skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hopes that the finding will perhaps lead to a new understanding of immunosuppression in humans, and perhaps better treatments for organ transplant recipients in the future

Honestly that always sounds like a little stretch to me, like porting kqueue user code to iocp through cygwin under wine and expecting the same io performance.
How useful are such ads to the companies? Are there forum members who discover products through them that they wouldn't otherwise? Old school stuff was genuinely useful, because we didn't have Internet to do product research before buying, but now...
I’d argue if you’re solving a real problem, it’s hard NOT to make money in software.
> You want the EU to regulate whether a company wants to put a headphone jack in their devices?

> So you've suggested 4 things, 3 of which don't apply and 1 of which (headphone jacks) would be gross governmental overreach.

There is precedence for the EU mandating Apple change their hardware practices:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2020/02/11/apple-ch...

> So you've suggested 4 things, 3 of which don't apply and 1 of which (headphone jacks) would be gross governmental overreach.

Here's a 5th one:

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/29/tile-writes-to-eu-accus...
Did you check? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholly_foreign-owned_enterpris...
The LYMErix vaccine caused similar autoimmune reactions to the disease in some people. There was a lawsuit, and it was pulled from the market. Hopefully the new one does not do that.
A new set of pixels every 16ms is about throughput and we do have that. But the latency today is worse than in the VGA era.

If you have a completely black screen and want to draw a tiny white circle in the middle of it, it will take your processor or GPU less than a microsecond to change the bytes. Less than 16 milliseconds later (an average of 8ms, actually) the updated bytes will be flowing through the HDMI wires and into the monitor. There they will be stored into a local buffer. If there is a mismatch between the image format and the LCD panel then it will probably be copied to a second buffer. Some DMA hardware will then send the bytes to the drivers for the LCD and the light going through those pixels will change. All that can easily add up to 50ms or more.
What we'd recognize as vi was first called "ex" - and since it was more featureful than ed, it was also a larger program [0]

The essence of BSD is also still in use, but I'm willing to bet that once this essence - much like that of ex - has been expanded into something we'd consider a capable system today, it's also going to require a lot more resources.

[0] https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2BSD/src/ex/RE...
I lost a Bitcoin wallet with ~50BTC back when it was priced at pennies. I was so young then. Oh well.
Possibly, I think "snap" is there purely for clickbait reasons, to imply a much larger reaction so we click through. "Responds" would have been more accurate, though not as converty.
Here’s his reasoning: https://superuser.com/a/419167

“ The bad performance on the Sony is due to poor software engineering. Some TV features, like motion interpolation, require buffering at least one frame, and may benefit from more. Other features, like floating menus, format conversions, content protection, and so on, could be implemented in a streaming manner, but the easy way out is to just buffer between each subsystem, which can pile up to a half dozen frames in some systems.”

What he’s talking about is (in his opinion) unnecessary buffering that causes a delay in the pixel actually appearing on screen.

He blames the driver and the display’s internal software, so his argument could be made out to support OP, but I think the situation is a bit more complex than Wirth’s law here.
Good news is iPhone 11, XR, and {XS, 11Pro} Max have great battery lives (XS not so much and I'd be vary of 11 Pro but don't know personally)
Well if Nvidia acquires ARM, just maybe it will push apple to riscV
There are the fantastic Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator.

It is not precisely a car simulator, but everything else is spot on.
I see the nitpicking continues.

Is the Xamarin brand still strong?

Yes.

Nothing else is important. It is clearly a separate brand which is OBVIOUSLY going to be integrated (otherwise why buy it?)

But it remains a differentiable entity with the power of Microsoft behind it.

