skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My friend from New York was unpacking a bunch of old boxes in his house in California about a decade after he moved, and he unexpectedly pulled out this sandwich baggie full of weed, with a post-it note stuck on to the outside.

The post-it note read in scrawled handwriting: "TOO STRONG. SAVE FOR LATER."

We both looked at each other and exclaimed "It's later!"
I'll echo on the older pair of QC35s. They still work great. I bet you could find a screaming deal on eBay. I've refreshed mine with new pads and a bluetooth adapter.

At the time, the Beats noise cancellation was considered sub-par compared to the Bose. That may have changed.

I haven't tried the new AirPods, but I do very much like an over-the-ear form factor for long sessions. (I have "regular" AirPods, too.) Anything in or on my ear get uncomfortable after a while for me.
Using IPv6 Saves Money
And how do you plan to detect steganography in funny cat pictures?

Or zip files that just seem corrupted? Will you try to unpack everything?
Unfortunately, at least in the Northeast Corridor, almost no one does this.
Tolerance builds up rapidly. If you smoke or otherwise ingest every day it stops affecting you as much.
If I can go off on a bit of a tangent. The image at the top of the article is from Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989). The character is Radio Raheem and his boombox plays only Fight The Power by Public Enemy, which was made for the film. The movie is strictly about what happens when racial tensions boil over on a very hot day in Brooklyn. But really, it's about people, and how we treat one another when we're stuck in a system more powerful than ourselves. It's as relevant today as it was thirty years ago, and not just in America. It may as well be about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. Great movie, strong recommend.

Back to the article: I owned a JVC-100 in red, just like the one pictured. I never took it out much because it seemed so fragile and my memory is that it sounded like crap compared to a hunk of plastic durable Sony that I also owned. I have no idea where either of those boomboxes got off to. Probably sold in a garage sale at some point.
No - the really weird part is that you know that both law enforcement and politicians will all get to use unbreakable encryption...

...but somehow, anyone else using such encryption will be deemed a criminal.

I say what is actually being attempted is that law enforcement and politicians (and our governments by extension) are just wanting to hide their criminal acts behind encryption - but project those criminal wants and ideas onto the ordinary citizen as an excuse.

If we as a society fall for this ruse, children will still be exploited - by the connected and the powerful in our governments, as they currently are today. It's just that these people want that capability to themselves, they want it secret, and they don't want the small players to have the same abilities.

If recent events haven't shown people that, they aren't paying attention and deserve the misery they will build for themselves. They essentially want a future where they can continue doing what they do today, but without the oversight that eventually leads to them needing to "secretly" kill off a person who might rat them out (and then do whatever it takes to suppress any and all mention in the media of any follow-up to the story - we are watching this happen real-time, and I don't know exactly how it works, but it seemingly is working very, very well - despite all the evidence and everything else already out in the public domain; there are forces and organizations that want it buried - and they are currently winning).

If only they have unbreakable encryption - and oversight of it all - only they can get away with it and not have to worry about those pesky stories (and should anyone internal to the system harbor objections - then they can be easily eliminated without anyone knowing either - or at least they think this, I believe).
That's not really how things work for many people.

If you both have to go to work and pick up your kid at school or in kindergarden and go shopping or take them to practice etc.

That's where the car is convenient. I can't send my kids with public transportation before they are 12 in NY.

So yes it's ver flexible, convenient and practical with a car.
"Anonymized data" can always be deanonymized. There have been plenty of studies about this.

It also reminds me of a recent post-Cambridge Analytica story about FB trying to get patient records, for which they said they "wouldn't get the names of the patients".

Okay, but the only reason Facebook would even get that data is to match it with its users' real names through some of their algorithmic reverse engineering of the data. That data is only useful to FB if it can associate various illnesses with real users on its platforms so that then advertisers can market to those people directly.

Don't fall for the "anonymized data" bullcrap. Google was caught doing something similarly recently, too.
Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that I think Cloudflare was wrong. And given that they did the thing while worrying about the consequences, they clearly figured it was the right thing to do also.

As far as the basic elements of life - utilities and travel access - it's good that they're effectively guaranteed neutrality by governments. Given that living without running water and power is illegal in much of the US, it's obviously not reasonable for the providers to cut people off at will.

Hosting is certainly not any kind of right. Cloudflare's position is a bit different, because without DDoS protection an unpopular site will be permanently inaccessible - it's not just "go do it yourself" but "people who dislike you will effectively shut this down". Even there, though, you could plausibly find another provider or make an attempt to do it yourself. Internet access via ISPs is far more fundamental, which is why I don't mind Cloudflare's action but have serious objections to UK-style mandates that ISPs block certain content.

