skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tor Project tells relay operaters to set a value called MyFamily to declare which relays are run by the same person or group, so that Tor users won't use more than one relay in the same path with the same operator.

https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en#MyFa...

Of course, a malicious relay operator that wanted to increase its chances of being used as both the entry and exit nodes in a single path (and thereby easily being able to correlate traffic between its origin and destination) could add a lot of nodes and not own up to their relationship.

Some people in the Tor community try to watch for relay-creation behavior that they consider suspicious. A common example is a large number of new relays that appear within a short period of time with similar characteristics and don't declare common ownership.

Edit: one of the main tools for this is OrNetRadar, which seems to primarily use the autonomous system number in which the relays are located, as well as the timing of their creation: https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetRadar/

In this case, the relays can be given a flag like BadExit by the Tor developers, which will stop any Tor client from selecting those relays as exit nodes in a path. However, a sufficiently malicious attacker could add a lot of network capacity in a way that isn't recognizably associated as belonging to the same entity, for example by adding nodes in different data centers, with different speeds, with different software environments, and not all coming online at the same moment. In that case, there wouldn't be a way to easily infer that these nodes are associated with the same operator.

As someone has said elsewhere in this thread, there's still the hope that if different organizations add network capacity with malicious intent, they tend to undermine one another's chances of succeeding, at least as long as they aren't directly colluding (because the basic security goal in Tor is that clients choose paths whose constituent relays don't share information with one another).
This is what friend requests are for.

I don't want unsolicited messages from people. It's bad enough for me on LinkedIn, where that's the whole point.
Did not know this. Good to know. Given relative wealth and my own anecdotal experience in poorer countries I would think the opposite. Clearly, I am wrong.
I listened 'The Stand' on audiobook over my commutes a couple of years back. Incredible way to spend 50+ hours in a car
Instead of a hypothetical you can just use the example from the article:

> Twitter said it would not ban President Trump despite incendiary tweets, including allegations that he threatened to declare war on North Korea.
I don't know what OP's suggested solution is, but if I had my way, I'd just eliminate recommendations entirely, in favour of perhaps some kind of category- or tag-based search (eg "give me more cute puppy videos"). Especially since so many people seem to have so many problems with recommendations, it's clearly not bringing value to life, so just get rid of it.

Of course Google won't, because it would dramatically reduce watch time and their advertisers wouldn't like that. But a man can dream
A lot of modern Windows kernel API looks exceedingly familiar to Unix. I would think perhaps early Windows was close to VMS, but as they tried to bolt on a POSIX layer it seems it has drifted.

Features of VMS like transparent clustering are missing, for example.
In my BS mental model of how brains work, I imagine that we estimate the probability of a risk not through some analytical method, but instead with a sampling-based approach where we observe how much time our brain spends worrying about different outcomes. The mental narrative that accompanies inaction probably looks like an inconsistent mess, not a principled calculation that the probability is low.
Correct, the stratigraphic record is 3.5 billion years old. At least if this (https://xkcd.com/1194/) xkcd is to be truested.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21251573
Yes, if you're familiar enough with Firefox that you know where to click and are comfortable enough to experiment with customizing your browser. I don't think that's the case for most people.

It took me a few months before I realized that the page was customizable at all, especially since the triple-dot menu doesn't even show up until you hover or focus the element.
It's a crime to send drugs in the mail. I'm sure the owner understood avoiding that.
>In France, a bag in a public place is deemed to be a bomb and the military has to come, secure the area and destroy it.

After the 2015 attacks one would guess. For a millenium at least, and well up into the early 21st century, a bag in public place in France it was just a bag -- and people could return it.

I'm pretty sure that's the case now too -- it's only "deemed to be a bomb" if it looks suspicious and somebody calls the cops. I'm sure people lose/forget bags with the same frequency in France as elsewhere, and the military/cops are not involved in the majority of cases...
The constitution was written well before electrical technology was the norm.
I've seen that thread, it's funny :) Even I thought this is too perfect story as a co-worker, but it is.
Oracle Enterprise (RRP) is $47,500 per unit.
Software updates are $10,500 per unit per year.

An Intel core is 0.5 units.

Running Oracle on single, 4 core CPU (or VM, because you can't partially license cores and you'd be lucky to find a 4 core server CPU) is $40,000 per year in licensing alone (amortised over 5 years)… for a single machine.

Want an active/passive replication set… double that cost.
Part of the problem is that the popular conception of robots tends to be a kind of fetish. What I mean is, the things that are easy for robots to do are already addressed. You can buy off-the-shelf robots that work really well. They're not cheap though.

But those don't look like "robots", they look like arms with tools on the end of them.

