skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was, at first, assuming you may have liked those places because of the size, busyness, and grandeur of it all but then I realized you actually enjoy the release from "normal" daily tasks. You enjoy the freedom someone else setting the schedule brings. You enjoy not being able to control the speed at which any given thing takes place at. You revel in the lack of control -- which I'm not taken aback by but I'll admit it did catch me slightly by surprise -- but everyone is different so I won't go as far as saying I was floored at the prospect of someone feeling the way you do.

Now, the real reason I'm here to comment: Do you enjoy being inside casinos? They can be very daunting in terms of the amount of sounds and light indicators flashing everywhere around you at all times. I'm sure the sheer amount of people and the realization that there are more cameras there than many other significant places on the world combined doesn't exactly endear somebody to casinos, either.

That said, I was curious how somebody on the spectrum sees, thinks, and feels about such spaces since they are very unique and you can't exactly find them everywhere around the world, either.
Yes, but to secure the gold requires physical security. To secure bitcoins or other cryptocurrency requires digital security. It requires different types of knowledge, but in theory, digital security is highly efficient and I'd argue orders of magnitude just plain better.
The tricky part with an unjailbroken device (for third-party developers) is that apps can’t fork/exec, or any of the equivalents— aside from a couple exceptions around app extensions, the binary that gets run when the user taps the app on the home screen is the only one that ever can be run.

That’s fine for most GUI-driven applications, but it’s kind of problematic for a traditional *nix-style shell. If you were Apple, or you had a jailbroken device and could circumvent the sandbox, you wouldn’t have any problems running a normal shell and command line utilities.
Guarantee you most legitimate targets of this “surveillance” are quite a few steps ahead. Do drug cartels even care if the DEA has installed cameras everywhere? Doubtful. Being able to do this kind of math is a great example of the simple reasoning it takes to start analysis of systems like this once in place.

What are the cartels thinking? Probably that they’ll just have to pay informats more money as the system becomes more complex. They’ll have to pay their tech people more for increased counter surveillance. And so forth.

I’m picking on the DEA but of course similar equations must exist for ICE.

IMO
What’s so dystopian about all this is not so much that the tech exists but that our tax dollars pay for these projects and we really don’t have much say.
Ask HN: What weapons could we create to fight a war against killer robots?
Imagine a hypothetical situation like the terminator movies. Could we construct a viable soldier’s weapon to disable a robot?

Maybe spray paint the cameras or something...
Try working at a place where all fixes are tested in production...
There’s nothing worse than having to execute someone else’s minute breakdown of work. People should be responsible for executing their own ideas. Then you get feedback on what was and wasn’t correct, and have only yourself to blame.

Having that ownership stimulates a much greater level of craftsmanship and skill growth. Documentation is great, but the idea that a spike author and implementor should be different people is awful.
This is scarily close to realistic... for a second I got worried because my intuitive brain was telling me my laptop screen was all wet!

Curious if this is the best done in WebGL to date, or if there's even better out there? Or what this does and doesn't do, and where next obvious areas for improvement would be?
Keeping the blockchain going requires enormous amounts of electricity, which contributes to Climate Change greatly. Unless it can solve this issue, it must be shut down for the survival of humanity.
> 1. It's like gold, but it removes some of its technical shortcomings.

Bitcoin, or the technology of Proof-of-work and immutable history that is based on it, is not like gold:

One can take the entire history, change specific parameters, and create a new coin (bitcoin cash for instance) that has the same history. Hence people that had bitcoins have the same amount in this new currency.

This is like taking all gold in existence, magically duplicate its exact quantity into say another chemical element which never existed before, and distribute the amounts to all the people that owned gold before; in the same proportions.

Would this make the scarcity property of gold less interesting for using it as a medium of exchange? You bet so! One could magically do this ad-infinitum, possibly creating infinite other chemical elements - what would then set gold apart from the rest?
Love the idea! Congratulations.
> Firefox should really invest heavily in their Android browser ... build in an ad blocker, or bundle uBlock in the default install, and market that

You're really selling Brave browser when you mention a bundled android solution with an adblocker.

However, you can install 'android' supported plugins into your android FFox... I'm running uBlock, decentraleyes, etc, etc, and it's great!

See here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/
Would her paying taxes make this less illegal? If she was dealing with gold/diamonds instead of bitcoin would it be legal?
If they really believe in their ideals, they should do the hard work to change the laws in their favor, or cleverly use already existing ones, instead of childishly isolating themselves from society and the government as outlaws.

There is a precedent for this: the 18th and 19th century religious communes -- some of them anarchist -- had popular support and were able to change US laws so that they could avoid taxes and live in peace as gated utopias in the way they wanted -- because they didn't antagonize the rest of society or the US government.

