skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately, the military industrial complex has the solution to this. For some time now, there have been worries over lasers being used to blind sensors and people so a number of approaches have been developed to defend against this. Lasers only emit at a set of limited wavelengths so one can block out just these wavelengths. Another more exotic approach is to block the light coming in as soon as the laser has been detected. LCDs are an obvious solution to this, though I have seen microshutter arrays proposed for this in a Popular Science/Mechanics magazine a while back. Although, it's probably better to prevent LIDAR from destroying cameras in the first place.
Do you have any details? What did the mom and pop operation sell? How did they go afoul the GDPR with this?

AFAIK, no independent lawyer can sue you for violating the GDPR. Only the German regulatory body could sue them.
Wikipedia's notability rules are generally about ten/twenty years out of late, and seem to be designed on the assumption the internet doesn't exist. As you said, they often miss out notable works that aren't reviewed by what they class as 'mainstream' sources, and they also often end up failing to consider the amount of credibility someone may have in their own area of expertise.

For instance, in the gaming world, I often look at Serebii.net as a good example of where Wikipedia's credibility priorities are misplaced. To them, it being a fan site run pseudononymously makes it less credible/reputable than a publication like IGN or Vice or what not, but in the actual community/among those who know of the topic, it's actually the far more credible source. The owner has written in magazines, been quoted by popular media sources, used as a reference by those seen as more reputable, etc.

But Wikipedia doesn't think like this. To them, credibility equals being paid as part of a major publication, and it doesn't matter even if you're a distinguished professor writing on your blog or academic site otherwise. And this then hurts the niche topics you mention even more.
I have it set up so that it connects to my phone via bluetooth, and I output audio from whatever service I want on my phone.

Also, you can get it to connect to your phone via a voice command ("Alexa connect <device name>"), when you want to use it.
Debussy’s Radical Search for Simplicity
Having a (sexual) relationship with reports even co-workers isn't the best idea. It can lead to thing as superficial as embarrassing interactions to acrimony and then to labor disputes (favoritism and punishment for following along or not), but it's not a crime in and of itself nor should it be. It should be frowned upon because it not only "looks" "bad" but because it can place the individual and the employer in an unenviable position.
Part of the appeal of Google Fi for me is the unlimited free international roaming. Do you know if there's any competition in that area?
LSD, going into it with some specific anxieties and things I wanted to work through.

I ended up a lot more in touch with myself and more in tune with my body. After that it was just unfathomable to not lose weight.

The tricky thing about LSD is you don't learn anything you didn't already know, it just clicks in a real way for the first time. Having a mental model/ knowing something is a distinct process from internalizing it in a way that affecrs behavior.
I only read comments 95% of the time, so very rarely.
I live in neither country. It's obvious that it's better to be a US citizen rather than a Chinese citizen. However, China has little ability to affect lives of citizens of other countries... whereas the US has much more power to do so potentially based on evidence gathered through surveillance they can for instance extradite people to the US to face charges for crimes whereas China is incapable of doing such a thing to non-Chinese citizens. This is no a hypothetical thing, it has happened more than once.
> In an email to Ars Technica, AEye CEO Luis Dussan confirmed that AEye's lidars can cause damage to camera sensors—though he stressed that they pose no danger to human eyes.

So, yes.
They've caused Boing Boing to burn a bunch of lawyers' time for no good reason.
yeah, that would be fine -- what stopped me actually (now that I'm circling back to it) was the requirement for docker-compose which my sandbox VM didn't have. and still doesn't (some dependency is broken). sigh. that's all the time I have for it now.
I don't recall ever being asked whether I consent to sharing the road with non-human drivers. I don't, and I doubt most sane people outside of this echo chamber of tech hype insanity do either. (Cue someone totally owning me with a bulletproof whataboutism about horse carriages.)

I don't see why we need self-driving cars at all. I'd rather share the road exclusively with other humans that fear death just as much as I do.

Are we doing this just for the novelty of it? Just because we can? By following that philosophy, now the entire console in every new car has been replaced with a laggy touch screen with zero haptic feedback that you need to stare at while driving and risk death every time you use.

And now we get to look forward to lasers everywhere causing insidious cumulative damage to random people's electronics and perhaps even leading to gradual blindness for drivers and pedestrians alike just to enable yet another feature no sane person ever asked for. (Cue some super cereal pinky promise about how "studies show" these lasers are harmless to humans. Before long, I expect to see fake news about how firing focused energy weapons directly into your eyes all day long is actually healthy somehow.)

