skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re glossing away a lot of important details here with “phone that doesn’t do things”.

So, I’m very much in the market for what the Light Phone 2 is going for: not a phone that doesn’t do anything but make calls and text, but a phone with “the essentials”. The problem is that not everyone who wants such a phone has the same set of essentials.

The single biggest issue that I have with feature phones is that they lack a qwerty keyboard. I’ve tried a couple in the past few years, and I just can’t go back to texting on a numeric keypad. Texting today is very different from what it was in the 90s and early 2000s. So many conversations you would have today, you cannot meaningfully participate in with a numeric keypad. You find yourself immediately going back to the terseness that gave birth to the various forms of texting shorthand, because text input is so slow.

The second biggest issue is that I need a transit map. I live in NYC, and I’m not going to memorize all the different subway lines and stops and schedules. You can actually get Google Maps on a KaiOS phone, and it’s slow but it more or less works. Problem is, you’re still stuck with the numeric keypad. (You can use voice dictation via Google, but I don’t like using Google.)

Third, while I don’t need it often, I do sometimes need to use a ride-hailing app.

On top of all this, I don’t want a browser or social media apps or games or movies or music.

That’s just me, though. Someone else may want music, or a note taking app, or a calendar.

A lot of this stuff is on the roadmap for the Light Phone 2, but until it actually hits my set of essentials, it doesn’t work for me.
Depends on whether those sales would otherwise not happen, and on how much it costs to license, add, and remove Denuvo.

Also, don't forget that game reviews are relevant near release, and that is when Denuvo is still enabled which impacts performance.
If it's in America, it isn't a matter of not being able to afford it; we choose not to, instead prefering to waste it on military spending. Our country really could be great again if we chose to stop that madness.
It seems that as emotions become more subtle and deep, is is harder to express them.

Think of the love between an old couple and a bunch of newly weds who can’t stop repeating “I love you” to each other...eventually there seems to be a point where you don’t need to say it anymore.

I’ve had a similar experience to you with the death of a loved one. The grief was so deep and overwhelming that no action (not even crying) could express it properly.

So I’ve concluded that surface emotions are easily expressed and you need a master to really express the depths (in the form of art, poetry etc.)
Can we stop trying to place complex topics and people and positions onto a one-dimensional scale?
This is a shockingly uncompassionate perspective - is it satire?

Assuming it's genuine, it's also misguided. Almost no-one wants to be obese, alcoholic, etc - accessible healthcare will reduce the incidence of all of these, which in turn will reduce the externalities associated with them.

You also don't need further state control to discourage smoking, drinking, junk food, etc - taxation is the mechanism used globally to discourage undesirable behaviour.
The absolute state of public sector tech
It depends.

Here are three different examples that would meet your description, with very different answers:

1) The X community has exactly the same, or lower, crime rates than the entire nation. However, nationwide anti-X sentiment means that despite this, most convicted criminals are from the X community. This makes it look like the regions where the X community live are high-crime regions.

This is “accidentally racist”. Researchers know about this problem.

2) The X community is more prone to crime, and as this is purely an example, it just is and there’s no need to justify that.

Extra police in this scenario is not racist, though I suspect anyone who jumps right in and assumes it to be true about the world might well be racist themselves.

3) A confounding variable, such as income or education, means that members of the X community are more likely to commit crimes than the general population, albeit it at the same rate as the equivalent income/education/confounding sunset of the general population.

In this case, while it would not be racist to send in more police, it would totally be racist if politicians applied unequal effort to solve the confounding variable within the general population as compared specifically to group X.
from wikipedia's entry about denuvo :

However, technology website Ars Technica noted that most sales for major games happen within 30 days of release, and so publishers may consider Denuvo a success if it meant a game took significantly longer to be cracked
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Regarding light reflection on facial features and so on, it is worth noting that even _color film_ was already strongly biased towards light-skinned humans [1]

Also the argument that the group of people gathering, tagging etc the datasets, feeding them to algorithms and tweaking the algorithms is by definition truly diverse is .. well, have you looked at your average tech campus lately?

[1] https://petapixel.com/2015/09/19/heres-a-look-at-how-color-f...
> There is a pro-bono organization called SIMP (Statutory Implications for Male Predators)

Post a link to that or fuck off.
This was one of the stupidest parts of a fairly weak essay. Of course you can distinguish a wink from a twitch without asking, otherwise we wouldn't use winks for surreptitious communication.
Guile doesn't work on windows.
You can do minor stuffs in Vimscript without learning Vimscript at all. You can code by analogy from existing Vimscript codes.
Lawyers have made strong cases on both sides of the cryptography argument; probably they can on both sides of the satellite-imagery argument as well. Maps are the primary result of satellite imagery recognition and are a public good. Most covert activity visible on satellite imagery is environmental damage, which is often illegal and generally harms the public. Satellite image processing can be very useful for increasing agricultural production; restricting that to one country, or granting one country's companies an effective worldwide monopoly on increasing agricultural production, would be ethically unconscionable — in times of drought, it amounts to letting people starve instead of telling them how to raise adequate food.