Continue nitpicking.
you're right. for me personally, i think it's much worse.

the odds that chinese goverment data collection ever affects me is minimal. as a canadian citizen who sometimes visits the US and routinely uses services provided by american companies, the odds that US government data collection affects me in some way is pretty high.
I did say "might be" :-)
CCP: "We rocked some folks"

What do you expect he could possibly say? The megalomaniac is now practically a CCP hostage. Or experiencing an investor version of Stockholm syndrome, in the best case.
No surprise there. The next question is: which will change?
Show HN: Quick and Dirty Emotet Analysis
Sounds like it's more likely to happen on Android

https://9to5google.com/2020/07/13/google-and-microsoft-pwa/

...than on iOS

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-web-app-plans-collide-with-...
Does that include the initramfs?
IIRC, They paid back the bribes which they collected using shell companies
But grades aren't important for success, they're important for opportunity. The student with lower grades may lose out on some opportunities, or only get access to them later, but if they've gained better understanding (while a student) of the material, they'll be better off in the long run than the person acing every test and homework, primarily by cramming and forgetting in a week.

Once you get a job, your grades barely matter anymore. And after several positions and a few years in the field, no one is likely to ask for your transcript.
That is simply untrue. You cant learn, for example, advanced cryptography outside a classroom.
You have presented almost 2 full frames of pixels in 28ms, but how many frames out of date were they when they made it to a human's retina?
What a ridiculous divide-and-conquer definition of “monopoly.”

Apple is one supplier out of many in the mobile device space. “iPhone users” do not constitute an industry any more than “Windows Store users.”

By your logic I could just divide every service and every industry over and over, until everything happens to be a monopoly over some small uniform subset of users.

HN is a monopoly over HN users! Nike is a monopoly over people in the Nike store! Whole Foods is a monopoly over people visiting grocery stores at this Whole Foods address! Government, please control and regulate all of these out of existence!
Oh interesting. That's a good point.
Humans need entertainment, too. Mindless, low-energy entertainment sometimes - especially so when they're already exhausted from work.
> Software engineers are much more aware and focused on the problem of technical attacks.

We’re constantly presented with evidence to the contrary.
Microsoft and TikTok doesn’t have to make strategic sense if the deal works
All but trivially reproducible bug reports require, or benefit immensely from, logs about the transaction in question. The pipeline from support to product to engineering to an actual investigation is usually much more than 7 days.
Does this mean China is correct in censoring information and social networks?
Instead of Assistance, how about an Artificial Intelligent Agent to bid for you?
Aren't there suppose to sign the back of your card in the provided space? Or is it different by country?
It's a common word in a bunch of related languages: Punjabi, Hindi, Marathi, Bangla. It seems to be a tadbhava form of Sanskrit "lakuTa" meaning 'stick'.
Competition doesn't produce good outcomes, it produces winners who then have a monopoly and can create barriers to entry so that competition no longer exists.
I work at a FAANG (albeit the least respected one) and yes, I do feel this way.
deleting irreplaceable cultural history as they go
> Your home was broken into and they stole the stack of personal records for your small business' employees that you left sitting on the dining room table? Yes, you should be liable for that because you were not the only victim and those others were victimized due to your own negligence. The documents were not properly secured, was your home properly secured as well given the sensitive material you were housing there?

This is one of those ideas that seems to be made in good faith but ultimately harms the competition far more than it harms the industry leaders. Twitter can afford cameras and alarm systems for its data centers; I can’t. Twitter can afford to hire armed guards; I can’t.

The ultimate end result of a policy like this is that people will simply kill anyone trespassing on their property; after all, who knows what documents they may have seen or confidential records they may have exfiltrated. It’s way too heavy handed.
I Asked GPT3 How AI Can Exploit Humans
Ask HN: Would anyone with ML/NLP experience give me some pointers?
Hello HN,

I am Sumit and I'm trying to prototype a feature for my product and need ML/NLP guidance. I don't need a bulletproof solution, just something to work. My product, dwata.com, aims to make database queries available to non-technical people without SQL. I've seen recent YC companies launch to solve similar issues (BaseDash being most recent). I'm trying to tackle consumption and exploration of data more than modification.

