skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like all he had to do was to show the receipt, the cops called the rental place, cleared the stolen car alert. The car rental should probably be charged for falsify reporting the car as stolen. And as the police said, you could probably ask for a year of free rental for the inconvenience.
The police has to take some precaution because they risk their lives walking up to a stolen car, thus the not so friendly tone and hand-cups.
The problem here is that in the year 2019,

a) most cities have few, if any protected bike lanes (or equivalent)

b) scooter riders experience more danger from cars in the road than pedestrians do from scooters on the sidewalk (just think if you'd rather be hit by a scooter while walking or by a car while scooter-ing)

Thus, forcing scooters off the sidewalk is a net negative for safety, is it not?
ActivityPub is not easy to implement due to two paradigms. One: most applications are not linked data aware, which depending on the tools could require a different way of retrofitting an existing application. Two: the tooling around the loosey goosey behaviors isn't as defined as, say, something like Swagger. Since AP is machine readable and RDF based it shouldn't be a stretch to evolve an ecosystem that helps developers.

I chose to go down a very difficult route with go-fed, something I don't think anyone else has done with JSON-LD. So my perspectives on the challenges in the area are very warped. For example, over the course of a mere 8 hours of work I've used go-fed to get my personal blog federated. But I stand very biased.
Yes and no. One offs that are personally targeted at you or anonymous scams, it makes sense to just keep asking for more money.

But when ransomware has a name, it needs a “good” reputation to be successful. Just paying must be a well known and publicised way to get your files back - that’s what makes it easier to everyone to just pay. If the ransomware gains a reputation for not holding up their end, no one will pay.
Hi, I'll copy the same answer from a previous post ( https://new.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/bmujjg/made_a_new_n... ):

Amazon SNS is not a competitor of Notify17 in first place, because SNS is a general purpose publish-subscribe system, while Notify17 is a solution that accepts HTTP payloads, and processes them to generate notifications, which you can see in a web browser or on the iOS app (in future also Android one). They're conceptually a lot different.

Because of this core difference, I cannot say there's any plan to compete with SNS.
Same FF on Ubuntu.
You don’t have to use a virtual base class. You can implement interfaces statically by passing in the implementation as a template parameter.
We lived in a house with this under-floor-air system until we moved last year. We inherited it from my mother-in-law a few years previously. She didn't really think of maintenance, and so turns out it was using the original gas heater system.

This was quickly condemned when we got it inspected - it had a crack in the heat exchanger and - these things were apparently only designed to last 25 years. Lasting 50 was pretty impressive/dangerous.

You can get replacement heaters for them, but it's pretty niche, needs to be imported from Europe, and because of the age normally involves dealing with asbestos insulation. It's also apparently virtually impossible to get the venting cleaned, as it's embedded in the flooring (under concrete for the group floor). (Edit: And this caused real problems for Asthma sufferers)

While it worked though it was pretty good, it heated rooms extremely quickly.
I don’t think there is a more certain way of losing a customer for life than getting them arrested.
I for one hope it works out, I like the idea of instantly loading any game I feel like playing for an hour. So what if I don't own it, it's a game. I don't any of the movies I watch on TV either.
I'd be interested, this sounds like a nice way to receive periodic data from my home server (like successful cronjobs, smart warnings, but also from hass.io, like: Home temperature is outside of normal parameters etc). I subscribed to the mailing list (I'm on Android). Does this rely on Google Play services?
Sounds like desperation is setting in for the prosecution, doesn't it? Secret proceedings, torturing witnesses...

At least they're competent, right? Except the part where they accidentally leaked secret information with cut and paste errors of court documents, that was pretty Mr Bean.
Most ransomware is using standard public key cryptography, there is no chance of breaking it. If it is broken, only the intelligence agencies would know. They wouldn't use this weapon on something so trivial.
> That is a word that almost doesn't exist in English
American English.

It's perfectly ordinary in British English. In British English although the road is usually paved the use of pavement in that sense is a jargon word applying to a particular trade (road building or mending) whereas pavement in general means what American English calls a sidewalk.

Also paving in British English generally brings to mind paving slabs not tarmac even though most pavements are of course tarmac. And tarmac is also mostly British English for asphalt.
I didn't mean making the ANN itself, that is well described. I meant to optimize pruning rather than pruning at random or using ancient "optimal" algorithms. (They do not optimize for retraining ability. The goal is robustness.)
The pruning algorithm used in the study is rudimentary.

