skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been wanting to develop a similar app, but a PWA with WebUSB instead, so an installation is optional, and configuration is available on the go.
Looks a bit similar to Fellow.app (https://fellow.app), but I'm glad there's more choices/competition in this space (good for innovation and for users). Congrats on the launch!
The beauty of an adversarial system, where the prosecution's goal is to win, not to find the truth.
Ask HN: What to Do with a Physics Degree?
A friend of mine recently graduated with a degree in physics. After finishing school, he realized that he was not interested in academia and did not want to go to graduate school.

He is interested in getting into engineering (SW or mech, most likely), or perhaps data analysis/science. He has some but not tons of programming experience. Decent amount of stats experience.

I'm wondering if anyone here has navigated a similar situation and/or has ideas for possible paths forward.
XML is way more complex than YAML. XML has not only all the indirection troubles of YAML, but even freer indirection (you can point to the web!), partial data, substandards, foreign includes, and a lot of extra things.

Just like YAML, there exist a sound subset of XML that is quite usable. Just like YAML, XML is hard to write correctly, but I would say the XML errors are much easier to spot.

Both JSON and YAML have the problem of lacking tagged unions. Also, the XML data definition can be either extra complexity or a great tool depending on your usage. (But DTDs use an atrocious language either way.) None of those 3 standards have a really universal type representation, and while there are substandards for XML that extend the types, I've never seen anything that could encode even the C type system.
I don't think it's very common. I think some departments are starting to tell officers not to do this. It's unprofessional and a complaint should be filed against any officer doing it.
Wasn't there recently a whole huge story about how it turned out to be his girlfriend's brother?
I hope you're making a bad joke. Go get the vaccines to get the proof of vaccination cards.
"Secret chats are e2e-encrypted chats that never under any circumstances get backed up. Cloud chats are encrypted in the same way, but also have a built-in cloud backup. "

https://telegra.ph/Why-Isnt-Telegram-End-to-End-Encrypted-by...

Of course he's not dumb enough to walk into the mine of saying it directly. But he justifies the need to split chats in the context of backups, which gives any reader an impression you can't do client-side encrypted cloud backups on secret chats. He never even tries to explain why he doesn't try to bridge the feature gap.
Isn't NSO just a poor-man's NSA, since the NSA can force Google/Apple/Microsoft/Amazon/[Any Carrier] to do anything to any number of devices or data, and in secret?
Surely, the title should be the "photo of this beach does not exist". Beach photos are always a bit samey so it is probably more straight forward to train AI to build a random beach photo than to actual build a map of a beach.
Then Assange's defense can cite the story, force the guy to recant or not on the stand and the judge can rule on its relevance.
> Can be easily detected by licking the test hole

Can't tell if you're serious or not, about licking a positive-indicating lateral flow test with potentially hot nasal mucus...
I wrote a quick-and-dirty test using a simple dot product as the basis for testing precision. (Dot product-like operations are a relatively common use case for FMA).

Which result is more precise depends on the input data (I randomized it), but it seems that most commonly, there was no actual difference using FMA and not using it, and when there was a difference, it was even odds which one was the more precise result.
Actually, it's possible that the Chinese stunt was to make a more widespread statement about how easy it is to penetrate US Customs with small packets.

I have heard of weed growers years ago that would order seeds of special cannabis cultivars from Britain and Europe with prepaid vanilla VISA cards and have them shipped to anonymous mail drops and the vast majority got through.
I found the game strangely addictive: http://www.playonlinedicegames.com/senet
And the key to creating such a culture is to make the consequences of hiding mistakes substantially worse than the consequences of owning them. So either you reward people for making mistakes and coming forward (creating a perverse incentive to make mistakes) or you punish those who hide mistakes especially hard. Bonus points if in the process of punishing people who hide mistakes, you also remove those people from the organization, thus increasing the proportion of people in the organization who do not hide mistakes.

Firing these people is both just and pragmatic.
Hm. "Plastics cannot be degraded" is the usual sermon; [1], [2], for example. Or course its trivially easy to find degraded plastics in the wild; but that's never seemed to be a concern when there's dogma to advance.

[1] https://pelacase.com/blogs/news/does-plastic-degrade

[2] https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-m...

> Plastic isn't a material that decomposes, but must be recycled. Instead, plastic tends to break down into smaller particles until they are too small to be seen. This means that every molecule of plastic produced since 1907 is still present in the environment.
Great article - so much depth and accuracy to this! I see a lot of discussion about the semantics of pdfs but I think those are missing the overarching theme here.

Feels like this is more about the fact that websites have become increasingly dynamic, unstable, unreliable, inconsistent, etc. - pdfs offer something like a book, static, stable, reliable and consistent.

