skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Law enforcement certainly can lie to the public.

OK, but that's just because the government hasn't passed a law against such speech; it isn't protected by the First Amendment. If the government wants to adopt a rule stopping cops from lying to the public (in their official capacity), it is free to attach penalties to violations of such a rule. And while it is useful for undercover cops to lie to maintain their cover, it might very well be a good policy that uniformed officers must not tell lies to the public. It certainly could help increase trust in the police.
This video[1] is German, however as far as I can tell everything you need to get from an image to a fake print is easily available. The relevant part starts at 65 seconds. Only a few minutes to get a working fake. It is basically the process described by petschge.

[1] https://youtu.be/OPtzRQNHzl0?t=65
We're talking about the 0.0001% here, and frankly it doesn't matter. The EU has a fundamentally more sane judicial system than the US, no one will be prosecuted because they didn't serve a pop up to a single EU user who were using a VPN. What matters is that companies are legally obligated to treat personal data as best as they can and if it's proven that they willingly messed up or that they made stupid technical decisions (ie leaving an ES instance open without any password or network protection level of stupidity) they will be held accountable. It's not perfect but it's much better than nothing.
Messaging you requires at best only enough Internet access to send a message. It doesn't require all other functionality to be Internet dependent.

Frankly, the way these IoT devices are designed to be just dumb terminals to some cloud on the other side of the world, it's just bad engineering, in service of anticonsumer business.
Honestly it sounds bad that we say it's okay for the police to lie in order to coerce a confession. I wonder how much it would reduce false confessions if we did so. My hunch, based on no data (if someone knows more please chime in because I am interested) is at least 90% of false confessions would disappear. I say that because I believe most false confessions are essentially bullied out of people by police. Everybody has seen Making A Murderer. I don't think that's the norm by any means, but it's proof this happens.

I understand why they do it. But I am 100% for anything to increase police accountability. They should be held to a higher standard and obviously that is not the case today (at least in the United States).
"Under the hood, Aquameta is a "datafied" web stack, built entirely in PostgreSQL. The structure of a typical web framework is represented in Aquameta as big database schema with 6 postgreSQL schemas containing ~60 tables, ~50 views and ~90 stored procedures. Apps developed in Aquameta are represented entirely as relational data, and all development, at an atomic level, is some form of data manipulation."

This is triggering painful flashbacks to SharePoint development.
Machine Learning: How a Game of Checkers Is Shaping Agriculture
Yours produces significantly better drawings.

Sure, it uses more expensive step motors, but there are cheap versions of those too.
The "best" students, those most likely to be successful within the school and after school, become walking advertisements. They're also more likely to be happy alumni who donate to the school.

I wonder what the data would show if you compared the money invested in admissions to that invested in alumni affairs & development, and how much is brought in by tuition and fees and how much is brought in as donations. From what I've seen, development is definitely an area that operates on the "you have to spend money to make money" principle.
If you can somehow add typing to Elixir, I'm sure the community will accept it happily. Though it needs to be compatible with the Erlang ecosystem.

But if you're angry at a programming language, you probably need a holiday :-)
Thank you for such a great feedback. Undo/redo - this is gonna be super-tricky to build, but we had similar ideas, mostly we were thinking about smth like redux'ish time travelling along the cluster state updates, slow-mo replays, things like that. But undo/repo over real cluster states is definitely an interesting idea.
I see.

I can see some benefit to motion planning on the device if, for example, decisions are being made based on real-time data. For example, if there is a pressure sensor for the nozzle then the board could use this this realtime data to adjust it's motion.

If there's no realtime data being input then everything is simply a deterministic function of the gcode, and all of these aspects related to acceleration and jerk can be precomputed on your powerful multi-core desktop and "rolled into" the gcode.
It's a shame the repository doesn't have any examples of the pictures it's drawn.

There are some on http://brandonagr.github.io/gocupi/
Google is testing favicons in search results in US
Just noticed this today.

https://imgur.com/a/JzOQEPY

I was completely logged out of Google eco-system and the test started showing.
Wow this is great! I've been meaning to play around with k8s and this looks to be a good first time experience with the subject.

I had a difficult time trying to figure out how to use the text editor to open a file and was stuck on a particular step for a bit. Would be nice to give users a quick intro on the basics of the UI.

Good luck!
Honestly, the IRS makes these kind of questions pretty much impossible.

For example, I've been considering installing solar panels on my house. There is a federal tax credit for installing solar, and it includes associated costs like repairing your roof to support the panels. But as a normal person the entirety of the guidance is this:

"No costs relating to a solar panel or other property installed as a roof (or portion thereof) will fail to qualify solely because the property constitutes a structural component of the structure on which it is installed."

