skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are ignoring the use of location-based tracking and other correlation techniques. A bunch of different 5G appliances can all figure out their positions quite accurately from 5G signals and decide they belong to the same household.

And, that's before you consider that they can also scan local wifi and bluetooth spectra to glean even more information about their local environments. With participation of vendor applications on phones, they could also use ultrasonics or crazier things like modulated LED lighting.

Finally, if one of those devices is compromised, it can then be used to launch local attacks via wifi and bluetooth, or even potentially those other covert channels if they can exploit sloppy code in those other dark apps...
The page shows up as the top entry if you Google "Contoso". The second is Microsoft's own explanation of what Contoso is. I think that's the perfect explanation if you're trying to figure out what "Contoso" is in all of the random .NET and MS related examples are.
The article details substantially more than mere mistakes.

It alleges, among other things, employees' care being delayed to hide the injury from on-site auditors.
Haha just read the page again properly:

> Do not get fooled by Knuth’s apparent good results. They specifically target dot printers and do not give terribly good results on a computer screen.

But of course! Knuth, as is his wont, was obviously not targeting computer screens or even targeting dot printers in general but a specific (Imagen) printer that happened to be on the Stanford campus. :-)
If you want to be really fancy, you only partially burn it to make biochar, soak that in urea, and use that to make terra preta.
And where does the “pressure to reduce accidents” arise from?
I assume this won't do things like add convolutional layers if you give it pixel or signal data, right?

Like is this just adding standard layers to a neural net, maybe trying a few activation functions, fiddling with the number of layers and just seeing which give the best results?
> at no greater or lesser annual failure rate than the expensive enterprise hard drives.

I've read these reports as well, but I can say that it's not my experience (we've gone through a few rounds of shucking at the Internet Archive, for economy and in one case necessity after the 2011 Thailand floods pinched the supply chain). Our raw failure rates on shucked drives are significantly higher, and the drives themselves are typically non-performant for high-throughput workloads (often being SMR disks/etc, though hopefully the move away from drive-managed SMR will finally kill that product category off).
I'm not asking you to prove a negative though, I'm asking if you have any proof that what Google says is untrue since you say that it is. Using a passive voice doesn't mean that it's untrue, I actually find the Google wording to be more natural than your version.

Is there anything beyond the semantics of the Google statement that makes you feel that it's false?
I opened a more modern cheap smart TV. Inside were three boards: Power supply & backlight inverter, LCD/LVDS(?) interface board, CPU & video IO board. I'm not sure if the screen interface was actual LVDS but it sure looked like it.

So a smart TV is nothing more than an LCD with Arm SoC. Of course that SoC it's completely locked down and there are no specs outside of NDA's.

It got me thinking, how hard would it be to go to a big manufacturer that makes these smart TV's for chains like best buy and contract them to make the same set without the proprietary garbage hardware board? Instead a board built around an open SoC and software ecosystem is installed so the ethernet and USB ports do what they're supposed to do. That or pick a very common TV model, figure out the LCD interface and build a retrofit board. All of this is easier said than done.

Then imagine how fun it would be to hack your TV to do whatever because it's a regular computer? Of course the big issue that stands in the way is the HDMI and DRM burdens.

(cue someone replying with: just don't connect the smart TV to the internet and hook up a raspberry pi.)
There are features that prioritize those with low seed/leech ratio in a sort of periodic fashion. Also it partially auto-balances because a swarm only needs a little more than unity ratio injected into it to get itself fully replicated. So each one that get's chosen because of a low seed/leech ratio will inherently drop out of that criteria as soon as the swarm is self-sufficient.
Do you know if they process PDF to reduce file size ?
As another comment noted, biomass is overproduced and prices low but premium smokeable hemp flower is still doing well. I imagine more farmers will shift in that direction next year, assuming the new USDA rules don't destroy the industry.

The new USDA guidelines would make almost all of the current strains of CBD-dominant flower unavailable to grow due to the change in testing to count total THC rather than just delta-9 THC. Some farmers will switch to CBG which is another cannabinoid, but it's not one that is going to have as wide of an appeal.

My small friends and family grows in Southern Oregon and we did ok this year despite the challenges, but there is a lot of uncertainty around what will happen next year due to the potential regulation changes.
Parent has a BS, it’s not necessarily an anti-university statement.

I have an MS but my undergrad degree was liberal arts, I’m sure there are plenty of BS comp sci degree holders who know as much or more than me about topics.

