skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be argued that work like this actually helps make people's data more secure.

Granted, owners of the affected hardware might not like it, but this sheds light on issues that are actually present in the hardware. Who's to say that "law authority" or some criminal organization didn't do any work on this without intention to publish their results?

If people have sensitive data and were counting the T2 chip to keep it secure, now they know there are limitations to this security model. They can now weigh the pros and cons and, if applicable, set up an alternative that will be more secure. This could also push Apple to provide better security in upcoming products.
> I assume this occurs as the Nyquist frequency is passed for those pixels?

No, the Nyquist frequency isn’t the relevant parameter here. What is happening here is that you have a low-pass filter with a very steep cutoff (or high-pass, depending on what you are sweeping). As you sweep the cutoff, because the filter is so steep, the band suddenly disappears when the content moves from one side of the cutoff to the other.
I once fought a Java compiler which did not produce the proper bytecode when I used the "@Loggable" annotation. (https://aspects.jcabi.com/annotation-loggable.html) Worst off, the incorrect bytecode was on the exception path. I spent at least 2 days making sense out of it.
Two thoughts:

1. If anyone has significant experience or even just interest in this, they should work to collaborate on how compiler bugs could be taken advantage of for unintended purpose. Otherwise, there will continue to be a lot at risk.

2. You think compiler bugs are bad? How about hardware hacking, quantum effects, etc.

Similar to Schrödinger's cat, security is relative, never absolutely exists, but always exists. It's a Platonic ideal.

"Maturity" of understanding the nature of security is variable and multi-state, like a spiritual journey; greater understanding of security may lead onto to great loss of faith or you may go beyond into the light of true awakening. Most will only get a firewall, though.
Thanks – this explanation ("the attention economy causes aggressive activism") resonates and somehow makes me feel better about the situation.

It can be disheartening to see friends and movements I agree with turn to aggressive rhetoric and evangelism. But the fact that it's yet another symptom of a broken (social) media environment is a nice reminder that it's not their fault so much as it is an expected result of a bad system.

Of course, it's equally sad/disheartening that our modes of societal discourse and decision-making have gotten this bad, but it's a theoretically solvable problem (eg; legislation and a good facebook competitor) and it doesn't involve me feeling bad about people I like.
Absolutely that yes. Cigarette salesmen are performing a valuable service.
They can be entirely different domains.
it really is unfortunate that - especially in this case - the content creators are great at their legacy content model, and terrible at getting it out there as a meaningful digital business.

I subscribed happily during and after college. CI is truly a beautiful magazine, with a mix of foundational information and rock solid recipes. It helped me learn to feed myself and know my way around produce beyond "lettuce" etc.

Haven't tried their website, so many of their recipes on my shelf, and so many pilfered on other sites as it is.
"How are other Scandinavian countries less Viking?"

They are much more diverse and have interacted much more with the outside world. You can not compare Sweden with Iceland.

Sweden is a very progressive country and always have been in the modern age. Not being condescending but I perceived the people in Iceland very bold and and often interacting and dressing in a way that would be considered "low class". I also must say (downvote expected) that the Icelandic women by far do not live up to their reputation (looks).

Sweden had mining, coal, the industrial revolution etc. Iceland did not have mining, did not have coal, did not have gas, did not have an industrial revolution due to lack of natural resources. They were a poor area and stayed poor until recently when they were able to harvest energy from their volcanoes. In fact, it is now a society with one of the highest energy consumption in the world. Well set for the future due to cheap energy and easy cooling of servers.

It is true that the Icelandic society is much more coherent than others. In general I observed that if you look for a second passport, look in a small country. The smaller the better. (Incredibly difficult to get a passport in Liechtenstein, Andorra or Monaco). In big countries like Russia, USA, Brazil or China a citizen is mostly expendable.
When I was at the university this kind of stuff was 4th year material, hardly PhD level.

Just get a book like "ML for the Working Programmer", and go through it and its exercises.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/

Then either follow up with SML books,

http://www.smlnj.org/doc/literature.html#books

Or jump nicely into Haskell with " Learn You a Haskell"

http://learnyouahaskell.com/
But they are baked into the product. Coinbase’s success depends on the success of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. That is fundamentally related to questions of wealth inequality, banking, state economies, and crime.

Would you say that Facebook is an apolitical product since it is just its users that are affecting public behavior?
This is a bit off topic from the original discussion, but I think you definitely can be a gun shop owner and be against guns at the same time, albeit still in a political sense. Having a gun shop provides you with the best possible venue for educating your customers about guns "from the inside", hence being able to push your agenda in the long term.

