skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I have, actually, as I've already pointed out in my other comments. But that was about ten years ago, using data that was made available (and then only under duress) at the time.

And I'm thinking far more clearly about this than many people are, apparently. You yourself seem a bit confused about how science in general actually works these days, and climate science in particular. Are you aware, for example, that most so-called "climate experts" actually have little to no formal education in the area? And some of them, like Steven Mosher of Berkeley Earth, studied things like literature and philosophy instead.

http://berkeleyearth.org/team/steven-mosher/

This situation is generally the exception in other fields of study, but instead seems to be the rule in climate science. A cynical person might suggest that the field is populated largely of drop-outs from other fields. Or at least by people who are just generally going where the money is, or maybe wherever they think they can get published. But a professional "scientist" would never do such a thing, would they - chase funding, or chase easy publication?
Twitter to deemphasize, label politician tweets that break its rules
if they demand hygeine records or whatever then outside the US they'll just lose to domicilios.com, rapipedi, etc. several people i know have "restaurants" that are just their kitchens; people ordering don't know or care, they just want e.g. authentic venezuelan food.
Bitcoin doesn't use encryption. I don't know whether LN does.
A "carbon tax with dividend" is the progressive version of the regressive carbon tax.
Because of the volatile nature of all things web, I frequently screenshot (yes, screenshot, because printing to PDFs makes them look awful, imo) Twitter conversations, print blog posts to PDF or download articles that I want to make sure that I don't loose.

It's so sad that this is necessary.
Jingoistic is exactly the word that came to mind as I watched the video.
Mystro (YC S17) says Lyft blocked popular app that helps drivers manage gigs
In my experience the built-in tracking protection (now enabled by default) does a pretty good job.
There's no evidence he was referring to you, as no handle is cited in his response. Not that I'm taking sides, but evidence actually matters
Have any services like AC or 2captcha integrated against you?
I wonder how this can even be legal in Europe. If someone sold you something, its yours. AFAIK, There is enough consumer protection to stop most EULA bullshit. So it seems it only needs someone to sue and some proof microsoft used the word 'sold' when you bought it.
I'm not sure where to add this comment, but I just wanted to briefly say that I appreciate your contributions to this topic. Both in terms of content and tone/delivery. These seem like constructive and valuable comments to me, so thanks!
This will be my.... shit, 16th DEFCON? Damn it....

Anyway:

Rule #1 Talk to people

Rule #2 Go to the parties/off-con events. This is where the majority of the magic happens

Rule #3 Go to as many talks as you possibly can.

Rule #4 Do not get too trashed so that you cannot make the talks. Get up in the morning, and get to con.

If you follow those rules in that order (On top of the 321 Rule -- 3 hours of sleep, 2 meals, 1 shower) you should have a great DEFCON.

Welcome.
Definitely this will be a failure case. Another failure will be "loops" where the car ends up driving the same few miles repeatedly - I've seen this failure mode in Google Maps as well. However, the navigator and the driver are separate components, so even if the navigator says to drive off the gaping hole in the bridge, the driver will hopefully recognize the fault and bring the car safely to a stop.

But definitely we will see the "German family dies in death valley due to navigator failure" headline.
Controversial deepfake app DeepNude shuts down hours after being exposed
If you make gas taxes revenue neutral, by redistributing the proceeds evenly, to every resident man, woman, and child, as a cheque that arrives on November 15, this would solve your objection, and have broad public support for it.
Check my comment history from another thread a little while back to see details about problems I've found with Berkeley Earth. But the short version is that the charts and graphics provided by those folks for my local area, and created by others using their data, seem to bear little resemblance to the reality of the situation. Feel free to follow up on the links provided there to see what you can see about your own local area.
Very well written.

I think using 'make' with the -j parameter (# of parallel jobs) is more useful than using gnu 'parallel'. The reason is that if one of the job fails for some reason, you just re-run 'make' and only the required jobs are started instead of restarting the entire computation.
Gas also tends to be a more painful and gruesome death. We humans tend to prefer quick and painless deaths, even when it is against our enemies.
Well, between "Google is tracking people with cell phones to look at their common patterns and doing AI on the data", "Google actually sent out a surveyor to a hunting lease to track this guy's new trail", or "Google purchased someone else's survey of the new hunting trail", I find the first one most plausible by quite a bit.

I live in a less rural area but I've still noticed a handful of things in my area marked as more complete roads than they should be. Nobody in person would mistake them for even the lowest grade of official road in use around here.
I've been eyeing the rpi as well. Here's the thing though I'd rather use it with gamepads or haptic glove input and with VR headsets. This would mean that it truly would be mobile, i.e. you could use it on an airplane!
Doesn't need to be live to reveal location.