So if you get a new roof to support the panels will the tax credit cover the entire roof job, or only the part covered by the panels? I've heard from two accountants on this who had two diametrically opposed opinions on this. And if I guess wrong it's potentially Felony Tax Fraud, the kind that put Al Capone in jail for 11 years. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

So I call the IRS help line to get the official guidance on this and the official IRS position is: "We can not give guidance on this subject." It's not like TurboTax is going to have any more official of an opinion on this either. The only way to safely handle this is to pass liability off to a third party, which makes filling out your own taxes not an option.
> to provide some motivations to politicians to help simplify the tax code?

You speak of NJ, NY, taxes, "mistakes", fines, potential "audits" by the IRS, then wonder why politicians would want to simplify and improve something that many of them likely grift from or cheat on themselves, due to that same complexity...

...and one of the biggest of these tax cheats hails from NY, likely has had his now (on again, off again) lawyer, who used to be mayor of NYC and before that as a US AG - probably ran interference for his cheating and other scams.

But all of them - and plenty of others - benefit from the complexity and other issues, and don't want it any other way, unfortunately. No real good solutions to that.
...in an ideal world, they wouldn't have to spend every penny, either.
Wow. To my surprise, I was thinking they are something like "standard" in western world. Here in Slovakia, you go to every forest and see it guiding your roads
Show HN: My son's first GitHub repo
I have finally convinced my son to take a step forward to publish something in public domain. As he is learning Python these days, he made a scraper to download Cambridge past papers (GCSE / IGCSE).

If you like it, encourage the kid by pressing the Star button :)

https://github.com/UsamaKashif/CambridgePastPapersDownloader
There is a branch of government in charge of large software projects:
https://www.usds.gov
Is it really as simple as that? Budget trumps all?

With all due respect to the OP, most state run software operations are complete, utter, garbage. I'd happily pay money to avoid some of the clunky, poor UI/UX, and downright broken web tools that the state of California produces.

TurboTax on the other hand, is a relatively nice experience.
I've validated some speech and like others I sometimes found strong foreign accents from non native English speakers (just like I am) so I tried to be neutral at least with the sentences I could understand, which luckily were the vast majority.
If however I may offer a suggestion to improve the service, some information should be given about how to produce good quality recordings before the user starts contributing, what mic to use and how, sound levels, equalizing, background noise etc. Some of the recordings were truly awful quality wise and probably would generate false negatives (ok, an AI should learn to sort those out, but maybe later).
Also, some recordings although correct were stuttering badly probably due to network congestion on the contributors side; it could come handy a way to also tag those sentences as "correct but stuttering" so that in the future the AI could also learn how a formally well recited text would sound if coming from a problematic connection.
Tagging (scoring maybe) could also be useful for sentences where just about everything is correct save for a single word or part of it. For example, one sentence was "The party was a Sikh-centered political party in the Indian state of Punjab." but the woman said "in this Indian state". I didn't mark it because either way would have been not entirely accurate.

Nice initiative though.
With docker >= 18.09, you can connect directly over SSH by setting DOCKER_HOST=ssh://<user>@<host>
The EU commission's own websites were not GDPR compliant for quite a long time after GDPR took effect. They still eventually became compliant, but it wasn't there from day 1, which is what you would expect from the body that made the regulation.

Part of the reason why is that the commission doesn't have to follow GDPR (rules for thee).
HBO's “Silicon Valley” takes on Big Tech's reckoning in its final season
Definitely a lot more work to be done to polish up the ux! Thanks for the compliments and thanks for pushing through the issues
a) This article purports to answer the question of why medical care costs so much, collectively. Its answer: 'prices'. But it does basically nothing to interrogate why prices are high, despite claiming to at several points.

b) One extraordinarily simple thing we could do to deflate medical costs in this country that would have essentially zero negative effects would be to create a market in kidneys. Medicare currently spends 90k per patient per year on dialysis. Allowing people to sell a spare kidney would completely and totally solve this problem, essentially overnight. Everyone currently on dialysis would get a transplant, and the costs would go to zero. 7% of Medicare's budget would evaporate instantly, and the numbers would probably be similar for private insurers.
The latter strategy doesn't seem to work out that well for the USA because it results in regular people using the munitions on other regular people.
Echo does this - only wake word phrases are sent to the internet - but it is not guaranteed by the hardware. Also your failed requests - where it recognized the wake word but not the request - are listened to by QA people. Those could easily be private conversations with an accidental wake word.
That's why I think it is so important to do precision tests of the Standard model here on earth. DM might show up as differences between theory and measurement. There are a couple of puzzles like that, g_muon-2, proton radius, ^8Be,... Maybe we get lucky.
It's actually quite funny, but authorized key file path was configurable since forever in opensshd (check out /etc/ssh/sshd_config or similar, I use that on my systems with ecryptfs encrypted homes since that feature was added to Ubuntu ~10 years ago): the only trick is to make sure files are owned by appropriate users if you want them to have control over it and I set it to something like "/etc/ssh/users/%u".
30% of US healthcare spend goes to hospitals, and 20% to physicians (many of whom are employed by hospitals even if they are outpatient clinics -- the % of physicians employed by hospitals in the US is at an all time high)

