skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is another one of those stories that ought to be shocking but is unlikely to move the dial.

While the UK police are generally not that corrupt, Special Branch enjoy secrecy and closeness to power, which they interpret as a license to commit crimes against leftwing groups they consider anti-government. There's a long history of this from complicity in murders in Northern Ireland to present day highly intrusive surveillance against demonstrators.

> Evidence given to Parliament suggested that one undercover officer who infiltrated Mr Smith's union was Mark "Cassidy" Jenner, a member of Scotland Yard's now disbanded Special Demonstration Squad (SDS).

That's the Mark Jenner who also spent years having a relationship with the environmental activists he was spying on, the subject of a separate set of court cases and inquiries.

See also Hillsborough and the Miner's Strike.

(Oh, and disrupting the possibility of effective union action has been a priority of the government since the days of Thatcher)
Why? No HVAC, electricity, running potable hot water, limited literature, long delivery times.
>So what's the plan exactly? Just buy the batteries? From whom?

One of the top lithium battery manufacturers as per my link. Lithium batteries are literally everywhere. Do you see Apple proudly proclaiming they make their own batteries for their ipads & how their battery knowledge is their key competitive advantage? No they use a supply chain.

Sure there will be a supply crunch, but even that is exaggerated in my view.

>Lithium mines can't produce enough lithium

See recent (last month) comment from Morgan Stanley:

>“We expect these supply additions to swamp forecast demand growth,”

https://www.ft.com/content/4faf029a-1ae7-11e8-aaca-4574d7dab...
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The channel mentioned "Forgotten Weapons" is mostly filmed at auction houses since it's the best place to find a lot of old guns in the same place at one time. As part of his arrangement with the auction centers the creator plugs the upcoming auction for the guns he is reviewing and links it in the description. This would probably be against the rules.
He doesn't look terrible for being over 60. Don't forget that the restaurant industry is a stressful job with long hours, and he's known for his incessant smoking, drinking, and drug use. Neither of those things lead to a youthful appearance.
A fish with a polymer of "innocuous" organic atoms in the digestive tract is likely to disagree.

Removing more harmful materials would certainly be a benefit, but it wouldn't solve the large part of the problem (which, in the case of the patch, is plastics).
That's what I can't understand... For example, I can easily write a program that produces some digits one by one, indefinitely (excluding mechanical failures etc). I won't ever see the whole sequence – as it never ends – but to my mind, it seems like the program describes it. (I think that's basically the computable reals?)
Everyone who saw the video has said it's the fault of camera for seeming so dark (since even the street lights have almost no effect anywhere), and regardless of that AVs work with lidar and such. Where is the telemetry and analysis? If it didn't see the pedestrian, then why?
You worked for Penn manor? That is pretty cool. At Philadelphia fosscon last year I saw a presentation by the it director at Penn manor (who is who I assume you are talking about). It was a really interesting talk, and it was an impressive achievement. More than just the saving money or more foss use in schools, I thought the program was especially cool for how it taught actual it and computer skills to the children.
Datatilsynet's statement actually does give quite a bit of leeway, but I do agree that you can't just monitor without reasonable suspicion that the employee is acting improperly.
I'm not trying to be inflammatory, but should we expect the Tempe AZ City administration to be a neutral source of information in this case? Might they be biased by their decision to host this experiment in their jurisdiction (in the sense of anticipating criticism)?
> First, it doesn't have logins and passwords so you cannot even log in without having a phone nearby.

You can set-up a password. Also you can login with a Telegram device nearby, e.g. a tablet or laptop. No phone required.

> Second, it collects and uploads all of your contacts to Durov's servers.

No, you can deny access or don't use the app from your phone. Contacts can be added by username, too.

> Third, all the messages are stored on the servers too so Durov can read them at his spare time.

No, the so-called secret chats are end-to-end encrypted and not stored on their servers.
> Wilfra mentions “disdain for people who don’t have a BS CS who want to get an MS CS.” It was certainly not my intent to express disdain for people who follow this path! Many people pull it off admirably. However, it is a difficult path to follow because it skips all of the introductory programming classes

As someone who went this path, I'm troubled by the amount of assumptions and generalization being made here.

