skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we were talking to a bad guy then we're screwed. But if we are talking to our intended recipient, even if their cert is bogus, our connection is protected from bad guys on the path.

You acknowledge that you don't know who you are talking to. That alone proves my point. If the cert is bogus/unvalidated then its trivial for the bad guy to intercept and supply their own bogus cert instead. You are correct that its encrypted, but that means nothing when you do not know who you are talking to. It could even be a string of bad guys all capturing and injecting another bad cert. Encryption without validation means nothing.

> they would prefer not to be seen to be meddling

Time and time again ISPs have been caught injecting javascript/cookies/html inside unencrypted traffic. If ISPs are willing to do that, then why should nation states be afraid to? The point of 'bad guys' is that they can't be trusted to not do bad things.

Besides the point that bogus/unvalidated certs do nothing, it would be easier to just perform a downgrade attack if the client isn't doing any validations. Downgrade to unencrypted and easily see everything. That is why they are creating a list of services that should only allow valid encrypted connections.
well. that conflated a whole lot of separate issues.

you primarily went on a quest to find contradictions while completely ignoring how law actually works in this land

thoughtful though!
It probably won't come as a big surprise that I also would like to address the larger forces as well. That doesn't mean that we can't also want to address the garbage that is littering our oceans.
But how does that turn inti profit?
The local DA and the DOJ have limited resources, probably. Popehat often talks about this.
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"Who needs dropbox when you have rsync!"
I don't think it's so clear cut. First of all with these drugs it's actually impossible to say what percentage of patients our new drugY will work on or who they are. Instead they're going to be marketed to everyone. In fact the article makes the case that these faster approvals may actually slow down our ability to get this information:

The FDA also increasingly allows drugmakers to claim success in trials based on proxy measurements — such as shrunken tumors — instead of clinical outcomes like survival rates or cures, which take more time to evaluate. In return for accelerated approval, drug companies commit to researching how well their drugs work after going on the market. But these post-marketing studies can take 10 years or longer to complete, leaving patients and doctors with lingering questions about safety and benefit.

So what, there's going to be a 10 year period where patients are unable to evaluate what their best shot at treatment is? We often forget that markets and rational decision-making require good information to produce good outcomes. Allowing drugs into the market that are opaque and expensive isn't going to make things better for patients, it's going to make it worse.
Pretty much all of them. For example, you can add React to a website with just a couple script tags ( https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html ) , and same for Vue.

The issue is that "real" apps generally need build steps, and the build tools themselves are written in Javascript, so those need Node to run.
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There's an online demo tool here, if you want to just try it out: http://211.249.63.55:81/
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I'm not an expert in serverless, but doesn't it require a complete paradigm shift in how you structure your code?
Too bad that "worth" doesn't come from anything. Oh no wait. User data. I can't wait for that to become an illegal trade.
>And yes, drug manufacturers pay most of the FDA budget. That’s by design and there is zero evidence that it has an impact on the FDA’s independence.

I'm curious, what would actually count as evidence to you? It seems to me this article has plenty.
I have some adult friends spending 1 or 2 hours a day on Instagram. I can’t even imagine how much time millenials spend on it.
Is there any reason that prevents audio from being transmitted digitally with zero quality loss? Why can't the digital-to-analog conversion be performed as late as possible? Inside the actual speaker, for example.
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Anecdotally, regenerative braking on an EV reduces brake pad wear by somewhere around 50-80%. It's rare to have to replace brake pads in an EV, or even to see them significantly worn.

On urban buses, which are constantly starting and stopping, I imagine it could be even more.
excellent decision!

This will hopefully have a affect on Pakistan as well as Pakistanis view Mumbai as the commercial role model for their geographic region. Hopefully my city Karachi can also follow this example.
At this point, the department menu is an alternative to search. It doesn't need to be universally accessible or forgiving to poor motor control, because in terms of footprint it is tiny. I have used it before and it was just fine for me, and if some proportion of their customers have a similar experience, then it seems well worthwhile.
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I remember not thinking that it was overpriced, but amazed that it became a threat to Facebook worth that in just like 2 years. If I recall correctly, it was a team of 13 at the time of that offer.
Your strawmen are getting pretty dry in the heat. Some guys' misconceptions from the seventies have nothing to do with today's real science. I recommend you check out the realclimate website.
You do realize that Instagram has ads that companies pay money for right? That's where they make their money, when companies purchase ads on Instagram.
Thanks for that, all
Way back in the day, I had a reinsurance company as a client. For those unfamiliar, reinsurance companies insure insurance companies.

For example, they might insure a standard insurance company for automobile accidents, with a $1,000,000 deductible. So the retail insurance company handles payouts up to a million dollars, but when there's a really wild claim, the reinsurance company pays the insurance company for anything over a million.

