skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Systems are full of covert channels; can you explain why they would be a security problem to you?
Turning a Google Sheet into a REST API
Their silence has been so frustrating. Not even any acknowledgment from the team -- they just keep releasing updates and posting to the forums as if nothing happened.

It would be a lot easier to believe this was due to a court order if Signal's attitude wasn't always like this. I call them "the Apple of open source" because they rarely (if ever?) accept PRs from outside Signal, don't have a public roadmap they share, and the development process is all done behind closed doors (commits are made public only when the associated build has been released). These are all unique to Signal afaik versus its competitors (Matrix and the like), and it's made me grow to hate it.

Keeping the server's source closed is probably the final straw for me, a long time Signal-apologist.
This is about crypto currency and not blockchain. We haven't heard anything against blockchain from any govt (India or otherwise).

As far as cryptocurrency is concerned for micro transaction - Why?!

There was a recent discussion on how cryptocurrency is one of THE most wasteful (energy wise) form of financial transaction; with India's potentially billions (trillions?) of micro transaction the energy consumptions & carbon footprint would be unthinkable.
So when Sundar Pichai says AI is more profound than electricity, it's possible he's right. It's just that we're still in its 1850, so we can't see it yet.

You can make a claim that "This might be revolutionary! It's just too early to tell." about literally anything.
This is where extra mouse buttons save you, if my wasd fingers are leaving their positions I'm doing something wrong.
ISO should be a division of the UN or something like that and get a steady budget to pay its staff. Not a regular private company that "has to make money somehow".

At the very least, ISO could make the cost to get a copy of a standard not some arbitrary 3-digit number of Swiss Francs, but let the committees themselves have a say in this.

In my opinion, for example, it would make perfect sense to make royalty-free specs (i.e. standards that only have Type-1 declarations) available online for free, while charging 4- or 5-digit numbers for patent encumbered specs (standards with Type-2 declarations) for which those who need access to those will have to pay 7- or 8-digit numbers in royalties anyway, so it's still an insignificant extra obstacle for them.

The goal of ISO should be to promote international standardization. Its current business model is instead creating financial obstacles to adopt international standards, as well as creating financial incentives to base implementations on outdated drafts and old versions, which defeats the purpose of having processes to amend, correct and extend standards.

Other standardization organizations like IETF, W3C, ITU are capable of "making money somehow" without having to put their standards behind a paywall.

Standards are a lot like laws, except you in theory voluntarily comply with them (though not always — there are plenty of cases where compliance to ISO standards is obligatory in one way or another). It would be insane if politicians would put the laws they write behind a paywall, for sale to lawyers at 118 Swiss Francs per article, with the argument that "judges need to make money somehow". If you expect people to respect the law, the least you can do is to let them actually see the law, for free. Why would it be any different for international standards?
Would they spot someone running a red light at speed? I imagine most drivers are just waiting for green and doing nothing more than that.
Just kiss someone with better bacteria and you'll be fine.
I guess you mean 'american' when you say 'western'?
I also consider Mountain View on south to be part of the South Bay but Wikipedia doesn’t. Most SF Bay natives also draw the line the way I draw it but it doesn’t matter much.

The distinction people I know made is how far south or north people were willing to commute. So commuting from Palo Alto or Mountain View to SF was considered a really long commute. Commuting from Sunnyvale was considered untenable long term.

Most recent SF residents seem to have an additional line around SF and consider anything outside SF far. Oh well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/30qv6d/help_is_mou...
A machine generates income by the number of widgets (value $x) produced per day.

A legal team generates income by billable hours (value $y) worked per day.
I'd prefer pointers to non-handwavy estimations of energy surplus/EROI of solar+batteries+sequestering system.
> I really wish we could just enforce proper education of being observant.

You'd have to give people whole new brains.

My grandmother had a condition where her eyes forced shut, completely out of her control. She insisted she could still drive without issue. She ignored multiple friends and family telling her she'd murder someone.

Last Saturday I had to dodge out of the way of a car (fortunately moving very slowly). The woman driving was staring in my direction at me as I waved my arms. That she nearly ran me over eventually clicked and she rolled down her window to appoligize.
> Android does not allow you to take complete backups. Let alone "built-in".

Android has had full system backup capabilities through `adb backup` for years. It does not require removing carrier locks or rooting and has been available since Android 2.x iirc.

