skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not "smoking gun", it is not scientific, it is not even "study". This is more likely screaming "fire!" in theatre.

Also what you suggested is not symmetric, let me explain:

- There is a claim tiktok is downloading some zip file, extracting and executing.

making this claim is almost free, for me to claim otherwise, requires to reverse engineer all the app, then check 100s of possibilities to execute code in android app.

For example I took a quick look, and couldn't find anything related to this claim.

Also I checked reports from some "security" companies, there is nothing concrete there too. Mostly they talk about some SDK from appsflyer, which is used by a lot of apps, getting a lot of data, including IMSI etc (which is a US company btw)

But if you still ask me if it is running downloaded code, I cannot say 100% certain "no".

I believe claims should need proof, not the other way around.
At least for some software, I noticed bugs were also reported in Phabricator, not only Bugzilla.
I don't think the website targets the wrong audience - just the copywriter was so involved in the project they forgot to make what they're offering clear.

When someone says "permanently keep your stuff, for life" do they mean some sort of pay-once eternal backup, like permanent.org? Something censorship-resistant, like Freenet? Something peer-to-peer and distributed-ledger based like Filecoin? Backing up data locked up in cloud services? Converting obscure file formats into ones with more longevity? Bypassing defunct DRM? Activism against civil forfeiture?
I am not convinced by this. It would seem that, if it works the way you say, a bubble's surface could be under compression.

Consider a section of tire wall, with the same pressure on either side. It is curved outwards, and if you put compression on it, it will buckle outwards. If there is higher pressure on the inside of the curve, that would help with the buckling, not prevent it.

In an inflated tire, as in a bubble, it is the tension along the curved surface that resists the internal pressure. What keeps the sidewall of an inflated tire from buckling is that the buckling would decrease the radius of the curve locally, increasing the net inwards force of the tension over the area that is buckling.
<close> seems to be a nice feature. wish it could be ported to luajit.
I dread the day when they actually go for 4chan. While it's being heavily attacked especially in recent weeks, it's still by far the bigest place to get neutral information and discussion.
I find this is also true for writing code. Sometimes I wake up at 4 AM and will easily code until 8 AM, and that will be 80% of my code for the day.

I also found that this is the time when I write my least cynical comments, that pull in the most upvotes.
Better only being downvoted than being Canceled, like so many others are for daring to question the new "truths".

So many people's economic and social lives have already been destroyed.
The biggest problem is that Apple insists on tying the fake email with your iCloud email, which the vast majority of people don’t use.

If they tied it instead to what people’s normal mail was, a lot of issues would be averted.
I'm pretty sure all of these are problems you have with the web or with an advertising based business model - not Chrome.

Note that all these problems apply to Firefox, Safari and Blink as well.

And most (all?) of them apply to other platforms (cite: TikTok, plenty of viruses on every platform).
As far as I can tell, in my department Overleaf isn't liked because it's (a) a personal service, (b) a subscription, and (c) from a company that they don't have in a labyrinthine Oracle-provided, horrific and IE5 "preferred" online purchasing system [which typically takes ~8 months to be added to]. Of these (b) is really the biggest bugbear because my research fellowship has a fixed budget for a fixed term and monthly subscriptions are basically anathema to the way that they do accounting.

I have one piece of commercial FEM software that is only ever "licensed not sold" [annually] -- an annual license is ~£1k; a perpetual one ~£100k. It's quite clear that the company want to go in that direction. I hate it. I don't like subscriptions, and I get riled by central university finance departments every single time...

Ironically, laptops and hard drives etc are quite easy to purchase: they count as 'consumables' and I have never worked in a department that actually audits their lifecycle properly -- much like lab reagents, once they're bought, the university [or my interactions with it at any rate] doesn't seem to even care if the first thing I do is throw it in a bin. This is a Good Thing™ as far as I'm concerned. Having decent computing wherever I am is absolutely key to getting my job done.

Slightly more on topic, the other thing I would say is that quantitative departments are very good at teaching their students LaTeX, but not necessarily teaching them to it well. I won't exactly say that learning TeX made me a better physicist, but it definitely helped me communicate like a professional one. I interact a lot with doctors and bioscientists -- I basically work in medical imaging -- and trying to cross that divide is very hard; we forget that doing a physics degree gives you lots of transferable skills. Overleaf is excellent at providing a "user-friendly face" for projects that I can share with doctors -- they don't need to understand the code, nor have the distribution installed locally; they can just contribute to a paper in progress quite easily, and in particular it's "track changes" feature is something that they like. My team and I tend to use git and % comments, but the value of a web UI is definitely there.

