skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was going to say you could absolutely recreate most of this experience in a large US city. They will all have furniture districts, with custom made furniture you can look at and buy.

Now, most people don't go to them, because IKEA is cheaper and easier
I cannot imagine North has something that Google doesn't already have. Strange buyout decision in my opinion.
I suspect it's a combination of facts

1) For most of history, we could only do work during daylight.
2) Agricultural work specifically wants early light - there's a lot of things you can't do in bright sunlight because it stresses plants.

It's definitely around for a while - the whole "the early bird" thing dates back to at least the 1600's. Aristotle was mumbling about getting up early as well. ("Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies."[1])

Personally, I'm more a fan of Diogenes ;)

So, likely it's considered good because it maximizes "productive" time.

[1] Economics, Book1, section 1345a: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg...
+1. Deliberate practice—working at the edge of your ability, where you fail at least as much as you succeed—is nearly the gold standard for continual improvement at any practice.

I would amend that do this daily and you'll see progress after months if not weeks.
What? We are not ants. Even if being racist to a person doesn't affect the "colony" still is being racist to that person.

And redefining a word so is "bad for everyone but X" doesn't make X innocent of doing it, it makes X guilty and a bully.

Also, the world is much bigger than the US.
> I won a civil law case against the MAFIAA being the owner of a site where links to download movies and tv shows as user-generated content.

Sure.

But this is totally different. IA is the one doing both the copying and the distribution.
Uber’s New Strategy: Buy Unprofitable Companies
They're the exceptions to the rule, the converse happens far more often.
I went trough this post earlier. Unfortunately the video has been removed for some reason.

> I'm getting a lot of DM's asking me to prove the majority of this with a paper and snippets of the offending code. I have a decent amount of my notes on my other laptop that recently had a motherboard failure and the majority of that data is on the laptop's SSD. It's a macbook pro, so recovering the data isn't exactly super simple. I have some frida scripts that I pushed to my git server as well as some markdown files + conversation logs I've had with exploit devs, but not much else. In order to get everyone the proof they require, I'll likely need to reverse the app all over again which isn't something I have time for right now.

That sounds like "dog ate my homework", but well, sh*t may happens.

> Phone hardware (cpu type, number of course, hardware ids, screen dimensions, dpi, memory usage, disk space, etc)

What so special about it?

> Other apps you have installed (I've even seen some I've deleted show up in their analytics payload - maybe using as cached value?)

That interesting indeed. I heard some developers did that as well (Uber-Lift case ?) but it really strange that Android enables that.
I'm not an Android dev, but I guess you can retrieve that through PackageManager?

> Everything network-related (ip, local ip, router mac, your mac, wifi access point name)

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/Wif...

wifiManager.getConnectionInfo()

> Whether or not you're rooted/jailbroken

My bank app does the same as well as plenty of other apps. Again, I mostly iOS guy, so not familiar with Android ecosystem that well.

> They set up a local proxy server on your device for "transcoding media", but that can be abused very easily as it has zero authentication

That sucks. Can anyone explain why they do that?

> On top of all of the above, they weren't even using HTTPS for the longest time. They leaked users' email addresses in their HTTP REST API, as well as their secondary emails used for password resets

Bold statement without any facts, tbh.

I don't wanna play devil's advocate and I don't support CCP or a big fan of TikTok.

I really enjoy reading well-made security research that unveil security valuation in Chinese app. [0]

But hardly rely on the posts without clear any data reinforcement

[0] https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/
The concept of "look" doesn't apply to hydrogen. It doesn't have a fixed, defined, shape.

To define "look" you must say "look how", i.e. with what sense are you looking.

For atoms you can use gravity to look at them, or the electromagnetic force, or the strong force. And the atoms will look different each way.

I suppose you could define look as "how strongly will this test particle interact with the atom at this distance, using this force". But notice "how strongly" - there is no fixed boundary, the interaction just gets weaker (or less likely) as things get farther.
Google raises YouTube TV subscription to $64.99 per month for all members
In code that was not shipping, note.
Perhaps, not knowing the author of a point is a feature? I'm often engaged in discussions where the authorship hurts more than it helps. Ideas are being referred to as "John's idea", conflating objective ideas with subjective positions. I recall explicitly asking WebGPU group to not consider an idea to be "mine" but rather just discuss it objectively for what it is.
You weren't kidding about being dialed in on this space!

> Are you not using React Native?

Not even! Our iOS app just uses WKWebViews for the main UI so yes it would be pretty trivial to do the same thing on Android. Only excuse is that it's in our backlog with 100 other things that we also really want to build.

> If you're taking this metadata directly from the articles I'm skeptical about the accuracy/completeness.

Haha yes, it's an absolute clusterfuck that I'm currently trying to clean up enough to make useful. The descriptions are usually actually pretty solid, but there is so much noise in the tags/topics.