That being said, running a gun shop is definitely a political statement. I guess you could control what you sell as well, like "I only sell hunting rifles - for hunting" and refusing to sell hand guns or automatic rifles. Sorry for the example of guns, I'm swedish and have no insight in what is commonplace in US gun stores.
Yeah. On the other hand we had 1/10 less mallware, faster UIs, updates for older devices up to several years, and other small things since day one which Android still doesn't have :-)
in Russia i have a ~$15 plan 1gbps (~700 realistically)up/down unfortunately it's clear that ISPs are not going to be able to upgrade their hardware nor keep prices low due to government interventions, government controlled ISPs competetion, mandated DPI censorship(paid by ISPs) so very soon internet in Russia will be as shitty as in most western countries that lack competition

P.S. until 2009-2014 russian internet was completely out of government sight. an average internet user in big cities had a choice of 3-10 ISPs competing prices etc
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If you don't know how to separate social issues from politics, well shit, that's the whole problem isn't it. Figure it out or continue being a moron dragging civilization back into the dark ages.
I started learning Japanese a while back, and studied slowly for a few years.

Then I fell off studying, but kept using it recreationally. I didn't pick 1 medium and insist on it because I have a wife that doesn't speak Japanese at all and that just doesn't work.

But I do still use it occasionally for games, anime (with English subs), manga, and sometimes live TV. It's pretty seldom, but it happens.

After a few years of that, I rejoined a Japanese meetup group locally for reading a Manga with them that's above my level. I'm realizing that I'm basically where I was when I stopped studying. I haven't really lost anything.

My point is that I don't think you need to be extreme to maintain. Just casual usage across different media is enough.
Forget prisons, the future of punishment will be virtual
Revisiting a 'Smaller Rust'
I agree with you on all the points except the last and in no way I am saying the there are no caste based discrimination in India. In fact caste based discrimination and the effects of it is one of the main reasons of India being "developing country" forever, I think.
My point is that the current rise of nationalism is not because of the caste system, but rather in spite of it. I see many people from lower caste(including my relatives) being active in the local rightwing politics and RSS.
Wal-mart doesn't know if that shopper is on their way to the KKK cook-out. If you've heard someone proposing wal-mart should start IDing shoppers to check them against a blacklist of undesirables, they were trolling you.
Hah this was great
How you know know how to read storage? Something needs to load drivers and such, does it not?
> looking shifty

How do you decide this? Your intuition? The clothes someone is using? The way his talk?
Last night he was given the chance to unequivocally condemn the Proud Boys and instead told them to "stand back and stand by", which the group themselves has taken as a rally cry. Just like how after Charlottesville, white supremacists took his ambiguous response as a sign of approval.

He doesn't condemn, he validates with just enough deniability that people can make lists like the one you posted, while everyone who is following along sees exactly what is happening.
Some Japanese airlines have done exactly that.

https://japantoday.com/category/features/ana-asks-passengers...

"All Nippon Airways is taking its weight-saving efforts to new heights, asking passengers on some of its flights to visit the restroom before flying."
crypto attracts a lot of misfits, so yes it seems it will be good for them. I doubt they are conformists though, i mean, being a conformist to a very minority opinion (anarcho-capitalism) is not really possible, is it?
Well, what happens to the money?

Surely the money isn't given as a present to someone outside Africa. It may be transferred to some bank or fund manager, perhaps, in which case the article is really saying that rich Africans choose to keep their ducats in Large Bank A instead of Large Bank B, both of which would probably turn around and buy the same assets if the customer's instructions are similar. B may have a head office in a glittering highrise in Lagos and A in a similar highrise one in London, but I rather doubt that the fund managers behave very differently. The pinstripe suits and highrise offices look the same.

So... what happens to the money? The location of the bank is a detail. How does this money land in the hands of people who can transfer it to that bank, and/or why do banks A and B choose to buy assets outside Africa rather than on the continent?
Of course "others" can too, if by that you mean other countries with a population that is affluent enough to demand green politics. The problem is that these countries only have a small share in global carbon emissions, so even setting lofty goals there will accomplish very little in the big picture.

On the other hand, all the emergent economies have no (internal) political pressure to do much about pollution, much less about CO2 emission. However, what they tend to have in common is that they export a lot products to these affluent countries.
Symbian in Brazil was rapidily climbing in popularity when MS killed it.

It had 60% of phone market share and it was RISING despite the launch of iPhone and Android.

The reason is that:

1. It worked great.
2. Brazil had a vibrant dev community (people would even port PC games to Symbian O.o)
3. It was much cheaper than iPhone and clones.
4. Nokia phones were just solid and awesome.

