skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definitely kills grass. I use it for both grass and weeds outside of the lawn. The recipe is from Pinterest of course but it's:

1 gallon white vinegar (the kind we bought is 5% acidity)
1 cup table salt
1 tbsp Dawn dish soap

Mix and pour into a spray bottle.

I'm not sure about scotch broom - reading says it's more effective on small weeds, but that it kills whatever it contacts. I think the salt is damaging to the soil, so don't spray it if you plan to grow something else.

Here's a paper I found with some info: https://extension.umd.edu//sites/extension.umd.edu/files/_do...
And more detrimental to soil life (though maybe that's exactly the point here)
Bigger hail might pummel the US as climate change gathers more force – The Verge
The Netherlands and various other countries have created laws where either their version of the NSA and/or police can hoard 0days to be used for hacking.

This massive outbreak is so widespread that at this stage it appears that it either was a very recent 0day or something which only recently was fixed by a patch.

Instead of having loads of countries hoarding security problems I highly encourage a focus on security instead. Seems much better for the economy overall.
Teachers – is this accurate?
A continuous back-up system should be enough --as long as it doesn't have the smarts to reset the encryption pwd on the backup set.
Of course. As a matter of fact I once bought that very exact bowl for making a S band dish antenna.

There's a small caveat: The bottom of the bowl is flattened (so that it doesn't roll around). That's not a big deal though if you use a dipole feed; since the dipol radiates mostly normal to its axis (look up the pattern if it's unclear what I mean) a dipole mounted at the center and perpendicular to that flatted base will actually not "see" much of that flat base and work only against the curved part.

Due to the rather small radius and being a spherical shape the directivity/gain is not that great, compared to a parabolic dish antenna. But it's cheap and works well enough if you have to cover only a couple of km.

However keep in mind that regulations likely limit maximum transmission power to something like 20dB(m) EIRP, so depending on how much directivity gain you get, you'll have to reduce the TX power by that amount to stay legal… or get a license.
Well if Wal-Mart owned 95%+ of the retail space in Europe, you can be pretty sure they'd have to allow competitors access in some form or another.
http://weedcontrolfreaks.com/2014/06/salt-vinegar-and-glypho...
I like that, I've never thought of or seen it, although it should've been intuitively obvious given how bash expansion works.

I think this demonstrates the point pretty well though - it takes a discussion among three of us before arriving at something that works moderately well, and we found four fairly different ways of doing it...
War of the Words: Millenials vs. Baby Boomers
Why are there more likely to be holes in that IPC than the SYSTEM one?

Why are those holes more dangerous than having the entire thing happen in SYSTEM land?

Naturally, there's a danger that it's not bullet-proof and will lead to escalations/escapes. However, how is the risk of that not a strict improvement over the situation where it's running as SYSTEM and doesn't even need to bother with that?

It sounds like it's strictly harder to weaponize faults in the component if they need to find a secondary problem in IPC encapsulation over just running code as SYSTEM as soon as they compromise the component.
As far as I'm aware cmus doesn't let me browse by directory.
Fire May Be the Only Remedy for a Plague Killing Deer and Elk
You'd be surprised.

It's a common phenomenon across a variety of social media when a certain few companies are questioned on their practices.

It's all very tribal.
Basin-scale ocean heat content changes in different ocean analyses
Facebook's use case happens to mirror a great deal of web products currently.
Why not connect your tray, back into the Watter reservoir?

This way, it cannot get to Wet, and you could just Pump that Pot full with watter, any excess watter, will just drain through the Soil back into the reservoir :)
Researchers demonstrate spoofing LIDAR, could trick autonomous cars
Use a filesystem that lets you take regular snapshots, like zfs.
A lot. Billions of dollars are spent to combat it and research on food and agriculture to solve hunger has been going for years.

>The vast majority of hungry people live in developing regions, which saw a 42 percent reduction in the prevalence of undernourished people between 1990–92 and 2012–14.

http://www.worldhunger.org/2015-world-hunger-and-poverty-fac...
They can corrupt one backup but not all backups. And a good backup software should do integrity check.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation's Digital Making Curriculum – Raspberry Pi
> The entire language is unsuitable for new development?

Yes.

> And somehow, you captured this insight which managed to be overlooked by all the engineers working at Microsoft?

Apparently. Astonishing that they didn't, but the fact that they managed to ship this bug is already astonishing, so any explanation of how that happened will also be astonishing.

> What do you suggest we do? Gather the whole world, hold hands as one and unite in abandoning the language? Cast it aside for...what, exactly?