I suppose my larger question is where the bounds lie on speech as a practical right. It's easy to say "we're not stopping your speech, just your ability to put up your own website". And in reality, hateful content similar to what Cloudflare targeted shows up on all sorts of other blogs, forums, etc. But "you can't have a site" is tantamount to "you can only say this if you find another private party willing to leave it on their site". When we look at physical equivalents, saying "you can publish these thoughts if a mainstream paper will take them, but you're not allowed to print zines" would obviously be illegal, so I'd object to government-ordered shutdowns. But "somebody took all your free zines out of the box and burned them" is probably fair game between private entities, and is a closer analogue to "no DDoS protection".

Even more broadly than that, I think we have a pressing unsolved issue of private actions which are implicitly government-ordered. (This doesn't apply to the Cloudflare thing.) This was a big issue in the 1930/40s, with press and radio content being "managed" via the threat of IRS and antitrust investigations, but it was never actually resolved - practical changes just obviated the issue. Between TV consolidation, "safe harbor" laws, online payment processors, and large tech companies with strong government ties, that concern seems to be rising again.
Well, encryption doesn't cause child exploitation, very much like how the air we (and criminals alike) breathe doesn't either. Limitations of police powers are there for a very good reason, and it's not like there wasn't much crime when they were introduced. I think it's short-sighted to give up our civil liberties because of crime.
I don't know if I can change your mind, or if anyone else is reading this thread, but CWL was designed to solve a particular set of problems, if you don't have those problems, you might not need it, but it doesn't mean those problems don't exist.

> the project doesn’t even provide you a dispatcher component but instead tells everyone to take a spec and write their own.

Close...

Software that supports CWL are SaaS vendors, FOSS projects, and various HPC schedulers that all have their own incompatible data management and dispatch/scheduling systems. If you want to write an analysis that runs on more than one of these platforms, you need some abstraction for it. CWL is one such an abstraction.

This matters because maybe you've developed a research pipeline that integrates a bunch of different tools written in different languages and want to run it on somebody else's data, and you need to run it on their infrastructure because copying 12 terabytes of HIPAA-restricted data from their LSF cluster to your Google cloud instance isn't an option.

"Just use bash" is what people who adopt CWL are trying to get away from. It is nearly impossible to write portable parallel / distributed analysis in bash, and the result is brittle scripts with more coordination code than code that actually does scientific work. Because CWL is declarative, the CWL engine handles all the coordination, scheduling and data staging for your particular infrastructure.

You may not have any of these needs, but suggesting that we're just bored developers creating castles in the sky is really unhelpful.
Expected behavior coming from New York Times. Good on Fedex for pushing back.
Why the world is running out of sand
Your country must be microscopic because even Malta, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg have supported banks.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT206637#Europe

Perhaps you live here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
Regarding the question of who watches the watchers, I do wonder if any country has tried appointing a group of citizens who essentially get to watch everything the police do. It would seem like that primary complaints would be that the officers privacy is violated and secondly that people who are under investigation’s privacy would also be violated. But otherwise what kind of oversight or threat of oversight do these guys have? Maybe another approach is you have a group of pseudo officers that are like internal affairs people who’s job it is to investigate the police and maybe that could extend to “watching the watchers”?
Airbus: New flight technique inspired by migrating geese to reduce consumption
Interview with Chicago Based Artist Mike Notez
Yeah well I lived both in Denmark and now NY and all I can say is that a car greatly improved my life both places.
I don't think an "enter at your own risk" sign would be enough to protect you from lawsuits. Even if you win the lawsuit, it is still expensive.
Nithin co-founder here, Thanks a lot for the feedback :)
At present we don't support bots, instead we have multiple agent based support solution.
Based on this comment, I think the idea is that if you plant trees within the bend of a wall, they are shielded and heated from more than 180 degrees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21564553

You only get this benefit for tree right along the wall, which is not much agricultural area. Seems like a strained justification.
I live in Brooklyn in NYC and I purchased a car when we were expecting. It is impossible to take a baby on public transit to most places. Buses are not equipped for strollers. Train stations are crowded and inaccessible to strollers. It takes a lot of physical energy to move a child through public transit. Our family, friends, the doctor, babysitter, and schools are not all walking distance and not all at expensive real estate near the train. Having a vehicle is empowering for my family and most like it.
One thing that always struck me as strange was the liability from tresspassers for "natural" conditions. I mean there are good reasons for laws against boobytraps or other active threats but it seems insane when disused quarries are ringed with /barbed wire/ to prevent lawsuits from fools diving into it.