The kind of humanoid servant robot from books and movies, however, is still pretty much fictional. The required capabilities are mostly really hard, even after you factor in the recent advances in ML et. al.

I remember when Sony made that little humanoid robot that danced. I was like, "Big deal! I like to dance. Make a robot that does the dishes."

- - - -

To make it big with robots (per se as opposed to just building an automated factory, or toys) you have to find the economic niches.
> I definitely shared the experience (growing up in the mid Atlantic) of catching buses before true sunrise so I could get to a 7:40 AM start in the winter months. I

That reminds me I have a vague memory that there was a lot of pissing when Nixon Admin moved up daylights savings time during the first oil crisis. Parents were complaining that their kids were having to walk to school in the dark. Back then city and suburban kids didn't get rides to school, they all walked.
I think the biggest impact that diet soda has it the high salt content dehydrates you which makes you perform worse at the gym and creates this negative feedback cycle. Additionally, diet soda's cause you to retain water which will make you look softer and the scale weigh heavier. If the majority of your liquid intake is water, diet soda is just fine. I've been able to lose significant weight while drinking it. It's the carbs that kill you!
Via downvotes HN is making sure your opinion is invalid
IME It's not a "party drug" either.
But it sure as hell _is_ used as a party drug by many.
Most likely it is nonsense. The carbon and nitrogen composition of sedimentary layers will show anomalies in case of intelligent civilizations.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748.pdf
If only it was this easy to publish a website from your home computer to the web regular.
Huh? The argument here is "free speech is an important principle, and is being eroded online", then "yes but that only applies to the government", then "no, if the principle is important, it is important whether it is the government or powerful media corporations in control". Saying that the government is free to create a Twitter clone is a non-sequitur.

But yes, to answer your question, the US government has no authority to be in the internet platform business, and that's generally regarded as a good thing.
Never. World leaders don't have to use twitter, they could host their own platform or use one of the other platforms. Twitter should not be obligated to host anyone's content. It doesn't matter how popular twitter is, it's just a website.
DST is a huge mess for at least a month, sometimes longer. It's massively disruptive. This may be more of an issue in higher latitudes, though.

It was always the last straw that signalled the effective end of the school year in the spring. Everyone was so frigged up and groggy from that shift ahead that we might as well have not been there, and by the time people did adjust, there wasn't any time left to recoup.
DefCon groups being a solid alternative if you live in an area that doesnt have a 2600 group.
Harbor freight is pretty good.

The problem with home Depot online is there are way too many options. Sometimes fewer options are better

I like Wayfair much more for many things instead of home Depot. I can dial it in on the web search easily.

If I am buying from home Depot I'm going to the store. And props to them they have excellent customer service with genuinely knowledgeable people. Good luck using their search
I can tell you that, through most of the bay area at least, those policies are mostly about intentional socioeconomic segregation.

My family has deep ties to local education infrastructure and its well known that most of the advocates for these policies are trying to keep poor kids out of their schools. While they don't say it in public forums they're generally more than happy to tell you in private.
Right, but using the example of Britain and Germany back in WW2 removes it from current politics and allows us to think of an example of a clear and direct incitation of violence that almost everyone thinks was legal and morally just and would have been appropriate to Tweet.
Hey, that was how Twitter referred to itself. Their words, not mine. :)
Gotta wonder how a story that gained 100 points in 1 hour managed to fall off the front page.

Hope that the irony of a story like this getting pushed away from the front page by an algorithm isn't lost on people :)
This makes a lot of sense, thanks for taking the time to explain.
If it gives access to some leaders, and deplatforms others, then yes, I would argue the same.

It might be "their platform", but it's our E.U., and we can make our laws governing how they operate here.

On many countries we already have laws that tv stations etc should give balanced promotion to political candidates before elections (re: interview time, etc). This includes private media.

If the US wants to sit back and accept it, e.g. Twitter and Facebook deciding "this politician gets a voice here, this doesn't", doesn't mean we should follow suit.
Its a tin foil hat thing. The mmWave frequencies are only going to be used in high population dense areas and will run at a lower power. Other than this, 5G will operate much like LTE with a few additions like beamforming antenna arrays. Frequency has very little to do with health risk until you get into MUCH higher frequencies than what we operate in. Its about output power, and this is federally regulated by most countries.
The author is so reasonable. The one thing she unquestioningly accepts is that having fewer women in tech is a problem. Yes, the culture should be more welcoming, more friendly, less accommodating to male idiosyncrasies, but ultimately it is the result of expressed preference.