2 loudspeakers playing pseudorandom white noise, inaudable from a few hundred yards away, would probably still leak any location in the city, as long as the stream isn't too aggressively compressed.

Correlating with a known signal over hundreds of thousands of audio samples has a massive snr gain...
...yet needing to get to the airport to catch a flight...

You could leave a little earlier.

But, more generally, I agree. It's hard not to follow the GPS and road conditions can change rapidly.

My own anecdote... driving along 495 outside DC, there's a crash on the Woodrow Wilson, and the GPS says "take some side roads" to all 10,000 of us on that stretch of interstate. Massive gridlock ensues, not just on the interstate, but also all the surrounding neighborhood roads as cars tried to pass through parking lots and alleys to get home.
I can't help think of "electric car caught fire" ignoring how many non-electric cars catch fire.

Haven't people died following paper maps, or even reading signs?
At the time I went back later to look at the data again, almost none of the various links on the relevant web pages still worked. Some working links claimed to link to both raw and adjusted data but then didn't actually have the raw data. Some still had things like precipitation data but the temperature data itself was now missing. Some claimed to have "raw" data but it wasn't the data I was actually looking for and had accessed in the past. And so on. I know that I saw at least one statement which seemed to indicate that the data I was looking for was no longer available for legal reasons.

"Legal reasons" was the cover they used to not make this data available to begin with, but some authority or another finally forced their hand here. It wouldn't surprise me to find that they still don't want it out there, and so it may only be available on an on-again, off-again basis, maybe only after somebody complains about not being able to get it. Nor would I be surprised to find that the data itself mysteriously changes over time, as many have claimed. I believe that they have even admitted to such - that they routinely "correct" various data sets, meaning that what you see today may be different from what you see tomorrow.

In any case, I didn't expend a lot of effort the second time around, and the first time around I was mostly interested in what the "official", final data sets were claiming about temperatures (at least at first), because that was what was being put out to the public. And after finding issues with local temps, I ultimately went out and got local data from local sources, completely bypassing the official sources. And one of the first things I discovered was that there was an awful lot of data - both old and new - that was ultimately marked as "missing" in the official records but was sitting there plain as day in the local records. I never did quite figure out what was going on there either, but I have my suspicions.

The whole process just left me with a bad taste in my mouth, and so I don't generally trust anything other than the original station data from the original sources. The HadCRUT4 stuff may be a bit better; I haven't really looked into it but others have and they say it can't really be trusted either.
>We have one tech sector that is run (disproportionately) for the sake of white people and embodies white values.

What do you mean by “white values”?
The same people who wrote the Windows API, I guess.
> There's some promising stuff happening (notably with MacOS and with Flatpak/Wayland) but it's all just playing catch-up to where the web was years ago.

And in the proposed 10 years being discussed here, there's no reason to believe locally-installed applications won't have exceeded browser sandboxing capabilities, let alone caught up.

Meanwhile, the web sandbox is actively deteriorating specifically because frontend developers want to do the things locally-installed applications can do.

> Nobody should be installing Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit on their phone.

Not at the current state of native app deployment, no, but that's improving rapidly and substantially, especially in the mobile space. Also: the vast majority of users are doing that anyway, so it's worth investing the time and energy into being able to sandbox apps without needing an entire HTML + CSS + JS engine/stack to do it (and indeed, both Google and Apple have made significant strides on that front in the last 10 years, though there's certainly still room for improvement).

> The unfortunate, horrible problem, is that running code we don't trust is gonna be necessary, no matter what world we move to.

Yes, but at least with a locally-installed app, I'm explicitly opting into that app existing and running on my device. This on its own will at least somewhat cut down on the amount of untrustworthy code running on my system.

Yes, I can do the same thing for a website's JS code (and indeed do so), but it's asinine that I need Javascript enabled to read a blog post or post to social media or do the myriad number of other things that are theoretically and practically possible with server-side processing exclusively.

> Of course integration and app performance suffers on the web. But frankly, neither of those are more important than sandboxing.

No, but sandboxing - again - is a problem that can (and almost certainly will) be solved within the next decade, at which point integration and performance benefits will make local app installation even more attractive than it already is.
not everything is about winning arguments. sometimes it's about sharing pleasant experiences, and reading interesting opinions might be pleasant on it's own, and yes even if the opinion is wrong it might be interesting to share it to get a discussion rolling, heck there are so many reasons, and sometimes there's not even a definite proof to learn or conclusion to reach, say, ever talked about films?
I'm not inclined to think that slow demographic decline constitutes failure. Even if you disagree with that, my preferred definition has the additional "law and order" requirement, and I've never seen a rural example of a "Bronx is burning"-type event.
> It would be a bit sad if they made them repairable because they fail so often.