Or, put another way, they were anarchists that did politics maturely and succeeded (even though their utopias didn't).
Or a robot simply removes the pests one by one. If you’ve got enough robots it shouldn’t be a problem.
I was super into grabbing the stream database they are using. (For my own personal wifi radio)

This page has an interesting behavior when used without a session key: http://data.radio.garden/live.json
It returns stations but with fake/warning data.

id	"radio-afghanistan"
name	"This app is fake"
website	"http://rta.org.af/"
src	"http://radio.garden/public/fake-app-warning.mp3"

I guess they don't intend on opening any of this up
What is your best Twitter ads strategy that you use to get traffic to your site?
The Top Security Breaches in History
What's "Show HN" etiquette here? Is submitting something two years old cool, or is it only supposed to be for new things or posted once?
Realistically, probably not. Compliance with a lot of these types of laws is challenging and at times murky (especially in new areas).

That being said, from a practical perspective, ignoring compliance requirements in your area of business for whatever reason can lead to these outcomes. Make dangerous choices win dangerous prizes.
Its the same in Germany. In a misguided attempt to protect workers, they made life much more difficult for freelancers. Some say this was intentionally done to reduce the number of freelancers, because those are not forced to participate in the social systems, which is financially advantageous.
Worked in 7 of them, million dollars of brand new buildings... Energy efficent buildings are efficient because they’re not as mild as they should be, always too cold in winter, always above 25° in summer (in actual on-the-desk thermometer measurement), lights switch off at set times when you still work and no proper way to override anything « because consumption would get out of the target ». Those building are built for the norms, not for the human inside. In fact they make you well notice that the human is the intruder. And they’re here for the next 30-70 years.
Sonos wireless speakers expose a backdoor web interface
> P.S. Avoid Wellington if possible, it's an earthquake mega-disaster waiting to happen.

What, just like California?

I would highly recommend Wellington if you do software, are entrepreneurial, or you are sociable.

It is the most cosmopolitan city, the friendliest to foreigners, the friendliest to all ages (because so many people move there to work, and it is the only major city in NZ with a city centre based on walking).

Just my opinion as a well travelled NZer. Yes, an earthquake would wreak havoc, but I think the positives well outweigh the risks.
Interestingly, most documents are sealed by the court.
This reminds me of AirBnB hosts or Uber drivers violating various laws. The platform (LocalBitcoins in this case) should be educating people about these laws so they can understand the risks of what they're doing.
> using Firefox on Android is an exercise in frustration

It seems strange to say, but my experience is the opposite. Because my Android Chrome experience was so bad, I went looking everywhere... and FFox was the answer.
I AM RUNNING VIM ON MY IPAD BECAUSE OF THIS. THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY.

Are there any plans to build some kind of connection between the filesystem here and the native ios filesystem-thingy? It would be delightful to be able to edit something in real vim and then save it to icloud...
One only needs to try to send LTC to someone who wants BTC to discover that there is indeed a significant difference between a Bitcoin and a Litecoin.

Your argument would apply equally to any currency. What stops me printing jstanley dollars and claiming there is 1:1 parity with actual dollars? Nothing! And yet that doesn't devalue actual dollars.
You would be surprised how little you actually need to know for most software engineering roles. All of the things on the website you linked are generally dealt with by specialists in industry, rather than being a shared responsibility of all software engineers.

The tech stack for ML usually involves some data processing framework, e.g. Apache Spark or Dask or something like that. Some actual ML training system, e.g. scikit-learn, Spark's mllib, TensorFlow/PyTorch for the deep learning stuff that is hot right now, particularly for computer vision/NLP work. And then whatever general programming language the company uses for deploying code into production.

I'd keep your hackathon stuff on your resume.
Breaking large tasks down is incredibly difficult, and often dismissed as though it were easy. In fact, that's really the main challenge in engineering.

It's easy to think something is a step forward, work on it, then realize it's a bad idea later.

If you know what the individual, bite-sized tasks really are, you are nearly done with the project.
I know all those exist and are possible. My point is that if you have a full stack of software already developed for pretty much all your range (like TP-Link does) bringing up a whole new one with Wifi drivers, NAT stack, etc just for the low-power device seems like way too much effort. I went and checked and couldn't find any TP-link device that wasn't Linux based, and they do sell very low end stuff.
how fast and of what size must such a robot be so that it becomes cost efficient?
[0]: Rubbish. Greger (and a long list of other docs) promote a WFPB diet. They are not professionally promoting "veganism" (which is not a diet, but an ethical stance; and wrt to diet is more broad than the WFPB diet), and this article makes claims against veganism. Off point. Let's move on...

