social services).

4. Send the entire family back to their own country.

5. Release the entire family in the US.
I tried to find the real URL behind an AMP page to bookmark, but couldn't find it. I think they've added a tiny (i) since then, but they're really trying to hide it.
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Lovely story! Life sometimes does give you a second chance (which is incidentally the theme of the episode coming out Jan 1st ;))
> I'd like to see some proof that there's a large pool

> I am one of them

You, yourself, are a large pool? Or you, yourself are one instance of a fairly small pool (like OP suggests).
>3) Germany has higher than average deaths per 1000 km driven (for an EU country).

Source?

On Wikipedia similar data doesn't seem like confirming this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

The referenced paper:

https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/irtad-road...

(page 21) places Germany as "better" than Netherlands, France, Austria and Belgium (the latter is on par with the US)
> Power of each pulse is tiny.

Energy, not power.

Power is measured in watts, and it's huge in this case.

Energy is measured in joules (or equivalent watt-hours or electron-volts or calories or newton-meters).
Are there any other products as convenient as Ring/Blink?
But this isn't actually a criticism of Bayes at all. Yes, the result depends on your prior. But the result always depends on your preconceptions -- even in frequentist statistics, where it determines which statistical tests you use and which hypotheses you test and what p-value cutoff is reasonable. It's better to have this up front.

Or, you can publish Bayesian update factors, which are prior-independent.
Depends on how you want to split hairs. If your organization (in this case, ICE) is at the point where people are arguing technicalities about whether what you’re doing technically qualifies as a concentration camp, I’d argue you are far from where you should be ethically.
And while this is a nice thought, it will never happen. Apple hates 3rd parties that touch their hardware. They're constantly at war with those trying to repair their devices and the right-to-repair movement.
No. Simply no.

What is stopping a "criminal" from bypassing this activation lock? Time and technical ability? It surely isn't legal recourse or fear of losing the device. It's a matter of time before this is moot.

On top of that, I've left "criminal" in quotes because quite frankly, I don't care if Apple claims breaking this lock is a breach of DMCA, ToS, or anything else. I've paid for the device. It's mine. The data on it is mine. If I want something out of it bad enough, I'm getting to it. Regardless of their corporate philosophy.

On recycling, this is likely a step away from being generally responsible. Apple already has locks in place preventing parts from "non-genuine" repair shops being used. In addition they engineer components to be tightly-coupled to one another. Now they want to lock the entire device?

At best, this can be argued as "pro-customer", but not pro-consumer. Apple has made good decisions in the past; this isn't one of them.
I would think that if this mouse came by every day, he would have seen some tell-tale "droppings."
Huh, you have a pretty different perception of what makes a thing hobby vs. work. For me, a hobby gives you a permission to get better - because play is an important part of getting better. Whereas at work, you're constrained by the context in which your work is embedded. For instance, when working on a hobby project, I can afford to do each piece of it right, to the best of my abilities - whereas at work, I have to deal with things like team velocity, time to market, list of features driven by sales instead of utility, etc. - all of which preclude doing great work.
It absolutely does. Improving your page speed (or google's idea of your page speed) is a critical step in optimizing a site's organic google search ranking.
There are other oddities too. For example, to get a layer name from a lambda definition, the simplest/most robust process I can define:

1 Retrieve all layers with list_layers and index them by ARN

2 Retrieve all function metadata

3 For each function metadata item, extract all layer version ARNs

4 For each layer version ARN, call get_layer_version_by_arn

5 Extract the layer ARN from that result

6 Use that layer ARN to retrieve the name from the data we retrieved in step 1
I thought that was Oracle?
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The "request" is a convenience. Just like any other cloud provider, it's just a subpoena away.

It's incredibly dumb to host 24x7 video surveillance of your home and your comings and goings outside of your home.
The first step is to reject the fashionable "wild-west" style of package repositories and realize that maintained repositories came about for a reason. Then you can worry about rearchitecting your OS for sandboxes up the wazoo.
I guess I'm assuming here that the amount of data needing to be passed over-the-air will be quite large, since people are talking about these devices listening to your conversations and such. Some simple analytics data like what channel you're watching doesn't require any bandwidth, but sending microphone stream to a server to be analyzed and run through a voice-recognition program will add up.
The business of selling securities is a business.

Tapping into the sentiment steered by macroeconomic trends is wise. Limiting that to the consumer product model is unwise.
May need a better title to attract attention.
GDPR is alredy pretty severe on this
That’s a pretty big claim. Source?
‘The Mandela Effect’ is the perfect film for our age of distrust and doubt
Wrong

https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2016/07/polit...

Anyone at GitHub participating in this can be fired at any time.
I know this might sound stupid but if you can get that much for something that wow's people, can you get like 100k for a "meh" idea?

Like if you wanted to open a dry cleaners.
Fair enough. I was just worried that HNers might feel that that course gets promoted too much here. (IMHO, nand2tetris deserves that level of promotion! I just recently gave a talk about it for the Austin Python meetup.)
Have you run across a reference that traces this story? Because you get everything from joke, funny story about the person to true story about the person. In seemingly endless circular reference.
> for some reason, it's considered verboten in Java.

