skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome, but am I wrong in thinking that EEG + TMS is a pretty low bandwidth signal? Not sure how useful this will ever be for "cooperative problem solving by humans using a "social network" of connected brains" as the article mentions.
On your final point, I hope the engineer realized how obviously dumb the move was.
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:sigh: The same week I ditched Chrome in favour Safari...
Leaked White House Memo Reveals Trump’s Plan for Going After Google and Facebook
> just by analysing the output of the chips

That's easier to do with simple digital chips (but not so easy). That's completely different story with mixed-signal.
Is the near-realite GOES imagery available to download over the internet?

Recently I've been looking for a way to download near-realtime Meteosat imagery. I thought, ok, I'll just download it from their web server. Turns out, you have to use a satellite antenna, receiver and buy commercial software... WTH? This is ridiculous in the 21th century. Why not put the imagery on the internet, for free?
Poles had pretty good mathemathicians at the time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_School_of_Mathematics

Germany was considered a threat (Piłsudski even proposed preventive invasion of Germany in 1935 to France and UK, which declined).

They also had some luck guessing the rotors arrangement in early military versions, and noticed some regularities caused by German operators being lazy (repeating common phrases etc). That gave them something to start with.
It all started with a tip that gave them the general area though.

This is my favorite example of gathering data just from examining a video: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/case-studies/2014/08/22...
XBOX ANNOUNCES MOUSE AND KEYBOARD SUPPORT
City may limit Bitcoin mining facility's access to electricity during heat waves
Rust doesn’t have a runtime. Well, at least not in the sense of other languages; it’s comparable to C :)

Emscripten provides a libc; I wondered if it required it. I guess not.
Will two thirds do? It's a convention to keep the first letter of an HN title capitalized.
Mhm. In the same way that imbuing stoats with a sense of empathy will help restore endangered bird numbers.

As another comment stated, direct governance in the form of regulation is the appropriate tool for this problem. Other options, especially hoping for an application of a particular ethical framework, is dreams.
I personally can’t taste black pepper, although I enjoy the smell. But I once asked my parents about this and they both said they definitely could taste it.
spam.is.food.not.mail@gmail.com is a reasonable way to reach me.
Dropbox uses Go (https://github.com/dropbox/godropbox), Rust (e.g. https://github.com/dropbox/rust-brotli) and Python on the server-side, and both Rust (https://github.com/dropbox/finderinfo-rust) and Python on the client-side.

As other commenters have noted, a lot of their Python use for large scale systems was an artifact of history and available choices at the time, but from my experience during my time there and following as an outside observer since leaving, they seem to make reasonable infrastructure and language decisions for their core product.
Especially when you could build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem!
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)#...
I'd be interested to know an estimated bitrate. Texting is a very low bandwidth signal that has a lot of utility. If it's comparable to what a person can do with two thumbs I can imagine some really awesome things I could create with this tech.

I wish I could justify purchasing the hardware, or had an audience. Haha.
This one is measuring traeason, corruption needs a different measure. I think that would be MegaCrassus If you stick with Rome.

https://1.cdn.edl.io/yteBVOxUCXm1v0nlnSH3aSYPHggabvUHBwPAXBl...

One needs a big scale unit because the subject of 'Microsoft' and 'Google' does imply a very big scale...
That's odd, I thought dollars were a unit of virtuousness. /s
In your region. I don't even have Play Music in mine.
Unfortunately, whether they profited or not won't make a difference. Just from the individual HN comments alone, there is enough to suggest that the title easily creates the notion that it is Volkswagen that has authorized this github. In fact, until I spent more time reading the comments and the github repo page, did I realize it was not actually Volkswagen but an individual.

Basically, if you publish on a platform that is being used by other large corporate brands, you should more or less expect zero legal protection from the platform as ToS is not a legally binding contract.
> people make their choices because they assume they're the best

worth sharing their 100% confirmation-biased advice?
Perhaps you don't think of FISA as a system that protects citizens, but that does not mean it is not so.

You might notice that you're already off in the weeds of international National Security issues and nowhere near the problems of what Russia, China, Iran, etc. are doing. So our system is already fundamentally different.

Then, you might notice that you are completely erroneous about FISA accountability. It is accountable to both higher judges and to Congress -- see the original authorizing act and H.R.2586 in the 113th congress on increasing FISA accountability.

Yes, the FISA courts which deal with national security level secrets are different from open courts, and the accountability has been lax. But if there is any "pretending" here, it is that somehow because FISA courts exist, we're somehow on the same plane as totalitarian and criminal states.

For starters, the FISA courts EXISTS, and does turn down requests. Here, there EXISTS a court system requiring evidence, arguments, and warrants.

It may be imperfect, but there is no such structure whatsoever in Russia, China, Iran etc. -- if they want to spy on someone, foreign or domestic, they just do it.