Luckily, it's a matter of market expectations around repairability rather than an expectation of increase failure rates.

These are their enterprise machines and there's an expectation in that market for a certain level of on-site repairability, either by purchased warranty plans where the manufacturer sends out a repair tech same or next day, or via on-site tech support being able to purchase spare parts and fix them themselves. That's why you see both repair manuals and spare parts readily available.

Lost productivity from sending a machine to a repair depot for a week or two can vastly outstrip the cost of the machine itself, so laptops which require that for even the most common failure modes will tend to get dinged during the procurement selection process. My company actually gives a choice between Dells or Macs for new hires, and the Macs require business justification and SVP approval, since AppleCare for Enterprise is both incredibly expensive and still very limited in what on-site repairs are even capable of being performed in the first place.

The vast majority of consumers are neither capable of repairing their own devices, nor take that into account when purchasing products. So repairability is prioritized accordingly in the design process for consumer devices.

Protip: The same holds true in most things. Consumer lines tend to optimize form and features[1], whereas business/commercial lines tend to prioritize utility[1] and reliability[2]. Dollar for dollar, you'll get more bang for your buck if you shop at commercial suppliers (such as restaurant supply stores for kitchen stuff).

[1] Features and utility are two different things. Cutting edge and unique features, no matter how gimmicky or little used, can be a selling and marketing point for consumer products. These tend to be pretty worthless in commercial products, at least until they've standardized and matured into mainstream functionality.

[2] Commercial products are designed for long periods of sustained use, and products are designed with the materials, durability, and/or repairability to support that. Consumer products are designed for light, sporadic use and materials/designs are chosen accordingly.
Smart Forms and Validators for Angular7
Getting turned into the authorities often doesn't really accomplish anything.

Here's a typical case:

Meth addicted neglectful mother has dozens of reports from several sources of varying credibility (e.g. reports from an ex-boyfriend are immediately discounted as likely retribution). Each time, Child Welfare Services shows up checks that there are no bruises on kid, food in the cabinet ,and a bed for the kid and then leaves.

In the good cases, CWS gets lucky and shows up while the mother is using and the child is removed. In the medium case, someone (e.g. a drug dealer or boyfriend) will hit the kid and leave a mark, which will cause a more thorough investigation that may turn up evidence of drug use. In the bad cases the kid manages to put together enough self-sufficiency to not die and will end up addicted/pregnant/dead/homeless/in jail by the time they are 18.

[edit]

Don't let the above discourage you from reporting this! The best case happens only because of reports from multiple sources force CWS to keep showing up. Almost all kids that get removed from bad situations before kindergarten happen because people care and report.
> "No thanks, I’m too busy."

> I know. What a moron I was.

I don't think that's moronic. No one should hold it against you if you have to say no to things because you already have a full plate. Saying "no" is healthy. People should do it (politely, of course) more often.
Considering that advertisements are a common vector for installing spyware and malware, I think adblocking and antitracking are two sides of the same coin.
One reason I like FF on Android better than Chrome:

The Chrome user agent has your device model, even in incognito mode.

If you have a relatively rare Android device in your market, I think you can be tracked fairly uniquely on that alone. I was creeped out when I discovered this.
"It’s an entirely different kind of flying"
Wow, this preview is incredibly good! I was not expecting such a good quality from a preview app (given how bad some of the other tries from Firefox have been on Android).

And you know what absolutely clinches it for me? That you moved the address bar to the bottom!! Just like Edge on Windows mobile - that's the best position for address bar IMO.

I also hope you do something about better battery management on the android app.

Have a bow!
Depends on the language of the codebase, but there are various tools that can help you, like doxygen if things are setup well.

My two cents, I always do a manual mapping for the modules and key classes, even in large code bases because it forces me to learn the codebase and create documentation at the same time. I do this by literally starting at main() and tracing the code to what is called first etc. So when I am done I have a high level overview of the path through the code and what modules are what and what they do.

Usually takes a few days to do a larger code base, largest one took me 2 weeks. It isn't the most fun work, but it lets you build documentation to save yourself and others later too.
Those stats on automatic vs manual are out of date. Automatics are approaching half of new vehicle sales in Western European countries now. Of course, that's a leading indicator for all cars on the road, so manuals still dominate .. for now.

I don't think this is particularly relevant to pedestrian deaths though. You can still find ways to distract yourself in a manual.
Entirely disregarding how it is browsing with Tor and finding ReCAPTCHA so often due to Cloudflare, it's a bother even on a website I regularly use over my normal connection.

Bandcamp is an online music store and I'm prompted for a Google ReCAPTCHA every time I try to log in, which really causes me to do it less often than I normally would, as I must permit Google JavaScript for it to succeed.

