skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made something in this vein last year. My idea was to create a simple open src db that natively exported time series vectors, one hot encodings and so on.
Built on postgres it did pchr and had strong anonymity/deniability for non pii. Because I can't think of a single EHR app that does this, the big expensive systems such as Cerner included. They mostly care about other stupid things like billing.

I lost the code due to a somewhat cavalier personal backup policy. Fortunately I don't sweat that kind of thing anymore because I found out that zfs is awesome. It was a fairly minor setback but I ended up deciding to do something else.

If you take it up I don't think it would be hard to find users, before I abandoned it I found it easy to recruit a few random quants and a handful of (non US) doctors for the trial.

You could probably get US doctors too. My thing converted data into a format that was consistent with some major open health datasets that have been released by eg. the states of Florida & Texas. If those datasets are HIPAA compliant then so would have been my thing. I thought that would have been a very persuasive argument for why doctors should use it. => "This thing can be used because if what it does is illegal then these widely published datasets by state government must also be illegal." Assuming everyone's consented all round of course.
I didn't say you were. It's just an observation based on recent current events. Reddit is taking active countermeasures to prevent that intervention, but as far as I know YC did not. I take time to read the opinions of this community far more than Reddit.
USA 66

Yes--I'm sad.

I can't say what I want, but they use our relatively safe nation, judicial system that isn't corrupt for the most part, put their kids in decent colleges, buy their houses in safe enclaves, take leisurely Sunday walks to the Cappuccino joint to mull over their dreams, without the fear of kidnapping; but don't care what corrupted, immoral country makes the product. I'm a poor liberal man, but I have a gag limit.

I'm not calling for Isolationism, or Globalism either. They got to me too.

It just doesn't feel right? You take care of family first?

I don't want to debate.

I did have a warm feeling when Apple at least assembled their macs here. And I know, I'm suspose to feel warm knowing poor countries have benefitted, and can have more kids?
Agree. Even here in Africa it's a headline story on the BBC World Service.

The fact this is the first time ever that system has been used on the Soyuz speaks volumes for it's reliability. They'll figure out what happened, and the entire system will get safer as a result.
This has the same problem, you have to define a systemd unit/service/whatever beforehand, the program can not change these parameters, then signal it wishes to be locked down and prevented from changing them again.

That's the real beauty of how the OpenBSD approach works, it lets you incrementally ratchet up the restrictions as various stages of the startup/run loop of a program progress, so you don't have to specify everything a program might ever try to do ahead of time, and have that huge pool of permissions persist throughout the entire life of the program.
Just tried it on their GitHub page:

percollate pdf --output p.pdf https://github.com/danburzo/percollate

The font is gigantic and the page tiny. Barely get to the second headline on the first page.

And there is no way to tune this on the command line (yet).
>The way I see it, it should be modeled as {both-boys, boy-and-girl, both-girls}; by telling me that one of the kids is a boy, you eliminated one possibility out of three, leaving us with 1/2 as an answer.

This would be like saying "When I buy a lottery ticket, the only outcomes are {lose lottery, win lottery}; therefore, I have a 50% chance of winning the lottery."

The difference is that boy-girl is twice as likely to occur of those three choices.
The dirty word: ‘Android’ wasn’t said a single time during Google Pixel 3 event
Cops have always been able to force their way into your house to protect society. They aren't just protecting you, they are protecting you as part of a larger group that employs them.
Laravel Nova (https://nova.laravel.com) could get you pretty far. PHP is easy to hire for and scales easily.
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Sednoids orbiting in the kuiper belt are totally different from extrasolar objects on hyperbolic trajectories. Oamuamua passed inside Mercury's orbit.
> There is no reason why your PDF viewer should be able to read your SSH keys, for example.

Well GNOME's evince can read remote files over at least http/https and ftp, eg: evince ftp://remote/foo.pdf. I guess it's just a short step to adding ssh/sftp support. The remote support is implemented using glib's https://developer.gnome.org/gio//2.36/GFile.html#g-file-new-... which has a generic plugin mechanism for URL schemas, although I didn't look into whether ssh is already supported.

:-)
Ask HN: QA site for clothing?
Curious if there's a QA site for clothing. A place to ask questions about specific garments I guess.

I'm looking for a hoodie I can wear all day but is heavy enough / warm enough that I can keep it on when I pop outside for a quick smoke or shovel snow or etc...

Winter is upon us and its a pain to put on a coat to be outside for just 5-10 minutes. Obviously, if it's blizzard conditions (in Buffalo, NY) going to opt for a full coat, but "most" days, just something to cut the wind / keep warm.

Otherwise - anyone have any recommendations for a nice, heavy hoodie? Solid color or small graphic is fine. Preferably full zip.
They missed an opportunity to give this product the id 555.
Not really, I've sent a large number of GDPR erasure requests and they have all been acted on promptly. That's cool.