Hospital consolidation has been increasing the last few decades. Many hospitals are regional monopolies and have a ton of leverage in negotiations with insurers. Insurance companies put the squeeze on smaller providers, increasing pressure on them to sell to big hospitals. After buying a smaller hospital or clinic, the hospital system can bill insurance companies at the hospital systems' much higher negotiated rate -- for the exact same care (at least this is what i heard from several execs at big hospital systems).

My first job out of college was an investment banking analyst and our most profitable clients were hospital systems (HCA, Community Health, Tenet Healthcare, etc). They were so profitable that their profit margins were 20-30% even after writing off 30% of their revenues as uncollectible (this was before the Affordable Care Act).

These hospital systems were major targets of private equity buyouts. A buyout fund would buy a big hospital system, finance the deal with a ton of debt, then buy more hospitals and clinics and roll them up into the bigger system. They made so much cash that they could pay down huge amounts of debt quickly so the private equity groups made tons of money. Many non-profit hospital systems engage in similar aggressive behavior
Lobbyists often threaten to fund whoever will campaign against the elected official at the next election. They say "we will allocate $1M to a PAC benefiting your opponent if you advocate for free tax filing".
They should disable those gimmicks and remove them from all advertising, comparison charts, etc.
I think the reason should/could be abstraction. If you find yourself doing kind of the same thing over and over but don't see how you could extract the repetative part in a scalable way in a language with less type support then there may be a good use case for Haskell there.
Can we do the same with health insurance premiums? The average cost of an employer plan is up to $20,000+/year in premiums alone but most people are oblivious to the true cost.
> If you are so sure, you are welcome to make some money on it by shorting bitcoin before the halving which is in May.

Only suckers take positions in a rigged game, short or long.

> Kinda ironic now after FED printed more money in one week than the whole Bitcoin economy is worth. I'd rather have the printing controlled by math, than any person.

Obviously that math is defined by people, so you're just pointing at it and pretending otherwise. The Bitcoin Core team can just change the printing rate any time; their lack of action is defacto action. Rather than an elected group of economists you've got a bunch of un-accountable, un-elected people with zero experience in the economics space shooting from the hip.
Its a baldfaced lie. In 2019, with all the concern about privacy in the world it is inconceivable that they haven't thought about it. The transition of tech power to the sociopath overlords is complete.
Asana Launches Automation
The list is written "out of a respect for the less-heralded cultural underpinnings" of America, but it includes books by Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow...great authors and great books but hardly "less heralded"
If you don't test your backups, they're not backups. But I guess in this case if you don't have backups at all, you also don't have backups... 1 is 0, 2 is 1, etc...
There is certainly prior art for complex games running smoothly in Haskell:
https://wiki.haskell.org/Frag

This particular solution used functional reactive programming, essentially a composition of signal/event processing functions/automatons.
Sounds good, more like "speech etiquette".

It could also be phrased in terms of "Everyone has a right to decline to talk politics". If people agree to talk politics I don't see problem, except of course it can lead to lower productivity perhaps.

So then maybe all non-work-related speech should be forbidden? That just sounds inhumane.
Why France is eyeing nuclear power again
Hey now, no pointing out that the government has an incentive to keep the system difficult and confusing because it gets them money!

That’s absolutely not acceptable in this thread (I tried)!
Startup headed by ex-Apple engineer aims to eliminate smartphone buttons
Would you care to answer the question directly after the one you answered?

Attributing quantum phenomena to randomness also makes no falsifiable predictions.

In fact, asserting quantum phenomena are caused by pure randomness is equivalent the assertion that no prediction is possible.
I don't think it's that simple. A fair amount of work has been done on relativistic extensions of de Broglie-Bohm type theories, e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0406173.pdf
API Concurrency Control Strategies
Via-ipv6.com: enabling IPv4 sites for IPv6 only networks
Disclaimer: I am neither for nor against Andrew Yang as President; I merely find affinity with the idea of data as a property right.

In other words, I think it's a good idea.
Moreno backs down after two weeks of protests in Ecuador
Oh wow. You reminded me of a mildly traumatic memory of my infant daughter literally turning blue before my eyes before taking a gasping breath and going back to normal. It was no more than a couple of seconds (babies turn blue fast), but it certainly sent my heart racing . . . I think she was crying very aggressively to get herself into that state; I forget the exact details.
I would take 64 gigs of memory/4 cores over 16gigs/12 cores any day. The idea of many core is simply less preposterous than it was even a few years ago.
It works in Star Trek, because as 'api says, their society is sane. United Federation of Planets is an utopia, where people don't try to abuse and profit off each other.

