skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately it's complicated. There are many OEMs, and each configures things to their liking. Then there are carrier branding deals which (often) result in per-carrier customizations on top of that.

Typically, "uninstallable" apps can be disabled via adb commands if you don't want to (or can't) flash a custom ROM. Sometimes they can't however - for example, Amazon sells subsidized phones that display advertisements on the lock screen.
Canada counts as the US for several national security purposes. There's a lot of cooperation to prevent this type of loophole.
It’s truly fascinating how people quickly join echo chambers and often neglect thinking critically about the opinions they propagate. In computer programming, as an example, 1970s and 80s research points to many problems and dangers of wishful thinking guiding the inclusion of programming on early stages of the school curriculum. To this day, many efforts bypass these alerts and focus on engagement rather than learning or facilitating learning - while claiming benefits in learning
Seems way more narrow than the title implies

"The rule will likely be welcomed by industry, Lewis said, because it had feared a much broader crackdown on exports of most artificial intelligence hardware and software"
German exports cars, cars and cars https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/113918565976628019...
While it is mindboggling, it is basically the PC catching up to ideas put in practice on the Amiga blitter, NeXTSTEP Renderman, PS3 Cell.
Considering that AI is whatever marketing folks want it to be, it'd be interesting see their legal definition AI. Anyone have a link to the actual document?
I think this would not work because the HonSSH server with the HonSSH user is hosting a proxy service. The user gets dumped into an actual vanilla looking Linux host at the backend.
I don't understand.

The different accuracy of facial recognition by demographic group is common across multiple facial recognition systems. It's highly unlikely that all of the affected systems owe their inaccuracy to a post-training configuration issue.

To me it seems more like you are arguing for the sake of arguing rather than that you actually believe in your point. You are just trying to conceive of imaginative possibilities that preserve the "dumb facial recognition developers forgot non-white people exist" interpretation. The problem is that your imagined possible alternatives are not plausible explanations.
NATS Streaming has major scalability problems even if it's simple to deploy. It's only high-availability unless you the Raft clustering but that has been bolted on to the original project and isn't really well-designed.

The team is working on an entirely new system called Jetstream to eventually replace it.
JSX aka JavaScript XML. It is technically a language.
I can understand the sentiment of being "fed up" with the state of current phone technology, but rather then bringing back dumbphones (see also Nokia's current product range), why not make phones that have headphone jacks, removable batteries, microSD card slots, IPS displays, et cetera. The features that were "removed" to presumably promote consumerism.
Leaked promo hints Samsung will unveil Galaxy S20 on Feb 11
You mean something like a Web browser?

I think letting users find and select content is the only way to avoid getting banned. As soon as the app does anything to nudge users toward a particular kind of content it risks getting banned.
Not impress with the website security. Will be staying away from that for a while.
30% returns across a few hand picked stocks, VTSAX, and VOO. The hand picked stocks are a good chunk of the SP500, and so this isn’t all really that diversified... I know.

1.8-2.2% returns on cash. Meh.
It's a habit. I sometimes do that too, without thinking much about it.
I usually mention edits because I'm used to it. Unless I edit right after posting, I keep a log. The same on reddit and tildes.
Because this is so incredibly broad, there's a good chance that >20% of people here will be working on something that falls under this at some point in the next decade.

While we patiently await for a HN user (or, let's be honest, one of the ancient cryptologist-lawyers who come out of the woodwork every time something like this happens and sue the government) to fix this by suing the government on free speech grounds, don't forget that git, mercurial, fossil, bazaar and more are all decentralized, can't actually be censored at scale, and can be effectively hosted and mirrored trivially.

I actually think it's a well-intentioned law, and it's not like it'll harm most people, but it's still something that should be stood against on principle.
There are plenty of Electron alternatives, without the bloat of carrying a browser around.

Those people would also be enabled if they bothered to get out of the Web comfort zone and actually learn about them.
Is that an issue when the phone is $350 already? They're clearly not aiming for low-end users here.
This article does point out a lot of things that have failed this decade - all fair points. But in focusing on failures it fails to capture that casual education (not formal, school education) has fundamentally shifted this decade.

Today, I can learn almost anything I want for free on the internet.

- I can get a world class mathematical education from 3Blue1Brown (seriously this guy's videos are just out of this world good).

- I can get incredible guitar lessons on any song I want from youtube (I've taught myself guitar this year through it!).

- I can find scores of language education podcasts to help me learn Spanish (I use coffee break spanish).

- I can get world class SAT prep from Khan Academy (for free!).

- I can get awesome yoga classes online for free (did this also this year).

