skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TensorFlow.js is a pretty nifty piece of software and it's underutilized. If the model parameters can be stored in IndexedDB then users could train TensorFlow.js based site augmentation to suit their own needs.

For example, what if HN had a TensorFlow.js model for ranking new submissions based on the user's preferences? This model could be trained like a spam filter and would eventually learn the types of articles that someone likes to see but they would be in charge of the model's evolution and so would be empowered to use it however they saw fit. Maybe I don't care about politics then my model parameters would eventually converge on downgrading all political posts and the more technical submissions would rise to the top based on how I upvoted new and front page submissions.

There is a lot of interaction data sites are just leaving on the table that could be used to enhance user experience. There is only so much processing that can happen centrally so offloading some of the computation to user devices with these models I think makes a lot of sense. Centralized ranking is fine but it only shows the average opinion of the group (by construction, because it is averaging all inputs from all users).

One can imagine a staggered and federated system of ranking that expands from the users preferences all the way up to all members of the forum. If I trust certain users then I might want to use their model parameters to inform my own ranking decisions. And if they were willing to share their parameters then I could view the site with their model or make an ensemble and weight inputs however I saw fit.

Twitter blocklists are a very poor form of such a system in that they're static, centralized, and not controlled by the users. A personal version I think could be built that deferred Tweet ranking decisions up to the user and the ensemble of models they'd chosen to trust.
I think most people would notice on a subconscious level, at least. That's just under ideal conditions though; I've had plenty of scenarios in my professional career where a cell phone wouldn't have been able to get any usable image at all.
Our CEO and ELT have taken a clear stance against racism. They've expressed sadness and anger at events that have unfairly targeted African Americans and other people of color and made it clear such injustices are not to be tolerated. Since May 27 we've had weekly company-wide sessions to discuss this. In our weekly team meetings and in smaller chat sessions we've shared thoughts, personal experiences and ideas on what we should do. On June 1 our CEO announced Cisco's purpose is to power an inclusive future for all. Public versions of our internal messaging are available yet but some is touched on in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcIUDwpI66Q
Interesting note on Red Star OS: They appear to have a watermarking system allowing them to track how files move between people.

https://youtu.be/8LGDM9exlZw?t=2122

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856979
i'm marveling at how well this comment exemplifies everything that's wrong with USB-C.
I don't know - there are cooperatives - it is not like you need to risk your life to work at one. Somehow they are not that popular. There are also partnerships - which are kind of close to cooperatives, when they employ only the partners and for example outsource office cleaning and stuff. In some industries they do pretty well - for example in law.

Why cooperatives do poorly? Maybe people usually are not very good at governance, that's understandable, you can have trade-offs - slightly worse pay for better working conditions, or better dignity. Does it work like this?
I’m having a lot of fun with Arduino at the moment. You can do a lot with them.
Consider: prior to the telephone, to monitor a conversation government had to actually send people to where the conversation happened, and that meant that they could barely monitor any conversations - and yet society continued to function.

The government still can send people to watch people use their phones or computers. On the other hand, it seems hard to dispute that all our most efficient examples of totalitarian states are post-telephone.
If this is what it takes it must be done. With today's availability of real-time policing metrics it should be clear if police are deliberately thwarting reform initiatives or retaliating.

Police officers have taken an oath to uphold state and federal constitutions and local laws. If they cannot live up to that commitment they need to go.
What was wrong with CamTwist? I've been using OBS+CamTwist to do this for years now. I mean, this will save a couple minutes setup time, but it's not like that wasn't decent.
Jane Goodall: humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19
Grindr App Removes Its Ethnicity Filter. Should More Dating Apps Follow Suit?
Schema versions in AD are problematic. Not every Windows Server version works with every Windows Client version. You always need to consult the support matrix, and for additional software like exchange that uses AD schema extensions, it gets even more complicated. So yes, if you are not strictly standardized to a single generation of Microsoft products, you do need to fight incompatible clients and servers
> I may very well be part of a minority, but after working with Windows for the last 20 or so years I got used to it's quirks.

Granted your self-statement about being in a minority: I’ve used Windows for as long as you have and I say the quirks of Windows is what made me ditch it for Linux.

For a long time I was a naive Window Hero. Then I got smart.

I’ve been done with Windows for over 10 years now. I’m full Linux at home [I include Virtual Machine here].

I tolerate Mac//Apple OS at work. I try very hard to do the same for Windows at work. All of this is if I simply just must as required by Big Boss Say So.
Automatic Train Operation for regional passenger trains to be tested in Germany
I don't have first hand experience with this, and I'm not endorsing it, but it sure looks cool to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2VkcyvtMXI
Well no, that is not my solution. That is the only ethical way the US could enforce sanctions. The solution would be to put the Iran deal back up, but I digress.

