skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I can't recommend it enough. As for the VPN part yeah you'll definitely want a VPN if you use torrents for the download source.

For my setup I have Radarr/Sonarr set to prefer Usenet and only resort to the torrent if it can't find a release after 24 hours. Just because Usenet eliminates the problem of having a single seeder uploading at 1kb/s and things like that. I would highly recommend grabbing a Usenet subscription if you're setting this system up. In SabNZBD you can setup which provider you prefer and then it goes down the list. My #1 is Newshosting.com, then Eweka.nl (they follow a different DMCA process so chance of a completed download is higher if a chunk is missing from Newshosting. SAB will use all sources to find missing pieces of the file automatically), then a 50GB block at Tweaknews, and finally a free trial block account at Usenet.farm. I am rambling at this point, if you want more info on this part feel free to ask.

As for your actual question - I have everything in Docker containers running on OpenMediaVault on a server in my house. I use the 'docker-transmission-openvpn' container as a self contained unit, it handles setting up the VPN connection for that container only so that the whole server isn't behind a VPN. For a provider I've had great luck with PIA for the last couple years, they don't care about torrenting. For Usenet downloads no VPN is needed.

I hand rolled this setup with a bunch of pre-made docker containers and configuring them myself. Someone else I know has a similar setup based on 'Cloudbox' (on Github) and that seems to be working well for him too.
I'm assuming you are not logged into a Google account during this? What happens if you create a throwaway Google account while on Tor? Or is that also impossible?
I'm a 6s+ holdout. That's among the reasons, but the real reason is that the phone still does everything I want it to do. There's just nothing remotely compelling about an Xs for me. I probably wouldn't bother upgrading for $100, certainly not for ~$1000.
> I think it needs to be solved with new laws

Who writes the laws, and how are they selected?
Anecdotally the SE seems to be a popular phone for companies (in Germany) to equip their employees with. Soon people will have to carry two phablets around all day.
what do you mean, exactly? Isn't this just concatenation?
Check out Sony's Xperia Compact line - one of my friends swears by them.
Can you explain in what way this is a "Jim Crow era practice?"
Some of this has been litigated and it's not quite that black and white. Take a look at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_v._McCormack
Conclusion:

> The reason we don’t see square traces in most PCB designs is simply due to aesthetic convention. If it looks wrong, it is wrong. There is no specific reason why every circuit board design should shy away from 90-degree angles on traces, it’s just something that you shouldn’t do because it looks wrong.
It seems doubtful now that affordable housing is the core issue surrounding the homelessness crisis. While it assuredly plays a role along with addiction and other issues I think it's more a symptom of a society facing a crisis, with many fracture lines but with needs few want to truly address.
I'm not sure there's a significant legal difference in the end. If someone could demonstrate that alternative browsers regularly get a lower score than Chrome, that seems like a pretty good antitrust case.

Or were you referring to the risk that individuals would sue Google for getting blocked from random, potentially essential websites?
Do not read. Very sad.
This is what makes suicide rates go up. People kill themselves to avoid living in a world like this.

This is what does it.

You can just keep going and see what comes next...

Or you can kill yourself today, and escape this shitty world as fast as possible, before they get a chance to clamp down harder.
The legal nuances, tax variations and jurisdiction level laws that need to be implemented is not trivial and requires significant domain expertise - where is this going to come from?
Is it safe to be using Firefox and Apple right now?

Did they fix the 0 day?
1. I'm not in the USA and i'm licensed. You could say the ITU may take issue.

2. The spirit of the law is in regards to actual financial interest, this were meaningless amounts and also testnet.

3. Transactions were not actually done over Ham, the transaction data was relayed over ham and broadcasted via internet. (long history of HAM 3rd party message relay).

4. No encrypted messages were transmitted. (and encryption is allowed as long as the cypher is public)

5. The spirit of ham is technical experimentation.

6. These tests were intended for use in countries where the laws don't matter and or in emergencies. In case of emergency it would be allowed to make financial transactions and/or send encrypted messages.

I feel like most rhetoric around that is usual internet-lawyering. If Wired care to contact for comment there would have been some context added.
Fingerprint scanner and charger.
I really don't want FaceID; and, since I have cables throughout my apartment, I don't want to have to buy 10 new cables :(
As the owner of my hardware, I need to be able to run anything. Make it hard, but not impossible.

But yeah, it's still a choice and Apple is not one of them.
U.S. Emergency Alert System Can Be Hijacked, Weaponized
A good ruling. Everyone getting upset at this should take a couple things into consideration-

1. Both parties do this now and have done it historically. It is no more a danger today than it has ever been in the past and the Republic has lived and thrived with this system. Generally what it does it create a magnification of power for a party that is in a slight majority position, which can create more continuity in government and allow their ideas to make it into actual law over opposition. This is not a necessarily a bad thing. Voters get to see the full affects of a party's agenda take place and then if they don't like it, the party tends to get thrown out wholesale and the other 'team' ends up with similar magnification to implement their agenda. See Texas and California where this has played out in opposite directions in recent decades.