All of this needs to be stopped by any means necessary.
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Cool maps, btw. :)
30 days is useless. Intelligence operations take years to unfold. Banning NSA from using zero-days doesn't mean everybody else is banned from using zero-days, including PRC.
I'd imagine not enough owners of those old stereos cared enough to buy the product and keep it viable over the past 3 and a half years.
Any religion that gets to a billion followers (now nearly two) will by nature play host to many varying and contradictory movements and schools of thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_feminism
Taking a picture of the sun will destroy most cameras. So, I don’t think that supports your argument.
I went wild and bought four of these, to have a high-quality multi-room audio setup on the cheap.

The trouble is, it almost never worked - I'd have two rooms working, or it would fall over after one song, or after three songs, or not work at all.

I don't know whether the product was fatally flawed, or Google just didn't put the investment into making it work, but it would have been great if it wasn't so broken.
There are two types of people: Crazies who know and accept that they're nuts, and dangerous lunatics who think they're sane.
Build your own ion engine
And no other carrier offers up to 9 additional data only SIMs on the same plan without additional charges.
Can you please add any link(s) for further reading?
Thank you, I'm aware of the operator pattern. I'm not sure what this does for me beyond the things I've just said. There are already Ceph, NFS, and other persistent volume provisioners that integrate by providing storage classes that can satisfy persistent volume claims.

Implementing CRDs and operators for things other than persistent volumes makes sense, too. But does Rook provide a uniform interface for those to do backups/disaster recovery? Or is it just a collection of heterogeneous storage-y things?

Because it seems like the latter reading the docs, and I think that's okay, but the way the page sells it seems inaccurate:

> Rook turns storage software into self-managing, self-scaling, and self-healing storage services. It does this by automating deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management.

Which resources have all of those things automated?

It looks like Ceph is the only one that has any documentation on disaster recovery at all. For that matter, those docs are solely about getting a cluster in a bad state to restart after quorum is lost. Nothing in the documentation describes how to backup, ship backups, and restore backups.
I don't know - which is why I leave the caveat that some creative forms of harm with targeted advertising may be possible.
I just traveled to Japan, the Phil, Bulgaria, San Francisco, and Boston without having to change sim cards or worry about my data situation. I'm going to keep it until someone else can do the same at a lower price.
I got schooled by some veterans one day about the M-16.

It is a common story that the M-16 was a failure in the Vietnam war and that was true. However, it is like the story about the Patriot missiles that missed in the first Gulf War. It gets repeated over and over again (often by the same people.)

The reality is that things change.

The M-16 has performed well post-Vietnam. Some of that is technical fixes, a lot of it is better maintenance by higher quality and better trained soldiers. The government has often looked for a "next generation" weapon to replace the M-16 and nothing has measured up.
DARPA is IMHO one of the most ironic agencies on the planet: it's an organization whose fundamental purpose is evil (let's kill people better) that has managed to invent some of the best technological developments in history. The Internet, the GUI, time-sharing, TOR, and virtual reality are all DARPA-offshoots.
I'll give it a shot, but I am the entire IT/DevOps/pe department for my company. It boils down to one thing: hosted so I don't have to do shite. Along with the fact that we use bitbucket, so peeps are already logged on, this makes me terribly happy.
As for the best wiki I ever used, was the FB internal one, I think it was based on Mediawiki, but I was only an user, not the maintainer. It was integrated with pretty much everything else FB uses internally.
Nah. Bird is a high profile startup with lawyers who know exactly what kind of BS they're peddling, and have likely successfully intimidated smaller blogs in the past with those same tactics.

Boing Boing + EFF are 100% right to make this interaction very visible, so others can learn 1) how slimy Bird is, and 2) how to respond to it if they find themselves in a similar position but do not have the means to get a proper lawyer/organization like the EFF on their side in a timely manner.

The ESR thing is an internet tough guy interacting with a tech recruiter trying to fill his quota, a much different situation.
You can use the Echo as a bluetooth speaker.
Fortunately I didn’t have access to any Forth implementation when I read Thinking Forth so I could get full credit from the reading undisturbed by any practicing.
I can see why you abandoned it, but I enjoyed the audiobook. It helped that I had a little bit of prior exposition to the subject, and there were quite a few places where I had to pause and wait until I can sit down with pen and paper and reproduce what Pearl was saying. But on the plus side, I finished the audiobook in under two months, whereas it'd take me ages to find the time to finish reading it on paper/kindle.

All this is to say, it was probably a mistake for the publisher to order the narration, but I am really glad they did.
Polaroid. Walkman. Palm Pilot. iPhone?
I abandoned Fi after a trip to western Europe, where I was billed for 6 GB of usage in a single day on one of my data-only SIM cards, despite that the device the SIM was installed in (a 4G hotspot) registered only 200MB of usage that day.

