skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always try to jump into these threads when I hear Onyx Boox mentioned. They're a lousy company that does not respect the GPL and ships intentionally insecure software (ancient linux kernel with SELinux disabled for starters) that phones home to Chinese servers. The bootloader is locked, so putting pmOS is out of the question and their update files are intentionally obfuscated.

I explain it all in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041543

This received some attention in the re--it community last month--the company still does not care [0]. It's a tragedy because their hardware is good, otherwise and they can compete on that.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hl09g7/onyx_boox_chi...
USPS Headquarters Tells Managers Not to Reconnect Mail Sorting Machines
When your attention span allows you to be useful and when you are not slowing down adults.
Show me an E2E encrypted Telegram channel with 2 million people in it, or it's not a fair comparison. There are lots of unencrypted social media apps which can support groups of 2 million, just like Telegram.
GitDuck’s cofounder here. The video tech is pretty simple for now as we are using https://daily.co for that.

Daily was pretty easy to set up. If you have a React app, by following this guide [1] you can have a simple video chat quite quickly (in a matter of few hours).

Happy to answer if you have more specific questions.

[1] https://www.daily.co/blog/building-a-custom-video-chat-app-w...
But what do you do with this key, once you made it? You scan it.

And now there a simple way for "a bug, virus, malware, keylogger, etc" to steal all of your secrets.
They at least aren't in direct tension.
I think that's not actually the point that was made by cma (and my paraphrased question was imprecise).

"Why would some point of existence or meaning lead specifically to Christianity?" presumes starting with no preferred solution: "existence has a meaning. Who discovered it?". It's much more interesting than "Christianity says existence has a meaning. What makes it right?"
The loss from not having car insurance is not bearable for most people, and therefore is not a waste of money. First, your own car can be tens of thousands of dollars. Most people can't take that hit. Then, even if you drive a pile of junk, the car you hit may be worth tens of thousands of dollars. Finally, there's medical bills if you injure someone.

Oh, yeah, and then there's legal requirements that you have car insurance. So no, I don't buy the idea that car insurance is a waste of money.

Phone insurance? There I agree with you.
Programs in basic from those times: https://web.archive.org/web/20121021081826/http://www.btinte... and basic interpreter shipped in computer's ROM. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedScript
Well, perhaps not the only thing: Tree Style Tabs opens in a sidebar in Firefox (and with user CSS, can be made to auto-expand), while in Chrome it opens in a separate window.
Yes it is a problem but the solution isn’t tax cuts it’s better governance.
This comment thread is making me realize we don't have a good word to distinguish between efficiency as in "we only have 7 hospital beds because that's all we need on 99% of each day" and efficiency as in "we replaced steps X,Y,Z with just step X', because we found that X' could accomplish everything that XYZ could accomplish but it's faster, more accurate, and cheaper".

One makes a tradeoff by reducing overheads and buffers, and the other doesn't have any tradeoffs, it's just a better way of doing things based on novel techniques.
> Telegram users aren't exactly an unbiased sample

It's not quite a Telegram problem, voters in a protest poll are not an unbiased sample. This is why elections where one side denies the legitimacy of an election "invalid," in the "we all accept the results" sense.

Call it it petition, protest or public declaration. In that regard,the numbers are meaningful.
Implicit vs. explicit interactions/contracts. Both between consumers & producers but also...

The features, constraints, goals, etc. expected out of the ESB substrate by the different use cases becomes a nightmare of responsibility/blame shifting. Durability and replay? That's the ESB's problem. Load balancing? Yep, ESB. But it's screwing up the ordering guarantees! Well, make the ESB 'smarter' and we can just keep punting all of our problems to someone else. Etc.
Everyone can live and do as they like as long as they respect the right to life of everyone else.
Show HN: Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons dialogue sumamrization dataset
The abstract from the paper:

