skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ocean is a common resource, and the full-scale ocean cleanup would have far-reaching negative consequences around the pacific. Opposition to the project is more than just an attitude: it's supported by decades of scientific evidence regarding the nature of the ocean and the plastics within it. The ocean cleanup seems to be ignoring the warnings and skepticism because they believe they'll be on the right side of history no matter what happens. If they don't change course, the ocean cleanup will be heading into a very slow, very expensive PR nightmare.
Wasn't this the guy that claimed to have some new proof on the Riemann hypothesis? What eventually happened? I'm not sufficiently into the mathematics field to stay engaged with this news but I'm curious to see what was the deal in the end. I remember lots of people being generally upset.

[1] https://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2018/10/01/on-michael-...
The only time-proven one that I know of is pulling the plug. And even this could be hacked.
> I don't think judges overlook constitutional rights

That's an idealistic view that may happen in some situations, but often does not.

> an entire industry of defense lawyers

That's great for people that can afford those lawyers. For the 60-90% of criminal defendants that need to use a public defender, it's generally impossible to make a complicated defense required to get evidence excluded when the PD only has as little as 12 minutes[1] available for each client.

> what does it matter that parallel construction exists and has a constitutional loophole?

It matters because it's the fruit of the poisonous tree[2]. The entire point is to discourage this kind of workaround that ignores the spirit of the warrant requirement for search and seizure. Law enforcement and the judicial system is intentionally held to a higher, more difficult standard specifically to make it harder to ignore your right to due process.

> If it were really the case that there's an epidemic of invented reasons

It was common enough at the DEA[3] that they created a training presentation about using information from classified sources, a "Taint Review Team" on call ready to help agents launder evidence, and a standard form for submitting requests to the NSA for specific information.

[1] https://www.mprnews.org/story/2010/11/29/public-defenders

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

[3] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140203/11143926078/paral...
The printer had a public IP and the printer was open to anyone who cared to use it. It was available from the Internet.

The big question is whether you could exploit that to get to the rest of the facility.

This particular facility was acquired by HP, so who knows how they set it up.
Totally off-topic now, but what was the lineage of the trademark for that that allowed New World to publish the seemingly unrelated tactical game Empire II? I impulse-bought that when I found it in a bargain bin and while it was fun enough for the small amount I paid, it was nothing at all what I was expecting from the name...
First time taking a look at that site and I'm pretty sure a lot of it is trolling. Lots of threads starting with something semi-ridiculous or controversial to solicit lots of responses to which the OP spends an unreasonable amount of time responding to. Classic flame baiting.
“More than a year and a half later, Amtrak, a private company whose stock is primarily owned by the federal government and which depends on congressional funding to operate, has yet to repeat its analysis for the network as a whole.”

So, _not_ a private company.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/2015/03/0...

(From 2015 – Supreme Court says Amtrak is more like a public entity than a private firm)

""
All the justices agreed to overturn the lower-court ruling in which the Association of American Railroads had prevailed at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit: that Amtrak was a strictly private entity and as such Congress was wrong in 2008 to set up a system that allowed it to issue regulations.

The lower court had based the decision on Congress’s command that Amtrak “is not a department, agency or instrumentality of the United States Government.”

But Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said saying so does not necessarily make it so.

The government puts all sorts of demands on Amtrak — maintaining service between Louisiana and Florida, for instance, or offering reduced fares for elderly or disabled passengers — not to mention giving it subsidies of about $1 billion a year, Kennedy said.

“Amtrak was created by the Government, is controlled by the Government, and operates for the Government’s benefit,” Kennedy wrote. Thus, in working with the Federal Railroad Administration to issue the “metrics and standards” for performance, “Amtrak acted as a governmental entity for purposes of the Constitution’s separation of powers provisions.”
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In Ireland we call entities like this semi-state companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_bodies_of_the_...
You can see this when you say seafood allergy at good sushi places too. If you say allergy, they say "New cutting board, new gloves" to the chef. Sushi is a bit easier for allergy orders :-)
Superb, thank you for sharing. Love the visualisation style too.
On the bunker issue, many people seem to expect us to be like some Sealand with armed forces fighting off hostile government ships. No service actually works like that, and the aren't really jurisdictions where you can just tell the police to go jump. You'll get your uplinks disconnected and your payment systems frozen if there's a high enough value target in there. A Sealand-like service makes no sense as a product for regular people because the cost/benefit doesn't match their needs.
It sounds like a quotation from Douglas Adams: "Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
Am I the only still enjoying my jucero?
Most proper places will ask since people saying preference are okay with a bit of cross-contamination.