Debugging problems like alluded to in the original article is definitely easier locally, however.
This is something new and modern in the world of JavaScript frameworks after a long time.
As I would liked your approach in other times, wouldn't it be a bad one in today"s privacy matters/GDPR and being able to enumerate your database?
> If I need an email to verify I'm not a bot, that's fine. But if a trusted 3rd party can verify I'm not a bot, then the only reason you would want my email is to do something unethical with it: namely, use my data in a way that I never intended gave you permission to use it.

This was addressed in the article. If the service provider does not have your email address, they are severely hampered with regards to customer support.
Actually, anesthesiologists are middle of the pac in regards to malpractice. Whenever someone quotes income levels for physicians, it's usually after all expenses, including malpractice. It really doesn't matter how much a doctor pays in malpractice, it's what their net income is after. Neurosurgeons pay close to $100k / year, but make $500k+.

Anyway, anesthesia is much safer than 30 years ago

https://theanesthesiaconsultant.com/do-anesthesiologists-hav...
Perkeep is camlistore, FYI.
Oh, yeah... webcrypto only works on HTTPS.

So you would need to ship a crypto library in JS, hehe :)

Self-signed certs probably does work, if you install the certificate root on your machine. It just not something you would advice end-users to do.
This should be interesting. Probably far too complicated for me to understand, but will still take a look. Surprised to see VHDL instead of Verilog, but not complaining at all.

edit: Just took a look. Code is nice and clean but complicated was an understatement.
The most dangerous pathogens in human history have moved by stealth
But there are no managers in SCRUM. It is doomed to fail once methodology is thrown out and replaced with manager. I've been on SCRUM presentation in 2007. They explicitly stated - we help forming the team and go away.
Ok, I think there really is a difference in how people perceive slowdowns.

- Google Docs is substantially slower than MS Word, especially when you have more content inside.

- app.diagrams.net seems to be quite good with the few shapes I added

- gmail is much slower for me than the native Mac email app

- Slack is very slow compared to something like Telegram native on the mac, or even Zoom.

- VS Code feels worse and worse with every release. They are adding more feature but I feel its less and less responsive.

- Google Calendar is slower than the native Mac calendar app.

These are a few apps that I heavily use on a daily basis. I won't say the web apps can't get decent performance. But I think on average you get better performance on native, and if you put the same amount of effort in performance tuning, the results you get on native are unachievable on web apps.
This exactly - and one of Xi's main goals is to take back Taiwan this century.

This will likely include some degree of subterfuge exactly like this - and will probably happen when the US is distracted by divisive internal conflict.
> GP is talking about the principle of free speech, which is why we have the First Amendment to begin with.

The principle of free speech behind the first amendment is that active choice in what message to spread by private parties produces a desirable marketplace of ideas analogous to a marketplace of goods, where ideas compete on their merits to convince people to devote resources to spreading them, and that this—which not only involves but relies centrally on editorial decisions by the people owning the tools of communications as to which ideas they want to spread—is critical to the progress of good and failure of bad ideas, and is inhibited when the state has their hand on the scales which is why the state must remain neutral so that private actors can act in this area.

The idea of free speech that motivates the first amendment supports free, active, and vigorous decisions as to what content to relay and not by private platform owners. That's the whole point.

There are other competing, incompatible.concepts of free speech besides the one motivating the first amendment, and some of them do have different things to say about private action, but if you want to appeal to the idea of free speech behind the first amendment, it is of no use to your argument here.
I lived most of my life in countries where "white" is the minority. I have experienced racism, from other people and from governments. But that doesn't count, because of my "wrong" skin color.

You are a racist for judging people based on the color of their skin.
Yes they are. Once you look at the actual specs beyond the name brand, you can get much better deal. Dell and Apple monitors are also going to usually be higher response time and lower hz as well, so worse performance for more money.
Ablaut reduplication: Why we say ZigZag and not ZagZig (and other quirks)
Why have you put that term in scare-quotes?
>Perhaps the "slowness" of web-based technologies like Electron et al is just the price we pay for truly universal cross-platform development?