Again, there's a basis for discussion of how the US, EU, and FVEY countries could do it better.

But there is no basis for discussion with a simplistic and/or propagandistic false equivalence of the open liberal democratic countries and totalitarian regimes.
That's a very unfortunate story. As I mentioned, I recognize that many people in the US don't have any good healthcare options, which is something that we as a society ought to fix.

However, I don't think we can learn much about the health insurance typically provided to engineers in San Francisco from the poor insurance plan available to a teacher in Houston. Those jobs have very different compensation profiles.
You're a substance dualist, then?

The obvious opposing view to what you've just expressed would be that you are your body, and that what you just described as your true self is merely one part of you introspecting about another part of you.

And of course, as far as I'm aware science can say nothing convincing about all of this at present so it's purely an exercise in philosophy and logic.
Not going to be popular here but this sort of behavior is a form of abuse. You must conform to an externally defined standard of virtue, or face consequences ...
That's part of what I like about Hacker News. They may not be able to see each other's POV, but I can. I come out with a richer appreciation for the diversity of experience out there from reading it, even if all the participants do is argue.
Why would you care about the cost to store a copy of sites you disagree with? It's a crawl, it's not the government making value judgements one way or the other. I'm sure the library of congress also contains material you disagree with.

I don't think it would count as a duplicate internet any more than archive.org would.
What is your desired precision/recall rate
http://files.80s.nyc/photos/1/00189/0035.jpg

Ghostbusters!
One huge difference for enterprise users is release cadence.

OpenJDK will be updated much more rarely, on a quarterly cadence only, including for security patches. So if you go the OpenJDK route, be ready to do some JDK-level patching yourself if you want to mitigate any zero-days that surface.

Fixes will also only be applied to the latest versions, so you'll need to be prepared to live on the bleeding edge and accept all the risks that come with that.
Also - for a new new cars - check Costco Auto program - they arranging amazing deals for new cars (at Dealers invoice price essentially) for Costco members.
I recently went through almost the exact same exercise (use PyQt5 to write a desktop program that would wrap our warehouse management system's web interface with QtWebKit and - upon receiving a specific download - call out to the REST API for a separate shipping system to book a shipment and print the shipping label). I was developing on Linux (I use Slackware day-to-day), but the pack stations at our warehouses run Windows 10, so it needed to be cross-platform.

The Linux side was surprisingly painless, but getting the Windows side going was a nightmare; none of the traditional options for creating a standalone Windows executable actually worked, and I ended up resorting to installing MSYS2 on every machine, then packaging the app for MSYS2 (and pulling in all of Qt5 as a dependency, meaning that it takes up multiple gigabytes of space for what should be a pretty simple desktop app).

I didn't know about fbs. I'm gonna try it out tonight. The fact that it seems to require resulting apps to be under the GPL is unfortunate, but that's already the case for PyQt5, so whatever.
The "open source intelligence" report on the MH17 incident -- where people found social media videos of the Buk missile proceeding through the countryside before being used to down the passenger jet -- was super interesting in a similar vein: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/10/08/mh1...
The article didn't really specify what a stealth wallet is. Can you elaborate? Are there different types of wallets on the monero network? Is a stealth wallet just a public private key pair derived address that you can somehow use to impersonate another account?
I received a similar error using Chrome, then tried in Firefox and am now getting search results.
Maybe in 15 years Java will finally get pattern matching, but it's never getting higher kinded types.
Sorry to hijack this post, but if anyone is interested in content recognition, we built one of the largest reverse search engines for video/audio [0] and are always looking for skilled engineers to do more.

I think our scale makes things very interesting. We currently index over 20 hours of video every second and to date we've indexed over 11.5B videos.

Feel free to reach out to me directly at r@pex.com.

[0] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/06/22/video-search...
Okay, this is crazy cool, but you don't need hardware to do this!

Now that you know this is possible, go read about Charles Tart's mutual hypnosis experiment: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cttart/articles/april2013articles/P...

That fact that they were able to nail down this kind of communication using the hardware and setup that they did is an existence proof that this sort of communication and synchronization are possible (and not that difficult to establish), however, we are already equipped with sophisticated sensory and signalling systems, more than capable of supporting this sort of thing without extra hardware.
Yeah, they don't call out what version they're on without some digging. I had to actually download the browser and check manually

> This was the main reason I was attracted to this browser because the old webkit2 based vim-like browsers were hopelessly out of date to point of being very dangerous.

