skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the scale that is required to clean up the ocean, removing plastics harms marine life. Ocean plastic aggregates marine animals; it's not like picking up trash on the beach. I've had experience removing ghostnets from the oceans, and there's no way an unsupervised system is going to be able to collect these debris without by-catch. The haste required to meet the 5-year 50% removal goal also guarantees by-catch. The fact that the ocean is already full of man-made hazards, does not convince me that adding more man-made hazards will help us to reach sustainability goals: food security for communities dependent on the ocean animals; preventing plastic from entering human bodies through the food, air and water supplies.

Also, I'm very curious what the ocean cleanup means by 50%. 92% of the plastic in the north pacific gyre is microplastic, which the system is incapable of collecting.
The emails were "sitting plaintext in an exposed database."

Major things wrong: unencrypted email addresses + private messages, leaving the database without a password, database wasn't fixed until a week after knowing of the error.

I find it concerning that this kind of news seems normal now.
"In May, in exchange for using her crochet-and-elastic design and her name, PilyQ paid Ms. Ferrarini the equivalent of about $5,100. (In January 2019, she’ll get an annual fee of about $7,700.) Neiman Marcus and other major retailers now sell a suit under the name “Platinum Inspired by Solange Ferrarini” for about $170."

Everyone is screwing everyone.
Depends a lot on what you purchase and where you live. For how my family eats, Whole Foods is regularly cheaper than the Ralph’s by about 10%, more now that we have the amazon card.
Now that it's legal in Canada I recently used CBD for my back pain... it's been quite helpful. Whereas THC (smoking pot) does nothing for me.

CBD really needs to be available to anyone with chronic pain (cancer treatment, epilepsy, etc, etc).
How to use end-to-end encryption on a forum?
The article doesn't complain about her and her gluten insensitivity. It's specifically about her insistence of two pieces of gluten-free toast. Like the russians said - can she eat potatoes? Then she should eat potatoes, end of the problem. Crying over not getting 2 pieces of toast is childish when travelling to the end of the world, even if one paid $20k for the privilege.
>anything at all which happened would be blamed on them not supporting the bill.

Which is idiotic, since the LNP would blame Labor either way, as they do for every single other failure they (the LNP) are responsible for. I wish Labor had some fucking guts once in a while.
It probably understates the SF market, TBH. As some of the largest employers in SV who hire en masse rarely post jobs in HN. Such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Salesforce, Uber etc. Also, Google, FB, Uber, Airbnb and others have a boot camp system, where job postings do not correlate to hiring since one posting is used to hire an entire bootcamp class
You two are talking about different groups of people.
crontab/Linux/Win: definitely needs learning
smartphone: a little bit easier to use, open an app and everything is set
visual assistant: out of box for being ready to use.

I taught one of my family members about using PC and Android, and found that almost everything needs to be explained. For example:
- What's Google/Microsoft for? (Yes, even the giants in tech may never be heard for some people and it's common)
- Browser? And there are many of them? (Not everyone has a computer and Internet access)
- URL? What is that? I cannot even spell it! (This is more complicated and requires people to remember the addresses of tens of commonly used websites, btw, what's a bookmark!?)
- register? with what? bank account or passport? (if someone doesn't have a email account, it's likely that they have no idea about the process of register, activation.)
- App market? wait a second, what's an app? (not to mention built-in ones and those from 3rd parties)

The thing is Alexa, google home and many others provide a unified, easy to use substitute(well, I have to admit these devices are pretty dumb these days. So they are not 100 percent alternatives). The only requirement is being able to speak in a clear way, which is true for almost everyone.

PS: I don't have any of these devices. As a hard-core programmer, my choice is, without any doubt, *nix, shell, etc. GUI sucks ;-)
The legal definition (I believe) is split by THC concentrations.
What are the four apple Marzipan apps?

Ahh, found the answer: Home, News, Stocks and Voice Memos
But isn’t a pretty reasonable assumption that a drone flying around an airport in a furtive manner, in clear contravention of law, would try to purposefully strike an aircraft? Much more so than a bird, which would have nothing to gain and everything to lose?
On the contrary. If facebook controls minting the coins but can't control transactions using the coins, it'd be perfect, much better than the decentralized cryptocoins we have today. It would instantly bypass state controls on money transmission.

They'd probably run into trouble cashing out their coins in that case, though.
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Hundreds to thousands of hours seems completely reasonable to me.

Have you ever done IT for your family or friends, or seen a coworker completely helpless in the face of an unrecognized file extension? Say they're, I don't know, an engineer or a call center operative or something. 6 hours of computer in a working day, 250 days of work a year, maybe they got out of college in 2005... more than fifteen thousand hours in front of a computer, and, well, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa9DLxDtPtc. Computers are mindbogglingly complicated.

