skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like all the secrecy.

Massachusetts has a "secret court system" that lets connected people avoid court and problems. I've lived here for a while and had no idea these shenanigans were going on. Well to be fair, we're a pretty jaded bunch so it wasn't overly surprising.

"Every year, tens of thousands of cases wind up in secret court sessions — formally known as “show cause hearings” — that are presided over by court clerks and usually held for suspects who haven’t been arrested and don’t pose a flight risk or danger to others. People are generally entitled to these hearings for misdemeanors, but police can request them for felonies as well.
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Show cause hearings were originally created to weed out baseless allegations, but, in practice, there are so few checks on the clerks’ power that they regularly go far beyond that, brokering deals and, in nearly half of the cases, rejecting requests for charges.

Clerk magistrates, who are appointed by the governor, routinely refuse to issue charges even when there is significant evidence — as in the case of a judge caught on camera taking someone else’s $4,000 watch off a security belt at Logan International Airport. Over the last two years, clerks have set aside nearly 62,000 cases, including more than 18,000 after a clerk concluded there was probable cause to believe that the accused committed a crime, according to court data.

The Spotlight Team uncovered cases where clerks tossed charges involving serious injuries or deaths, including one brought against a Quincy taxi driver who ran over and allegedly dragged an elderly man, killing him."

Good reporting in a strange web first format..

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/secret-courts/

More info here.
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/investigations/spotlight/...
It’s almost like members of the government are above the law...
I wish I was so sure of all that as yourself.

> What happens after we die? You stop being.

You don't know that of course, and have no way of knowing that. Although I'll agree that from a modern, rationalist point of view that's the default reasonable assumption.

> What is consciousness? A physical process happening in your brain.

And same goes for that one; the brain clearly relates to consciousness, but you can't be sure it produces it. Maybe it receives it somehow; maybe it's even more complex than that. I'd even go as far to say that if we were to create a black box AGI tomorrow, the question would still not be solved: the only thing you'd have proven is that a specific arrangement of matter appears to result in consciousness, nothing more.

Moreover, reality itself happens - in a very concrete way - in your head, not outside of it. Plato's cave and all that (or for a more technically oriented one, the brain-in-a-jar idea). Your point of view is rational in the extreme, but also extremely reductive. I don't think one should be so quick to reject deeper - and, dare I say, spiritual - ways of considering our universe.
> a lot more like engineering and a lot less like craft

I think the curve of diminishing returns plays an important role. A near hack job will often get you 90% there, in terms of fulfilling what was exactly requested. I don't think this is true for any other skillset. It's so easy to make something featureful and fragile in software. The time and cost above that can be very difficult to justify to customers/management.

In the words of a previous boss, after I pointed out we need more testing, "Everything is working, we'll fix the bugs as they come".
What part of my logic is in error?

Lack of proof does not mean proof of nonexistence. And if we look at things like the aether, was made a distinct proof that it didn't exist as conjectured (although its rearing its head as a quantum Foam).

But I await for proof, be it positive or negative, of emotion and consciousness. Because all you did was throw insults.

> Show a mechanism or proof of the effect. Otherwise it's nonsense.

One can highlight open questions with no apparent answers. And it absolutely doesn't make those questions "nonsense". But this view is called Scientism, and is not science. "Proof or its fake" is absolutely not science.

"Proof or its unproven" is science.
> I am convinced that fasting is a fad and may have placebo effect if you think it will.

... most of the effects can be verified with blood tests...
Are Mail-Order Meal Kits Doomed?
Idera has a pretty simple goal you can work towards: make the company as profitable as possible. You might not like this goal as much as purely serving the target audience, but in the long run, the example positive example of Travis CL turning into a sustainable profit will lead to further investment in the sector. This behavour will probably be incentivized by bonuses, and any stock you had most likely just had a liquidity event, so you stand to benefit.
It really doesn't matter insofar that the internet is going to keep copies of shockwave installers for decades long after adobe would ever realistically keep offering downloads.