Mostly OCaml, probably - I guess F# in Microsoft's case. Maybe Rust or Ada in places where we absolutely need non-GC, if any of those turn out to actually exist.
What do you mean? Am I wrong in thinking weapon systems should not be running known (extremely?) vulnerable systems?
General Motors is getting smaller but more profitable
Why do you say it was censored and removed? It's dropped down to page two, but that's perfectly normal once something has been on the front page for a while.
Indeed, some friends of mine in college had an acrylic sphere that they left on a couch while they went to class. They came back to find the FDNY finishing up putting out the fire it caused.
Not just that, but everyone has a unique way they walk, called their gait, so if you are identified once (usually by facial recognition) your gait can be used to identify you forever after, even if you try to hide your identity.
Only way to go undetected then is to purposely change your gait and other things, but the important thing here is:
We are at a point where the effort you have to go through to remain anonymous in the public is so high that it may not be worth the effort.
The RF modulator is huge because it's also the power supply. Yet another odd quirk of this machine's design.
I'm not sure why the article has such a strong focus on voting machines given that German elections stopped using them completely (it was barely used anyway) in 2009 after a decision of the Federal Constitutional Court in favor of paper ballots.
I kind of want google to shut off all services for a week in EU countries. No search, images, maps, gmail, or android services. I wonder how quickly the eu will sober up.
Then they'd be as stupid as some random Ayn Rand fan on the internet, and wouldn't be running Google.
Turn on show-dead in your user settings, browse the new page and you'll see lots of auto-submissions nobody wants.
But then, wouldn't we see the same pattern for every shift? As a matter of fact, there are dips at 16 and 20h and no discernible change at 0h.
It's been a while, so I'm not up on the latest Jigsaw details. A while back I was working on building traditional Java (Spring MVC/Spring/Hibernate) web applications using OSGi. At the time, I hit some non-trivial challenges with any library that used a class discovery mechanisms that assumed a flat classpath. Jigsaw is purported to be simpler, so hopefully it's not a big issue, but when our team starts using Java 9, that'll be one of the big risks I'll be looking for.

At the same time, I am excited that many issues with transitive dependency resolution will be easier, and it will be easier to enforce code architecture principles (i.e., not just calling whatever code from whatever place just because it's on the classpath already).
What line of reasoning? I don't think irremovable Desktop Apps and Websites are comparable or that they should be sanctioned the same way.

It didn't have to be a ballot box but I think users should be able to decide what default browser they want to use on first use. I'd prefer to only be install what browsers I want to use.

IMO Microsoft is just as hostile now, I can't uninstall Edge from Windows 10, I keep getting nagged to use Edge as my default browser, my preferences to never ask again are not honored. my defaults are lost on each upgrade, despite setting my default browser to Chrome the Windows Search box still opens up results in bing with Edge, I need to use my spam hotmail account to log into Windows 10, I tried using a local account but it broke everywhere that launched a Sign Up page which crashed after 1s of an empty screen, which I needed in order to get the latest version of WSL with the bug fix I needed. In the end I had to reinstall Windows 10 and adopt their stupid Internet account policy. Windows 10 has been the most user hostile OS I've used that I'm planning on switching to using a Windows 2016 Server OS on my next install.
Potential Shkreli jurors call him evil, a snake
Get Hacked and Your Cybersecurity Company May Pay – MIT Technology Review
Google Leads the Race for AI Domination – Statista
Meet Freesist. A free marketplace for entrepreneurs
Flip gets $2.2MM from Union Square Ventures to grow its marketplace for sublets
Heard it's using the same SMB expolit as wCry (ETERNALBLUE)
I'm curious as to where you are getting your statistics on people disappeared by the intelligence services that you can say this.
OP here.

The site will rewrite absolute image URLs as relative ones pointing to Tesoro. For example, in the Chicken Teryaki example on the homepage, the main image is sourced from the relative location "static01.nyt.com/.../28COOKING-CHICKEN-TERIYAKI1-articleLarge.jpg", which looks like it's coming from nytimes.com, but you can check in the Chrome dev console that it isn't.

Have you found an example where it isn't working correctly? If so would you mind posting it here and I'll fix it :).
Oxygen is extremely toxic to humans and the number one cause of aging. We need a warning on this.
> Bernie has two problems, he is too old (by 2020), and he is too extreme for most Democrats.

Age is a problem, yes; Bernie's other problem, though, is that he is seen as too unorthodox (moderate, rather than the extreme, to reduce things to a linear scale) on key issues for much of the Democratic base. He's too progressive on economic issues for the neoliberal elites, but that's mostly a problem in getting resources too build a national following if you don't already have that, and while it was a drag in the runup to the 2016 primaries when Bernie wasn't a national household name and the most popular politician in the country, but it's not much of an issue for 2020.

> Sure 45% of Democrats really really really love Bernie

As of April (the most recent I can find) Sanders had 57% favorability nationally (not just among Democrats.)

> I cannot imagine the people who want to dismantle the ACA would swing over and vote for "free education for all" Bernie.

