skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I really dislike about the "you don't own this, the cloud does" is apps changing without me having a say in it. Spotify is great, but...

I agree with everything you said apart from the "Spotify is great" part.
This is sweet. Now, my wife uses Apple's Find My's "Play Sound" as I'm perpetually on Silent DND and I sometimes do not see her calls (she is in the whitelist and is allowed to use voice calls).

I would like to narrate a personal story from the late 80s. I grew up in a multi-family where my uncles own a lot of vehicles, including the left-handed drive Jeeps from the World War era (India uses Right-Hand Drive). Our siblings were raised by our grandmother. After she finishes cooking lunch, she always have the problem of gathering us around to eat. We would have all gone to the locality and the neighbors to play. She was always frustrated and furious about our lack of timing.

So, I repurposed a truck's horn so she can just press a switch and blow the horn loud enough for us to hear across the neighbors. I had it on the roof-top for quite a while, even after she passed away the next year. Thinking about it now, I know it was pretty reckless. It was so loud, that other families would remind their kids that -- that is the Food-Time-Horn.
IoT Smarthome Security Survey – TU Dresden / KIT
I don't see any parts of this system in openresty's GitHub account. Are some of the components of OpenResty Xray going to be open source?
if anybody is interested in running it I'm more than happy to get them involved. I haven't had anybody approach me though.

For what it's worth, HttpBeast has seen some love from me lately (with some big optimisations). HTTP2 would require effectively a new project IMO so if someone wants to make it happen I'd love to advise where I can.
Have a look at the classic "The AWK Programming Language" by the A, W, and K in awk. It's full of great examples.

https://ia803404.us.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC...
Google has a history of removing non-malicious apps from Play that apparently break no terms of service.

Developers so removed should be able to (partially) re-monetize by coming through F-Droid.

The problem at Apple is worse; perhaps this would work there too.
How about a GT86? This is about as analog as you can get for a mainstream car.
It’s a great undertaking to do it well.

Hard to do without getting paid, and if it’s for profit you want SAAS since that means recurring revenue.
>> and another one notifying him that he's being redirected outside of the domain he's in

> There is rarely a reason to redirect to other domains. The most common case is making outbound links go through a redirect for tracking purposes - and that I won't miss.

You misunderstand this part, which is forgivable if you're outside Germany. This is about the mandatory "You're leaving X, we do not have control on their data collection or endorse this site's contents. Do you want to continue?" you'll see on German-language website because a court in Hamburg says that they're implicitly liable if they didn't state that.
This sound like a great way to prank someone’s laptop you have access to!
My son always has his headphones on these days, which often makes it hard for us to reach him. I wouldn't mind being able to talk directly into his headphones.
I would suggest waiting, since there are news about a deal to sell NSO to a US venture fund. We could then refer to it as "US spyware" and skip the renaming part.
Sorry. Try https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1981/8116/811604.PDF.

I ‘corrected’ that ugly .PDF part without checking whether it broke the URL.
IANA Registrar IDs
There's also the heterogeneity of transactions. Looking at the csv export I've got from my bank, there are three "reference" columns and they play different roles depending on how I'm paying:

- debit card: merchant name + date, card number, blank
- alternative card-based payment system: constant (account number?), merchant, constant
- alternative app-based payment system: constant, merchant, user custom reference

And a data sanitation issue: one of the merchant names has a comma in it, and it's not escaped or quoted in the csv so that record is corrupted.
This isn't what happens - you do a port forward and you access your services through localhost:port. Nothing else goes through the tunnel. Endpoint services see the ec2 ip. There is no IP "switching" or risk of getting banned.

But if your ec2 service has security group access to multiple things it's extremely useful because you can hit localhost:xxxx for postgres, localhost:yyyy for elasticsearch, etc.
Home generator sales are booming with mass outages, climate change and Covid
Not everyone plays online.
It isn't so much that it runs afoul of the WTO (if the States are serious about they just ignore the UN) as that it is bad policy. Picking on China as the major competitor... the reasons China has gained an industrial advantage over the US is because:

1. Lots of industrial activity is illegal/extremely risky in the US. If you want to open a steelworks, for example, it seems reasonable to guess that the US will be much more hostile to the business on environmental grounds than China would.

2. US labour conditions are extremely generous compared to China. Median wage in the US is something like 5-6x times China and the gap was larger when the investment decisions were being made.

Neither of those will be solved by tax breaks. General tax breaks may well spur good results, but the real killer of industry is those two factors. The US already has a much better general business climate than China legally (eg, people can be confident that they own their business without risks like corruption or nationalisation taking it off them).
Tesla should really stick to making electric drivetrains and branding and let someone else design and build the rest if the car.
You don't override people's home pages for security.
UK: Tax woes force a million to abandon the self-employed dream
A Medieval Book That Opens Six Different Ways (2018)
I’ll do ya one even better: how about we raise the median wage instead? Call me crazy.
I'm assuming you entered a field where you weren't prepared for the egos and controversy surrounding a topic.