This paper describes the Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset (CRD3) and related analyses. Critical Role is an unscripted, live-streamed show where a fixed group of people play Dungeons and Dragons, an open-ended role-playing game. The dataset is collected from 159 Critical Role episodes transcribed to text dialogues, consisting of 398,682 turns. It also includes corresponding abstractive summaries collected from the Fandom wiki. The dataset is linguistically unique in that the narratives are generated entirely through player collaboration and spoken interaction. For each dialogue, there are a large number of turns, multiple abstractive summaries with varying levels of detail, and semantic ties to the previous dialogues. In addition, we provide a data augmentation method that produces 34,243 summary-dialogue chunk pairs to support current neural ML approaches, and we provide an abstractive summarization benchmark and evaluation.
I feel like his t-shirt is on backwards in the video. Does that add to the geek cred?
So you create a vendetta system to prevent one?
Suppose you're playing a videogame. Your character just leveled up. You can upgrade either Attack or HP.

* "Upgrade Attack" is more efficient. It allows you to beat the game faster. But since your HP is low, you can't afford to make mistakes (get hit).

* "Upgrade HP" is more robust. It increases your damage-buffer, which allows you to absorb more mistakes without dying. But if you make zero mistakes, you won't beat the game as quickly as if you'd upgraded Attack.

IRL the dichotomy is often "income vs wealth", "velocity vs displacement", "throughput vs latency", "strength vs endurance", etc.
If it were in our solar system then it would be in a gravitationally stable arrangement--because if it weren't it would have already thrown things out of whack in the last 4.5 billion years.
Hopefully this will change Apple's mind.
https://twitter.com/GrahamJCampbell/status/12951119829248614...
U.S. City Governments Not as Left as Reputation
Why do you consider Signal & WhatsApp, but not Telegram, to be the acceptable “pre-existing” solution? Because you are used to them in the West?
FB?
Financial Butler
I expect so, yes.
No affiliation, but check out InstaFeed. Allows you to authenticate and generate an rss feed for an Instagram profile.

https://github.com/falzm/instafeed
You'll want a two-stage system of some sort anyhow. There's a fundamental tradeoff between the ability to carry the fuel needed to gain height, maneuver into the correct position/heading/speed, loiter, etc, and to have the extreme power-to-weight ratio and maneuverability for a suicidal final attack run.

A plane that is flying high enough and can travel fast enough is essentially immune to ground-based interception. Your launch has to spend a significant amount of time and energy just to get high enough, and launches like this are extremely loud to the defending plane's sensors. If you launch too early they can just turn around and fly out of range; too late, and they can overfly and outrun your range.

Essentially, the position + velocity interception state space for smaller kamikaze designs does not necessarily include ground level & stationary for a large portion of the design space. And once you start up-scaling things to get the endurance necessary to attempt intercepts, then you lose the maneuverability and cost advantage for making kamikaze attacks, and attaching parasitic missiles or drone aircraft for the final attack run makes a ton of sense.
Microsoft removes the ability to disable Defender via the registery
Century-old vaccine limits Covid spread, so bring it back, urge Israeli experts
eh fortnite is trash anyway. pub g is much better
Having cracked e-ink displays by looking at them wrong, this person is a lot braver than I am.
Since when multitasking is efficient?

There’s a big difference between being productive and being busy.
> New buildings are rather efficient in US.

They can be, and there's lots of modern construction techniques that are really good (search term "building science").

One big problem is that a lot of stuff is still built to "minimum code" which just isn't that great. On top of that, sloppy construction work can significantly undermine what is done. In my own house I've fixed several simple things, like missing insulation around vents and holes cut too big (or created by a hammer, rather than cutting).