I've used this to transfer all of my apps, app settings, and system settings between all of my Android phones:

Nexus One -> Galaxy Nexus -> Note 3 -> Galaxy S6 -> Galaxy S8 -> Galaxy S9 -> Galaxy S10 -> Z Fold 2, all with one continuous chain of backup and restores via `adb backup` and `adb restore`.

These restores sometimes even worked flawlessly across different Android OS versions! Sometimes this has caused a lot of weird issues wrt system settings, so admittedly this process can be quite buggy.
As talked about in this podcast:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv2l
Why isn't this getting the attention it deserves? :)
My favourite is editing crontab (the scheduler on Linux). It's -e to edit the file, -r to delete all content from it with no confirmation dialogue or anything. I fell for that twice already.

I can't imagine how often you need to delete everything from a file without using a text editor. I'm sure it's not that common that you need to give it a one-letter flag (instead of --remove or --delete) and put it right next to the fucking edit flag.
> I will be happy to whack your other designers on their heads with a rolled-up newspaper

That's some very non-inclusive workplace behavior there. The wokemob should be by shortly to cancel this gentleman.
The problem is not just sugar, it's refined carbs in general.

The idea that sugar is bad in great amount seems to have gone mainstream, but many people I know who seem to be aware that sugar is bad and have lowered their intake are still just fine with pasta, rice, flour etc. This is the message we need to get out now. Not saying you need to completely drop your favorite refined carbs (pasta etc) but at least try to lower your intake like you do with sugar and prioritize unrefined carbs and green veggies instead.
GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide (2014)
Does it automatically run when I leave my phone on the charger for the night?
I don't know where you worked, but have I worked in a place that did a design document, dropped it off on my desk, and left me to work.

Them: "Why didn't you include the functionality to twiddle the foo?" Me: "What? I don't know what you are talking about." Them: "I swear it was in the design document, it's one of the most important features!" But it was not.

Every design document has flaws, and even if they are as accurate as possible, many projects had to be updated after the fact as even the designers themselves did not predict some of the functionality needed. I've found that when developing new things you need to have steady communication with the people who need to use it, to understand what they need and why.

For recreating old the things (CRUD apps and whatnot) I'm sure this is not nearly as important, but I have always wondered why recreating old software with modern tools has usually resulted in everyone just using the old software. I do know in one case I've done this, I was told not to include certain features because no one uses them... only to find our users not updating, because everyone needed those features. Some times even the vendors don't know what the customers want.
My introduction was watching Mike Judge's Tales from the Tour Bus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKX-H9STYAM&t=158s.

Highly recommend it. Each episode focuses on the life of a musician, told through rotoscoped interviews with people that knew them. The first season is about country musicians, it's fascinating if you have an interest in the genre and still entertaining if you don't.
You yourself has stated elsewhere in this thread that Bitcoin is literally just 12 Years old. You might also have stake in bitcoins/cryptocurrency survival. It is necessary for any success of any Ponzi scheme that people become it's fierce backer. But until unless it does deliver any tangible benefit to overall financial system (less overall transaction cost etc.) It is a ponzi scheme. There are long list of soft ponzi scheme (e.g. Amway) that have been running for decades. That does not mean they do not have Ponzi style pump and dump behavior. Bitcoin as it stands (huge waste of energy, Very high transaction cost) is failing in all of it's intended use cases.
At my spare time when I'm not doing software development I'm working on my few electronic music projects :)

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CKpZFs9DL35Xe0i79iwfZ?si=BV...
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2barsOVwiOUmftM8SASJGj?si=6I...
https://audiomack.com/igork
Key Lessons from Launching a Physical Product in a Digital Era
Off topic but not really: how y’all feel about piracy and DRM and so on?

Here’s mine, it’s no good though, I make them all in one sitting when inspiration hits.

During the heyday the pandemic, I was getting really into synths, look mom no computer vibe, but I got depressed ame stopped everything
Are you really implying that trickle-down economics work?
AFAIK FHE offers little security benefits compared to more standard cryptography when it comes to securing bank accounts. It can hide things (which is the first application of cryptography, hence the crypto prefix − ancient greek for hidden), but it doesn't give you certification like asymmetric cryptography, quite the opposite actually, because by definition FHE schemes are perfectly malleable.
Related recent discussion:

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26126183
My Master's Thesis was to develop an automated testing platform for TETRA phones[1].

It was programmed with VBA and ran on top of Excel. The UI was a sheet of buttons and the results were outputted to a tab on the same sheet.

I even added a cheapo webcam to it, which would record the phone display during tests and save the .avi file if the test failed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio
You're right; freedom of computing is a non-issue for most people.

