skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love using Red Moon and really appreciate that it's on F-Droid. Thank you!
New Clues about ‘Ambigram’ Viruses with Strange Reversible Genes
The video talks about "are two songs necessarily the same melody" for subtle differences. Thanks the complete joke that was the Dark Horse lawsuit, there's a pretty good chance that: the Dark Horse precedent will have to be overturned, or music copyright (in this form) will end.

This is brilliant.
Reminder: US intelligence lies. They are not unique in this but it's worth repeating.

They might be right about Huawei or they might not, either way saying "we totally have proof!" without providing proof is effectively meaningless.
I'd rather be an American spied on by American secret agencies, than a citizen of China spied on by China.

However, as a citizen and resident of America I'd rather be spied on by China, because it's a lot easier for my own government to make trouble for me.
ADS-B isn't a weather product, is it? It tells you where other planes are, it does not tell you about cloud layers, winds-aloft, or other meteorological data. Unless I'm incredibly mistaken.

SXM carries this (along with a ton of other products) in their stream, alongside the audio channels that most people know. Their agricultural products, aviation products, stock-market feed, fuel-price data, and more, are valuable to various markets who buy specialized displays with the receivers integrated into them.
I wonder why the self-driving car hype folks don’t simply lobby to make more trains.

(I mean the ones who have been successfully marketed to here, not the marketers).
Not sure what to think of this. SoundCloud has run its course and should just die, leaving space for a new player. There are some around but they can't gain critical traction due to the stickiness of SoundCloud despite having a product which has increasingly gotten worse over time.

For an audio platform, the audio quality is subpar. Terrible discovery. Too many bots & marketing-spammers. No direct monetization scheme for artists. Terrible mobile app (at least on iOS). etc.
loading the website from referral data in a frame might not be too smart... I could poison those referral headers with some exploit loolkit and boom, you expose your users to a lot of BS...

Example: https://simpleanalytics.com/simpleanalytics.com/referrers/fa...
didn't know it played starcraft
It's been awhile since I tried it, but isn't it n+1 presses to dial n? So you can dial 0 with one click.
I think it he means, using your normal bedroom where you sleep as an office.

Spare bedroom that is an office, is basically your office.
First, this is going to be my first USB device. Second, I plan to put some more complex functionality. I intend it to be my last keyboard so I want to be able to map every key however I want (the whole point of having my own controller). I also want it to have built-in steno which is much more than just matrix scanning.

While I could achieve all of that with OS driver and plover the sad reality is that I am unable to install my own software on my corporate PC and I would like to have consistent environment at my home and office.
Or they develop entirely different mechanism? I don’t see why the visual center of the brain has to be involved at all.
This reminds me of the crypto currency startups that claimed crypto currency would help people in impoverished countries find financial freedom away from their local banks, when in reality these predatory companies just wanted to use poor people's desperation to sell them crypto.

I'm automatically skeptical of any vc-funded startup that claims it's going to help impoverished people, including those funded by Y Combinator.
This is great, but the arguments about how this is Actually Very Practical And Not At All Just A Fun Concept are laughable.
Be careful with those. Their ink is erasable because of the heat generated by friction (hence the name), which also mean content can be erased by other heat sources or in some situation like a notebook put in a car parked under the sun in summer. Moreover, doesn't seems super durable, so for notes that much be keep for long time, it is also not the best solution.
Very glad to hear that! Now that I know what is going on, I check the console whenever the request doesn't appear in Network tab, but it is very unintuitive. Keep up the good work!
Wealthfront passes $20bn mark with 'break things but make it happen' approach
How do you feel about all local news channels, all radio stations, and all weather websites using freely available NOAA data as part of their income-producing content? (Or maybe there is some special thing you know of where those outlets have to pay and SXM gets it for free?)
Isn't this just a "...but, I have nothing to hide" argument?

The values of the regimes in control are transient and ever changing. You might be okay with it right now - but maybe not in the near future.
I am creating a new block-based CMS Here's the vision
Oooh, I might have to check out that WKHR! I get WAHS over the air here, it's likewise a high school with a bunch of music programs throughout the day. No screaming ads, just the occasional PSA, and the DJs genuinely care about the music. It's a breath of fresh air.
Are you fellow Restonite? If so, "Hi!"

RTC and the current major development is an interesting case... RTC predates the expansion of the subway system, so drive-to urbanism was, as you suggest, a reasonable option given other constraints.

Now that the Metro is (almost) expanded past Reston to the airport, there is (was?) an opportunity to build a true human-scale urban environment (at least within the designated development area, roughly between Sunrise and Sunset Rds and just east of Whiele to just west of RTC).