I wonder why "assume your own risk" for any sort of casual tresspassing (as opposed to say fringe circumstances where it would be legally justifird as the lesser evil) hasn't been a legal standard. I guess kids falling down the proverbial well set the precedents for everyone.
> I prefer the warnings to have some basis in fact.

What would you consider a fact? A half dozen links to such content?

Really, I'm not sure what you are getting at here, there is plenty of evidence for this stuff being real and being sourced from a limited number of countries if you want to argue the opposite then I'm perfectly ok with that. But that Unicef report is there for you to read and if that does not convince you likely nothing will.

Just like NL has a - justified - bad reputation for hosting a lot of this content so the Philippines have - unfortunately - a bad reputation for being on the producing end. For a while it was Thailand, then the Thai really cracked down on the sex tourists and the child porn production and so the producers shifted to another location.
Hi

So first of all, thank you for sharing your work, I'm sure it was a lot of fun building it and making it work!

If you'll indulge me, I'll point out a few thoughts about application logic that handles money.

First of all, money related logic should be using fixed point mathematics in all places. In the case of EUR/USD fixed to 2 points behind the decimal point and in case of BTC and others, somewhere around 9-16 (can't be bothered to look it up atm). There is a cumulative error that is produced when using floating point variables. I'll be happy to share a link to a discussion, if you want!

The second thought I had was about using MongoDB for this use case. While it is great for getting started and MongoDB has made great strides at improving safety, it is still a suboptimal choice for handling financial transactions (logs or otherwise). I will also be happy to clarify why, if someone wants to discuss the matter further.
>>> you can scale by buying more TBNs putting them in a line and having each meet up to the next

What I'm picturing from your statement is two TBM drilling towards each other like ---> <----.

Which would require the digging of a third hole where the TBM "drill heads" meet. After every TBM dig, the drill heads are left at the end of the tunnel b/c they are bigger than the new tunnel (as the head digs the tunnel, workers install support structure to prevent a collapse, so the just drilled tunnel is smaller than the being drilled tunnel). A 3rd dig would be required where the two TBM drill heads meet to retrieve them and connect the tunnels. That's a lot of $$$ :/
Or, they're sitting on some exploits that are BIOS related and rather than fix this, they're officially washing their hands of it.
You’re talking about the “libs” who “destroy lives” such that people with important “truth” are never heard from again, right? Is that what you’re alluding to?
These are not mutually exclusive possibilities: "a large percentage of these mutant CD4 T's are clonal, all traceable back to one individual (T cell) that mutated."
Perfect prevention of breaches isn't possible, you must assume compromise. Therefore part of your strategy must be the isolation and containment of an attacker's ability to do damage.

For concerns regarding what you say, it's true. The worst case is a browser zero day that escapes the browser, enables privilege escalation, and goes on to compromise the entire client instance and lurks in the server catching everything. That's definitely a possibility on the free demo.

However, for real deployments there are several layers of mitigation. On the most drastic end, we run each browser and server pair inside its own docker container. In that case, the exploit must, first escape the browser -> escape the Docker container -> gain code execution -> gain privilege escalation -> compromise whole instance.

I would never say it's "impossible" but I would say that we have brought effective defenses against that.

Another layer of mitigation is that each browser is totally scrubbed each time it is used. This is a tradeoff as we lose all session cookies and cache data, but we can do this, if required. You can even scrub it yourself while using it (right click/top hold to get the context menu, and select "Wipe everything".

A further layer of mitigation is we completely reprovision / scrub the entire server every hour / day / week.

I think you are getting the idea.

By separating the client's devices and network from DMZ where "web work" occurs, and containing the attacks within this "air gapped" satellite, we greatly limit the attacker's scope to cause harm, plus we greatly increase our ability to deliver mitigation at any scale and schedule we choose.

Another advantage of this is, you don't need to download anything, RDP/VNC requires some extra app or setup, this is just connect to a web site and you're good to go.

You can self host to manage trust. Organizations typically want to partner with a provider even if they do self-host or go hybrid, because they don't want to manage everything themselves.
You could try Diffbot.
"There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;

The sign was painted, it said private property;

But on the back side it didn’t say nothing;

That side was made for you and me."

- Woody Guthrie, 'This Land is Your Land' (sometimes this verse goes missing)
> Which company do you work for?
United Health Group

> What RPA software are you using?
Combination of Pega, UIPath and one other 3rd party vendor

> What tasks are being automated?
Right now anything that can be. UHG has acquired a lot of companies over the last 8-10 years so integrating a lot of legacy technology has been a major pain point. UHG feels like they need to be more nimble and feel like they're going to start losing market share because of this lack of being able to leverage more recent technology. Because of this, a lot of the work has been integrating these companies technology, automating a lot of data entry, filling in forms, reading documents and storing them in databases, etc. We basically have a standing offer to any business unit if they can find a way to streamline their process, we'll do it.
New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water
The author makes interesting points well illustrated by the abuses, by multinational corporations and internet fatcats, of the licenses we depend upon.