I do think it would be cool for them to keep offering downloads of the installer. Adobe should be proud of shockwave and show that pride by keeping the installer out there.
I wonder if there's an impact from the increase in startups? Since most early employees are getting paid in equity rather than real dollars wouldn't there be a stagnation for a few years until the equity is transformed into cash?

Also any conversation about wage stagnation has to take into account collusion, in recent years Google, Intel, Adobe and others were avoiding poaching each other's employees.
But your non-purchase review doesn't prove that the actual item sold on Amazon isn't a fake. That's the whole point of knock-offs. They want you to purchase on the expectation that reviews/experience of the real item will be all the "advertising" needed to sell their knock-off.

If you haven't purchased the item, the review should not be allowed to be made.
As you so correctly and wisely point out, we take all kinds of risks every day. It's an inherent part of life. Yet we also generally accept that things that can be done in a safer way should be when reasonably possible.

At this point I'm leaning towards deprecating the idea that encouragement, positivity, and documentation will lead to developers making good decisions. As you've demonstrated, it's clearly insufficient, and I suspect your experience is an outlier but far from unique.

Increasingly, I think we may have to consider measures to get it right the first time. And we have to be sure our peers do too, because we're all living in the same environment and context. Otherwise, sooner or later, someone who didn't read a warning label is going to try to build a PII-handling business on Zero Server (or similar) and it's going to be a dumpster fire.

I would love a world where friendly encouragement, niceness, and documentation could scaleably do this. Sadly, it's perhaps possible that that world and this one could be slightly different.
You Do Not Need Blockchain: Eight Well-Known Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work
Did you try to upgrade using AWS database migration service?
‘Wiki’ doesn’t mean person - it means quick. An automatic authoring system would be even more ‘wiki’ than before.
Formatting, sure, but inputs...

One of our customer integrations uses all of MM-DD-YY, YY-MM-DD and DD-MM-YY for a date input. Took us quite a few man-hours to figure out why our integration layer failed so often.
I think they should be forced to list the number of items returned right next to the number of reviews.
wah? He has commented 9 times in the last three months, you have commented 9 times in the last three hours. If he is active, what are you?
Well, most "high-value" groups like politicians, journalists, billionaires and such are targets right now in the sense that intelligence agencies and private opportunists have their information and trying to use text to influence them. The AI we're talking about isn't as good as human and so it's not going produce things that even as well tuned as a people currently do - since the method involves just emulating normal text, the AI is, at best, going to become nearly as "good as average".

But it's reasonable to say this could do a bit of damage to "moderate value targets". Given that you already some portion of retirees today "infected" with fake-news obsessions. Not only would have personalized spam/social-engineer but you could train the AI further on what worked
once you even had a lowish success-rate.

All that said, it seems like the OpenAI text generator would not be such a customized social-engineering-constructor. Rather, such a thing would have to be trained by the malicious actors themselves, who have their own data about what works. So the now-always-in-the-background question, OpenAI's shyness to release code justified, seems like still a no.
>Maybe we can recognize different users have different needs, and what's right for some isn't for others.

Exactly, and that's supposed to be the whole reason we have different distributions in the first place, so that they can cater to people who have different preferences.

>Yeah, when you spend your life in a shell, the choice shouldn't matter, right ? Just like carpenters shouldn't care about saws...

To be fair, I think that on just about any distro it should be pretty easy to set a different shell like zsh for your preference. It's not quite the same as wanting to run i3 on Ubuntu.
And why would I ever want to generate native code for an OS at runtime?

Why? To get write once, run everywhere. If you can do the generation at the speed the data comes off the disk, you're paying nothing for the feature.

