skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were a little buggy in Beta 3, we'll see if they ironed them out before release!
That's the difference between a paper and someone explaining it to the layperson.
For sure, I think it's good for another purpose (playing with phpMyAdmin taught me to write queries by hand!)
California Prop 25: Algorithmic Risk Assessments instead of Cash Bail
my impression is they are sending people actual items that seem new
Sure – once the malware lands. But I doubt anyone is going after any Win95 vulnerabilities, so how does it get on the box to start chomping?
It actually means everything. Thank you.
>Then maybe we could go back to native programs instead of Electron-whatever and use the web for stuff that has proved to actually work well on the web.

The web/web app paradigm isn't the reason Electron exists. Electron exists to poach web developers into app development, because native code and frameworks are hard. There's no technical reason why we can't go back to native apps, the friction is entirely due to culture and business, and an entire generation of developers who've never written a line of anything that isn't javascript or maybe python.

Also, being able to distribute and run software over a network is a good idea, and it's a logical progression of the purpose of the web, which is to allow open access to information and media. Code is no less a form of media than video, audio, images or text. A web that would let me read whitepapers but not let me emulate an Amiga would be crippled in its potential.

And that notwithstanding the fact that most "web apps" are just documents that use javascript as a front-end framework, and most people's complaints along these lines are aesthetic and emotional, rather than technical.
That _is_ grotesque.

I wish I had something to add; particularly like "here's a reasonable alternative", but there really isn't.
Thank you, i really do appreciate it.
I feel like it should be https://search.google instead.
Followup: although the signup UI is broken, I received email welcoming me and was able to delete the account afterwards (although the delete option was in an unintuitive place in the settings). Not sure I even had an account to be concerned with before that.
I did not realize that Hacker News is that old ...
"Low" is ambiguous. We are clarifying it.
I was speaking more to devs, but I agree to an extent.

I suppose I didn't realize how much a bad UI would alienate developers.
There's plenty of both comments by the founding fathers and subsequent Supreme Court case law that the constitution applies to non citizens as well pretty much anywhere it says "people" rather than "citizen". This comes from a combo of the rights at the time being more thought of as a listing of inalienable rights rather than rights granted by the government, as well as the idea that in order to hold non citizens to the obligations of the legal system you should grant the the rights of the legal system as well.

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
Eh. Telling counterexamples: reproductive health, cannabis, "defense of marriage".
You mean like on-by-default plain text backups on iCloud? The difference is that on Android, you can change to an app that is actually secure (without a MITM key server vulnerability like iMessage) and have it be used by everything.
You can still purchase it, but it's a lot of hoops to jump through!

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/links.html#obtain

There is still a community (apparently mostly paralegals) who actively use it and answer questions, e.g. http://wpdos.org and https://www.wpuniverse.com/
They're also yelling, breathing heavily and not social distancing, negating any value masks might have had. Your message illustrates perfectly the hypocrisy of liberal political establishment wrt the riots.
I think you could actually go full-on Google at this point, sort of like the classic interview question:

Type, on a Google-made Pixel Chromebook running Chrome OS into the Chrome browser web browser (pretty sure it doesn't qualify as a 'user agent' any longer,) the word 'google' into the omnibox in order to get to Google to make a search, and your machine communicates over Wi-Fi to your Google Wifi AP, through your Google Fiber connection, to the Google-run 8.8.8.8 DNS resolver, where Google then goes and looks itself up in the DNS.

The Google search results page has 'Google' as the first result (AdWords, naturally [resulting in Google paying itself for first placement?]) Clicking on this ad, you finally arrive on the Google Search home page.

...

Finally, after all that, you can type in 'Bing' to search for Bing's website, click on their top AdWord result instead of the organic result, just so you can enjoy the "diversity of search engines" there exist today. Or whatever Pichai said to Congress.
AR will be a paradigm shift, and Apple has to be prepared to adapt its business model accordingly. People will demand significantly more UI/UX customization than with the iPhone, where, conversely, simplicity is demanded.

If I'm going to buy AR glasses that sit on my face all day long, I really don't want to be looking out at the world through a lowest-common-denominator window. Just like my choice of clothes or the stack of books on my bookshelf, my UI/UX has to thoroughly feel like it is a reflection of my preferences. I want every element to be customizable (at least Windows level of customization, but ideally Linux). Otherwise, I will depart the iOS ecosystem.
I remember Thomas Ptacek (tptacek) being particularly vocal and unjustifiably venomous towards Assange. One could say he went out of his way (on HN and social media) to broadcast his egregious views on the matter. Has he apologised?

