skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the comments here are complaining about trash software that exists on other phones that isn't removable. The difference here is that it isn't just garbage ware that might have vulnerabilities like the stuff Samsung puts on its phone, this is actively malicious.

This especially sucks because the people who can't afford a good phone will pay not only in having a poorer user experience but they'll have their financial and social media information stolen as soon as its used on these devices.

That means the people who can least afford (via both time and money) to deal with identity theft will be the ones hit the hardest.
Why the US Government Buys Overpriced Services from McKinsey
I'm constantly turning my Netflix profile language to Korean so that I can get Korean subtitles for my wife. It's an annoying workaround, but it often works.
WebDAV sync would be great. There are plenty of options like NextCloud, which is self-hostable. Sync it to plain text files.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tv-funhouse-se...
I’ve met plenty of folks who didn’t routinely reflect on where they were, how they felt about it, etc. juxtaposed against their larger goals. I think setting that regular check in is important I think. Having free will is a burden heh.
This is really cool, and I like this space. I'm currently looking at starting a company around implementing board games online.
Automatic musical instrument detection with Attention
"Open Source" specifically was coined precisely because there was little or no documented previous use of the term. They wanted something that would mean roughly the same as "Free Software" but possible to protect with a trademark and owned by an industry association. (Not the FSF.)
> People like the author are unwilling to see how focusing on the "truth" of trite, inconsequential "facts" like whether Trump's inauguration was the biggest ever is pointless when compared to issues that really affect people.

I believe the notion is that if people are willing to commit themselves to boldfaced, objectively false (by any measure) lies, that's exceptionally strong evidence about their honesty and sincerity regarding more complex topics--topics that are much more difficult to pin down with simple facts.

But you're right--the constant stream of fact checking at this point is just exhausting and pointless and merely serves to drive ad revenue. Hugo Chavez fairly won election after election with endless rivers of rhetoric and excuses every bit as bombastic as Trump's. Indeed, Chavez had his own TV program during his presidency, something Trump can only approximate. I'll bet that most Venezuelan voters never truly believed most of what Chavez said; they just didn't care. He embodied a fantasy to which they had wedded themselves. Charismatic leaders do that, especially populist ones.

At some point the aggregated, revealed concerns of the body politic shift from reality (facts, hard-nosed politicking, etc) to fantasy. And I don't mean fantasy as in not objective--the life of every community is a reflection of various narratives. I mean fantasy as in the rules for decision making are intrinsically different; consequences become completely divorced from causation. America seems to have made that shift.
This podcast[0] is a pretty good summary, and links to the actual paper.

[0] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-can-uber-teach-us-about...
I wonder if Boeing could have edited the documents before passing them on the authorities, or even "losing" some emails, if there was something really incriminating.
I'm not denying the report is clear, as that wasn't written by MIT, but an independent 3rd party. The FAQ is written by MIT and I believe the first sentence is not clear to someone who isn't familiar with the history. The FAQ should stand on its own without the report or else what good is it.
Game development mostly relies on getting creative stuff implemented fast, not good. And if it works then it works, why spend any more time on it if you can implement even more cool ideas (or release it).

And Minecraft is one of the best examples for a game that is still paying for such a development style.
The traffic in at least Bogotá does make riding a motorcycle extremely appealing here.

Someone told me Bogotá (population 7.5 million) sees 8 motorcycle deaths per day.
Fired Boeing CEO Will Receive More Than $60M
The lesson I'm taking away from this is that if you're going to go through the steps of a M&A process, make sure there's something in it for you besides just the check at the end of the process.

Off the top of my head, having a very detailed understanding of your burn rate and assets should be useful information for any business. Maybe you have some unprofitable projects, or maybe just for applying for a business loan.

When we take risks we try to account for Murphy's law. If you've looked at things like unpaid bills and back taxes, maybe the confidence intervals get a little better?
We spoke with Munchery co-founder Tri Tran about this on a recent podcast.

https://youtu.be/A6-VDuDfgL4
Ask HN: What is your favorite book written before 1900?
Interesting theory but those of us on planet Earth are dealing with plenty of fires started by lightning.
> It is the doomsday scenario actually happening in its early phase. It's too late to avoid it, it's happening, now the best we can do is slow it down and try to reverse course.

You are reinforcing his point by making these silly exaggerated claims of doomsday scenarios. Nearly 50 years ago, the 1974-1975 bush fires burnt 95 million hectares, which is an order of magnitude bigger than the 10.7 million burnt so far in 2019-2020. Epic bush fires have been regularly occurring in Australia for a very long time, well before the industrial revolution.

Also note that some of these fires were started by arsonists, which is obviously not climate related.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/07/australia/australia-fires....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia
BareMetrics MRR is public, check it out:

https://demo.baremetrics.com/#start_date=2019-01-01&end_date...