And then there's us, the people that hang out on HN. I can't even think of how many times I've spent fifteen minutes digging around in config files or menus or googling for a better tool. I've probably spent over a hundred hours just on my emacs setup. Easily hundreds, perhaps thousands, of hours of focused effort dedicated solely to high-end computer-use skills, and that's not even counting the things I use the computer for. And I'm still learning things every day.
The problem itself is difficult and the cost of making mistake is high. Thats why the progress is relatively slow.

Also, at least to my opinion, its not very clear that the market is big enough. Its highly unlikely that one single company can monopolize the market as there are quite a few rich companies with deep pocket and extremely talented team are investing in the same space.

If more than a dozen companies comes out with very similar performing self-driving solution. The markey may not be big enough to recoup the investment into this technology.

For the longest time I thought waymo was way ahead of everyone else - but the nature of their slow and passive progress in to the market doesn't give me a lot of confidence in their abilities.

They have a hardtime in relatively peaceful streets of developed world, how will technilogy work on the streets of developing countries where most people live?

I think the problem is extremely hard. And it will take a lot longer than most people initially though it would.
It's dependent on what part of the plant it's derived from --- whether it's fiberous or not. Notably, flowers are marijuana.

> The term 'marihuana' means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of such plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such plant, its seeds or resin. Such term does not include the mature stalks of such plant, fiber produced from such stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of such plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of such plant which is incapable of germination.
I just browsed through some threads and you are spot on.
Rubber bullets would almost certainly work. They are apparently safe enough to fire into live crowds of protestors, so should be fine here.
Wow, the arguments are just so bad, I feel dumber after having read this article. My first hint of trouble ahead was when the author wrote that Eth lost 10X it's value.

You can lose 90 percent, but not 10 times. You can GAIN 10 times.
> "We're advocating for privacy, but we aren't going to try to offer you any."

Your tl;dr is not quite accurate.

All companies, including FastMail, have to cooperate with local law enforcement. But there are different levels of cooperation. FastMail's level of cooperation, according to TFA, is, "Show us a valid warrant, and we'll show you exactly what you asked for, nothing more".

Certain other companies might be more cooperative, handing over user information in response to informal (warrantless) police queries, or handing over information to copyright-enforcement lawyers who write threatening (but not legally enforceable) letters, or handing over more information than is specified in a warrant. (I can't remember specific examples, but they get mentioned on HN now and then).

So FastMail is stating it will try to limit privacy violations as much as it can, without violating Australian law. This is not total privacy, but neither is it the same as "we aren't going to try to offer you any".

(Not affiliated in any way with FastMail, not even as a user)
I mostly use Liquibase. Flyway is another popular one. Although mostly used on Java/JVM projects that's not a requirement. I have also used it separately where the migration XML and a script to run the migrations is all there was.
This reminds me a saying like:

anything existed before my birth is old and outdated. Ideas and inventions I grew up with really changed and is changing the world. Others are useless and invade my privacy.

I cannot remember either the exact sentences or where I get this from.
The problem is simply that you expect the impossible.

Either you give the factual power to access your emails to some party, then whoever you give that power to can as a matter of fact access your emails, and in particular that means that they can be coerced into accessing your emails, or you don't give them the power, then they can't.

You are demanding that they offer a product where they have the power to access your emails (as an unavoidable technical necessity for what you expect from the product) while they at the same time can truthfully state that they can not access your emails. That is simply a logial contradiction that cannot exist, and any PR that pretends that it did would be simply marketing bullshit.
How many days until
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It is basically impossible to track the source of a hack. China might just as likely never had anything to do with any attack so far.
That's like saying that having life insurance on your spouse is an "incentive to kill" him or her.
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If facebook controls the mining, then they have the power to change the blockchain, which in effect would defeat the whole point. They effectively have a database with some very unnecessary complexity. It wouldn't bypass state controls because they would still need to abide by laws.
The valid way for it to work would be to test the model's ability to predict the future. You make your models, collect data, and then reject models that couldn't accommodate reality.

This isn't done, particularly in climate science, because it's slow and difficult, but "model validation is slow and difficult" doesn't add validity to invalid models.
Yes, this is a photography site, what looks nice has a good chance of being more important than what is correct. Also, breaking up a word doesn't make it gibberish, it is a bit less legible surely. We do this all the time though in English, for example on poetic wall posters or logos that look this this:

LO
VE

That isn't as easy to read as LOVE, but we understand it and we also understand it was written that way for artistic reasons.

