skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will not hear that because all non-sino people will be wiped out by a race-targeted virus.

The Alpha version leaked, unfortunately, giving us glimpse on where they are going with the research, won’t happen again.

For those who thinks my comment is outlandish: we are talking about the country that literally has concentration camps, forceful sterilization and thought police among other things.
What colors of clothing will keep you cooler in summer?
QR tech patents are trending but consolidating
It is especially useful when reviewing pull requests because it "just works" meaning that if you hit "." while on a PR page, it opens up the branch from the work.

This saves me a lot of time as a maintainer in some cases where otherwise I'd have to add the fork as a remote and then check it out locally.

Hoping that they'll add support for terminals as well at some point though I suspect maybe that'll forever be reserved for Codespaces.
Is Google using fingerprinting to track you?
Ask HN: Software engineering/design references for Statisticians
I am looking for good references on software design/engineering principles that I can implement personally and for my team of statisticians.

I am a physicist by training, and have created some questionable code and programs as part of my PhD. I am currently a 'data scientist', at a research center and manage a small army of statisticians. For the most part most of the coding is hacking together different scripts in a stats software of choice to do analysis. Overtime our analysis is getting more sophisticated and complex, and would like to implement some better coding practices to eliminate a lot of common bugs and to make our work more sharable. I will also most likely be looking for another job in a year or two, and would like to improve my practice as well.
> Intuitively, I'd think, it should be the opposite - no need to pay for the office space, money saved, can give that to the employees. But no, instead - save money on the office, and then save even more on the salaries. Just wow.

Capitalism in a nutshell. :) Don't have to compete for your labor as aggressively because there are more candidates available for a lower wage.

Until companies are fully socialist entities (I think the Starship Enterprise will come first), you're gonna keep seeing whatever saves the company the most money (or whatever goes straight to the execs pockets at least).
Sure. I'm not saying this is good. I'm saying there are a lot of kneejerk arguments being made that directly conflict with Apple's description of the system.
Australian “Firehawk” Raptors Intentionally Spread Wildfires
Face-shitting modal dialogue alert.
The cycles don't happen exactly. But I'm pretty sure they will come up with something new that in the end is the same as NoSQL and give it a trendy name, so young developers will believe they found gold and run with it... It is just the way these things keep happening.
A sort is called "stable" if it doesn't re-order things that compare equal. Unstable sorts are sometimes faster. If you care your code should request a stable sort. If your library only offers one sort and doesn't specify whether it's stable, I agree with your "defence in depth" strategy but I believe the right long term fix is to have the library clear up whether or not the provided sort is stable.
If you take it as a simple additive 2°C increase in temperature sure, if you instead trust the models predicting significantly more unstable weather on both ends of the temperature spectrum then not so much.
Hahah, if you ask Tim Cook he probably would tell you that there are a lot of cracks in the iPhone foundation. Alas, that's why this guy was paid that much...

But anyway, media being media, not bad to waste a few minutes feeling good about oneself that one can form an opinion about such a huge and powerful corporation.
I’m confused. What does this say in normal English?
For backends etc I like to use year.week.build: v2021.32.1 for today’s build.
“It’s the thin end of the wedge”

This is the biggest worry. Apple essentially waved their hand in their FAQ and said something to the effect of they’d never do something like that.

Yes you would. You’ll get called to congress and told in no uncertain terms what you’re expected to do, you’ll say no, the law will be changed, then the gentleman in a suit that people don’t say no to will call to your nice headquarters for you to walk him through his shiny new surveillance tools.
There's the rub. I think folks would feel better about if Apple-owned equipment was doing the scanning, even though arguably it is worse for privacy.
Oh yes, and a tsunami of that magnitude would just plow right through the streets of NYC or Boston.
I used to use Balena Etcher for writing bootable media, but have started to use Ventoy[1] for this instead. It's really nice to be able to have multiple bootable ISOs on a single flash drive (and also keep using them for regular storage at the same time).

[1] https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
> > In Mozilla documentation "Electrolysis" is often shorted as "e10s".

> What a silly scheme.

Agreed. It might be more convenient for the person typing, but ironically, it impedes the understanding of their message. See also: i18n, l10n, a11y, k8s.
Yes, I 100% did misread! My bad!
Apple did plan to make web apps first class on iPhones. But changed their minds when developers complained about not getting hard metal access. Maybe they thought that supporting web apps would get them more apps, but developers gave them apps for free and it allowed Apple to have a monopoly. Microsoft tried the same with their phones but somehow failed... Google went the web app route on ChromeOS with decent success. Mozilla tried with FirefoxOS but was too early - FirefoxOS is now very popular but under another name on low end hardware phones.
> without any sound financial reasoning.