I've wanted to send a complaint about this to Bandcamp, but their email is hosted by gmail and none of my messages get to them because I host my own email. Adding reverse DNS and SPF is enough for many email servers, but not Google.

I find it a bad situation that my experience with a business is worse, due to Google, and I can't even contact them to let them know, due to Google.
If you've read a few of the relevant papers and reports like I have, then you would know that they routinely state that they assume that most of the errors and uncertainties and such cancel out. But mathematically you can't get away with that; instead you have to know that they mostly cancel out, using whatever methods legitimately allow you to know this. But since we only have really good instrumentation and data going back at most a few decades, there's no way they can actually do that (at least for most of the historical data), so instead they just pretend.

And to my point, no, you can't claim that the errors in various temperature readings mostly cancel each other out, without having any solid proof of that. Nor can you then turn around and claim that since there are enough errors out there that obviously don't cancel out, that this then gives you the right to set loose a computer program to blindly "correct" those errors, said program having been constructed using whatever models and biases you were operating under at the time. (Those "corrections" may not be anywhere close to accurate, in other words.) But that's exactly the kind of thing they've been doing.
Covering both ears in a car or on a bike is prohibited in most states, but rarely enforced. However getting such noted on the accident report can establish negligence in a civil action.
Tried to Google it, what is mobile supports unblock?
Hans Zimmer recycles that riff all the time (I think he used it first in Drop Zone, then Crimson Tide, The Rock, Gladiator, and probably elsewhere). I guess the Navy wanted to give it a shot too.
This is well-stated.

In fact, an even stronger statement is possible: If you start with $1MM, eventually you will fall below $1 and never go above $1 again no matter how long you keep playing.

And all of that not just on a fraction of sequences, but with probability 1.
"Synthetic" shares seems like a bit of a misnomer, these are actual shares of Toshiba stock bought overseas and then held by a US entity that sells receipts on them.

This seems to be a cautionary tale for anyone thinking of buying such things, since theoretically you are just screwed if something like foreign accounting fraud tanks the value. But since this is the US and you can file a lawsuit against anything under the sun, these investors tried, and apparently succeeded in bringing a suit against a Japanese company for Japanese crimes in US court.
I get a recaptcha when trying to sign up for a new account:

https://i.judge.sh/Flutter/45DyMRuL.png

maybe this is related to some other heuristic they're using for determining whether or not to show recaptcha (although this is in a no-extension Chrome on a residential IP address).
This is 100% accurate. There is no way to stop bots through reCAPTCHA, doesn't matter the version. It's honestly trivial and can be done with even the most basic web automation skillset.

Rolling your own CAPTCHA is a fantastic option, because folks like 2captcha are never going to take the time to integrate against a one-off solution. When you do something like that you drastically increase the barrier by introducing the need for a reverse engineering skillset to bypass your unique solution... and that skillset is expensive lemme tell ya ;)
You would think they'd take cues from traditional (paper) maps where primary, secondary, tertiary and seasonal road categories were labeled (via map key/legend) appropriately and you could make a determination if you wanted to take that kind of road. Another pet peeve is not labeling tollways and toll bridges.
>Heck, there used to be a myth that in an impending head-on collision you would speed up because that would put most of the force onto the other car and reduce your own damage. (That's not really how that works, of course)

That's the advice for when you're gonna hit a large animal. Getting off the brake raises the nose lessening the chance the animal will wind up sharing the passenger cabin with you. It's not totally invalid but pretty dated. With the low hoods of modern cars Bambi is gonna wind up in the passenger seat damn near every time. If you're driving some 50s-70s brick then it holds more water.
On my trip to work today, I observed a chap stopping traffic to jaywalk across a street to get in his car.

A minute, and half a block down, I saw him honking at a pedestrian, who was crossing an intersection on the walk sign.

There's an amazing bit of cognitive dissonance that happens when your run-of-the-mill moron climbs behind the wheel of a vehicle.
Exactly. For years we've had few or zero options to buy even mid-sized phones that aren't gimped in unrelated spec areas like storage, CPU or camera.
In our experience, country of origin is a better heuristic for possible abuse than an individual ISP is. Most malicious traffic comes from a fairly small number of countries, many of which are the obvious culprits. That kind of data is never guaranteed accurate, though.
> LISP had its serious shortcomings: what became known as “shallow binding” (and created a hacker’s paradise) was an ordinary design mistake; also its promotion of the idea that a programming language should be able to formulate its own interpreter (which then could be used as the language’s definition) has caused a lot of confusion because the incestuous idea of self-definition was fundamentally flawed.

Would any Lisp expert care to comment on this?