However, that's not what we're seeing. Developers are dropping absolutely massive buildings (several blocks square) with little in the way to pedestrian access. The new complex on the north side of Weihle Station is NOT accessible by foot - you have to cross 8 lanes of traffic coming from the east, and if you "win" that game of Frogger, it's not intuitive how to access the new complex - it's a disjointed mess, at least visually.

The new development south of RTC (Halley Rise, where my office is located) isn't any better. The new Wegmans building doesn't align with existing roads and is several blocks wide. Getting from Halley Rise to RTC requires another game of Frogger across the Reston Parkway bridge (at which point, you have to cross the parking lots at Bechtel and Microsoft).

It's really frustrating as a resident and worker in the area. It seems the real problem is the cost of legal/political approval for development is so high that it only makes sense to do giant buildings that don't work at a human scale. There's no mix of building sizes/uses - it's just whatever the developer thinks will be most profitable today, with little regard for future evolution (short of tear down and rebuild the whole thing in 20 years).
How likely is Uber to kit their entire fleet out with snow tires in winter? That’s an easy example of something a lot of private owners do for safety during the winter. I did that so I could drive to snowed-in trailheads. What about chaining up? And how will the self-driving cab handle getting stuck in the snow? Will there be sand available?
The very existence of personal transportation in the form of current size vehicles works against "walkability". It is clear one cannot have both.
> But it insist of using AFP+ as its Filesystem.

(Assuming you mean APFS) Not true. I have Openmediavault running on my raspberry pi 4 and the two drives i use for dual-backup are both ext4. (can really recommend RPI4+OMV for time machine btw)
I thought so too, but explicitly pointing out eyestrain and sleepiness got me confused.
Exactly, I love their recommendations based on my likes, love The Upload section. I wonder what algorithms they use. They are pretty good.
In fact, the only relationship that virus had with Spain is that the press was not censored as in the other European countries of that time (because of their involvement in the Great War).
Given they’ve reached $50k run rate in under a year I would suggest the answer is: it’s big enough.

VCs obsess over TAM but it’s not the most important thing if you’re not playing that game.
While it's true the Dow doesn't take into account market cap because it is a price weighted index, it is not true that removing a $5 security and adding a $105 one jumps the index $100 in value.

Every index has a divisor, which acts to preserve the return. The general calculation for an index level is Level=MCAP/Divisor. With the Dow, the MCAP is simply the sum of the prices instead of the sum of all MCAPS for the individual securities. When you drop one security and add another, the divisor is calculated such that it offsets the change in MCAP. In this way, when the index opens the next day it opens at the exact same level as the previous close and then the real time feeds kick in and update based on the gap up/down of each security in the Dow. The same basic logic applies to all top level indices. The calc changes for gross/net returns, currency variants, hedge calcs, etc. But the same principal applies that there must be a way to preserve the day over day return so that adding and removing securities doesn't throw off the actual index levels and returns.

Your 401k and other investment accounts that report performance do the same thing behind the scenes - particularly 401k. With a 401k you are consistently adding money to your investment pool and placing small trades to obtain more shares of a pool of securities. This influx of money doesn't artificially inflate your personal return for the year because the way the calculation is done is very similar under the hood to how an index is calculated.
You're not misunderstanding. Taylor is arguing, from a consequentialist perspective, that trying to evaluate the consequences of speaking counterintuitively leads to bad outcomes and so we shouldn't do it. This is a consequentialist argument, but a bit of an ironic one!

My post is responding by saying that it's important to have some situations where you can speak fully freely, but there are also times when you really do need to consider what might happen in response to your words.
Spotify has solid user growth, and just invested heavily in the podcast ecosystem. Also they just reintroduced 3-month trials for their subscriptions which slows conversion and therefore revenue growth. Of all the tech companies out there, I think Spotify ranks among the more solid ones.
Even my engineer colleagues still operate under the impression that Tesla Autopilot == Self-Driving. One of the dangerous things, to me, is a combination of PR and user experience. The PR/advertisement creates the impression (directly or indirectly) that a Tesla drives itself, and the technology enforces the sentiment by working well 'most' of the time. This article just enforces this. The driver killed was an engineer, who noted that Tesla's auto-pilot would veer into danger (in the spot he was killed), filed a report/complaint, yet still, had enough confidence in the tech to read a quick text.
The last chapter is quite poor. The rest of the book is interesting, but I would be interested to hear an evaluation by experts in the historical periods he covers.
Sci fi daydream here.

What would it take for us to actually try to make such a signal ourselves in space? Really huge explosions? I suppose one weird way to see if they could be alien signals is see if we can imitate them.

Of course, that would be no guarantee that we aren’t just making bird calls imitating the sounds of car alarms (or other birds for that matter). But, I mean, if we can detect these signals, if we could generate one, maybe some other civilization would too. And if we proved that any civilization of a certain state could use the same technique, it would at least lend more probability to the possibility that these are something not natural phenomena.