Who says that "financial reasoning" trumps other concerns, like privacy, accessibility, or human rights? Reducing everything to financial gain/loss analysis may sound nice in your Accounting 101 class, but in the real world people exist.
Yeah good point. Although I think it is pretty safe to say they are better then they were in the 1930's and 1940's. Are they better then they were in the 1960's 70's? Not as clear.
Australia is nuts. You even have birds that deliberately spread wildfire.

https://blog.nature.org/science/2018/01/12/australian-fireha...
double plus good advice, Citizen.
No it's not: provide proof and citations or STFU.
Sorry, I was saying that reinventing wheel does not apply to the invention of modern tires...
Not if there’s no water. Half of China already has shortages.
No - it’s worse than that. They can scan for anything they like. They have made no promises about limiting what they do.
Being wrong is now censorship?
This is a textbook example of survivorship bias
For those who just want to see the font [0,1,2,3] without all the fuss:

[0] https://abs.twimg.com/fonts/chirp-bold-web.woff
[1] https://abs.twimg.com/fonts/chirp-heavy-web.woff
[2] https://abs.twimg.com/fonts/chirp-medium-web.woff
[3] https://abs.twimg.com/fonts/chirp-regular-web.woff
> Doesn't my faucet current create suction on the washing machine's connection?

Even if it did, it doesn't create any flow, which would be necessary for the valve to function.
I don't know how "leaky" a tesla valve is and if that leakiness (if it's non-zero) matters to the (pulsejet ? microfluids ?) applications it is used in.

Generally speaking, any volume of household/utility water is considered sewage if even one drop of sewage enters it.

In California, utility connections utilize double-check valves with inspection ports that allow an inspector to regularly check the expected pressure drop between the two check valves and ensure they are not leaking.[1][2]

I don't know if that is more, or less, aggressive than a Tesla valve with (for instance) 8 or 10 "segments".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_check_valve

[2] https://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/65889354
I agree with you, but you're painting the alarmists with a broad stroke. There's room for those who trust Apple with their data, are fine with the implications of server-side data storage, and are not fine with their devices performing the scan on offline data.
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> Errors & Omissions business insurance. Basically goof-proofing. I keep it, even though I don't really do contract work for others.

Ah, that is good to know. I will need that for sure.

> As a contractor, I'd consider it an exception to not provide full source (and proof of provenance).

Question: does a full git repo provide proof of provenance? As in, if a repo has no dependencies, and the git history shows that you personally wrote every line, does that work as proof of provenance? I think it does, but you seem to know your stuff.

> I'm always leery of licensing requirements. I think it depends on the application.

> I do think that supply-chain dependencies should have some form of assurance, but I don't think we should expect to have a full license requirement for a brand-fluffing app.

I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me here. Could you clarify?
An interesting thing in this whole tempest is the notion of the CSAM itself. Specifically, there are more than a few people whose argument against Apple seems to be, implicitly, that CSAM is something of a moral panic. It exists but not at the scale that Apple needs to embed this technology in every device. Other posts alleged NCMEC lies about stats, ostensibly to justify their budgets (if CSAM is not a growing problem, then they don't need more funds). Others insist that the existing means of policing don't work in an increasingly technical world; and the bad guys are good at this stuff. I don't know which side is right - or if there even is a "right", here.

To me, then, the whole thing at least partly rests on those questions. If CSAM is a moral panic, then this technology is not just bad, but doubly so. Apple got played by the Feds, or maybe they really have been dreaming of backdooring their devices and finally had the rationale they needed.

But if CSAM isn't a moral panic but an actual growing problem that needs a technical solution (or assist), what are we to do? Just shrug and say "well it's a hard problem, maybe one day we'll solve it" and hope for the best?
> Assuming the marketplace is functioning, the demand for these sort of "features" (aka: non-features) would assume there would be a rational supplier to give it.

The assumption that a "functioning" market will do a good job of catering to even fairly popular wishes does not seem to hold true in the real world, including for cases in which I'm pretty damn sure it's not some kind of government interference causing it not to. It's utterly common for plain ol' commodities subject to no special government scrutiny or control and with many suppliers to provide no option for features or product-types that would surely have many buyers, simply because no-one expects the returns to be as high as doing something else with the same capacity.

AFAIK this happens for a bunch of reasons, including that information is very, very far from being perfectly shared in all parts of the market, that there are significant costs associated with quality information-gathering, and efficient use of capital tending to cause production to cluster around tiny little bits of the possible product space (similar to how pharmacies like to build right next to each other, rather than spreading out to reduce travel-time-to-a-pharmacy in an area)
> Honest question though - but what _should_ Apple do here?