But Bernstein's case didn't hinge on the likely consequences of strong cryptography being widely available; rather, he argued that he had a First Amendment right to publish his research.
They can feel or imagine an "ought", but the point of Hume is that they can't argue for it.
Here’s some inspiration from Avery Pennarun: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190216
Andromeda galaxy smudge shot with Google pixel 3
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You're missing the point - having these "essentials" shouldn't cost 350
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Actuaries employed by insurance companies are probably already better at this kind of analysis than he is, though.
Crows use cars to crack nuts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0
Check Airman is a company instructor pilot.

They check out other pilots and write procedures.
* you could include the product that's maximally different, the second most similar, you could exclude products within the same category, you could choose randomly and weight by conversion rate*

This is interesting. Has anyone tried that or knows of a website that uses this?
Can anyone illustrate this with current examples?

What financially or technologically significant exports are going to stop? How military or nonmilitary are they?
After reading a lot of comments about this, several of which said "there must be something to this if there are so many different views on why it is wrong", I think a better title would be "New Quantum Paradox Gratuitously Confuses Where Our Views of Reality Go Wrong".

I can't say anything about physics, but when people disagree on why something is inconsistent, that does not mean it's consistent and correct, it just means they are choosing different fixed points to reason from.

When someone (an author of the paper) keeps going "oh, you keep changing your view of why I am inconsistent", I think they are just trolling. The attitude seems to be, "if I confuse you, I win, and if I claim to be confused then you lose".
An Intel subsidiary was fined for exporting encryption between 2008 and 2011 without permission.

https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/all-articles/107-about-bis...
Unlike the space race, where Russia and the US were significantly ahead of everyone else, the field is far more level in AI. Arguably there will be areas where the US could even be behind in some areas.

Wonder what the real world impact of this will be. Not much, I expect.
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Agreed.

But if we’ve learned anything from the last 4 years it’s that “low quality lies” (which I’ll read as “obvious untruths”) presenting a simple message are fiendishly, fiendishly difficult to defend against when the truth is complex and unpalatable.

It’s an important job to be able to cope with lies, certainly (ideally without lying in turn). But it’s not easy.
Hello,

Yep, the site already uses a caching plugin (w3TotalCache) and it is configured with memcached at the backend. Unfortunately, even with this the site still makes a couple of DB calls with each page load, but nowhere near as many as without the caching. Maybe I'll shove varnish in front of it too for good measure :joy:
Thanks for the feedback. Can you provide me your browser version ? I will look into the logs.
I built CabinJS after I was frustrated with all existing solutions.

https://cabinjs.com
>> Mobile phones won't replace computers, but increasing penetration amongst the poorest in developing countries, and increasingly capable handsets in developed countries (and developing countries) will make them a colossal juggernaut. Many of the really big changes, especially social changes, will be caused by mobiles.

> This was already true in 2010, so it doesn't even count.

This definitely wasn't true in 2010. On June 1, 2010, Steve Jobs proclaimed that the post-PC era had arrived, and was promptly ridiculed for it by the industry and media. Massive social changes caused by mobile phones have only occurred this decade, as the gig economy has exploded and places like India have 10x'd the number of citizens with internet access.

>> For any definition of 'success', there will be more tech startups reaching that level in the 2010s than in the 2000s. For example, there will be more than four startups of Youtube/Facebook/Twitter/Zynga proportions.

> Wrong.

Huh? Of those 4, Facebook in 2009 was the most valuable at $10 billion. Now there are 20+ private unicorns with that valuation, as well as dozens more that have IPOd in the last few years. How is that prediction wrong in any way, shape, or form?

>> Hence, starting up will become a more attractive career option, though well-meaning family will still say "at least finish your degree first".

> Wrong.

>> An international deal, of the kind that was aimed for at Copenhagen, will be reached over the next five years, though it might not be far-reaching enough to limit warming to 2 degrees in the long-term. (Despite the failure of the Copenhagen talks, it appears that world leaders almost universally recognize the need to take action over man-made climate change, though the various political problems will remain hard problems). China may not be part of such a deal, though the US likely will. Environmental disasters will begin to increase through the decade, as will disasters that are probably not caused by anthropogenic global warming but will be blamed by it anyway; this will provoke more of a push for action.

> Wrong.