[1]: HNTD (the book) is on the topic of treating disease with whole plant food. Is that a problem? Is he denying that sometimes another approach is needed? (nope) Is he claiming prevention is better than curing? (yups) Now the article does little more that claiming "cherry picking"... 1/4th of the book is refs to scientific publications. Whether you think this was cherry picked or carefully selected is up to you... It more a matter of taste than anything else.
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probs not a good idea to have this on any network with high value targets
According the filing (linked elsewhere in this thread) she knowingly took funds (from an undercover agent) that she believed to be from drug sales... e.g. she intentionally provided a money laundering service.
Why does the article say nothing about dates except "Pharaonic Age"? That title was in use for about 1400 years.
Electricity secures bitcoin's inherent security. It's a feature, not a bug.

Seeing as most everyone's information used to access credit is available on dark sites, I'm willing to go long on cryptocurrencies.
QCon SF, Justin Cormack – The Operating System in 2018 [pdf]
This is super cool, and it reminds of the utopian public imagination of the future of the internet in the 90's. When cyberspace was often showcased in the form of actual spaces instead of the flat list like presentations we have ended up with today. The weird 3d intermezzo between console based computing and a future that ended being all about windows, lists and buttons.

It's like when interfaces become map-based, especially on top of an actual 3d globe, something weird happens and some of the skizoid foggy fragmentation of the modern internet falls away and becomes ordered.

There is a scarcely known concept called Psychogeography that has to do with the interaction between humans, places and emotions, and its like globe based presentations of data does something both important and magical that works as an antidote to the disassociation, rootlessness and loss of both history and empathy that cyberspace without geographical anchors has lead us to.

90's comic book pop-esoterica took up the idea of the living-city, an advanced evolution of the Anima or the spirit from tribal religions, where each street, neighbourhood and country had it's own unique mood created from the people-cells of the country-organism. This spirit was an amalgamation of the locally anchored tastes, music, smells, sights and philosophies - unique to each area and that formed a somewhat cohesive aesthetic framework that functioned as a local mythology in which people could form an individual identity or an identity as a neighbourhood or a country.

The internet has somewhat eradicated these local emergent properties because people look into their phones and don't connect with each other locally anymore. Today cyberspace is all encompassing and we don't go to a gadget to get emerged, we exist inside of it at all times and everywhere.

This in turn has lead us to become fuzzy identities that has difficulties navigating without a GPS or other authoritarian maps of meaning while the parts of the brain devoted to navigation shrinks with unknown consequences.

These unknown consequences presents themselves most potently when "something clicks" sporadically and we become aware of the spaceless, fractured fog we have come to exist inside of at all times.
Looking at a globe with some cultural context is one of the mystical potent Sigils or gateways that instantly helps to deprogram and declutter this noisy feeling and becomes a starting point for further non-insane exploration.
Sftp/scp/rsync direct to cloud storage using native apps
TIL the last French casualty of WWI was killed 15 minutes before the ceasefire
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New Zealand's software industry is significantly more mature than it was 2+ decades ago. Multiple firms with several hundred developers building their own products rather than just government consulting.

Getting hired is hard, but not impossible. The unemployment rate is sub 4% these days.

If you're concerned about your employability, perhaps email Xero/Vend/Flux Federation/Catalyst IT/Intergen/Datacom/Trade Me/Weta Digital/... and explain your situation?

If you're willing to work with recruiters, the team at Talent Army are bona fide good.
That's interesting, indeed-- it is unfortunate that developers have no ability to circumvent these restrictions even for local development.

It makes owning such a device even more baffling, sounds incredibly useless to me. I didn't know iOS was such a trash fire.
OK, posting this using D+ on ReactOS - looks good!
You can control the number of drops in the animation by clicking on the hamburger menu in the top-right.
Maybe that's where it should have stayed...?
Even a Volga, which was rare in private hands, was not as good as a Western car of the time, and there was (I think) only one model of each brand and a total of four (4) brands of cars you could buy.
Set up a Donor-advised fund with Vanguard or Fidelity, etc.

https://www.fidelitycharitable.org/

You can just check a box to make any donation anonymously.
HTTP/3 is HTTP/2 with minor updates and running on QUIC instead of TCP.

QUIC is basically rebuilding the stateful connection abilities of TCP on top of UDP with optimizations.

Multiplexed streams with packets that can arrive out of order, removing the head of line blocking issue with TCP. There is also forward error-correction to reconstruct lost packets instead of retransmitting. Better packet sizing and congestion algorithms to reduce round-trips. There are also updates to include all the TLS 1.3 stuff for 0-RTT setup.

All of this reduces latency and makes connections more reliable, especially with changing networks on mobile devices. Not many downsides other than that TCP is far more open and optimized than UDP so it may take a while to effectively get this protocol out there.
If these grants are such a good idea, why don't states just do them? Why do they need federal funding?

Sure, these are great for local communities when you take money from California and pass it to states with no income taxes.