2. Modesty in the judiciary is a very good thing. Notice that the new 'ultra-conservative' judges have regularly been crossing over to join with the court liberals this term. Why? Because their underlying philosophy is to interpret the law and constitution as written. I appreciate here that they are calling out that the actions taken by the legislatures are not necessarily appropriate, but respecting the boundaries of what their constitutional role will often play to the advantage of those who disagree with this particular ruling. If they were true 'movement' conservatives dictating by desired outcome rather than the law, they could easily slip into a tyrannical mode from the POV of many here. Instead the worst you can say is that they are trying to enforce the law and Constitution as written and you can use your vote to get those changed.
The question is rather: Why should a foreign company have to care about whether it is fraud in your jurisdiction? I can see that you possibly can sue whoever is offering the ADR in your jurisdiction, and that they can possibly sue the company in their home jurisdiction, but not like this.
No, it is similar to recaptcha -- users select pictures to given description. In case of recaptcha, the work is free labor to google whereas in this case, it is paid to the site owner.
Couldn't reply to your most recent reply so I'm doing it here:

> Managing one's mind, or ridding oneself of desire, and especially dealing with reality without bias or judgement, are just not terribly realistic in nature. We should certainly strive to deal with reality without bias or judgement for instance, but, I mean, we obviously don't do that in practice.

From that point of view, I get how you're looking at this. You're certainly not wrong. I'm likely letting my own bias color my thoughts here because I practice this more aggressively (and actively) than most. So I've seen how realistic it can be. But generally speaking it's not very realistic, you're right.
Can you explain how the current president "seized" power? Was there some extra-legal mechanism at work that I'm not aware of?
> That means Google services are entirely off-limits over Tor

If only it was Google services alone. CloudFlare loves serving up a ReCAPTCHA for Tor users before they can even passively read site contents. That hugely expands the damage done.
Stock Qutebrowser 0.7, FF w/ all the usual extensions (ublock origin) 0.7. Don't know if it matters but I'm rolling Arch. Just adding another point of data for those curious.
Facebook Wangle
Yep worked and been bullied by smart jerks. They really eat the culture, and management are not interested in dealing with them.
We can only ignore the SC until we:

1. Convince state legislatures to adopt the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (which the Supreme Court will likely rule as unconstitutional)

2. Conduct an election where the popular vote winner differs from the electoral college winner (constitutional crisis ensues, along the lines of current Venezuelan situation)

3. Overcome the constitutional crisis and ensure that the popular vote winner becomes POTUS

That is the path forward if you want to pack the SC. Until then, the Senate will block any non-RNC president from appointing justices unless absolutely necessary.
Definitely not a good thing, I was asking because I wanted some insight into what's coming.
If you don't care about the UI and enjoy a command line version (or scripting with your favorite editor), you can know install the Wolfram engine for free: https://www.wolfram.com/engine/
Bullying has been redefined as anything critical you have toward any action of a specific person.
John Wheeler once proposed the Single HBO-Password Universe theory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
> Nevertheless, around 55% of the Dutch population has at least one credit card, which they mainly use during holidays abroad or when shopping online.

Not as high as I expected it to be honest but the article is pretty interesting. Apparently people have them but don't use them because they are not widely accepted in stores and they are very debt averse.

Source: https://www.dutchnews.nl/features/2018/01/credit-cards-not-y...
How Amazon Changed Whole Foods
I think that the optimal way to do these kind of things is:

1) Assuming there is no joins/merges requirement, read in chunks and output GB dumps.

2) If joins/merges are required, use external merge sort.

Is this correct? Actually I'm wondering whether I could earn some bread and butter by focusing on the big data processing problems (e.g. sort/filter Terabytes+ dumps, do transformation for each line for Terabytes+ dumps, those kind of things) without actually knowing how to implement math algorithms (required for data science).

If so what kind of tools I need to master? I'm thinking about basic *nix tools like mentioned above, and also Python and maybe some compiled language for optimization (someone managed to speed up a Python external merge algorithm on 500GB file by 50% by implementing in Go), then maybe some easy algorithms (merge join, heap, etc.)
Hasn't the question of if a foreign company can be sued in another country largely been answered in most countries as, yes?
Police Bodycam Company Bans Facial Recognition 2 Months After Receiving Patents
My guess is if he’s using usenet, then he’s not bothering with VPN. Torrenting means you’re exposing your IP to anyone subscribed to that torrent. Usenet only exposes your IP to your provider, same way your IP is exposed to your VPN provider. Basically your exposure risk is the same with and without VPN, since all a rights holder needs is the logs from the usenet provider, and the VPN doesn’t obfuscate anything about this generally. VPN might provide some mitm data packet sniffing protection, and also some protections if you use anonomous pay for usenet, but otherwise probably not worth the effort. And if you were to go through the effort, then a dedicated machine with always on VPN is probably the safest way to go, since browsing the internet leaks an amazing amount of info about you.
Non-compete clause
McConnell blocked the previous president from making his deserved appointment. The current Supreme Court is illegitimate, courtesy of the Senate.
Does not support any addons, and is therefore useless until it does.

