skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to contribute to an open source project without writing code
No way, unless we flood it. Colonize implies a sustain and grow mode. Tardigrades tossed into a vacuum would dessicate and dry because they did not have the time needed to form their survival state. Tardigrades gradually immersed in a vacuum (days) would have time to shut down all processes and dry out. In the dried out state in a vacuum they would survive for a while ? They resist heat and UV to a degree. How long?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
Doesn't matter. The ipsws are openly downloadable. There's no redirect going to an EULA page when downloading them, like saurik said.
I was going to say the same thing, not from personal long-term experience with the NYC subway system, but from regular experience with the London Underground, which is quite similar in terms of size and passenger numbers.

Then I had a look at the subway map and I can see why one might refrain from memorising the various lines and relevant stops: There are few significant features for distinguishing the lines, even the colours are very similar in some cases, and the stops often have cryptic or very similar names.

The London Underground map on the other hand is incredibly well-designed: The colours for the different lines are optimised for recognisability to the point they're almost iconic. On seeing a pink colour on the underground for example you can immediately tell "Hammersmith & City".

The lines and stops usually have easily memorable, often quirky names, too. This of course is in part due to London's long history, rather than a deliberate design decision.

However, usability still seems to have played a role when individual stops were named. For example, "Elephant & Castle" could've been easily named a far less memorable "London Rd." as well.
Considering even Chinese kids are building drones with AI driven aimbots for fun in their spare time, I highly doubt it. https://www.robomaster.com
Opera singers dubbed with dial up modems could be the next big thing (2017)
Just pointing out how that description applies equally well to the canonical "good guys" too.
Balancing Profit with People and Planet: Verdical Group B-Corp
And yet humans do, all the time. It's similar to Hume's attack on causality. You can't show that A caused B, but yet we all act like it's the case, when B always follows A. Kant's critique comes next.
This is the original post where the "product/market fit" concept was introduced to the masses.
> Corelliums refusal to be bought by Apple likely shows their continued attempts to profit off of exploiting the work of another company.

The only reason Apple wanted to buy Corellium was to shut them down. Apple doesn't need Corellium's technologies, they can do the same things and better.

> actually work with Apple on Apple's terms

Apple's terms are stupid. "Give us every vulnerability you and your clients find with the service", and it's not like Apple's paying them back anyway. Corellium already submitted many bugs to Apple and Apple didn't keep their promise of paying the bounty but instead decided to sue them.
Kind of sad the text is gone for lack of reference. You nailed it on the nose.
A spreadsheet (with undo) is pretty much exactly a bitemporal database but it only shows you the "latest" version. You can undo to go back in time but it is not very convenient. THere are also DAGs and the code is data. Building this at scale is what a lot of large orgs end up trying to do. Tricky bit is probably the trade of between lazy eval (pull?) and streaming push through the calcs. I think push is needed for low latency but am not 100%.
Not related to AI but instead related to geo-spatial imagery, I’m pretty sure I saw YT videos of ISIS commanders coordinating suicidal VBIED attacks in Syria using Google Maps aerial imagery. That was happening back in 2014-2015, when such videos were not instantly banned on /r/combatfootage and /r/SyrianCivilWar .
This sounds the the classical "intelligence being something people have".

It is futile to talk about 100% correctness in this field

> ... machine which hasn't even the slightest semblance of a shared cultural context ...

Why is this universally true?

> ... it would likely be trained on a small subset of human cultures and would produce varying results.

As it has when you travel to foreign countries.

There is not such hing as understanding artificial intelligence. There is a task of understanding _intelligence_ and attempting to implement it without giving birth.
Makes sense, so in this case realistically it would be replacing the data lake (likely S3) which currently in an AWS event driven architecture requires a lambda function to push to S3 and is vulnerable to network issues.

Seems like a cool use case!
Thanks for putting this together and documenting it so well. I’ve had to build this solution twice now, and far less elegantly.

The S3 PUT charges caught me off guard the first time (receiving lots of marketing/spam email will cost $1/1000 emails). I ended up putting small emails up to 400 kB in dynamoDB and only using S3 for large emails and attachments, which could be a means of cost reduction in this solution as well.
How would Amazon determine what's maximally different from a tv or pair of shoes? Is there a consensus way that humans determine maximum difference?
The author jokes about the two hard problems in computer science. The solution is in another joke:

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection... except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
We'll still be dependent on materials like plastic. Entire categories of good production, like corn processing, depend on using parts of processed oil. Ships burn oil and they're not going to switch to electric any time soon.

Our oil dependency isn't just about the cars we drive.
Yea but you'd literally be leaving your private key everywhere you are.
“Why Sculpture Is Boring” – Charles Baudelaire (1846)
Ok, I'll call it a yes. Payments didn't come to mind.