Here's a good walkthrough of a house under construction showing lots of problems typical to any subdivision (non-custom) build: https://youtu.be/OmU2N_Q732A
Diesel fuel won't burn as gasoline does.
Gasoline is ok here to, if compared to a hydrogen-oxygen mixture explosion ;)
I can confirm ;-)
https://twitter.com/shutupmikeginn/status/403359911481839617
It something I learned recently about ecologies, and permaculture design. And then I started applying it to my personal life. Instead of heroically finishing things, to instead, work on them in a way that is more like the regenerative and resilient processes from permaculture design.
> I remember when Arab Spring was blamed on social media and Google

There's a pretty big and well known country that is blaming the election of its president on interference of another country through social media. It seems pretty credible the same social media can have promoted protests in more unstable countries.
I want somebody to isolate these, re-engineer them to respond to a control input, and use them to implement nanowire network reservoir computing

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191226084403.h...
People are downvoting you but I fail to see any other ways for Palantir to spend that much money on marketing products that such a small number of potential clients would both want and afford.

For reference Nike only spent 7-8 times that on marketing in the same year.
Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT (2016) [video]
It would be great to learn what caused the software to behave like this. Could be that it thought she intended to continue the conversation? I remember the phones at the time having a "conversation over SMS feature", which never seemed to work for me :)

Otherwise, text only without emojis is really lacking. There are numerous cases on HN, that I have observed, where irony/sarcasm/joking is misconstrued and people react badly.

Not bothering that much that I would want emoji support, though :)
> You'll also lose money paying for insurance.

Only if you put zero value on the peace of mind that comes with having insurance against risks that, if they happened, would bankrupt you. But if you put zero value on that, you wouldn't buy insurance.
Amazon CEO of WorldWide Consumer Retiring
> Could be an object at high speed, waiting for the right gravity assist directly into us?

An object larger than Jupiter doesn't change its course because of chance encounters with other random small bodies.

> Could be a strange object with capability to disrupt the sun somehow?

This doesn't make physical sense.

> Why would an object hitherto unbeknownst to us and close to the sun NOT be scary?

Because it's had no observable effect on us for the last 4.5 billion years of our solar system's existence, and we've postulated nothing that would change this stable dynamical relationship?
The website is just an easy way to transfer the random numbers to your computer (which you arguably shouldn’t use if you need something like this.) The actual randomness generation is the dice roll, which is less likely to be broken than your /dev/random (which is probably not broken and totally fine to use)
Ask HN: Obstactles for high/mid-res non-smart glasses?
I'd love to see stereo high res smart glasses just for typing. What's the technical challenge here? Monochromatic and transparent would be fine.

Or is it that everyone is jumping the AR train that is similarly not ripe just yet.
> One of the things I've noticed, especially during heavy rain is the crazy amount of plastic bottles that end up in the rivers, which then go to the ocean.

Tell that to half of Philadelphia that throws their trash in sewer grates. It's almost like it's taught to them in school
I guess I see the appeal in that sense. It's a bad practical device, but a good security-themed desk toy. (Though for the latter, I'd prefer a combination Enigma/watch for TOTP?)
If you think about the two-dimensional efficiency/robustness space you can pretty easily see how it's isomorphic to the return/volatility space by way of simple transformations. If yourself to be convinced that such a bridge exists you can also bring tools in the return/volatility space back into the efficiency/robustness space by applying the appropriate inverse transformations. Maybe the conclusions are common sense, but I'd still read a blog framing that process by way of analogy.
@nexta_live, the main channel for Belarusian protesters has well over 2 mln subscribers.
I don’t know if those two things are as different as you suggest. Multiple steps add redundancy, if you fail one step you can get much of the value from other steps. More steps are frequently added in response to edge cases.

Could be a Chesterton’s Fence scenario

Instead of bemoaning efficiency, it’d be interesting to reward/value redundancy and antifragility, at least at the system level.

I think this could mean trust busting, regulation, and general cultural shifts.
Also technically I guess (IANAL) you might have to prove that you obtained the source code prior to the license change. We like to say code itself is licensed such and such, but in reality code is licensed to somebody. If you just place the code somewhere for a month with a license next to it and take it down again, and somebody later comes and wants to get those terms, it's probably too late.

OTOH please correct me if I'm wrong. Law contains many unintuitive things like contracts by handshake and so on :-)
Rather than stability, think of it as robustness or flexibility. Past a certain point, efficiency is an enemy of robustness.