To my knowledge any legitimate MS program will require that you have completed an appropriate amount of foundational CS courses before starting the program. I obtained an MSCS after getting a bachelor's in a different field, and I had to take 6 CS classes to satisfy the prerequisites. Including the MS the total amount of coursework I completed was slightly greater than the requirements of the university's Bachelor's degree, plus some graduate-level research.

Granted, this is not as much coursework as someone who obtained both a BS and and MS, but from my understanding if you're not planning to pursue a PhD (or need it for immigration purposes) getting both is usually not a good use of time anyway.

It seems he is trying to specifically criticize programs that fall far short of what I went through, which seems valid. But it would be nice to make that distinction instead of writing us all off as inferior.
I'm not in disagreement with you about legalization of prostitution in general, but with regards specifically to sex trafficking, there is much evidence from several countries that legalization actually makes sex trafficking worse -- most likely due to increased demand for a service anyone can enjoy legally.
You will not hear much about azure because of the clear anti-ms bias here but give it a try if you want end-to-end automation for everything including spinning machines and dB instances (and my experience is it is at par with was in terms of stability, although this was a comparison for a brief time and hard to quantify)
None, because the CLOUD act tells us that you'll be exposing everything that happens on your provider's platform to prying eyes.

Just like Facebook? No, slightly worse.
Ask HN: Can I have a distributed website?
I work in-house with seven graphic designers. I'd like to build a home page for our Intranet and let each designer, on their workstation, have a web page/site residing there. Possible?
1) So it’s true that Matrix is still in beta and E2E is not yet on by default on private rooms (but we’re working on it).

2) Synapse (python impl) is however “complete” (for implementing the Matrix 0.3 spec at least, and newer stuff) and has been for several years. We should spell this out better in the README.

The reason for Dendrite (go impl) is to escape the python GIL and switch to a multidb/multiwriter architecture to keep up with the load on massive HSes like matrix.org’s.

3. I have no idea what the “app-bridge” song and dance is that you’re complaining about: bridges are one of the most powerful and fun bits of Matrix. Perhaps you don’t like the config used to provision them? I’m not sure how this impacts normal users.

4. You may need to give more info on why you feel Riot is “horrendous” so we can fix specifics :)
All direct costs that I know of are proportional to the employee's wage.

Could you elaborate a bit and tell us what other costs you are thinking about?
> The same with drugs, you don't want smack and cocaine being sold in Boots.

I do actually. Taxed and regulated the same as alcohol and tobacco.
Bike Share Oversupply in China: Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles
Many Americans take their "duty" of uploading every last personal detail of their lives, very seriously. You cant stop them from uploading. If its not Facebook, it will be another platform.
Scaleway is really cheap, especially if you don't care much about CPU speed. But reliability is the problem. Every few weeks one of my machines becomes unreachable, requiring manual hard restart from the control panel.
Lucky. My bouldering 'career' left me with a lingering case of tendonitis in my elbow and kickstarted my mousing RSI issues. Make sure you're doing your preventative exercises!
You get those same benefits if you keep buying sex illegal but decriminalise selling.
To be fair, the erosion of our basic rights has been happening for a long time.
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This is completely unrelated - but, one thing I love about comments on Hacker News is how well-written they are, and eloquent, too.
> Great examples from the last 6 months include the 40 minute outage in US-WEST-2 in September, or the several hour event in US-EAST-1 during the East Coast wind storms. Bubble gum and baling wire.

Were other non-Amazon companies impacted directly by the storms? I have no idea where Microsoft and Google cloud server farms live, but it's a bit of a stretch to say that a major weather event causing downtime is due to "bubble gum and bailing wire". You could be right - I don't know anything about their setup - but "throwaway985325" isn't exactly a trustworthy source.
If this is true we'll just have to not use it.
DigitalOcean. A little more bare bones than the cloud providers, but really easy to use and great (community) documentation. They also have a great set of predefined images which can be deployed in seconds.
Show HN: Mocking fremework for Kotlin has 7k downloads during 4 monthes
Discord seems to be doing just fine. Nobody really gives a shit about product names.
And they got to work from home every day, too.
To say nothing of the fact that let's see the first time he gets an infection or disease or needs surgery given no vaccinations, antibiotics, or anesthetics.
I wouldn't advocate them as a replacement for something like AWS or GCE - with that said, I'm really enjoying Vultr. I've found my experience with them comparable to DigitalOcean.
I'm just trying to provide some historical information for millenials.
We did the same thing, and to dynamically pull in content into the parent context, we created our own script block tag.
<div type="javascript">...</div> so that we could extract the JS and eval it in the parent context. The clunky thing was that you had to hand escape reserved html characters (&, <, etc) in your JS code. So many bugs...
Hi, I'm hearing of issues about QR codes unable to be scanned; can you please try scanning the code that I posted in this comment and tell me if it works? :