Yes, there is absolutely no way of enforcing sanctions without prosecuting innocent parties. The only way that the US can get foreign banks not to deal with Iran is by punishing them, even if they were the victims of fraud, the bank would then have to decide if they want to continue operating in the US and try to recoup their losses by going after the fraudster, not operate in the jurisdiction of the fraudster if that is impossible, or not deal with Iran at all (in which case a competitor will). Otherwise, they can also stop dealing with the US.
I can't figure out how to turn the HVAC system on in a newish car.

My old one has a slider labeled "Heat" and "Defrost". Never had problems with that.
Static type systems don't necessarily prevent accidental null value usage.

The better ones do.

Some languages with static type systems, notably C and its descendants, have reference or pointer types that are nullable by default. With the wisdom of hindsight, that design decision is regrettable; Tony Hoare himself famously called inventing null references his “billion-dollar mistake”.

There are safer alternatives. For example, you can have a type that makes optionality explicit, so it contains either nothing or a single value of some known type. Before you can work on the contained value, if there is one, you must deliberately extract it; the type system will prevent you from accidentally using the optional value in place of the contained value. In Haskell, this type is called Maybe a. Rust has Option<a>. In OCaml, it’s 'a option.

All of the "decent static type" systems I'm aware of have the same issue with undefined values that break behavior. E.g. zero's as integers, empty strings.

Again, with a sufficiently expressive type system, you can encode properties such as a list being non-empty in your types. This lets you prevent illogical actions like trying to take the head of a list with nothing in it. You sometimes see these techniques if you’re working on high reliability systems with formal verification.

You can also handle edge cases safely by replacing a partial function that is undefined for certain inputs, such as dividing by zero or taking the head of an empty list, with a total function that gives you back an optional value as described above.
This is the downside of a walled garden and locked down devices. Of course many will say its for security and its wonderful but how much freedom are you willing to give up for security?
Part of the blame lies with a (our) culture of putting all the old people in the same place to be (lonely) together.

These deaths would not have happened nearly as effectively if we had more intergenerational households.
I'm not sure I understand your point.

Rightly or wrongly, HSBC is bound to certain US laws if it wants to maintain its US presence (including its listing on the NYSE). HSBC has made a choice to abide by that, and so they are co-operating in this matter.

Sure, HSBC could choose not to abide/co-operate and face the consequences. But that's not what's happening.

So, again, I'm not sure what point you're making.
I read through the whole complaint and it's a pretty shocking catalog of abuse of power, discretion, and force. And it only covers actions against journalists, and only in the city of Minneapolis.
Blue Cross Blue Shield plans sue CVS for overcharging them for generic drugs
Something that great probably wouldn't need validation by cherry-picked appeal to authority. (Yes, I'm a web developer.)
Rev Jackson is right. This is well known
I know you said you're a C developer by the MicroPython boards get you up and running pretty quickly. It's straightforward to get a blinking LED ( the Hello World of embedded programming ).

Otherwise, I would use a STM32 dev board and their IDEs and tools. It will get you off the ground and blinking LEDs way faster than working out the toolchain, loaders, ASM, setting the clocks and peripherals and all that work that has to be done before you even get to your application.
> Suppose Tim Cook’s daughter was arrested in Thailand for Apple’s alleged breach of China’s sanctions against Saudi Arabia.

> How would you Americans feel about that?

I can't speak for America in general, but given how this question is posed, I'll respond. I don't know Tim Cook nor his daughter so I wouldn't really take it personally. I guess I'd wonder whether any local laws supposedly were broken as Canada claims is the case with Meng Wanzhou. In that case, I guess I'd wait for the case to go through the motions. I would personally find it extremely odd if Tim Cook's daughter would warrant any sort of official intervention by the US government beyond what I (a nobody) would personally receive.
I don't want a million controls on my car.
Not touching for a moment whether or not Keybase “did it right”, but, very simply: without a good revenue model, their only other option was to eventually go out of business. They were default-dead, near as I can tell from outside looking in.

You can do all the open source e2e crypto trendiness you like, but unless you’re a nonprofit like Signal that can generate a stream of donations, if you don’t eventually get people to pay you for the service, you’re not going to be able to stick around.

This was the best possible outcome for them, given the circumstances.
Yea, that's how I feel as well. I've been using Linux as my daily driver since 2012 (i.e. whenever I can[1]), and it's going to be hard to get me to switch.