### What I have
A Python/SQLAlchemy based query builder which infers relations, column types, cardinality and does the best suited JOINs (1-1, M-1) or embedded queries (1-M or M-M). The intent of the user matters (expressed visually), and if separate SQL is better, the software should do that.

### The ML/NLP part
What I want is to be able to answer a question like "show me latest orders of red bags". Assuming that "Red" is a Color value in a Product Attribute table and Bag is a Product Category. This is all made up but I think it is easy to understand what I am trying minimally.

### What I think is a start
Generate English queries for a DB. Like "show me content with tag travel", "show me latest orders". I can use some textual templates to generate permutations of the data and relations. Then get an ML based system to learn these and corresponding correct SQL. Now, as I understand, if I throw a new English query at this learning system, then I should get a new SQL.

### What I need
If you are experienced with ML/NLP and are willing to give me a short set of bulletpoint that you feel would get me to a working prototype, it would really help me. I have a very basic idea of NLP, ML but have not worked with them. I need a kick-start.

Note: You can see the current, very basic, query builder here - https://github.com/brainless/dwata/blob/develop/backend/utils/query_builder.py

I would be tremendously thankful if you can spare a little time to guide me, thanks.
Sumit Datta
Bullshit jobs are an orthogonal problem, though. With solutions like UBI, or different arrangements wrt ownership of capital. I don't think it makes much sense to narrowly focus on it in the context of content creation.
This is probably driven by a precedent set recently in Australia where media organisations were found to be legally responsible for any defamatory comments on their stories in Facebook.

https://www.gtlaw.com.au/insights/nsw-court-appeal-confirms-...
I kinda liked it, but you're right, it's not a car sim, and its world is kind of limited. It should be possible to make real driving routes with todays tech, for instance. Outerra proves it.[1]

[1]: https://outerra.com/
> Then the business geniuses ran the businesses into the ground

That can happen to startups even if the "geniuses" isn't sarcasm.

> and I got paid nothing.

You didn't draw a paycheck? Why not? Were you a co-founder?
Those large amount bindings are possible due to the GTK be written in C, which allows creating binding to GTK via FFI - foreign function interface or native interface (borrowing the term from java JNI).

Creating bindings to QT is harder because Qt is written in C++ and C++ compilers does not have a standard ABI and FFIs foreign function interfaces can only load C-compatible functions and types. Another challenge is that older Qt (< Qt5) versions relied too much on MOC - Meta Object Compiler for reflection and callbacks.

The workaround for calling a C++ libraries from other languages is to create a C-API for the C++ library via 'extern "C"' wrappers with opaque pointers. Qt could be used by many other programming languages if it was shipped with an official C-API or interface as previously mentioned.

I a have a proof-of-concept code of a C-API for Qt5 Widgets and three client codes in C, D-language and Julia language which call the C wrapper library and build Qt5-Widgets user interfaces. This code is available at: https://caiorss.github.io/C-Cpp-Notes/CwrapperToQtLibrary.ht...

Another way to generate bindings to C++ libraries is by using SWIG that parses the C++ code generates native interface bindings.
> would lose its last bit of moral high ground in China

I mean it is no different than the EU requiring US companies to host data in EU data centers.

China has banned so many US companies - why is it unfair to retaliate?

The use of economic power shouldn’t only be acceptable when done by corporations. Governments with a backbone should use it too (like the EU has done when appropriate)
Look up Keith Baar. He has some suggestions.
you update drivers on your phone? i just flash a new rom. it's got all the drivers i need in it. and on a phone from 2011, i can put the latest operating system. you cannot. you then spout the superior glory of being stuck on an outdated version because you got a security patch. how is that superior to also security patches, and even latest os if you want?

you don't need anything from dell to update windows. you literally just install windows.

the reason i bring up linux isn't clear? because android runs on it.
Frustrating, but unsurprising. I look at electronic musicians online and you can see that - 15 years ago they'd drop one album every few years and it would be wall-to-wall perfection. Now they drop multiple albums per year and it's mostly... okay.