Requiring an MS for immigration is questionable to me.
Please don't post links from The Daily Mail, it's a tabloid with no integrity at all.
If you want shrinking tabs then you can get them in Firefox by putting this in a userChrome.css file:

.tabbrowser-tab {
min-width: initial !important;
}
.tab-content {
overflow: hidden !important;
}

You can find details here on where to find/put a userChrome.css file: https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html
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hm. there are a ton of craft breweries locally, and there doesn't seem to be much commonality between them, especially when it comes to data and data collection.

beersmith targets homebrewers, fermentable replaces some of the note taking and materials ordering, and ekos seems to focus on consulting (no prices available, and "we'll build it!").

none of this replaces the automated brewing systems, even in small production lines or automated data collection, leaving notebooks on pretty much every fermentor.

if you want a good look at a large number of craft breweries, and get a good insight to exactly how their processes work, what's missing, and what commonality there is, I'd highly recommend https://oregoncraftbeer.org/zwickelmania/ - almost every brewery in Oregon ends up open, touring, and explaining their process in depth.
It's not really possible for a server not to know the clients IP address though, so I think this is fair.

I do see what IP you're connecting from, but that information is limited to me only, and it's not like I care unless you're doing something very harmful to the service in which case I would ban you based on IP most likely.
> I also would be willing to be my bottom dollar that Google of all places doesn't feel like a small town in Sweden.

You would win that bet - Google is 54.4% white, 39.8% asian, according to https://diversity.google/annual-report/#!#_this-years-data

The US is 61.5% white, so whites are underrepresented at Google.
Record Training Times for Bert and Mask RCNN on the Cloud
Whenever I need to mock-up data about a list of people I use the family from Bob's Burgers
My favorite stupid Google April Fools joke was when they put out a "customer" blog post bragging that Contoso had switched to Google Apps.

https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/04/contoso-has-gone-google...
General Availability of Braintree GraphQL API
> I'm fine with that. If its using 5G then it's not on my LAN and the concern in the featured article is no longer a problem.

Not on your LAN but still harvesting your usage data (a feature!), and still hackable (smile for the camera!).
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Broken for me in latest mobile Chrome.
Right, but consider the source of the information we're seeing here. Google is not in a position where they're encouraged to spin this story in a positive light for the employees in question.

The calendar notification feature does not discriminate, but it also doesn't automatically leak data to an external source. So if, hypothetically, one believed a coworker was involved with a project the company was trying to keep hushed up (such as a search engine built conforming to the design constraints of the Chinese government, or an object recognition tool for military applications), one could keep an eye on the evolution of that project by turning on calendar notifications and observing what meetings that coworker is invited to. But if that coworker also puts "Doctor's appointment" on their work calendar, the observer will of course be notified about that also if the event is made (internal) public.

Now, once the observer is notified, they may have chosen to leak to an external source "Hey, a name-notable VP appears to be having a meeting on Thursday titled 'PROJECT: DEFINITELY NOT FACILITATING CHINESE CENSORSHIP'." That doesn't imply they chose to then leak "And they have a doctor's appointment Friday."

Google has made the claim the individual in question set up notifications, and those notifications may have caught medical appointments and family activites. Google has made the separate claim that some information was leaked externally. Google has notably not made the claim that doctor's appointments, family activities, etc. were leaked externally.

... and the privacy concerns we honor for people's personal lives do not necessarily extend to the work they're quietly doing on things the public may find unacceptable.
How about Tahoe-LAFS? I haven't used it, but it should be stable by now.

There's also ZeroNet, though IDK if it can handle the traffic.
How a McKinsey-fied baseball team cheating became a parable of American success
I guess if you need on prem and want to code to a single unified API?
Have you tried therapy? The fact you are not able to concentrate and perform when "'Zuck' white guy personality type" (whatever "Zuck" type means) is present, suggests a deeper personal issues and biases that you need to work on and resolve.

If there are no personal issues then your comment, honestly, comes across as a bit racist.
Of course with a decimal type there is no rounding issue. That's not what 0.30000000000000004 is about.

Many languages have no decimal support built in or at least it is not the default type. With a binary type the rounding becomes already visible after 10959 additions of 1 cent.