Implement encryption and say the same to the FBI the last time they wanted apple to unlock something: Sorry, we can't.

It's not like encrypted cloud storage without holding the keys or client-side scanning would be new ground. Providers for that already exist and have existed for years.
I can actually see it as something that encourages parents to have fewer qualms about giving their kids iPhones. I don't know how the thing works but if it makes it annoying for my kids to take/send nudes, then great.

Edit: I guess at worst Apple's just sending a cryptographic hash of unencrypted data so that the known childporn can be flagged. It's basically like sending a hashdeep record of the data. It's an interesting concept with at lot of implications for tracing the spread of files within networks without knowing what they contain. Presumably if it was expanded to all files in cloud storage then LE could say something like "Give be a list of everyone that has object XDFAECXDZE" when LE knows that XDFAECXDZE is Catcher_in_the_Rye.pdf and Apple does not.
Depends on expectations.

Coming from a traditional christian perspective everyone has the right to rebirth at any point in life. The sooner the better of course. Then it's all about following God. It is the persistence shown every day that matters there not the "target".

Then again even from a biological perspective you still have quite a long time to go so don't take it so hard and try to not stray from what is good in life. Just my 2c.
One could argue that the entire structure of social networking sits on a foundation of playing fast and loose with the rights of others to control the use of their creative output.
https://calyxos.org/

https://gitlab.com/CalyxOS
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Exciting! "Natalie Portman", "Nancy Pelosi", "Northern Pacific", "Neutron Polymer", ...
What if I don't want linux? Not many options available in modern phones...
I don’t think that trusting a corporation is any good either. Imagine the alternate scenario where the government is benevolent and has no interest in surveilling its citizens. Companies in this case still have an incentive to gather as much data as they can from their customers because the ability to manipulate people into patronizing their products is a competitive edge.
Note that this is not a 3D crystal of electrons floating in vacuum.

It's a 2D crystal of electrons that live in a thin semiconductor that is sandwiched between two layers of other semiconductor. You can't pick it with a tiny gripper.

Moreover, I don't understand all the details, but IIUC the surrounding semiconductor provides an effective force that makes the electrons attract each other when they are not too close. So in some sense, the crystal is formed by the electrons, but this does not break the expected behavior of a 100% pure negative particles in vacuum.
Yes, Lingdong Huang is awesome! I have that exact one running on a framed eInk display on my wall. I had to make some minor modifications to make it run in NodeJS instead of in a browser, and then generate a raster image to send to the eInk display, but it wasn't hard.

I got permission from the author to post my work to Hackaday (with credit to him) which I'll do at some point. I'm actually working on a 3-panel "wide" version of it that I want to get done first.

https://dheera.net/projects/einkframe/

3-panel version in progress:

https://imgur.com/a/3IfKpb3
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Nope, but major brands benefit from their own typeface in numerous ways, so Twitter may need their own typeface.
Sure, but I'm willing to bet that next to nobody who doesn't work with encryption makes that analogy. You also don't typically use a "master key" to unlock a locked box of keys so it's not really a great analogy anyway.
according to BLS, the median is more like $110k: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

anyway, the median figure doesn't tell you a whole lot by itself. the median rent in the US for is ~$950 for a 1BR or ~$1250 for a 3BR (suitable for a family with 2-3 children). if you make the median salary, you are probably taking home $6000-6500 a month depending on tax situation. having ~$5000 left over after paying rent sounds more than just "comfortable" to me.

of course, we don't know exactly how well local rents are correlated with dev pay. maybe to be more than "comfortable" you need to pay for private school or pay rent in the best school district. but it would be much more useful to calculate the ratio of rent or home price to pay for each dev and then take the median of that.
So good to see persistent dbs coming to the web. I also started using https://github.com/WebReflection/sqlite-worker which is pretty similar
India is the fastest growing market.

Capable manufacturing doesn’t matter when automation can be reshored, when there are shipping delays and pricing spike, when labor costs are rising fast.

Not sure why we are discussing validity of exodus when public companies have already reported mass exodus of manufacturing from China.
But they also had active and capable browser engine team, isn't it?
Any company, when the realize that it's no longer a profit center, and isn't likely to return to being a profit center any time soon.

The trick for China is to get the regulations in place that are necessary, without putting so many in place that it strangles profitability (and therefore destroys business). But come to think of it, that's the trick for any country when regulating.
I use cryptomator for this. On Android it allows auto uploading to any of the major Android-enabled clouds, while encrypting. You do need to keep your vault unlocked though for the auto upload to work, otherwise it will need to catch up whenever you unlock it. Not sure if it has this feature on iOS.