Support was completely unhelpful, and after escalation reported back that the Fi team has zero visibility into chargebacks from their carrier partners and ergo could not diagnose the cause of the usage discrepancy. The lack of accountability on Fi's part, in addition to various annoyances (handset tendency to select Sprint coverage despite poor performance; handset tendency to override manual carrier selection to the detriment of service reliability; generally worse reliability and coverage than my previous carrier) led me to move back to Verizon. I pay an arm and a leg for my service, but at least it's highly reliable and available.
Government Shutdown in Real Time
> I would take that to mean that while anything that is explicitly stated as fact is likely true, the takeaways and editorials on the course of action is going be quite biased.

Shit, you've almost nailed what journalism used to be.
I don't like QuakeC or the QuakeC VM.
One trouble with JIRA is that it doesn't come opinionated, this often means that if one team starts tweaking it, another team gets presented with 30 fields and no idea what to do with them all.

Or you get one location who try to use it while simulataneously another location might use it in a completely different way, and then it becomes even harder to really keep a grip on what's going on.

You also get fights over whether tickets should represent overall state (So they move from TODO/INPROG/DONE) or represent the next step needed (So they move from TODO/IN DEV/IN QA/TO DEPLOY) etc.

Or you try to do both of those and have a state explosion and no clear idea of actual throughput.

After using too many badly run JIRA instances I'd actually like a simpler system to come along and say this is how you use this tool, it's OK if you don't want to use it this way, there are other tools for that.
In his lifetime, Assange has hacked the Pentagon, US Navy telcom systems, other DoD infrastructure, Lockheed Martin, Panasonic, and others through a hacking group he founded[0]. That's not even including Wikileaks and his suspected ties to the Russian government.

Combine that with the fact that most countries carry extradition treaties, it's not all that surprising that the US wants him. He's committed a litany of crimes in his lifetime against foreign countries, and often bragged about it. Why is it crazy to you that a foreign country wants to detain someone that has hacked said country's critical military infrastructure and participated in information laundering that potentially impacted a US presidential election?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
Back when mobile devices were rare, skype used p2p and was very popular and novel. But then an increasing percentage of nodes were mobile with limited power, limited bandwidth, and much less storage. Even being a member of a DHT (a nice way for distributed peers to keep track of each other) is a prohibitive from a battery life and bandwidth perspective for phones.

So Microsoft moved skype to a centralized service and have been trying to monetize it since.

The problem with decentralized servers isn't technical, something half as fast as your phone could easily handle distributed versions of popular websites. The arm based "wall warts" were plenty fast, and they are several generations old already.

How could decentralized applications/services be sustainable funded? If not advertising, how? If it is advertising, what's the benefit to users?

Most importantly, why would users care about decentralized vs centralized?

It does seem that a modest arm based server that's silent, potentially integrated into a wifi router would hugely reduce the downsides of p2p networks. Free power, cheap bandwidth, and being part of a p2p network they would avoid long startup times for applications. Users on their phones would get instant access to their data while their local node did any proof of work, DHT tracking, earning the reputation necessary to use bandwidth, cpu, and storage from other peers.

I don't see any technical barriers, just that users wouldn't care, and nobody would want to pay for it.
It's far more likely to be worth $0. And there is absolutely a marginal return to happiness with more money anyway.
not sure why you are flagged but you bring out a valid point.
This is kind of like asking what would you do to make a donkey more like a zebra?

You can paint some stripes on it but it's still a donkey. They are fundamentally different creatures.

You can instill some startup practices at a bigco, just like a start up can benefit from some organization and structure, but they are not variations of the same beast
> I think the VC model itself is a great development from the last century. The fact that someone can raise millions (more than most people earn in a lifetime!) with an idea enables a lot of innovation that would be hard to nurture otherwise

Isn't this what the public stock markets used to be used for, before an IPO became a way to cash out?
I would love to know about the list of "good" big companies (and good teams within them). In my direct experience, the big companies are soul crushing and monotonous and one is surrounded by mediocrity.
the bake-env.sh seems to just trigger a flag in the Dockerfile

So you have a set of dotfiles, on your url, and if bake-env, those are part of the docker build - and presumably the dotfiles do the rust installs etc, so your docker is ready with rust ecosystem installed (not a rust user so unclear) and then you can happily ignore it till you need to upgrade some rust package ?
tl;dr:

* all payments through google use google pay

* poster's husband bought a pixel 3 at the same time there was fraud on their card.

* the pixel 3 shipped even though the payment was reversed because of the fraud

* google shut down his google pay account hard, and that broke google fi, hangouts, access to his phone number, etc.

* google support has been super googley about this (ie foad)

* if you ever have fraud problems with google pay, prepare for all google stuff to break with 0 resolution or help

* as a side note, poster bought a pixel 3 and they have improved their support from the pixel 2 to be more googley. The phone remains basically broken.
You are equivocating murder with sharing a small piece of data, I can't even take this as a good-faith argument.
Again that's missing the point.