This is what a lot of students hit if they're ill prepared (this is not a bad thing on behalf of the student). I remember my advisor saying he saw it as his responsibility to shield the new students from something crazy controversial until we knew how to walk for ourselves, make plots quickly easily, understand the jargon and materials... aka until we were mid-way through, then we should be thrown to the wolves to form our own opinion on topics.

You're now falling for the daily mail mistake of 'big sensational headline in field X' therefore it must be false.

Just look through the nobel awards for understanding what directions and leaps fields of science are making and ignore the self-perpetuating egos that end up on the front of 'Nature' or the daily fail.
We have cloned animals, we have perfected fiber-optics, we have discovered the nature of the Higgs Boson, gravity waves and I don't even understand enough about chemistry to understand why or how that field has advanced but it clearly has.

Unfortunately I'd suggest your supervisor failed to prepare you for your PhD.

Don't worry I can point to several papers which have maths flaws in that impact the result by 2-sigma, but nobody cares about those results because it doesn't change the over-all message. "We saw nothing after intensive scrutiny and looking for it." despite being on flaky mathematical groundings.

That 'rabble' of science deniers is growing very quickly (just look at the evolution diners in the US) and keep making arguments like. "you can't take the people of of science".

If the rabble gets big enough, politicians listen and then when politicians are listening to anti-science people on whatever topic, funding inevitably gets cut or re-directed and scientific research suffers.

Don't worry I'm not talking about types of research that supports raytheon by making bigger bangs, but research that cures cancer in babies and infirmity in adults and makes better and materials for the world...
No. And they shouldn't.

The article basically boils down to "people believe in the scam so founders should embrace it because it'll make them rich".

Which is hardly a new phenomena but... come on. Let's at least pretend to care about ethics, eh?
After The Sims came out, silly names were a hot commodity in our house!
> By taking everything literal ("no, Bill Gates is not literally inserting microchips"), their enemies can avoid dealing with the issues a more charitable interpretation would be getting at.

This is so on the mark - too often we forget to focus on what someone is _really_ trying to communicate, and take their words at "face value" - which is not communication at all.
The Cosmic Crisp Apple is not the future (2019)
There's a chapter in The Messy Middle (Scott Belsky) titled Data is only as good as its source, and it doesn't replace intuition.

Pretty much the problem in a nutshell.
Their attitude towards things like Linux only goes as far as it profits them. It's pure facade.
They still tried to shove their own ODF format (which was garbage) in the UK not too long ago.
Will twist themselves in a pretzel to prevent (local) govs from switching to Linux, etc
Github desktop client for Linux that was almost finished is no longer worked on now they own it, skype was promised to be maintained on Linux only to be ditched a year after, etc, etc
Malone worked on that stuff almost 30 years ago, and hasn't been involved in any way, shape, or form with the vaccines that exist today. Moderna's platform has a decade of work behind it and he had nothing to do with it, and the studies that show that it's safe and effective have nothing to do with him, nor does he have any particular knowledge about them that a smart grad student in a lab wouldn't have.

So no, I don't think his random commentary is particularly relevant or reasonable to listen to, any more than Jaron Lanier's haterade @ the tech industry is relevant just because he was working on shitty VR in 1990. Some people are dinosaurs and just need to be ignored, it's not unusual for people to grow to hate the things that they worked on when they were young and get increasingly unhinged arguing against them.

I don't think Rogan should be censored, for sure, 100% and without any reservations - free speech should be absolute, I'm old-school in that respect. But I absolutely think anyone paying attention to this crap should be socially scorned as a dumbass, and TBH I can't get my chuff up too far over people trying to convince Spotify to boot Rogan over this, free markets are also sacrosanct and that's what this is (even if I also would vastly prefer that Spotify holds to a hardline free-speech ethos and leaves him up).
Because it's not necessarily obvious when you buy one that the "updates" will involve majorly moving the UI around rather than things like bug fixes.
https://archive.fo/tvNb9
Sure, but when it came out it was pretty barebones : no 3rd party apps, no 3G...
I'm sorry but I have to interject here,

Social science != Science. (OK I over-react but come on, the field seems barely literate in statistical methods last I looked, i.e. mean != average for all cases)

Medical science has a massive reproducibility problem largely brought on by the demands and pressures of industry funding.

Chemistry is still allowing us to make better turbine blades for jet engines and Physics is still explaining the weird world of quantum mechanics.

