skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like because all of this is so new, we haven't had time to fully think about this stuff, and law enforcement is abusing this.

But if we take things one by one, we could see that some real restrictions could be put on the use of this technology, even in the context of existing laws.

For instance, "video surveillance is allowed because everything it sees is public."

But then you can go like "Okay, but..."

1) A regular person wouldn't remember everything it saw in public a year from now, a month from now, or even a day from now.

2) A regular person wouldn't try to build all sorts of automatic connections between various identities it sees in public over longer periods of time (say more than a few hours)

3) A regular person wouldn't be able to take punitive action with the might of the government and taking up weapons against crimes it sees happen in public (so perhaps someone like a government entity needs to be more restricted than regular people when doing certain monitoring activities, because of their inherit potential for abuse?)

Suddenly when you consider all three of these ideas, and there are probably more like them, we can realize that public surveillance doesn't have to be the "free for all" governments would like us to believe that it should be (because the more true that becomes, the more power they have against each individual, way before there's even a hint of a case against someone).
Chernobyl was just restabilized after 30 years, and will have to be restabilized again in another 100.
In regions where you don't have that choice (no alternatives at all), IIRC Comcast will top out around 300/5 or 100/5.
While hiring those people might be more expensive, I expect it isn't much. Annotators willing to read a set of guidelines and perform rating tasks long term are generally not cheap. I suspect that for something like twitter, identifying people most suited to moderate a particular piece of content is itself a very difficult technical and social problem. So even assuming you can figure out how to find these people and hire them, there's still a long path from there to improving moderation.
If there's margin to be had, the first step is having customers.

AWS was the clear leader, and sure, you can try to attract different customers... but they should have also tried to make it as easy as possible for existing AWS customers to migrate.

Then, you offer your customers additional services that the other guy doesn't offer.
No. If you allowed this then you could say that funding hospitals subsidizes tobacco companies, murderers, etc.

Funding women's shelters is subsidizing the abuse of women!

It's politicized equivocation.
Robots Are Catching Up to Humans in the Jobs Race
I'm not denying the double standard, just reiterating that some drugs are extremely harmful to people and their use should be discouraged/banned/whatever, no matter who is using them.
This includes internet - https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32167991-Modem-Frontier-Fo... for one example
I’m not sure what is homogenous about Switzerland? If anything it’s one of the more heterogeneous countries out there: a federation of regions with quite different cultures and languages. And Swiss towns are far more mixed socio-economically than the segregated suburbs common to many other countries
Interestingly, Tether has "broken the buck" before, trading below (or sometimes above) $1 parity.
They're still made...
Unicomp ( https://www.pckeyboard.com/ ) bought the equipment ( from IBM?) and makes 'original' buckling spring keyboards now. They also have some nice 'upgrades' for them like USB connectors (ps/2 connectors can be hard to find now... )
Microsoft's post reads more like an advertisement for accountguard than reporting on a large threat.
These guys are more interesting to me, but it's not really my area of expertise:

https://flibe-energy.com/news/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BybPPIMuQQ
Strange how a chalk mark is illegal, but placing a ticket under the windshield wiper, or sticking a "vehicle to be towed" sticker on the window isn't.

To add: I'd personally much rather local LEOs use the chalk method than the camera method.
Come on, it was only a (good?) old joke ...
What about companies for more backend roles?

Usually frontend interviews just means you're going to get asked frontend and DS&A but some just go really hard with frontend questions.
I can't speak for him and I'm not saying I agree with this, but I believe what he means is that what they buy it for is actually what they get.

Audiophile are buying it for better audio, but the quality isn't actually better.

Keyboard enthusiast buy it for different materials, finishes, color scheme, sets of switches, sets of keycaps, etc... They all can be done in a better or inferior quality.

I wouldn't agree with it because it's mostly defining the object by its aesthetics features.
I don't recall the specifics. It was part of a "pass this course and skip the practicum for getting your license" program. It was 2 days long, with 2 hours of lecture and 6 hours on the bikes.

LATER: It's the Montana Motorcycle Safety Foundation that ran the course, and it was the "MSF Basic RiderCourse".
> requires that we have safe nuclear storage facilities for the next 10,000 years or so

Not really, no.

You should take a look at how many people die due to coal, and how much long term environmental damage coal is responsible for.

Even in the worst case scenario of a Nuclear Accident, I would still rather that happen, than deal with the effects of coal.
I would describe Zurich's population as rather heterogenous, but you've made a case. I don't think this should be standard for every region because you need a high-population density to be efficient (e.g. rural Swiss areas look very different from Zurich), but it definitely is a very good approach for densely populated urban areas. Zurich has a very high quality of life and I would give a non-negligible amount of credit to public transport.
> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

Can someone provide a link to a page which isn't built by a retard?
I used this for a bit ages ago. Useful tool. Funnily, I think it's a great example of how building some things is way harder than people think. For instance, everyone has complained about Calibre since the beginning of time. Code, UI, everything. And yet, no one has come up with a replacement. Maybe pandoc captures some use cases.