#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

bool compare(int cents, float sum) {
char buf[20], floatbuf[24];
int len;
bool result;

len = sprintf(buf, "%d", cents / 100 ) ;
sprintf(buf + len , ".%02d" , cents % 100 ) ;
sprintf(floatbuf, "%0.2f", sum) ;

result = ! strcmp(buf, floatbuf) ;
if (! result)
printf( "Cents: %d, exact: %s, calculated %s\n", cents, buf, floatbuf) ;
return result;
}

int main() {
float cent = 0.01f, sum = 0.0f;

for (int i=0 ; compare(i, sum) ; i++) {
sum += cent;
}
return 0;
}

Result:

Cents: 10959, exact: 109.59, calculated 109.60

This is on my 64 bit Intel, Linux, gcc, glibc. But I guess most machines use IEEE floating point these days so it should not vary a lot.
Setting up alerts around a co-worker's calendar that you're not actually meeting with is definitely stalking. Would you want someone doing that to you?
TVs can emit ultrasonic tracking tones which your phone can pick up and link your TV identity to your phone identity (facebook, google, whatever apps have microphone access to listen).

https://www.pindrop.com/blog/silently-tracking-users-with-ul...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/your-...

https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/ultrasonic-tracking-signal...

Also, virtually any device with cell connectivity includes a GPS on the same chipset so it's pretty trivial to connect that with google location data. So if it has 5G it has your location it has your identity.
Thank God. Even today it's almost always faster to use Google than a site's search bar. Maybe this will start to change that.
This wasn't a progressive mistake. In California it's been consistently shown in opinion polls that Republicans (wealthy suburban Republican homeowners) are more strongly in favor of exclusionary zoning than Democrats are. It's just that the problem is most acute in big cities, which trend Democratic.
Check the post from previous day titled “Is Data Collection Evil?” https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-02/is-data-collection-evil...

By now it should be obvious that no privacy oriented company (or in fact any other company) should treat user data as product.
I'm wary of companies that insist so much on collecting user data, especially when it's done at such a granular level. I keep wondering what did Mozilla have to gain from associating themselves with Cliqz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliqz#Integration_with_Firefox
This is cool, but much of the functionality they're demoing isn't available in the preview. See the disclaimer at the bottom of the page:

> Kendra’s preview will not include incremental learning, query auto-completion, custom synonyms, or analytics. The preview will only offer connectors for SharePoint online, JDBC, and Amazon S3. It will be limited to a maximum of 40k queries per day, 100k documents indexed, and one index per account.
thanks - glad you like it! :)
To determine relative school effectiveness. You could come up with some measure that's different for every school but it'd be a lot less useful for answering questions like "which schools are having trouble, so we can go try to find out what's going wrong there and fix it?"
Twilio is making this pretty easy. I just ordered three SIM cards from them that I can provision, to see how it works. Their aim is for these SIMs to be utilized in IoT devices.

https://www.twilio.com/wireless
Ask HN: Why is there no quality free reverse telephone lookup service?
Maybe there is one and I haven't found it? But, it seems like all the reverse lookup sites are extremely scammy. Obviously, it probably costs something for the data, and to keep it current. And, advertising is probably the only realistic revenue stream. But it seems like there should be a way to do this without asking for several dollars for a "telephone number report." Thoughts?
From reddit.com/r/datahoarder I don't believe I've seen a single instance of 8, 10 or 12TB consumer USB3 drives coming out of the plastic case as a model that is shingled recording. The average consumer trying to copy many dozens of GB onto an external drive would not tolerate SMR write performance.
Notably - this is what killed the billionaire owner of the Leicester City football club. He liked to land his helicopter on the field after the game and depart from there (against many people's advice) which prevented any forward momentum on takeoff or landing. Last year, he was taking off after a game and had an engine issue which resulted in the helicopter crashing into the parking lot killing everyone on board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvk6rslCDAI
If you're really paranoid, maybe you could remove the wifi card.
It doesn't. But react js was path of least resistance for me. If people find it useful. I can build a JS free version.
But with VC funding!
Huh. This is fascinating project, this does tick some of the boxes for me. Thanks.
Only two I've ever run into are contoso and fabrikam
My 5 year old Roku TV has stopped updating, and the extremely buggy apps are slowing stopping working one by one. I may get a 2019 Roku stick and use it on my once smart, but now pretty dumb, TV.
> That's a leap too far, especially considering the current chaotic state of the laws governing its use.

As the parent poster said, in most of the rest of the world, there are no such laws governing its use, and for some reason, nobody in it really has much of a need for this 'miracle' plant.

