skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously you should use whatever language you want on your projects, but in case you’re interested:

> unfortunately, asking rust to treat UTF-8 string as a "ball of bytes" is hard, when it's stupidly easy with C.

String::as_bytes seems pretty easy, and there are byte literals b'?' of type u8 and b"???" of type [u8]. You can avoid interacting with the UTF-8 types at all if you don’t want to.

> Plus, I wanted to use arena-style-allocation where I make huge allocations in one go and then don't think about memory, something that I don't have control over in Rust.

Perhaps the bumpalo and typed-arena crates would interest you.

https://docs.rs/bumpalo/
https://docs.rs/typed-arena/
Haven't had a new laptop in a while, but as far as I'm aware, most touchpads are not Precision Touchpads and instead continue to emulate stuff in the driver without Windows knowing, so you're still at the mercy of the (usually shoddy) driver implementation.
Whoa that is some list. Perhaps it would help the dev and future users if these observations were made bugs on GitHub against the project?
This is great. I think you're well positioned to help people understand this very important concept in a familiar way.

Have you thought to incorporate the "Minimise Maximum Regret" concept? I suppose it is quite an opinionated strategy, but it is a very interesting approach to decisioning, and supposedly leads to robust decisions.
Exactly what the NSA said.
Home prices cannot grow above the rate of general inflation forever. Trying to indefinitely stretch a model that worked spectacularly well due to the unique circumstances the post-WWII economy will end in tears.
Where did you read that it links to the phone's MAC Address/IMEI? I can't find IMEI being mentioned in any of Apple's spec documents.
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I don't agree with this sentiment and I believe it's based on a big lie, but here's what some of the "average" Americans might think:

"I'm an American, my ancestors for generations have pioneered the frontier and could only rely on themselves. I don't like the idea of helping some lazy bum get their art degree on my dime, so I'm against free college. I'm a working man, and my son will be too, or he'll get a degree as an engineer or scientist and be able to make enough money to pay his loans. My daughter will get married and have babies. That's the way it's been and America has been awesome forever, so I don't see why we should follow Europe, who has so many countries in debt crisis that couldn't pull themselves up like America did."
> I'm not saying that people don't use Linux on laptops by the way, I meant that the overlap between people who run Linux and use a MBP isn't very large (because Linux on Apple can be anything from annoying to install to near impossible).

Maybe I'm in the tiny minority here, but I much prefer the way touchpad handling on Linux behaves compared to both Windows and macOS. At least on sway, it feels more 'accurate' than either of those two - you move your finger and the cursor actually goes to where you want it.

> But, as far as I know, Apple still releases the source code for Darwin, right? So shouldn't it be possible to port the trackpad functionality from there?

Unfortunately not! I worked on reverse engineering a driver for the SPI touchpad found in newer (but not too new) Macbooks and based most of it on packet captures from Windows' Event Log [1]

[1] https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver/issues/3#issuec...
Weird that he hid in China and Russia, spoke nothing about their horrendous violations against humanity, likely trading US secrets and eventually creating notPetya indirectly.
France can pretend that Google doesn't exist.
Yes, you can always create that data by hand, but it's too expensive and, hence, impossible to scale.

As for using other AIs, they tend to not work too well on more complex images.

But in any case, getting the data that you need to be able to use the paper here is very challenging.

Edit: I should probably say that I have hands-on experience with MegaDepth and Midas and that it was underwhelming. Both of them assume a Gradient from close to far from the bottom to the top and both of them assume that optical variation will be in the foreground. A photo of a dining table from the side is already enough to confuse both of them.
Remark42: Self-hosted commenting system, which doesn't spy on users
> They always use situations like that

There has never been a situation like this in the modern age. Last time it happened 50 million people died.
I've experienced it myself with one of the Android apps i use (a VoIP client). The latest update killed my ability to call out through my office PBX, and I had to fish the old version out of one of my backups, since the Play Store oh-so-helpfully doesn't let you install older versions of an app.
Yes. It's not often I end up agreeing with the NSA but this is one of those times.
The other difference of course is that in Germany, only a fairly small proportion of high school students is even allowed to go to Uni.

People that were not placed into Gymnasium at age 8 are set on a course where, once they turn 18, do not get to go free Uni; they simply are not allowed to go to Uni at all!

Also the problem of cost of living while studying isn't exactly trivial. Accommodation, food and participating in general student life all are things that cost a lot of money. You will need at least 1k-1.5k EUR net per month, which means earning 2k or more gross. That's not exactly easy to do on the side, since most degree programmes are full-time only; you are expected to put your 40 hours a week towards the degree and not some other job to finance yourself.