I guess contactless payment just didn't seem important to me, so I forget about it. Nifty, sure but blink and you miss it.
It's one thing to have hot reload and another to have it also preserve the whole app state like Dart/Flutter does.
In the western world 'debt' is also promoted as freedom. So it's all about your definition of what freedom is.

My personal definition of freedom is 'free of debt'
Off topic, but I felt compelled to express my love for the work of this company Objective See.

I've been using their application called Lulu every day, and I cannot imagine working on a Mac without it. So thankful that it exists, and that it's open source!

https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html

"LuLu is the free, open-source macOS firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections, unless explicitly approved by the user."
Is Signal fighting it? What's to stop this from happening?
Maybe the emailers wanted to maintain the reputation of the law school? I mean, if a law school becomes known for graduating porn actresses (even if both ex and amateur), it's reputation could diminish somewhat. Isn't there something in the law about lawyers needing to be of solid integrity (decent upstanding citizens)? Taking money to have sex with stragers while agreeing to be filmed could be seen as a demonstration of poor morals by many.
You can do basic math to a multivariate normal distribution to approximate other distributions. In classic feedforward networks, that's achieved by using nonlinear activation functions. Very wide networks turn into Gaussian processes in the limit [0]. There are also approaches explicitly embracing the "basic math on multivariate normal distributions" framework using normalizing flows [1].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00165

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05770
Logic over feelings.
Ask HN: Old side project sites still online that you're (secretly) proud of?
For New Year, I decided to 'audit' my personal domains for old sites that can be scrapped. One of the sites I found dates back 7 years - a small, interactive site I built to help promote my first novel[1].

As a promotion tool the site was a complete failure, but I remember spending weeks building it - using lots of shiny new-to-me libraries like Moment, Raphael and Cufon (for fonts) - and having great fun doing the work.

So question: what personal sites do others have which, when they stumble across them again, brings back lots of fond memories?

[1] - http://vreskiwards.rikweb.org.uk/ - I even built the alien font myself!
Jailbreaking is exempt from the DMCA law, not from any terms Apple might give using an EULA.

> which is clearly distinct from jailbreaking

It really isn't. The modifications Corellium does are the same modifications a jailbreak would do and done for the exact same purposes. A jailbroken device can be used for security research purposes and so can Corellium, unsigned apps or tweaks can be installed on a jailbroken device and so they can on Corellium.
Looks like lots of things didn't exist then for each framework which made a lot of the issues he encountered easier: SwiftUI, React Hooks/useContext, Jetpack. I'd like to see a revisit of this whole project.
AWS Re:Invent had a DataDog booth.
I've took it from [0]. It does seems like numbers are very approximate everywhere, but even than, let's take 29 trillion and distribute it between 327 million population: we get 88.6k$ per person, still not enough to buy housing in most parts of US.

- [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-1-percent-dont-know-what...
Not to dispute your point, but this strikes me as a rather wrong stick to measure countries' "badness". There's no difference between mistreating people within and outside of one's borders. Compared to the millions China is keeping in concentration camps the border tensions aren't even worth mentioning.

Also, how does Iran not fit the same profile? It's currently #1 world news that their top official got bombed by the US while busy meddling in Iraqi affairs.
Most western people are against the authoritarian regimes governing the aforementioned countries, for the obvious reason that they are an abomination to people who believe in human flourishing. The countries themselves are not capable of being good or bad, as they exist only in the human imagination.
It already exists, it's your phone.

There are some limits in linking it to existing identifiers like names or SSNs. However, that doesn't matter because due to its nature, the phone leaves a trail. Any serious abuse can be punished.
Should probably be mirrored on the Internet Archive as well.
Arguments that start on false premises can lead anywhere and appear valid. It’s logically not constructive. I’m thinking of the logic table for the implication.
I highly appreciate your efforts. I am looking forward to seeing more simple solutions.
>Take a bog standard sedan, put a 200-300 mile range battery in it, sell it for the battery cost more than the ICE version, scrap the ICE line before the government forces you to, job done.

I'm surprised no auto maker has yet to my knowledge a) done the above and b) advertise this fact. I'm envisioning a two-page print ad, showing two identical cars side by side, with a headline challenging the reader to answer "WHICH ONE IS ELECTRIC?"
Cash is anonymous and private.
It's 50 below. The past is a horror show. You'd dream of escaping too
Because of ambiguity. And therefore conciseness.
A simple event landing page for your immediate needs
It's a pity both Jetpack and SwiftUI / Combine weren't available / release worthy enough at the time of writing. Not sure about Android but a lot of the problems on the native iOS side would be fixed with that. The only difference is the cell reuse, which can be a real head scratcher indeed for a starting developer. It's definitely a part where you will find the performance vs ease of use decisions of early iOS. Got to say I often work around it by creating new ViewControllers and adding/replacing them every time a cell gets (re)used but this might not always work in places where performance is still a constraint.
Has anyone managed to wrap CRUX from python? I want to keep all logic in python ideally. Only thing keeping me away.