20% growth last year or 1.7% per month. That's considered slow for a SaaS. That's likely what's driving the 3.7x multiple.
I'm talking about what should be the case, i.e. what is a moral right or duty. Legal concerns just add extra complication that are tangential to my claims.
Microsoft thought Java was a good idea in that they liked the JVM a lot, but the language itself they saw as flawed and missing key features that would make it a truly modern language, in particular they heavily disagreed with Sun's approach to FFI (foreign function interface) [Java's slow, laborious efforts eventually building JNI, the Java Native Interface], because of their many years of experience for better and worse with COM (component object model).

J++ was never meant to be "Java", and never technically was even in branding, it was essentially a second language (that Microsoft saw at the time as C++ is to C, it was to Java, and that's very clearly represented in that brand name) that also targeted the Microsoft version of the JVM, and used a couple Microsoft-specific escape hatches for FFI and COM.

(So it absolutely was an "embrace and extend", but it wasn't of the Java language itself so much as it was the JVM that Microsoft wanted to embrace and extend that seemed to fright Sun so badly. That's probably why so much of the legal drama and the consequent blows to the rest of the Java ecosystem at the time was Sun withdrawing JVM licenses from just about everyone as a part of that battle. Originally Sun seemed rather happy licensing the JVM to whoever wanted to implement it, which is why Microsoft had a JVM in the first place, thinking controlling the Java language was enough. Sun worked to put that genie back in the bottle and move everyone back to mostly a single JVM again. There's no lack of irony in the exact same battle playing out between Oracle and Google decades later in the battle of Dalvik [Google's JVM] and Android.)

It wasn't that Sun didn't want Microsoft using Java, they didn't want Microsoft using the JVM any longer, and without a license to build their own JVM, J++ wouldn't run on any other JVM and wasn't a useful language.

When Microsoft lost their JVM they decided to start from scratch, moved the J++ team (including and particularly Anders Hejlsberg, C# lead) to a new VM that they could control from top to bottom (including its FFI mechanics), and much of what had directly been the J++ team used what they learned from the whole mess to create C#.
Germany needs 500k new immigrants every year
And Beat and Didi. But the reputation system on Uber is better, both for drivers and for riders. I'm sad to see it go.
You mean AG Barr, whose father hired Epstein as a 20-year-old college dropout to teach calculus and physics at a prestigious prep school? https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-...
A giant space walrus is not in question. What is in question is why video showing a suicide was deleted.

Do you have any explanation for that?
I would agree that the armchair class are usually not sophisticated enough to avoid becoming someone's pawns. It's easier to swallow when you're a pawn for reformists.
Has that been studied? A more obvious explanation is that most men don't want to sign up for a career of being regularly (if mostly tacitly) thought of as being pedophiles. It's an awful situation, but I certainly wouldn't recommend this profession for men.

If you doubt this, read some of the (fairly heartbreaking) tales of single fathers of small children. Among other things, they have great difficulty getting their friends' kids to come over for play dates, etc.
Well, the law firm in this case is basically an extension of MIT's in-house counsel. MIT has a long, long history with them, including whistleblower intimidation and other cover-ups.
More on Underdog Pharma: https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/11/an-interview-wit...

"We've taken a well-known and extremely safe compound, and have created novel derivatives that can specifically target the toxic biomolecule that drives the development of atherosclerosis, the cause of most heart attacks and strokes."

I'm excited for this one. Seems like a reasonable possibility for success addressing a huge killer.
> it's hard to shake the impression that the majority of our bloated military budget is a federal make-work jobs program

The majority of it is precisely that. It's the only jobs & wealth redistribution program Republicans are willing to fund (though they never call it that). Pity it's so inefficient for that purpose.
The main difference is that Screentop runs in a web browser. To start a group play session, you can just send someone a URL and there's no need for everyone to purchase / install / setup TTS.
Python was created before json existed, and yet: https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html

It's not a hard rule, sometimes things do end up in the standard library.
I feel like this has been a common question on other fora like Reddit, Stack Exchange, and Quora.

You can probably find a few of them with

https://www.google.com/search?q=if+you+were+transported+back...

although I'm sure there are more out there!
Uber is extremely popular with the upper classes here. I doubt all the apps could be illegal for very long.
That's pretty interesting, my only experience of the sort was the sponsor (DARPA) visiting the academic's ocean-overlooking mansion (with two teslas in the garage) with very nice hors d'ouvres. Of course this academic was very well known for owning a yacht and doing "experiments" on the yacht (to be fair the project I was on used the results of one of those experiments).

To be fair, my entire life story has been rather topsy turvy in many ways (went to an undergrad with more grad students, went to a grad school with no undergrads).
Because power differentials do not invalidate consent? Power differentials do not indicate coercion and people are fully capable of consenting even in the presence of power differentials. We've gotten to the point where we equate potential for abuse with abuse. Its a little ridiculous.
> then tech monetized them

I don't know what they intended to convey - that anyone in tech==evil.

