skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't identify as FedEx. I identify as a taxpayer who follows the law. You already admitted the law is intentionally written this way, so that they can pay less taxes. This isn't different from how the law was intentionally written so I can pay less taxes via the homestead exemption. There's no scandal here.

If NYT wants a law changed, they should acknowledge they are a tax advocacy group and not a news organization, and put forth arguments for changing the law. But what they're doing here is pushing a particular agenda under the guise of journalism. Real journalism doesn't have an agenda. Good journalism aims to minimize bias.
If a reputable vendor is involved (e.g. Microsoft with AzureSphere) it's a reasonable expectation.
Please don't respond to a comment you dislike by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes the thread worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Assuming by "signed" they mean cryptographically signed, and they're not doing something dumb, then the signature itself would be at least 16 bytes. It'd be ~impossible for a collision to ever occur by accident.

So either "signed" means something different in this context or GameFreak replicated Roku's reboot packet for some reason.
For whatever it's worth, I've had the same pair of Bose QC-15's for many years. I have replaced the cable twice and the ear pads twice. They are comfortable and have decent noise cancelling. I won't use wireless anything if I can avoid it, but I am weird that way.
Even with identical security stance (which I doubt) across services I'd still expect this because A) pwnable accounts on existing services were most likely already pwned, whereas Disney+ has a mass onboarding of pwnable accounts, so it's Christmas for scrit kiddies and B) there's a ton of attention on Disney+ right now so there will be much more press scrutiny regardless of the true scale of the problem.
I disagree with everything you said.

I've been using vi (and vim and neovim) for 20 years and it's a fantastic editor but not for people new to the command line. There's no reason that nano shouldn't be the default. It's available on many systems by default anyway and it's much more beginner friendly than any vi spinoff. If the only reason for sticking to a thing is "tradition" then it's right to re-evaluate it.

There's a reason that "how to exit vi(m)" is the most read question on StackOverflow.
Though one would generally write a shell script starting with:

`#!/bin/sh`

So it doesn't really matter what the login shell is. (As a long-time FreeBSD user, the first thing I always do is install a different shell; I'm not sure who actually likes tcsh.)
Some further context, background, and commentary at Boing Boing:

https://boingboing.net/2019/11/18/consumer-welfare-my-butt.h...
I could just be ignorant here, but this sounds like a great way to give the galaxy a form of cancer.
I agree, looking at devices around the sub-$300 price point that were lab tested, PA-II has good performance and seems to be readily available.
Citation needed. Otherwise, this is just reads as ageism.
No, most Smalltalk objects were not Turing Complete. Take numbers. Numbers are objects in Smalltalk. They're not Turing Complete.
You issued a charge back with your credit card company for that, right?
In simplified terms, did you find everything you could have possibly found? Looking at the formula in the article, it includes the false negatives, that is, items you misclassified as negatives when you should have considered them positives. And because that happened, you didn't find them in the set, that is you "forgot them". The opposite of forgetting is... recall.

Another place this idea comes up is a search engine index. If the algo doesn't find, for a given query, documents in the index it should have (falsely classified as not matching the query), it will have lower recall.
Why is the desktop app allowing me to Edit and Delete other people's comments? (I'm not an admin)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zssmkzqelbuoy6b/Screenshot%202019-...
The hope is eventually for this to be something people could use in a production environment, obviously there is some work to do on that front, which is one of the reasons I'm trying to solicit some feedback about what this current implementation is missing.

Without going into specifics about other load balancers the goal here was to create something that is lightweight and easy to standup. I've found the configuration of a lot of other load balancers to be a bit burdensome, especially with regards to dynamically adding and removing backends or cache control. Also I think there is some appeal to having a single binary process that can be easily built to run in a variety of environments. I thought GoLang, because of its concurrency model and channels would be a good way to create a reliable stable process. Also https://github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto is a super compelling high performance cache, that I was able to leverage for this.
I agree. It just makes it harder to reason about what is going on and what will happen when you call methods.

A far better approach is to put related methods in concerns. When you do this based on features, lets say a concern called "SyncToTrello" that contains all the methods on lets say a "Task" model that are related to syncing to Trello. So when I have to refactor or debug the sync, I just open up the concern and look at the handful of methods that are related to just that. Rather than having to scroll through a 500+ loc Task model.

Using concerns has been a great way to tackle growth in our Rails application.
While you are correct, the BBC are 'really trying' their best to explain this disaster to the average John and Jane. But again they are still in the middle-ages when it comes to mentioning the technical side of these 'attacks'.

Says pretty much a lot about them when it comes to technology in general.
I have pms3003 you can get for about 12 USD on AliExpress.