There is some other project crux that has a lot of python and this pollutes the Google searches.
Is that snark?

Google suggests Nvidia GPUs are probably made in Guangdong by PCPartner.

The actual chips, I don't know, but TSMC does have fabs in China.
How to share sensitive leaks with the press
Yes this is legit! Got it to work on a throwaway domain under 30 minutes.
Isn't "a lot of problems" somewhat of an exaggeration? I don't like DRM conceptually any more than I imagine most people do, but hasn't most people's ire with it been reddit-level sleuthing / whinging?

I have seen evidence that heavy DRM (Denuvo I think, specifically) caused increased loading times.

Apart from that, every time someone tries to prove there is any other difference with any measure of scientific rigour they find no statistically differences.
With a GUI and everything? I find it hard to believe there are a thousand projects doing that.
It's simple. Most of the times Charles closes the issues after commenting on them w/o waiting for responses.
Many of the comments here appear to have been made without reading the full post. Maybe because I'm not a Vim user it made sense to read the post in its entirety.

From the post:

"Attempts have been made to implement functionality with built-in script languages such as Python, Perl, Lua, Tcl and Ruby. This never gained much foothold, for various reasons.

Instead of using script language support in Vim:

Encourage implementing external tools in any language and communicate with them. The job and channel support already makes this possible. Really any language can be used, also Java and Go, which are not available built-in.

Phase out the built-in language interfaces, make maintenance a bit easier and executables easier to build. They will be kept for backwards compatibility, no new features.

Improve the Vim script language, so that it can be used when an external tool is undesired.

All together this creates a clear situation: Vim with the +eval feature will be sufficient for most plugins, while some plugins require installing a tool that can be written in any language. No confusion about having Vim but the plugin not working because some specific language is missing. This is a good long term goal."

So, as I read this, his argument is that it makes sense to offer both external language support and Vimscript.
How to Buy a House Without Going Broke – How Much Home Can I Afford
An elegy for cash: the technology we might never replace
Funny how this got many upvotes and then lots of downvotes through the hours.

I state again here: full stack Flutter is not ready for prime time. It needs more time to mature, and for small product startups I will not recommend it, not even if you’re starting from scratch.
Nice, I had no idea you could script tmux like that! Reminds me of "expect", which I've used to automate interactive SSH sessions with network devices.
1, 2 and 3 are absolutely mundane. One could argue that if anything, they are disappointing: i remember passable speech recognition running on pentium 2 with 32 megs of ram (dragon naturally speaking was first released in 1997). "Natural" language parsers were around starting with the first text adventures (80s as far as I remember). Considering the computing resources big G and big A have, the performance of this "AI" is mediocre at best.
Facial feature extraction is not rocket science either, it dates back to at least 1993, so 386/486 with 4-8 megs of RAM.

You want mindbending and scary? Mindbending: deepfakes. Scary: automated ai-based law enforcement.
What is Chrome’s SameSite cookie update?
I think the 75 days is mostly due to games that nobody cares about. High profile games tend to be cracked within hours or days. For example, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order was already cracked by the time that my favorite gaming magazine printed their launch review.

https://iscracked.info/is-star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-cracke...
I already factored that in. I sometimes get asked by non-cyclists who wanna use it more what to do and their number one concern is always getting hit by a car and nearly never getting sweaty (which really only happens if you are either going too fast or are incredibly unsporty).

The not-getting-hit-by-a-car argument is quite understandable to me: if you don't feel comfortable and feel like you lack the awareness needed to move safely on a bicycle taking it slow and easy is the rational thing to do (electric bikes won't help you with that).

I also get the weather-is-always-shitty-and-I-need-to-look-good argument (although this can be solved by having the appropriate rain-gear).

What I usually don't get (in the case of average health people without any blocking issues) is the sweaty thing: Energy wise cycling is more efficient than walking (unless you go at high speeds where air resistance very quickly starts to get a thing). If you don't go at top speed and feel confident with staying at your pace this should make you sweat less than walking there, even if you are physically untrained (queue pictures of the countless pensioners on bicycles).

And if you are physically untrained, cycling is perfect to improve your health, because it won't strain your joints and tendons as much as e.g. walking or running, unless (as mentioned) you get into an accident, but these are usually much more dangerous with electrified bikes, because it involves people going at speeds they can't handle.