Again, this is correct. The US did enter the Paris Agreement, and has not actually formally withdrawn yet as it is not legally eligible to do so until November 2020. "Environmental disasters will begin to increase through the decade, as will disasters that are probably not caused by anthropogenic global warming but will be blamed by it anyway; this will provoke more of a push for action." is an especially cogent prediction.

>> China will not become a democracy, or even make moves in that direction. However the rule of law will strengthen, and some civil liberties will increase. Internet crackdowns will continue, and may increase in severity, and will still be rationalized by porn.

> I want to say the civil liberties situation in China is the same, but I don't know enough about China to comment on it.

Civil liberties have likely gotten worse, but the rule of law has indeed strengthened. Internet crackdowns being rationalized by porn is also correct, as seen in the UK and elsewhere.

As far as ChromeOS and video games go, maxsilver covered those pretty well already.
The thing is, this DRM stuff causes a lot of problems, like performance loss and even crashes. Therefore even honest buyers use the cracks, to get rid of it.

Some people even wait until the game appears DRM-free on GOG, because of this.
Check out deltachat, it uses autocrypt and pgp for e2ee, smtp for transport and has a UI based on signal. It is compatible with autocrypt-supporting e-mail clients like thunderbird
The sad thing about Python is that it shouldn't need to be interpreted. People don't use it for that reason. Remove one or two obscure meta-programming features that nobody uses (or shouldn't be using) and you could in principle remove GIL and make it JIT just as good as Javascript.

JS really shows what's possible in this field with some benchmarks even outperforming c++. This space of expressive yet fast languages is a gap that remains to be filled and will probably be by 2030, sadly it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation because you don't only need a good syntax to become popular, also a healthy ecosystem around it. What we will see is probably not any new language but rather that existing languages from both sides of the spectrum converge more towards the middle ground.
This is literally the first comment on Hacker News I've seen that seems to actually understand the implications of decentralization. It's apparent to me that many people who are trying to profit on it don't actually understand why decentralization is desirable for some people. It's a foreign concept to many that there are motivations other than financial gain. Many attempts to "innovate" with Bitcoin are constantly trying to do things that are already solved with centralized systems, and end up working around decentralization.

> Startups will play a marginal role at best because their ultimate aim of monopolization flies in the face of what Bitcoin was designed to do.

I'd go further with this and say that decentralization is an active impediment to startups trying to create monopolies in the crypto space.

I think there's still room for development, but it will be hard for it to be motivated by profit. Particularly, a better-executed namecoin could be revolutionary if people started building infrastructure around it (i.e. as usernames, or a DNS replacement).
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Very happy with Coralogix. We use the service on many of our Heroku dynos.
Oh, I'm quite hopeful for Elon. The thing is, for space exploration, and especially for Elon, it is much more likely that the first attempt will result in a crash.

But that's just how it's done, and the necessary first step. To me, that's Elon being successful.
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your simpler code is at least theoretically less efficient - you get an int to size_t (unsigned long long) conversion twice (once when comparing with size() and once when accessing the vec) and you compare to the size every time. This looks like it is irrelevant in release mode, but it may end up having an effect on your debug performance which is important in many domains.

You would have to write

for(std::size_t i = 0, N = vec.size(); i < N; i++)
// do something with vec[i]

instead if you still insist in raw loops.

But if you look at https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/8JwJbw, you will notice that the range-based loop is actually the one which will produce the smaller code which may translate into more efficiency, and is also more readable.
So why not remove the DRM after the first week then?
There will still be a need for a non compiled language as we might have to change stuff on the fly.
Don’t forget about hyped up kids, they spend months posting to forums and Reddit about how (new game) will be the best thing ever. Then once they get a chance to play it are disappointed since it is impossible to live up to the expectations they have built up in their mind, then immediately move on to the next big thing.

Before it’s cracked they will probably buy it because of how excited they are and FOMO
Ask HN: What does “prepare for cyber attacks” mean in context of Middle East?
We struck the head of the Iran Revolutionary Guard (and other things). The papers say brace for cyber warfare.

To the layman, what should one worry about?
>In other words, a worker is richer if they can buy more and better stuff even without any rise in their wage.

I don't see everyday life improving several billion times from 1970 even though the number of switches I control in my laptop are several billion times (at least) larger than the number of switches that existed in the world in 1970.
seconded, it was well written
It seems strangely ambiguous:

"(geospatial imagery) and (point clouds)" or "geospatial (imagery and point clouds)"?

Point 4 requires the use of geospatial imagery, so any point-cloud-only product would be exempt, it seems?

The document doesn't define "geospatial imagery", but that could surely include hobby and commercial drone footage of the ground. Perhaps even ordinary photography from security cameras that have user-define object identification features? That would make it really quite broad.