I saw a burger place do a full cleandown because someone was allergic to something in one of the sauces, it was the most coordinated thing I ever saw.
Coal contains all kinds of things besides carbon.
Facebook donates $1M to support Wikipedia
I seem to recall seeing an old GCC (6? 5? I forget) when GCC 8 had already come out.
Po-210 is in the decay chain of U-238:

https://nucleonica.com/polonium210.aspx

it is constantly being produced in nature from the decay of uranium-238 – the main component of uranium in the earth. Due to this “equilibrium”, the concentration of Po-210 in nature is approximately 75 µg of Po-210 for every ton of uranium-238

It's a commonly known byproduct from burning coal, even though it's very rare, the sheer volume of coal burnt means that a lot of it accumulates.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001623611...

http://www.shl.uiowa.edu/news/polonium.xml

https://www.chromatographytoday.com/news/gc-mdgc/32/breaking...
t-cell drones
H1B databases tend to underestimate. My entry in the database lists my starting salary from a few years ago, with no bonuses, options/rsus, or promotion/raises.
Unless their cleanup efforts manage to outpace the poluters we would still need to stop the constant flow of garbage for this project to have any meaning.
What eventually happened is that the proof was wrong, and the community tried not to make a big deal about it, since Atiyah is now very old, and has made many significant contributions to mathematics in the past.
Inside Rolex's gruelling, top-secret dive watch testing facility
Polonium is commonly found as a (v. minor) impurity in uranium, formed via natural nuclear decay. As coal plants burn massive amounts of coal, something on the order of 1.5 million tonnes per plant per year, even a small uranium impurity itself containing only a small amount of polonium can result in significant environmental release. Hence the oft-quipped 'coal plants release more radiation than nuclear plants' line.
The popularity of it doesn’t affect whether it is or is not inane and whether it is or is not morally right to protect with state power.
I'm pretty sure the consensus is that positive reinforcement, when used consistently and over a long time, can be used without any negative reinforcement and still get the requisite training results. That's leaving aside the fact that negative reinforcement is bad for the relationship with your child and/or pet.

Completely on this subject though, I find the behaviour in question here insane. Mostly because adults are supposed to be independent and competent. Of course, not everyone is raised equally. If this works for them, who are we to judge?
Amazon Redshift now runs VACUUM DELETE automatically
Can you elaborate on the benefit for a high number of hyper parameters?
Corel are really killing the Software Museum business model.
Anecdotally, I have a friend whose father has been gluten-free for decades, for legitimate medical reasons — he said the rise of the bullshit gluten-free fad dramatically changed his life for the better, by making it possible to find a wide variety of decent food that approximates what he was able to eat before he got sick.
It's easy to create hypotheticals.

Who would you suggest should decide, when shown evidence that a spear phishing that stole thousands of dollars came from an email account, whether the provider should be requested to hand over data.

Policing isn't all poo cams.

I'd prefer that a judge tell me whether the police have sufficient evidence for a data request than have to make that call myself.
Quasar Framework about to hit 1.0 (Vue for web and mobile apps)
I wish they had mentioned what the two other moving objects in the photo are.

There's one just to the left of center and another in the lower right corner.
The opposition had a list of changes that they were requiring for passage of the bill but caved at the last minute to pass the bill before the end of the year and announce that they would be changing it in the first sitting session next year.

Passage of this bill seems to have been all about the government attempting to create short-term political opportunities and the opposition attempting to minimise their short-term political risk. With effective lobbying, it seems reasonable to assume that the ongoing legal part of this mess can be fixed. Hopefully the reputational damage won't be too severe.
I don't see the comment as judgement passing. Instead, it is a rather important economic observation. A tiny bit of red on a piece of apparel shouldn't be intellectual property, be it a part of American culture or not (I wouldn't dare on speculating how big a part of the culture it is). Rent seeking behaviour on this patch of red is not beneficial to the human race in any readily apparent way and is detrimental due to it being yet another precedent for the ever-growing, soul-sucking, innovation-stifling scope creep of IP.
Stop Losing Half of Your Internet Traffic and Design for Mobile First
I recently had a few rounds of interviews, I think I said 'I don't know' a dozen of times. I did get an offer.
I thinking about Quasar for a new project but wondered if anyone familiar with something similar in scope.
Yet to speak of anything even remotely similar gets you labeled a crackpot conspiracy theorist, even on HN.
Darmoking?
Could he had, in your opinion, used "Application Store"?
Cool, I wasn't aware of that. Still ends up doing udp over tcp, though.
Are you using it topically or orally?
Hey, good point. That would be a neat scam...

(Not the only one who suggested the same thing though)
I imagine Celiacs refer to themselves as such, not "gluten free". Likewise a Celiac in desperation would complain about fad gluten free eaters without any respect to when they started fad following.