Buying in bulk is cool. If you buy a big package of paper towels, it's cheaper and you don't have to worry about running out. The fact that you have a cabinet full of paper towels isn't a big deal. But suppose you find a really great deal on a semi-trailer load of towels and stock up. Now you have your guest bedroom full of paper towels. The next week, your cousin Edgar's house burns down; you'd like to offer him and his wife a room to stay in temporarily, but you have all this paper in the way. You have lost some flexibility.

A bigger problem is, say, corporate supply chains. With just-in-time supply, you don't have to store inputs and can focus on producing outputs; it's very efficient. But then there's a pandemic or a fire in a factory somewhere, and the supply chain falls apart. Now your outputs are perhaps in greater demand, but you can't take advantage because you have no inputs. You're out of business for the duration. You can't flexibly respond.
Gatsby Faces Community Upheaval over Commercialization Plans
I suggest basing your view of reality on facts, not fiction.
If we didn’t have things like copy writing, influencers, and landing pages, we’d be worse off. I empathize that marketing can sometimes feel borderline manipulation but ultimately the market will test you and your product to see if it lives up to what’s said/written.

if we didn’t have marketing, we’d have a discoverability problem for which alternative solutions would probably have the same issues as marketing.
But you have to agree that memorizing your password is more secure than writing it down.
You could just expose the logic as DLLs though
I get that openbsd is obsessed with security, but this still makes me a little sad. C is very old, and it should be possible to create programs and programming languages that have no idea what C is or what libc is. Forcing all programs to communicate with the OS via libc seems wrong
That is awesome. I took the Super Hokuto from Hakodate to Sapporo last year, some of the most incredible scenery of my life.

It is hard not to become a train enthusiast in Japan, especially when armed with a rail pass. I would essentially wake up in the morning, decide where to go, within the hour I had tickets and was on a train. Book a cheap hotel on the train ride, enjoy the new city until I felt like another train ride. Effortless and perfect for the unplanning wanderer.
I moved to the desert in a developing country. But fibre optics to the house took 4 days and is $55/month. There is no escape.
Three things digital ethics can learn from medical ethics [pdf]
We were trying to do Clojure pair programming in IntelliJ+Cursive and vim-iced over Tuple.app/Screen.so/Zoom/macOS-VNC-over-ZeroTier during the past few weeks.

Here are a few conclusions:

Having multiple, independent mouse cursors in one screen is and extremely useful feature.

Consistent low-latency is much more important than temporary low-quality video.

To conserve bandwidth, we hardly ever use the video-call capabilities; low-latency, crisp and wide-frequency-band audio is more than enough.

The screen sharing codec should be optimized for text, with sharp edges. I don't want to see glow or other jpeg artifacts around my letters...

Any of the mentioned programs can provide audio and video call capabilities; that's not a differentiating factor. I wouldn't mind using a separate program for just that, since it's a negligible initial inconvenience, when we are having pairing sessions for hours on end.

Instead of wasting your money on re-implementing such features in your own software, just blog about what existing solution would recommend for audio/video/chat. It's MUCH CHEAPER, than giving in to the NIH syndrome...

I would rather like to see you focus on more important aspects of developer collaboration, for example terminal and "network" sharing. After all we are writing that code not so we can talk about it, but to run it!
For example, since we are programming in Clojure, we must see the same REPL window(s) too, not just the source code. We are constantly running the code we just wrote (and its tests) in those REPLs. Currently, the least painful way to do this is sharing the whole screen :(

I haven't given up on other solutions, like Emacs in tmux or in a headless xvnc server with small resolution, 8bit colors only and tiny fonts. Viewers would just magnify it to full-screen. Characters would look pixelated, but still sharp, if the magnification factor is integer. It's a pity that open-source vnc solutions are a lot slower and macOS' built-in one and they don't support server-side resizing to the viewer's window size and things like that...
It is a fundamental law.