Interesting bit of biology is that humans go through some sort of pruning phase during adolescence. It is not random. It is not one shot either and real neurons cannot be resurrected or reset either.
I was really curious to read about this type of heating, then I read your comment. Quickly imagegoogled the term and found that this is the standard in most of north/west Europe.
This works well enough for comment spam filtering: https://wordpress.org/plugins/antispam-bee/

(or just disable comments)
Did the author change the site? You're not the only person in the comments complaining, so I presume y'all aren't making this up, but the website doesn't appear to mess with that style. (Chrome doesn't report it on either <html> or <body>.) (and it seems normal to me in iOS, but I'm normally an Android user.)
https://www.verygoodsecurity.com
Good article. I've used "INSIDE-OUT" pattern (without knowing about it) in one of my research.
Data Blending: combine multiple sources into one dataset with Tableau or Alteryx
I agree completely. But there should be some heterogeneity available in the routes to success. Not all bright kids are ready and trained for the SATs. I was not and luckily I found another route in 1990s England. I’m trying to keep some alternate routes open.
I guess you were lucky or in a very specific area. Most of the "shared" electric scooters in Paris are used on the sidewalk, sometimes going very fast. I'm kinda split on the issue, on one hand they're a danger to pedestrian and there's a non negligerable amount of accident involving scooters on the sidewalk. On the other hand, it's hard to blame them from not using the cycle pathes because motorcycles will happily use them to avoid traffic. Still, bikes manage to use the streets just fine, so there's no reason electric scooters can't.

Overall there's a huge need for traffic rules enforcement in Paris, for everyone. Pedestrians complain about cyclists/scooters, cyclists complain about motorcycles, motorcycles complain about cars, cars complain about pedestrian and bikes, all in good reason.
The Finnish habit of riding bikes and scooters on the pavement is outright dangerous. Alas, I couldn't find a single candidate willing to raise the issue in the recent elections. :/
I strongly disagree. I feel that honesty about materials is bullshit. It's like saying painting should look like paint on canvas and not like mona lisa.

This is one of the things the greek - again - got right. Lot of the elements in classical architecture of stone buildings are there just to look nice and some of them even just copy elements that were necessary in wooden construction but were replicated in stone as well because they look nice.

That's not to say simple shapes cannot be pleasing. But making concrete look like concrete really isn't an achievement to speak off. It can be a stylistic choice of course.
There's a blub on "why Go?" on the website if you're interested.

https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/
> gVisor is written in Go in order to avoid security pitfalls that can plague kernels. With Go, there are strong types, built-in bounds checks, no uninitialized variables, no use-after-free, no stack overflow, and a built-in race detector. (The use of Go has its challenges too, and isn’t free.)

Using a memory-safe language was a conscious design decision.
https://twitter.com/LazyFishBarrel/status/112900096574140416...
I have late 20s friends and have seen the similar behaviour. A lot of people I meet say they are in a bad place mentally.

Also, pardon my ignorance, but I am also curious what counts as being diagnosed with "anxiety" disorder? As in are there definitive definitions of these things?
Just add Geiger sensors to phones. If it goes beyond a certain level, you lose data connection. Then watch the people flock away.
Pascal, Oberon and Ada were left out of the options, yet quite a few companies do their business selling tooling on this space. And regarding Java, there are other alternatives.

https://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal

http://www.astrobe.com/default.htm

http://www.microej.com/

https://www.aicas.com/cms/

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/apexada

https://www.ghs.com/products/ada_optimizing_compilers.html

https://www.adacore.com/
I don’t know how long ago this was, but Italy is notorious for taking a long time to deliver tickets (like, a year because that’s how long they are allowed to take). If it’s a small fine they might just decide that it’s not worth it.
Actually its doesn’t matter as any dollar spent by the rich will filter down through the economy and ultimately end up with a near identical carbon footprint.

Imagine two billionaires buying a painting from one another, and just swapping it back and forth between their mansions. How does that dollar spent leave that closed system? It doesn't. They might pay people to move their precious painting, pay for insurance, and alarms, but the painting itself is a fixed store of value. That value is never doing to trickle down.

Large amounts of wealth will never leave the pockets of rich people unless they spend on investing or buying newly created assets (like Gulfstreams). Rich people buy investment art because it keeps their money in their own pockets.
How to Edit a YAML Azure DevOps Pipeline
Yea, had to go to Paris recently. These scooters on pavements drastically change the feel of the city: it's suddenly way too chaotic.
TNaaS: Terrorist Negotiation as a Service. It's the biggest new craze since blockchain.
Or it's:

"If you have a problem with changing the status quo, in a situation where the change would make you lose something, take extra time to examine whether it was justified for the status quo to give you that thing in the first place."

Which is good advice.
There were plenty of laws banning black people from Sitting on the wrong place in the bus, and yet if someone were to defend the jailing of someone due to violating that law you'd be talking about the injustice that was.