> This is something, but still high-quality articles with clickbait titles will outcompete high-quality articles without clickbait titles.

Yes, yes, yes! I think providing more context in the way of the description could help to cut down on this, but you're very right that there is no easy or complete fix (at least not that I can imagine!). Something else to think about would be looking at the ratio of clicks to completions instead of just the sum of completions alone. That way in your example the 10x likelihood of a click could be cancelled out by the low 0.25x completion rate.
Considering what else gets shipped is it so surprising?

I haven't gotten into the programming deep yet, I hope you are not right for my sake :]
Teen Volunteer to WikiLeaks’ Assange Dug Dirt and Wooed Bieber
Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench
Axios: Tech finally begins a crackdown on Trump
This is a terrible disrespect to their paying customers. I'm glad I didn't go with Samsung last time. And clearly I never will.
These tips all seem rational and effective. Thanks for posting!
I would also add that puzzles are a fun way to improve your thinking, IMO. My favorite source is https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.shtml.
There is no reason to continue to support old versions for a few users only.
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> "it will use artificial intelligence to analyze groups of articles on a particular story topic and identify the ones most often cited as the original source."

Great idea, they should give it a snappy name, maybe something that rhymes with "stage tank." Of course this does nothing WRT organizations that tend not to cite earlier reportage when it originates outside of the company.

> How long before they adapt?

Why, that would require creating a staff of fake names, so in a lot of cases it'll probably be completed sometime around close of business today. Maybe the end of the week.
From the article: "to soften the blow, YouTube TV is adding ViacomCBS’s family of channels today: BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, TV Land, and VH1."
Most likely not, since you’ll need to purchase a drive for reading and writing the data. That alone will cost more than a couple hard drives.
Intelligence gathering with OPM kind of leaks is passive activity, which can potentially be used for leverage.

Platforms like TikTok are active propaganda tools already, and can be used to shape discourse in democracies.

It is a major concern whether such tools are owned by foreign governments (tikTok) or private companies who do not need to comply with any regulations(Facebook twitter) etc.
> We couldn't build another bridge, tunnel, or anything.

We just built a bridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco–Oakland_Bay_Brid...

And dug a tunnel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Subway
Also, don't forget. Crash tests (in the US atleast) don't measure safety for non-occupants, ie pedestrians, other car users.
HL2 feels like it's here, it's so light and comfortable, and the experience is not something words can do justice for
I don't want to put words in your mouth but if you are implying that the US influence over Google, MS, and Apple is comparable to China's influence over TikTok and other Chinese companies then that is an utterly false equivalence. I don't have links but it is well established the role and influence CCP has in Chinese companies and US companies have gone to great legal lengths to restrict the US Government's involvement in certain areas like the fight over encryption.
From the FAQs

Q: Do you store the keys?
A: No, each Nuke is an ephemeral sandboxed process and we don't store any keys.
What's Driving Pinterest's AR Play?
What does external mean? SD card? or anything outside the app's own directory?
"For Africans to be considered reverse racists, they would have to rob Europeans to the point of poverty/death, enslave them for 400+ years, attempt multiple genocides and mass executions of the European people, deprive Europeans of education and economic equity for centuries based on skin color, engage in state assisted terrorism, THEN continue to promote hatred and acts of violence against them on Reddit."

Nothing promoting discrimination against white people in that quote, just replaced the word black/African with European in a summary of history. Not sure how you missed this simple role reversal exercise.
Cobble Hill, corner of Court Street and Congress, https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6414917575

edit -- I guess I should close it on OSM ;)
No, they are quite separate.
That's obviously a related idea, but I have concerns:

* Complex. What if I don't need a CDN or kv store?

* Why just static sites? Why not just forward to a local port then you can run whatever you want, including a static server. One huge advantage of being able to run on your local machine is you have access to terabytes of storage at very low cost. You can host as much images, videos, music, etc as you want, especially if it's behind a simple login (like a NextCloud server).

* Not open source.
Maintaining security patches separately basically means branching the code and is quite a bit more work. I suppose ESR is the closest to what you want.
Thanks for linking this
> There's nothing here that's going to be executed

... yet.

Imagine someone using it to find "the biggest size available under $1" and then taking that value to execute some other script.
I find it a mixed bag—if it showed all open tab matches first, it often wouldn’t show history items that I care about. But overall, yeah, I’d probably like it to be a bit more eager to show active tabs. Especially if it’s suggesting a URL I have open, as you say.

FYI, you can filter it to search only open tabs with %: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...
I don't follow...?
what device are you using?
Perhaps it's a macOS thing.
I was also wondering about this. No discussion of the likelihood of someone who knows about their condition and is being treated for it being exposed in the first place. If they had a lower likelihood in the first place then it would also look like HCQ had the desired effect.