The point of the legislation is not to slam the book down and start fining everyone left right and center practically the moment it came into effect. It's a complex regulation and the regulators are sensible, so don't expect any action to be taken for at least a couple of years. If you're working towards compliance that's OK for now.
Aliens got us just before GDPR, sneaky bastards!
Actually, both you and GP got it wrong. There is no need to speculate what Newton was thinking, it was all recorded.

Newton was looking for methods to manipulate (push, pull) objects at a distance without touching them. He had strong ideas about the occult and what we today call black magic, in addition to being an alchemist. He devised that the Earth was manipulating the untouched Moon (capitalized, proper noun) and sought to explain the influence of the Earth on the Moon.
I don't see it any more cumbersome than Juniper, Cisco, or any other enterprise hardware manufacturer(not saying that Mikrotik is enterprise hardware...) I manage several networks totaling 500+ Mikrotik routers.

Once or twice I have run into upgrade issues that had to be resolved with a technician on site (broke vlan configs)

Just once the update wiped the config.

This is out of several thousand successful updates. I've run into similar issues with other big router manufacturers.

Like most companies, you do not want to be on the 'bleeding edge' of their updates unless absolutely necessary. They do have a significant problem with regressions in their updates.
I wasn't talking about being an existing customer. This very month I opened a bank account in another EU country using a scan of my EU ID and driving license and then applied for a 20k EUR loan, without digitally signing (or normal signing) anything, their nearest branch is around 1k km far. Just a video phone call where I shown them my ID next to my face, the scans, and a code that I got over sms and entered into their website. The banking regulation requires a legally binding contract for all banking services. There is a loan service called Zonky that literally doesn't have a physical branch, it's all online, no digital signing as well; it's a P2P service (I used to invest there) and the people using it have zero idea what a digital signature is.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but this explanation seems weird to me. If I get someone to accept instead of me, can I then abuse the software legally and they can't even (legally) revoke the license? That is very weird. What about Netflix accounts, is my girlfriend not bound by the ToS when I was the one who clicked Agree, and thus she could legally rip their content and share it? Very weird.
While this reporter is murdered we have POTUS encouraging his supporters to scream and yell in the face of the press at his rally.

People talk about the hurricane hitting the US while he has his rally. But honestly the treatment of the press is a much bigger issue, IMO.
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Sounds like OCR is really the universal method. I'm guessing it shouldn't even be as hard as full-blown OCR, since you have access to fonts used, so you can render known characters as a reference and pretty much run a per-pixel matching on rendered PDF.
No this not about Copy Right it is that the Artist doesn't receive money ONLY the corporate rights owners currently make money on music before 1971. The way the contracts were written back then the artist didn't own their songs the record labels did. Look at Credence Clearwater Revival and John Fogerty.

"CCR's catalogue of songs has frequently been used or referenced in popular culture, partly because John Fogerty "long ago signed away legal control of his old recordings to Creedence's record label, Fantasy Records." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival#L...

> But if a musician makes a song, it'll end up in the public domain after X years.

I WISH!!!!! I blame Mickey Mouse for that. Copy Right is different and is in perpetual renewal since 1976. This is why Sherlock Holmes is locked into only the first half of his timeline since the second half is still under copyright protection and owned by the family.

The rights to humanity far exceeds the locking up of works for people to use as leverage to gain money on 0.01% of the works that are of any monetary value. I have always proposed that if you want to extend your copyright you are charged a fee of say $10,000 that way 99.9% of the items become Public Domain.

> If a painter makes a painting, he'll be able to pass those down to his children.

What painter doesn't sell his work? Those painting rarely ever stay in possession of artist.

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Privacy protection laws are a good thing.

But “cookie consent” pop-ups are stupid and pointless. Pop-ups do not improve privacy, and they make the web worse.
Has anyone bought / rented an old lighthouse, purely to live in? I’m fascinated by the idea - tons of time to read, draw, work on personal projects, etc.
I exclusively use the web interface and haven't seen this after thousands of upgrades.

Upload the package to the router(make sure it completes)

Reboot the router.

Upgrade the bios "Routerboard firmware"

Reboot the router.

And done.
The illusion of contributing value needs to be maintained or people will get angry at the freeloaders getting paid to do nothing. People building the US military machine are not doing nothing just because the output has no real value.
The text misappropriates (or, to use a more positive term, re-purposes) the notions of generative and discriminative models.

* Classically, a generative model is one that describes a statistical process that generates a whole observation (maybe plus some hidden part) and thus gives you scores that are consistent between different observations. An example for this would be (unidirectional) language models, where the total probabilities for different possible sentences can be compared

* Classically, discriminative models are models where you also get a probability over outputs, but only conditional on some observed facts. As an example, a CNN transforms an image to logits that express the likelihood of different classes for this image. Hence, CNNs (used in this fashion) are a form of discriminative modeling.