No. That implies Electron is the best possible model by which "truly universal cross-platform development" could be achieved. We could do better, but we just don't bother trying because the web was already ubiquitous when Electron came along and web developers were already dime a dozen.
I mean, public weighbridges are a thing pretty much everywhere, whenever you have trucks bringing in any kind of goods they usually have to be weighted before and after. There's at least 3-4 public ones that you can turn up to and use without an appointment around me, it's £10-20 depending on the vehicle you're weighing.
I wrote my thesis with git + vim + latex. The main issue with collaborating like that is that you require other people to be able to use, say, git + vim + latex.† That may not be a problem for you and your colleagues. If it is however, Overleaf basically reduces it to "please open a web browser and have a look".

The other major argument is, of course, that you get an off-site backup "for free" for something as life-changing as your doctoral thesis, too.

†Of course, the other thing about having lots of local commits is that you can easily graph, say, words as quantified by texcount vs time and include the resulting diagram in the final copy of the document...
How does KDE go around the absence of merge approvals in CE? I think that this is the vital functionality for large and complex projects like KDE.
https://unherd.com/2019/01/the-politics-of-the-patreon-purge...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvqeev/crowdfunding-site-...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/blakemontgomery/the-alt...
There goes the neighbourhood.
Klarna is a bank that is connected to the Visa network. So, inherently, it is bound by the same rules as any other bank. So, in the context of this thread, they are not a competitor to Visa/MasterCard.
>Do those clients work on my mac, my chromebook, my windows box, and my android phone?

Yes.

>Call me crazy, but I prefer web apps for that kind of stuff. I'm also glad I don't have to download an app to use Hacker News.

Web means HTTP, Email is POP3/SMTP/IMAP. Different protocol, different programs. That you can use a website to view and send emails is not the default case and is merely a interface to those protocols.
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The fastest way to do that is through phone-based payments.

Those protocols are substantially more open than Visa/MasterCard, and introducing a competition shouldn't require hardware changes for the POS.
It's not like other popular login systems can't also arbitrarily terminate your account, but the really problematic thing here is “Sign in with Apple”'s email hiding, which removes the lifeline of emailing your customers when you lose your sign-in provider.
Every major release of Lua has always been a different language, and embedding in general encourages not upgrading. If you ship something based on Lua 5.2, how to handle all existing user scripts if you upgrade Lua?
And kids ;-)
> existing modern medicine is that we are very limited by what we can measure

Something I can add to this is depression (and related states with so many names) is a subjective thing in a way that the cause is in how person sees the world. Subjective things you can't measure by definition so they only work with the consequences which can be measured like chemical changes, brain activity etc. But the source is quite different.
This may improve colour sensitivity, but by far the biggest vision problem due to ageing is long-sightedness. This does nothing for that.
Yeah, I get it re. the Lottie just the stats do not match my personal experience with Flutter animations.
Still, kudos for the work; there's some really interesting data there.
Only KDE devs can merge MRs. We review, say that the patch looks good in a comment and then merge.
"const variables" makes me giggle a little
> Something I can add to this is depression (and related states with so many names) is a subjective thing in a way that the cause is in how person sees the world.

I think you are literally confusing cause and effect of depression here.
A day in the life of a full stack developer
Guillotine Placed Outside Jeff Bezos' D.C. Home by Anti-Amazon Protesters
It isn't mandatory health insurance that makes it more expensive: I have taxpayer funded insurance, which basically makes it mandatory for most (some folks don't qualify if you are a certain category of immigrant, but you still have to have it). There is a private option if you want to pay extra.

... And the system is more efficient because of standardization and pooling money together.

The US system doesn't have much of any standardization, and in general has a lot more facilities than it might otherwise need - plus things like some of the government provided insurance not paying enough and not having the ability to act like public insurances. These all make it more expensive. Heck, even standardizing insurance coding would help.

It is cruel to expect folks to take out a loan for medical emergencies. In some places, you die if you can't pay. It isn't like health is completely under your control: Type I diabetics couldn't prevent it (for example). Many cancers can't be avoided. And so on.

Negotiating with medical facilities is a pipe dream. There are many cases where you simply don't have the choice (emergency) nor the mental space to do it (for example, do you know how to judge what facilities are better for a gall bladdar removal surgery? How about where to get cancer treatment? How does one judge any of that?)

Does care insurance cause you to drive fast? Seriously? Isn't that more cultural than whether or not you have insurance?
White nationalists are the canary in the coal mine. Sure, nobody cares about the canary itself. But everyone should care why the canary died, because it has implications for us all.

What is more dangerous to society than white nationalists, are social media websites that want to be our public spaces for discussion while also policing which ideas are acceptable to talk about.
"If it's the same country that's making a mess elsewhere, too bad."

This reminds me about Poland and Hungary taking part in dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. People there probably were saying something similar to 'too bad'.