If you do things right, the abstract memory model can even be bit-identical. Even though there are differences in the underlying hardware, like endianess, all of the virtual ISAs can still implement the same virtual memory model. Smalltalk also does this, and it absolutely works across 100's of combinations of ISA and OS.
IIUC - and I'd be interested to be corrected if I don't - the difference between "duty to retreat" and "stand your ground" is all around what happens while you still (reasonably?) perceive a threat to be present. If you're confident that you are safe, and you (say) shoot someone in retribution, you're guilty even in a stand-your-ground state. At least theoretically - what can actually be shown at trial is possibly another question.
I went to NYC for the first time about 20 years ago. I was looking for a cab from JFK to midtown. A limo driver said he'd take me for $30 (more or less -- I don't exactly remember). I had no idea really if that was a good price, but I remember thinking, "at least I know what the price will be," and I took his offer.
For South Asian Cooks, Yogurt Starter Is an Heirloom
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642395
Blockchain system is not necessary now
Nashville man sentenced to jail for illegally operating short-term rental
The website gives the impression of a polished product. It doesn’t come across as a POC. Therefore I think the security concerns are valid. Someone is bound to build something with this, get users and get hacked otherwise.
The retention requirements for enterprises can be satisfied by transaction logging where the transactions are done. You don't need to break into TLS.
> The US uses a median figure for per capita income statistics

Do you have reference for this claim? That really wouldn’t make any sense. The appropriate technical term for median income is “median income”. “Per capita” always implies total divided by population, i.e. the mean.

Here is the US Census’s definition: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/note/US/INC910217

> Definition

> Per capita income is the mean income computed for every man, woman, and child in a particular group including those living in group quarters. It is derived by dividing the aggregate income of a particular group by the total population in that group.
Christ, what assholes.
As long as machine writing is below human level quality, yes.

But that won't be the case for too many more years.
It should be emphasized that "unsweet" simply means that I want to add my own sweetener. If the sugar is already added, then I rarely can add it to my taste.

Ex: Starbucks coffee can be pre-sweetened, or taken black. I'll take it black, and then head over to the side and add cream + sugar myself. Its very normal, and I think most people don't see any problem with this.

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Where people get confused is... practically any situation outside of coffee. Super-bland and plain Cereal can taste better if you add some sugar on the top, or raisins yourself. Yogurt can be sugar'd up to taste.

Then you get to meats, and it gets a bit confusing. BBQ Sauce is basically Ketchup + Sugar, and adding it before cooking allows for caramelization. But you can also add BBQ Sauce afterwards and allow meats to taste sweeter.

Once you realize how adding sugar helps bland foods taste better, you'll start to add sugar yourself. And that's perfectly fine and normal! Chances are, you'll add less sugar if you do it manually, than what the stores will do.

A spoonful of sugar helps the Yogurt go down. Just because you bought plain yogurt doesn't mean you have to eat it plain. It means that you can add condiments to your preferred taste.
The thing that depresses me the most about Wiki[mp]edia is that the US$ 100 that I donated to them a few years ago (presumably,) predominantly went into creating material like this.

Given how incredibly well-funded Wikimedia is, their yearly extort^Wdonation-drive with 50%+ viewport-sized banners plastered all over Wikipedia, claiming that the encyclopedia you're viewing is in dire need of your money to barely sustain itself for the rest of the year, actually makes me rather angry every time I see it.

Recommended reading for those unaware of how (and what) Wikimedia is actually doing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
> while shortening “Wikimedia Commons” to its nickname “Wikicommons”

Literally never seen anyone write "Wikicommons", in all the years I've heard people talk about Commons, but heh.

I don't really understand how they manage to (in my opinion) waste time on nonsense like this. The services run great, the contribution volume is immense, and the quality of the tools is improving constantly. I want the Wikimedia Foundation's treasury to keep more funds to deal with conditions which may arise, and seek donations when they expect the most success (rather than the most desperation).

I want the Wikimedia Foundation to make it as attractive and convenient as possible for all interested persons to contribute to, and access, this immense cultural resource, but basically nothing else; and I just don't see how messing about with the names is an efficient way to carry out that job.
I have Linux but there is no problems in using it. At all. So i can add that it is one of most comfortable OS i have been ever used
Bazel 0.23 Release
What can you do (remote viewing-wise)?
I do teach non-tech people computer stuff from time to time in professional capacity, including in the past the Microsoft Office suite, as well as Photoshop, Corel and Inkscape. So I do have a concept of how difficult that is.