I bought a small usb-to-serial adapter connected to Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Here's a combo with a similar device here:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32617788139.html?spm=2114.12...

There are plenty of comparisons available online, but there's a good overview site here:
https://aqicn.org/sensor/
The HN discussion on MSN's reporting of this report has many aspects to consider: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21544537

much less HN discussion on the wall st journal's thread.

There are important issues, especially lack of transparency and censorship that warrant more discussions imho.
> When the public implicitly trusts media corporations that are operated for profit and owned by billionaires

That's something that has literally never been the case. Skepticism exists on a sliding scale, and children are taught in high school how to spot a biased headline, a poor use of a statistic, and so on.

When it comes to the public's attitude toward the press, it's not credulousness versus skepticism that exists, it's healthy skepticism versus cynicism.
Yes, I've seen this, and experienced it myself. It's possible, but hardly preferred.

Do you ever wonder how much better could you perform in a non-distracting environment?
Given that it's posted in /r/ProgrammerHumor, I don't think this is an explanation or intended to be one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/dy0p86/how...
Did you forget the “A” in LAMP? It’s hardly zero configuration.
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I'm skeptical of this. Did they provide any proof to that effect? The odds are indeed INCREDIBLY low, low enough for me to suspect Roku doing something lazy in their network traffic sanitization.

EDIT: Nope, nothing. They just stated it as fact and left it it at that. I'm calling shenanigans. Amusing theory, but it really is too incredulous to believe without any evidence.
I don't think so. `Correlation => Causation` is used all the time - this is the bread and butter of clickbait headlines and articles "new study shows that...", but `Correlation => ^Causation` requires some sophistication to state ... while being wrong at the same time. Maybe a tactic used to mislead? I haven't seen it ever used.

To be clear `Correlation => ^Causation` is different to `Correlation => TRUE`. (In other words, there is nothing you can deduce from correlation alone).
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I wonder if having x86-64 cores alongside ARM cores could be a thing, like how ARM big.LITTLE combines different core types for efficiency with different tasks.

It used to be a thing that was more common for compatibility, like in the Commodore C128, PS2, Nintendo DS, etc, where there would be processors of older or other architectures available to run certain software.
What are your thoughts on Stripe using Mongo almost exclusively?
Anyone interested should also check out the open source citizen science project https://luftdaten.info/en/

Build your own inexpensive sensor, contribute to the global network. See also https://github.com/opendata-stuttgart
That's a pretty noble, if naive reason. "Rule of law" stops where economic interests begin and always has. Rule of law didn't stop the invasion of Iraq. Rule of law hasn't stopped the countless CIA backed coups in South America. Rule of law didn't stop funding/promoting the Arab spring.

Larger countries constantly bully smaller ones and will continue to do so anytime it's economically convenient. The reason Grand Cayman exists is because the people with money that control global politics want it to exist. That's the beginning and end of the story. There's a reason the Panama Papers went away quietly despite the assassination of the human who exposed it...
So much this.

A few years ago we had a Salesforce BA on site under a fairly long (1yr+) contract. He matched this 'partial cough' pattern exactly as you described it.

I kept a clicker-counter at my desk and kept stats, and updated HR frequently with the numbers.

They finally saw the light and allowed him to work from home for the remainder of his contract term. My productivity immediately bumped back up 20% …
Interesting. Anyone think the mechanism for misphonia is similar or related to the sensory dysphoria and audio sensitivity for people on the Autism spectrum?
> At small scale it's easier and cheaper to keep old stuff running than to migrate.

Especially if the machine can be isolated from the internet (like a printer controller).
It depends on the people, but it's safe to err on the side of yes clickety keyboards annoy some.

Nobody will be excessively interrupted/distracted by a quiet keyboard. The same is not true for the other direction.

At my last position, open office, a few people on my team complained about other members' loud buckling-spring-like keyboards. Since it was an open office and we were all complaining about noises well beyond some of the keyboards, like sales calls and constant conversations, it was somewhat moot and nothing was really done about it. But it definitely increased animosity within the team, it pays to be especially considerate of your neighbors, particularly ones you need to collaborate with.
just as a follow-up FYI, on github (and most git servers) rewriting history and force-pushing is not entirely sufficient to actually delete something that you accidentally pushed. commits that have been rewritten out of history can usually still be referenced and viewed directly by their hash. (they may eventually get garbage-collected, but there is no guarantee.)

still a good idea to remove it from commit history if possible, but those secrets should be considered compromised and should be changed.
Then why not further personalize search? I know that search results already vary according to things like the user’s location, but the entire search algorithm should be tweaked according to the user. Machine learning could potentially do a good job of this.