They end up specializing in rare events that involve large payouts, so they also did things like the hole-in-one insurance you mention above, very common with charity gold tournaments.

They had many stories to tell, including the fellow who played a lot of golf and collected three hole-in-one payouts, and another story about a truck that went off a mountain road, slid down and blocked train tracks, causing a train derailment, with a town below the train that needed to be evacuated.
Is that what I wrote?
http://www.bugseverywhere.org/
I wouldn't be surprised to see Instagram go the way of Twitter once more attention starts being called to the number of bots on IG. One of the big "value propositions" for IG is the advertising potential through influencers, but go to any influencer profile and you'll see that a significant portion of their followers are just paid bots. The "1 billion active accounts" number smells fishy to me.

I have a few friends that participate in the "influencer scene" (as influencers themselves and as marketing reps at companies who purchase posts from influencers) and it's basically an open secret at this point that aside from a select few celebs, any given influencer has an entire army of bots behind them to promote their posts. Getting on the top of the discover queue is basically just down to who has the bigger bot network.
> I can't wait for that to become an illegal trade.

Why would that ever happen? How could that ever happen? That would destroy everything (note: hyperbole) of value currently offered for free on the internet.
However, this only works if GDPR ends up being enforced, which doesn’t look too great so far considering how many sites violate the regulation with non-compliant forced consent screens.
The drug wars weren't a failure. The intentions of the people that started and maintained them was generally the promotion of a certain set of moral standards and oppression of certain populations or simply a desire to follow rules.

I generally think that the CSA/drug wars or something like them may have been necessary to keep this country together. The problem with mind altering substances is that they work, and there were people who wanted to use them to change the world. They could have, not necessarily in a good way. Some things needed to be treated with more care and study and instead they spread like wildfire through a counterculture.
Agreed. This is the approach taken by the generally brilliant '3Blue1Brown' YouTube channel.

His video on determinants (for example) teaches what they actually do, rather than emphasising a seemingly arbitrary algorithm for you to blindly follow (which is how I was taught determinants).
And it probally is, and there's no accounting for taste.

The morons are in control, and the Internet sold out to the biggest paycheck.

As usual!

(Maybe for the better? I spent too much time on this medium. Time to venture out and talk to the strangers? And yes--the best of my Internet was around 2007.).
How to start a technology revolution for refugees in East Africa
This reminds me I have to develop and send sometime a PR for Axios to support Brotli. We turned brotli on and figured out we only get garbage because Axios itself also needs to understand on how to handle brotli https://github.com/axios/axios/blob/cb630218303095c0075182b5...
One of the things that radio hosts here joke about is how kids with a zero in their phone number had fewer friends. “Oh, I don’t want to call Bobby, he’s got two zeroes in his phone number, it takes so long to dial”. Between that and risking talking to An Adult and getting In Trouble, I wonder how true that is.
> It’s distateful when public interest orgs transform into political orgs with agendas.

Public interest orgs all have agendas. They also often take just as much liberty with the truth as private organizations, because outrage bait drives donations. (E.g. I'm an ACLU member, but I unsubscribed from Anthony Romero's emails because of how often I'd read through some story to realize it was misleadingly presented.)
It's kind of sad that more people use Internet Explorer 11 than Edge…
Pretty much every group can be defined in terms of anti-something. Environmental groups are anti-pollution, anti-global-warming, anti-whatever.

They all believe they're working on behalf of the public in some form. Anti-tax groups are helping billionaires which will something-something trickle-down and help everyone!
It's exploding because apart from being a really good product, they made the UX super, super simple. With just enough little nuggets of complexity to make it feel whole.
A lot of it is pretty gimmicky right now, granted, but that's not where things are going. The logical conclusion this is all heading towards is really all about coordination of device/thing across the household. Convenience is really at the heart of it, which means for a percentage of the population, it won't ever catch on, because as you say, there's nothing WRONG with a physical key for your house.

But we said the same about cars, but how much more convenient is it to just put your hand on the car door handle, and it unlocks and opens for you? How much easier is it to just get into the car and hit a button to start it because the key fob is in your pocket?

They're small improvements of quality of life, but added up, and it makes for a better experience moving through the world.

Security is a HUGE issue of course, and to a large extent we need to figure it out, but there's good progress being made. And IoT devices aren't (as another comment says) just another outdated Linux box. OTA (over the air) updates are a real thing now, and done securely are as safe as updating your desktop machine at home.
I wouldn't make the assumption that millenials spend significantly more than that on the app. It's certainly possible, I guess.

But as I commute to work and back (hour by bus or train) - it's often 35+ aged people who have their eyes glued to instagram/facebook the entire length of the trip.