Think about a book you can turn to a specific page no matter how many times you look at it and the print is the same, the information is the same, you can do the same action over and over again and get the same expected result.

Now imagine opening a book and you could have sworn that the chapter you wanted to reference was 11 but now it's 16 and the images are different, the examples are different, in fact the quote that you wanted to use for reference no longer exists in the book.

There's an insanity to this experience but it's exactly what the web is like - a book that is constantly changing, upended changed - even disappearing entirely. I could have sworn I had bought that book on discrete mathematics - how could it be gone? oh that's right the server managing site is powered off - book no longer even exists.
Anyone notice that this statement from NSO in the article doesn't make sense:

"NSO does not operate its technology, does not collect, nor possesses, nor has any access to any kind of data of its customers."

If this is true, how do we have a singular list of all phone numbers penetrated? If there was this type of "segmentation" or firewall between NSO and its clients, why was there this huge central data leak?

NSO is tracking what its clients are doing. It may not be telling its clients it is also tracking them. I wouldn't be surprised if NSO could also access every one of those penetrated devices as well independently of its clients.
It get's tricky with ambiguous subjects. If there is a concrete correct answer then yes, give that stick to your guns. If there isn't and the issue comes down to opinion and interpretation ... things get dicy ...
But with the same (and even much bigger) success you can declare “I’m switching to self-contained HTML! No more external resources!” instead of “I’m switching to PDF, saying farewell to interactivity and mobile devices”.

It's just the declaration of ONE person, switching ONE site.
> The guy outlines his whole case based on those exact points which are, as you have observed, technical quibbles and not a basis for abandoning HTML.

He's actually more of a social observation: it doesn't matter what the technology can do, what matters how how the developers of that technology actually use it.

People who use PDF almost never use 3D graphics and heavy dynamic JS, so PDFs almost always have many of the qualities he's seeking.

Web developers almost never inline anything, and do all kinds of things that are arguably deal-breakers except for a few lowest-common-denominator use cases.

> Under the hood it seems apparent to me that the real premise is an emotional one, not a technical one.

The premise is that the web has failed in important and clear ways, it's impossible to fix so we should give up, so many use cases should abandon it for something else, and PDFs are unexpectedly well suited for that.

On a related note, part of me wishes Java Applets never died. Getting rid of them seems to have caused the Web to turn into them, and maybe if they'd remained some kind of separation could have been maintained.
There's a separate parameter to control the increase in house prices. My assumption is that houses have tended to increase faster than inflation in most markets.
>Sure, and it "seems like" the extremist propaganda that Big Tech shut down was violating all sorts of other laws like incitement.

Most of it actually wasn't FWIW, hateful extremist content is generally perfectly legal free speech. "Incitement" gets used way, way too often on the internet, almost nothing that gets posted online is legal incitement. But neither "Big Tech" (such a dumb term) nor Hacker News nor a random forum on birds needs any violation of law or anything else to moderate what gets posted on their sites. It doesn't have to be "negative" or whatever at all even. There is nothing illegal or objectionable about someone who likes discussing trains for example. But if you post lots just about trains on a birder forum they may delete all your posts and ask you to stop because they want to focus on birds, and if you continue to do so they can delete everything and ban you. Why would there be anything wrong with that?

Private society looking at extremist content and saying "we're not going to shoot you over it but we do strongly object and we're going to socially ostracize you and deny you business and our support in any way we can" is free speech working as intended.

>Is "seems like" enough of a reason now for private companies to choose not to contract with other private companies?

Uh, yeah? People can refuse to do business with each other for nearly any reason at all, and definitely for anything other people merely say or do (at least, within the bounds defined by any existing contracts, but Amazon has covered its bases pretty well there to put it mildly).
right to repair to me starts with unlocked bootloader's such that we can run non-broken OSes. having an open source system would be a huge upgrade in repairability.
Right. So, the most obvious answer is to simply restore the institution of the Sheriff while abolishing police.

An even better answer is to reimagine decentralized community security with all of the capabilities of an information age society - cameras, drones, etc.
I'm actually really curious to find out whether this would work. It sounds quite easy to test, I wonder if anyone has already done it?

My feeling is that it wouldn't work very well at all, because of things like the Doppler effect shifting the sound as you move the mic closer to or further from the source, and also the sampling on the microphone might be out of phase with the original recording. But the more I think about it, the more I think those might only be minor problems and it would actually work well?

EDIT: And the frequency response of the speaker & microphone are almost certainly non-uniform.