It's not just "for some reason". There are plenty of reasons why getters are a superior approach to naked fields, and these have been documented to death for the past twenty years.

If your field is not final, you should hide it behind a getter/setter.
I have a Ring and live on the edge of a seriously bad urban district. Many people in the bad 'hoods have Rings also, so I get notifications as part of the surveillance network.

The network is both a fascinating source of local news and -- more to the point -- a surprisingly-valuable tool for people who live in places that the police ignore (or don't have the resources to protect).

Once the 'guy who steals Amazon packages' has his face on camera in the act of stealing a package, and someone on every block in a 2 mile radius knows it, it makes his life on the street that much less fun. The community can police itself with tools like this.
The ML estimate is a posterior mode, assuming a flat prior. It's not immediately clear that it will always be possible to find a corresponding posterior mean. (From a Bayesian point of view, this is a difference in loss functions as opposed to priors over the parameters. With a posterior mean, you're making the optimal inference assuming a quadratic loss; a posterior mode is appropriate for a 0-or-1 loss.)
I think Dns-over-TLS (DoT) is a much better solution. It seems super weird to me that Mozilla isn't pushing for that, and is instead pushing for DoH+cloudflare.
It would put more of a dent in Github's reputation.

Why would you go with a company that may pull your contract when you haven't changed what you do in 20 years? Github signed the contact knowing what ICE does and didn't care years ago. Now its suddenly an issue.
To tell you the truth, I'm still trying to find it! xD But so far, Apple featuring the show as "New & Noteworthy" (in Canada) has been instrumental. This is a model example how independent productions can succeed if given a chance to be exposed to wider audiences.
I mean "psychiatric" ironically rather than literally—adding "internet" to a word is sort of an instant ironizer. You can read it as "psychological diagnosis" if you like. The point is that making remarks about someone's psychological issues as you perceive them, suggesting that they need therapy and so on, is unduly personal. It crosses a line that is better not to cross, even if you're right, because it frequently lands with the other person as a kind of violation or attack.

We don't know nearly enough about each other from an online text forum to be able to make personal statements, so making them is presumptuous. If there's a substantive point beyond that, it should be easy to express in an impersonal way, and if there isn't, not posting anything is a better option.

If you read the comments at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... you'll see a history of explanations about this.
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Is the known criminal Assange?

What has he been convicted of?
Most people mess up Monopoly in two ways:

* Common house rules prolong the game. Don't use house rules.

* People forget the rule that when someone lands on an unowned property and doesn't buy it, the bank auctions it off.

A game of monopoly should take about an hour. It's almost always those exact house rules that people create that make the game drag.
This is a risk. The risk is minimal as most criminals do not destroy the recorder. To minimize the risk the owner could configure the Video Management System to store video offsite. Or the owner could configure the VMS to send an email with video on motion or a digital input paired with a burglar system.
> one of them is definitely gender discrimination

Definitely? As in, you have actual proof? Or even some evidence? Because if you do, that’s illegal, and ought to be reported to the DOL.
I'm extremely disappointed to see that you didn't suggest using jeIlyfish instead.
I'm not convinced off-site backups are enough to protect against burglars destroying the footage. There are many options available to them to prevent the camera from functioning.

1) In the case of WiFi cameras, sending of deauth packets or signal jamming the 2.4/5ghz spectrum.

2) Damaging of fibre/copper cables which might be out of view of the camera.

3) Turning off power to the property although this might draw attention.

Given the sheer popularity of WiFi cameras, I can't see it being too long before a device capable of spamming deauth packets becomes a common part of the burglars toolset. esp8266's with the appropriate firmware can already be found on ebay for less than £10.
Ah, GoDaddy: a name that is much easier to take seriously.
Yep, this one is Mr. Frisby. The rest were rats.
Eufy. Battery powered wifi camera, with encrypted storage on an SD card in your home.
Absolutely- For a few years I was traveling over 100k miles annually interestingly mostly in the back of the bus on United's 757 fleet between EWR and SFO, and if I had a choice, I would choose a double aisle over a single aisle any day. In fact, I would do almost anything to avoid the 757- it's one of the oldest airplanes still in service, the last rolling off the assembly line 15 years ago.

Just the higher ceiling height on double-aisle aircraft make the trip so much less claustrophobic, and the double aisles mean that you aren't essentially held hostage until the service cart rolls by.

The 757 is an old, loud, design and loading/unloading it took forever, all the while you had cramped overhead bins. It wasn't often I could avoid the 757 when going to SF, but if I had any option, I would avoid it. Literally any other plane in service is a more pleasant experience. I always thought it was somewhat ironic that United chose the oldest plane in any major airline's fleet to fly between two tech hubs- those 757s were also pretty much the last to get wifi onboard as well.