Is it a problem that there are not nearly so many white kids learning classical piano as Asian American kids? I guess you could say it is, but why not just say different families have different priorities for their children? Not every difference needs to be a "problem".
My understanding is that the Anthropocene is definable because human gas emissions have created a visible layer in the rock strata that will be evident for millions of years. Geological time from now, there will be a black line in the rocks that will include the toxic chemicals coming from our industrial processes and tail pipes.
This is insane. Not because of the campaign (pretty forgettable), or YouTube involvement (the more our favorite corporation is bashed, the better), but because of how people who have made it think. They see themselves (or people next to them) as some sci-fi blobs of flesh who are fed by the robots, and therefore feel the need to complain when the robots are not doing their work well enough. “Oh, no, bad things happen in the world! People die, people kill, people believe in things I consider stupid, people neglect their relatives, and blame it on modern technology! I want to revert myself to not knowing all of that. Please lobotomize me gently.”

Also: clear cookies, don't login into any accounts when you don't need it, type your specific search terms in, don't click on those totally obvious clickbait ads/videos/whatever. Here, I solved your “recommendation problem”.
To be clear, I'm not saying people should be excused of crimes, just that we can't always assume everyone has the same level of capability and self sufficiency. Now with that out of the way:

Addiction is a disease, not a crime. It's therefore a great example of something which fails your test.

I won't address the strawmen you laid out because information addiction is the challenge we're facing in this thread, and addiction of any sort is recognized as a disease and disorder.

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> Um, sorry, what?

Please null the tone. I'd like to engage you on level and respectful terms.
You realize that mailing weed is a federal felony, right?
Maybe, but heart disease is the #1 killer and stress is its biggest nemesis.
I don't see a problem with my tone. It's all in your head as far as I'm concerned. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that it's you who is being confrontational and adding nothing to the topic of prosecutorial discretion.
You can choose to post your opinion in edgewise here (for others to read), but I'm no longer responding to you.
As someone who lives in a country where schools all uniformly started at 9:00 am (i'm probably wrong on that, but lets just go with it), what's the social-background/theoretical reason for starting the school day at 7:00am?

From the outside that just seems absolutely bonkers?
Since it doesn't apply to "zero-period" classes, it probably doesn't apply to sports practices either.
Clearly you've dodged a bullet.
Exactly. I currently host my side project on Digital Ocean, but before that I was on AWS and before that I was on Heroku. I'm considering a move to Azure in the future. And switching between these services costs me basically nothing in time and almost zero code.

I started on Heroku, switched to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Didn't much care for it so I switched to AWS EC2, running Dokku to replicate the Heroku experience. Simple database backup and restore with Postgres I manage myself. Switched to DO with the same setup with zero downtime. I expect Azure will be the same.

You create your own lock-in to save time and/or money. Those are business decisions like any other business decision. But in no way are any cloud providers forcing lock-in.
In both of those cases, the videos that showed up from the search weren't the problem. The problem was the videos which were recommended based on a history of having viewed the videos in the search results.

The same pattern applies to many of the other stories in the article. (There's more than just the ten on the first page. Click "load more stories" at the bottom of the page.)
Every time this comes up, I recommend "Internal Time" by Till Roenneburg. It is wonderfully written, and it demolishes this concept quite thoroughly. It really is biology.

Summary of the book as relates here though:
People really do have internal clocks and preferred awake/sleep cycles.
These internal clocks vary between individuals, and are there is most likely a genetic component.
These internal clocks vary with age- in particular, teenagers and young adults clocks are generally shifted much later than kids or older adults.
Shifts to people's schedules (such as DST) that cause them to leave their preferred sleep/awake cycle mitigate with time, but do not fully go away.

Outside that book, there are plenty of studies showing that a non-standard hours shift work is biologically harmful.
There is a thing called auto-play and it's on by default.
Weird thing is the assumption there is a single one-time-fits-all solution. Give some flexibility to kids and families on start time. Optional period 1 paired with optional period 8(or 7 or 9).
Most places are not like this. Imagine getting respect and $200k?
My personal Barclays debit card has sort code and account number. My RBS business debit card has sort code and company name only.
Helps to build contacts and commands respect in some circles, you aren't BSed so often for being just "an engineer", but I will see in a few years if it's worth anything.
From https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/public-intere...:

When is it in the public interest to preserve access to a Tweet?

We decide whether a Tweet that would otherwise violate the Twitter Rules is in the public interest using the following criteria and process:

Criteria for exceptions

The Tweet violates one or more Twitter Rules;

The Tweet was posted by a verified account;

The account has more than 100,000 followers; and,

The account represents a current or potential member of a local, state, national, or supra-national governmental or legislative body:

Current holders of an elected or appointed leadership position in a governmental or legislative body, OR

Candidates or nominees for political office.
There are tons of fixer uppers in Dayton for 10k-30k, look on Zillow

30k isn't even 1/4 of a down payment on a fixer upper on the west coast.
A) Not your job to police this site, B) just because your feelings were somehow hurt about code you didn't even write, doesn't actually mean I violated commenting guidelines, and C) maybe you ought to read the guidelines yourself, considering one of them specifically says not to comment when you think a post is inappropriate.