If we map this to their "probabilistic families", Generative Models (in the old sense) would be Descriptive in their book, while Discriminative stays Discriminative.

The closest counterpart to their "Generative" models would be generative (in the old sense) models that assume a common distribution over hidden variables and a process that generates the actual output. However, this only loosely fits how GANs are used today, where you don't really assume a distribution over the hidden seed for an output, and where you get a single output (i.e. a deterministic function from seed to output instead of a distribution).

Neural networks have deterministic functions where MRFs and Gibbs sampling and all the pre-2012 machine learning goodies have probability distributions. It's not really helpful to use the term "probabilistic families" here when the most important bits of what they describe are non-probabilistic.
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From an energy perspective, it's likely better to build your own station (from an asteroid - or alternative, remove all the mass from the asteroid that you don't need) - that way, you're only accelerating exactly the mass that you need, not wasting any energy accelerating the rest of an asteroid.
1. Are you willing to invest the money to go after them? Good lawyers are expensive (think hundreds of euros per hour)

2. Courts generally move slow. It might take years before you have a positive judgement. You will likely need to sue in their jurisdiction, which puts you at a disadvantage because you do not know the language and legal procedures.

3. And this is the most important one: even if you get a positive judgement, the company is likely to be a limited liability company which can declare bankruptcy.

Did they set up an SPV (read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_entity) for this project, or is this a larger company with stable revenue and profits that has done this?

If at the end of the day you can collect €150,000 (as an example), you might go and collect from someone with no cash in their account. They can and will declare bankruptcy. Then you're out of pocket legal fees, with no way of recovering them, and with no compensation.

Consider this before you decide to sue.

It might be easier to just sell them the tech for a reasonable amount of money. I would not threaten to "expose" them with the H2020 programme as this might take away their source of funding -- it makes it less likely they will buy your tech.

I would reach out with a friendly email, telling them you noticed they used your library, and that you are aware they received funding because of it. Offer to sell them the library for a reasonable amount.
Turks tell US they have audio/video recordings that prove Khashoggi was killed
I don't think they fail. Usually you profile the program first, and once you set up the rules, a deviation might get blocked. If you want to define what the program is definitely not authorized to do, this is the way to go.

Using the unveil() is a completely different approach that should yield less false positive and involve less hassle. There is just one caveat: you need to make sure the binary hasn't been tampered with. If someone replaced/modified it, SELinux will block unauthorized behavior, whereas counting on unveil() still working in this case might let you down.
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One stalwart sentinel remains in South Africa; three in France; a handful in India, Myanmar (also known as Burma) and Portugal; and fewer than 50 in Canada.

Anyone know why there are so many still in Canada?

People might be interested in the following project to turn Graves Light in Boston Harbor into a modern, livable space. It's tough as the space is tight and the conditions can be fierce ... last winter a storm ripped everything off the dock.

http://graveslightstation.com
Content owners don't want a standard way because they depend on user apathy, confusion and dark patterns to "trick" users into allowing websites to monetise their consumers data.

I say "consumers" rather than "customers" because at this point it feels more like the people buying data are the customers, rather than the actual daily website visitors.
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Right. As unlikely it is to run on other civilizations remainders, there is quite some chance for future humans to have a surprise find of a 2008 Tesla roadster :)
That would be something to directly ask Prof. Bohr who's mentioned in the article.
https://github.com/invoice-x/invoice2data is another one.
Functioning HTTP/2 prioritization takes more than just a server that supports priorities. Here's a deep dive into why and how to make sure it's working for your site (and yes, it is broken more often than you might hope).
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That's too bad: on my OnePlus 6, the latencies for your app are great. It's the first time I'm drumming in an Android app, and am not bothered by latency. Thank you for having the source on Github, I'll amuse myself this weekend checking the code.
No, i have a RSS feed with a button "post to HN", which makes it easy.

cc @dang
The corporation is not a person, and executives do not have privileges and rights greater than any other person by birthright.

In a feudal system, you owe tribute to your liege by virtue of the fact that they were born of a higher rank than you and you were born within their demesne. If you don't comply, or if you try to find a different lord, you get killed.

Feudal is not another word for economic inequality.
I think of them as ordered pairs, but would it change anything if they were sets? Order doesn't matter in this question.
And how do you expect to get the siding discussion into the other channel if you can't get their attention?
Or bring in wolves.

The shepherds farm the sheep, it might be an idea to ask them to stop it.
I also agree that a couple failures do not make an unreliable rocket. The Soyuz has a been a work horse for a long time.