EDIT: Data shows that you're probably right, and millenials spend more [time](
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267138/social-media-usag...). A lot around 3 hours even.
I clearly am missing something, because I almost always die off halfway through stage 2. Which means I've barely interacted with most of the options the game offers. Early stage 3 is the furthest I've ever gotten.

I've tried speeding through, I've tried being thorough on stage one and faster after, I've tried mixes. I cant afford most items for sale, and just keeping up in fuel is sometimes a challenge.

Every playthrough is the same, with the only alteration being how quickly it takes to get into a crippling fight. Yet i keep hearing praise for the large variety and replayability.

I thought it might just be that I'm too casual (advice like "play games on ironman" sounds like a recipe of frustration and boredom to me) but I'm bothered by the lack on concurring voices. Am I the only one to suck at this game?
There's a furniture salesman here in Houston who makes heavy use of that sort of promotion. His latest if you spend $3,000 on a mattress and the Astros win the "2018 baseball final championship series" you'll be refunded the purchase price.

Not sure why it's worded so formally; must be a legal thing.
Glass bottles can be reused, like Germany does, or Spain did (sadly not any more).
No wonder. Anecdotal of course, but I see my friends spending more time on instagram and people on the train or bus browsing instagram. I don't remember seeing FB on someone's mobile in the last 6 months.

It will only grow bigger and at some point when it becomes too big, you see less friends posts and more advts and people move on to something else. But for next 2 years, Instagram's going to be Yuuuge.(Huge)
umm. millenials are adults too now.

O/T, but the millennials are born between 1980 to 1990/1992. The generation after are post-millenials, for lack of a better word.
I've been in one of these. The noise is noticeable but not nearly as offensive as a diesel bus engine revving.

Also there's no idling that would normally cause vibrations.
Is every user really worth $100 though? How many adverts would I need to click or watch to make up that number?
Wonder if they will ever spin it off as a public company? Seems like Facebook is on the way out and shareholders are going to want to double down on the future.
Every commercial kitchen ever missed that memo. They also heavily use carts that roll through god knows what in the dish room.
Technology like storage and cameras is cheap and becoming cheaper. What's lacking is legislation which always lags behind technology, typically decades.

>America has a long history of facilitating other nations' experiments in tyranny. Like, a really really long one.
Considering how long America has been around say compared to Europe that's quite a claim.
That's why you attend the ones that serve free drinks.
It's legal/decriminalized in some states/cities but that is in spite of federal law, not because of it. It's still illegal at the federal level.
Hello there! Glad to see other people working on this area as well. Ho-Hsiang and I from GitHub have been prototyping this exact same approach and have published / open sourced our work about a month ago: https://towardsdatascience.com/semantic-code-search-3cd6d244...
Well, I think FB has probably lost 100B in value, and as someone who stopped using FB this year because I dont enjoy it anymore-

I moved to instagram and twitter.

Mind you, 100B for an app that is filled with bots and corporate accounts makes me think whoever did the valuation has never actually used IG.
Privacy Badger [1] blocks ConvertKit's email-gathering form for me.

[1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
I think TheRealPomex' point was that the companies pay money for those ads because facebook has the user data to ensure the ads are appropriately targeted.
Great release.
I had issues with previous releases (58-60) on MBP, where quite a lot of pages would cause high CPU usage and in turn overheating of the machine but after this upgrade the problem (at least it seems so) went away. And it also feels snappier.

And now the dark theme also applies to address bar and hamburger menu which is nice bonus.
I think the JS comparison undersells it. Many computers would literally drop you into a BASIC prompt at boot. I remember my first encounter with MS-DOS and finding it weird that you had to actually run a program to get to BASIC.
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Yes, if there are concerns about those resources misidentifying people and being subject to racial/ethnic bias
What do you mean "They will also not remove enough of the other half of the pollutants." Surely they will remove 100% of those, plus most of the brake dust.

It's true that there will be an increase in road / tyre dust due to the extra weight of batteries, but I'd be very surprised if this was as much as was saved elsewhere.
Is there a good way to find these free laptop scams?

I'm looking for good use cases to sharpen my selenium skills and like wasting scammer's time.
Thanks for your points. ConvertKit allows to show a GDPR consent screen to EU users. I didn't enable it at first, my fault.

Below the form the intent is clear, but you should also be allowed to only get the ebook without having any further email from me.
To be fair, most of this user data is just bots like/follow/unfollowing.