Seriously the wealth and quality of information available to us today is insane - it's the Library of Alexandria a search bar away.

As someone who enjoys learning, there's no way I would ever go back 10 years in time.
Contracts can be spoken as well as written, and spoken things can also legally be considered part of the contract even when there is a written contract.
From that point of view, it is also a Pascal ABI.
Maza: Simple and efficient local ad blocking
This is one of the best overviews on Pulsar with comparisons to Kafka: https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2018/10/2/understanding-how...
Sending emails (and any other reaction to public availability of the videos) was what actually did the lasting harm.

If you did harm then being motivated by your morality or religion doesn't justify what you did. It just explains why you did wrong and why you behaved evil.
Spantax used to do that in Hamburg, scroll down to „Incidents“ on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Finkenwerder_Airport

The interesting thing is that „the end of the runway“ is actually a major river.

And a Vuelling flight almost made the same mistake two years ago (but today it would be less critical as they have extended the runway to accommodate A380s some time ago).
>censorship-resistant money

It's not, the majority of hash power is in China. That means the Chinese government could start censoring bitcoin transactions in a week if they wanted to - by orphaning non-compliant blocks.
Regardless of anything else, this centralization alone makes bitcoin a failed experiment.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/study-chinas-btc-miners-contr...
Yes, it seems I did not anticipate such traffic and my autoscaling settings did not allow the front end web servers pool to expand big enough. It is times like this I wonder why I switched back to WordPress compared to hosting statically generated content on S3 + Cloud Front :-(. It should be back now, apologies.
I think we are making compatible claims.

Naming this sketchily understood category of ancient people after some cave in Russia (itself named after one Denis, an 18th century religious separatist hermit who lived there by himself) is only obscure at the start. As we become familiar with the name “Denisovan” it becomes a fine description, whether or not we know or care about Denis or his cave.
Beta means not meant for general use/production, and all that implies about people being upset about beta products being diacontinued.

I was covering two distinct cases, one where Google discontinues a production product, and generally they have a different product to migrate to, and one where Google discontinues a beta peoduct, where it seems they usually don't care if you were reliant on it.

Beta does mean prerelease testing, and while it implies they are moving towards a release, there's no guarantee implied or otherwise that a release is forthcoming.
Is It Made with WordPress?
Google, Amazon, Microsoft are in military and oil business now because of AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3n8txX3144
Sadly, it depends. Many manufacturers have deals in place with Facebook, etc to prevent the un-installation of these apps. At best you can "disable" them completely, achieving the same effective result. Any downloaded updates to the app will be removed and it will be _supposedly_ incapable of running in the background. I suspect however that there are also other e.g. Facebook services running in the background that need to be explicitly disabled with Android running in developer mode.

This isn't a problem if you have a rooted device, but root is difficult/impossible to obtain on certain devices (like Samsung's Galaxy 8 onward) due to enterprise level tamper-proofing.

Having said all that, I just got an unlocked Pixel 4 and it has zero of that bloat. If you happen to consider the Google services themselves bloat/tracking (they often are), rooting is fully supported which allows you to install an Android distribution without any Google services.
When I click a link far down in the article, read that for a bit, and then hit the back button I find it quite jarring that I end up back at the top of the original article rather that where I was. See if you can store scroll position on navigation.
Your example demonstrates a political bias in a dataset that can lead to a biased ML model. This is what some people mean when they say ML can be biased.
And most likely a reaction from Android team to the continuous questions about what they think about Flutter during Android Q&A sessions.
It is not just a philosophy course which is missing from software engineering degrees. Software has real impact on individuals and societies that use them. Therefore, software engineers must necessarily be taught about the interface of psychology/sociology with software and the ethics surrounding this interface. The world would be a better place for it.

Please read this thread https://twitter.com/yonatanzunger/status/975545527973462016 "computer science is a field which hasn't yet encountered consequences."
Export Controls on Emerging and Foundational Technologies: A Null Set?
Coda uses ZK-snarks -- not suitable for affixing data to transactions.
At this stage the sibling comment to use GCP is pretty solid recommendation.

You can use Google for labelling (Mechancial Turk style), and AutoML Vision to train your model. It's going to be a bit pricey, but cheaper than your time to do the equivalent and will give you an educated guess at how much work it'll be to beat it. It costs about $100 to train a cloud vision model, I think (not including labelling)? You can also try the API for free to see how well Google does at finding people, they have better off the shelf models than you can get publicly.

https://cloud.google.com/vision/automl/docs/

You can try exploiting other things. Is your scene static? Try using frame differences as a feature. If it's a fixed environment then you should get a boost when fine tuning a model, versus some general person detector. COCO pretrained models should be quite good at finding people out of the box.