What I don't agree upon is that "NOBODY" would want open platforms; there's probably a larger market for that than there was a personal computing market in the 70's. There's businesses like Raptor that sell fairly open workstations, and they simply wouldn't if there wasn't a market for it.

The main issue is the disconnect between engineers/programmers and users. If there's growing amount of people who won't use the products they build themselves, then the idea of a war on general computing might snowball into a self-fulfilling prophecy where average users no longer has access to general computing through normal consumer devices.
Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
"Discovered" is a pretty flexible term. Geologists will only go out to look for the stuff if there's an expected return on extracting it. Similarly, "reserves" means stuff that (a) we know about and (b) that we think can be extracted economically. In effect, it's tautological to say that we'll "use the stuff until it runs out", because at whatever point we stop using it there'll still be some left that's just slightly too difficult to extract (given, hopefully, alternatives and taxes) for it to be worth it.
Not really. This algorithm is only fast with high probability, and getting a linear equation solver to be always-correct is just a matter of checking the output at the end and trying again if you're (too) wrong. So always-correct and fast-with-high-probability is a feature of any randomized linear equation solver.
It still amazing stuff, I'm just pointing out that this particular aspect of the behaviour is not surprising.
There's a reason fascists keep showing up in the comments. Not that the moderation is likely to do anything about it.
The article is full of which?
Which? Which?

Haha
I didn’t say that there are no communists, I’ve seen a few comrades. However I’ve mostly seen liberals (conservative or otherwise), quite a few fascists (sometimes mask-on) and sometimes socdems (who are centrists). Rarely socialists, communists or even just genuine anti-imperialists, and generally more downvoted than the fascists.

Surely a fellow Marxist would understand the overall ideological superstructure of western imperialist societies and furthermore the material base of a community focused on yeoman dreams at best and bourgeois domination at worst?

I wasn’t even complaining, just pointing out fascists are more welcome here than anti-imperialists. After all, the post by an anti imperialist that I replied to is now removed.
Some what offtopic, but I think there will be a limit when human have generated so much knowledge, that our offsprings might in one day never been able to catch up, e.g. having to learn to a very old age to get the cutting edge stuff.
I don't see how hyphenation could be left "on" when publishing ebooks. Nearly all the platforms I've used allow the user to control font face and font size. Hyphenation would malfunction under such circumstances.
If you need unencrypted output, you don't want FHE, you want functional encryption. But it's much younger and there's still a lot of research to be done in the field before prime time.
Indeed uBlock Origin is the #1 reason I use Firefox on Android.

#2 is dark reader.
Many apps opt out of including their state in "adb backup" or act oddly when restored. Maybe this changed in the past few years, but it is still nowhere as complete as any automated or manual iOS backup.
Anyone is free to chose what they think is best for themselves, game consoles culture is not the same as PCs.

Additionally, game development culture is definitely not in line with the FOSS culture that is usually discussed in sites like HN.
It can if you charge from your PC and set up some very convoluted scripts (not recommended).

I use `adb backup` solely as a means of transferring my settings & app library between devices.

These are full system backups including potentially gigabytes of APKs, so I wouldn't want to run it every night. It is possible to use `adb backup` to only backup settings (no app files) if you want a lighter backup, but those backups aren't as useful for my purposes.
Can you name some examples? In Europe it's so easy and normal to organize a multi-national conference that it'd seem weird to start something that aspired to be international without inviting participation from multiple countries.
What about putting a one click 'Report spam' button next to a 'Delete' one in one of the most used software on Earth ? Looking at you Gmail.
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I've made a successfull switch 10 years ago to UX/UI designer. I had a keen intrest in the area and some proficiency from leading different types of workshops as a lead developer as well as being a hobby artist. This was before UX became a term so a lot of the lead dev work for me had some UX characteristics. Still, I consider it a path for some developers. May not be for you but.. If you have talent in that direction it's a rewarding job where you can utilize your tech skill. It will give you a really strong foundation for design work.
That may be an expression of Brooks Law; increasing the number of people involved increases the average error count.
https://m.soundcloud.com/hm2k
In Norway, some businesses use Corona as a pretext and say that credit cards are dirty too. What's the cash situation in the Netherlands? Aren't businesses legally bound to accept cash?
It depends on region (and date of visit), I guess. I was in Beijing 2 years ago (so slightly pre Covid) on a business trip and while there are negatives, the toilets there were great.