YouTube did the same thing to video content. The internet drives everything to the lowest common denominator.
It's not only that it doesn't mean the dictionary definition. There's no usage - colloquial or otherwise - of that term I'm familiar that fits the situation.

It's disingenuous at best to refer to the response as "snapping".
Section 1.89 in the Exposure Draft clarifies this, I think:

> 1.89 In the case of a social media service such as Facebook, this rule deals with the situation where the news business has posted its covered news content on the news business’ own social media page. Comments on the news business’ articles posted by somebody else on another Facebook page are not covered by this law.

If I read this right, they don't need a way to filter comments on a link to their article that someone else posts, just comments underneath one of their own posts. Still not great, but less intrusive than that text you quoted seemed to imply (I couldn't find in that exact wording in your link).
I do think the title could have been made more accurate by weakening it, but I'm curious linguistically why the title as is evokes hatred. Would you feel it similarly misleading if a headline said "individual crashes their car" but it turned out they had another conveyance and could still drive? Is it that the title leaves open the ambiguity that it could be referring to one of its immune systems versus the entire immune system? Or is it to do with the semantics of the verb deleted that implies a completeness of removal? I suppose the closest parallel I can think of is "Big bank deletes its security system", which would be confusing, but I wouldn't be led to believe that they removed all their doors and windows too, even if they are technically components of physical security, and I wouldn't really expect that to be disambiguated in the headline.

To me personally, the most characteristic part of the immune system is the adaptive portion of it, and when I hear that an organism's immune system is deleted, the first thing that comes to mind is that it doesn't produce or recognize antibodies, rather than that it has deleted its skin and mucosa, so this doesn't really feel that dishonest compared to other forms of click-bait. Not perfectly accurate, but if it had said "deleted some of its immune system", I probably wouldn't have assumed that it was missing its entire adaptive immune system. To me, it feels like the pragmatics dulls the semantic ambiguity to a pretty tolerable level, especially for popular science reporting. Maybe I'm missing the point and the issue at hand is how we talk about the immune system in general. Hope this doesn't come off as attacking, I'm interested in understanding the semantic point you're presenting.
It's disingenuous to claim you are not making money as landlord.

You are building equity - maybe your monthly profits are 0 early on, but your total value is increasing m/m. You can sell your rental property once your mortgage is paid off. If you back calculate your monthly profit is essentially ~ (selling price) / months owned.
Props to your grandfather. I can barely lift even a small garden.
Artists can choose what song plays first on an album on Bandcamp.
It is honestly frightening that HN wants to give Apple more power over tech after what we've seen from their treatment of HEY, the butterfly keyboard, and the Magic Mouse 2 port.
I've been working on redesigning one of my own. https://gitlab.com/EllisGL/glt-esokb1/-/tree/development

I do plan on making a normal staggered version of this, along with the other 40% in both normal and staggered columnar.
Also of all the big tech companies Microsoft is probably the worst at psychological warfare to hack into people’s brains and change their behaviors. As annoying as Microsoft Office is, it’s not trying to manipulate your political beliefs or get you to buy some shoes you don’t need.
Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One he is banning TikTok
Musical.ly (stylized as musical.ly) was a social media service headquartered in Shanghai with a US office in Santa Monica, California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musically
I'm just curious how china will continue to rock after they lose access to intel, amd and nvidia.

I'd be delighted to use a linux/bsd based risc-v phone/pc/laptop...but I'm less optimistic about general availability...
Is there something like this that is wireless between the two halves? Split ergo keyboards look really neat, but like to keep my desk as clean looking as possible.
> WW2 is a good example, diplomacy with italy and japan would have prevent or deescalate many of their aggressions

How that could possible work?

UN talks to Italy and Japan saying: hey guys, we know you already killed a lot of people (especially you Japan, Nanjing Massacre), and we know you are Germany allies, but please, do nothing while we crush the Germany, and then we will liberate all the territories you have already acquired, but you just deescalate your aggression.

What would be the reason for Italy and Japan to listen the "UN"?