When polled, 87% of students answered that they were dependent on financial support from their parents and 12% received state-sponsored loans [1].

So let's not kid ourselves. The question of whether you will go to Uni or not, in Germany, also depends to a very large degree on who and how wealthy your parents are.

Statistically speaking, your chance to go to Uni is 27% if your parents are blue collar workers. It is 79% if your parents also hold academic degrees. If your parents have no professional training at all, the probability is 12%. [2]

So maybe we should focus on our own issues first ;)

[1] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bildung/studienfinanzierung-so-k...

[2] https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/lehre/nichtakademiker-kna...
Github: https://github.com/umputun/remark42
Yes, a simple language is better to teach CS. CS is not just about programming, but I think CS is about programming too and having a reasonable level of programming is useful.

If I was a teacher and I'm going to teach someone what a linked list is, or what a binary tree is, I can of course use natural language and drawing, I can use abstract algebraic concepts.

But the student should be also able to construct said structures and observe how they work. The same for any other concept.
Even though I was using Turbo Pascal/Delphi/Lazarus since 80's I am not really part of community. I do not think you'll find a single post of mine. So do not take me as an example.

I have to admit being a prick in this particular matter. Not being able to find subject when search on Google, Githab etc reveals a ton of info I think says something.

One extra thing. I do use Linux and find it very useful. Do I need to abandon it because Linus is not a shining example of polite person?
Clearly you're not arguing in good faith, since you also didn't know at that time where the commenter was from, so have a good night and continue to fear that your race is being threatened or something like that.
I do not find this; I've been using ddg exclusively for several years now.
I'm for this. I'll opt into anything that can give us a chance to slow this thing without crippling the global economy.

You can stay safe by putting your phone in a Faraday cage if you must.
I read somewhere that there are beacon detectors throughout many retail stores that track people throughout the store.

That’s been in place for some time.
Would you rather be forced to stay at home for all foreseeable future?
In the visualisation it would be very useful if the "best/worst" cases included the inputs that were relevant to make that happen. It is somewhat obvious, but would drive the point home that should X & Y occur, you'd be left in scenario Z.
This is false. It was not conducting an intelligence operation across China. It is obviously playing the prophet card, as FiveThirtyEight did, in an attempt to claim authority on that which it has none.
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I moved away from gmail, as I started my own business, the webshop https://kaninbutikken.dk , to my own mail. So now I both have a personal mail and a business email. However, I have some issues with the fact that many of my mails from my new emails end in the spam filter. I cannot figure out what I can do to make sure that my future mails doesn't end in the spam filter. I didn't have this problem, when I used my gmail. Do any of you guys have the same issues?
Something needs to be done about the default comment ordering or subthread collapsing ability on HN. I understand I can easily collapse a comment’s replies with a single tap in the correct tiny location, but that isn’t enough. I became increasingly fatigued as I scrolled down seeing reply after reply to the top comment all arguing over the definition of “bricked”, assuming that surely at any moment I’d reach the bottom of the subthread and be able to move on to read something more useful. Finally I became frustrated enough to scroll to the top and collapse the parent comment, and that worked this time, but the issue is that it isn’t always the top comment on the page you want to collapse, so it becomes a blind hunt for the correct comment to collapse. You probably won’t remember the exact indentation depth of the comment you need to collapse so you’re stuck deciding whether to waste time looking for it or tough out trying to scroll to the bottom of the subthread (while continuously getting excited then disappointed every time the indentation shifts left and you’re tricked into thinking you’ve finally reached the end). It’s a daily annoyance but I’m not sure what could remedy it.

Also I’ve read that submissions with too much early comment activity get removed automatically for seemingly being too controversial. If so then maybe that rule should apply to comments as well. Controversial comments could automatically sink lower despite upvote count, as well as older comments.
The definition of life as something finalized to reduce the entropy (of itself) can be complementary to the theory of life as something that emerged to increase entropy of the world (surrounding environment)?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...
I mean surely mobile phone operators already have this information? I never hear about them being subpoenaed or attempting to deny requests, makes me think the make this information fully available.
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It obviously is. People sitting down and calmly discussing private property can only be seen as threatening if you are a capitalist or a landlord. They are scared, given the current crisis. I would be scared too as a capitalist.
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Queue a nasty self fulfilling list "your email idea won't work because" checkbox.

Sender pays would do a lot. Not popular.
There's a spectrum there. here in Denmark University is actually free, and you even get money for your.other expenses (I was able to. live on just that money quite comfortably when I was studying). For me the German system is alien too.