If remote work is really going to take off, why would rural America be the beneficiary, rather than, say, Mexico, which has a fair amount of English speakers in the same time zone, universities, etc, and lower costs than rural America?
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Amazing project.

I just submitted a local radio station. Since this is in the front page, I guess that you'll be overwhelmed with the number of new submissions, though. :)
Or law enforcement using these tools to stalk and harass or murder their ex-girlfriends.
I’d agree with you if Ireland didn’t exist
To prevent war with China, study World War I
I was specifically talking about gold... not other types of currency.
An especially cool feature is that it changes the URL when you select a station (which Google Earth does) into a nice human-readable one with a slug (which Google Maps does not) example (my old college radio station) http://radio.garden/live/westfield-ma/wskb-89-5-fm/
There's nothing forcing you to adopt their whole ecosystem, even if your core functionality is using G.

Move away from their client based products though: Chrome-> FireFox, Gmail app->any other, Maps->Bing/OpenStreetMap.

(Personally I still use maps, because the others aren't quite quite up to par in my region).
I understand this allows me to ask any rendered pixel what contributed to it's color in detail?
A streetlight by definition has public view of a street. No expectation of privacy.
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> humans could never farm this way

... at scale. Humans do farm this way -- I've seen fancy shade-grown coffee being grown in what looks like a jungle. But it requires a huge amount of manual labor, right now.

I think we'll get there at making machines do this. Deciding whether a leaf is one of the 4 crops you're growing, or not, sounds much easier than distinguishing all the close relatives of wild plants.
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I would be careful of using the service further after this. I doubt it was only required for generating bug reports.
How will negotiation work? If my work say blocks UDP 80 outbound will I have to wait for a timeout every single time I try to go to a site?
If you're cash crop is plant A, then plant B needs to be cheaper than spraying herbicides and the cash value of all the plant A you could have grown instead.
Tax it like property, enforce other laws like it's currency... they get to have their cake and eat it too. It's all for your protection, of course, don't you know.
I'm not arguing the case here that the whole scene is set up fair and square. Probably the complete opposite. However, expecting 1M views of random music play to be worth more than some $5k is a long stretch.
On their own, sure 1M views would account for much more if it was a very focused platform, however, it caters to a huge palette of artists. The dispersion of risk/quality and focus targets makes it not really the prime money machines.

If you want to make money in this industry - keep to the old-fashioned methods. Concerts and live performances are what rake in the big money - CDs, Views or whatever useless metric people try to convert to $$ numbers only works in obscene numbers. All else is just trying to get there - and that is usually the dirty and hard part of the music industry.
Then you'd need to fake the handwriting on the new envelope too. Which is certainly could be done by Soviet security apparatus: they could even write the whole letter, or even make you write the letter they want really. But it's a lot more bureaucratically involved and requires totally different set of skills than what a minder at postal exchange has.
NFL is a non-profit organization because it doesn't make any money for its owners. Profits are distributed to the member teams that are for-profit and taxed. There is nothing weird about that.
There are lots of buildings, with a dark history. Glue used for the carpet that constantly exhales solvents- its especially horrible if your building was a industrial site before. Those brick buildings near trainstations, that where formerly train maintenance sheds are particularly horrible, as the oil in most trains was highly carcinogenic and seeped right into the brick during maintenance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_oil#Polychlorinate...
Always read up on the history of the building you are working in.

Also, always google industrial scandals in the local news-paper- usually they just rebuild right over spill sites- and the stuff smells up after rain.
So cancel the free parking. Problem solved.
Because there are not many options for people living outside of the richest countries.
Can you elaborate more on the hardware smooth scrolling? Did the C64 allow you to set global character offset or was it something else?
Writing Unit Test for almost 7 years
Disclaimer: unless you're the police.
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I would also be interested in manufacturers diclosing their idle consumption, because that's another area where one can save a lot of energy given the amount of time most desktop and servers spend in that state.
I can imagine that Apple is ready to release an OS for the iPad with the full functionality (file system, mouse & cursor) and would do so in the event of the more expensive and port-lacking new Air undersells. Wouldn't surprise me if they had it ready as a backup plan, especially seeing the success of tablet computing with the MS Surface.
I have a problem with QUIC. As everyone implementing this knows, TCP and UDP headers have very similar structure and the difference mostly lies within different treatment of packets in these two. QUIC will increase the size of transport and this affects capped customers. Why is QUIC chosen despite this major flaw?
:Not everyone uses gigabit fiber:
Why Are Publishers Happy About Missing Out on the Digital Revolution?
I wonder what would be the legality of creating a guerrilla surveillance network of our own cameras hidden in public places, with publicly accessible live streams and maybe 30 days of recordings?

If there's "no expectation of privacy", surely nobody has any right to complain about it?
Success is more a game of chance than we’d like to admit
It's not about paying for value, it's about who is better at bribing politicians.