(uBlock Origin is a prerequisite for me.)
I think if you took every case heard by the Supreme Court and treated it the same way, they would likely make very few decisions. By these standards nothing is literal enough in the constitution to warrant a decision on pretty much anything really.
And very often both sides are equally wrong. And two times wrong doesn't make anything right.
While I get the whole "you can do it on one node without all the complexity" thing, I do still wonder if map-reduce-synchronizer + coreutils is better than the behemoths that are the distributed ETL platforms right now. All the system would need to do is make a data file available on a node and capture stdout of the unix pipeline. I know gnu parallel does some of this.
On a flip side: you really should check privacy settings in your Firefox, it seems Google can track you easily there. ;)
The same thing happens with IT security. A common question that comes from high school or college students is how to get started in the field. When the question is answered by people in IT security its pretty common to see college isn't required and be given paths to getting into IT security that don't require a degree. When its answered by people outside the field, go to college and get a degree is the answer.

The reality is a degree isn't required its only one path of many someone can take. And often those with degrees eventually follow the same path those without went. The difference is they are four years behind in career progression and thousands in debt.
I found that chapter really fun and I should try that... But then I think -- he was cracking safes in a military top-secret nuclear research facility!
What is overcommit and why it is bad
Why are hams the closest thing to the equivalent of tech tattle-tales?

Any time I see someone doing something neat and legally grey on radio, some ham operator has to come in, quote their understanding of the law, and chastise everyone. What's the point? Do they get to feel some sense of authority and privilege that the rest of the nerd world don't for a few minutes?

Just let people do cool stuff and don't snitch.
When watching a movie, hackers would hack the traffic lights to cause chaos. I can't wait to see a twist, hack Google maps instead.
Underwater Footage Captures the Mesmerizing Iridescent Octopi
Why yes surely more censorship will finally stamp out wrongthink. It's all so simple.
Knowledge itself is really not much unless it's applied. Corvids apply their knowledge/intelligence. I'm sure some is innate and some is learned. My children do the same. My youngest son was brainy from day one. There is nothing he cannot solve given the time. My older son is very intelligent as well, but his mind is different. He's more physical in nature and lends his mind to physical pursuits like how to drive a ball farther, stance, wrestling moves, etc. They learn and apply knowledge differently.

I'm sure there are corvids for whom cracking nuts themselves is great fun/skill shown, whereas there are some who will use a passing car tire to do the work for them. Some people enjoy working on their own cars while others see it as useless and infuriating. Both types can do the work, one sees it better as simply paying for it. I appeal to Robert Heinlein here. Specialization is for insects. People should be able to do many things well. It just makes you stronger.

I remember once in the Corps when we were deploying. A young Marine was laying out all of his gear for inspection, required and permissible personal stuff he believed would aid him. The Gunny walked over and said, "Dude, you are going to kill yourself humping all of this extra crap. You don't need any of it. The more you know, the less you have to carry."
No, sometimes people are trying to state facts about the world. Those aren't opinions. Sometimes they're wrong.
The original Forbidden forest I think was the first game I ever found creepy/scary. It did a lot better job at creating an atmosphere fitting the subject matter than most other games of that era that were very arms-length in presenting peril to the character on screen without making it translate.

Aztec Challenge came close in creating tension, but not enough to feel scary.
It gives me 0.7 on Safari (uBlock Origin) while 0.3 on Chrome (uBlock Origin) - both macOS Mojave.
> If you have a job that pays $20,000/year and you lose it to a robot, the silver lining is that the automation reduces the cost of living by $1000/year and so now you can take a different $19,000/year job with no reduction in quality of life.

What if your $20k/year job is in a factory making a product that is too expensive for people making $20k/year to afford? The automation lowers the cost of living for those who buy the product, not you.
"Swans are mean! "

Agreed! When I was a kid we used to go swimming at a lake and there was a one-legged swan that terrorized the whole lake every summer. The other swans were bad too but this one was especially mean.
they have a patent on giving out unbeatable challenges when the computer thinks it's dealing with a 'malicious agent'.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661B2/en
PostgreSQL Stored Procs Finally Supported in a Distributed SQL Database
I work on hCaptcha, let me know if you have any questions.
Chokidar 3: How to save 32TB of traffic every week with one NPM package
Apr 2019: Axon receives patents for facial recognition (1)

May 2019: SF bans facial recognition (2)

June 2019: Axon bans facial recognition (OP)

1.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/c2300a60-5a2...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/facial-recognition-ban...
I would be interested in a financial product that provides just enough ownership in every public company that allows my corporate entity enough standing to seek damages from any of them. A legal liability exposure index if you will.