It's like OpenSSL in that respect alone. Everyone wants something like it but it's too hard to build so they'll just use what they think is an inferior solution (when really it's superiority as a solution is that it exists).
In suburbs, the sidewalk is supposed to be installed by the contractor who is doing the building. Some of them "forget" and the inspector doesn't notice/care.
The company that issues tether can invest the proceeds into a money market and get some meager interest. If that float is large enough, they can make a killing in absolute terms. Presumably that's what the grandparent means.
Google detects an Android Vulnerability affecting Pixel and other devices
You're half right - VR's problem is it ONLY has long term potential. The hardware is holding them back; Oculus is trying with Quest but people still need to see their hands.

People working with VR don't state this enough - your users are BLIND when you put them in VR. No one likes being blind. This feeling is inherent when you can't see your hands and try to interact. Combine this hardware barrier with the lack of deep content, you are going to have to make a product with some serious depth, something that people can't get anywhere else, before you get buy-in on a consumer level. The biggest problem is that VR is difficult to appreciate until you try it.

I think Facebook is onto something with their face scanning and if you haven't tried Big Screen Beta, which let's you watch movies together, it's pretty awesome.

Industrial applications though, are being done right now. There are some concepts that are so much easier to display or skills to train in VR that simply can't be done anywhere else.
Are you trying to claim that Zurich is homogeneous? Switzerland is like 25% foreigner, and many of them (along with full Swiss citizens) aren’t white, that would be magnified in a bigger Swiss city like Zurich. Also, since when is Silicon Valley homogeneous?
I think 20 Mbps unlimited TalkTalk is just £20 a month including a line?
LA used to have a lot of little cut throughs and stairways going up and down the hillier neighborhoods during the streetcar era. Some of them are still around of course, but they are pretty secret as their original use case (getting to the street car stop) has been gone for 60 years.

New builds don't really consider the pedestrian or the neighborhood, and are generally hostile to the cohesiveness of the area. They are massive and take up sometimes the whole city block (while only building 5 or so stories generally), and the only way to bypass them is to go all the way around them which can take 10 minutes sometimes (vs. like 2 if there was a cut through).

Due to the homeless, most apartments also gate their parking lots so you can't cut through there either. My current apartment is one of these places and walkability is severely limited because there are only two exits (despite the place taking up nearly a block). If the surrounding fencing was removed or at the very least I had an exit on every cardinal direction and not just to the east and south west, I'd be able to walk to the subway that is NNW of me 10 minutes faster(calculated by google maps).
You indeed no longer have to do the parsing, but I've been told that even the AST is a beast because the language is so complicated. Corner cases abound. (Note: Have not used libclang myself, but I look at clang ASTs on godbolt from time to time).
> Also scary to me is the ability to use a self driving car as a slow moving cruise missle[sic].

I wouldn't worry about the spread of level 4/5-automation changing the calculus here on a small actor basis. VBIED's are already a serious threat, and require no significant technical innovation, but outside of conflict zones we don't see a ton of them.

Assuming we don't require physical failsafes though and truly airgap driving systems from any network connectivity (which we won't, I guarantee it) there's definitely a worry on the state level actor front.

I can totally imagine the first salvo in WW3 being the utility grid, cell networks, and crashing all the rooted cars, but that horse has likely already left the stable.
> You're assuming, first, that attraction is exclusively defined in sexual terms, which is untrue.

Agreed. If you are attracted to someone and you don't want to have sex with them, then it's not sexual attraction. I am attracted to my business partner, for example, because he is very confident and has a warm personality. That's why I call him my friend and business partner. But this doesn't make me Gay, I don't want to have sex with him.

> You're further assuming that identity is exclusively defined by sexuality. Also not true.

Agreed. There are many facets to a person's identity. Sexual identity is just one of them. In a conversation about LGBTQ identity, it's fair to assume we're talking about sexual identity, it's right in the name - lesbian gay bi trans queer. Those are words that describe who you have sexual relationships with, therefore conversations about LGBTQ identity are about sexual identity. If you want to have a discussion about geographic or other parts of a person's identity, then we can do that, but nothing about our conversation is about those parts of a person's identity.