Google can also allow users to self-select. The way to do this would be to have a survey with multiple sliders that allow the user to demonstrate, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much they care about a certain parameter. There would be default profiles that automatically set the sliders for you, like “academic.”

Even if Google doesn’t take this route for global search, they can add more features to advanced search. Google Advanced Search is underpowered, given Google’s technological capabilities.

Finally, with regards to the Advanced Search approach, Google can allow the user to create several search buttons that always appear on the Google front page. For example, an Arab American researcher may have a default search button, an Academic search button, and an Arabic search button, all of which can be tweaked along multiple parameters, as described above.
Good points.

I think the browser is the equivalent of a newspaper.

It's just you can "open your newspaper" to pages defined by someone on the internet, as opposed to only getting the 30-to-50 pages put out by the newspaper company.

I think the pages within it can be Google, but there's a browser in between. If you use Chrome, then Google totally owns your eyeballs (according to my viewpoint).

But you are spot on with publishers opening up a "tower" on their page, and Google moving in and paying rent. And from that point on, Google is watching you.

Maybe the ISP owns the eyeballs? ISPs are often characterized as either a "content network" (such as Netflix) or an "eyeball network" (such as Comcast). And the networks sometimes fight because Comcast thinks they're the big, bad eyeball network. Netflix, of course, thinks they're the big, bad content network.
TIL "Ma":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(negative_space)

Ma (negative space)

Ma (間) is a Japanese word which can be roughly translated as "gap", "space", "pause" or "the space between two structural parts." The spatial concept is experienced progressively through intervals of spatial designation. In Japanese, ma, the word for space, suggests interval. It is best described as a consciousness of place, not in the sense of an enclosed three-dimensional entity, but rather the simultaneous awareness of form and non-form deriving from an intensification of vision.

Ma is not something that is created by compositional elements; it takes place in the imagination of the human who experiences these elements. Therefore, ma can be defined as experiential place understood with emphasis on interval.

Ma has also been described as "an emptiness full of possibilities, like a promise yet to be fulfilled", and as "the silence between the notes which make the music" (cf. Isaac Stern's comment below).

Other illustrations appear in this old poem:

Thirty spokes meet in the hub, though the space between them is the essence of the wheel;

Pots are formed from clay, though the space inside them is the essence of the pot;

Walls with windows and doors form the house, though the space within them is the essence of the house.
Also the popover outline is visually offset from the popover's content.
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Netflix definitely has trouble with this because they too lack the whole "delete all sessions" capability, so it's next to impossible to recover an account that has been compromised. My partner went through this, and Netflix support told her to delete the account and make a new one (losing all our recommendations in the process). Why they can't be bothered to add a "log out all users" feature the way something like Github or even Plex offers is beyond me.
I used to use the same password for Netflix and several other websites. I definitely had issues with people using my Netflix account that had somehow gotten the password. I'm sure that happens regularly.
There's a decent amount of research that indicates that indoor air quality doesn't significantly improve with indoor plants.
https://time.com/5105027/indoor-plants-air-quality/
I understand that. I wish that they would at least correct the first photo of the combos. Saying that there are 4000 accounts when there are 4 is misleading. "A hacker checking the logins of 4,000 potential accounts" is better and more accurate subtext.
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I consider the Seiko V one of the best mechanical watches available for the price.
All of these publications are junk science, nothing but spurious correlations, using the nonsensical linear no-threshold model.

(waiting for the internet to correct me so I don't have to do any research myself)
The attack surface is pretty small, though, isn't it? The most sensitive thing there is probably your viewing history and contact info. The additional overhead of supporting MFA (not from a technical standpoint, but from a user education one) would be tremendous, especially considering the customer base.
And how many companies use a C++ standard? GCC and Clang both provide a large number of extensions.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.5/gcc/C-Extensions.ht...
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.5/gcc/C_002b_002b-Ext...
In forward facing child seats there are the two latch buckles as well as a tether anchor that runs over the top of the seat.
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It's a bit strange that this statement says "FedEx has paid federal income tax every year, including fiscal year 2018.", while the fact sheet they link to within the statement ( https://about.van.fedex.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/FedEx... ) specifically calls out that their effective income tax rate was negative in 2018 due to TCJA, the year and legislation in dispute:

> The FedEx effective income tax rates for the last five fiscal years (June - May) were 17.6% in 2019,
(5.0%) in 2018 (this rate is an anomaly due to the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act)

Maybe this is due to state income taxes?
I'm sure some people might only slightly prefer not to be called Stan. However, I specifically gave an example of why someone might instead have strong emotional reasons to prefer not to be called Stan.