I can than profit off of being an activist investor with much more leverage utilizing much less capital.
Initially I was worried about this two-step process in relation to password managers, but I can’t think of any examples that trip 1Password up.
Recaptcha is only used on 25% of top 10k websites? Anyway, I’m very angry about the way the web is made to work, especially identity, and usually I would spew a bunch of anger and swear words describing how stupid it is and all the people who blindly support it but I don’t want this to be censored so instead I will behave myself!

This is hilarious because this is the worst, most needlessly complicated solution to identity that one could ever imagine. It’s funny how it apparently takes a PhD to tell you that google isn’t analyzing your behavior on the website. They track you across every webpage you visit that has their code running. And it goes way beyond cookies. Look at the filter bubble research that duck duck go did — they have an idea of who you are regardless of what cookies you have or whatever else. And this data has informed captcha results before this latest iteration. It’s complicated, needless and also gives a bunch of sensitive data to a private company that shouldn’t have it. Nobody cares.

Identity services are the alternative to this. Have a company that has multiple ways of verifying identity including operating physical locations where you can show up and prove beyond any doubt that you are person X. Once identity is established, something like a yubikey or whatever can be used to authenticate various things like making an account on a website or what have you. If you get hacked then you can rectify by engaging in one of the identity verifications tasks, up to and including coming in person and being biometrically verified with absolute certainty. The company would make money with modest fees to users and charging websites to use their service to verify their users.

It should be that the government has all this in place, and you can use secondary identification numbers for websites. But I’m the United States identity is broken, based on a shitty Ssn where if it’s stolen you are basically fucked.
Can you point to the law McConnell violated in doing this? And if not, in what sense is the current court illegitimate? Finally, how does this in any way address my question about the president "seizing" power?
My Anecdata is that I've got an HP Elitebook 840 G2 that I've had for ~5 years now. Works well, you can easily remove/upgrade RAM and storage and I've never had any problems with it.

Recently acquired an HP Spectre x360 and so far that's working well too, although it is less upgradable than the Elitebook.
Perhaps best to read from primary source: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/publicint...
It's a native ad for a VC-backed email service called Superhuman that wants to convince you that the problem with email is that it is too slow.
>"The user experience of this early version will differ significantly from the final product, planned for release later this year."
In my experience tech companies tend to be the ones that are snobby about degrees. I know Fortune 50s (non tech companies) that don't care about degrees.
I prefer to see the silver lining in this. If Google wants to break the web for Firefox, fine. I'll keep using (and evangelising) FF, and the sites that are broken won't get FF traffic. I believe that FF is doing the right thing far users, and Google, while in a powerful position is currently on the losing side of history with respect to privacy. Apple is taking that fight to them, and putting budget behind inte convincing average internet users that privacy is cool, and Google abuses your privacy.

The walled garden approach worked for a while for Microsoft, and it's working for now for Google, but eventually, it stops working. Once people leave, walled gardens keep them away.
Luckily Idon't need any of the sites that ues this obnoxious tool.

Just vote with your feet and tell the site to drop it or lose you.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803943
This comment should probably be higher up in the thread.
It seems to me theres some kind of balance between ignoring crimes that aren't committed inside your borders, and prosecuting crimes regardless of where they are committed. It seems to be a generally good thing to punish a company for employing slaves on their African plantation. Less good to be suing a European bar for selling to 'underage' 18 year olds.

If you start prosecuting everything and trampling over the laws of other nations, aren't they then going to start trampling back. Internet companies are largely US companies, how are they going to be able to function if they have to follow mutually exclusive laws. Eg if promotion of homosexuality is illegal in X, and free speech is protected in Y and both nations enforce their laws globally, what do you do?
T-shirts are cheap. Business cards are pointless.

You want to talk about playing house (awesome phrase by the way) even thinking about cool digs. That’s playing house.
Making Personalized Blood-Brain Barriers in a Dish
Type inference has usability problems
You're downvoted, but on my mediocre desi internet LTE connection, for the ~2 seconds it took for the article blurb to load I did wonder whether it was about the UK telco or a literal statement of everything everywhere being securities fraud.
Matt Levine does a great job writing, and I highly recommend his newsletter. He talks extensively about the weird things that happen in the finance and hedge fund world, such as Windstream botching a bond and getting called out on it years later by a hedge fund. Or dozens of examples of things where you'd think "that's gotta be insider trading" but is completely legal.