skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was demonstrated on "Mythbusters" in 2013:

"Hot-air hand dryers are less sanitary than paper towels in public restrooms.

CONFIRMED

In a preliminary test, Adam and Jamie found that washing their hands properly with soap did not leave behind enough bacteria for them to count, so in the remaining tests, participants only used water to wash their hands.

Sixteen volunteers were enlisted to have their hands sprayed with a harmless strain of E. coli bacteria. The volunteers’ hands were then swabbed for a sample, then washed using water but no soap, then swabbed again, then dried using paper towels, then swabbed a third time. Next, the entire process was repeated with the same volunteers, but using hand dryers instead of paper towels. On average, the paper towels removed 71% of the bacteria on the volunteers’ hands, while the hand dryers only removed 23%, confirming that the myth is true for individuals.

Adam and Jamie also wanted to find out how clean the drying area of the restroom stayed with each drying method. Before the previous experiment began, the mock restrooms were thoroughly cleaned. After the experiment, swabs from the paper towel area yielded 3 bacteria colonies while swabs from the hand dryer area yielded 41 colonies, confirming that the myth is also true in regards to the cleanliness of the restroom."

https://mythresults.com/down-dirty-earthquake-survival
This is an important point, although in practice the publisher would not go after your talk site, even if they are seemingly given the legal power to do so, meaning that the legal system never corrects itself from issuing these overly broad injunctions (until it's too late and someone deliberately abuses this weakness).

What's more worrying is what happens when the publishers go back to court to complain that Sci-Hub are changing their name to avoid the block, from sci-hub -> sky-hab -> psy-hob -> buy-tub -> fly-tab -> ... At what point does the court just empower the publisher to shut down any site they choose, like a DMCA takedown request?
I'm learning Italian with English as the base language. One of the things I felt with Duolingo (at least the "old" version, didn't try the new version) is that the exercises make you write mostly in English, not Italian, which is the main point of why I'm on Duolingo in the first place.

It's rare for an exercise that makes you write in Italian, even when assembling your own sentences is the basics for those who are learning a new language. Finishing an entire module doesn't make you entitled to write anything.

So I inverted things. Instead of the Italian course, I applied to the English course (which I am already fluent) as an Italian native speaker. This way, I write mostly in Italian, with almost no exercises to write in English (same problem with the Italian course).

Learning has been much more effective.
> Thus, hashing completely fails to address the underlying privacy concerns

I don't understand their argument against pseudonomous identifiers (well, part of the problem is they present it without a lot of argument). Are they arguing that companies will reverse the hash, or that they will de-anonymise it using additional data? Otherwise it seems harmful to me to tell people that using a different identifier per web site is useless (a bit like telling everybody that locking your car is useless because a determined thief would break in anyway...)
>the future, when computers can more easily crack today's encryption

No. Don't confuse symmetric with asymmetric (current public key) encryption. They aren't subject to the same potential attacks. Even with a theoretical fully scalable general purpose quantum computer, the best quantum attack vs a symmetric cypher is brute forcing with Grover's Algorithm, which provides a quadratic rather then exponential speed up. Ie., a n-bit key could be attacked in around 2^(n/2). This is trivially countered by doubling key length, a 256-bit key would still take 2^128 which would still be effectively impossible, and a 512-bit key would take 2^256. There is no future with any foreseen technology that would be able to brute force that, so when it comes to AES and the like using at least 256-bit keys it can be reasonably assumed that destroying the key means the data is lost (anything legacy running off 128-bit is reasonable to watch out for though, 2^64 is potentially tractable).

Present asymmetric crypto systems can theoretically [1] be attacked with Shor's Algorithm, which may be what you're kind of thinking of if you've heard about "today's encryption getting cracked" in the general media or scifi. And that would in fact be a big deal, it covers how most data is moved around in communications and the Internet at present. But QC isn't magic, and it doesn't just break anything. FDE and the like that just use symmetric crypto are safe.

1: "Theoretically" because that's if (big if) an ideal quantum computer that could be scaled to a sufficient number of qubits is created.
I think they mean legalization of consenting adults selling sex to each other.
Robotics Open letter to the European Commission
Best LifeChanging Motivational quotes of all times 2018
Legalization of sex work where consenting adult individual(s) gets paid to do things with other consenting adult individual(s).
It is not a made up thing, there is plenty of literature on the subject - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/why-innocent-peop...
No. What I belive is that backpages makes trafficking massively more profitable.