Same here. I had to forgo other browsers I quite like because of their older versions of webkit
Can I ask why you stay? I’m guessing family?
You can toggle security.webauth.u2f to true in about:config on Firefox.
I disagree that "deepfakes" will be unverifiable. There is very robust forensic framework for analyzing videos for authenticity, and it often relies not just on the visual component but all the other vectors that open up as a result-EM waves being generated, audio analysis, etc. A deepfake that passes this analytical function would imply that we will not be seeing advancements in digital forensics due to AI, which does not make sense because there is no reason not to update forensic processes to keep up with changing technology.
My first foray with Qt was also my first (serious) foray with Python, so it was easy for me to ignore pythonicity and just write something that approximately resembles Qt's existing style.

Knowing some of my coworkers, though (who use Python daily), I can understand why it'd be jarring.
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Another step towards Metal[0] becoming a reality.

[0] A (half) joke from Gary Bernhardt's excellent The Birth and Death of JavaScript (pronounced "yavascript"): https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Yes they were sandboxed, but could request the user to approve further system access.
Not mentioned in the article is that the official blue garbage bags need to be purchased. Garbage collection is effectively pay-by-volume.

They're cheap, but the fact that they're not free changes people's behavior towards using less bags and separating compost and recyclables.
The problem is you're not going to have a solid understanding of your engineering role plan until you're employed, and even then, even with "preapproval" from the insurer, it might turn out you don't have the coverage you think you do.

My firm is in financial services. Very nice plan. Even with my "nice plan", we've had the insurer renege on their coverage of services (thousands of dollars in services) after receiving approval and having it in writing prior to obtaining services. YMMV.
> To be specific, my words above are:

> “If you can’t change your organization, change organizations.”

> Nobody is really telling anyone to quit, but the argument above is that if they don’t quit, they cannot be held accountable. I reject that notion.

This is a false dichotomy.

The world exists in grey areas. Just because you are passionate about security and privacy does not mean joe the google engineer is culpable for the _industry accepted_ practices you disagree with.

People are fallible and so are companies. If everyone had to change-or-quit every company they worked at, no one would work anywhere. Your philosophy is not sustainable, logical, or implementable. In the spectrum of immoralities, fingerprinting users is pretty far down on the list, although it is certainly present.
For major cleanup in Windows, spotting file bloat in unexpected/temp places,
SpaceMonger: https://spacemonger.en.softonic.com/
Rectangles are cool. (approximate) rect area based on nested folder size is cool. Smoothly zoomable regions with the mousewheel is cool. Their grabbing of colors from a simple pastel palette that guarantees that black text is crisply legible is cool. Having individual file details appear as screen real estate allowsm but for large files right away, is cool. Despite being a non-cacheing scanner for each run SM helps you spend time budgeted for cleanup most efficiently as possible.
GP is using Safari, which has no native u2f support. I'm assuming the user isn't using Firefox for similar reasons to I (and many others) have thrown around: it's fan spinning almost immediately on Macbooks.
I suppose I wasn't lumping crime into the "annoyances" category, but yeah I heard gunshots fairly regularly in KC too. I wasn't living out in OP (not to start a JoCo flame war lol).

I'm outside SF now (down in San Jose). I still hear gunshots from time to time, but the crime rate (both violent and non-violent) is way lower than it was back in KC.
> However, rather than use the native toolchains directly, such as Xcode for macOS, we delegated the creation of platform-compliant binaries to py2exe for Windows, py2app for macOS, and bbfreeze for Linux.

I wish the authors of more Python tools would deploy standalone applications. I do not like having to maintain various sets of Python installers/package managers (because every Python tool seems to use a different installer). Especially on cloud servers that often lack a whole set of dependencies that Python developers just seem to take for granted.

I’m not a Python developer. I don’t have the time or the inclination to repackage various tools and untangle dependencies.

Given the choice between trying to figure out how to get multiple Python tools to behave together, or using another tool, I’ll almost always choose an alternative.
Assuming the judge determined that the convict was merely incompetent, this was still a light sentence.
The library of congress is curated by Selection officers for material value, the internet is not.
But with a lot fewer interesting things to do after hours, when done writing software
We used to have collection trucks in Lithuania few years after Soviet Union broke down. They used this horrible siren around 7pm once a week or so.

No notion of recycling. But there wasn't that much plastic in use until somewhere around year 1997 or so. I think it switch to public container system around that time too.
The slower release cadence of openjdk makes it a good fit for enterprise users as they tend to also have a slower release cadence. Is anyone even using Java 9 or later?
If the user-agent string is to be trusted the latest version released in June is still based on chrome 65.x like you said... :/ it's not terrible but not great either.

However they do claim to backport security patches on their front page so it should technically be secure.

I suppose it would take a lot of repetetive effort going through the same process to pull apart chromium each major release, so perhaps they settle on backporting patches in between larger breaks.
Not sure what years you went through but I remember we had one (about a decade ago).
Its amazing how nice things are to use when they aren't trying to sell your data
The biggest negative of arbitration isn't that individuals lose, though they do. It's that class action lawsuits are undermined. It used to be that a legal firm could find a group of people harmed by a company, create a class action lawsuit, and make money if they won/settled that one case. Often class action settlements had requirements that bound the company.