My former argument was: the issue why people don't take the bicycle (in my experience) has less to do with sweat and much more with fear of traffic/accidents/weather. This obviously depends a lot on where you live, how "normal" it is to take the bike there and maybe even on the season.
Overlord Gaming has done significant benchmarking with Denuvo and after the developer removed Denuvo. There's one on loading times [0]. And others on performance and disk size.

Loading times obviously varied per game, but the differences for most games were pretty significant.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByfLg9wGB4o
Thanks for your reply. It's good to see that you reflect your own thinking and attempt to articulate a coherent position. If you enjoy this type of engagement, I can also recommend you the following short youtube video (~3 min) with a philosophical thought experiment that turns the table on you and asks whether you would still hold your position in that case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSUz6Rj5oo4.

Would be interested to hear your reply to that :)
Quality of life is the only thing really worth having. The wealthy have the option to spend their time however they like, great healthcare, a big home etc. All the smartphones and gadgets in the world can't make up for that. Free time and economic security are still things very few people have.
Some of those are run by monopolies such as power, telephone and internet providers.
Devs keep using denuvo though, precisely because crackers aren't trumping the denuvo devs.

Like, everything gets cracked at some point, that's not a failure. Denuvo holds up for months, and games are like movies in the sense that the opening week is really important, then everything trails off from there.
I agree. It's really sad. Iran had/has so much potential.
I agree with your points. I used to play online shooters with private servers when I was a teenager, and I actually enjoyed the fact that you had a mix of skills on a given server at a given time, as well as the feeling of running into the same people when you frequent certain servers (i.e. a feeling of community).
Exactly. Seems here that there’s tons of Dart fanboys in this thread forgetting that most people code to solve a business problem in the most efficient way.
Does it matter when there's prior art?
Examples are good and on point, the conclusion is not. When he tries to frame it all in some grand political/quasi-philosophical manner, it becomes outright wrong and stupid, but I won't argue with that part, because it won't be useful to anyone.

What I want to point out is that nothing he says should be attributed specifically to "machine learning". Machine learning is a set of techniques to make inferences from data automatically, but there is no implicit restriction on what the inferences should be. So machine learning is not "conservative" — almost all popular applications of it are. There is no inherent reason why an ML-algorithm should suggest the most similar videos to the ones you watched recently. The same way you can use (say) association learning to find most common item sets, you can use it to find the least common item sets with the given item, and recommend them instead. Or anything in between. But application designers usually choose the less creative option to recommend (understandably so) stuff similar to what you already got.

Sometimes it's ok: if the most popular thing to ask somebody to sit on nowadays is "my face" it's only logical to advice that, I see nothing wrong with this application. But many internet shops indeed could benefit from considering what a user has already bought (from this very shop), because it isn't likely he will want to buy a second similar, but different TV anytime soon. Or, when recommending a movie, you could try to optimize for something different than "the most popular stuff watched by people that watched a lot of stuff you did watch" — which is a "safe" thing to recommend, but at the same time not really interesting. Of course, finding another sensible approach is a lot of work, but it doesn't mean there isn't one: maybe it could be "a movie with unusually high score given by somebody, who also highly rated a number of movies you rated higher than the average".
From what I remember it used to be just a wrapper around VMProtect. This was a couple of years ago though, so you are most likely right.
I'm mostly interested in the CAT as my job (research) involves a lot thermal imaging, so there's a nerd factor (the lepton on its own is about £3-400 with a capture setup). I know there's also the FLIR One, but eh, for field work the CAT looks handy with the extra sensors.

The light phone looks good, but I do actually want some of the smartphone features. I was very unhappy when Amazon nerfed 3G on Kindle, I used to use it for paper like maps when traveling in foreign cities. Google Maps worked very well.
Cash is still controlled and regulated by a states. The point of crypto is to have currencies and markets which states cannot control, tax or regulate.
College aged women trusted porn producers? Wow, talk about lack of street smarts. Among people working different professions, how highly would you trust a porn company? These women made pornos. They had sex with a total stranger while a crew stood around and watched while filming them them, I mean just think about that. They actually thought, "oh well, only one person will ever see it"? This whole thing is a sad story, but wow, i just can't imagine American born and raised girls going along with this...
> Compared to the millions China is keeping in concentration camps the border tensions aren't even worth mentioning.

It's millions now? Seems like every day, the propaganda keeps increasing the number.

> It's currently #1 world news that their top official got bombed by the US while busy meddling in Iraqi affairs.

So the country on the other side of the world that is bombing Iraqis is not meddling? Was it the general of a neighboring country the one that was "meddling" or was the US the one that is "meddling".

You rarely see a twofer. An anti-china and anti-iran propaganda straight from the pentagon talking point.

"In war, truth is the first casualty." -- Aeschylus