EDIT2: From a quick test, it doesn't even slightly work. Here's what I did:

1. Find a song on youtube

2. Save the song to an MP3 with https://www.bestmp3converter.com (or use youtube-dl - bestmp3converter.com probably uses youtube-dl)

3. Play the song on YouTube and record it using my phone

4. Load the MP3 and the recording from my phone in Audacity as 2 separate tracks

5. Amplify the phone recording until it looks like it matches the MP3 (Effect -> Amplify)

6. Delete some samples at the start of the phone recording so that the 2 tracks visually line up

7. Invert one of the tracks (Effect -> Invert)

8. Add the 2 tracks together (select both tracks, then Tracks -> Mix -> Mix and Render to New Track)

9. Mute the 2 original tracks and listen to the mixed result - it still sounds exactly like the song. It's not even slightly muffled. It sounds the same even if you don't invert one of the tracks. I think this is just much too far away from lining up sample-for-sample to be close to working.
Like five seconds of googling and I don’t speak French.

https://comparecycle.com/

This is the kind of recycling service many people use. Very common here in Australia; companies pay a non trivial price for even a five year old iPhone or iPad.

> You have cardboard boxes for electronics devices at the entrance of every supermarket of a certain size (by law) and you simply drop it there.

It baffles me that on one hand you scorn me for my supposed affluence while inferring that people in your neighbourhood supposedly just dump perfectly good iPhones into a bin without wanting any money for them. If that’s not affluence, I don’t know what is.
China accused of cyber-attack on Microsoft
This made me literally LOL. You will NEVER be able to make all children happy with going to school. Attempting it is almost a fool's errand. Even in nice posh schools, there will still be kids unhappy. It's just human nature.
They would also stop big bunch of other things.
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The US has too many internal problem to be the world savior. Every time the US looks outside its border, it's for its sole selfish interests. Human rights enforcement around the world is (unfortunately) not something we can reasonaly expect from US.
Also the U in US is extremely optimistic. Different states would act completely differently if allowed to.

The world need to look for a different hero: any proposal?

(For a good laugh, I reccomend watching the excellent "When the Yogurt took over" on Netflix)
I dunno. NSO group is extremely capable. I know a lot of folks go back and forth on the “if you don’t want X vendor to shut you down then go build it yourself” and for various reasons. But in the case of NSO group I feel like AWS cutting them off is probably more of an annoyance than anything else. They’re gonna be ok.
MarkLogic already exists....
I find it to be pedantic as well. Sure, all of the code exists in the application layer. But that doesn't really tell you anything about it's relationship to the system as a whole does it?

How about we look at vectors of change? Or dependency relationships? You see, in many systems changes[0] to the UI affect changes to the View and changes[1] to the database affect changes to the Model.

[0][1] I don't mean to say the UI changes and then the View is updated to match. I mean that stakeholders will have decided that the UI needs to display different information, so the View is updated to accommodate such a change (which can then be passed to the UI). The same story above for the Model/Database relationship.
The issue is that this is even a possibility. It should not be possible to access user data, even if a manager approves it.
Yes. GPUs are extremely good at doing millions of small repetitive calculations, and not great elsewhere.

My capstone project used RL on a Raspberry Pi to train hardware-in-the-loop (essentially when to open and close valves based on sensor input). It was incredibly slow because it couldn’t be parallelized (without buying additional hardware for $500 each). Lots of professors asked why a Raspberry Pi was chosen when we had high end GPUs in the lab, and I had to explain that the Pi was NOT the bottleneck, and in fact stayed idle 95% of the time.
> but the undeserved portion of spite has now caused much more harm (both real and in the form of information noise) than good (in the form of enlightenment or exposure).

Why is it undeserved if they haven't changed their partisan tactics and misleading reporting despite all hate levelled at them for exactly these things?
Not convinced that using the service to distribute malware, on behalf of odious third party governments for antidemocratic purposes, is protected by free speech demands. It's not speech, is it?
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> Half of the kids who contract Covid19 suffer from "long covid"

I don't doubt that there's some likely some fairly common short-medium term health impacts from a nasty flu that's relatively new and unknown. But I strongly wonder how much of these supposed "long-covid" symptoms may be wounds that are partially self-inflicted by society. I believe that natural (and already quite bad) activity patterns have been altered negatively since Covid started and this may have a wide-scale health impact that the establishment doesn't care about. These symptoms may partially stem from basically keeping people locked up inside for months, the media feeding them constant scare stories and stressing them out (stress can prevent good sleep and has many other negative health effects), people eating garbage food because there's not as much else to do, people not getting as much sun (Vitamin D exposure) and exercise as they should be getting, the depressions coming from the unnatural social life we've been forced to endure (covering faces, only communicating via video chats), etc.

> And your "Wuhan coronavirus" naming ... the only people I've heard who call the virus by that name or its similar "China virus" are right-wingers and corona / vaccine deniers.