I'm not sure why becoming a political issue is relevant—if Alice is generally kind to people but refuses to be kind to Bob not because of something Bob did wrong, but because the particular instance of kindness is a political issue, I don't think Alice is a kind person.

The point about grammar doesn't make much sense to me. Someone says "actually I'm not John, I'm Mary", you think it would be more grammatical to start referring to them as Mary, but continue to use he/him?
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I may be reading it wrong, but you seem to misrepresent my argument.

Here is what I am saying. You are not Fedex. You are not even in the same category. It is not apples and oranges. It is apples and dwarf planets. Ergo, any attempt to compare your treatment is.. just not comparable. They are literally big enough to write laws that benefit them. That is news.

Here is what you appear to be saying. We are both tax payers so it is apples and apples comparison. I mean, I use my standard deduction and NYT does not write about me...

Please tell me if I read it wrong.

edit. spelling correction
It is the default for a new user in FreeBSD. The OP seems to be confusing pfsense (which is based on FreeBSD) with FreeBSD itself.
Three types of people in the world: those who expose the truth, those who cover up the truth, and those who remain blissfully ignorant of the truth. It's been a blow to our freedom that Julian Assange was betrayed, as Wikileaks could've let us know exactly what we needed to know for 2020, but... refer to #2 of the three types of people in the world, and #3 for those who vote based on knowing only what they want to know.
The inexpensive SDS011 holds up very well and works for this global citizen science project very well: https://luftdaten.info/evaluation/
For other people thinking of rolling their own solution, p5.js has a sound library that is easy to use; should be pretty quick to write a one-button webpage that makes pink noise.

https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5.Noise
Fair points. Work is ongoing with a podman-compose. I haven't used it myself. Most of the routing work for our initial users are focused on is around Kubernetes/okd/OpenShift (and not Swarm) and so that's where those routing issues are solved.

I know someone worked on a Ubuntu build but I'm not sure who is maintaining that. It would be a great place for people to contribute.
Thank you. I don't, unfortunately. It was formulated purely on my own experience and instinct.

This was part of a presentation I gave in the early 2000s, literally begging my management not to destroy productivity by moving our company from cubicles to an "open floor plan/hot desk" environment. I wanted to boil down the issue to its essence and this dichotomy was the product. As others have pointed out, the real answer is that people work on a continuum, but my point is that if we are going to pursue a change in environments, we should attempt to understand the nature of work and strive for an ideal. Why implement a "solution" that only works for one end of the concentrator/collaborator scale?

In my case, implementation of the hot-desk program proceeded anyway, and I left the company soon after. Life is too short to be treated with such lack of consideration. The company has since laid off 10s of thousands of employees and sold off most of their once-glittering R&D campus buildings, bulldozing others. Only a thin shell of what used to be persists.

I regret that I did not ask a rhetorical question such as the following: "if you had to re-take a college mathematics exam in eight hours, and your continued employment depends on a passing score, where would you go to study? A quiet room, or a busy place like the food court at the shopping mall or a bus terminal?" but I realize the executive Q&A sessions were merely a show trial, not a true inquiry. The decisions were made well in advance.
Yes, abuse still happens, but is it the same rate?
> European history throughout the 20th century shows the horrifying, depraved danger in capitulating to a ruling intelligentsia.

If you're referring to communism and national socialism here, those were rabidly anti-intellectual (the later particularly so).
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Why do you bet that?
Yep, and the moment someone starts asking questions or being "uncooperative" they are dealt with - as was Amine Halawi in [0].

[0] https://theintercept.com/2019/10/26/jho-low-1mbd-comoros-off...
In the past, before I had ANC headphones, I used to wear these under over-the-ear headphones. It worked pretty well.
The Cayman Islands has robust financial regulations and is a financial center.

It is also reliant on the UK for military assistance, and as you can see the bank records for this particular institution are digital.

You are grouping everything together with misplaced isolationist paranoia.
I'm sure that project would benefit from your feedback. What did they say? Did they understand your issues? Were they able to fix it?
Hi, glad you like it. I'm the author of Miniature.io.

To be absolutely honest, I posted a link to the website here as I have never done it previously. Built it years ago, because at the time I found this topic challenging to implement and worth trying. For years the system was online and free to use, serving even 2 million images daily. Free of charge. I didn't know whether I should kill it or spend some more time finally finishing the commercial part. Done the latter over the last couple of months and so here it is, polished a bit with a new rewritten website renderer.

If you were looking for a simmilar projects, or simply interested in the tech behind it, you can have a look at https://github.com/cepa/rabarbar this is the current engine that captures screenshots.