And who knows, when the alien armada invasion force shows up, you’d know for sure it worked! Ah, such reckless abandon.
Using tor to keep your communications secret is like having ACAB tattooed on your forehead - fine if you like the attention, not exactly useful if you don't.
Is Étoilé still under development or has it been abandoned?

I do rather like the NeXT aesthetic more, personally.
Not high performing enough to make sure your website shows something with javascript off? That's a freaking blog and all I see is a white blank page. Using React for a blog is kinda over-engineering it nope?
There's the full secure extreme — turning it off and unplugging it — but the usability tradeoff isn't great. TFA lies somewhere along that spectrum, but it isn't clear to me it's a sane default.

(It is not especially clear to me what exact mitigations TFA describes; it seems to be glossy ad copy rather than technical documentation.)

I'm not sure I'd want "!!!" log lines going to the primary business log when only the suspicion of an attack exists.
We use it because we want it to be a common term for startups. We copied it from @levelsio who tweeted about it [1].

According to wikipedia the use of the trademark symbol indicates an assertion that a word, image, or other sign is a trademark; it does not indicate registration. It's not super relevant for our page though.

[1] https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/968219339588493312
People without any knowledge of the topic, you mean.
I think the click-bait title is the reason why most comments here are about aliens.

Also because it has a set interval. People like to assume there is some intelligent life form that trigger the events.

But on our own planet we have geysers that erupt at set intervals. All without the help of an intelligent life form.

So I think it's more likely that it's a natural phenomena.
The dev at Oracle must feel great to have their work labeled as "crap".
Can I use Let's Encrypt to sign my own personal CA so that I can issue certs for my domain that are in that chain?
Do you mean in addition to the Chinese tapping it the americans are unable to? I would agree if that is what you mean. I would also add that in hindsight, it looks like Huawei is the same arrangement as Crypto.
My comment about controlled conditions was about making you feel comfortable and give yourself a safe to try it out to get an understanding of when it. It wasn’t to say to believe in self driving, I agree it’s a long way out. Understanding the technology is more important than dismissing it altogether is what I was simply trying to point out. I think you can at the least try it, understand it, then have an opinion about it.. (which I respect). There seems to be a lot of negative comments from people who have never sat in a Tesla or have gone through a test drive.
> branches are usually superior to conditional moves for predictable conditions as they break dependency chains.

Interesting, not heard that before. Do you know of somewhere I can read about this?
I completely disagree on almost every point. As a daily SoundCloud user, the discovery is a mile above and beyond every other platform I've tried, including Apple Music and Spotify. SoundClouds weekly "The Upload" playlist has more good music in it than any other automatic playlist I follow, I cant even remember the last time it had a song on it I didn't like. I'm not sure how some people get such a different experience, maybe only long-time users get the good discovery experience because they've provided the algorithms with more data about their preferences?

My one gripe is that you can only follow 2,000 people! WTH Soundcloud, why place such an arbitrary maximum? It's clearly not a hard limit because occasionally I can glitch my way up to more followers by clicking the button dozens of times (I'm at 2010 now).
I applaud the willingness to be open about how bad one's estimates are. However, I don't think the full significance of the low correlation coefficient is appreciated here. It's not just that the estimates need to be multiplied by 3 (or 4 or any other number). The correlation coefficient would not go up if one did that.

The real lesson is that knowing the estimate, doesn't really tell you much about how long it will take, regardless of how you modify it. This is important to realize.

I talk about this more here, in the first section:
https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/managing_...

But long story short, the real lesson is not to spend too much time on predicting, but rather on prioritizing.
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
>All that space can't be cheap.

It is, and it's why dense housing can't compete. Cars are cheap, fuel is cheap, land is cheap. In the short term, other costs, such as harm to walkability, lack of community, pollution, etc are not quantifiable or too far out in the long term to make it a viable business proposition to go with density.
All that goes to show that a computer can make mistakes much faster than humans. You didn’t say anything about how that guarantees the computer only makes safe decisions.
And the reason this article came out now is CIA and BND sold their stakes in the company so they are no longer relevant
Depends on what tech and approach you're using. Some people use migrations to create DB tables, for example. Or seed initial data like, say, what user roles exist.
And if you have to bounce around across different codebases, you obviously go a lot slower.