Systems theory has the concepts of "gain margin" and "phase margin" -- how much you can amplify feedback or delay feedback, respectively, before your self-adjusting feedback mechanism fails to find equilibrium and turns into an oscillator.

Even though most non-engineering systems don't fit the mathematical theory, the idea that only a finite amount of gain + delay is available, and that the two are somewhat inter-convertible, generalizes astoundingly well.
Because they are NSA spooks?
Spotify hit with outage after forgetting to renew a certificate
You think Abode is bad, try cancelling any recurring billing from Google, even when fraudulent. A CC of mine was compromised and a YouTube premium account was made. I've changed my card number three times, yet somehow Visa let's them keep billing me. Finally had to cancel the CC account, Google kept trying to bill it for 90 days even after multiple chargebacks and the account being frozen from all charges.
Oh I Know. As a Rails developer for 10 years, I'm always interested what patterns are developed when straying away from what the original guts of Rails.
Palintir's weren't evil spying tech. They were originally Zoom for coordinating the far flung domains of the Numenoreans. Only when the Minas Morgul palintir fell into the hands of Sauron did they become instruments of his corruption.
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24224855
Isn't this simply an issue of domain? Of course an AI will win in the simulator; have that AI drive a real plane against a real pilot in the real sky and see what happens.
I do recommend getting the book that just came out (I did, it is fantastic)

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Coders-fastai-PyTorch/d...

that said: fast.ai also released a draft of the book available here (including the notebooks) https://github.com/fastai/fastbook

edit: if you can afford it, getting the book is a great way to support the authors
Probably not but there almost certainly is the standard set of "industry standard" clauses that inevitably end up in any sort of consumer contract, basically saying "we can kick you out for any reason we want, what are you going to do, all our competitors have the same language".
What if you could better control what mobile apps do with your data?
Or mixed in with human pilots as a force multiplier. I think that is how they will start being used, so that there is always a human observer. At the start.
The diversity of the community is by design (inclusiveness takes work). The diversity of RustConf is just a side effect of that plus an anonymized review process.
> It's "toddler-proof,"

Not a parent, but this is one of the first things I thought of.
That's pretty meaningless. The effect of cache is very processor and ISA specific and has a log tail of value (as in, depending on the processor, X amount of cache may get you a 50% speedup, but 2 times X might only give you 60% so is the cost/benefit trade-off worth it). It's plausible that the i7 needs 3 times the cache to get the same benefit and the 64k in the 865. N.B. I don't know for sure that that is the case.
>Cold gas in the Milky Way’s nuclear wind

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2595-z
Facebook AI creates MRI images four times faster than normal
Facebook Messenger is having issues, it’s not just you
I thought this was interesting, as I was having this issue, but there's a new development. Now, visiting Messenger.com takes me to a different login page than before - https://www.facebook.com/messages

This concerns me as someone who deactivated their Facebook account (which does not deactivate Messenger). I can't tell but I get the impression if I login here, I'll reactivate my Facebook account, since this isn't a distinct Messenger login page like before.
And said AAA devs aren't "ubermensch". They run a large gamut of specialties and skillsets - plenty of them will benefit from extra context.

And some of those small scale hobby/indie devs may later end up working for "the big leagues" as well, so the extra context can benefit them too.
It's disappointing that this kind of thing is possible in relation to the sophistication and competence of a regime.

Or maybe I should say that 2020 is a disappointment, from a 2005 perspective. The internet was supposed to be free. The ability to use it for political change democratically was supposed to be built in, innate.

This wasn't supposed to be a rare and fortunate blip, a soon-to-be-closed loophole in an app that . Internal security office around the world are currently reviewing their susceptibility to Telegram-based "attacks."

Even in democratic countries, we're increasingly seeing the internet's ability to lead to political organizing as dubious... something that must be controlled.
Building Reliable Workflows: Cadence as a Fallback for Event-Driven Processing
I think they would literally get more bookings if they just installed wrap-around screens like that but with Microsoft Flight Simulator / joystick/keyboard.