"And obviously, aligned troops stationed somewhere can't make conflict more likely. "

The US was about to take a chance and start WW3 when the USSR was going to put nuclear missiles on Cuba as a countermeasure to the US putting missiles in Turkey.

"Oh and get the fuck out of Ukraine already, will you?"

I don't think that will happen.

Russia was okay with the newly independent Ukraine keeping stolen Crimea and with paying enormous rent for Russian fleet base there until the US 'midwifed' a coup that deposed a democratically elected president and the threat of NATO expansion into the Ukraine became imminent.
H1N1 swine influenza virus with 2009 pandemic genes facilitating human infection
These things aren't absolute.

But, at least in that country, you cannot use the postal service or major delivery services to deliver packages locally for a similar cost and delivery price as internationals... With amazon being the recent, and blatant culprit.

They deal they did with the postal service are not a secret. Neither are delivery times.

Monopolies, and the effect they have on the economy are not newtonian physics. It's not deterministic. Economic structures create prevailing winds, not airtight control over outcomes.

Postal services are a structure. The structure creates a prevailing wind that heavily biases an outcome.
I almost can't believe that it's 2020 and people are still disscussing or even worse "utilizing" Scrum. Pretty much all good and excellent Software engineers I know who had to deal with it at various companies hated it.
In Stockholm, Sweden, many stores have stopped accepting cash altogether. Even before Covid.
It should theoretically be possible to run native apps through WASM in the browser requiring no installation and have native speed, no? I'm sad to see this not being more popular among "regular" web apps.
I am missing a rather likely cause in the article: The idea that writers lie about their morning writing because it makes them sound virtuous. (Which also explains why fiction writers prefer morning writing ;)

Given that a large part of this article rests on self-reported data from interviews (which are specifically vehicles of self-promotion), and that the more anonymous data seems to contradict the interview data, I'd consider this as a more likely explanation than most.
SE has one camera, 11 has two, iPad has two and LIDAR ...
How to Make a Simple XSS Keylogger?
Obama made the best warning/observation (better than any during his presidency imho) it turned into a circular firing squad.
Mallards ferry fish eggs between waterbodies
OK fair enough. I am no American, BTW, and every culture talking about every other culture has this problem, in both ways.

Now I do see a fairly negative response here, without anything to replace it. So make us all on hacker news one of the lucky 10 000 today: What does China aspire to? What are the overarching themes in the Chinese view of the world, and how do they differ from the Western ones?

I recently learned some about the Chinese vision. If it's wrong, I'd like to learn something more.
Aren't there infinite number of groups we can group people by? And effectively everyone belongs to unique group of size 1 which is that, unique person herself?
Image augmentations are hard to add to training. It may seem easy, but it requires a lot of thought.

(To back up a bit: Image augmentations are how you solve that problem. "How do I make my model robust across different cameras?" It might be tempting to gather labeled data from a variety of cameras, but that doesn't necessarily result in a model that can handle newer, larger-res cameras. So one solution is to distort the training data with augmentations so that the model can't tell which resolution the input images are coming from.)

The other way to deal with it is to just downscale the camera's image to, say, 416x416. But that introduces a question: can different cameras give images that look different when downscaled to 416x416? Sure they can! Cameras have a dizzying array of features, and they perform differently in different lighting conditions.

To return to the point about image augmentations being hard to add: It's so easy to explain what your training code should do "Just distort the hue a bit" and there seem to be operations explicitly for that: https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/image/adjust_h... but when you go to train with them, you'll discover that backpropagation isn't implemented, i.e. they break in training code.

I've been trying to build an equivalent of Kornia for tensorflow https://github.com/kornia/kornia which is a wonderful library that implements image augmentations using nothing but differentiable primitives. Work is a bit slow, but I hope to release it in Mel https://github.com/shawwn/mel (which will hopefully look less like a TODO soon).

But all of this still raises the question of which augmentations to add. Work in this area is ongoing; see Gwern's excellent writeup at https://github.com/tensorfork/tensorfork/issues/35

Training a model per camera isn't necessarily a terrible idea, either. In the future I predict that we'll see more and more "on-demand" models: models that are JIT optimized for a target configuration (in this case, a specific camera).

Robustness often comes at the cost of quality / accuracy (https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14536 recently highlighted this). In situations where that last 2% of accuracy is crucial, there are all kinds of tricks; training separate models is but one of many.
A guide for Melissa: Shut the fuck up no one needs your "help"
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You got the sequence wrong, American missiles in Turkey were first.