With less of a signal boost, people will be less incentivized to force people into trafficking in the first place.

IE, that pimp might switch to drug dealing or some other industry, where they can make more money.
Most certainly the put together effect cannot be understated. I looked up the definition of confidence one day and fundamentally it means holding onto some intimate knowledge like a secret that provides an advantage to the holder. It has grown to mean so wany things it's one of those words like 'agile' where agreement on terminology ironically masks disagreement on ultimate meaning.
Not sure what happened in this case, but I believe what you’re talking about is known as an Alford plea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alford_plea
Are you implying that it is likely that his hands were ON the wheel when he drove into the barrier? I don't see why he would have driven into the wall if that were the case.
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How will they hedge risks related to a national housing downturn?
The fact that a newcomer has difficulty reading the code implies it's bad. Not simply a lack of understanding.

Good code should be easy to pickup even for newcomers.

Now there maybe reasons why it's bad, time constraints, no time for re-evaluating the design. But that doesnt change the fact that it's bad.
Reminds me of some filler-dialogue from the game Deus Ex (2000), where a late-working employee in the building you need to infiltrate is complaining:

> This chemoreceptor patent-proposal is kicking my ass. Hundley won't let me down until it's done. Hardly worth filing for, in my opinion. Who wants to smell the difference between xenon and radon?
It is an accurate use of the term. If the system is warning you when you take your hands of the wheel, you would have to be a moron to assume that your attention is not required.
Unfortunately Duolingo is only getting bashed here.
they do auto-rebalancing and auto tax loss harvesting, kinda hands-free investment. Real human investors can charge 1.5%
You and the other commenter that says the wheel sensor is finicky should somehow contact the investigators (AFAIU that's NTSB). These are really important possibilities that may never be discovered by them.
This is very low on my priority list of things I'm going to worry about.
Sounds like cleanliness of bathroom counts many times more if people use soap.

If using soap and same and having a clean bathroom, paper vs dryer doesn’t matter.

Is this correct?
How do you explain that they were always from north-to-south? I mean, I tried hard to trick myself even. An actual hallucination couldn't know.
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I already corrected that, but the point still stands that their press release is intentionally misleading and Tesla knows very well that detecting hand presence on the wheel has problems. Read the press release in full and tell me that it isn't misleading.

Originally when this was posted there was concern over if "prior to the collision" was talking about the 6 seconds before the collision or earlier in the drive. In any case, Tesla is implying that the victim wasn't driving responsibly and there's no data released to the public that would back up such a claim.
> What's the point of an autopilot if I have to spend my entire drive watching it like a hawk to ensure it doesn't steer me into a wall?

If you fall asleep while driving, it may prevent you from driving into a barrier or on-coming traffic. It's not meant to take over the act of driving from you, but to provide assistance.
Not in Utica, no, it's an Albany expression.
It would lead to filter bubbles.
That hand wavy math is batshit crazy. This is the exact same argument behind penny stocks. Huge short-term gains don't mean anything if they're followed by craters and you can't time the market. Gambling is all it is.
Most of what I saw was "the government said they needed these new laws since they couldn't go after Backpage with existing laws, then they seized Backpage and pressed charges before the new laws were in effect, what's up with that".
> Everyone knows that it’s common decency to close the toilet lid after you’ve been to the bathroom.

I very rarely see a public toilet with a lid. A seat yes, but not a lid.
actually this is pretty comforting to know for a few reasons:

1. soap really, really works. it works so well it doesn't seem to matter whether you dry your hands with paper towels or hot air later.

2. hand dryers don't put more shit (literally) on your hands, it just takes less off. so it's still good! maybe it's better than leaving your hands wet. what they should have tested is whether air drying beats wiping your hands on the back of your jeans, which i am guessing is actually quite nasty.
Back page was anything but fantasy football.
It'll be fine as long as the decryption time-horizon is beyond the lifetime of the company, the user, and the regulatory-regime :p
Japan found hundreds of years’ worth of the minerals used in batteries and EVs
Is it truly "censorship" though, if one is so aggressively distasteful and difficult to deal with that nobody wants to do business with them?

Daily Stormer was taken down as a result of 0 court orders. If I'm on someone's platform and I either break their rules repeatedly or invite attacks on them, it's not exactly censorship if they get tired of putting up with my shit and remove me. VPS operators repeatedly warn me that if I invite frequent DDoS attacks, they will remove me from the service. They have a say in how their own platform operates.