If you share cryptomator and the vault to your family/friends they can access it but it's not possible to look at the pics on the web that way.

The app is also paid but it's a one-time fee and not expensive.
Thank you all for your interests and comments! I'm not sure how the study came here now but glad that more people can see the results :) At that time, we tried to collect many color names as much as possible but the pool was biased as we advertise from our friends/co-workers/websites.

You can contribute to the data by here:
http://labinthewild.org/studies/color_perception/?locale=en

Another related article is here:
https://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/multi-lingual-color-nam...

Thanks!!
Isn't the fact of rapidly climbing, market-driven compensation for typically-minimum-wage jobs such as food service, hospitality and labour sufficient to dispense with minimum wages all together? Yes perhaps the market takes X years to adjust, but it does in fact adjust. Why not just wait the years and save all the bureaucracy.

> they can just hire cheap workers and fire them as needed

But doesn't increasing the minimum wage just price these people who were formerly being hired/fired completely out of the labour market?
> But actually it's more that there should be a standard protocol for package discovery, distribution and updating; and package managers can just be an interface to those.

PackageKit exists as a standard protocol on top of myriad package managers. Most major distro package managers (apt, yum/dnf, apk, pacman) have a package kit wrapper, and UI tools such as Gnome Software or KDE Discover exist that use this abstraction.

The missing piece here is that it still requires packages to be built in all the different formats that these abstracted package managers require.
I was about to dismiss these as complete fabrication and go on with my life. However, after looking at the font screenshot, I instantly felt a small pinch behind my eyes and at the back of my head. Coincidence ? Maybe, but it happened also with my SO and some members of the family (without warning them first).

So there might be a problem with this font indeed!

Note: we saw the screenshot on my iphone 12.
> But I do think there is a fundamental (human, psychological, emotional) difference between a tool running on a server and one running on my device.

I agree, but it's frustrating to me because it's an illusion: if your device is running proprietary software, you don't control the device. At that point there's little difference between your device and a server in the cloud, aside from technical characteristics like latency and compute power.
But the limits to these transformations are governed by the 2nd law of thermodynamics, not the first. You can't arbitrarily convert heat into other forms of energy.

E.g., if your machine relies on all energy in my room to spontaneously gather in my coffee mug to heat it up, while simultaneously cooling my warm room, this would be perfectly fine with conservation of energy and super useful. Unfortunately, it would also violate the 2nd law and it's thus something that doesn't happen in our universe.
Finally someone understands!
Yes, that's offtopic and baity. We've changed the title now. (Submitted title was "Darts: Non-Facebook alternative for timeseries forecasting")

Submitters: the site guidelines ask you to rewrite titles only to make them less baity. Less is not more! Not in this context at least.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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What you say is agreeable and true. But privacy is a collective problem for society! If I have privacy for myself, and can express myself freely, but essentially nobody else can, what kind of society do I get to live my so-called free and private life in? A cyberpunk dystopia, that’s what.
This is a very kind, and naive take on the issue. Case in point:

> But would it be able to say no to China?

In order to keep selling on the Chinese market, they already agreed to host their Chinese customer data inside China with a local cloud provider, and censor content according to Chinese requirements, and fully comply with the CCP requests. So once the "tank man" photo is added to the list of banned pictures, there's no doubt they'll happily comply.
Really surprised she could get away with that.

At my (Swiss) vaccination site, there were always two people present during the whole process. If not to keep an eye on things, one was checking and printing the paperwork while the other briefed me on the procedure.

The vaccination definitely would have taken more than twice as long if there was only one worker.
They will either leave voluntarily or be out of business at the whim of a dictatorship literally the next day. It’s just risk vs reward here.
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> I ended up watching the deep learning series by 3blue1brown, reading the book it was based on.

What book you are referring to?
I remember a decade ago that Freedom of Speech was a pretty common sentiment shared here and pretty much everywhere online. Today though, that freedom is no longer even prized over the rights of private mega corps, sometimes doing the bidding of the government.

On one hand it's encouraging to read your take, but I have no faith that in another 10 years, the government scanning all our devices for "misinformation" that the then regime deems as such, will be anything but hand waved away by the majority of SV employees as "it's the law".
Only if the file is not uploaded via a multipart upload, which all SDKs do for any files larger than a megabyte.

If the object is encrypted with KMS, which almost everything is, then the hash is the encrypted contents and not the original contents.
Totally agree, however I haven't seen any sources saying that these mint operations were paid for by commerical paper given by Alameda or Cumberland.

That's what I suspect and I'll be shorting more USDT today on AAVE.