Imagine the headline that puts journalism through a similar purity test: "then the journalists monetized them". They'd have you banned on social media
Bonham, Moon, Starr -- and Peart -- all above Max Roach?

Umm, okay.
English process of buying a house is an equivalent of 5 seconds film thst is being played in slow-mo for 20 hours. Again, England has some very odd land nad property ownership types thst simply don't exist anywhere else in the world and usually complicate the process a lot. Regardless of it, the lawyer are alway the winners on this one.
> She was forced out because it was against company policy

> No one was forced out
>The ethnically targeted nature of the holocaust is the main claim to 'worst of the worst' status, but honestly it isn't obvious to me that a dead Jew is more horrific than a dead anyone else. They are both pretty bad.

What made the holocaust particularly heinous, apart from the ethnic cleansing and antisemitism (the latter of which was not entirely uncommon in Western culture, unfortunately) was the industrial scale and effort applied to it. The Nazis weren't just killing Jews, which would have been bad enough, they set up (possibly the first ever) large scale automated data collection and processing network using IBM tabulators to efficiently process census data and find the Jews to kill, as well as organize and correlate the resources, personnel and urban infrastructure to be able to kill them by the trainload, with the eventual goal of killing every single Jew in Europe.

While it is true that other groups were targeted by the Nazis, the holocaust was still in a class of evil all of its own. It's one of the events that led to the coining of the word "genocide," after all.
Hi! How do you treat multiple applications to your Backend roles, given you have so many? If I get turned away from one, will I be penalised if I apply to another Backend position the following day? And are these positions hiring all year round? They've been up for quite a while.
When was Sun close to collapsing? I want to learn more about this history.
It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.
> You can see Hawking surrounded by women on the island here:

I assumed from the description this was going to look like Stephen Hawking at the Playboy Mansion, but instead it's him at a bbq with two middle aged men and two middle aged women, and him in a submarine with a woman whose back is to the camera so you can't tell her age apart from not being gray-haired.
Artificial Intelligence Makes Bad Medicine Even Worse
I don’t know what happened, but do find it very odd cctv was wiped, and is not recoverable.
Mercifully, I've avoided any conversations like the Season 1 finale, but I think we all laughed because we recall some absolutely ridiculous rabbit hole we went down at some point. Once in a while you learn something surprising (which just reinforces the behavior), but mostly you just feel foolish. Especially if you get caught doing it.
The author uses "the lotus" to refer to everyone who is working in tech that isn't running their own start up. By suggestion such people are incapable of introspection, at best you are using that as shortcut to dismiss anyone who isn't a founder as just a sheep.

That's not introspective. That's shallow and condescending, like the author is doing.
He actually wrote a book about those travels:

https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Rider-Travels-Healing-Road/dp/1...
> This achievement easily tops the previous record high of $76.1 billion for shares of Ford in 1999, according to data from the Center for Research in Security Prices.

Worth noting that Ford went on to fall from $35/share in 1999 to less than $5/share in 2009, a multi-year, grinding decline of over 80%. It did hold up pretty well during the '00 recession before imploding. The consumer is always the last to get the economic memo.
That’s a needless distinction for the vast majority of users. I imagine anything is removable with enough domain knowledge and the right equipment.
You greatly overestimate the competency of the modern bureaucracy if your best evidence is presenting a series of lapses as a well executed conspiracy. You cannot honestly use the phrase ‘statistically implausible’ because you most likely have no statistics nor idea how often such lapses occur. You’re trying to dress up a weak theory with much more rigor than is actually present.
I don't even think I disagree with the premise, but gosh this is poorly written and hard to read.
"needs"
I would assume the "engineers vs accounts" is due to the output not being intended for the coders, but the managers. I.e. you only have accounts for the managers, but you price based on how large a team they are monitoring.

(This is just a guess, I have no connection to haystack)
> They were supposed to check him every 30m yet they didn't check him for hours exactly when he killed himself.

"Hours" means at least 4x longer than the normal period Epstein would have waited for the guards check in on him. Even at the 45 minute point it would be clear to Epstein that the guards were late.

Basic logic would dictate that a guy desiring to commit suicide would make an attempt exactly when it seemed likely to him the guards weren't going to show up for awhile.

So we have two options-- either Epstein was intent on committing suicide (in which case the timing is unremarkable) or he wasn't (in which case the timing is highly suspect). Given that we don't know Epstein's state of mind, and as you point out we don't have much of anything as corroborating evidence, we cannot make heads or tails of the timing. And this is the problem with conspiracy theories. It's simply too tempting to overlook that and jump to the branch that adds more intrigue to the conspiracy.

