skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the best. It's uncanny. I moved to a house that had NBN, so I set up a middle relay for the first time in my life. I had an amazing 150/100 connection from Aussie Broadband.

Then I moved house again, and now I'm back in a non-NBN area. No more Tor relay from me.

I think running relays is great idea to help speed up the network to improve user experience. Just note, for middle relays (which is sadly the only sane option from home unless you're fine with police banging down your door at 4am at any time due to your IP address publicly sharing all manner of illegal material), you may not get use for weeks or even months, apparently the network waits until you prove your track record of consistency first. But it's important to just be there to support sudden surges in Tor use like when a dictatorship crackdown happens somewhere, and en entire country suddenly needs to access normal websites again. So if you can afford the electricity of a small tower running 24/7 at home to support Tor, I'd recommend it, I've done it before. try the tor relays IRC chan for support.
In ~/.bash_functions

$ loz QUERY

will give the password from the ~/.passwords flat text database, last password is valid one.

$ lozinka

will ask for questions and enter it into ~/.passwords

I suggest chattr +a ~/.passwords so that file cannot be deleted, only appended.

function loz () {
PASSWORDS=~/.passwords;
if [[ "$1" ]]; then
/bin/grep -i --color=auto "$1" $PASSWORDS;
else
echo "No query given."
fi
}

function lozinka () {
passwords=~/.passwords
echo -n "Hostname:"; read hostname;
echo -n "Service:"; read service;
echo -n "Username:"; read username;
echo -n "Email:"; read email;
password=$(pwgen -n -n -n -s 20 1)
echo -n "Password (${password}):"; read password1;
if [[ $password1 ]]; then
password=$password1
fi
if [[ ( $username || $email ) && $password ]]; then
line=$(join_by : $hostname $service $username $email $password);
echo $line >> $passwords;
tail -n1 $passwords;
else
echo "Nothing recorded as there is no username or email";
fi
}
There's already an instruction manual for writing pop hits: The KLF's The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) is a (tongue-in-cheek) step by step guide to achieving a No.1 single with no money or musical skills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual
Consider the following:

"PG&E didn’t anticipate how quickly the drought would overtake heavily wooded areas north of San Francisco and outside Sacramento, said Stephen Tankersley, who oversaw PG&E’s vegetation-management program between 1999 and 2015. “It’s hard to believe that anybody would have predicted that it would have been like this,” said Mr. Tankersley, now a utilities consultant. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Conditions on the ground worsened dramatically and quickly, said PG&E spokeswoman Lynsey Paulo. She said the utility has reacted with speed and urgency. “We are very aware of the risk and we are doing everything we can to keep our customers and the communities we serve safe,” she said. “PG&E considers wildfire risk as a top-tier enterprise risk. It is evident in our actions.”

The utility removed 451,000 more trees from 2016 through 2018 than it had originally forecast, she said, in an “amped up” effort to deal with massive tree mortality."

...

"The task was complicated because some dangerous trees were on private land, forcing PG&E to negotiate with landowners, said Bob Fratini, a retired PG&E vegetation-management manager. Residents sometimes pressured crews, he said, to trim just enough to satisfy minimum requirements.

“Utilities should be given the right to remove any tree that could cause an outage or a fire,” he said. California regulators recently gave utilities more latitude in this area, saying they could shut off power to homes or businesses that prevent tree crews from working. PG&E’s Ms. Paulo said that isn’t necessary very often.

Sometimes, PG&E’s tree-clearing created new problems. After PG&E workers removed two trees in January 2015 southeast of Sacramento, a gray pine was exposed to wind and began leaning, according to a state investigation.

On a 102-degree day in September, the pine hit a 12,000-volt line and electricity ignited it, dropping embers onto dry grass and sparking the Butte Fire, which burned 70,868 acres and 921 buildings. Two people died."

These two blocks of text to me make it sound more like what you'd traditionally call an 'act of god', and not malfeasance (unlike San Bruno). While its unfortunate people died, and that there were great losses, you when you have people living in land that historically (over tens of thousands of years) had regular burn cycles, then humans came along and kept putting the fires out, I have less sympathy for those who take a loss - they should have known it was a risk of living there.