That said, in context of work, it's even simpler. A few tasks, a program. You teach people by example. Type this here, type this there, do this, do that, you're done. Nothing hard.

Think of it this way: almost every company that uses computers has some custom assortment of SMB tools and SaaS websites specific to the job at hand. It's normal that people learn this, and they have zero problems with it. Hell, typical ecommerce management panels I see people working in have UX an order of magnitude worse than Emacs.
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See Cpedia, Cuil's hilariously awful attempt at building just that.

https://marco.org/2010/04/12/the-mechanized-madness-of-cuils...
This is basically why I end up going back to Emacs. It's waaaaay too easy to start writing functions and the built-in help system (with docstrings almost everywhere for every function and variable) is invaluable.

Though I'm beginning to wonder if JavaScript-based extensions in VS Code can match the power of Emacs code. Are there plugins that connect to Postgres? or do what Org-mode does?
Currently, "node:10" is based on Stretch. The image is not totally up-to-date. Despite what the article says, Debian Jessie is still maintained, part of Debian LTS effort. After pulling "node:10-jessie", "apt update", "apt list --upgradable" says:

curl/oldstable 7.38.0-4+deb8u14 amd64 [upgradable from: 7.38.0-4+deb8u13]
libcurl3/oldstable 7.38.0-4+deb8u14 amd64 [upgradable from: 7.38.0-4+deb8u13]
libcurl3-gnutls/oldstable 7.38.0-4+deb8u14 amd64 [upgradable from: 7.38.0-4+deb8u13]
libcurl4-openssl-dev/oldstable 7.38.0-4+deb8u14 amd64 [upgradable from: 7.38.0-4+deb8u13]
libpq-dev/oldstable 9.4.21-0+deb8u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.4.20-0+deb8u1]
libpq5/oldstable 9.4.21-0+deb8u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.4.20-0+deb8u1]
libsystemd0/oldstable 215-17+deb8u10 amd64 [upgradable from: 215-17+deb8u9]
libtiff5/oldstable 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u8 amd64 [upgradable from: 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u7]
libtiff5-dev/oldstable 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u8 amd64 [upgradable from: 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u7]
libtiffxx5/oldstable 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u8 amd64 [upgradable from: 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u7]
libudev1/oldstable 215-17+deb8u10 amd64 [upgradable from: 215-17+deb8u9]
systemd/oldstable 215-17+deb8u10 amd64 [upgradable from: 215-17+deb8u9]
systemd-sysv/oldstable 215-17+deb8u10 amd64 [upgradable from: 215-17+deb8u9]
udev/oldstable 215-17+deb8u10 amd64 [upgradable from: 215-17+deb8u9]

There shouldn't be 500 vulnerabilities here. Of course, node itself may pull many outdated libraries outside of Debian (which is a common practice with software using bundled copies instead of system libraries), but without details, it's hard to know what is accounted for a vulnerability. Moreover, if the Alpine version has 0 vulnerability, it would mean all the vulnerabilities come from Debian.

The article mentions backports of fixes, so I suppose they just don't compare blindly package version numbers with the versions provided in the CVE report. For Debian, they could use the security tracker to know if a CVE is fixed and in which version (something Alpine is lacking, so it's difficult to assess the security of Alpine). However, many CVE are not fixed because the security issue is deemed to be too minor. A bit more details about the 500 vulnerabilities would help to understand.
This device management functionality is also available for linux desktops and best combined with enabling the IOMMU at boot time.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bolt/bolt

It also seems to be available on most distros.

https://pkgs.org/download/bolt
Cloudflare are still providing services to a lot of politically noxious sites.