There is a difference between making a law that punishes wrongful use of information and then forcing companies to do things a certain way. That's the point here which seems to be missed on most.
We need a smoking gun and less of the "Supermicro phantom chip" caliber reporting.
This "Illegal number" argument needs to die. Child porn, revenge porn, trade secrets, state secrets, identities of undercover operatives, etc can all be represented as number. Are you arguing (some of) those things shouldn't be illegal to disseminate because of "Illegal numbers"?

This is akin to someone arguing that laws against assault are making "Illegal Force Vectors", and laws against threatening speech are making "Illegal air molecule vibrations".
Most people have no real reason to be concerned about police looking at their data, even if it does somehow happen (not in America, anyway). So as a need, it's a vanishingly small market, limited to people who actually have something illegal to hide - drug business, child porn, whatever. As a want is a different thing - people, convinced to be afraid of Big Brother, want to shield themselves. But that's still not a very large market, when it comes to people paranoid enough to actually do something about it.

If I had data that I legit feared the government finding, I wouldn't be protecting it with a home server - I'd protect it by encrypting the crap out of it and storing it on a pretty generic cloud service, not in my home or anything easily traceable to me.
T-Mobile does it for cheaper than Fi, especially if you have a family plan. I've also heard reports that they have better global coverage than Google Fi due to better negotiated deals with the local companies. For example, Fi doesn't work well in Vietnam whereas T-Mobile does.
It correlates well with housing prices:

https://www.zillow.com/ca/home-values/

2012 was the nadir of housing prices, and they've been rising rapidly since 2014.
All domain-validated certificates use factors you can control if you control the domain, whether email or web or DNS. This has nothing to do with Let's Encrypt.
Data caps on upload as well not to mention many ISP's have terms that prevent you from running services on your account. If you want that from them you need a business account which typically costs quite a bit more. At least that's how Comcast and Verizon are in my neighborhood...
Why not T-Mobile?
I think the answer to some degree is RDF and the semantic data standards. It’s hard to explain them quickly, but it solves a portion of this problem.
I think the Georgian fascist fervour was behind the drive of Abkhazian for independence.I was told the other side of the story by several Abkhazians, they said they were deprived of jobs, housing and oppressed by the Georgians in their capital Sukhumi. I am saying their capital because Abkhazia was a state before the USSR, they joined and were promised independence in case USSR got dissolved, yet Georgian Stalin obstructed that and got rid of all Abkhazian nationalists in his circle (source in the youtube this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYGyyuxRPws.
I had the same experience. Also, I used them with standard portable bluetooth speakers, but even plugged in they'd turn off after a bit, which removed the whole plan of "spontaneously broadcast music through the house just whenever".
The MD2 model format is considerably extended over MDL, in size limits, vertex resolution, and features like texture animations. And while Q1 had the split between Netquake and Quakeworld networking, Q2 has a single system. Those kinds of refinements can make the difference.
TVs at CES 2019: 8K is still just a fantasy
> Also you can set the file descriptor limits to whatever you want.

Isn't limited by the amount of memory?
She's definitely right that the quality of their support has tanked. I've had significant connection issues where people on other carriers have none and their support personnel sent me useless boilerplate questions after I requested support. They then followed up with a multi-page incoherent trouble shooting doc that seemed aimed at their own engineers. One of the worst support experiences I've had, even from Google.

When I first signed up they had fantastic support, now it's worse than what I expect from Comcast.
Show HN: Search property tax details of any local government from one place
Bird's laywer is called Linda Kwak? Is that some kind of practical joke, now?
> Yes, but idiomatic Rust makes very limited use of it ...

This is hardly a positive for Swift; Rust still collects its garbage as much as Swift does; it just does so more efficiently by making use of compile-time lifetime analysis (RAII-like), in addition to the RC technique that Swift uses.
> From the above, it is clear that our primary obstacles are not technological [5]; hence Tim Berners-Lee’s call [6] to "assemble the brightest minds from business, technology, government, civil society, the arts, and academia to tackle the threats to the Web’s future". Yet at the same time, computer scientists and engineers need to deliver the technological burden of proof that decentralized personal data networks can scale globally and that they can provide people with an experience similar to that of centralized platforms.

This whole article looks like "well, the obstacles are not technological, but let me write a few pages about technology anyways".

If the obstacle are not technological, then we need non-technological solutions. So far I think GDPR is one such non-technological step towards taking back control of our personal data.

The hardest problem in my opinion is "preventing the spread of misinformation" because we essentially need a way to distinguish between malice and stupidity. Without mind-reading I do not see how this could be possible at scale.