Also, I work with power utilities, having to turn the power off in a windy situation is an unwinnable situation, you either get complaints to the PUC, or you get higher fire risk - both are expensive to an extent to deal with - and without a historical record of fires in that area, its not really rational to just turn the power off, to tens of thousands of customers, and its harder to justify to your customers on its face - just as they are being excoriated now a failure to exert enough caution, if they had exerted the caution and nothing had happened, they would have been excoriated for exerting too much caution, again - its an unwinnable situation.
Maybe they have just become a little senile, so they revel in caterpillar watching.
> Whether you are hooked up to a polygraph is irrelevant.

I'm going to go with strongly disagree here.
> You can't call a result significant if your methodology is to gradually lower the bar for "significant" until you get the result you wanted!

This didn't happen. You're the one who has post hoc decided that there is some abstract bar of "significance" that they're moving up or down. The point is to publish absurd papers in ostensibly serious journals. There is not some absurdity equivalent to p < 0.05 that they manipulated. They just published absurd papers in ostensibly serious journals. It's not like the absurdity of Dog Rape Culture would be lessened if the first papers they submitted had been the output of /dev/random.

> I don't think the authors claimed anything like that, where are you getting that? Their thesis was just that the content of the papers was absurd, not the times or credentials involved.

I'm getting it from the literal facts of what happened. They are not trained in these fields, and papers they wrote were published in these journals. Therefore, the hoax shows that you do not need to be trained in these fields to publish in these journals.
Hi, how to apply? Your email?
Can you show me that muni/pud power utilities are more responsive or better at paying out on liability?
My phone is in my pocket, which signficantly degrades the audio quality of any recordings. Same reason I have a cover over my laptop camera, but not over my phone camera.
How long have you been working on it?
What marketing efforts have you done? Building the product is necessary but not sufficient...
Archive.is link submitted. Live article link is here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/09/that-soph...
You need to push things out of swap back into memory.

I usually just swapoff and swapon, but I'm sure there's a better way.
Firefox has reader mode which is fairly configurable and does a good job.

Firefox for Android has it as well, combined with ublock origin it makes reading long form on a phone pleasant.
"I can confidently say I've not heard a single left-wing activist talk about any of those 4 areas in my time working at that organisation, or, truly, in any other activist context."

I've mostly heard these things discussed on Reddit and YouTube because of Jordan Peterson. I've heard postmodernism discussed by a professional counseller but nobody else I've ever talked to. I find it intriguing the intensity which people fight beliefs that seemingly few people believe or have even heard of.

I do find epistemology a very interesting subject in the modern day though. I've heard arguments in Canada about how traditional native forms of knowledge should be acknowledged to be as legitimate as science. People aren't proposing this merely as a thought experiment they want things like oral tradition to hold weight in the court system. They feel that a lack of scientific evidence about possible harms from say natural resource development is being used as grounds to harm the ecology of areas in spite of the warnings and precautions of oral traditions. Epistemology is becoming very relevant politically here in these parts yet it seems to be a subject that both myself and the public at large is uneducated about.
They use Electron, but don't have a build for Linux. Why.
Conversely, when you pay top dollar for an expensive Android phone or a Windows 10 Pro license, you can be sure your privacy remains intact. /s
Important to remember that AIDS was first called GRIDS (gay-related immune deficiency syndrome).
Notion is synonym of inkling, Matt Macinnis invested, and it has drag and drop composition... I wonder if some people from Inkling are working on this.
Destyle.css: Opinionated CSS reset stylesheet (8kb uncompressed)
Whose loss is it to inflate a stream count?
Definitely, with the syntax support it's just a matter of balancing bundle size – need to figure out a way to dynamically load the language syntax and then we can add all of the languages
PG&E has a long history of negligence and stripping whatever value remains from PG&E's shareholders is an eminently appropriate penalty.