The law is the law is only an argument if you're willing to always take it to it's full logical conclusion, so my question to you was, if this judge was ordering you to do something you felt was morally horrifying, such as for example sterilizing someone without their consent (as has been done in the past), would you accept it and do it?
>When you write articles on Medium keep in mind you're writing on someone else's website and they don't give a damn about you. You are subject to their opinions about what is appropriate and what isn't.

Same can be said about other platforms like YouTube etc. When you produce content for all these mega-platforms, you're nothing more than a sharecropper... a digital one. [0]

You really have no rights and you're at the whim of the 'feudal lord' who doesn't care about you and can take all your work away in an instant. Since there's thousand others that will take your place, they really don't care about what your losses are. They hold all the power and you have absolutely no chance of remedy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping
The question then becomes do we go for an objective scoring system or are we ok with it being subjective? How do you quantify perseverance and tenacity? Is it higher perseverance to grow up in a poor neighborhood or with some chronic disease? Is overcoming ESL or abusive parents more tenacious?

Even looking at my own situation I'm not sure which way things should go. I grew up poor to immigrant parents that didn't speak English (neither did I). However both parents are educated and valued education. Do I get + or - marks?
If you think there's no obesity problem in "Asia", visit the Philippines. Now, a lot of the current obesity epidemic there is caused by the introduction of Western-style junk food, but it's also caused by eating too many carbs (rice) and combining that with unhealthy amounts of soft drinks and processed food, so I'm not saying it's all because of processed, high glycemic index white rice. But if they switched to brown rice it would help a lot. Easier said than done, because it's a cultural thing. Almost all of the good stuff in natural rice (the bran and chaff contain many vitamins and a lot of fibre) is stripped off in making commercial white rice.
i would argue, both
We have far too much interconnectivity between automatic computers and the legal system. Computers should never be allowed to file legal paperwork by themselves. We don't know that's exactly what happened in this case, but there are thousands of other examples such as copyright trolling.
Wild guess: she's asked to testify about Assange. Assuming he's guilty, either she incriminates him or lies. Lying to the jury wouldn't be covered by immunity, would it?
Why would such a bet be useful then?
>How about having lots of decent, desirable universities instead of a few elite ones and many weak ones?

In practice, this is pretty much the case. State schools (e.g. the University of Virginia, University of California-Berkeley, Georgia Tech, etc.) are often quite good in terms of the education provided, and offer lower tuition rates to in-state residents. Forbes and U.S. News & World Report maintain rankings of the top 100 or so colleges in the United States; my school was ranked in the 60-70 range for computer science. Having spent a number of years at big (and small) companies in the Bay Area, I feel it more than adequately prepared me for the workplace.

Maybe the sense of “a few elite schools, and lots of bad ones” is reinforced by the popular media? Hollywood tends to focus on just the Ivies and MIT.
Analyzing papers to figure out where AI is headed next
> I've seen seven different companies providing free floating scooters in Paris... There have been several deaths already.

Cite? I couldn't find any news stories about electric scooter (not mopeds) deaths in France, and this page suggests they are exceedingly rare.

https://m.ranker.com/list/worst-electric-scooter-accidents-a...
Compared to pushover, Notify17 is conceptually easier to set up and first-use (meaning, you create an account and you can already test notifications). I didn't like the not-so-immediate concept of pushover.

I belive Notify17's UI is friendlier for users, less cluttered. Clearly Notify17 has less features overall (for the moment), because it focuses on few core concepts, which are simple notifications ( https://notify17.net/docs/api-endpoints/#raw-notifications ) and notification templates ( https://notify17.net/docs/templates/ ).

The two products have two distinct philosophies. At the time I evaluated pushover, I thought it was too enterprisey, not suitable for simple daily usage. Therefore, I tried to create a friendlier service :)

The tradeoff, for the moment, is probably less features overall (you can see a list of features here: https://notify17.net/docs/features/ ). The benefit is that you have a UI that lets you manage your content (in my opinion clearly) way far more easily than with pushover.
Fear and Anger over Construction of International Airport for Machu Picchu
I think I may have gotten the original link from HN, but Youtube has a few training videos covering the design and operation of analog fire control computers.

Aside from the constant adjustments required to keep them accurate (analog computation requires precision!), they're amazing solutions.

https://youtu.be/lr1uK24SND8

E.g. look at the barrel cam at 10:13 for calculating super-elevation required to hit a flying target
The UK introduced a carrier bag charge scheme. Overnight usage dropped 80%, and that was for a 5p charge. Now I don't think many people would stop to pick up 5p off the street, but people will jump through the hoops to avoid paying the 5p. These things work, even at a relatively low threshold. Don't forget you're only aim to nudge what people know they should already be doing.

https://www.standard.co.uk/futurelondon/theplasticfreeprojec...
Japanese Toaster Costs $270. It Only Makes One Slice at a Time
fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Hi, yes it will in first place rely on FCM. I already thought to have a second variant which would be independent. If you're interested, let me know :)
I am kind of in that category...and I'm interested in relative fluctuations in body fat % even though I don't give much credence to the absolute accuracy of the body fat measure.
Job listings are public information, your resume may also be considered public info if you have sent it out to recruiters or public job posting sites.