After MS made that memo that killed Symbian, it died almost instantly, people got so disappointed with MS that they started to switch to android, even if it was some chinese-made "shit-phone" instead of "feature-phone", the amount of really, really crappy androids that flooded the market was mind boggling, many didn't even work right, for example wouldn't complete calls properly or wouldn't connect to some Wi-Fi channels.
Thanks! This is interesting/useful/worrying. I note that there's an emphasis on web censorship, but do you have a feel for how other protocols are affected? I know that if the "plug" is pulled, everything would be affected, but what about file transfers using SFTP or FTP?
I'm not one of them myself, but I know people who would argue that the ubiquity of sugary foods in our diets is a bigger net negative to society than guns.
Original blogpost: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764
It’s pretty common for the problem at hand to be a group of violent extremists attempting to seize power.
That helps not to break an existing codebase.

But not if there's a nice new library you really have a need for that uses new 3.8 features, and you can't use it because you're stuck with 3.6 for example...
>Why is a company wanting to be apolitical is controversial?

It depends on how extreme the politics of the society are. It only sounds like there's an obviously "right" answer to you because you're used to living your entire life in a society where politics aren't that extreme yet from your point of view. But for many other people, the line was crossed in recent years.
Pentest report of the Dutch Covid-19 Notification app [pdf]
Three years is like tomorrow for breaking changes. I have come to apriciate the slow moving tools more and more the older I get.
Oh compilers are fun. Just recently I was reading through Rust's bug tracker, as one does, and learned that comparing function pointers is not deterministic. Compiling this code [0] in the Debug mode yields different results than in the Release mode. You can read the whole discussion about whether it's a LLVM bug, a Rustc bug, an undefined behavior, an intended behavior, a pretty serious bug, or nothing to worry about over at [1].

[0] https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit...

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54685
It is advertisement for his "Notion to Website" product. It's nicely done, because this is the first thing I got from the article, and I think so will most entrepreneur types reading it. The whole point is "I made $100k from being able to quickly spin up a website + payment system at the right time".
Commento is super easy to self-host with Docker, highly recommend it!

https://gitlab.com/commento/commento
I really hope so. I'm even willing to give up the Apple trackpad if something else comes that lines everything else up. I tried so hard a couple of weeks ago to find something non-Apple that ticked all the boxes, and was shocked my existing MBP was the only one that ticked enough of them. I'm waiting and waiting for an explicitly Linux-supporting manufacturer to offer a truly high end and Linux-friendly laptop. It's a holy grail right now.
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>> You have to get rid of the packaging, and dump all the manuals

Good thing Apple laptops don't come with manuals. There isn't much much more than a couple stickers and a microfiber cloth in the box.
>Backwards compatibility I understand, but which languages give forward compatibility?

Python used to offer it frequently. from __future__ import ...
> I don't know, if you tell native English speakers that "cazzo" is Italian, I assume they know it's pronounced catso.

You could be right. My experience is mostly from the New England area, near areas with a lot of first-third generation Italian immigrants.
Is the average iPhone owner willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Probably not.

Can you find 3626 iPhone owners willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Sure you can. In fact I bet you can find 3626 Android owners willing to part with $28 too.

The key to this success story is this:

> Then, MKBHD happened.
Same here, but if you let the page sit for ~30 seconds, it suddenly loads some content. Probably a very unoptimized homepage design.
People make dumb things like smoking. We already know that prohibition doesn't work. Putting warnings in the cigarets doesn't work either. So, the next thing would be the seller give a speech about how bad cigarets its for each sale?
Mr Barr has a political agenda. Period.
This is on-point. Others here seem to be oblivious to reality:

White guy at webhost: We took the white supremacists' money, so this is totally legal.

Black colleague: Sure, but now they're using the website to display anti-black ideology and actively plan rallies to remove my rights.

White guy: This is politics and I'm trying to be apolitical. Please lobby the courts if you have a problem.
I guess YMMV. Used OBS a couple of times on macOS and was impressed with how smooth it ran.
Imagine if their "evil twins" working in the dark or for the NSA, KGB or Red Army, have cracked this but not tweeted about it. Now the Apple security is just as broken but you don't know about it. Is your data more or less secure?
As an Apple customer I'm 100% happy with public developments like this. I really believe Apple tries to take hardware security seriously and an exploit it the open like this is surely to be addressed in the next generation of devices.

Apple consumer devices have been shown to resist state-level actor threats in the past and even if current devices won't be 100% resistant forever I trust Apple to be a couple of steps ahead every gen.

Of course, I'm jumping ship as soon as 100% open-source and verifiably secure HW+OS stack is available. But until then, it's Apple :P
Better ask Knuth.

People can be very smart in one area of their life and incredibly dumb in another.
Also author of an O'Reilly book here, sold 7K+ paper copies, and about 10K+ ebooks over the year, been in Amazon best-sellers in several categories for quite some time.

Even though the book was not by any means a disaster, and has made me some money, I do not feel like this was a worthy time investment. Martin's book is one of the (few) books that are selling that well, and, let's face it: most of the books people write won't be best-sellers. Unless you can quit your job and focus on writing for at least a year, it's not likely to be of a quality that will make you money, and even then it highly depends on timing and reception.