PG&E may indeed not be entirely responsible for the wild fires but it's responsible enough that this kind of penalty is warranted - ie, trimming trees around PG&E of course was something they knew they had to do and that they failed to do (just like their failure to maintain the pipe that exploded earlier).

How California deals with fire risks and utility costs going forward is complex question. Naturally, it's made more complex by the influence large corporations wield.

In this day and age, bankruptcy still offers the possibility of PG&E sidling rate-payers with its cost while maintaining shareholder value, despite this being exactly what bankruptcy is intended to avoid. Naturally, I'd like to see the state of California prevent this but I'm not holding my breath. IE, California theoretically could seize PG&E and run it as a public utility but it probably won't and thus little will change.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18902727
> Seriously, a lot of people on HN need to do their damn homework about these devices before declaring them to be something they have been proven not to be.

Based on what? Marketing copy? Eyeballing iFixit teardowns?

> but that would be caught pretty quick because the device would be "lit up" constantly (another _hardware_ thing)

Totally not buying it, unless you can show me the traces and discrete components that force power through the LED when signal from the microphone is allowed to reach the uC. If it's done in software, I'm not trusting it.

If you're making an argument of "trust the vendor because economics", you have to recognize how weak it is.
Thanks for telling me this. I will definitely avoid Notion now. I want a username/password combo at the very least, both different for every site I use, and preferably with TOTP as well. I never want my email to be used for security purposes as it is among the most hackable target out there.
Disabling by the browser will take no effect on the app or other browsers.
Don't you have some coding you need to be doing ?
+1 I see what you mean now.
Not just women but almost anyone in America will protest against the idea that they are old (though our cultural ideas about old women are as bad as the author claims). I've noticed this in my parents who are now in their mid-60s. It's quite sad that people have the mentality that they need to stay "forever young"; ideally we'd be able to accept the stages of our lives as they come.
Any idea if and how this ruling (if upheld) can be used to refuse phone seizures / password requests by CBP when entering the country? The ruling relies on the 5th amendment so its scope is limited to American citizens I guess. And whatever the rule of law it’s probably not a good idea to piss off a CBP agent... but still, it’d be nice to be able to travel to the US without having to wipe one’s phone and social media accounts.
CREDIT GURU
Am not a fan of this sort of thing but after nearly been scammed, i finally met a professional hacker that can change your grades, get you a citizenship permit, wire funds, hack email or social media accounts, hack your bf or gfs iPhone, fix your credit score, clear criminal records, clear dmv records just name it. Contact him INTERNETDON4@GMAIL.COM, and +1 802-444-1918. He’s affordable, effective, and efficient.
Notion is all about manipulating 'content', which is what browsers excel at.a

Were it not in Electron, it would most likely still have a big web widget occupying most of its frame.
awesome move!
Do you lose any bandwidth in bridge mode? I’m about buy a new Ubiquiti Edge router and a few APs.

With AT&T I can’t do a true bridge mode or use my own modem. Their gateway has to do the authentication to the network and I’m stuck with it if I want gigabit fiber. People on dslreports lost a good bit of bandwidth on a gigbit connection writing rules on the edge router to authenticate back through the gateway.
Not just yet, but we'll get there. Also there is a full, documented, API so perhaps a community member will start something first
There's a static version of this built into bash, btw:

# allow directory variables
shopt -s cdable_vars

# set a directory variable
export some=~/Projects/someproject

You can then say `cd some` from anywhere and end up in `~/Projects/someproject`.
I see. I can see the issue.

But it comes down to this: if a user explicitly kills an app, should it keep running in the background?

If the answer is "yes", then what you're really saying is users shouldn't be able to kill apps if the app doesn't want to be killed.

I get that some users don't know what killing an app means but do it anyway for some reason.

But that's not a problem with background refresh. E.g., maybe iOS could warn/explain about the implications of killing an app (with a checkbox so you can opt-out of further warnings).