I think it is clear the lady mentioned is taking issue not because she has a medical limitation, in which case the Russians have amble food to provide. Rather she is, as the writer further points out, under the belief that her digestive system functions better without gluten.
>or how close East Antarctica had come to a major oil spill had the ship been crushed.

Goofy question, but how does Antarctica have an East region? What’s it East of?
Just the other day on HN was the thread on "Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have?"[0]

You would think $9M would make her more content with life. But sadly as humans we seem to always want more. I often wonder whether it is easy to judge because I don't have that money and those problems. Either way her greed was her undoing. She could have happily continued making a decent amount of money from the bikinis even with competitors selling similar wares.

[0]https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/rich-peop...
JetBrains is registered as a Czech company but is basically Russian: most of its employees are (were?) russian, and it's two main offices are in Russia.
The FDA also allows Tylenol to be sold OTC
Yes, but this text was written in 2002 when he was still lucid.
"Modern" can just mean "current".
Bay Area governments see car burglaries as a form of economic stimulus. They expect that victims will buy replacements and repairs locally, generating both local income and tax revenues.
Artificial Lawyer Year in Review – 2018 – What a Year
The fact that he produced something easy to see helps cement in the mind of more people exactly how possible it is. It's a benefit not in the sense that it was impossible before, but rather a benefit in the sense that more people will really believe that it is possible.
Continuous reinstall used to be the way to keep stuff working. It was awful.
I have used Tile38 for a couple of internal demo experiments this year and hoping to push the projects into production next year (budget allowing).

If you are looking for a realtime-GIS with geofencing support out of the box - it is an ideal match.

Docs really are great.
Its very easy to get quick demos up and use.
The code base is a joy to work with. It is a really really good project.

Would also love to see a write up of the 11 million points with Tile 38 - that is a really nice demo.
Ok, those PPMs are surprisingly high.

1.5 million tonnes per year, 100ppm U-238 -> 150 tonnes U-238/year, 75μg Po/tonne U -> 11,500μg Po/plant-year, LD-50 human adult < 1μg
He's joking about the fact that JetBrains is based in the Czech Republic.
You will be mistreated and thrown in jail, because they'll assume you're a criminal (and in a very literal sense you are).
And did closed turn out to be an invalid decision? Closed meant control, control meant more security and privacy and avoiding reliance on advertising revenue.
Neonious one: First microcontroller board with native TypeScript support
Then why do so many people not do it?
This is a really weird viewpoint to see in a site which celebrates throwing billions of dollars at startups which will probably fail while mostly solving problems that are pretty much inconsequential or nonexistent at best.
This will work until it gets widely known, at which point all truecrypt/veracrypt volumes will be assumed to contain some sort of hidden layer.
In other news: After writing a program, developer finds bugs!!

With engineering problems are even worse than programming. you can expect setbacks on the field that you need to solve.

Those guys are working on solving those issues. This alone earns my respect.

Even if they fail, they will be taking more risks than those criticizing the project while doing nothing to improve the situation.
> We never offered, and never claimed to offer, a safe haven for people who have broken the law in both Australia

So are you saying that just by offering end-to-end encryption yourselves would be "helping people who have broken the law"?

Well, at least it's good to know where you stand and to have this in the public record, in case someone mistakenly thinks that Fastmail is a good alternative to other end-to-end encrypted email service providers.
> Many of their whatsapp users live in very poor areas that are not traditionally served by banks.

Bingo. Remittances are still expensive. Basic bank accounts are still out of reach for many.

Any user with cash could become a convert-to-fiat provider.

Before Western Union had to signup shops, now you can go through your friend lists to find someone you already know and trust.
I am also glad the experts will decide how to keep us safe. Thanks for helping.
> If anything we need more industry-specific reporting to try to show companies how ignoring climate change will impact their bottom line.

It’s going to be a positive thing for many companies. Defences need to be engineered, built and maintained. It isnt bad for everyone.
WordPerfect runs perfectly on modern Linux. For fresh Debian installs, I have a standard set of tweaks to apply, and then it's up and running. I love it because it's relatively compact, very fast, and really has all the word-processing features one needs.
A Java library that checks class field values regarding user defined value rules
The phone experience for riot is really, really bad (extremely high battery usage, even when the app is not in use. I'm aware of the technical reasoning behind it and I frankly don't care as a consumer). This was (and is) the one barrier stopping me from using it and converting my friends to matrix (they're not platform loyal at all).
> As a vegetarian (by ethical choice, not medical necessity), I do my best not to lose sight of the simple fact that I'm the problem here.