There's two kinds of people who want to dismantle the ACA; those who are ideologically opposed to government programs, and those who aren't but think then subsidy and mandate approach simply doesn't work.

The former aren't even remotely swing voters, and the latter seems to be a good fit for Sanders, who, after all, is one of them.
The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts into High Gear [SHORT]
FYI, looks like this is still using EternalBlue.
My willingness to jump through hoops is proportionate to how much I want to work with you. If you pay me well and treat me well, I want to work with you. If you're trying to hire me for 50% of market, my tolerance is much lower.
> That example "connects me, the user, to the advertisers".

But did you want to be connected to the advertisers, i.e. those who paid Google to give their product a better placement, or did you want to be connected to the sellers, ranked by how desirable their product is to you?
In theory, yes. In practice, the reality may be more complicated. How many ongoing investigations and clandestine operations rely on 0days that could be patched tomorrow?

Even if this weren't the case somehow, I could imagine intelligence chiefs and the like defending their 0days as necessary on public safety or national security grounds.

Edit: just to clarify, I believe 0days should be reported and patched to make everybody safer.
Motu Patlu Presents Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 – Cage Match – Episode 12-P1
Sounds like they're punishing commercial success, i.e. the goals of most public corporations.

Search has been Google's core competency since their inception, they were much smaller than the existing Search engines when they started out but were able to create a better product that users preferred and since that time they've been able to amass a wealth of knowledge, experience and resources. Of course any company is going to have a hard time trying to compete with them now, but I don't see why they need to be punished for executing so well on their core mission.
How to Sell into Accounts Using Influencers – Tips from Mark Roberge
I wonder how this result translates to universal basic income.
Whoops: http://www.epi.org/publication/the-high-road-seattle-labor-m...

Now most will latch onto the study (and their priors) and politicians will abandon any attempt to raise Minimum wage citing this and round and round we go...
My understanding is that the EU is, or has already, going to label roundup as cancer causing. And California is now doing that.

So what are they basing that ban on? If there is no evidence why would they do that? Has the EU or California made a practice of labeling stuff as cancer causing without any evidence? That seems pretty weird if that's true.

Thanks for the tone of your answer, BTW.
Anti-trust law in US & EU depends upon actually having significant market share. iOS has a significant minority share compared to Android, so it doesn't matter that Apple is bundling their own apps. The same logic applies to Bing, which employs many of the same anti-competitive tactics Google has used historically, though because market share is so low Microsoft will not garner any sanctions/fines (unless it becomes more comparable to Google.)

EDIT: per the OneDrive argument on Windows, I think you might have a point - though Windows is pretty open to deep integration with competitive services like Dropbox or Google Drive, so my guess is that MSFT would just have to offer an easy way to uninstall OneDrive, maybe? (or at least disable it.)
It's only been 5 hours since it was posted, and the story has ~450 upvotes. In contrast, I see another story on the front page right now that was posted 18 hours ago and only has ~250 upvotes.
Reputations are important to build trust.

Fatmail has a reptuation for not doing this, Google doesn't.
Dammit, Norfolk County = low mobility.

Coming from one of those rare spots surrounded by deep green of the rather populous southern Ontario, it's a lack of education and resources and connectivity.

Three of the schools I went to when I was young have been closed permanently and razed. There remains one because I switched high schools midway through by claiming I couldn't receive all of the courses I needed at my local school (which was true).

When I was in the second grade the school wanted to advance me by five years after comprehension testing. My parents declined because they were worried I'd become unsocialized and no other push was made. At that point the school essentially pushed me to the side and had me make up my own work to do outside of standardized testing and major projects. By high school severe apathy and boredom had set in. To get anything out of it I spent most of my time in the library or on the newly introduced internet. This is the late mid-late 90's.

Key points:

* no public transportation
* no private transportation connecting to cities
* low number of open jobs outside minimum wage for young people
* factories shuttered from the late 90s to early 2000s due to shifting tech and industry and slow adoption in this area
* low funding for schools, frequent closures
* public schools that remain tend to have lower resources rather than concentrated resources

I live in Toronto, now -- there have been times where I had to white knuckle my way through to get by here, yet. I'm working on it. That said, Canada (even my home county) is a great place to live and grow up, and its getting better.
Nobody said learning API surfaces is the right way.

Most of these frameworks offer fairly simple APIs that are frankly pretty trivial to learn --- the key is to learn the application architecture and why it's different than the alternatives.

Anyway, I think we can agree that exposure to other people's thoughts, and also coming up with your own thoughts, is probably the most fruitful way to learn.
Hilariously, Twitter requires me to click through an acknowledgement to view that image, because it "may be sensitive material."
You do know that most of these use vulnerabilities that doesn't need human interaction once they hit the local network, right?

External hard drives do come handy though.
What's the opposite of Vertical AI? Is it a monolithic chunk of code like an operating system with millions of lines?