Edit: just realized I left the word “not” out just above, which reverses it’s meaning
Why would AWS be a customer if Mongo was entirely proprietary and not when it is mostly Open Source?
Illegal "jobs" do not have any merit in this argument, you should know that.
One of the things I thought about a lot this past year is that when you're presented with a choice of "is it a big fake scam or is it this other authentic thing", the answer is often that it's both and whichever one you focus on blurs out the other.
in .bash_functions with PostgreSQL

$ age NAME YYYY-MM-DD

to get the age of anybody:

function age () {
NAME="$1";
DATE="$2";
if [[ $1 && $2 ]]; then
AGE=$(psql -Stc "SELECT age(date('${DATE}'));");
echo $NAME: $AGE, was born on $DATE | sed 's/ mon / month /' | sed 's/ mons \| mons,/ months /';
else
echo "No name or date supplied";
fi
}

function child () {
age "My child" "2012-03-12";
}
With that argument, git, Gcc, Emacs and Lisp are also dead.
This nice and all in theory but looking through the lens of reality where police are legally allowed to lie to get a confession - claiming they have evidence that they don’t have to coerce a confession and seeing that “rubber hose decryption” is real, it really doesn’t mean much in practice.

Edit:

Since people don’t seem to believe that police are actually legally allowed to lie during an interrogation:

https://www.njmoorelaw.com/10-ways-police-can-lie-to-you
Apple's 5G iPhone shift bogged down by Qualcomm chip battle
Locked Out? Understanding New Jersey
Socialize the losses and privatize the gains, but only for those who are wealthy and in power. That is our current system in America, too big to fail.
> Cracking an encryption is infeasible or extremely expensive when properly encrypted

This depends highly on your threat model. What your local sheriff's office can do, versus the FBI, versus the NSA. Mall security Rent-A-Cops can peek through an unlocked phone, but probably aren't going to be doing any kind of cracking other than the obvious possibilities.
how do you know how much cash they have in the bank ?
Yes, it is shoddy science or possibly not science at all. Testing an assertion using known measures that have been shown to not test what you want to test does not add to the scientific knowledge and instead subtract by adding noise.

Building upon tests that has not held up to scrutiny without having a good argument for why it is different this time violates how science explores and builds knowledge. Science is a technique that produce a network of knowledge [1], where the core nodes are viewed as facts because they have successfully held up to scrutiny by other pieces of knowledge and has worked as a foundation for other pieces of knowledge.

In science pieces of knowledge that builds upon claims that are shown to be invalid, such as the IAT test, are viewed as inheriting the problems of the knowledge it builds upon.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxdBRKmPhe4&feature=youtu.be...
Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many
I think the 5th amendment is pretty clear, you can't be compelled to testify against yourself. What does that have to do with false confessions?

If you make a statement in court that is used to convict you this is not a false confession but the law says you need not make that statement at all.
I see, thanks! Maybe a new blog entry with a link to the old topic would have been better to show that there's a real problem.
Cannot remember pacman queries:

# Pacman functions
function pacinstall () {
sudo pacman -S "$@"
}

function pacremove () {
sudo pacman -R "$@"
}

function paclist () {
sudo pacman -Ql "$1" | less
}

function pacsearch () {
sudo /usr/bin/pacsearch "$@" | less
}
Backtracking, experimenting, and changing your mind is part of the game development process. No game ever ends up being exactly what the designers imagined at the start.
Everybody follows

Speedy bits exchange

Stars await to gl@ow"

The preceding key is copyrighted by Oracle Corporation.

Dupl@ication of this key is not allowed without permission
from Oracl1e Corporation.

Copyright 2003 Oracle Corporation.
I'm going to contact them about a texting only package where they disable voice capability and you have to oay one year upfront at like 20 bux a month!
> I thought that polygraphs were not accepted as evidence in court...

Only if you "pass". Fail one and admissible or not, it'll be brought up.
I read "Severed head" some time ago - if I read another Murdoch, which one should it be?
Unsurprising, given that sexual orientation and race are not the result of choices. There is no decision to be made, no change in input will change the output.

Dietary habits are entirely active choices, it's an active decision making process, and weight is the outcome of those inputs. Gaining or losing weight is basic physics.