How do you explain that?
Since there is already highly efficient event driven I/O and a context switch is bound to happen for applications that require major business logic in user space, I doubt there will be huge benefits for large server applications.

Maybe simplified versions work with this paradigm with significant performance gains, but I doubt that you could simply plug Varnish or nginx in and see much of an improvement.

There is still quite a complexity gap between e.g. interpreting firewall filter rules and a full blown web reverse proxy..
Cut the Wifi antennas and shield connection points in the module.
Your local physical library may make a book scanner available. Mine does, with a posted 60-pages-at-a-time limit (though I don't know how this is enforced).
I don't think that's true.

I've been to both, and while Portland Maine has a surprising number of breweries for its size, Portland Oregon had way more. A quick google search confirms Portland OR has more than twice as many as Portland ME.

If you include the Portland OR metro area, it has more breweries than the entire state of Maine.
too close to the warzone to survive
The time value of money is a sort of aggregated greed, I suppose, and the time value of money is the motivator for finance. But the financial system is also shaped by regulation, and the psychology driving regulation in a democracy is more complex than a hunger for money. People have a sense of fairness and practicality. Why is FDIC depositor insurance capped, for example? Why are banks required to give special treatment to loans to deployed armed service members?
Dear HN: I see you have changed the title of this submission from the article's actual title, "'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' at 50: The Rise and Fall of a Groundbreaking Variety Show."

I would argue that this changes it for the worse. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour really was a groundbreaking show; it was a significant part of the revolution in comedy and culture that was happening in the late '60s. But if you aren't old enough to know that from experience, the name of the show itself won't tell you that; it'll just sound like one more old TV show. You won't have any idea why you should bother clicking through to read the article.

I understand the desire to de-linkbaitify headlines, but the way that's done currently ends up doing lots of submissions a disservice. It completely removes any indication of why the submission is actually interesting.
It doesn't matter if it's family appointments or work appointments. Keeping tabs on someone like that is a violation of personal privacy.
Amazon, Obvious invest in Yves Behar-designed prefab home startup
Thanks! I will have to read up on shucking and and /r/DataHoarder. I would think someone already has a list of which external drives can be used this way.
> I'm not even sure if you even read that list
> Roche, Sanofi, Chugai, and GlaxoSmithKline

Yes, at their US research labs. Most of these companies do a lot of their research in the US these days and continue to move more R&D to the US. If it's developed in the US by individuals working in the US because the opportunities are in the US, that makes it a US-developed drug. I went through each and every WHO essential medicines drug developed since 2000 and verified where each was developed.

> It's also interesting to note that most of these pharmaceuticals target and _incredibly small_ number of people worldwide at outrageous costs.

As someone that uses an orphan drug developed in the US to improve my quality of life, I'm glad. Do you want to take that option away from me and others like me?
Ok, for the pedantic people out there.

The Innocence Project because I can't get over the fact that the very first time DNA evidence proved without a doubt that the state was killing innocent people the Supreme Court didn't take the next capital case available to it and strike down the death penalty on the grounds that taking life capriciously based on a flawed epistomology is cruel.

Edit: Which the court did in 1972 out of the concern that its uneven application made it cruel and/or unusual.
Google Hungry for Experts in These Programming Languages
Amen! But don't say it so loud lest they call us poseurs. :) My favorite is one is called Resin, made by SixPoint Brewery out of Brooklyn. Just like the name, the nose is floral like pine sap, it's lovely. My other favorite is made by The Maine Beer Company, MO is a terrific, well-balanced Pale Ale, Another One (that's its name) is a 5% ABV IPA, also lovely. It's not just a west coast thing, good IPA brewers and drinkers are everywhere, and we don't just do it to out-men the men.
My Sony TV and Apple TV do not support it. According to stack exchange nobody really supports it, although I can’t attest to the commenters credibility.[1]

A quick google search doesn’t show any Sony TV with this capability.

Can you give me an example of any consumer TV that supports Ethernet over HDMI?

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/325215/appletv-eth...
They seem to be continuing to support Android and iOS. Their platform works great and they've continued to add features over the last year and in years prior.
nyc is such a *hit show
I could have sworn there was a "Nile Bookstore" back in the early days of .NET (2002 - 2004).
Tl;dr to all of this: unplug your “smart” TV and use an Apple TV or other privacy-focused box.