I think it's due to the deeply individualist mentality you see in America.
In the UK there is a class divide (linked mostly to wealth but not entirely). Everyone that is naturalised or was born here is considered British no matter what their race is (the same applies to the French IIRC). Yes unfortunately people are bringing race into our politics which is a shame tbh because it is considered rude to mention someone's race in anything other than maybe describing their physical appearance (for the purposes of identification).

If a student wants to go to University they are means tested which determines the amount of grants / loans they are entitled to. Race isn't a consideration only wealth (based on household income).
He objects to two things:

1. Doing it globally would require download of too much data, thus (contra promise of the spec) location data will have to enter. However, from what I can tell, that could be very coarse data, on the level of country and/or time zone (thus, not even necessitating access to GPS location data). I don’t see it as a major problem.

2. The “prank” danger: someone just pressing “I’m infected” for fun. One could introduce a tiered system where “I’m infected” requires some sort of authentication from a hospital/lab (a QR code on positive test results for example). There would also need to be a tier for “I have symptoms”, and yes, that could be abused/“pranked”.

Would be interesting to see a deeper analysis on both points. I don’t think they’re deal breakers.
In the meantime, I tried our Midas on other images and it failed most of the time. Really only works for those stock-is pictures with clear foreground and background and I believe it mainly just detects bokeh blur as opposed to actually understanding the scene.
> for the same period

One of the links you posted goes from 1963 to 2018, the other from 1984 to 2019. Not the same period. For the record, comparing the values for 1963-01-01 and 2018-01-01 gives an increase of 2.8x in median income and 4.2x in median house price sales. You're right that other things like amenities and house sizes might factor into this in some way, but I doubt that explains everything.

It's especially interesting to note that median incomes from 2007 to 2008 did not decrease, and only decreased about 2% from 2007 to a local minimum in 2010. Yet house prices decreased by 19% from a local maximum in Q1 2007 to Q1 2009. You will find it very hard to argue that that had something to do with a very sudden shift to smaller/less well equipped homes.

I find it a lot more likely that the main reason is speculation. Yes, including speculation related to interest rates.
"A monolith that can handle component level failures" - being able to handle component level failures I think is more related to business logic design rather than being a monolith/microservice implementation. If your business process depends on some login microservice and that one is down it does not matter that the other parts are functional.
>However, there are more advanced users that can access the storage via another system and fix it there, hook up via serial port or JTAG and flash new firmware, or even desolder and replace chips.

Not all people own more than one system.

If it was my only computer, and depend on it to do work and earn my living, and it broke, I would be terribly upset. Especially these days with the quarantine.
That's a good question. It depends on how many deaths would the increased privacy save. In the future it won't be as easy to burn the papers documenting whatever group needs saving before the invasion. On the other hand, a lot of it is already in so many private systems, that this likely makes little difference.

I'm not even sure I'm against the current application, but the question is not a simple one.
Cell tower based contact tracking is already used to infer someone's social graph and pattern-of-life. Bluetooth association data - even with opaque tokens - can easily be correlated with cell tower movement to refine CO-TRAVELER style analysis.

Cell-tower-resolution analysis is already very powerful - it can trivially reveal someone's associations and overall behavior. When correlated with short-range proximity data, I suspect the same analysis might reveal behavioral details within a organization ("which meetings you attend" instead of merely "what address you work at").

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-t...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/meet-co-traveler-nsas-...
it had 'ed' the precursor to ex and vi editors. The terminal they used was paper so not quite ready for a visually oriented editor! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33) If you're stuck on a basic system or rescue shell, cat and echo are considerably more straightforward if you don't know how to use ed already.
I still have the coffee cup they handed out to employees when they brought up the origin story during an all hands once. Can’t remember if it was 2010 or 2011 I got the cup. Still have it and use it. Has the old Twttr logo on it.
I don’t think you are taking into account leverage and the cost of it.

That’s the major difference between stocks and homes. In the first case the government sharply limits private lending, in the second it has nationalized the industry and subsidizes it significantly.
It could raise the quality of discussion in the future if it discourages people who nitpick definitions from doing it again.
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I'm afraid someone has to tell the author that what is already possible is worse than the concerns raised here.
This technology is actually an effort to not use the available methods that would ignore privacy.
What it does: Uses NLP to extract technology-related information form patents, Wikipedia etc. and then analyzes these technologies.

Technology-related information are: functions (what the technology can do) and properties/components (of what is this technology made up)
A good definition of bricked is "software update rendered the computer unusable for the user".
Which resources and tools Belligncat uses for their investigations?
Disagree.