You want a "good critical comment"? Here:

* Try breaking your code up into more than one file. There are other/better ways of releasing Python besides "one file".

* Lay off the code commenting, it's vastly overdone here.

* Use version control tools to version your code, not comments.

* Python convention is to use underscore_case, not camelCase.

* Variable/function/class names should be descriptive, not random letters/numbers/incomprehensible abbreviations.

* Delete commented out code -- it's stored in version control, you're not going to lose it.

* The "initialize" func is a terrible concept and represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how Python classes work. This whole misadventure is a cautionary tale in, "Why a light architecture pass matters even in 'throwaway' scripts."

* Add tests.

* The massive if/else chains can be replaced in a number of different, more readable and therefore superior, ways.

That's some of what I saw in 2 minutes of review. This code is in very poor condition, and if you think the state of this code is an indictment on how hard it is to convert python from 2 to 3, you're more than just a little mistaken. You would need to pay me substantial amounts of money to spend more of my time going deeper into what's wrong with this code, as there is a lot and it is not generally enjoyable to work with code so thoroughly broken as this.

The script (somehow) works. That matters. However, this is not a good representation of why migrating from Python2 to Python3 is hard; this code is in no shape to be used to represent anything other than how not to write Python.
Also Yes, please!
Kodak had a number of key patents on CCD imagers. They had a fab (that still exists) turning out high resolution linear and area array sensors for special applications and DSLRs. Much of the commercial satellite imagery seen on Google maps comes via Kodak sensors.

Kodak's problem is that they always bottom fed the market with their film cameras and retained the same position in digicams. The former strategy is great when you want to drive demand for consumables. It doesn't work when there is nothing to consume in the picture taking process.
I don't know. But if twitter sends the perception that they take a side in the election and in the middle of November 2020 the Republicans have won the house and presidency, they will be in a bad place.
Holocene and Anthropocene refer to the epoch, not the extinction event occurring during that epoch. An epoch is a measure of geological time.
>Any user who tweets content promoting terrorism, making “clear and direct” threats of violence, and posting private information are all subject to ban.

I wonder whether threats of military intervention (technically) counts. Interesting food for thought.
yeaa, that was us!

For public events, discovery is supreme - totally agree. We started as a planning tool for groups to cut down on massive email chains and group texts (hence the festival/Sasquatch use case :) We've got more cooking, especially with this change of events (ha).
You could also read their documentation: https://duckduckgo.com/api

> Because of the way we generate our search results, we unfortunately do not have the rights to fully syndicate our results, free or paid.

That page links to: https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/

Where, after you get past a bunch of stuff about their "instant answers" gets to the root of it:

> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.

So yes, maybe I was wrong saying results come only from Bing. But they definitely source their search results.

I'm not knocking DDG here, I use it as my daily search driver. If you were to try and build a search engine today with limited resources would you really try to start from scratch? The way DDG has approached the problem (by sourcing results from other search engines) seems like the only reasonable way to be even remotely competitive.
"Giving" the weed to the owner of the wallet seems like it would be fraught with legal peril, even if the kind wallet returner were to try and do it as a "dead drop".
Nordic Countries Halt All Weapon Exports to Turkey with Immediate Effect
Shareholders in public companies can easily sell their stock and invest in something else if it seems to be the future. And employees can (not so easily) find another job. A company doesn't need to be eternal. Once upon a time, wasn't a company required to have a fixed purpose and maybe a time limit?
Years ago I played chess with/on a machine that used a magnet under the board and metal bases on each piece.

The pieces seemed to move by themselves.
>I'm glad you've been enjoying it so far.

Thanks for the kind words. ^_^

I might be unusual, but I never cared for Ubuntu, even when everyone was raving about it.

I like to minimize whitespace. While my monitor is decently sized, too many distros have a horizontal bar on the top and the bottom of the screen. It feels like wasted space. Mint doesn't do that, and it's professional looking. It's dark theme looks and feels great too.
It's (UK standard) 'Faster Payments' l, not SEPA. I don't know if it's mandatory, but all the (five that I recall) banks I've used since its introduction have supported the reference/message field. It's usually pretty instant, especially if intrabank.
One could also work for a medium sized company. Build mission critical software, then maintain it.

I know a guy that has done this for a few companies and then moved onto consulting for them. Makes SV money in the midwest. Works whenever he wants, 99% of time remotely, and companies will sometimes wait if he has too much going on to do work for them.

The guy is living the life. So, I want to do the same.