White national socialists/identitarians sell themselves as the most censored people on the Internet as if they hold information just begging to be released and practiced. Only, there's no redeeming value to the content of their information; it ranges from callous disregard of people based on race, to the outright extermination of anyone who disagrees with the cause. All of these "beliefs" effectively incite people to attack them, regardless of how well you may articulate them. It's little different from me repeatedly challenging blackhats to disable my VPS.

The only thing they really succeed in doing, is being the Internet's biggest pain in the ass to do business with. There is absolutely nothing wrong with what Cloudflare did.
You can just say "significant".
As a pilot, I'd consider that name worse. Copilots literally fly the plane, often with no real supervision. Autopilots require supervision.
NSA has very strict power filtering rules for their Red/Black systems. Their building is covered in a copper Faraday cage.

They also have a double outer shell, with space between the two walls, where speakers play white noise.

All this is public knowledge for many decades now.

Food for thought.

If anyone is surprised by power line exfiltration they just didn't do a basic google search.
I like the advice to actively record your ideas (every little one). Thinking about things in abstract, it can seem like all the good problems are solved, but listed out on paper it is a lot easier to analyze and notice patterns.
Ah yeah, that's beyond my experience. I just got handed a wordpress site and then realised it wasn't super simple to deploy.
Short operational lifetime? What's your source on that. There's plenty of Bell 206's from the 70's that are still in operation, and that's just one random example. If 50 years is not adequate, what is?
https://www.trade-a-plane.com/mobile/search?make=BELL&model_...

What is "limited redundancy"? Either it's redundant or it's single point failure. I don't know what that term means.

Poor crash worthiness? Again, please explain.

The American helicopter society published a report in 1994 detailing how the "new" crashworthiness requirements had improved survivability in helicopter accidents. Also noting how many fewer class a/b accidents were occurring due to other safety improvements.

The fatality rate for helicopters is 1.3 deaths per 100,000 operational hours, compared to 1.4 deaths per 100,000 operational hours for fixed-wing aircraft. A person is more likely to survive a helicopter crash than an airplane crash.

I don't know where you got your impressions, but they are not accurate.
The thing is developers as a whole like writing good code.

Code quality is often the result of how much the business values good code. If they don't they will simply want everything done the fasted with no time for refactoring.

That sort of pressure comes from top and is hard for a single dev to change.
No. ACS is a publisher for a large number of journals. As a nonprofit, their financials are fully available online. Member dues are a tiny slice of their revenues.

https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/aboutacs/financ...
Autopilot is a driver assistance feature, not a safety feature.
It also cuts off a significant channel. Only time will tell, but chances are it could make a large impact in reduction.
> what's so hard about setting up undercover sting operations on both sides

There are not enough qualified investigators or time in the day to run down every prostitute with an ad while Backpage plays shell games with the ones featuring children.
Unfortunately, we need to accommodate the future Darwin Award winners. Besides, there's dangerous, and then there's 'the government caused the death of someone who stepped on the highway'. Getting zapped, even mildly, would distract someone and decrease a person's chances of getting out of the way quickly.
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Hangers are insignificant compared to the cost of fuel. 1 month of hangar cost is a couple hours of fuel cost.
"So, do I have this right, Medicare is state funded - they pay the doctor less than the cost of manufacturing the medicine and the doctor over-charges other people's insurance companies so as to pay for fixed costs and add profit, to the drug company and themselves?"

For certain things, yes that is the way it works. I believe most medical practices are losing money when they administer a vaccine.[0]

[0]: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/124/Supplement...
Maybe it's in something like Smalltalk?
“everything in the world was created by people no smarter than you”.

Is there actually any validity to that? Assuming you is a human of average intelligence...
>As noted in the article, the information being released includes blaming the victim and other PR spin. This doesn't serve the public or further highway safety; it further's Tesla's commercial goals.

Saying clearly that abdicating your responsibility to drive the car can (and has) resulted in deaths does serve public safety. Its critically important that people driving this section of road (and others like it) know about this as soon as possible.

Call it victim blaming if you want, and certainly there was some spin, but it is unfair to say that this has no safety element.
Autopilot refers to a wide range of capabilities on boats and airplanes. Many of those require an active, attentive opertator for safety.

The car is warning you if you take your hands off the steering wheel. I don't see how anyone but a moron would value their misconceptions about the term "autopilot" over the clear signals that your hands are required to be on the steering wheel.