The other point I was making was about intended audience. This isn't a photographer catering specifically to geeks, Japanophiles or Japanese people from what I can tell. He seems to shoot everything if you check out his other galleries.

In ideal world everyone would check that everything that they write is in their non-native language is 100% correct. In the real world, and in Japan where I live, nearly no one cares when English is used incorrectly on garments and other places. The only ones who notice it are the few native English speakers. Some fluent English-speaking Japanese people may notice it, but they generally don't care as it is harmless. Why does Engrish persist? Because it doesn't really matter enough for the intended audience which is regular Japanese people.

It may seem strange but in defending this photographer I am actually defending the use of Engrish in Japan. In this case of Nihon Noir it is the same thing with the languages reversed. Japanese people will clearly notice the mistake but they are unlikely to care much. The intended audience of regular English speakers won't notice the mistake so won't care at all. Us geeks though, we noticed, so what you are saying is that he should have catered to you instead of his intended audience.
And even GDS isn't getting it right. Some mind-blowing examples of that are the Government Gateway replacement, Office of the Public Guardian, Border Force and Home Office...

GDS does really good work. Not denying that, and it's awesome to see that in the public sector. However when your only(!) tool is a web app, every project starts looking like a thumb.

It should also be noted that others like the MoD have had even bigger successes than GDS, that simply cannot be publicised.

Even the NHS Digital Service is struggling with spend. The still-born Type 1 Diabetes project from a year or so ago a is prime example of writing off months of work without a word.
Agreed. We need a common social media specification. Like Diaspora, but just the spec. Diaspora is a solution, and solutions would implement the spec. Then sites like Facebook/Neocities/Wordpress could comply with the spec. How you treat your own posts on your own site, with your own theme etc would be up to you. Your feed would exist within your own website and would consist of posts pulled in via RSS or some other syndication spec.
Previous discussion (March 2017, with link dated 2015):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13854087
For all the toxicity blind is one of the best resources to discover comp info online, since sharing salary is still a bit taboo. Some of it is e-statting but I’ve found it to be useful for when you negotiate comp.
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They're in my Lobsters link in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18731514

Not open source given only proprietary sector made high-assurance security most of the time. There are some groups that open-sourced stuff after the fact. One whose methods some might emulate is Muen separation kernel. They use SPARK Ada to prove it can't have all kinds of problems. It's also smaller than most things like it.

https://muen.sk/
OK. But there's the fact that he did reality TV for years.

There's a saying about the risks of underestimating adversaries. And a clever adversary always acts weaker and crazier than they actually are.
I agree with you. I know more than one who bought a new notebook because the operating system didn't work and they don't even realize that reinstalling is an option.
Great post!

If you haven't listened to Fugazi before check out End Hits! Good intro record.
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This is slightly irrelevant but presumably someone could invent a version of Metropolis that also distributed its rays across time as well as space, thereby ensuring that any bright/flickery pixels would remain coherent across frames; i.e. once that path was discovered on one frame, it could propagate that path information out to previous/succeeding frames.
> macOS Mojave shipped with four native apps that Apple had ported over from iOS. These apps were clearly examples intended to incentivize third-party creators into using the new API.

This is not the case at all. 3rd parties can't (officially) use the new APIs at all until next summer. I suspect (and very much hope) that the APIs and these apps will look quite different in 6 months
It's a bit silly, sure, but just because they got breached in this phishing attack, doesn't mean they didn't resist other attacks successfully.

Personally, yeah companies need to be held to a higher standard against hackers, but if we're going to be realistic, we only expect they could do it because it's IBM and they have a lot of money. What about all the other companies? Rhetorically, what are we going to do about this issue? There's been decades of fairly basic confidence schemes and "hacks" and all the corporate training in the world isn't making a dent in people trusting strangers and running malicious files.
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Japan’s latest home robot isn’t useful – it’s designed to be loved
What do you base this on? Is it that neither has released a front-end javascript framework or an in-house container orchestration tool as open-source (that I know of)? Or is there some other hipness criterium that they failed to meet?
It looks like Red Hat intends Cockpit (a web interface) to replace virt-manager eventually.[1]

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1659477
A lot of people thinks it is the percentage that is the problem. It Is not. Ericsson, Nokia, ZTE, LG, Samsung, Huawei along with a few others all charges percentage of Phone for their Royalty ( Or at least it used to be ). I can guarantee you Apple would have no problem with Qualcomm if the percentage were only 0.1%.