I wrote my own labelling tool specifically for Yolo which you may find useful (ie you label your data and export to a train-ready format): https://github.com/jveitchmichaelis/deeplabel

People who are not experienced are usually terrible at tagging images. They're not consistent, they miss objects and they don't understand why it's an issue. It will be faster to pay an "expert" service like mechanical turk, or do it yourself.

Basically a lot of your questions are open research problems. How much data do you need? Not a clue. It depends how your model is failing, which is always worth checking anyway. Figure out what the model is bad at and try and improve it, it should be doable to figure out where that 25% is going.

You should do better with a model like Faster-RCNN or its ilk. AutoML will do something like this, and you can try Facebook’s Detectron2 toolkit, or the Tensorflow Object Detection API.

Detecting unique people is a hard problem, by the way (eg two people versus the same person detected twice). You're better off just using an established method like RFID tags for presence/absence.

Another sibling made a great point. Don't detect people, train a model to output the number of people in the frame. This is how ML is applied to camera trap data with animals. In your case you can reduce this to a binary classification problem - >= 2 people, positive output.
I think it's this: https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.g...

Page 4 and 9 have the technical definitions.

My off the cuff interpretation is that the rule would only cover convolutional neural nets that are trained to identify and determine the orientation of specific objects in geospatial imagery. If the neural net's input/output aren't wrapped in a GUI it sounds like they still might be OK to export without a license
I think you know the answers to your questions. You just choose to ignore them.
Flutter is trying to be Dart's Rails, and that is what will ultimately kill it, as the language is useless without Flutter.
Other countries/companies will thank for the economic opportunity.
>My wife was still reeling from an abusive and sexually exploitative relationship and trying to survive when she was tricked into making porn under the guise of auditioning for an off-camera job.

Of all the women who do porn, what proportion do you believe are doing it for similar reasons as your wife - last resort and survival, vs what proportion do you believe are doing it for the combination of fast/easy money + superficial fame + taboo thrills?

The former are sympathetic. The latter not so much.
Prior to this "rule", was it possible to break the law and get in trouble for doing nothing more than publishing source code to the world?

Has that now changed?

Is publishing personal code on GitHub "exporting"?
Should have worked. We'll fix that. Thanks!
The ethical argument for why everyone should have access to cryptography is a lot stronger than why everyone should have access to satellite imagery recognition algorithms.

Also, cryptography requires both sides to use the same algorithm, while companies don't need to use the same recognition algorithms.

It also helped, in the crypto case, that you could print some version of it on a T-shirt or mail it on a postcard. It looked like speech, while neural net parameters don't.

So the free speech case seems much weaker.
For even simpler and smaller, get a Nokia 130[1].

[1] https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-130
'Outdated' IT leaves NHS staff with 15 different computer logins
What's wrong with tables and what does styled list view mean?
No it doesn't. When a humam gets wronged by what "is" they can likely feel or imagine a better "ought".
Seems pretty narrowly targeted, probably similar to things like ITAR, quantum, and crypto - which already require regulatory disclosure. Probably just to make sure that US companies aren't doing Project Maven (or the like) for China. Currently, best I can tell, there's nothing in place to prevent such a "collaboration".
Hardly impressed with hot reloading, having done GUIs in Lisp, Smalltalk and Oberon.

Plus the competition is stepping up, with Swift UI, Xamarin, Jetpack Compose hot reload support.
I don't think you're the target market in that case. This phone would be for people who desperately want to reduce their phone usage but lack the willpower.

Not saying that's a large market, but I do think it exists. At the 350$ price point though it seems more like it would be for wealthier people looking to signal that they're part of a sort of "offline" movement.
Being able to give someone else orders, in this case telling them they aren't allowed to smoke, isn't freedom. It's the opposite.
The population studied in this case:

> Men and women from several villages in remote areas of Nicaragua who had either regular access to television, or very low television access, were studied for this research.
Can you point to some of that cooperation or legislation regarding it, that sounds quite interesting.
You just basically answered "because it is not illegal".
Xamarin and Qt also give me the same, with more useful industry programming languages.
Any live production app that was able to use this code base and build their own app finally? Wondering how easy it is for someone to take this production.
That's even worse. Impossible to change fingerprints if a malicious party has your biometrics.
Looks like it's very specific and targeted to military applications. Although the GUI requirement seems to make it a little too specific to be applicable.
In the US, at some point cryptography code was considered "munitions" and you needed permission to export it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
"If you were to Google how to make network requests on Android you would discover all kinds of different packages and documentation." — my experience with Android: I will find 10 totally different ways to do it, and mostly not working, and the one that works you realize that it's outdated.
It actually sounds far more narrow than the title implies?