I wish people would stop bringing this idiotic point about the term "autopilot" and instead talk about how the different designs of autopilot can encourage or discourage attentiveness in operators.
I would argue saying "patched up to x date" is a statement that you've got the patches up to that date. And claiming that without it being true would, in fact, be fraud.

Whereas just not updating your phone would just be taking poor care of your customers.
> Adam and Jamie also wanted to find out how clean the drying area of the restroom stayed with each drying method. Before the previous experiment began, the mock restrooms were thoroughly cleaned.

Which is already completely unrealistic. Next time you see a Dyson "Air Blade" in a restroom, bend down and look into the machine from the side. What you see will almost certainly prevent you from ever using one of those ever again.
I prefer to call it the "United Communities of Reddit".
Defaults have been gone for a while. Doesn’t affect older users but going forward every users front page will be more different.
You can engage with the founder, describe the problems - as you see them, ask him if he concurs or not. This will produce a number of possible 'forks' to solve the problems with the organization and the people, depending on what portions he agrees/disagrees with.
You can engage experienced VC funders/founders to see if there is hope, and to assess the structural or personnel problems. The hope may lie in engaging with the people/processes who are assessed as 'the problem'.

If the problems are quantifiable and people can be educated to see/solve them there is hope. You can be re-capture the start-up thrill and elan that made you all work hard and succeed.
Failing this? Find a company that has solved these problems and who has the right people and sell out/merge with them.

This might mean some hard decisions to eliminate the obstructive people with separation shares and agreements to allow them to leave and not want to sue or otherwise harm the company.

Total failure wastes all you and the founder have done to date, so adapt to thrive...
That is bullshit. I'm sure there are already 100 other sites doing this.

This is like shutting down piratebay. No one really cares except the owners.

As if you would shut down your very profitable human trafficking business because backpage.com is down. You already have your dungeons and people or whatever is entailed in this sick shit. You would just go to another site.
I'm interested in those recommendations.
Serious question: does it matter getting sprayed with small amounts of shit?
> 1. Having Tesla keep their mouths shut results in more unbiased people. Kicking Tesla off the investigation is in large part a deterrent, not a corrective action.

This purpose is in plain violation of the principles of freedom of speech, and the first amendment. The government is not permitted, morally or legally, to punish people for speaking. As such I'm not counting it.

> 2. This change also involves giving Tesla less access to data that they might leak. Information collected from the car's logs is under NTSB control (in past cases, for example, American Airlines was punished for making its own copy of the black box before handing it over). You can reduce these issues by not sharing information with an unreliable party.

This could be a legitimate purpose, but it seems so minor that short of the NTSB mentioning it I'm skeptical. The gain doesn't seem to be worth the loss of working closely with the manufacturer...
Instead of making assumptions about the people you believe you're saving, it would help to actually listen to them about what would help them and what wouldn't. Above I share an article from a former sex worker. Here is yet another that cites[0] sex workers as well.

[0] https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/sesta-anti-sex-trafficking-bi...
I like the idea of a bare IP address instead of relying on DNS at all, but that seems to prevent use of HTTPS.
The motivation was those held against their will, not some small percentage of victimless women with healthy psychies and great childhoods and no drug addiction who consciously chose sex work because they think it empowers them.
Because clearly nobody working on the web as an artist deserves to get credit for their work once it passes a certain threshold of popularity.

That said, when K C Green ran a Kickstarter for a plush This Is Fine dog it took in more than ten times what he was asking for; how much of that went into his bank account as profit, I dunno.
>>Much like SC stuff, I'll enjoy watching folks blather this kind of stuff in front of a judge at some point.

I don't understand why people get joy out of seeing someone punished for a victimless crime.

Criminalizing entire categories of economic exchange, based on sweeping and prejudicial generalizations that they're all scams, is the preemptive approach to crime that makes for a more repressed society with greater wealth inequality.
“So you’re directing people that don’t even have a Facebook page to sign up for a Facebook page to access their data”

That sounds like a simple solution. Yeah right.
Nobody said JS is special but the point of the article is that code execution (of any kind) is unnecessary.

The ironic part is that app store you're arguing for wouldn't even exist without the web. The web is what made Mac OS X viable for users to switch to it (and MS Office). The platform network affects that made Windows a monopoly have been drastically cut down by the web.

> As per the one single application, that's a gross oversimplification.

Says another person posting on a web application that runs on every platform out there.
Google does not expose an api that supports ads. So third parties can’t build apps that conform to goog.

It’s kind of a dick move all around because it means no one can build (popular) YouTube ads except google. And they don’t build for platforms that threaten them unless they must.