This is just one instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11043329

Also, pasted from a different comment in this thread:

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/821766035401572352
WeChat alternatives? I don't think there's even any alternatives to that in any form. But for messaging there are still apps that support e2ee that you can use in the mainland.
It has its trade-offs I guess.

But I think people are forgetting what a nightmare it was before websites such as GitHub.

Just browsing the source of open source projects used to be a terrible experience. Let alone the issue trackers - Bugzilla!

I'll take unfortunate centralisation over source code browsing like https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/ and pull requests like https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ngasson/8251923/webrev.1/.

And the issue trackers, which is what most people complain about on GitHub, weren't distributed before, so we haven't lost anything there.
Arizona saw this early in the pandemic in cities along the California border like Lake Havasu.

They had zero mask restrictions for a while, and cases were low.

Then they opened restaurants and bars, which were flooded by thousands of Californians coming across the border every weekend and not taking any precautions and Arizona's ICUs quickly reached capacity.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-11/californ...

"While many locals are grateful for the tourism dollars amid a global downturn, some are worried that the crowds could cause a rise in coronavirus cases locally and overwhelm the city’s only hospital, which has just 16 ICU beds for its 55,000 residents."
In the US, if anyone ships you something, you haven't already agreed to pay for it, and it's not illegal in some way or clearly a shipping error... it's yours to keep, legally the same as if they'd explicitly gifted it to you.

This is an intentional feature of the law in order to prevent 'delayed billing' scams of exactly this kind.
It works yes, but they were running out of spare parts when I left. That system's parts were on frequent Ebay searches, as it was becoming quite fragile. I think it was on a 3rd power supply and a second mobo or proc, can't quite remember.

It was on a redundant on-line UPS as the last time it went completely off and was booted from cold, it ended up needing parts. So no, I'd say it's not likely to outlast modern replacements. Just had lots of support and organ transplants.

Systems like that ultimately end up being a resource drain, as unlike modern hardware it's not simply wandering over to a retailer and buying standard replacement parts, but sourcing used or NOS parts and hoping they work, often requiring far more time and effort by someone who could be doing some other important task.

The problem is that in open use observatories like Arecibo, a lot of equipment like that is put in place by third parties, but becomes our responsibility to maintain. But the science is important, so we maintain it as best we can.
Wouldn't that be the best way to communicate this to a non-expert audience? Bring the expert in to explain the report and fill in the context that the layman is missing compared to an expert?
I think the serious disconnect is in user expectations. Developers of paid produces should be responsive to user feedback. Developers of open source software are free (legally, ethically and morally) to care or not about user feedback exactly as much as they wish.

Users of open source software are free to fork the software if the original developer isn't responsive to their particular needs. They're not entitled to demand that the original developers respond to their feedback. They're even less entitled to complain when the develop does respond with a specific reason why they won't act on their feedback.
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I mean ultimately it comes from functional analysis and differential equations (not signal processing).

It's a binary operator on functions that yields a third function. It has a lot of useful properties and equivalences, like that it can be described as the product of two Fourier transforms (although that's very roundabout).

You're actually introduced to convolution in middle school when you're taught how to multiply monomials to build a polynomial (at my middle school they called it "FOIL").
I also got into the more nitty-gritty nuances of mysql through with phpmyadmin. Many things I find being done on client side "dashboard" applications can be handled by a mysql view, which can then be pulled up in phpmyadmin.
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Thanks for the reply, I would have guessed maybe 10 x more.

Interesting to hear,

Makes me think that there is not any big marked for exploits targeting smaller companies. Maybe such exploits (for smaller products) would be useful primarily for spear phishing? and not bring in so much money if sold, & hard to find a buyer?

Still, if the note taking app was sth well known like Ev*rnote, I wish they'd pay more. (No idea if it was.)
I've been waiting for the final release to test out the Android Flash Tool website at https://flash.android.com and it worked perfectly with a Pixel 2 XL.

Pretty slick and much nicer than messing around with adb and zip files.

As for 11 in general nothing really exciting. Looks the same. Amusingly the first thing to happen after completing setup was an error message that 'Google keeps stopping'[0] :) Not the best thing to see on a fully wiped and fresh install of the OS!

[0] https://i.imgur.com/Wy4T0qj.jpg
There was an interesting article in Scientific American 25 years ago about a shortage in expert piano technicians for supporting concert pianists. Very few people were apprenticing, and the only US bachelor's degree program in piano technology had just shut down.

I wonder if the situation has improved since then?