I guess that’s because Beijing is a rich region, I really don’t know, were not anywhere else
The voice is also much more natural sounding than Google Maps
That's missing my point, though. I'm not saying it's wrong for Feynman talking about himself, but that the way he does it isn't much different from Wolfram.
I would argue that there are new twists on the old stories. New settings, new ways of presenting the material, et.c

The Matrix, Memento and Delicatessen come to mind as examples.

And then there are examples of non-original stuff that is just beautifully executed like Die Hard, or Alien.
A sense of humour didn't hurt.
It is not just generalist vs. specialists, bu alsot having very specific knowledge that helps
Yes, I was going to say the same thing. My samsung galaxy s10+ has a cracked screen and I need to take it to repair but the thought of the work needed to backup everything stops me from doing so.

I have very little trust in Google so I don't want to backup to google cloud (I just researched and it seems they do provide end to end backup encryption without Google having the key anywhere since Android 9, is that really the case now?)
Been producing stuff for the past 10 years, always electronic, some are harder than others

https://soundcloud.com/gby/kernel

https://soundcloud.com/gby/airglow-fire-gby-remix

https://soundcloud.com/gby/euv

https://soundcloud.com/gby/mullet-discotheque

https://soundcloud.com/gby/2jz-1

https://soundcloud.com/gby/childhood-startup
Amazing under appreciated musics shared here!
Weirdly enough the comments on this thread seem much less disjointed and hostile than the comments on most hn and Twitter posts nowadays. People actuality respond in good faith. Seems the internet really did a number on us this past decade
I think goodwill is enough in this case. It would be interesting to know the statistics on how much women/men buy via ad clicks, but that is probably a state secret.
https://soundcloud.com/the-blind-capital/09-end

I make progressive instrumental music. Not sure what genre it would fit into (would love to hear what others think).

I can't play guitar, so all the guitar parts are midi controlled (I know it sounds a bit wooden).

If anyone fancies collaborating hit me up. :)
> As regards, climate studies. Where have we heard the term "peak" something-or-other before. Ah yes, "peak oil". Well that didn't happen: we found more oil, we substituted gas, ... "Peak CO2": I nearly choked on my morning biscuit. Please tell China and India and Africa to stop developing and remain underdeveloped. Come on man, are you on drugs? Maybe, when a few billion have been displaced from their homes and invaded our comfortable lifestyles, we all might decide to stop driving and generating power with coal, oil and gas.

It's more plausible than it sounds. I had the same initial reaction as you, but it's worth keeping in mind that:

1.) China is quickly moving away from manufacturing. If you look at province-level GDP, manufacturing has been flat, or even fallen, in many/most provinces over the last couple of years.

2.) China and India are oil constrained. Although they have large coal reserves, at current mining rates, those reserves (at least, in China), will be used up in the next 30-40 years, with all of the policy implications that come along with it.

3.) People there, especially now, are far more environmentally conscious than generally given credit for.
The ITU, for example.
"How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics" gets you a few digits further (but of course yours is plenty accurate for calculating)
Like I said:

> In theory you might be able to run the evil app under another userid, but in practice this often breaks in all sorts of ways because people just don't do that very often so it exposes untested codepaths in UI/widget/GUI libraries.

Regardless, privilege escalation bugs are a dime a dozen these days. Running evil things as another userid is no substitute for moving them into a VM or off of the machine completely.
When I last tried, a lot of apps opted out of adb backups rendering it pretty much useless.
> I cannot choose any of the parts, and even doing simple reparation tasks like replacing a battery is a nightmare these days.

There is the https://www.fairphone.com/en/ which is a modular and easy to repair smartphone. They also make it easy to install alternative operating systems like Sailfish or an OSS version of Android.
At one point even VBA was localised...
These are not known as widows and orphans. Widows and orphans are a single line split to a separate page than the rest of the paragraph. Parent is describing a single word split to be alone on its line.
But a pidgeon leaves a trail of metadata on the ground as it carries your message, so this communication channel is still vulnerable to bulk network analysis by some Advanced Persistent Threat.
Technically no if the gambler can keep placing bets which increase in size. A winning strategy is to just keep increasing your bet until you recoup your winnings plus some delta gain.
Question: can you sell an epub on your own website, as well as amazon? Or does amazon get full exclusivity because you’re publishing through their platform?
Thanks for the answer. I just wanted to highlight that, I can just take my phone for the day, throw it under a bus, go to an apple store, get a new phone and continue where I exactly left off (minus a couple of 2FA keys, which I have backups of).

This is what I like about iOS. I tested this method a couple of times (with less destruction though), and it just works.
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