https://github.com/claudiodangelis/qr-filetransfer/issues/6#...

I'm trying to collect as much info as possible to identify the cause. Thanks!
As a parent of a special-needs child, its great to read such a well written article and see the discussion here.

Like this commenter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16656127 and I suppose like most parents, I also was worried about disability in the run up to the birth of my child. They were fine at birth, perfectly normal until 6 months. Then things went downhill fast. I wont go into the details but you sortof mourn the loss of the future you thought they were going to have. Then in time you adapt somewhat, and find the positives where you can.

No-one ever puts stats to this, but if you are wondering, a family having a child have (roughly, according to my research) about a 1-in-200 chance of having a child with some-or-other rare disability or disorder that will completely change all of their lives and consume most of their energy going forwards. As such they end up joining a small but sizeable community of special needs parents.

When I was younger I didn't really know what to do when faced with a family with a disabled child (say, at a gathering if they were friends of friends), so often I'd end up not talking to them.

Now I see how isolating it can be and so I aim to be very tolerant of how people approach and talk to us, because saying something a bit wrong is surely better than ignoring us. But I'm still in the early years of this life, perhaps I will feel differently about it in 10 or 20 years time.

You can see from this thread that there are lots of different views from parents of disabled kids about how they would like to be interacted with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16655381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16656900

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16656217

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16656005

Some are easy going, some have very strict rules and for very good reasons. So how can we generalise this to make it easier for people to communicate with us?

This, from the article is perhaps key:

> Focusing on the commonplace is a good idea if you're worried about saying the wrong thing.

Small talk is a misunderstood and very powerful social tool.

And also this from one of the comments, because if you don't know the kids condition you don't know how you might affect them:

> Do not do anything without asking politely
Uh what no, well maybe it depends on the country ? As a Frenchman I've had a personal GCP account for years.

It's true that my Google account is a Google Apps (an old free one :D) one, but I never entered a VAT number.

EDIT: seeing neighbour's comment, when I say "years" that's probably 2 years :)
How is it not censorship? It is legal, and they're not violating anything, but it is still censorship, because they are censoring something. It doesn't have to be illegal for it to be censorship.
Android also has absolutely useless permission categories. Supposedly lots of apps legitimately ask for "read phone status and identity" just so they can e.g. pause a game when a call comes in. The same permission lets them scrape all kinds of info like phone # and IMEI. Which is the app doing?

Android just looks like a privacy nightmare.
Can you think of any experiment that cannot be explained by your theory?
What about the nuclaer test conducted in air in 1900's ...oxone hole was craeted bcause of that u dum mies!!!
> There is a group of people/organizations acting as puppet masters, dictating what's going to be the next big topic.

It’s almost like there’s a “trending news” sidebar that these shadowy people added and put in whatever they feel like and whoops we’re talking about Facebook again aren’t we?
I have a 13" MBP (2017), and it fits in the sleeve I bought for my 12" Windows tablet (Samsung TabPro S). Battery life is adequate to great, though it feels pretty low-spec. I'm not sure if that feeling is because it is comparatively low-spec, but because I recently bought a desktop for gaming and am comparing it to that.
Except, unless there was some hashtag I missed, that no one was asking Google to do anything. So it was kind of lose-lose. People against guns didn't really care, and people who like guns are pissed.
I mean supporting it as the language in which the plugin is written. If there are plugins that are doing that, let me know, I'll be googling that all day today.
It's fairly pointless to compare the library to CLI libraries for other languages.

It's much more meaningful to pick a language that fits the main purpose of the program, and not depending on what CLI libraries are available.

