skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, Librem5 and PinePhone are the most exciting news of this decade w.r.t mobile ecosystem for hackers, tinkerers, enthusiasts.

Librem5 stuck to its security, privacy first agenda and managed to build a phone with PC grade hardware. PinePhone stuck to its affordability first agenda, bringing a Linux capable smartphone hardware to the masses.

My only wish is that these project become commercially sustainable and attractive enough for the major smartphone brands to join open-source party to make a dent in the Appstore/Playstore duopoly.

Edit: Monoploy->Duopoly.
Cabana – Social media management tool
Sure. Empathy for your property value.

At one point, I lived across the street from a guy whose "front yard" was basically a loading dock. He was not considered a good neighbor, except by the guy down the street. Whose property included a house that apparently hadn't been painted or roofed for maybe a century. And who spent much of his time drinking beer, sitting on his porch. Often with the other guy.

They hosted great parties, though. One time, they had a live band, with a sound system on a trailer. Too many iffy bikers, though. Fights, and occasional gunfire.
Agrarianism
Before moving to catalina, I would like a way to disable it and revert to the old behavior.

Terminal is a trusted app to me.

Actually, I probably won't be moving to catalina. I've been a diehard apple user since I got a G3, but the way apple is going their computers are too nerfed. It's like trying to get excited about buying a car from a rental car trade-in lot.
Ask HN: How can I create an RSS feed for any website/url?
I've been using feedly.com to track websites and curate content for a newsletter. Certain websites that used to offer public RSS feeds no longer have them, two quick examples: https://genius.com/articles + https://daily.bandcamp.com/latest.

Feedly says they are not in the business of creating RSS feeds, only plugging them into their reader.

Im wondering if there are any good free/reasonably priced solutions for being able to create RSS Feeds of urls that do not offer them?

It seems to me that the web is becoming increasingly private, with devs purposely disabling RSS feeds or making it hard to create them for their web pages. Would love to hear thoughts on this topic.
OK, I have to rebut some of this. I have no axe to grind about whether the engineer is male, female, trans, white, black, whatever. Fact is that when I wrote this I didn't know she was a female. Don't care.

How insane to claim that simple negativity toward a member of a protected group is an -ism. I'm not saying she isn't an engineer because of ANYTHING related to her sex.

She's getting raked over the coals because what she did was stupid and shows incredibly bad judgement. To imply that this is less bad, or maybe we shouldn't discuss it, or maybe we'd have a different opinion if she was not female is itself far more sexist.

I fully support non-degreed engineers. Yes, I agree there is no litmus test for "Engineer".

I'm clearly stating that a CompTIA+ is not sufficient to call someone an engineer. Regurgitating questionable facts does not make you an engineer. I didn't move the goalpost. But I can recognize something that isn't one.

She screwed up bad, because if there is ever any collective action, her case won't be in on it. She gave google an ironclad excuse to be fired. I'm not even arguing right vs. wrong but the way employment lawsuits work, she has zero chance.
IBM announces battery technology breakthrough
*duopoly
Semantically, yes. But I assume they are referring to the what people would consider the usual suspects for "big city" pollution, i.e. exhaust, aerosols.
Might be naive of me not to understand what you meant, but could you elaborate on this?
Something that jumps out to me in the demographics is how few respondents are from Japan (0.6% vs e.g. 5.1% from Germany). Does anyone have a good explanation?
According to Amazon,

"AWS KMS is designed so that no one, including AWS employees, can retrieve your plaintext CMKs from the service. The service uses hardware security modules (HSMs) that have been validated under FIPS 140-2, or are in the process of being validated, to protect the confidentiality and integrity of your keys regardless of whether you use AWS KMS or AWS CloudHSM to create your keys or you import them into the service yourself. Your plaintext CMKs never leave the HSMs, are never written to disk and are only ever used in the volatile memory of the HSMs for the time needed to perform your requested cryptographic operation. AWS KMS keys are never transmitted outside of the AWS regions in which they were created. Updates to software on the service hosts and to the AWS KMS HSM firmware is controlled by multi-party access control that is audited and reviewed by an independent group within Amazon as well as a NIST-certified lab in compliance with FIPS 140-2."[1]