Just because some fields can't keep their facts and figures straight we shouldn't tar the whole of "scientific research" with the same brush.
Patreon would be interesting to compare to. The stats are vague too, but apparently 200k have at least one patron: https://graphtreon.com/patreon-stats

That's a little lower than I expected. I suspect people make a living from Patreon sooner than they would off YouTube, so your math seems to click.
So your solution is to introduce a massive amount of redundancy so Google doesn't know you downloaded a font.
Arrow Information Paradox
no need to say sorry! Thanks for responding, and the post was fun to read.
"But doesn't low quality science impact the universities and papers that host these things?"

Sadly, no, it doesn't.

"Are people and organizations not losing their reputations, jobs, and income over this?"

They are not. The system doesn't actually self correct in any visible way. The people who fund bad science either can't tell the difference between good and bad science, or don't care, or both.

"Wouldn't e.g. Elsevier want to keep charging money for high quality content?"

You mean the companies that happily publish gibberish written by spambots as "peer reviewed science"?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03035-y

"Hundreds of articles published in peer-reviewed journals are being retracted after scammers exploited the processes for publishing special issues to get poor-quality papers — sometimes consisting of complete gibberish — into established journals. In some cases, fraudsters posed as scientists and offered to guest-edit issues that they then filled with sham papers. Elsevier is withdrawing 165 articles currently in press and plans to retract 300 more that have been published as part of 6 special issues in one of its journals, and Springer Nature is retracting 62 articles published in a special issue of one journal."
Everything is like that. Large scale human institutions are shockingly inefficient and dysfunctional.
That does sound like a cool app idea.
Yes, but they have a contract with the VPN and the VPN has a data protection officer. Here they just send data to Google and Google has not made any promises to protect the data.
There's a well known paper from 2005 - "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" John P. A. Ioannidis https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

Assuming that that paper is not false, it highlights lots of areas/reasons why things can go wrong.

Nonetheless, flawed as it is, the 'scientific method' is the best we've got. "How do you get people to discover reliable knowledge without getting sidetracked by bias, bribes, career incentives, corporations or politics" is actually a very hard problem to solve. The cobbled together bunch of institutions, practices and traditions that we call 'the scientific method' needs to be understood for what it is - a patchy, error prone but just about servicable method for fighting our own biases and shortcomings.

Always good to look for ways to improve it I guess but overly cynical or overly optimistic takes on it don't help much. We need to have a realistic view of it.
For all of humanity. When I worked at Satellogic in Argentina, China's space program was how we got our satellites into space. If we'd been dependent on the US and Russia, we'd've been in bad shape.
Less biased I agree with. To be more believable I need to look at the merits and details. Sometimes he says things that I could argue are true. Other times I can make an agreement he shared complete hogwash.

Being less biased doesn’t make one more true. Both can be wrong
I don't know, it seems that most here have been burnt-out of humour. To be fair to them, the burn-out is mainly caused by ignorant managers hearing "Node! React!" and forcing on the developers whether it makes sense or not.
10% of 1 billion is 100 million. That's still a shitload of money.
Funny thing about that is he always says that he is the only one speaking up because everyone else has incentives (gets payed) to shut-up. Imagine that, a pandemic breaks out, you invent the cure and get nothing in return. I would want to burn down the world.
Sorry for the hi-jacking but somewhat related.

I read some years ago (maybe 10?) about a someone and their team doing research in "bacteria communication" and how they use signal/markers to coordinate. Their research, IRC, was about trying to find ways to disrupt this communication in order to prevent the disease from happening and getting rid of the infection.
Does this ring a bell to anyone? If yes, is this something still going on or promising? In any case a link to a recent article about it would be highly appreciated!
Qubit Bridge Collapse Exploited to the Tune of $80M
Doesn't seem too far off what I said. A widespread persecution of people with left-wing politics. Some other groups such as homosexuals also suffered. There was a tenuous and absurd justification of "un-American"ness or of communist sympathies.
A note for people not familiar with the UK: £60,000 per year is about twice the median pay for a full-time worker, so the definition of 'middle class' used here (at least in the headline) is pretty tendentious.

Also, the "Tax Payers Alliance" is an opaquely-financed group with zero membership, which has existed for decades for the sole purpose of getting cited as a 'low tax pressure group' when newspapers feel the need to get 'the other point of view' for some story. Being an astroturf group obviously doesn't make it wrong in any given case, but it has neither a reputation for honesty, nor for actually being anti-tax (it's very loud about taxes mostly paid by the rich; much more quiet about VAT for example).
Poe's law, ironic content can be hard to differentiate from non-ironic content, and a proliferation of ironic content will bring the quality of HN down.
> Based on this scoring system, a 40-year-old Hispanic male in perfect health would receive priority over an obese, diabetic 40-year-old white woman with asthma and hypertension.