I've always been a bit confused about what the end goal will look like for 'general AI'.

Or is there potential for some general platform that these vertical AI systems can plug into, similar to the app store, but with some type of cross vertical communication so they be layered on top of each other.
> That is probably what HN was trying to tell you (well, I hope it was

IIRC, the push back was against taking what his dad assumed was the cause as gospel without actual evidence. It's tricky, you want to respect the person that was ill knew something about what was going on, and respect their memory after they are gone, but there's really no reason we should provide them more factual relevance than previously. Human beings are often not rational creatures, and I see no reason to believe that the stress of illness and possible impending death would make them more rational in general (even if it may make certain individuals more or less rational).
I think it's pretty simple to observe that if you're using the same label for ethylene oxide and potato chips, something is wrong with your system.
well, if you interview for a nurse position, you shouldn't have to pass the doctor interview.
Don't underestimate how strong of a bias towards clicking comes from being at position 1 or having a richer looking UX.
After close to a decade of working in DK, I found their Big IT corporate processes resembling a Deathstar. Looks powerful from a distance, but flaws/inefficiencies can be discerned if you happen to be at close quarters. Also, they advanced ponderously. Which was weird because if you spoke to individual engineers in the teams, they seemed to know how things should be done. I was at Maersk same time as you, and I recall your team (ADLT!) eventually conjuring up some Vagrant machines for us devs, which were, it turned out, a pain to use since the AV kept interfering with the running VM's.
I made a browser extension [1] that automatically archives bookmarks to archive.is or (currently Chromium only) locally as MHTML files.

[1]: https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror
The point is that that "dot" of Toronto GTA represents more human beings than all of Alberta.

You're judging by "geographic space taken up". Your conclusion is actually that geographic land area leans to the right, or more prosaically, that liberals move to cities and that coincidentally, oil was found in a right-leaning province.
I'm a regular reader and Really like your newsletter. Thank you for this !!! Can you talk about your way of picking what gets included ?
I assume it is the study referenced below, I'd wait for more peer review.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/new-s...

Top comment:

>A non-peer reviewed study that left out all large employers. Seriously! I can't believe the Post did a story on this. Wait for it to actually get published, and then we can talk about how any study on employment that leaves out all the national chain stores is totally bogus. Really this is very shoddy work. I'm disappointed with the Post for highlighting it. At least wait until it got published. This is one step above click-bait.
you acquire long lasting knowledge by doing.

reading only gets you so far.

if you want to retain read knowledge, take notes. what you write down is what you will remember.
Lawsuits. Giving lawyers something else to sue about.
The Secrets of the Spy in the Bag
The Hyperion books also have some interesting (and prescient) things to say about humans relying on a vast network of information instead of their own memories. They are some of my favorites.
on premise pricing please
Agreed. The Canadian market has a few hot spots where a small minority of the population live, but much like NYC and SF do not represent the US, Toronto and Vancouver do not represent Canada. Overall there does not seem to be much issue in the housing market on either side of the border.
TBF, these are useless to the average user, but it would be awesome if there was a visual cue that option was useful.

One I find useful is option-right-click dock icon that force reveals the force quit menu item.
I'm not advocating anything.
I still maintain that it is much more difficult to start a fire with a lens or mirror than people seem to think. Post a video of using your fresnel lens on different material types (paper, cardboard, wood, pine needles) and see how quickly you can get a visible flame. I'm betting you won't be able to easily get a visible flame on most materials you try.
This is good for now, but snapshots are like RAID: they are not backups.
Why not use a relay? Less to worry about for a side project like that. If you don't need sub-millisecond switching then you gain complete isolation, constant voltage output, and AC or DC switching
Machine learning on your DropBox
Nevertheless, I doubt the ability of AV softwares catch these unconventional Ransomwares. Anyone feels the security industry (apart from asking the user to update their OS to latest version) is capable of handling this?
Unless the article is wrong, the authors of the study didn't actually track people that were paid low wages before and after the minimum wage increase.

Instead, they just looked at the number of hours worked for under $19/hour before and after the wage increases. Since $19 is close to the new minimum wage, it could be that the pay scales of everyone shifted up a bit, and jobs below $19 are now a lower percentage of all jobs.

Unless I'm missing something, this study is too sloppy to be newsworthy.
Gaudí may not have been the origin of the word "gaudy", but perhaps he was an example of nominative determinism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

;)
It was also more convenient to have Internet Explorer ship with Windows.

But it happened to be part of MS strategy to sideline other browsers, and gain enough power to become the de-facto standard. We got lucky and avoided that, but doing only what's most convenient at any given point in time can be harmful over the longer term. After all, Microsoft at that time tried to established their (patent-covered, binary-blob) .doc as the format for the web, instead of the open HTML.