May I ask what does an idealogical compliance check add to the conversation?
That's probably because 8GB is not enough to run Intellij comfortably and the system starts swapping things in and out of memory constantly. Another thing that happens when intellij uses up its heap is garbage collects including frequent stop the world varieties of that. The solution is to configure it to have more heap. Either way, that's a memory problem and not a CPU problem.

8GB for a development laptop is not a great idea in 2021. I've been using 16GB since 2013. I'll get more with my next laptop, which may or may not end up being the 16" M2?
PDFs are also horrible to view on mobile, as the text doesn't reflow.
or you can post your video on s3 buckets that don't use any copy write algorithm to block your evidence
When you find a page - inherently a document-oriented term - like an article, blog post, how-to, or project writeup that's interesting or useful, and you want to make sure it's available to you later, what do you do?

Do you save the HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and hope that it works offline? I used to use the "Save page as..." tool back in the early 2000s, but it's become less and less useful, with too many dysfunctional disappointments.

No, I cut out some junk I don't need with the Printliminator [1] bookmarklet, then I do a *print-to-PDF.* This gives me a file. I can save the file, back it up to my NAS, search for it later, keep it with other files from a project where it was useful, and otherwise hang onto it. This is so common, in fact, that it's gone from being an obscure thing you could do with a Postscript-to-PDF converter or (before the adware/Ask toolbar scandal) the installing the CutePDF virtual printer. Modern OSes bundle a PDF printer, and print dialogs understand that you want to "Save as PDF". Google Docs and Office 365 editors allow downloading a document as a PDF.

I totally agree that a dynamic, interactive page or a comment section is not compatible with this model of usage. There's a lot of consumption of endless feeds, and a lot of one-time video views that also don't make sense to save as offline files. However, the web for creators, where people write articles that are worth hanging onto, has a definite place for PDFs.

[1]: http://css-tricks.github.io/The-Printliminator/
If I remember correctly, that question likely refers to some argument in the driving manual about speeding.

Something along the lines of "speeding in most urban areas doesn't actually help get someone to their destination faster. There are always multiple traffic lights and other cars to contend with, so it's not helpful to go over the speed limit and it increases the risk and severity of an accident." It's perfectly solid advice, who hasn't been passed aggressively by an ah-ole with tinted windows only to catch up to them at every traffic light?

The question obviously wants to screen for that tidbit of knowledge, but it's not phrased rigorously enough for the HN-crowd, I guess.
NSO seems to be used by tyrants to go after legitimate opposition. The NSA isn't used by the President to target the party out of power no? But in NSO case in India apparently it was: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/19/key-modi-rival-...

NSO is used to keep those with money and access to NSO in power undermine their legitimate rivals. It can be used to plant evidence on their devices as well as monitor everything they do.
Can you have a change in leadership without violence is the question.
It feels like this is more a result of Amazon not being able to connect you with the right escalation path to verify & act on these claims than a considered decision to ignore them.

Does anyone here know what an individual reporter should do? Is there an escalation ramp that exists but was so poorly marked that neither sloshnmosh nor Amazon support was able to find it? Does the ramp go through other organizations (e.g. report to CERT or some other org first and come back with a case ID)? Does the ramp not exist and need to be built?
As it happened: More than 50k daily cases reported in UK
> But if you want a page in PDF, you can print it to PDF...

Printing a page to PDF usually sucks: See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27883028
Isn't having more power brokers healthier for a democracy than fewer? Today, the existing oligarchs control both the currency and all the laws. This at least fragments that further. The existing oligarchs still get the government; that doesn't change. The new ones get the currency.
I am willing to bet money that NSO Group has multiple AWS accounts, many under several layers of cover.

You can't really spin them up with any significant quota on short notice (ask me how I know, AWS service team) so having established ones with workable limits in advance across multiple cloud providers would be table stakes for any competent spying organization.
So when chess was first played, this game was already ancient. That is pretty cool.
Hey HN!

This is a side project I’ve been working on that I’d love to share with the Hacker News community and receive feedback. Voiclet is a widget for your website that allows your users to call your team directly from their browser. It's aimed towards startups and small businesses who do not have a dedicated support team but still need to field sales and support calls. I’m all ears to any sort of feedback or criticism. Thanks!
> need an unobstructed view while operating dangerous machinery like… maybe… driving.

Maybe... don't drink while you're driving, that's a whole lot safer.

You had a point about those with disabilities though. The workaround there is to buy your own straws and keep them with you.
> Espen Aarseth asked if the game Senet could be said to still exist, given that the rules were unknown. In response, Alexander de Voogt of the American Museum of Natural History pointed out that games did not have a fixed set of rules, but rules varied over time and from place to place.

The game is the rules. Those people played different games. If you can do anything you want with it, it's a toy, not a game.

If everyone forgot and lost the rules to pinochle, would we say pinochle still exists because people are playing poker with the same deck of cards?