Here's a reprint of that article: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~boyk/essay.htm
Well, Belarus still has a KGB... that's nice. https://kgb.by
But hey, now I have http://tycho.pizza instead of co-opting .ws. Pizza is great. So there are some silver linings.
I'm using Excel from Office 365, and I'm not seeing "sluggishness" on mac (on an ancient 2009 iMac, 10.13 High Sierra). Not sure what version you're using.
Look at the map, they were told early on where to go and went in the opposite direction towards the fire, though the text skips over this without explanation as to why.
Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
The next version of iOS finally lets you select your favorite browser skin over WebKit. Progress!
I believe this is a replay of spring break in Florida...
Weird, I feel like "upgrade and try to start all apps" is an automated regression test I'd expect to see?
Agreed, if it were not for the nature of how git works I would then be a little worried.
> 6. Relational Databases are an operational anti-pattern

Could you please expand on this? What is wrong with Relational Databases and what would be the "correct" pattern?
At first seems wildly overly complicated for a laptop.

But sounds like they're trying to scale up credit card fraud using the layers as buffer
The only trail it leaves is to financial institutions (who can see the transactions), and the government. The former need to be held accountable by law, by the latter. I believe the GDPR may aid us there.

Now, in a free society, I don't see a good reason why one should be afraid the government can snoop around my financial transactions. I believe I currently live in such a free society. If I want, I can buy a dildo or latex costume in an Amsterdam sex shop within an hour tomorrow, and I am not going to have to be shy about that. I don't live in a country where, for example, gay people get beaten up regularly. I'm not gay myself, btw, but I've experimented a fair share with my sexuality when I was younger. I also used to buy legal drugs online, and I just paid by IBAN. Do I want my employer to know such? Well, I'd like to have the choice to do so, and I have this choice as it is.

I can think of some very good reasons to use cryptocurrency in my free country, and none of these are valid from a legal PoV (avoiding taxation, buy illegal drugs/weapons/etc ie. criminal behaviour). By using cryptocurrency where other means work perfectly fine, I add noise to the cryptocurrency data, and it isn't in my interest to add this noise as I am not a proponent of things such as avoiding taxation or criminal behaviour.

Furthermore, nothing what you say addresses the other points:

> Cryptocurrencies have a tendency to be abused for speculation, and are bad for the environment.

These cons still exist, and need to be put on the weight with the privacy aspect. Which can be a valid argument in an unfree society, such as for example Belarus or China.
My points were nuance.
Two things that stood out to me:

> 8. If you haven’t used an app that you installed on your device in a while, you may not want it to keep accessing your data. Android will now “auto-reset” permissions for your unused apps and notify you accordingly. You can always decide to re-grant the app permissions the next time you use the app.

> 9. With additional Google Play system update modules, even more security and privacy fixes can be sent to your phone from Google Play, in the same way your apps update. So you’ll get these fixes as soon as they’re available, without having to wait for a full OS update.

8 seems like a rather wise and user friendly privacy concern (which might be annoying to power-users who set things up proactively and don't want their configurations messed with, yet overall a great improvement).

9 has me worried about variants of android like Lineage or ParanoidAndroid where the play store isn't included automatically. This forced reliance upon the play store for security sensitive updates is devastating for de-googled device feasibility. It will make more sense for developers to not support devices without Google Play, effectively shoehorning alternatives out of the usable, secure devices realm.
I remember the first computer we had at home. I was five, and Windows 95 actually looked kind of beautiful in all its square and right-angle glory. The first time we interacted with it was to print some Disney character's portraits meant to be filled in with color. I also remember playing Rally Championship on that, as well as the first Tomb Raider (1996), which looked incredibly immersive; we were mesmerized by it, and frightened! Entering that ominous cave at the beginning was scary as hell. There's nothing that evokes that kind of feelings for me anymore.
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Mine isn't and I don't install Apps (well, Firefox). And Chrome has been laggy/freezing more lately - even on simple HN pages
What makes money is with a business sense with a shitty developer skill and not with a developer sense with shitty business skill.

Of course, being purely technically talented is one way to go as I have chosen to be.
Those are anecdotes, the question is how often does it happen? Sure, it's possible, which is why we have reviews aggregating the findings of multiple studies.

The results of one study could be an anomaly, which is why replication is important in science. But when those results get replicated in tens or hundreds of such studies, we can start trusting those findings (although when surrogate markers are involved, their interpretation can be up for debate).

Also when people say "high quality", it's important to understand what it refers to. It means the authors can show that the study was designed for the declared primary outcomes. It means that adherence was ensured, versus an observational study relying on questionnaires. And it means a control group was used for comparison, which was randomized, thus the study preferably showing a dose dependent response.