I am interested by a couple of their references, specifically regarding the possibility of HCQ only working as a prophylactic after a sufficiently long period of exposure. That could be a contributor to difficulty in replication.
There is no inherent advantage to the ARM architecture other than it being designed recently (64-bit ARM is less than a decade old) whereas x86 has a lot of baggage it has to carry.

There is no proof that these outperform traditional CPUs at all. That is the reason you don't see them being used anywhere other than niche use cases or for cost reasons.
"able to maintain their own lifestyles using grants from the Canadian government" - that's absolutely false. North/Thalmic was flush with cash for a long time, and though their Myo didn't sell "well" - it still brought in millions.

Not denying the founders had lavish lifestyles, but they were running a company that raised 15M series A, and 120M series B - so that's honestly "expected". The grant I assume you're referencing was a 34M loan, which was to be paid out over time, and was recalled once North announced layoffs last year.

I won't defend their business decisions or argue they were a "promising startup" - I think they deserve the criticism. But I'd rather not throwout some false stories or accusations.
To add to that, Linux is easier to secure because is found mostly in the datacenter (I'll ignore Android for this one). It's not only more robust but it's secured according to a whole different standard than desktops since it doesn't need to be operated by Average Joe.

On the other hand the vast majority of Windows installations are either regular home users (with no knowledge for properly setting up their computer, and ideally with the updates disabled because they read on the internet that updates are bad) or corporate desktops (which might be secured better but still at the mercy of a user clicking on everything).
That a big dispute in Sina tech. [0]

[0] https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3029309/wechat-s...

> Chinese users have been complaining that WeChat’s practice of blocking certain apps is a huge blow to user experience. But WeChat isn’t the only one doing it. Chinese tech companies constantly add services to their own ecosystems and block services from other companies, leading some tech watchers to say that China’s mobile internet has been split into pieces.

Hope they can fix it one day
Is Google strapped for cash? They have upped the number of visible ads across all their platforms to the point where some apps like YouTube and Google on mobile are showing full page ads before search results even appear. I have also heard of cuts to some internal benefits from Googlers.
(Under emulation.)
I do think deleting cloud resources is a valid use case in many Eng teams and directly co-relates to a lower cloud bill. Engineers are frequently building POC's, test machines or just deploying quickly to have idle/underutilized resources lying around
> Could anyone believe an article like this would be published in a major news org before Corona? It was unthinkable.

Yes it could. It wasn't unthinkable at all. In fact the entire campaign of the current president was based on the fact that the USA is not as great as it once was, that it is in need to be made great again. So yes, this sentiment was very much spread all around before the pandemic, with widely different ideas on how to correct the trajectory but that's beside the point.
> It's a hellscape of boredom, not of pain.

> And many do choose boredom.

Then maybe it isn't a hellscape for them.
>Intel is still faster in most applications, simply by virtue of having a clock speed advantage that by far exceeds any IPC difference

This is already only marginally true, the difference is only about 5% depending on the application, and in some applications AMD comes out ahead anyway. Expect the remaining difference to disappear when Zen 3 releases in a few months.

>Another significant weakness of AMD's current platform is idle power consumption.

AMD seems to have caught up here almost entirely. They've done a lot of work to improve idle power consumption lately and the node advantage probably helps, too.
For the most part, people who don’t address Covid as a risk do so because they don’t see it as a risk. That’s different than choosing to avoid risk.
Reasonable cost of living, easy access to San Francisco, reasonably healthy economy, easy access to Tahoe, access to many food options
Moved back two years ago and can echo this sentiment. We raised our most recently round exclusively in the US. Will be interesting to see how COVID-19 impacts all of this given how much more remote work will be available.
Soda Foundation expands cloud data autonomy plans
Trickle, of course. The details are still under NDA.
> The sites that are affected by this have had nearly 2 years to sort out their upgrade to TLS 1.2 or 1.3.

... or are hardware appliances with a management interface, segregated on an internal VLAN, that will never be updated, but which were helpfully "forward thinking" enough to force HTTPS.
It is not the prisoner's dilemma at all. If everyone gets big cars then everyone is equally as safe. They don't all die.

For crying out loud, people, I know it's stupid, I know it's wrong, but it's the truth. It's an uncomfortable truth that your downvoting will not change.
This is abuse of copyright.

IA did bad, and should not be rewarded for this behavior.
Sort of. The keys have limited space on them (20 for some Yubikey models) for resident keys. You wouldn't want to be always using them for everything.
Timing is something Apple does really well. It's almost never the "first" to anything, but it waits until all of the stars align and then invest heavily.
> Almost no problems can be represented exactly by rationals. Even the sqrt(2) you started with is not rational.

Almost all numerical problems software developers deal with can be represented exactly using rationals. Only a small fraction of all problems involve transcendentals. And those can't be represented exactly by floats either so I don't know what point you're making?