Edit: I see where our misunderstanding is. You think LGBTQ is a banner under which an entire identity is defined, but I think LGBTQ is just one part of a person's larger identity. I think there are many LGBTQ people who do not want their identity to be pinned to their sexual preference, many would say "I'm just a guy who likes men, don't paint me with that whole brush".
Interestingly, it fails for me because of Mac, not because of Chrome:

this.correctBrowser = (this.nav || this.ie);
this.correctVersion = (this.nav5up || this.ie5up);
this.correctOS = (this.linux || this.win32);
this.supported = (this.correctBrowser && this.correctVersion && this.correctOS);

A case of platform detection, instead of feature detection, and an illustration of how platform detection fails in future-proofing your code.
It's the same with personal health choices. You don't just die in a vacuum when your health decisions come home to roost. Rather, you take from finite, shared medical resources. For that reason, "my body, my choices" isn't as bulletproof as it seems at first glance.

I'm reminded of all the people who weren't allowed back into evacuation zones during the latest surge of forest fires to save more belongings from their house. People invoke the reasonable point of "I should be able to make that gamble if I want" but in reality, if they were to find themselves in danger, they'd be squandering resources of emergency responders having to save them and the attention of other people who should be working on evacuating swiftly rather than saving their neighbor.

It's not always obvious where to draw the line when concerning ourselves with the actions of others.
In fairness, the argument is about what you can do to a car before you have evidence of wrongdoing, and the sticker/tickets happen after they have observed an infraction, so that's less problematic in the context of the ruling.

Edit:

>To add: I'd personally much rather local LEOs use the chalk method than the camera method.

Me too!
The improvement wasn't in congress, parliament, or other government bodies. The improvement was tiny small gatherings where previously there were no rules and so people would shout each other down. By having a set of rules meetings could assure order, and have a previously agreed on process to ensure not just the loudest voices were heard - without spending far too much time on debate as everybody says the same things in different words.

There are many possible rules. Roberts is better than most because most people are used to them (because they have been around so long). Even if you have never read the book, you probably have been in a meeting where someone says "I move..." responded by "second", a debate, and then a vote. Just knowing this order exists keeps things moving.
Relative to the US, every country is homogenous. We're a huge, sprawling mass of literally every country on earth, liberally sprinkled across dozens of different biomes.
> but I think presenting it that way tends to only embolden the do-nothing anti-climate-action critics.

Not to mention that $1,650 is a very small amount to pay for this.

I pay at least an order of magnitude as much in actual costs for energy.

Why do people think the only way to get action on something important to them is to lie and inflate it?
Yea, people talk about not being able to fully predict nuclear disasters, then turn around and claim sun, rain, and wind are totally predictive enough to rely on. I get that the risks vary, but man, a lot of people really don't understand statistics and probability.
To [3] it is worth to add, that the civil paramedics usualy come from and are part of the (leftwing) scene, where the demonstrants are coming from, so they are not exatly like the Red Cross. So are viewed by the police as enemies as well. And that the person was freed of all charges in the next instance.

(still, it is outrageous, that he was charged in the first place)
> (through sleep deprived analysts).

You misspelled 'material non-public information'.
FWIW, the Hulu package associated with the Disney+ option is not the "commercial free" package. So you'll have to pay a bit more with the Disney+ to retain your ad-free experience on Hulu.
I don't find this to be the case. Usually, when someone is wrong, they are quickly corrected. So when reading a thread, I rarely come away with an incorrect belief.

Maybe some example would help me understand what you mean. Could you link to some clear misinformation on HN that wasn't convincingly refuted elsewhere in the thread?
Hey, thanks.

I think this is an unavoidable
and perhaps unintended consequence of having self-driving cars because the alternative will be deemed unacceptable.

I'm also willing to bet on a system to locate any self-driving car at any time, which the police and emergency services will have access to.
Can you list these apps?

I am curious.
"Your margin is my opportunity." [1]

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/01/13/margin/
Cyber retaliation from Iran should be on the mind of anyone in the government thinking of military escalation with them. War-time presidents may get a boost before an election, but public support will quickly turn if hardship comes to US soil via hacks to our power grid or other infrastructure.
Do the telephone wiretap laws serve any reasonable purpose?
Market share is measured in some very, very funny ways. Like Office 365 being part of their cloud division, including when people download and install office on their computer. If Google was to switch things around, and have Ad-words, Gmail, maps, etc, all pay a small, internal fee to google cloud to host their servers own internal servers, I think the market-share conversation would be very, very different.
IFPS mirror

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWux6nCqtWrYkcExi3yzrhoejfiQxK46dr6jGB...

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmWux6nCqtWrYkcExi3yzrhoejf...

PDF file at the bottom

https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ncsc-content/files/VPN_Vu...
It was the canton's decision. Direct democracy was involved [1], but at the local level, not nation-wide. People from other cantons in Switzerland had no say in this matter. The people of Zurich have decided that they want that. Zurich is not a big city, by global standards, but any city with similar size can make these decisions, if they want to pursue the same goals.