Having a control group BTW minimizes the impact of the subjects not adhering to the program in the way that you describe, since you'd have rebels in both camps.
I want $1M free dollars. I send 1000 packets of seeds with tracking numbers to 1000 random addresses, and then write 1000 fake 5-star "verified purchase" reviews. Total outlay? 1000 x $0.55 postage = $550.00.

I then take my 1000's of five-star review page, and start selling diamond earrings for $199.95. I collect $200k in cash from 1000 sellers who get duped, and never ship anything to anybody ever again.

Repeat x5 and you have $1M free dollars.
I think we tend to neglect senses other than sight when talking about AR. In my opinion, the Apple Watch (and other smartwatches) are AR devices; tapping my wrist to tell me to turn left is an example of AR behavior.

Touch is much easier than sight, smell, and taste. Sound is an interesting possibility. And yeah -- headphones are an AR device. If your headphones are capable of doing outside noise cancellation, it's not that much further to a set of headphones that can pick out crucial sound and augment appropriately. And of course the classic implementation is museum headphone tours...
>Do you mean the police in Belarus are acting way more civilized?

No. The police in Belarus is just torturing people in cells where no evidence can be produced. Different style, you see.
More informative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broomway
> said, I doubt it will last. There is a huge influx of people (not just retirees, but refugees from the coastal cities) who would be considered rich into mountain communities, driving out the locals by prices and changing the demographic hugely. I keep a close eye on land for sale and land parcels that used to be huge are starting to be divided into 5 acre parcels and sold off... I can already see the distant future of this, turning mountain towns into you have to be rich towns like Aspen, and it makes me very sad.

I wouldn't worry too much about a large influx of people, there's more than enough land to accommodate the little influx - there aren't quite so many people who move up into the mountains and those can make a decent community and a healthy local economy. You can even migrate further into the wilderness, yes it sucks that you are forced to but there's a silver lining to all this.
Up for vote in November and will determine whether measures in SB 10 [0] go into effect, replacing bail with algorithmic risk scores. This relies on Pretrial Risk Assessment Instruments[1] to score people on flight risk and danger to society.

I'm interested in the suppliers of such services.

[0] https://www.courts.ca.gov/pretrial.htm
The story is a little bit different, since it involved a third-party sale. A CAR DEALERSHIP sold a Tesla car with autopilot advertised to the end buyer. It was disabled by Tesla who had sold it to the dealership apparently without that advertising (the dealership presumably checked the car over, and sold it in the state it was in; not an unreasonable thing to do). But that's besides the point. No one is arguing your Tesla overlords are unkind right now.

The difference between a license/lease and ownership is who has that power.

Yahoo was an awesome company for the first few years. Companies change. Amazon and Google are not exactly in an upwards trajectory right now either, although for many years, they could do no wrong.

I 100% believe Tesla will treat its owners well while it's in the exponential growth startup phase, and doing well. It's counting on word-of-mouth for continued growth. If I buy a car which I have licensed from Tesla, I'm hedging on that continuing. Once growth stops, companies enter the phase where they start to milk existing customers. If a company runs into financial problems, it enters a phase where it needs to exploit existing customers.

That's for one person. If we all buy a car from Tesla, we're all giving up power as consumers for the long haul.
Maybe the book seller sent several books to different locations expecting that someone would end up paying for it?
That's closer to a credit card than "not paying for it", because the merchant gets immediately reimbursed by the bank, regardless of whether you pay your credit card bills or not. "not paying for it" would be something like NET90 invoicing, where the merchant is extending credit to you directly (by sending you goods and expecting you to pay later). As far as I know, this sort of payment scheme is largely restricted to B2B transactions, and even then, is mostly restricted to big companies.
> I wish I had something to add; particularly like "here's a reasonable alternative", but there really isn't.

Yes, there are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinephone and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5.
I submit it twice and got rejected twice, presumably by 2 different reviewers.
I would presume the scam is more or less: ship a cheap book to random company owners with an inflated C.O.D. price, under the assumption that they'll pay for it thinking it's some other package they're expecting.
IIRC, the machine was on an isolated equipment network with no external access for some time, but the network drivers would often cause some kind of conflict with the ISA interface card (and custom driver) so the network interface was disabled. So yeah, should be safe (and is likely no longer hardwired to the network).
It started around 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_tolerance_(schools)#Histo...
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The protesters look to me as against Russian interference, propaganda, and the perspectives to become a Russian province. The protesters are not against common Russian people and culture,they are for being good neighbours. It's reasonable, that the more Russia interferes and helps Lukashenko - the more negative the attitude of Belarusian becomes.