Generally, the CLI interface will be a fraction of the code in an application. When deciding on a CLI library, it's usually the case of "I'm writing this application that does X, and now it requires a CLI interface - which one do I pick?".

Of course it can still be useful to review how libraries for different languages work, in order to get ideas for making a better one (or improving existing ones).

So, what makes this better than e.g. Thor or Click is that if you're in the target group, you're already using node, making the other mentioned libraries irrelevant.
Or, even worse, expecting other involved intel agencies to reveal HUMINT sources that were used to narrow the identification once technical means got them something past the VPN exit?
Shkreli Got Prison Time, Holmes Didn’t. Is That Fair?
> If you're going to compare it to Europe (which this is doing), how about comparing it to Europe in, say, the 21C?

Sure, between 20 and 30 days paid vacation depending on the country, illness isn't considered vacation and usually gets paid up to 6 months.

Oh then there is the paternal and maternity leave, up to two years, depending on the country.
The thing about the gun-related stuff is that it's 99% perfectly legal (yes, there are videos about illegal mods, but those were not specifically targeted).

I don't think they're worried about lawsuits. This is all about political optics.
>Respectfully, how does your desire to bear private arms contribute to your militia or the freedom of your state and country?

It doesn't directly, but without a private right to bear arms all you're left with is a centralised police force on steroids.

The big fault of the American gun rights movement is of course that they ignored that arguably most important part of the 2nd amendment, there is no real popular militia that can be taken seriously in the US. For goodness sakes, when the ATF gets to drive around in M1 Abrams tanks, whether you can have a bump stock or not becomes pretty meaningless.

One could of course argue that the American model would just collapse into warlordism, but it would be interesting to see it tried.
Actually, I think what you meant to say is that the definition of the word censor has nothing to do with the first amendment or even government. Censorship is the "official" capacity of someone to prevent someone else from publishing. The official person could be an official of government or a private company as far as the definition is concerned.

define censor - https://www.google.com/search?q=define+censor

1. an official who examines material that is about to be released, such as books, movies, news, and art, and suppresses any parts that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.

2. (in ancient Rome) either of two magistrates who held censuses and supervised public morals.

3. examine (a book, movie, etc.) officially and suppress unacceptable parts of it.

So, Youtube and others are indeed censoring you when they do not allow you to publish certain videos.
Working in ML in a big firm. Data pointa are about 30. Most candidates pass the resume screen at least have Masters, majority have PhDs. Bachelors are rarely considered, unless EXTREMELY competitive, like good students from Harvard/MIT.
> Major protests have happened

The centralized economy enabled Maduro's government to co-opt food distribution and election security apparatuses to make the protests fruitless. TL; DR An organized dictator can survive economic collapse longer than one might expect.

"Voters who used their Fatherland Cards were given food at a quarter of the polling stations surveyed in December by Torino. At some other sites, voters were instead told where they could pick up the food.

After voting, Katerina Noriega, a street vendor in Santa Rita, was directed by Socialist activists to a warehouse to receive a couple of pounds of rice and beans, worth about 10 days of work.

'They bought our votes,” said Ms. Noriega, who acknowledged supporting the government candidate to get the free food. “I did it because of our difficult situation.'

...

The so-called Fatherland Card, using technology from Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp., allows the government to keep track of who has voted. That permits officials to put pressure on food recipients if they are reluctant to cast a ballot, according to election experts, government critics and ruling party activists.

By law, the vote is supposed to be secret. But at voting centers in the capital, Caracas, and the westernmost state of Zulia during the December municipal elections, it was easy to see how the ruling party worked the levers of government to ensure that likely supporters made it to the polls. In a giant red tent, Socialist activists scanned voters’ Fatherland Cards. Using a computerized database, they could determine who hasn’t voted and what benefits those people receive. Government supporters called “patrollers” were then dispatched on motorbikes to the homes of food recipients to remind them of the benefits and convince them to turn out, according to a local ruling-party official."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-maduro-clinging-to-p...
We use Google Cloud and I'm really pleased with it. The team often adds useful new features and are pretty accessible through support. Perhaps most importantly right now, they're working hard to put in place to help people manage GDPR compliance issues, which is saving us a lot of time.