The topic of 757s trigger me a bit :)
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There is a positive take away. If it is up to chance, then you "just" need to increase your exposure to opportunities + the longevity of your efforts. More opportunities, over a longer period of time, gives you more coinflips.
My problem with this idea is that there's limited data bandwidth on the cellular network, even with 5G (5G has especially poor range, as I understand, so you have to have a tower very close by). If the TV makers can keep the overall data usage very low, it could work, but the stuff you're talking about seems like it'll require a pretty large data budget, and I just don't see how all this surveillance is going to be so profitable that it would pay for the cellular service and still net a handsome profit for the TV maker.
This is true. At my last job our primary codebase was around 5 million Loc split over 400+ assemblies.

Current job I've seen single files that are over 30k lines.
Im assuming that by "only" you mean there's limited impact. However, if the malicious package steals user keys, the harm can spread to the packages that may have received way more downloads.
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OpenText also acquired Guidance Software a few years ago. They make EnCase which is one of the largest digital forensic software tools utilized for investigations.
> Maybe I'm being naïve here, but isn't it kind of crazy to raise 3.5M in funds for a business that has no plan but to be acquired by someone else?

I offer you 3.5M to start a business, without needing a business model, why wouldn't you take it?

The real question is, how did they were able to raise 3.5M and why haven't they made sure that they had a strong business model.
If Apple continues this trend, they can place barriers to parting it out as well. It won't remove all the value, but these practices force everyone to lose.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-locking-batteries-to-ip...
Huh, the under-barrel grenade launcher anecdote would explain why, when playing Alien vs. Predator multiplayer with a bunch of colleagues some 12+ years ago, I was being repeatedly told to never use the pulse grenade launcher under standard marine rifle, because "it ruins the play".
>What's the alternative? You sell software to entities who you like, and not to the ones you don't?

Well yes, that's generally how moral choices work.

Not to Godwin, but it is the perfect example here: was it okay for companies to provide goods and services to the Nazi regime, which facilitated the atrocities they committed? We don't need to conjure up scenarios, we have plenty of real-world current historical ones that illustrate the point. Boycotts of South Africa in the 80s, for instance, played a part in bringing down the apartheid system. Would it have been better for the companies involved to instead declare their "apolitical" stance and make sales to that regime?

Why is "just following orders" not an acceptable defense for personal wrongs, but "just doing business" okay?

>I don't know about you, but I'd rather live in a world where companies act a-politically then ones that don't.

But again, there's no such thing as " a-politically". That's a political choice to support the status quo.

For example, the 80s and 90s the gay rights movement came to prominence, and fought against both legal and social discrimination against homosexuals. If a company said, "Look, we're not taking a position either way, we just want to do business and not get into politics, so we're not going to address this", that's a facially "apolitical" stance. But that stance, then, is then one that supports the then-current reality that legal and social discrimination against homosexuals still existed.
Releasing a computer virus intended to replicate and spread on any machine it can... like... wtf are you arguing for? The whole point to the thing was to cause massive damage to whoever the intended target was, with little care for collateral damage. It was meant to spread hard and fast and cause damage. If you infected a Merck employee with weaponized ebola and that employee traveled to the USA while the strain was still in incubation, then got USA citizens sick with ebola, "Oh, it's okay, it was just an accident. No worries! You didn't mean to hurt the USA. Want to have some cheesecake with us?" Replace the USA with Germany, Japan, Chile, Mexico, South Sudan, I don't care. I'd feel just as strongly about this. It's not a Russia-USA issue. It's a "Russia literally gives zero fucks what happens to the world." I don't see bags of rice given out to poor countries with the Russian flag on it.

It was intentional even if Merck wasn't targeted. Negligence and accident aren't magic words to hide behind if your initial goal is to cause harm in the first place. Stuxnet at least had a bunch of parameters and was highly specialized so it only deploy on its intended target with little to no chance of opening up its payload on an unintended target. I'm not going to argue whether or not Stuxnet was morally in the right. But, it sure as shit proves there is a format of trying to make sure unintended targets don't get harmed in the process of widespread release of cyber warfare.
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There is a difference between interfaces and abstract interfaces. It is very helpful to know if all calls to the same function/method resolve to the same implementation. Method syntax always suggests that their could be arbitrarily many implementations.
Adding to the other comments, you still have prior-dependence on a more subtle level, because it depends on what hypotheses are allowed.

Here's an extreme example. Consider flipping an apparently fair coin and getting "THHT". The hypothesis that the coin is fair gives this result with likelihood 1/16. The hypothesis that a worldwide government conspiracy has been formed with the sole purpose of ensuring this result... has a likelihood of 1.

But nobody would ever declare this the MLE, because "government conspiracy" isn't one of the allowed options. But it isn't precisely because it's unlikely, i.e. because of your prior. Of course this is an extreme example, but there are more innocuous prior-based assumptions baked in too.
No, because the mania for throwing money at tech startups is specifically because of tech's unique promise of both worldwide scale and zero marginal costs after the initial Big Spend on capex, and hence potentially gigantic returns for investors.

Now, how well the current crop of startups is delivering on that promise is an exercise left to the reader, but it's there in theory. A dry cleaner has marginal costs and no economy of scale, and so can't attract unicorn valuations.
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