The argument seems to be: the spec is fine and presents little danger, but if an app went rogue, or a government mandated an app with further capabilities, then it would be problematic. Yeah, sure. But that also describes the status quo, and everyone still carries their smartphone around.
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There isn't any IMEI linkage. I think the post you reply to is implying the link between Bluetooth MAC address to IMEI could be established by a state actor.

That isn't the case though, due to Bluetooth MAC address randomisation, which the paper does address - the 10-minutely identifiers advertised are updated in sync with the local device updating its own MAC address, to prevent correlation between the last MAC address and next one.
So technically this is DKIM, except pushing the verification down from the domain level to the individual user level. And instead of publishing the public key in the DNS record, you manually give individual senders one/many time keys to send emails to you.

Wouldn't it be easier to just set up a whitelist for emails in your inbox, that only allows senders you specify through?
It's not a big lie, it's more of an American frame of mind.

What you described is called the "Just World" fallacy - you get what you deserve. Or a more modern term, "I got mine."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

The US founders, the Pilgrims, were (religious) puritans, and that mindset carries on until today.

> you milk your youth

Politicians and the oligarchy are very concerned about personal moral hazard, not so much about corporate moral hazard. So youth get non-dischargeable student debt, and companies get bailouts. (Since most bills are written by lobbyists, not elected officials, it would be very interesting to see who wrote that education bill.)

How deep is the fear of personal moral hazard? There were bread riots and Washington, DC was occupied by rioters in the Great Depression after Washington refused to provide aid in case, "everybody would just stop farming."

As Warren Buffett said, "[The war between the poor and rich in America is over. You lost.]" (Note that he is one of the few billionaires who has gone on record about this, because he knows there's a problem with 15% capital gains tax rate for investors like him, when employees like his secretary pay around 40%.)

> you come out of your education and have 100k in debt.

Oh, and it's 200k in school debt, and no health care. And buy a car if you want to get around. Rock on!

More seriously, the US lacks a coherent policy on anything (healthcare, education, infrastructure, etc.) So it's an Oliver Twist-style existence for the bottom 99%.

You can probably use this search filter to find intelligent discussion about US politics, "no policy" plus "US" and your favorite topic. This isn't a Trump problem, it's a "too many lawyers in Washington" problem.

If you want to read astonishing truthfulness by politicians today, read anything by top Malaysian leader, Dr. Mahathir, or the investor Tan Teng Boo:

https://www.thesundaily.my/business/foreigners-exremely-caut...

How's that for transparency and honesty? Every conversation with those two is a roadmap for progress for their country. So it is possible.
I'm sorry if a one word dismissal is too confronting for those who know absolutely nothing about what has been going on in dragnet surveillance in silicon valley. But see all these words I'm writing? They don't change the fact that it is impossible to be cynical enough about such fatuous claims. You'd have to be stunningly ignorant to give them more than a second of credulous thought.

Apple are not the good guys or anything like it. Trust Apple to secure you from anyone? You're utterly insane of you do.

> "but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple."

Bullshit is about the most polite response such a claim should be received with. There is not enough bile in the world for it.

Better?
that policy is easy to understand can be reverted easily

this is not true for surveillance systems
They probably don't know how difficult it is to generate good lenticular printing data.

I'm the author of a lenticular vray plugin and people love the technology for product design previews. Plus the fact that it's being mass-produced as children's toys makes it very affordable.
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"Xft.dpi: 192" in .Xresources is recommended everywhere. However, when the desktop under Xbuntu starts it turns out that this setting has been ignored (or overwritten later). Haven't found out why. Other settings in the same file work as they should.

So this is the standard Xfce desktop, maybe I should try with i3. I use i3 at work, but xfce at home. No exact reason why, maybe it's just good to know more than one systen :)
From a purely free market perspective, it makes sense. getting educated takes resources, that education then has to earn you more resources in the long run, meaning you can pay off the loan.

That ignores all the sociatal benefits from having a more well educated poopulous, and I like free education, but you can't deny there's some internal logic there.
https://www.dolthub.com/ ?

Never used it myself, but it's one of the many "git for data" projects I've seen go past. I'm interested that none of them meet the authors need.
If the authors come up with a better spec that achieves the same thing with improved privacy then sure, let's not use the Apple/Google one. But until then, this is the best we have.
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Ask some philosophers "what you need to do to have a good life?". They will start discussing:

"What is life?"
"What is good?"
"What is need?"
"What is you?"
"What is what?"

And those discussions will never end unless the time itself ends.
That's some autistic screeching of Polish nationalist.
> if it’s seeking to maximize that information passed forward, then you’re probably dealing with something we should consider to be an individual

This seems overly broad because it would also apply to some or most machines.
Yes, estimote[0] for example is one example of this.

0: https://estimote.com/