[1] Examples: in 2014 the people of Zurich decided (66% voted yes) to extend tram line 8, in 2017 that extension was opened. And just this year a the tram line 2 was extended to reach further into the suburbs of Zurich, and further work is planed for the next few years. People of Zurich also voted on these extensions, and will continue to in the coming years.
I've never seen a keyboard enthusiast claim that the results of their typing are superior to the results of typing on a cheap keyboard. They prefer the experience, or the aesthetics, but don't generally make falsifiable claims about objective facts.

If you want to spend money on speaker wire because it looks good, and fits your room decor, or glows, fine. If you think the results sound better, you deserve all the mockery you get.
Thank you, did not want to enable JS to read...
I'm not aware that they are. It's a nice feature, but it might introduce unnecessary indirection is used inappropriately, that and the vast majority of languages get by without it without any significant hindrance.
I miss that site a lot too, but there's more to the story than that:

- Consumer Reports bought the site, all is well.

- Site was hacked via the comments system.

- Site returned without the comments.

- Since comments were why most people went to that site, the site site suffered greatly.

- They reintroduced comments, but made you jump through hoops to get an account. Only a few (literaly less than ten that I can remember) people commented.

- Those few people stopped commenting because there was no one else to interact with.

- The site shut down.

(I had a story that I submitted and was posted to The Consumerist. I also had one of those few accounts after the hack.)
In Europe, absolutely.

In the US, there's no way that could pass.
I love calibre but I find that a lot of the time I want to open a recently read book or one I know by name. Cold starting calibre, finding the book, opening the book, minimizing or closing calibre is a 4 step process that takes 15-30 seconds. Further it takes up about 250MB in memory to avoid that 4-8 second wait for it to start. By default without specifying a field it finds results in text describing the book which is almost never what I want as well.

Calibre has a cli interface calibredb. One could use that but it would be vastly more cumbersome than using the gui. It isn't at all designed to be used interactively unless you like typing switches like --for-machine and mixing in a lot of jq in preparation for opening a book.

What I really wanted to do was type a quick command with a search query just like I would type at the calibre search box have it pop open a list that I could narrow by typing hit enter and open a book. One step and 1 - 10 seconds to open a book instead of 15-30 without a process taking up ram all the time for no reason.

https://github.com/michaelmrose/rdr

Written in clojure and compiled to a portable executable with graal next to no requirements outside of rofi or dmenu and currently being tied to linux. Could presumably be be compiled for mac if I had one. It uses 19MB of ram for the and starts about instantly.

-q [query] => pass query with the same syntax as calibredb or calibregui accepts

-l => open the last book read

-r => filter the most recent 30 distinct books opened via rdr via rofi or dmenu

query string => If a string is passed in without -q -h -l -r specified it is treated as a query

-o [file] => open with default reader and record in recent reads if part of a calibre library

-S [options] => save options passed to disk
Options

-p [list] => list of formats in order of preference eg pdf,epub,mobi

-k [number] => number of recent reads to keep

--port PORT

--server URL

--user USER

--password PASSWORD"

The recommended usage is to pass the desired defaults with -S then omit them on future invocations. Example:

rdr -S -L /path/to/library -p pdf,epub,mobi -k 10 -p 8090 --user me --password hunter2

then

rdr -q query string here

I currently have a keybinding tied directly to rdr -l and rdr -r and use it all the time. 1 button to go back to the most recently read book is nice.

I'd also love any feedback anyone wanted to provide about the code.
What argument in favor? There doesn’t need to be one: it’s the right thing to do. It’s why I use iMessage. It’s why I trust Apple.
I promise you this isn't true, maybe over the long term the value add services will be higher margin, but for most of the big players right now the margins are in the core infrastructure aspects like standard storage and compute.
motorcylists here ignore all noise ordinances and try to be as loud as possible to ppl notice them. One motercyclist told me that his loud noise saved his life more than once.

I personally think they should be ticketed for noise.
This seems like a great use case for a variant of Boston Dynamic's Atlas robot especially given that robots ability to self balance, handle obstacles and even do parkour.
>Other people have the right to free speech.

Just to add on a bit to other replies, banning people from a private service, socially ostracizing them, vigorously criticizing them, attempting legal forms of economic retaliation (like boycotts), etc are all part of Free Speech too. Free Speech is about not having physical force used to shutdown the market of ideas, because of the millennia of proven destructive effects that has. That doesn't mean all speech and ideas are of equal value though, far from it. The point is to push judging of that into softer spheres, where minds can potentially change (sometimes over generations) and room can remain on the margins for new things to put down roots, and where hopefully eventually higher value ideas can grow. But constant judging is still there.

Constant non-violent but vigorous efforts to resist propaganda and the like through revealing it and acting to counter and restrain it are real actions, and completely within the bounds of Free Speech.
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