Perhaps obesity and food abuse/addiction should be looked at much the same way that drug abuse/addiction is looked at. Obesity is the natural outcome of food abuse.
What kind of due diligence is required? Isn't the concern here mostly how the stock should be priced?

And why then are private funding rounds so much cheaper to get done? Diligence still has to be done for private funding. Why is more diligence required for an IPO?
Cool, but on my Mac it makes flashing text..arggh.
Bird apologizes for trying to take down Boing story about hacking its scooters
Yes, I don't mean to say it's impossible - just that you'd need an entirely isolated system to detect when data was flowing over that link which is physically connected in all cases and cannot be updated. I don't believe we see that in either the Alexa or Google Home, but I'd be happy to be mistaken if anyone's done a more in depth teardown of these systems.

And all of this is hinged on hoping you notice LEDs firing in the corner while you're having a conversation. Perhaps a more noticeable method should be used in cases like this. A forced "beep"/tone or something from an isolated circuit hardwired to the speakers.
At job interviews I also need to adorn a choker, so that they know I can code in low oxygen environments.

I guess that is appropriate for large open plan zoos.
Citation needed. I know many not so pretty women in successful careers.
This thread has gotten long, so here's a summary:

- There is not evidence that these devices record and transmit without an activation word triggering this behavior
- However, there is nothing to stop companies from breaking this assumption
- Some people think the risk of one of these companies flipping a switch and recording everything is negligible
- Some people think the risk of one of these companies flipping a switch and recording everything is warrants serious concern
- These two groups will not agree, and that's fine :)
Sites like https://observatory.mozilla.org can tell you if your site is vulnerable to these sorts of attacks. I end up setting the correct headers and the warnings go away. I have never actually tried to simulate an attack on my own domain though.

One thing that is bugging me though.. let’s say I am setting up a nextcloud instance behind a reverse proxy. The way I have been doing it I have had to manually set the right headers in my nginx conf. But this doesn’t seem right. Nextcloud already has these headers... I think. Is there someway of telling nginx to pass along the backend’s headers?

A lot of web applications should already have these issues figured out.
I personally found the above comment very insightful. There is significant difference between discovered joys and rationalized ones. Both are very valid, but I think this is an important part of the discussion.

The last part about being newsworthy was likely unneeded, though.
There is a Border Search Exception to the 4th Amendment established by the courts; this ruling has no relevance at at port of entry.
Convert any video to webm with specified bitrate:

$ video2webm 300k myvideo.mp4 othervideo.mpg third.mov

function video2webm () {
bitrate=$1;
shift;
for file in "$@";
do out=${file%.*}.webm;
ffmpeg -y -i "$file" -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v $bitrate -pass 1 -speed 4 -c:a libopus -f webm /dev/null && \
ffmpeg -i "$file" -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v $bitrate -pass 2 -speed 1 -c:a libopus "$out";
done;
}
Well most people aren't drug kingpins or hackers that need to worry about the NSA showing up to crack their phone. Its also possible for the FBI to stake out your house and bug your home but that's also not something most people worry about.
What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) [pdf]
Wait a second, then what the hell is a Skrillex?
My method is if I show up at the gym I already succeeded and pat my own shoulder that I'm great. The workout itself seems easy compared to get up in the morning and drive there...
So they just need to reproduce your likeness to unlock your poorly-secured device? Sounds significant, when you're already in custody. /s
China Law Blog: China Law for Business
https://outline.com/5bxFLb

Whole article
I was just about to comment on this line. It's disgusting what sort of crud gets into contracts when the market is so screwed up.
You and I jointly get $10/month, to be split according to our stream counts. We each get 100 views/month, so we both take home $5/month. Now, I start lying, and saying that I am actually receiving 900 views/month. With 90% of the views, I take home $9/month, leaving only $1/month to you. I have fraudulently stolen $4/month from you.
The polygraph test is an interrogation technique. The examiner uses the reading to guide the questioning. I think taking a human out of that loop would be as difficult as a Turing test.
Who says arranging for reproductive partners has to involve intensity? If everyone was equally relaxed...