What The Stormer did was claim that since Cloudflare accepted them as customers, Cloudflare must have been sympathetic to their ideology and secretly Nazis themselves. The Stormer made a pretty big deal out of this, potentially doing severe damage to Cloudflare's reputation and driving away customers.

If The Stormer had kept their mouth shut and not made a big public thing out of it, Cloudflare would probably still be providing services to them.

Instead, they forced Cloudflare's hand by claiming them as ideological allies.
Anything near Cape Canaveral? I'd be interested.
> Of the two cards, Western Digital is claiming a performance advantage by citing up to 160MB/s read speed

so, 1h 44 minutes, which is not that bad
As long as Thunderbolt is enabled. If I'm not mistaken disabling Thunderbolt completely should be a viable workaround. It's essentially the same situation we had with Firewire: Just blacklist the driver and all should be good.

As DisplayPort Alternate Mode for USB-C is nowadays used a lot to connect to external displays, instead of the approach Apple chose to tunnel DisplayPort over Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt is probably not even relevant for most users outside of the Apple universe.
If you want your opinion heard, you have to participate. The problem though, is that certain people have pretty much a full-time job to push stuff through the committee. So they invest way more time than you can ever afford. And in the end they get their shit into the Standard.
Some people break their fasts with a high protein meal for some hormonal benefits, but there's no "missing nutrition". Some people over eat when breaking their fasts early in their adaption. Otherwise: our digestive cycles take a long time to work.
I'm guessing you would know because you're doing a lot of specific work in the container to boot an OS, like get a full Ubuntu instance up and running in a container
Yup, I definitely count that as a recent development that interferes.
Well, I never even came close to a 300lb squat, so 10-15% isn't that much for me.

Also, I wasn't really proper fasting, just hungry because of skipping 1 meal.
From what I understand, azure includes a lot of office 365 customers.
Reframe author here (https://github.com/reframejs/reframe).

This is super interesting, what are you plans regarding this? Super curious.
Not really sure what your point is, besides drawing attention to your impressive confidence and singular success
I just recently bought a pair of ANC Bluetooth headphones and received the same email. One interesting thing to note is that I received the email from an outlook address instead of an address affiliated with the company. It was already flagged as spam, though - I only found it by chance. They did offer a free pair of upgraded headphones instead of the same pair, which is a nice touch I suppose.
This comment sums up my sentiment well, we do a lot of destructive things by choice. We could just work smarter.
this still doesn't work for languages with multiple plurals like Slavic languages, so how you write one word in three or more forms this way? the best thing i come over years it's abbreviating to the core, it doesn't look nice but it works "n fold." will always work unlike changing syntax to "Folders: n" which just can't be used within sentence. only way to make it right would provide different strings for multiple plurals based on value of variable and the best part it's in each language it differ, good luck with that, abbreviation it is...
No it can't. We're literally talking about monitoring and capturing packets for data loss prevention, something that can't be done if the packets are encrypted.
> Currently, GamesByEmail.com uses some 80,000+ die rolls for play in games like Backgammon, Gambit (a RISK clone), W.W.II (an Axis & Allies clone) and others. To generate the die rolls, I have used Math.random, Random.org and other sources, but have always received numerous complaints that the dice are not random enough.

That's a super cool machine, but the justification seems a bit silly. The randomization library in any programming language should be good enough for casual games, and random.org uses atmospheric noise which is almost certainly more random than dice: https://www.random.org/history/
"Korb"/"Wagen"?
Thank you for this comment. I will withhold any future donations until I do further research.
EDIT: Let's go ahead and have a Philly HN Meetup Discord: https://discord.gg/jFeJUsJ

There are plenty of /r/philadelphia reddit meetups, and there's a decent number of tech people there (the ratio was higher when reddit was young and mostly tech articles, but the meetups weren't very good). There's also the Philly Linux User Group, which has meetings in multiple parts of the city: phillylinux.org

I'd be up for an occasional HN Philly Meetup though! And if HN folks wanted to invade a reddit meetup I'd be down for it.
Not sure how that happened. And I can't resubmit the URL either