But all we need to do is not normalize color, and then everything's exempt!
I suspect that at least 99.9% of PC game buyers don't even know whether a game has something like Denuvo or not.
Both of which are now practically deaf on mobile. Flutter comes from Google, and while that doesn't guarantee it'll live, at least it has better potential.
The CTF page seems to have been taken down, unfortunately. The timing of the CTF seems to have been a bit unfortunate :(
Remote code execution (RCE) flaw in mongo-express
From the linked article:

> Mixmax, the powerful analytics, automation, and enhancement platform for your outbound communications.

So, they’re not really looking to reinvent e-mail. They’re looking to reinvent marketing e-mail. Spam, basically.
"doesn't handle change robustly" is a good point. Doctorow doesn't just lack a good headline, he fails to really make this point. Data bias and the context-free nature of text auto-suggest are worth discussing, though.
Sounds like something straight out of Terminator movies. I think they are afraid this technology will get out of hand in the near future and I can't really blame them. I remember that video with the Google Assistant making a hair dresser appointment. Pretty scary stuff
The price is $50 for what I’ve seen there. And that would still include a pretty sweet margin.

Can’t imagine who’s buying it for $350. Either fuck you money or virtue signaling?
>Wonder what the real world impact of this will be. Not much, I expect.

Here's a thought experiment I use to imagine the impact of AI:

Imagine you've got a million people at your disposal. At zero cost and with no downtime, these people can remotely operate robots, understand text, interact using natural language, or classify objects in images, all with human-level intelligence and accuracy. Now what?

Obviously there are areas where AI can outperform humans, like mechanical accuracy and mathematical computation. But in general, I find this experiment works pretty well.
I wonder if they do but they cannot name it.
I guess these guys will be affected: https://www.planet.com/
Annoying bugs being patched is another reason to buy. Often cannot get the latest version without buying retail.
24B/month is less than 10k/second.

10k qps is certainly not a dev/test instance, but if you were to log all RPCs including database lookups, you could easily get there with even just 100-ish user-facing requests per second.
Why?

I’m a youth firearms instructor - are you saying that any app that contains so much as an icon shaped like a gun is inappropriate for children?
macOS 10.13, FF 71.0. Working now.
It more likely has to do with NORAD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Aerospace_Defen...
Had to build a runway for one take-off to get this private jet back in the air in 1983: https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/humanintere...
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> I live in NYC, and I’m not going to memorize all the different subway lines and stops and schedules.

How long have you lived in the city? I lived there before smartphones and this is basically what people did.
Feature. <p> tags can function as containers for text and other elements, and VS Code can't distinguish between <p>, with the special handling, and <div>, without it.

Okay, to be fair, that does sound like a bug.
All of the Fry's locations in Oregon had a similar feel to other commenters. The one thing I'd like to add: many of the overhead lights were off. Like, at random. My best guess is direction from the top to save on electricity costs. At first I thought they were turned off in areas without merchandise, but ended up finding what I was looking for in those dark nooks and crannies. The lighting made the area look oppressive, and the "As Seen On TV" just gave it an acerbic vibe. The employees actively walked away when I approached them asking where things were, and the one I finally cornered (after chasing him to the checkout counter) had no idea where their electrical tape was. Verrrrry sad :/
No it isn't. Even in the UK the much vaunted GP will reject any health initiatives unless they help improve their bottom line. And the initiatives are from the NHS and are free!
American Petroleum Institute launched a MM dollar campaign against climate facts
This is pretty bad. Or good depending on your perspective.

I'm based in Australia, and we started playing today with analysis of geospatial imagery for bush fire imagery (because the country is on fire).

ECCN0D521No.1 from https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.g... covers pretty much everything I'm doing.

I guess if I want to look at the positive side, it means I don't have to compete with any US vendors if I want to sell my work.
I suspect that number is far lower... like 95%

PC Gaming may be mainstream now but in its nerdier days awareness of cracking was quite high... and I imagine it still is among demographics that cannot afford to plunk down $60 for the latest whatever-they-want
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If anything, insiders usually leak pre-release builds so crackers can start early.

Denuvo state themselves that it only protects for certain period not infinitely so probably it is just hackers not releasing cracks immediately due to multiple possible reasons:

1) legal action if published got his 2-3 months when sales are at peak they are less likely to go after the crackers

2) games are often released very buggy thanks to online
patching available, so they just wait for games to stabilize as not to update cracks weekly

3) less demand for cracks due to steam and sales, I feel like people wait for sales or prices to drop off in general
It doesn't matter TBH. As long as the DRAM slows down everyone, it would just be part of the game experience then.
None of the convnets are Gaussian. It was one of the big reasons convnets came to be at all, to model highly kurtotic distributions like natural images.

Chinese convnet research is absolutely state of the art already, indeed.