This seems out of whack - shouldn’t a person with multiple co-morbidities get priority for a treatment? Is the gender important here, too?
Social media marketing has gone from niche to completely mainstream. Today, if you have "marketing" in your title, you're expected to be able to do it digitally too.
I feel that is more an argument for improving post than one against GDPR.
We to this day have a cowbell mounted below the stairs to call everyone when dinner is ready
By using template meta-programming to have thunks that translate between the types.
Irish Industrialization for the 21st Century
I suspect scrum has been mainstream longer, and actually only recently began to lose popularity, now that it's obsoleted by tools. Scrum master probably made more sense back when engineers would be locked in their offices. A few decades ago, you'd have emails and notifications, and a few years ago, you could get live updates of what everyone is working on
Have you tried Avalonia? It's not from Microsoft, but it's a .NET GUI solution that works on Linux and is really pretty good.
None of the suggested changes in the paper give black equal or more wins than white. At best they reduce the number of draws, or reduce the disadvantage of black: https://dl.acm.org/cms/attachment/2b6acfe5-8a20-4630-8372-d5...
Apple watch has a Walkie-Talkie feature
Convictional (YC W19) hiring remote engineers to build the future of B2B trade
So basically you want golf mk2
Cool! What motivated you to write it? I find the d2l implementation nice and simple as well https://d2l.ai/chapter_attention-mechanisms/transformer.html

The one in pytorch itself isnt so bad either.

Be nice to see some examples of decoding in your repo (forgive me if I dont see it). I remeber when i first implemented a transformer from scratch generating sequences using greedy or beam search after train/testing turned out to be harder then I thought but turns out I made a mistake with teacher forcing in the beginning so BOS tokens were meaningless to the decoder lol
Sadly the trend is that new shitty cars will come with preinstalled eSims to phone home "diagnostic" data.
>Chip manufacturers know that anything they put on the market now will be gone immediately, at any price.

Isn't this part of the problem of having cheap money to go around?

I've got anecdotal feedback last year from some friends in different industries (mainly construction), complaining that "The americans are hoarding everything...", he said this after complaining they were buying concrete in the secondary market.

Like, when Apple buys full production of 3nm at TSMC[0] - isn't this in a sense anti-competitive practice?

They have access to unlimited money, it's like you have a cheat in the real world. The end game is that money starts to lose it's value, like it's happening now.

I hate to use this term, but maybe the WTC or some entity should start to think that the idea of "quotas" maybe ain't that bad in a globalized world that has countries printing money like crazy. They completely fuck up entire supply chains out of greed and fear.

Then those "quotas" could be sold around, but at first no one should be harmed due to some crazy practices.

[0]https://www.club386.com/tsmc-apple-first-3nm-policy-leads-to...
Ask HN: Are counterfactual models reliable science?
I've noticed a lot of news related to pandemic, climate and other scenarios that compares actual measurements to a "counterfactual" model, where an alternative reality is simulated which "would have happened" if key facts were changed. For example, using a model for how many people would have been hospitalized for covid in a country if the country had been unvaccinated, and comparing that to real hospitalization numbers to make claims about how many lives were saved.

I am not skeptical that vaccines save lives, but I am skeptical that these counterfactual models can be used to accurately quanitify specific truths. From my layman's perspective, it seems like comparing reality to a fictional scenario and describing the difference. Like saying, "the moon contains 100% less cheese, than if it would have been made out of cheese" or "the average global temperature is 1 degree higher than it would have been if it were 1 degree lower".

I don't understand the science or math behind counterfactual models, but I'm sure there are people on HN who do, so my question is, when I see studies about them, do those studies tend to be useful, reliable, trustworthy science, or is it often people using fancy math to manufacture evidence to promote their own opinions?
It was absolutely untrue five years ago (I'm sorry, no data - this is from experience). Perhaps JS interpreters have come a long way since then.
Not because no, being gifted something isn't fraud, I just meant that when I broke it down into simply what it is I realised it's like finding a credit card and guessing the PIN.
"Meanwhile, Minnesota’s Department of Health used a scoring calculator that counted “BIPOC status” as equivalent to being 65 years and older [...]"

Based on this sentence alone it might be hard to tell if the policy is inspired by the far-left or the far-right. Is it about excluding white people from treatment, or proclaiming the superiority of the white race? Is the political spectrum actually a circle? Or could this actually be reasonable in a way that I don't see?
On macOS you can replace printf '\a' with something nicer like 'say Lunch time!', or accept a query param and 'say $msg'

while true; do echo Coming! | nc -l 8000; for i in 1 2 3 4; do say "Lunch time!"; sleep 1; done; done

If you are on the client end of the equation and have ssh access to their mac:
ssh user@host say "get your ** here right now"
Don't forget GitHub and LinkedIn !