But he neglects to mention the fundamental point that the community is not well served by a proliferation of licenses.
Everyone with half a brain should at least block google from taking their content and boxing it in their page.
Unfortunately there is too much noise for some TOS.
With the alternative, Google Pay, you pay with your privacy.
$3 million after overhead, development time and maintenance has been subtracted.
I'm not sure this is necessarily true. At a smaller scale, we didn't need to understand how humans play chess in order to build a good chess AI. I do think we need a better understanding of what we mean when we talk about intelligence, if we expect to recreate it. Francois Chollet has a good recent paper about this [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
I do too, it’s quite easy to produce diagrams that look better than any modern diagram too. And things look exactly as you want.
That could be one potential consequence but this publication just lays out the observation and clearly states this at the end - "It should be noted, however, that antigens recognized by clonally expanded TCRs are not known, and further work is required to characterize CD4 CTLs in supercentenarians." IOW, the actual characteristics of the T-cells in this sampled population is not known.
As frustrating as it sounds, more experiments are needed to say with certainty what is correlated, what is causal etc.
They should just put them on Bittorrent and have a seed box...
Some form-filling, but a lot more data pushing right now. Taking data from legacy systems and putting them into our own db's and cloud storage solutions
Well, in 'metric-land' they don't have a history of naming their wood for the thickness of some guys thumb in integer multiples.

The USA could switch from 2x6 to 1.5x5.5 (planing takes 1/4" off each surface) tomorrow if they wanted to but I guess there would be quite a bit of confusion. The building industry is super traditional.

And when you do that you might as well go metric (for reference: 38x140mm).
We absolutely deserve much better HSR in the North-East Corridor, and medium-speed rail is probably viable throughout the rest of the Northeast and maybe a few routes around Chicago.

California is trickier for two reasons. First, the layout of cities is somewhat unfortunate. In terms of a linear service, Sacramento, the Bay Area, LA, and San Diego are all more or less in a line, but scheduling a linear service requires detouring over the mountains twice to reach the Bay Area and boring an underwater tunnel to head north from SF. And SF being one of the two first-tier cities in CA means that you don't want to service it on a spur.

The second issue is the geography. Going from LA to the Bay Area requires crossing at least two sets of mountain ranges. River valleys don't really help you here, and the minimum viable HSR pretty much requires connecting LA to the Bay Area. This means there's strong political pressure to kill the project as too expensive before it can show any benefits whatsoever.
Python, its easy to learn and you can find a lot of tutorials on youtube.
Except when you're running in compatibility mode.
Not even memes, any image of Winnie the Poo.

Growing fascist tendencies in the US are a concern, but there is no question you have more freedoms in the US.
Looks very cool!
Do not use go lang nor web assembly
web assembly is another active x. go lang is just collection of another paradigms from other languages.
installing on your disk is not a good activity as always!
web assembly is another virtual machine. you don't know what codes are executing.
Completing Racket's relicensing effort
A great example (and sort of a framework) of taking that way beyond is https://github.com/RicardoNiepel/C4-PlantUML
I wonder how much of this has to do with US infrastructure and lifestyle in general. In the majority of the US (and definitely California) you have to drive long distances to do pretty much anything. While it's not as bad as drinking I don't think it's safe or recommended to drive while high.

People in the US also generally have large screen TVs, lots of channels on cable satellite, large living rooms., large refrigerators.. all of which are fairly conducive to using high powered weed and zoning out on your couch.
Pokémon Go Passes the $3B Mark
I use PlantUML[1] for my UML diagrams.

- It uses a human readable text-based file format renderable via the PlantUML jar. Friendly to CLI and git.
- The diagrams are stylable, should you wish to style them.
- There's a PlantUML Integration IntelliJ plugin that's easy to use for preview/rendering[2]
- Overall simple to use, but I imagine it can as robust as you want it to be. For example, the IntelliJ plugin Sketch.it automatically generates PlantUML diagrams from Java source code[3], and the source code for how it works is available on BitBucket if you want to know how it works[4]

I've seen other people suggest Mermaid.JS[5] before, but I haven't used it so I can't say how it is.

[1]: http://plantuml.com
[2]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7017-plantuml-integration/
[3]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10387-sketch-it-
[4]: https://bitbucket.org/pmesmeur/sketch.it/src/develop/
[5]: https://mermaidjs.github.io