I think there's a huge difference between following a fad diet and following a diet that is based around your feelings of reducing animal cruelty and doing a small part to combat climate change. I would agree going to a steakhouse where you know the whole business is based around serving meat is creating issues, but especially nowadays I don't think vegetarians should have to consider themselves problems. If there was less peer pressure to eat meat and more meatless options people would find it easier to reduce meat consumption also.
Sounds like easy bolt-on growth.

Paypal is still expensive and uncommon for person to person transactions in real life.
Every defense attorney in the state should make a point of memorizing the names of the officers involved in this arrest, using this case to impugn their judgment in every other trial in which they are called as witnesses.
> We don't place ourselves above law enforcement.

Of course this is reasonable, but I'm curious what you think of companies who do put themselves above law enforcement when it's the right thing to do.

i.e. lawmakers do not always make laws that are right and law enforcement does not always do the right thing when interpreting and enforcing laws. A case to cite might be Apple vs. FBI in 2016. The company placed itself above law enforcement. They disagreed with law enforcement and would not cooperate when I am certain many companies would have cooperated. It was a gamble. As a user, I am glad they stood their ground and I was/am glad to give Apple my money. I've also set my businesses up on FastMail at least twice, which is why I ask.

Maybe only a company with Apple's resources can take a risk like this? Thoughts?
I would go further and say using it is gross incompetence along the lines of a broker taking stock investment advice from spam email. Literally the only reason why someone would send out random stock advice like that is doing a pump and dump scheme. Similarly if they aren't going to use your email then they have no reason to ask for it and any 'anonymous' app that asks for identifying information isn't.
The last time I looked into this (maybe 6 months ago), this could only be achieved using non-standard/experimental server extensions with absolutely no guarantee of stability. This then led me to believe that it was one of those things that was theoretically possible, but not practically possible. Has that changed in the meantime?
> Having a voice assistant means not having to learn to change application contexts inside an operating system follwed by a few seconds typing. You are ignoring the hundreds/thousands of hours you've spent learning which software is appropriate for which contexts. Not to mention the latency of instantiating them, or possibly even installing them, migrating data between them, etc.

I can type everything I'd issue as a voice command into my home screen. I have to install and learn just as few/many things and commands as I'd have to using voice recognition. Op might have underplayed something, you just made things up.
The comments here are disappointing. The gulf between cryptopurists and software that people actually use remains wide.
I’m genuinely sorry if I have been a bit rude, dismissive and sarcastic in my comments.

My point, I suppose is that there are ways to architect systems such that concrete bunkers are un-necesary and irrelevant.

The simplest such systems do involve trust in you. I suppose to a first order you are trustworthy since you have explained you will hand over user data upon request according to the laws you are subject to. This is a sane business decision.

Finally, a solid stance against at least business surveillance is a great start.
Funnily I faced a bit of initial resistance when opening the page and remembering how painful using paypal is. Thankfully there are cryptocurrency addresses displayed on the page.

I sent some monero their way.
Not sure what you are getting at exactly, but you can provide browser based email where the browser using J.S. decrypts the email. Obviously need to figure a way to make that AA proof.
East of Greenwich meridian.
Remember lonelygirl15? That's most of YouTube in a nutshell; scripted reality-TV made with even lower budget.
In cases like this, ideas and their development don't come for free, and subtract resources to truly addressing the problem.

When it comes to ocean cleaning, technological solutions are very attractive, because the population likes to think that they push a button, lay on a sofa, and the oceans get cleaned.

Assuming we want to address the symptom and not the cause (in other words, if we want to clean the garbage in the ocean rather than preventing it to enter in the first place , which is still better than not taking action), there is a simple and valid solution, but it's not attractive, since there are no buttons to push, and it involves sweat: cleaning the beaches.

Here's the old response to Slat's project; it's from 2013 and until now, it holds true: https://inhabitat.com/the-fallacy-of-cleaning-the-gyres-of-p....

The article is top-to-bottom interesting. Two limited extracts:

> So far, we’ve taken one gyre cleanup advocate across the South Atlantic, from Brazil to South Africa. We had 22 days of storms with seas in excess of 30 feet at times. By the time we got to the other side, some 30+ days later, he’d abandoned his hope of cleaning the gyres once he realized how big a ‘place’ we’re talking about. What I find astonishing is that out of all the gyre cleanup proponents I’ve met, none of them have ever been to the gyres.

> the sea is one giant corrosive force. Even on just a month-long sail across The South Atlantic, we tore our sails twice, broke some rigging, and utterly destroyed a wind-powered generator—all due to the force of nature.
As it’s a open project, have you considered opening a GitHub issue or even a pull request with some recommendations on better approaches/tools?