[1]https://aws.amazon.com/kms/faqs/
France learns anti-authoritarianism like a GAN: we become good at it by training better and smarter tyrants and fighting them.
I’m interested in the Sankhyans! Any reference?
1. Yes, just API/SPA
2. Yes
3. Yes

The decision is purely pragmatic, not about taste, purity, or anything else. If I can develop faster up to the point where I have the budget to worry about those other concerns, that would be a win.
> In the progressive circles I'm familiar with ... I've never seen anyone make a feminist case for decriminalization or legalization.

Well there's plenty of sex workers online you could ask. They almost universally argue for decriminalisation (not legalisation) on feminist grounds.
When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense
I have trouble with the newer "flat key" mac keyboards because my fingers don't have curvature to tell when they're centered in the right place.

My favorite laptop keyboard is the first gen macbook pro. Great comfortable concave keys with good throw. Some thinkpads were good too.
It’s not perfect but I think there is sound logic to to the way it works. My wife is a fairly average computer user, and she has not added any files outside those folders that are in the user directory by default (Downloads, Desktop, Documents, Pictures, etc...). I think it seems pretty logical that Documents or Pictures for most users will include more personal data that needs protecting than ~/.config or whatever.
Xiaomi Aqara
Amazon Echo Plus etc as a Zigbee hub
Tradfri/HomeSmart from Ikea

I'm not sure I see much z-wave stuff (at least here in Australia)
If money is so powerful, why is Michael Bloomberg not going to get the democratic nomination?
I think Windows Mobile gave up just prior to the best chance of breaking the duopoly: PWAs. Most app developers will never want to support a half a dozen phone OSes. The solution will inevitably, eventually, be the web.
This entire sequence is incorrect. The sequence dates back to the Assam Accord of 1985 when the current BJP was nowhere close to power. Then there was the Supreme Court mandated NRC process which was decided in 2013. Without mention of these, your so called sequence of events is nothing but a bunch of lies.
Look, this is a discussion forum. I was under the impression that we were having a good faith discussion and I'm genuinely curious about my question, whether extant words in Hindi and Sanskrit have significantly diverged in meaning. You can antagonize me if you like, but you can also choose not to participate in this specific thread if you don't have a meaningful contribution.
> This is false. In order to maintain a constant amount of leverage, you need to buy and sell securities if your leverage isn't unity. With increasing leverage, as security prices increase, you need to buy securities as your position earns a better return than the underlying. Conversely, you need to sell securities as prices fall. Together, this reduces your overall return via volatility drag.

Ya sure that's true if you want to maintain constant leverage, there are tradeoffs there.

> The Kelly Criterion has the math for the absolute max return you can get via levering up assets.

Not exactly. The Kelly Criterion is the maximum that you should lever, over all the probability-weighted paths the portfolio will take to maximize log(wealth). However, nobody actually uses full Kelly leverage, because of estimation/fit error. One third or so of Kelly leverage is more common.
Yes. So they are both susceptible to being compromised. So it'd be up to user preference as to what method they want to lock / unlock their door with then?
How tracking pixels work
Ellers algorithm is quite efficient though not the most beautiful to watch being created. Thanks for the links. I like the Prim’s and binary tree algorithms. The recursive division is quite interesting as well, the paterns it generates are peculiar.
BS. It is targeted at illegal Bangladeshi migrants and doesn’t touch anyone else.
The digitalization of the world is just beginning.
This doesn't apply to the US as a whole. Each state is (sometimes radically) unique.

https://www.faircompetitionlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/1...
Bingo. Once Uber and lyft caught on it was only useful when there was surge pricing.
I understand what you are saying but you've asserted as truth that the author said what you said and in a pretty accusatory tone. If you use 'Imperial India' as standalone phrase it does refer to the British rule because it is the most recent and that's what most assume you mean. But when talking about Buddha it is quite a leap to think the author would use such a pointless timeframe so the context alone is enough.