Oh, BTW, League of Nations existed prior to WW2, and Germany, Italy and Japan were it's members.

> If China starts invading asia for example, the UN can

China has veto. UN can't do anything against China.
For online purchase?
I know that DMB, Phish, and TGD have a BIG bootleg community. I think this is a great idea and key to their success as cult bands.

I wish more bands would do this. Something about a bootsy live album with all its background noise and character that makes it very entertaining.
This is a weird take (I’m not familiar with nextcloud, perhaps a bit sensationalist?).

To suggest the state of surveillance is much different here in the EU is odd to me. The US and many EU countries have highly integrated and open sharing of intelligence systems and have for decades. As of late EU countries are becoming more integrated (not less) with each other and the US when it comes to the intelligence front.

Nearly all countries have complex surveillance programs, they are arguably necessary to maintain national security. The hope of democratic countries is to have ample checks and balances so that information is used appropriately and only in the scope of national security.
But they still can not drink alcohol...
University scientists offer a way out of Covid-19 testing morass (8 min video)
Ubuntu's (and to my knowledge also Fedora's) boot chain is not fully validated. An evil maid can easily swap out the initramfs.
That was one of the low key funniest things I’ve ever read on hacking news
I have a genetic disorder. This causes me to have a compromised immune system.

This is a personal sore point for me because of that. Trying to figure out "What in heck does that even mean in practical terms????!!!" has been a years-long process.

My condition is a dread disease and it's torture. Figuring out how to effectively manage it has been complicated by the misleading way we frame immune function. So I wish the world wouldn't do that to begin with.
I'm curious if anybody here has the experience to compare how much harder it is to make a living in music as an artists vs how hard it is to break into tech.

I'm biased myself, having spent the last 20 years studying software dev and then working in software. I feel that while it is a lot of work, the market is quite hot for any technical talent, and making a decent living is straightforward. Even a shitty software dev likely makes a comfortable living, you don't have to be Jeff Dean. In CS you can graduate from MIT and probably be set for life, but in music you can graduate from Juliard or Berklee and likely still be living on a futon for decades. Or am I off here?

Whereas as a solo producer/composer (or someone in a band) it seems that getting anywhere near ramen profitability is really really hard. It's reminiscent of startups: you have to find your niche, you have to constantly stay relevant, you have to market yourself incessantly on every medium, and most likely you'll be drowned into obscurity by someone else who became a winner-take-all in that space. And while the payoff for founders in small to medium startups is still pretty decent (and can be life-changing), as an artist is seems like the polarization between starving and huge is even greater.

Even in photography you can always "sell out" and shoot weddings in perpetuity while you're doing more artistic work on the side. And that "main gig" pays reasonably well, even though it's exhausting. But with music things like playing gigs will likely not get you anywhere close to sustainability. Maybe teaching is the "weddings" of music?
You always represent value even if you don't pay. You might introduce the music to someone who will pay. It's freemium model applied to music industry.
Wow - I guess Bruce did OK! Good for him.
Google has been making TPUs and similar high end chips, in addition to their Titan chips.

I wouldn't be surprised if they make their own networking chips.
> But you cannot require that Apple do work to build support for third-party app stores. Property rights do not extend to forcing other people to do labour for you.

You and I can't, at least not directly. But governments certainly can, if they deem it in the interest of the citizens they serve.
But a lot of these names seem to be manufactured words that are intended to sound foreign and exotic, and thus cool.

For instance, Herman Miller has just introduced the "Motia" Gaming Desk [1]. They don't offer an explanation for what "Motia" means, and I can't seem to Google/DDG the meaning, because search results in my location are overwhelmed by the colloquial meaning of "motia" in Hindi and Urdu. That meaning is "cataract", an unfortunate name for a gaming desk that goes out of its way to reduce eye strain by sporting a matte, anti-glare finish.

[1] https://store.hermanmiller.com/gaming/motia-gaming-desk/2520...
This. :-)