I like IG, but I dont feel like there are more than a few real people using it.
states cannot override any federal law.

the federal government merely tolerates the semi-autonomous nature of states in order to maintain order. but the legality of the federal government's supremacy is well evolved, its power and might is extremely disproportionally higher than any collective of states, and at this point the semi-autonomous nature of states is pure fiction as the federal government can assume jurisdiction over any intra-state matter if it wanted to through its interstate commerce laws.

yes, federal level law enforcement can theoretically charge someone in a cannabis-legal state for drug offenses. this still happens. the discretion of the words of the President, the heads of the DEA and DOJ prevent the MAJORITY of it from happening and also guide the discretion of the courts and public sympathy. so right now, for the last two administrations it has not been a priority to upset the social order in cannabis-legal states. but it can still happen.
The other huge endorsement I have for FTL is that games are relatively short, and many of the punishments are harsh-but-survivable. Losing a crewman to a random event feels devastating, but it doesn't guarantee a loss, and if you do lose you're not set back that far.

That's a nice contrast with other no-saving games like Ironman XCOM. It's a superb game, and I think best played without save scumming, but it's painfully easy to lose a 20 hour buildup to 1-2 bad missions. (Or a 100+ hour game if you're running Long War.)

That, and the in-game mechanics of FTL just feel satisfying in a way that too many roguelites lack. Losing and starting from scratch is much more bearable if playing the game is pleasant, independent of your progression.
That was WhatsApp. Instagram has always been photos.
I agree with this. I think the real solution is going to be to rewrite laws to account for digital abuses. This is still true not just domestically, but a lot of the large criminal actions don't take into account digital equivalence. They're catching up, slowly but surely, but it's definitely a slow process.
While largely pedantic, and I mostly agree with you in principle, the hypothetical example is perhaps not the greatest.

A 19-year-old woman[0] is going to be serving 1 month of jail each year, for the next 6 years, due to circumstances quite similar to the example provided; perhaps rightfully so.

I do generally agree with you though -- the drug problem in the US is a health issue and (in the vast majority of situations) should not be a criminal matter. I can't fathom how we can have an AG that wants to use resources to "crack down" on marijuana when that same approach fails to curtail our opioid problems, an unquestionably more serious problem right now.

The disconnect from leadership versus on the ground 'real life' is completely unfathomable. I'm really not sure what a solution would look like when political campaigns are thriving at the extreme ends of the spectrum however.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/2...
> I have some adult friends spending 1 or 2 hours a day on Instagram. I can’t even imagine how much time millenials spend on it.

Millenials are now all adults. :) A good chunk of the millennial generation is now in the child-having and house-buying (well, maybe not the later, too many avocados) stage of life!
Oh and https://towardsdatascience.com/semantic-code-search-3cd6d244... is completely open source end-to-end, with code, data, and detailed explanations on how to reproduce step-by-step.
The issue with food waste is limited phosphorus supplies for fertilizer.
It is a bit more complex. There are few scientific studies on this topic. See this one: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a/buolamwini18a...

"We find that these datasets are overwhelmingly composed of lighter-skinned subjects (79.6% for IJB-A and 86.2% for Adience) and introduce a new facial analysis dataset which is balanced by gender and skin type. We evaluate 3 commercial gender classification systems using our dataset and show that darker-skinned females are the most misclassified group (with error rates of up to 34.7%). The maximum error rate for lighter-skinned males is 0.8%.
I mean, over the course of how much time? Also consider the worth of a company is not only based on revenue but assets and growth trajectory.
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Noise generators for EVs are required, or soon to be required, in the EU and USA.

Acoustic Vehicle Alert System (AVAS):
https://www.interregs.com/articles/spotlight/eu-updates-requ...
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I've heard that https://up-for-grabs.net/#/ is a good place to look to find projects that have issues that are beginner friendly.
I always get so excited for new Firefox releases. Then I read the patch notes and never see that they've fixed performance for MacOS. I've tried everything I can find online, but Firefox just performs so terribly on my Macbook Pro. In the meantime, I use Opera (with little to no complaints).
Perhaps it's time to test that theory and chum the fishbowl waters with a doctored business card too advantageous to pass over.
What’s the point of that? Facebook as a company can have multiple products that aren’t Facebook. Buy FB.
Do you know what a breakdown of that time would be like? I can't imagine spending an hour on instagram, unless they follow a lot of people with stories and always keep up with them.
The other day in a plane, all the people next to me and in front of me were on FB/Insta before the flight. After landing, everybody turned off the flight mode and got back on FB/Insta!? The flight was 1-hour long.
Victim shaming isn't acceptable. Sorry. You're blaming the person being abused for not leaving. There's a MULTITUDE of reasons (as other comments have already stated) that people aren't enabled to get out of an abusive relationship.
Ionic 3 is really good as well, provided you've drunk the Angular kool-aid, which I have.
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I can't think of any new 'features' since stories, though. And wasn't that ripped off from someone else?