I think the concern that people have though is that even if everything is designed correctly it means nothing if it not built correctly. There has been turmoil in management for Roscosmos and from what I have seen pressure from management can lead to poor quality.
This is nice. I do quite a bit of tabular data extraction and pdf tables are often a sticking point. It is absolutely correct in describing it as a "fuzzy" problem.

My go-to solution has been 'pdftotext -layout' with a bit of hackery before giving it to pandas.read_fwf. That usually gets me 80% of the way there 80% of the time. The upside is that this tends to fail "better" than some other options.

I look forward to kicking-the-tires with this on my test cases.
Is there variation in areas where the winds are low compared to where they are high?
When I visit washingtonpost.com from the EU, I see a page giving me three options:

> Free
> Read a limited number of articles each month
> You consent to the use of cookies and tracking by us and third parties to provide you with personalized ads

> Basic Subscription
>
> $6 every 4 weeks or just $78 $60/year
> ...
> You consent to the use of cookies and tracking by us and third parties to provide you with personalized ads

> Premium EU Ad-Free Subscription
>
> $9 every 4 weeks or just $117 $90/year
> ...
> No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking

(That last line is bold on the page.)

I don't know if this approach is fully compliant with the letter and spirit of the GDPR. The page itself contains three trackers, according to Ghostery, and has set several long-lived cookies without any interaction.
> It was completely anonymous, of course, but lately I've been wondering what's going to happen if (let's be honest, when) my children decide to use a service like 23AndMe.

There are youtube videos of people using DNA sites to find their real parents ( some accidentally and some intentionally ). It's pretty interesting if you have the time.

> Will they want to get in touch with the donor or her family?

Human beings are curious creatures. They will initially feel conflicted but the desire to know will prove irresistible. Perhaps to find half-siblings, to help build a family tree for their own kids one day and of course for family/genetic disease information.

There was a woman whose mother refused to tell her who her father was ( either because she didn't know herself or she hated the guy ). So she did a DNA test and matched a distant cousin and they talked and using the woman's age/birth location/etc, the distant cousin was able to tell her who her father was.

> If one side wants to connect, it's probably going to happen.

At this point, it's guaranteed. All it takes is just one person in your family ( parents, siblings, cousins ) to do a DNA test to narrow it down from billions to dozens. It's almost a statistical certainty that someone with direct genetic ties to you has sent their data in.

If your mother told you today that you were adopted, what's the first thing you'd want to do after recovering from the shock?
Sure.

But when people say "it's just money", I believe the real objection they have is "it's disproportionally screwing other people for sake of personal gains". I.e. antisocial behaviour.
I also have several hAP ac routers and had no issue upgrading them. I only had a problem with an older routerboard (first time I tried upgrading my first ever Mikrotik), but that was because I did not know how the upgrade works and I cut off the power during the reboot (I was under the impression I have to reboot it manually).

I never use the web interface though - winbox is way better.
> Wouldn't this be akin to say "Criminal laws ? the cops can't even police themselves!"

yes it is. not too long ago there was a major issue with undercover cops in baltimore committing many of the serious crimes that they were supposed to be policing! [0] the commissioner (rightly imo) suspended undercover enforcement indefinitely.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/plainclot...
> 0.163 AU from Earth - what are the odds?

Look at it from a sampling bias perspective. The object at its brightest was very dim (19th magnitude) and moving fast. The ability for rapid, repeating full sky surveys is recent (PanSTARRS had been online for around a decade). The limiting magnitude of PanSTARRS is 24th. So if such other such objects exist, of course we are going to find the closest ones first since they are the brightest.
I am not the OP, but IMO when you have been at the job for only a few months telling the boss that he is wrong can provide some seriously negative return. You may be right but not understood or listened to or you may be wrong (e.g., because you are not aware of something they take for granted, etc.) and reinforce the "fresh kid who needs a lot of handholding" perception.

I would either build credibility at your local team first (seems slow given the setup you describe) or find another group that is more dynamic. Look for energetic team leads that run impactful projects, talk to them (face to face) and ask what would it take to join their team. My 2c. Good luck
Ok, but if this was part of a campaign by a Russian entity, then you would probably find some proof of that in the comment histories of the people that posted these "pro-Russian" comments?
Looking at those accounts, most of them are registered several years ago, and this is their first comment that is Russia-related.

Sure, this could be a very sophisticated campaign and these accounts could have been cultivated for multiple years for this purpose.
But isn't it more likely these people are just normal Russians (or non-Russians tired of the anti-Russian angle in western media) that want to defend the reputation of the Soyuz?

Disclaimer: I am not particularly pro-Russian, but I have a Putin calendar on my office wall. Mostly because it ticks people off ;)
Yes, I think BAT deserves a look. I'd much rather pay for good content than have my payment extracted from me subversively.

https://brave.com/faq-payments/#what-is-brave-payments
Even then, an ssh subprocess can talk to ssh-agent instead of directly reading keys.