Listings you've applied to could be potentially private. But if you use an alias (and only reveal your real name after the company agrees to interview you), then it's not a problem either!
The one official web runtime environment.
My mockery reflects the progression of reality in other nations where such policies have been implemented. Your anger and threat of "worse insults" matter little to history.

At each stage, the devout proponents of equality will only choose to draw the line further. When students of the 'adversity' quota are unable to get good grades, their grades will be inflated. When they are unable to get jobs, a push will be made for implementing adversity/equality quota in jobs.

Case study: India. In India, every community fights to be included in the backward communities category because the benefits are so frighteningly high. Politicians are elected on the basis that they promise to categorise their communities as backward to improve the opportunities for their children. Other politicians threaten to remove some communities from backward status. Being backward gains you a fantastic advantage towards college admissions, reservation in jobs, and several other free benefits. (including lowered prices, etc). Who will not want to leverage this ?

The US may very well develop the same problem as a natural evolution of this policy with corresponding natural devolution of merit. Where do you draw the final line on adversity ?

If you think this is unrealistic, you are severely mistaken my friend. This simply happens over time. It always starts with "Good Intentions".
They are intended to be roughly anonymous, as in not-identifiable, not untraceable. Bitcoin also predates all other cryptocurrencies, and is the most widely used or prolific.

Last I checked, there were also several operational mixing services that would gladly launder your funds for you (for a nominal fee). It's more surprising to me that they didn't end up using a system like this before performing the final payment capture. But maybe if they're overseas, they don't care?
Coming from a totally different justice system -- this seems nuts to me.

It's impossible to fine someone someone per DAY while they are refusing to testify where I live; you can probably do it ONCE, you probably give them a jail sentence, but you cannot perform this arm-wrestling torture thing.
"If you can't come to peace with that possibility, this approach isn't for you."

Sure, but i mean in the sense that what you suggest is not a viable method for a lot of projects, unless, as you say, they also disconnect completely from the world.

That is not the same as existential futility - it is going off grid.
And Scandinavia. Plus here in Norway people actually pick up what litter there is either just casually when out for a walk or in organized gangs set up by sports clubs and so on. The kommune (local council) pays for this to be done to clean up shorelines etc.

Britain is far and away the worst country I have ever been to for litter even though it is much better than it used to be.

Of course one thing that helps here is that every drinks bottle or can carries a deposit (roughly 10 to 20 pence sterling) that can be redeemed at any supermarket.
Defining a unit of weight in terms of a unit of time and a unit of length. Explain that to your grandma! :)
At the end of the day some children will belong to Culture X which is more compatible with academic achievement that Culture Y. My best friend growing up was a Korean kid whose parents almost tortured him and his siblings to excel in school. His pain and sacrifice deserve to count for something.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...

The person who runs Definers Public Affairs, Matt Rhoades was the opposition research director for Bush/Cheney 04.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definers_Public_Affairs

https://definersdc.com/team/matt-rhoades/

> In 2004, he played a critical role in President George W. Bush’s winning re-election campaign, serving as the Research Director for Bush-Cheney ’04, where he helped develop the campaign’s opposition research, message development and rapid response operations.

The oppo research director of the campaign can have no official links to the 527 group, of course. But the group exists for one reason only - to discredit political opponents.
That might actually be where these companies are useful.

They can do that to you because there is no benefit to them to decrypting (and a cost/risk that these actions aid in them getting caught).

If a single company handles hundreds of ransoms then not decrypting for them removes a lot of future revenue potential.
They ran a test in Gothenburg as well at one of the university campuses. And while some of the roads they ran on where technically public car roads, they where small back roads across campus that see very little car traffic.
But why would Japan run out of phone numbers with the population shrinking?

While of course IoT devices need to be addressable, that's more of an IPv6 problem than a phone number problem.... right? A person might have a few numbers, at most - and a flat if not shrinking number (I used to have home, work, cell; but have only had cell for a while now)
It doesn’t work this way in EU, no one’s going to arrest you at the airport for unpaid speeding ticket. All you will get is nuisance from debt collectors and possible additional penalties.l, that’s it.
That experience is terrible but it reads like a twenty paragraph commentary padding an instant pot recipe.
I know... A lot of people who come from huge families, and from what their parents tell me, when you have more kids they are a bit easier to handle because they sort of take care of themselves. And of course you don't drive them to 10 football games every weekend, because you're not made of time :)