A bit unrelated: In the beginning, I was on Ubuntu, and I almost got sick of it as the extremely ancient packages were driving me crazy. I had to have numerous PPAs just to get the latest versions of GCC, Clang, Inkscape, and various other tools. Even with all the PPAs it was a huge pain to always do extra work to get a version of some package that wasn't stale. Finally though, I discovered rolling distros, and made the switch to Arch, and never looked back. (The thought of using anything but rolling distros makes me shudder.)

Right now, I feel very comfortable and at home with KDE and Arch. KDE is simply just a very reasonable and well-thought-out desktop environment. Apart from that, I've been getting back into gaming (on Linux) thanks to Steam's Proton.

[1] At some jobs, the work computers were Macs. And before I started using Steam's Proton, I did have Windows on my desktop solely for gaming. Fortunately, I've never had a job that required me to use a Windows computer. At one job where I was provided Windows computer, I (along with my whole team) just installed Arch on it. Strangely, each person on my team was on a different lineage of Linux. One person was using a Redhat derivative, another person the Debian-derived Ubuntu, I was on Arch, someone else might have been on SuSE. (It was primarily a Java and JS/React web dev shop, so nothing was tying us to Windows.)
I'm not sure of what definition they used here, but one that is common is heliosphere, or in other words sphere around the Sun where solar wind is dominant. This is about 120 AU.
I would argue activating autopilot while distracted is not only counter to teslas instruction, but criminally negligent. Please either drive, or take an uber, for the rest of us.
But they have everything to do with the US, that is the problem. They have multiple divisions with multiple agreements. Phone components, systems, software, all under export controls and they aren't abiding by the agreements they have signed. I'm not sure where you're going with this. How do they have nothing to do with the US?
You don't want to run your updates? Yikes.
Mostly for security, rather than fingerprinting, concerns.

Fingerprinting avoidance is a complex issue and it's reached the point where you can't simply disable JavaScript / WebGL and assume you're ok. One needs to run additional extensions to project a browser-view that blends in. You can use chrome-private.sh as a base layer you can build on to get there, but you are not going to get it by default (which is why I'm not making any anti-fingerprinting claims in the README).
The aerodynamics, he was then a flight simulator modder, and said his dream was to make a game where you could use parts to build an arbitrarily shaped airplane and it would calculate automatically the aerodynamics, because the manual setup of aerodynamics for flight simulator was really bad and annoying.

Granted wasn't him that implemented airplane aerodynamics on KSP (it was a modder of KSP, his mod being considered "mandatory" with how much it changed the game physics)
I always wondered why for example the FIFA corruption matters are being dealt with through the US justice system, while it appears hardly to have any link with the US, such that US authorities have any
jurisdiction on it.

That time too there was much concern over the territorial overreach of the US judicial system, esp in Europe.
I think you might want to ask yourself why they don't. Ås much as people whine about America. Trust is needed between countries at this level. I feel like America is calling the world's bluff. They are saying if you trust china so much Europe go partner with them we'll be ok.
Well no, I'd have no issue with the US going after the bank then the bank going after the person who did the fraud in the jurisdiction where the fraud happened. The issue is that the US has no right to prosecute fraud that happened between non-US entities outside US borders using their own laws.

I know that the US is one of the outliers of the world in that it considers that the entirety of the globe is within their criminal jurisdiction. That is an insane idea in 2020.
The issue is that the free tier makes creating and disposing of burner accounts easy. If you pay, they have credit card info, etc. That makes it easy for law enforcement to link the Zoom account to a real person if it turns out that a particular account is a pedophile.
I have been wondering why so many HCQ studies do not include Zinc. A couple months ago I watched a video that detailed how Zinc once inside a cell could block replication of coronaviruses. And that HCQ being a Zinc ionophore gets the Zinc into the cell. The relevant study was published approximately 10 years ago.
Problem is that most if not all of the tax evasion, money laundering and white collar crime happening today is being done so 100% legally.

Also prosecutors seems to not have much success in the courts at getting criminal charges to stick. Hence why they favour settlements or civil charges.
A lot of competitive practices in business are considered fair game, even when outside the scope of offering a better product or service. Leaning on lobbying, or, relying on tariffs, for example. The line that must not be crossed is when one side of the business is actually a government entity and in particular, of a foreign government, and the other is e genuine private business.

In those cases, incentives are too far out of alignment for a deal that is good for both sides to be had.
Richard Nixon would beg to differ.
And version control.
> To give you an example: if you have little personal contact to a specific minority, and over 50% of the people of that minority you see on TV are either criminals on local news, or musicians and actors playing gangsters, everyone who doesn't have a lot of contact with them in real life is getting scared every time they see someone who fits the profile.