But each arbitration is it's own case with it's own particulars. If a company screws over thousands of people, taking each of those to arbitration means that's thousands of hours more work then a single class action. Further, settlements are generally restricted to the specific issues a particular party has issue with, and there is generally no way to guarantee changes for the benefit of similar parties.

There are only two ways to counter unequal power in deciding contract terms that mandate arbitration, regulation or concerted action. But not a class action.

https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?re...
My point is that "forced" doesn't imply anything about which side is right. The side doing the forcing is often in the right.

Your other framings are completely bogus. They miss the actual news, which is that arbitration clauses, specifically, are enforceable. This was an open question with good reasons to think they wouldn't be, so "Contracts Are Enforceable" doesn't capture what's interesting about it, and "Drivers Waste Court's Time" is just plain wrong.
If I may ask, and you don't have to answer, what medical condition calls for stopping caffeine? I've read a few people (a lot here) who wrote the same thing.
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Is this like Hamachi but for servers/command line?
I'm pretty skeptical of that. It seems like individual property values will hold steady, then drop suddenly once an event occurs that convinces people the property is no longer viable.
Much more of the incentive is the desire to make Instagram a cool, popular, successful thing. Even though they sold the company to Facebook, it still felt like their creation the vast majority of the time. They were proud of what they had built and they wanted to make it a really popular thing that people liked to use.

There are plenty of billion-dollar acquisitions that don't work out at all. Instagram grew far bigger than it had been when they were acquired, in both financial impact and impact on the world.
Is it ideological speech though? The issue is more subtle than that. What Google is doing seems much closer to a public service IMO.

The question in my mind is, based on Google's positioning in the market how much does "common carrier" and "net neutrality" apply? They seem to be in a bit of a grey area.

If they are an opinion site, yeah, 1st Amendment, no doubt. If they want to come out and communicate something completely separate from the search engine like a manifesto, that's also 1st Amendment.

But the messaging and expectation from users is that the search engine is a machine without bias. Presenting something as unbiased when it is biased could be considered fraud.

Also, is Google a curator of information or a generic provider that merely connects multiple parties like the postal system, ISPs, etc? If so, should net neutrality apply?

One approach they could take is that the algorithms just reflect the information that is available and merely mirrors any bias in society. Then again, that raises the question of whether AI is racist, sexist, left/right wing, etc; and whether something should be done about it.
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I used to have arguments. Then I read this book and gained the ability to resolve arguments quickly and prevent them from happening. I wish I had read it 20 years ago.

https://www.audible.com/pd/B00TJJNSQG
Maybe because 10% on a server is much more valuable than 10% on a client.

On a server, you’re paying for that 10%. On a client, you’re not. If it was 10% for nearly free then sure - but maintaining a separate implementation of a language is costly.
Why a twitter link and not the oc at BBC?
The Panama Papers provide some concrete examples of how Putin siphons money and puts a rough floor on the dollar value he embezzled for his personal benefit or of his inner sanctum: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/panama-papers-m...

That said, it's sort of beside the point. Unlike petty dictators, Putin holds real and substantial power--power that money can't buy outright, and power that he'll probably continue holding until his death. He doesn't need an exit strategy and a golden parachute. OTOH, he secured much of that power redirecting assets. It's less unbelievable that Putin has deliberately permitted $200 billion of embezzled funds to be redirected to those who do his bidding.
Agreed. A without a doubt.
I definitely think NYC is a great place to visit, but I could never see myself living there.

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard that about NYC from a visitor, I could afford to buy a place here :)

Seriously though, why do people only seem to say this about NYC? Does anyone say they enjoyed visiting Dallas but couldn’t see themselves living there?
The Swiss call this the ZAG degree that looks good on your resumé: Z'Amerika gsii (Been to America).
Honestly, after learning about the margins on physical electronics, this seems pretty standard.
> world-class famous in your area
That was dreadful, but it's not like that these days. The past year none of the updates broke anything in my code.
The database leaks are usually very easy to obtain. You can just run grep over them and find anyone's account
>Polygon is thoroughly biased and intellectually dishonest.

This seems to be to be ad hominem fallacy. As you haven't successfully targeted individual points of the article, an outside observer would (so far) correctly surmise my argument to be the stronger one. I welcome you to challenge me on this.

>Basically, those ideologues are just being sneakier.

Are they being so sneaky we can't even tell they're doing it? Well then how do you know they're doing it!
Lack of Vimium stopped me from even attempting to switch back from Chrome to Firefox.

Can't live without Vimium.