If I'm pounding out the same boilerplate code I've written for every greenfield app, I can go at a phenomenal speed. But if I'm put into code I'm not very familiar with, 98% of my effort is understanding the existing code and 2% of it is making that 1-10 LOC change.
Obviously there's no guarantee, and there's also the fact that we may not have every case documented, but if it is true that we have 0 case documented, that's pretty far from 600. Even if it's not "impossible", then at the very least it's less likely.
thx mom
So can we assume that companies touched by In-Q-Tel are compromised to the same level as Crypto AG was? I'd like to collate a list.
He's not wrong either. That UI is older than Windows 95 (which stole and misused some of its look and UI elements, that is an iconify control dammit) but it still looks fresh, simple, and get-the-job-done. As well as ignoring the "flat" trend and the "pretend to be a touch UI" trend.
Is this kind of thing open to copyright or patent suits from Apple? I always wonder, with projects like this, how you can get away with doing such a close copy of a commercial OS.
OP is a close friend of Pieter Levels (of Nomad List) and if you go to nomadlist.com/open you'll see "Open Startup™" as well, linking to open-startup.com which redirects to this tweet:

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/968219339588493312
I'm not sure they willingly admitted it. I read a story[0] that said the information was leaked.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/cia-secretly-bought-encrypti...
It’s not too late to find a cofounder. I would consider it if I were you. You can vest their equity (and even consider vesting a portion of your own to show continued commitment).

One reason: vacations are nice.
Four Tricky VC Questions and How to Handle Them
If someone spied on me, I think it being a government in another country not collaborating with my own and very busy keeping up with their own population seems preferabke
As if they didn't already know. Remember -- we are not defined by the shitty hacks we write to pay our rent.
And who is creating the risk of global nuclear war, if not those very same governments?
> technology tends to fail in 'silly' ways

And a scenario we can easily imagine is that a buggy update goes out to the whole fleet overnight that starts killing people all over the place.

The common case of accidents being on par with manual human driving goes out the window until the software is rolled back and for 12 hours, 24 hours, however long, we get a number of deaths that far outpaces what humans are capable of. The "worst case" would never apply to a manual/human population as a whole, at once.
Sounds like something out of the book Snow Crash or the comic book Transmetropolitian
It’s almost a False Dilemma - you shouldn’t have to choose between the bad and the worse.
> he didn't just contribute to Étoilé, since he seems aware of it.

This is a hobby and passion project and yet it looks more alive and better maintained than Étoilé, which features "news" from 2014 about doing random Smalltalk things - and while I _love_ Smalltalk it doesn't give me confidence that they're focused on building a modern Cocoa-style desktop environment.
Great points. And I'd add that the other implementation issue here is the human system any company's intentions get filtered through. So the interests modeled are not the entire corporation, but C-suite intentions passed through executive intentions, manager intentions, and then worker intentions.

E.g., it might be in the long-term interest of the company to not run over pedestrians. If nothing else, the PR cost is very high. But when an exec wants to be first in the field to demonstrate personal success, then hitting a made-up date becomes the priority. Which implicitly puts "not kill people" lower. Middle managers don't want to get blamed, so they'll favor a more complex, muddled organization structure. Per Conway's law, that means muddled code. So instead of the car's software reflecting "don't run over pedestrians" as a key goal, its true priorities are things like "gives a good demo", "was delivered 'on time'", and "reflects an architecture clever enough to get that architect promoted that quarter".

It's not impossible that good software comes out of this system, but the deck is certainly stacked against it.
Even without doing any real off-roading, it's one of the things I always feel a bit uncomfortable with when I take rentals to relatively remote areas out West. If it were my own vehicle I'd carry a lot more gear to handle potential problems than I realistically can carry on a plane and throw in a rental.
Good point. I also didn't include my own fee. I guess profit is kind of what I get at the moment. We are planning on sharing our profit with our freelancer when it hits a certain level.
Really? Your local government has far more power over you than China does. I wouldn't be nearly as worried about China unless I was worth stealing from, assassinating, or something like that.
For me personally to do any type of development, I either need a constant network connection or the ability to run my stack locally including databases and Redis.

I also need to be able to launch a web browser or Postman to debug interactively. I personally hate developing on a laptop with no external monitors (preferably two). I would definitely hate trying to do that with iOS’s simplistic multi app/multi window support.

Also, while the Files app is okay for one off documents and sharing between apps. How would that work in a development scenario?

You would also need to allow apps to communicate with each other over TCP/IP locally.

Now you’re back to a multi window GUI (making iOS more complex) and apps having random access to the file system (less secure).

If you want an iPad to behave like a laptop - why not just buy a laptop? Alternatively, if you want a laptop with the power of MacOS and the power/performance capabilities of ARM, wouldn’t it make more sense for Apple to port MacOS and create ARM laptops?

The iPad is so light, I have no trouble throwing one in my laptop bag along with my laptop and syncing files between apps on both using cloud storage.
Mike Bloomberg doesn’t want Silicon Valley’s money. He does want its employees
Their "The Upload" playlist is consistently the source of some of my favorite music on the internet, it almost never has a song I don't like. Whichever engineers worked on it deserve a raise.
I moved from SCCS to RCS to CVS to Subversion to Git.

Moving to Git was the more difficult step for me. I prefer it now. For a while I had to move back to Subversion and I hated it.
Instrumenting distributed systems for operational visibility