Even a paragraph later the emperor Asoka is mentioned explicitly
Depends on the human defining where the goalpost is, what their threat model is and their philosophy etc. There are certainly folks who want open basebands enough to work on them, for example there are folks working on porting the Osmocom baseband codebase to Mediatek based phones.

https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband
https://media.ccc.de/v/osmodevcon2019-109-osmocombb-layer1-o...
Nice one Henry, but remember, no trolling on HN. Dang will blow your whistle if you do!
A totally worthless article with almost zero information.

They say the electrolyte suppresses lithium dendrites, so my guess is the anode is lithium metal, rather than carbon, silicon, or sulfur to absorb the lithium.

But the don't actually say the anode is lithium metal. There's also some nonsense about extracting materials from sea water, so it could be a sodium ion battery.

Altogether a waste of time announcement.
Look here son you don’t need jQuery. Go outside, dig up some Silicon, bake up some wafers, design and manufacture a cpu, strap it to a motherboard, hand-smelt some housing, throw some coal in the generator, write an OS, handcraft a browser, and use plain vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. Fucking kids these days with their _frameworks_
Sad to see Ionic in the avoid category. Their latest release I thought was quite polished, and I've enjoyed using Capacitor rather than Cordova. I think the key to further success is breaking away from Cordova entirely, and expanding the native features supported in Capacitor. Right now I find myself having to use both due to some things not being implemented in Capacitor yet.
> However, it doesn't render well in Firefox: it's moved to the right by a lot.

Which version of Firefox are you using? I'm on 71.0 and it looks okay to me. (It's consistent with the IE11 that I have access to.)
So, basically host OpenVPN or WireGuard? What advantage do you offer over doing it myself, e.g. with a VPS @ $5/month? That is the type of customer that cares about open source and whatnot in a VPN, so you need to provide some benefit beyond what you get by doing it yourself.
Also no annual fees. Just a setup fee... which if you waited for a sale or coupon was waved.
If you’re checking 38,000 over the course of a week, how thoroughly are you checking them by 4pm on Friday afternoon?
I played this as a kid, without knowing anything about it, on my uncle’s Atari. God, it’s such a horrible game. And I loved Yar’s Revenge!
US government is entitled to all Snowden book proceeds, judge rules
It's done for discrete data. Operations on such data can be optimized to pretty extreme level. Aito scales to around million rows and million features before slowing down too much.

We believe we can make it scale to 10m or 100m rows in the future. Maybe more
Top announcements from re:Invent 2019 that made headlines
Let’s all be honest though. Those smart cars are total garbage. Horrible gearbox. Was like riding a go cart.

Which... while I say they are garbage in that I never would own one. They were actually kind of fun to drive for a 10 or 15 minute trip.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
I'm still reading through the paper/article, but a Turing machine would be the substrate in this case, not the model. I think the question is whether we can model the brain's way of computing in a Turing machine, and then it will follow we can also model the brain. Turing machines are a model of computation, and if the brain's computational model is Turing complete, it will follow that we can simulate a brain inside a Turing machine.
The problem isn't the segfault -- it's the earlier unsafe behavior. That is, the untrapped error that eventually caused the segfault.

If the language only has trapped errors, which are indicated by seg faults, it's a safe language.

Every language has such errors. What does divide by zero do?

What does blowing the stack / infinite recursion do in Rust? It seg faults.

The seg fault is the safe behavior. If the stack overflow overwrote heap data structures or global data structures and the program kept running, that would be unsafe.
I would be more interested as to why there is so little response from different demographics in the first place, even in Europe there’s little response, except for a few countries.