I find it useful to build a simple gate before jumping to unlock further contemplation. For example, perhaps I read about a statement from a guard claiming they were told not to check on Epstein during that time. Or even a report of some suspicious activity or event at the location that happened around the same time the regular checking procedure got interrupted. Having that gate there ensures that I don't accidentally let unrelated yet intriguing facts fill in for the corroborating evidence I desire.
PayPal Complicit in Fraud
I received an email that somebody had sent me $10 via PayPal. By the time I noticed this email there was also another email saying that the same person was disputing the $10 charge.

I logged into my PayPal account (which I haven’t used it in like 10 years, who the hell uses PayPal in 2019) to see if this had actually happened. It had.

PayPal had a dispute resolution page where it asked me to select one of the options representing the situation. None of the options were valid. The real story was of course that I did not engage in any business with this person, and therefore was of no obligation to perform any actions of any kind. I sent in a support request and an email, both of which were ignored by PayPal.

Fast forward two weeks and I just received an email from PayPal saying that the $10 was taken from my account, and I was also being charged a $20 chargeback fee.

This whole entire scenario happened to a friend of mine in the same timeframe. I think that PayPal is engaged in some kind of monstrous scam to collect $20 fees from all of their inactive customers.

*

* all this in my personal opinion
Are you saying Donald Trump work with James Comey's daughter Maurene Comey (the assistant prosecutor for the Epstein's case) to destroy the suicide video?
In my experience (lived in Bogotá for over a year, visit regularly) the taxis there are completely safe. I hailed taxis on the street all the time, never with any issues. I've also personally never met anyone in Bogotá who has been afraid to take taxis.

That said, I'm going to Bogotá at the end of the month and it is annoying to see there won't be Uber available. It is pretty convenient, just for ordering with the app, the cashless aspect etc, and was a great extra option.
I don't understand how "it would be very different" if other companies were to just spring "up to fill the void."

Doesn't this phenomenon merely indicate that some market forces believe that the industry Facebook works within has potential for more profits than are currently being extracted?
There's no malware here that I can see, simply an auto-update mechanism that could theoretically be abused, like every auto-update mechanism (Chrome, Windows 10..)
Show HN: Ficklepickle: Golang pickling; compress/encrypt; in-mem/file/db/TCP
Where I live, weed isn't legal so there isn't much opportunity to reliably acquire different strains to experiment.

Maybe I just haven't come across the right kind. Thanks for the tip!
The judge ordered them to stop operating.
Bittersweet?
"Hobnob with the billionaire global elite" was a core part of Epstein's pitch to academics to launder his reputation.

https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-inte...
I completely agree with you on slack for open-source projects. Especially with Mattermost being so good, there’s no good reason for a project to stick to Slack.
> The chances of this happening on a high profile case are infinitesimally small

Even if they are ([citation needed] on the claim that the high profile nature of the case decreases the odds of mechanical accident), infinitesimally small events can still happen once. The fact they happened at a time most inconvenient for holding a wealthy man accountable doesn't change the nature of probability.
Neil Peart, Drummer for Rush, Dies at 67
Why Hubble? The Hale telescope was built 1949 and is still used
Heh, it's funny you say that. I just broke my phone and had to go get a new one. I was holding out for the PinePhone/Librem 5 to be useful enough that I wouldn't need another Android device.

The cheapest device that I trusted was the Pixel 3a, and that's because I can cleanly install GrapheneOS and not have google play install. That was $400. It was very tempting to get a $100 phone, but this was my exact worry.
Thermodynamics is only involved at the simplest levels. Hunger and satiation are regulated primarily with leptin, not thermodynamics. Fat storage is controlled primarily with insulin which is itself regulated by various endocrine system components. Thermodynamics is only involved at a level far below complex systems control dynamics.
This is how the late woman was always mentioned in press coverage. That they chose to never formalize their relationship was considered a big part of that relationship.
Use LittleSnitch, Luke!
I think many of us would be happy for a paragraph on EdDSA!
I'm not so optimist. Anyway, this will get flagged soon.
You're wrong. https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-tls-post-quantum-experiment/
Already do. It's called a cellphone with a smallish screen. Basically what you do is not configure email etc and just install a bunch of texting apps. Then you simply don't use the web browser etc because you know the thing is now just a tool and no longer a toy.
I must agree that the institute (i.e. the faculty and staff) mostly consider students a nuisance unless they are interested in research. But I think it's been and continues to be a net positive for the planet. And if most students HTFP (or claim to) there's a solid group -- even a majority? -- who love it.

I admit I was one of the lucky ones for whom it was an almost perfect environment. But even as an undergraduate I had no illusion that I was there to "attend school". I was there to learn AND do.

I am really soory if it screwed you. I have friends who had that experience.
> And Minecraft is one of the best examples for a game that is still paying for such a development style.

But most games aren't in continuous development to the extent Minecraft is