> Under a new rule which goes into effect on Monday, companies that export certain types of geospatial imagery software from the United States must apply for a license to send it overseas except when it is being shipped to Canada.
In my experience, they are often young and at the beginning of their career. They are still medical doctors, not to take anything away from them, but I mostly rely on them for referrals to specialists as needed.

One Medical removes some friction from the overall system, which as a non-American I find incredibly frustrating.
There has been a lack of leadership in Australia for at least a generation. Since Rudd took office, politicians have been driven by polls and the media.

The current government is no exception. We need to do more to protect Australia's environment, including from climate change. We are letting the Great Barrier Reef wither away, and our land is burning.

The lack of leadership is particularly frustrating. Instead of developing and growing new sustainable industries that will be around when the world has de-carbonised the government is doubling down on coal. It is utter madness. We have lacked a cohesive energy policy for over a decade due to climate change being a political issue where sides have been divided. Its hard to believe, but in 2007 the collation under John Howard took a carbon emissions policy to the election. We have regressed in policy from that point.

Ultimately, a lot of the blame for all of this sits with the Greens. If they had been so blinded by purity and supported Rudd's carbon pollution reduction scheme. It would have been in place, and like the GST been settled. Instead they allowed it to become a political football. That plus Gillard's ineptness with the carbon tax has made this a toxic debate.

Talk is cheap, and the only thing that will change it is writing to your representative and letting them know. I strongly urge you to respectfully write to your MP and let them know they need to do better.
Thread: Computer science is a field which hasn't yet encountered consequences
Are there any good websites with turn by turn directions that are accessible on dumb phones?

I had a Nokia candy bar phone with 4G(!) which was reasonable if you wanted to win an argument using Wikipedia, but Maps was unusable because the ancient Opera browser couldn't cope. All I wanted was the ability to get the text directions between two places without having to load all the intervening javascript. Hacker News worked well, as did BBC news.

There are several modern "dumb" phones which are actually quite capable and have absurd battery life (I'd get a week plus out of that thing, with 4G on), but there are so few websites that provide no-frills output.
It's pretty much bragging rights. Or, put another way, it's an aesthetically pleasing signal to those around you that you're part of a movement trying to reduce screen consumption.

The organic foods industry has these sorts of seemingly niche products which are more expensive but become quite trendy because of what they represent for the customer and their peers. Not sure how well it applies here though.
I guess it all boils down to supply and demand. If the publisher can find editors that also knows how to program then kudos to them.

But isn’t the crux that if you can program, you can often land another job that pays much more than being an editor?

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What you describe looks like a Fairphone, and by choosing carefully what to install on it I think it'd be a good solution.
Embedding ads into flutter’s widget tree with admob_flutter
You can support .so extensions if you want, but it has to be secondary to a scripting language.

Most extensions don't need raw performance, but an editor needs those extensions.

An entry barrier as low as possible is needed to reach the critical mass of third-party extensions that turn an editor into something worthwhile.
Billing and the associated subscription models is a problem that has been largely solved, so there isn't much need to roll your own. Instead you can dive straight into the 'fun' parts of your project.

I used Laravel Spark + Stripe for my SaaS and it works great.

However.. The downside is that if major changes happen (e.g. The new SCA regulations) you could find the core modules used in a package such as the Laravel billing package need to be upgraded, so you have a domino effect where everything needs to be upgraded. We were left with a LOT of work as we had to upgrade Laravel core to a new version, which meant upgrading from Bootstrap 3 to 4 (a huge job).

I wouldn't change our initial approach as it allowed us to quickly get a product to market and see whether it was viable, but the reality is that we will be rebuilding the entire system from scratch in the future to get rid of the legacy inefficiencies.
Absolutely https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
Average Denuvo cracking time is now 75 days
It's hard to say without knowing more about the website. Some desktop features such as pepperflash were never ported to Android chrome however it's more likely a business decision to push mobile users to use their dedicated app.
We're in an early and explosive growth stage of AI where well-established statistical knowledge is having an unreasonable effect when combined with computing power. I've yet to see any AI platform that is mindbending vs doing basic math with a multivariate normal distribution. The eyewatering stuff is the number of Hz of computing power being thrown into simulating Go games, etc, etc.

Assuming that among 1.4 billion people there are a few good coder/statistician people and using supercomputers [0] as a rough proxy for available computing power, it isn't obvious the US is even going to inconvenience the Chinese military. Presumably they are going to have a parallel AI effort anyway given that they have been investing in the area.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500#Top_countries