It seems to me they mostly targeted English speaking countries, which would explain why Japan (and Asia in general) has such low response.
The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles under his house
Making the air smell like ozone means it’s probably doing something unhelpful/actively harmful in addition to filtering. Did it have an ionizer or similar?
In short - engraving borosilicate is difficult, because it does not expand very much when heated. So when hit by an infrared laser beam, the glass doesn't locally expand and spall off a tiny speck of glass .... instead, the glass locally melts. When the beam moves on to the next pixel, the first site either solidifies or sometimes dribbles away. Laser engraving of borosilicate just doesn't work well. And, because of the compound curves of the Klein bottle, you need a big depth of field as well as a rotary bottle holder. All laser engravers that I've played with have a very short (10mm or so) depth of field. Diamond engraving doesn't work well because of the curves. Sandblasting with a rubber mask works, but making the mask is a pain. So, after lots of attempts, I've given up on engraving these guys. Also: mistakes are expensive -- this is hand-blown glass.
I'm not sure how much effort went into supporting PWAs for Windows Phone, I used to develop for that ecosystem during 8.x and the browser was a mess; cordova apps for WP required specific hacks to basic elements such as header, footer etc.

Besides, they where making good progress with supporting android apps in WP with 'Project Astoria' and iOS apps with 'Project islandwood'; both of those were pulled off abruptly. There was even a rumour in the WP community at that point that Project Astoria became too good that MS brass worried that native WP development may go extinct.

Btw, recently german WP enthusiasts managed to get Project Astoria working on several WP phones[1].

[1]https://windowsunited.de/so-koennt-ihr-jede-beliebige-androi...
Postmortem? He's very much alive
My concerns are: resting ram usage, could I decrease if I could run like a tiling manager(with some main buttons).

And can it run on virgin mobile/cheap networks like that

edit: holy crap this sway thing may be the i3 hmm, next question would be can you attach it to a big monitor + keyboard/mouse through the USB C
Menstruation-Related Discrimination Is Sex Discrimination
Many Buddhist texts are full of supernatural claims about afterlife, the worlds of demons and devas, about prayers opening the earth to see flowers giving you the text of Buddha, that sort of things.

Thinking Buddhism focuses on the philosophical parts is like cherry-picking Proverbs from the bible.

Buddhism also has its own nonsensical cosmology [1]. We just don't care too much about it in the West.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology
Well many people think Microsoft's behavior was monopolistic, so yes, unfair, and exploiting monopolies is a robber baron motif. They're also known for exploiting their workers but I don't think Bill did that (so far as I know he didn't actively suppress wages like Jobs). In any case he was much maligned at a certain point in history and his charitable work is a little too over-publicized and under-delivering for me to take seriously.

Even if Bill is sincere, gp made the claim that robber barons don't work against their own interest, and I don't see where in the Gates example a man is working against himself.
It's not a pretense when she broke a serious rule. Whether or not she claims she didn't, google has determined she did. So therefore it's clearly not retaliation. That's the default position. Now, there would be a high burden of proof for her to claim it was a conspiracy and it really was related to union organizing. That she did not in fact violate a rule (based on googles own interpretation). Good luck! Unless she finds some incriminating emails or gets an executive to give extremely damaging testimony, she's toast.
They kind of already did that experiment in southern California for schools, they just need to run the numbers before and after filters installed adjusted for regular pollution/suicide rates https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/02/05/80413/at-schools-near-f...
Next time, buy a new copy, oh Salad of the Whale. My kids need help with their tuition.
> assumptions without verification

With all due respect, if you live in a world where criminal convictions are an unverified assumption, that’s problematic.

You’ve linked to zero external sources. Others have. PIA et al hired a convicted liar. Competitors haven’t. PIA et al sold to a company that distributes malware, gutted another VPN with dark patterns and then lied about all of that; others haven’t.

These are substantiated points. Linking to comments from your colleagues is as disingenuous as wrapping a Kape VPN as trustworthy.
What are the benefits to treating SDEs as fungible?

At Amazon, Sr. Leadership and HR love to pretend all SDEs at a given level are interchangeable, level actually indicates competence, and leetcoding external hires with zero domain knowledge have far more worth than internal promos. All of the above assumptions seem completely insane to me and have resulted in the destruction of many projects.
This would not have happened in a language with a proper type system as the type checker would have rejected the program at compile time.
I have a couple gtk apps in progress written in python for phones using purism's libhandy. gnome builder makes it pretty darn easy, though Gtk's docs could use some love.
Check out FT8
(Everyone should make sure to note the name on the above comment)

Thanks for answering, and congratulations on your book's anniversary.