Yes, I agree that the portrayal of minorities in the mass media in the Western world is incredibly racist. Part of the reason for this is the racism inherent in the US justice system -- you're currently witnessing worldwide protests over it.

However, I also see many representations of non-minorities portrayed in negative light -- why is it that only minorities are forced to atone for fictionalized representations of themselves and are not regarded as individuals with their own agency, lives, dreams, hopes, pains, and instead must be lumped into the same group and called to account for the actions of someone that happens to have the same skin color?

> By the way, this is not limited to race, but also for example applies to people with tattoos. If all tattooed people you see are criminals, you are scared by tattooed people as well. It works with every property of people that's easily visible.

People choose to be tattooed.

"Be more visibly obedient to the cultural norms of racists" is not a valid suggestion for addressing systemic racism.
I love it! Any plans to integrate it with Slack?
Whenever this kind of thing happens, you get a lot of people advocating for the abolition of peer review and its replacement with Twitter or something. I simply don't understand that.

Normal peer review means "we showed our work to about 2 people who know what they're talking about and they thought it was okay."

Preprints mean "nobody who knows what they're talking about has looked at this carefully yet, but we think it's okay."

Viral Twitter threads mean "here's my opinion, which hasn't been shown to anybody who actually knows what they're talking about, but which has been selected for maximum public response."

Of course, in all cases, real credibility only comes once a paper has been looked over by hundreds of people who know what they're talking about. Yes, showing something to only 2 experts (who themselves are very busy, and are powerless to directly verify many of the paper's claims) is not a perfect initial quality cut -- but no cut at all is worse.

If you really believe in the power of Twitter, take a long, hard look at the sensational, outrageous tweets you've liked. Go look at a sample of 100 old threads and see how many actually held up. The accuracy rate will not even be comparable to the Lancet's.
Make sure to disable container sync when using this combination. It's easy to accumulate hundreds of temporary containers which somehow hoses your Firefox profile on Mozilla's sync server (and can also produce gigabytes of logs in your local profile directory).

It seems it's currently impossible to recover your profile once you reach "Maximum bytes per object exceeded" - the remote end won't even let you delete the offending data.

[1] https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/371

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...
I can't edit anymore, but I meant physical controls in fixed positions, so you can feel which control you're interacting with in relation to other controls. Even better with a little bump or divot, like the "5" key on a 10-key.

With a touchscreen, there's really no way to know where your starting point is when you reach for it blindly, so you have to look. I suppose you could use the edges, but that wouldn't be so easy on a large touchscreen.

With an old car radio, you can reach for it, know what you touch first, and know where everything else is in relation to it, all without looking, ever.
I'd guess no one's really happy being bored all day. People get into a position where they feel like their life is settled, and unless they do something really horrible 'the good life' is all but guaranteed. Leaving something like that for uncertainty will calculate out to insanity for most people, because the value of 'the good life' is either very high or people under value their chances of success.
Sadly the article appears to overlook that Munich is switching back to Windows:

https://www.theregister.com/2017/11/13/munich_committee_says...
They probably have gone down per capita, right? We just have a lot more people than we did 30 years ago. A car built today is certainly safer than one from 30 years ago.

My hope is that driverless cars end up solving this faster than we otherwise could politically, but obviously that may be a bit ambitious.
np, I've got to stop using esr, but debian comes with it :)
Put Oumuamua at the front? It's not like drag is a concern.
Two things:

One, medical masks don't seem to fall under the sanctions (according to the quick wikipedia article skimming I just did [0]), especially since they were donated, so it seems perfectly fine and legal.

Two, according to the same article, EU also has sanctions against Iran (with some differences from sanctions imposed by the US), so it is unfair to say that the US is the sole country posing those sanctions.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions_agains...
A web of sensors enabling diagnostics (few accelerometers, temp sensors, even more water-presence ones, maye even strain gauge, cabling, microcontroller with enough analog IO, intelligent motor controller, both BOM and labor) would offset any imaginable savings. At the end of the day the outcome is always "we will send someone". Sounds like a dog and pony show, expensive scam.
Ask HN: How many of your ex-colleagues would you love to work with again?
Looking to learn whether more people share my latent desire to one day bring together all of the best people I know, and build cool stuff together and/or just hang out.

How did you end up reaching out to (any of) these people?
There is no way for it to be more relevant than it is.

I am telling you that what you don't like in your car, I think that Tesla got it right. How is that not relevant? What kind of response are you expecting?