And it is not like Intel has already paid any license fo 2G-5G patents to Qualcomm ( They haven't ), and Qualcomm recollect another set of license fees from Apple ( Or more accurately from Foxconn ).
No. According to Plastic waste inputs from land into
the ocean (2015) [1], the plastic waste entering the oceans from land is mismanaged waste. They define mismanaged waste as "material that is either littered or inadequately disposed. Inadequately disposed waste is not formally managed and includes disposal in dumps or open, uncontrolled landfills, where it is not fully contained. Mismanaged waste could eventually enter the ocean via inland waterways, wastewater outflows, and transport by wind or tides."

They claim that in the United States, only about 2% of waste is mismanaged (though, the total amount of waste generated is enormous and growing). The recovered plastic waste would probably be disposed of effectively, especially since the people collecting it presumably care more than average that it does get disposed of correctly.

[1]: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768.long
“Red Bottoms” was in the chorus of a song that was a #1 for three weeks in 2017 (Bodak Yellow by Cardi B). Since you seem to be unaware of this “inane” detail that is a big part of current American culture, perhaps you should lay off on passing judgement.
Only to law-enforcement. Not to the public.
>And even GDS isn't getting it right. Some mind-blowing examples of that are the Government Gateway replacement, Office of the Public Guardian, Border Force and Home Office...

Yeah - I used money claim online this year to take a non paying client to court. It was a really nasty experience - the login is needlessly complex and had I not made manual notes I wouldn't have been able to log back in. Awful.
Of course it's done! For one thing, you don't need to fit your model to the full historical record. So you can use more recent data to validate models fit to older data. It's like training AI.

But yes, models fit to the full historical record can only be validated in real time.
I don't think the purpose is to create their own money, but to create a vehicle that takes advantage of crypocurrency-like protocols.

For example, perhaps they'll let users generate their own keys, thereby letting everyone transact freely with each other. This may allow FB to wash their hands of KYC laws except for those depositing and withdrawing fiat directly.
MysteriumVPN – Decentralized VPN now available on Android mobile for testing
Mysterium Network launched MysteriumVPN app for Android mobile - decentralized & free VPN on Blockchain powered by open-source & P2P architecture.

What do you guys think about it? Does decentralized VPNs have future?
> Passing a law is easy, but putting it in practice is enough thing. We of course won't hear about that side of it because "secret".

ASIO has to provide statistics on how many notices they issued in their yearly reports. In addition, recipients of reports are allowed to provide statistics about his many reports they've received. See s317ZF.

> I have no doubts that the big companies which this seems mostly for will be doing everything to decentralize and remove themselves from the problem citing "systemic weakness" and then doing nothing for the government.

Except that Apple (and other such companies) have explicitly designed their e2e systems in a way that they could be backdoored (users don't need to sign new identities with a key, so Apple can add a new one -- which is how the device adding feature works).

In addition, many such companies have the ability to provide a single backdoored binary to a single user. This, according to the legislation, would not be a systemic weakness. There is work you could do to make yourself resilient to company-wide sabotage but no company I'm aware of is doing it.
Seems more like Reddit tbh.
JavaScript 7.2: V8 promises more power for WebAssembly – FrontNet
Good to know! It seemed to meet the criteria here: http://sedimental.org/awesome_python_applications.html

I'm curious if the userbase is overstated, but otherwise it seems to be well-known enough ;)
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Arh. I am Sorry. Somehow I assume / read those commit were to YouTube itself.

Edit: It still reads to me as if you were the one who committed the div tag on youtube. I am not sure if I am the only one.
I keep saying this as well, it's not an anonymous forum. It's an HR tool. You sign up with your company email ffs.
Then the sit in was a resounding success.

The fact you've used computers to magnify the effect of the protest to your detriment is besides the point.

You set up the business, and arranged for automatic scaling ahead of time. This doesn't entitle you to some special protection because you never took into account something like that could happen.

That's the risk inherent to technology. It lets you.scale. Even when you'd rather you didn't.
The real question is what is Yale doing for the 322!
It doesn't, there seems to be a bug or some misunderstanding.

Can you drop me an email at ishan.chhabra [at] gmail.com about where you are seeing this. I'll resolve immediately.
> Not only that, but it would be destroyed in a storm quite quickly, generating even more marine debris.

This was mentioned multiple times, but it's even more daring in your comment. How can it be so insignificant and pointless, but at the same time cause of worry for more marine debris?
Congress Passes $1.2B Quantum Computing Bill
There's an argument to be made that if you cant raise rates much above the incredible low rate this far into a recovery, then your economy has bigger problems to deal with.

Without denying your statements of the power the Fed has, I havent seen anything odd about the timing, frequency, nor quantity that the fed has raised rates lately.

You didn't address the argument of the quote you made (that the rate needed to raise) nor did you supply evidence to support your implication that the fed was willing to tank the economy to hurt Trump.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6227