For a proper Star Trek comparison, imagine how comfortable Federation citizens would be with using ambient computing technology created and sold by the Ferengi, who are also known to be performing surveillance for Romulans in exchange for money.

(For non-Trekkies here, Ferengi is a species of extremely greedy and exploitative capitalists; Romulans are what you'd get if you reified the Five Eyes into a species, and put them into state of cold war with the Federation.)
That's not really true, though. Prices are set by the intersection of supply and demand. Oil demand is relatively inelastic, for instance, but the price is quite reasonable because there is tremendous competition in supply.

Prices are high in healthcare in part due to inelastic demand, but much moreso due to supply constriction. For just one, particularly egregious example of this:

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

If you want to open a new hospital in many states in the US, you need to acquire this "Certificate of Need". Who approves this certificate? Other hospitals in the area. It's as though Google required the permission of Yahoo to form a new search engine.
Amazing conclusion. Do you get all of your facts from guessing, or just when it disagrees with you?

>They analyzed the data from 428 raided YouTube videos
Url changed from https://www.pulse.ng/bi/tech/google-exec-says-nest-owners-sh..., which points to this.
> I also want a programmable bedroom light that can slowly dim on at morning.

FWIW, a lot of cheap CFL bulbs do this on their own. It's one of the reasons I hate CFLs for most uses, but I've come to appreciate that the light in my kids' room starts at about half (perceived) brightness and takes a minute or two to warm up.
Fine wasn't that big, on the order of $150.

It wasn't actually directly due to the multi-state thing. I paid for my wife's college, and NY has a thing to let you deduct tuition from dependents on taxes. I had forgotten to attach the proof of payment for tuition, leading to me getting audited (in the most technical send of the word) and fined slightly. The biggest pain in the ass was the back-and-forth I had to do to close my case, which involved me faxing things multiple times.
EdX (MITx) Professors Win Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
This is not always true anymore. Many modern Samsung TVs (and I am sure some other popular brands) have a standby update option, which would imply it is actually "always on".

Ideally, it is only checking for the latest firmware version while you think it's off, but almost certainly it is doing other nefarious things you have zero visibility into.
The answer is simple - because its better and more reliable than renewables.
I agree plenty times the command chain was let scot free from scandals because of the diluted liability on the corporate actions as whole and the limited personal responsibility granted by hiding behind a corporation, something personal to pierce the corporate veil is needed at this point in time as correction to the rampant abuse from execs
Fine... GPS coordinates as of a specific date.
Well that is the crux isn't it? How do we directly detect gravitational particles?
Lobsters Privacy Policy
From a technical standpoint, there are data sharing settings in Google Analytics [1] letting you control how much analytics data is shared with Google. Maybe they wanted it as part of the contract and not just a setting?

[1] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1011397
I am tired of for-profit companies hamstringing government using bribes to representatives and funding lobbyists from delivering inexpensive or free services to citizens. If someone wants to pay TurboTax, that is fine. If someone wants to continue to support their efforts to stymie government from delivering said services for free, they should be tarred and feathered.

Intuit's tax products are regulatory capture, plain and simple, and deserve no defending.
I personally think the Calfile UI is better than TurboTax for what it does. CalFile's UI isn't shiny and Web 3.0, but it is nice and linear and easy to understand. IMO TurboTax can get a bit weird if you skip around sections or need to manually look at the generated forms. CalFile doesn't have all the features that TurboTax does, like being able to say "I donated a microwave to charity, figure out my deduction". However I've found that the two actually work pretty well in conjunction with each other— do Federal taxes in Turbotax to figure out my deductions and get my W2 #s collected, then copy all that info into CalFile.
In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace
There are some planes out there for GA that do already use fly by wire, they're mostly relegated to the highest end though because of expense and weight so iirc they're mostly on the small private jet size of planes not the Cessna size single engine 4 passenger planes.

Even looking at helicopters it looks like Bell has made a fly by wire chopper as far back as 2015. [0]

[0] https://www.mathworks.com/company/user_stories/bell-helicopt...
I don't think so. The DM hypothesis is matter, not only matter-like, for whatever that is, which is dark. That's exactly what the hypothesis is. What do you think is implied which is not part of that hypothesis?
You used to be to buy official OpenBSD t-shirts [1] and posters at conferences such as Fosdem. I think I even got one poster for free at Fosdem cause I bought a t-shirt. But that was in 2003 or so.

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html
Did you try using JSON Hyper Schema for defining APIs maybe?