> For example, if you tried to compute a simple mandelbrot set with rationals, you'd need more bytes than there are subatomic particles in the universe (~10^80).

Well, yes. You'd run into the same problem if you tried to compute all the decimals of pi too. Using rationals does not mean that you can't round results.

> So you see rationals are computationally unusable for even simple tasks.

I see that rationals cannot represent all real numbers.

> These can be arbitrarily slow and use arbitrarily large memory for simple problems - which I stated above when I said "Such things are either incredibly inefficient or mathematically unsound." For example simple converging infinite sums that don't have closed forms known to your tools would never evaluate - the only solution is some fixed, finite representation if you want to use the value in later computations.

I wrote that in mainstream languages should be able to evaluate (2^(1/2))^2 == 2. How do you go from there to requiring them to be able to evaluate infinite sums?!

> Care to show me where deep learning libraries do perfect symbolic computation in the process of deep learning?

I didn't claim that.

> Most compilers would reduce sqrt(2) * sqrt(2) to 2? List them. (Heck - list one!) It's simply not true (as can be checked trivially for all common C++ compilers on godbolt).

I didn't claim that. Compilers are stuck with IEEE 754 fp semantics and therefore won't simplify (2^(1/2))^2. But there is no technical reason why they couldn't.

To paraphrase your reply: "Rational arithmetic and symbolic computation can't solve every problem. Therefore they are useless/no better than floating point arithmetic." From a theoretical perspective that is perhaps true but in practice both are very useful tools.
Homemade “Aerial Street View” for Island Nation of Mauritius
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Ask HN: How can I find a toy/side project that will captivate me?
I know that this sounds like one of these questions where only the one asking them knows the answer, but I'm hoping that someone else can relate to me.

I've been working in the same company for the past 8 years and I'm pretty happy with it.

However, at times I feel like I need to express my creativity and curiosity by having a side-project that I'll be passionate about. My GitHub though is full of unfinished toy projects.

I'm thinking antirez and how he had an idea that brought to life and continued working on for 11 years (Redis).

I'd love to have a project I care about and pour my passion for programming and energy into it, evolve it and make it something noteworthy.

TL;Dr How can I find the drive and motivation to create a piece of software that I will love working on for a decent amount of time?

However I can't find something that could motivate me to up to this point.

Have anyone else felt the same? If so, did you find a way? How?

Thanks in advance!
On the Exceptionalism of Books in an Age of Tweets
I think what it really shows is that Microsoft hasn't put much effort into making their ARM cpu device competitive.

There will always be fanboys for Apple and anyone else, but this is effectively a 2 year old CPU winning on a benchmark where I don't think anyone thought it would. That suggests that when the real hardware comes out that it will make Microsoft's ARM efforts look downright anemic.

Of course, I might be wrong, but based on Apple's history, I think I'll be proven right by January.

This leads to the next question - why is Microsoft's device so slow? Are they doing this on purpose or due to a technical limitation? Or some other reason?
>the opportunity to advance and achieve relative changes in class and wealth are not as positive as they once were in the US

When were opportunities for poor black people better and what metric do you use for this comparison?
North Acquired by Google – The Canadian Gov. Subsidizes Failing Tech Companies
> I do not mean to understate the importance of privacy in the modern web

> Why would someone, as a developer and a user, want to use Firefox over Safari (mostly) and Chrome (for work).

You wrote the answer before the question. Safari might have users' best interest at heart, but anything that stops an advertising company's browser from dominating the market is a good thing.
Yeah, I think there are two sides of it. One is as you say, people need to keep an open mind and accept good ideas on their merits.

I try to limit my online discourse because I know I'm prone to knee-jerk reactions. A _very_ long time ago I wondered to myself why this mbostock person knew so much about d3. A little while later it clicked, haha!
I feel like search is fixed in the newer versions of windows 10. At least if you do a fresh install. I haven't had much issue in the last year or more.
Has anyone ever tested their claimed storage life of 50 years?
Transaction fees disproportionately limit small transactions.
Pedestrians have no place on the road, just like cyclists. They aren't people, they are obstacles. It's going to take a huge reform to change that, especially in the US.
I switched recently to an iPhone after 6 years on Android, including messing around with Cyanogenmod/LineageOS. It's not that bad, especially considering that Android is reaching the same level of lockdown that Apple has enforced, so you might as well use something that is reasonably secure and has official software update support for 5+ years.
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For SpaceX, Falcon 9 reuse is now essential
> Car accidents is top1-top2 death reason in US for people in 20-40 age group [1]

Car crashes where the top 1-2. I am willing to bet most of those involved DUI, and therefore negligence, and shouldn't be classed as "accidents"

#CrashNotAccident.
Especially when it comes to dual-language support... Swype was excellent at determining which language you meant to use.