I'm very glad it has worked out for OP: well deserved.
Planes are basically pollution machines, so it's quite good news if people can refrain from travelling in the air (most of time unnecessarily)
Politics is discussing when it is justified and appropriate to use violence. For enforcing laws, collecting taxes ect...

All peaceful human interaction falls outside of that.
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That’s going back a very long time. Early Lenovo ThinkPads like the X60 were also excellent.
That’s not true. The CRM was deeply unpopular to the general population. King was seen as a rowdy agitator. The CRA was passed despite public opinion, not because the activists managed to convince the population that they were human beings. The CRA was so deeply unpopular that it caused a fundamental change in the structure of our political boundaries that has lasted for 60 years. King himself explicitly shamed the “white moderate” rather than courting them.
Absolutely I'd say that! If a tool just improves communication efficiency, that efficiency improvement doesn't necessarily mean that the medium is political.

If coinbase and its cryptocurrencies improve the means of wealth and capital exchange, that doesn't mean that cryptocurrencies are political. That makes it a tool, just as a shovel and rifle are tools. How they're used by people is what makes them potentially political.

Facebook's choice to moderate content that isn't advertiser friendly is what makes it political, not the fact that it improves communication. They're deciding what other people see. Cryptocurrencies make no such choices for users.
> the existence is shareholders is political support for capitalism

You are only political when you try to change the minds of others. Just existing is never political support for anything. If the communist argues that the shareholders shouldn't exist then he is political. If the company fires the communist for thinking that shareholders shouldn't exist (lets say he said that on his own time, so he wasn't political at company time) then they are political. If the company allows pro capitalist opinions but not pro communist opinions they are also political.
The power grid already allows us to have as much power in one place as we want.
Interesting Project!
There seems to be a bit of learning curve required to get handy with the tool. A better/simpler onboarding where I learn about the key concepts should be great. I will not master the product on Day-1 but I'll get some headstart.
Related to the first point, I couldn't access the user guide from the main dashboard. I actually found them in the comments here and I think you should link it somewhere on the dashboard. Anyone interested will be able to go through it and learn more about the ways of doing things.

The product looks promising to me and I'll use it a bit more and would share any feedback I have.

Best wishes!
There seems to be a bug in firefox where clicking the arrow next to a heading in the tree menu causes it to animate but not actually expand the tree on first click. It works second time and every time after that. This happens again after a page reload.
Look for the term “creative technologist”. It’s a relatively rare role, but seems to match what you’re looking for.
I am also interested in the numbers but you aren't earning anywhere near 3k net a month? thats roughly 56k pre-tax. doesn't sound too high to me?
It looks like this may be the new implementation:

https://github.com/htm-community/htm.core
Jim Mellon plans to take his life extension startup public in six to 12 months
They use wavelet transforms for jpeg 2000. Natural images tend to be sparse with respect to wavelet transforms.
"This isn't as bad as [place which is known for being bad at stuff like this], therefore it is fine" is never a _particularly_ useful argument.

They promised they wouldn't do this, then they did it. That's bad.
This argument doesn’t address the discrepancy. “I can move from one job, where my boss can fire me for anything I do or say arbitrarily to another where my boss can for me for anything I do or say arbitrarily” does not explain why protection of speech is so important in one context, but not the other. The vast majority of people don’t rely on the government for their immediate material needs, so why should they need so much protection from the government as opposed to the bosses who have this leverage over them?
> This is not a "multiple part-time job" scenario.

But it literally is, so what's your argument against that? They'd get minimum wage at both their part-time jobs like everyone else, like contracting or temping part-time for two agencies. What warrants anything but the standard interpretation?
So to be religious means that you are dumb in one area?
Created implies a creator so it's obviously wrong to say the humans created the Americas though you could argue that forces of nature did.

The case of mathematics seems more subtle though, beyond language issues. I find it quite interesting myself.
Exactly. Editing the fourier side directly is really useful to remove periodic artifacts.
An outsider can throw test data points at the model and see how it behaves. For example, whether changing name, race, sex, or variables correlating with such critical variables, alter a decision. Pointing out these flaws could then lead to better systems, or not using machine learning on some case where input data is unsuitable.
“Hunting” rifles and semi-automatic rifles that are erroneously referred to as “assault rifles” are functionally the same. Almost nowhere can you readily buy automatic rifles.
I meant in general for these types of widgets, I was unclear about that sorry.
Not defending Google. I want to see them broken up, but let's not get needlessly conspiratorial.

Google could be running an ab test.

Google could also have some algorithm that decides which widgets to show where and to which users.

Just like some days I get 37 captchas before I see my Google search result,and other days I can make hundreds of searches without a single captcha.