My job gives out copies of your book as a somewhat prestigious award to those who find and report security problems, and I'm very happy to have both received and read a copy.
One can write down a concrete polynomial p ∈ Z[x1,...x9] such that the statement "there are integers m1,...,m9 with p(m1,...,m9)=0" can neither be proven nor disproven in ZFC (assuming ZFC is consistent).

So you were to specify such a thing and the thing was small enough it's value could be determined by a command line program and you found integers m1.... m9 such that when you typed them at the command line, the value returned was 0, would "reality" have determined a "truth" that was not deducible?

Still, I can't see each of the steps wouldn't be easily determined by existing axioms.

Anyway, my head hurts.
Couldn't you just jam a multimeter into it?
T-Mobile USA's system is bog-standard IMS with RCS extensions. There are a few open source client stacks that support this, notably Doubango's. The trick is writing a frontend that uses regular Linux GUI libraries. As far as I know, nobody has done that yet...
Does taking photographs of a mountain harm it? Articulate your reasoning, rather and resorting to vague insinuations.
Are you talking about a shared overlay network with its own services and working end-to-end connectivity between nodes, or just piping internet traffic egress/ingress to some other isp rather than my native one?

I think the former one would be cool.
At least they're honest about it over there. I respect that.

What duty does a proudly nationalistic government have in permitting hostile attitudes to proliferate on campuses filled with the nation's future industry leaders? Compared to the culture at Western universities, I find myself envious of this development. Ultimately, if you're not enforcing healthy political views among your youth, then your enemies will gladly fill the void with harmful propaganda.
Negligent means you didn't know and didn't want to, reckless meant you didn't know but accepted the possibility that it could happen or the possibility was extremely high.
> I've never seen something more web-dev

ha oh man
"The death of the Buddha’s mother, Māyā, when giving birth to him serves no purpose as myth, and can therefore be accepted as fact"

The death of a mother in childbirth is an existence fraught with meaning and loss from the start of life for the child. How can this be so summarily dismissed as not contributing to the myth?
It's been shown time and again that anonymous and unmoderated forums consistently devolve to radicalized echo chambers. I'm glad that's not what hn is.
Yes, that's right. What you want to do is maximize your sharpe ratio. You can play around with this python package to get a sense for how it works:

https://github.com/robertmartin8/PyPortfolioOpt

What you should be trying to achieve is a portfolio that earns the exact same return every single year, and you can do that in part by looking at historical covariance of the asset's time series. However, you also want to take a prospective view, and think about which asset classes may become correlated in the future.

There's no universal answer here (in the out of sample case - you can solve it in-sample), however. And another huge, huge factor is tax. Making sure your investments are tax-efficient is extremely important. Nothing will do more to ruin your compounding than taxes. So whatever you do, carefully consider the tax implications of your choices.

A lot of people focus on the tax rate. But what's actually quite a bit more important is the tax frequency. If you pay long term capital gains every two years on your whole portfolio...that's much worse than paying short term capital gains once at the very end (over a long period). What this means is that you want to choose things like passive ETFs, that are not taxed on their internal rebalancing. Even if you were to find a mutual fund that beat that ETF by 1% every year, the tax consequences of that fund would likely make it not worthwhile, before even considering the high fees it would likely charge you.
No need to pay for RealVNC, when TightVNC is FLOSS. Can confirm the login screen is accesible in global service mode.
(2017)

Google Maps has improved the primary complaint here. You can now search along your route.
Prior to online search engines there were similar offline resources such as the MSDN CDs.
> https://github.com/yeokm1/w31slack

Gives just a 404.
Coxeter did amazing stuff in higher-dimensional geometry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Scott_MacDonald_Coxeter

I have one of his books about polytopes and find it hard to wrap my head around the details, despite a childhood interest in higher dimensions. The diagrams are terrific!