skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of JS-based detection techniques that rely on things being or not being available. By using an actual browser you have JS/WASM environment that is identical to what is expected from a real user. By using [scripting language of choice] you would need to emulate everything that a given bot-detection system tries to check.

From my very limited experience there are two main
categories of websites:

1. Using curl and/or [library of your choice] in a [scripting language of choice] is enough

2. Forget about not being detected without a full blown browser unless you want to spend endless hours trying to emulate whatever is needed to be emulated and also willing to burn some accounts and IPs in the process.
Is there a reason C libraries generally prefix with 'lib'? Or is it just historic?
tl;dr another dumb crypto currency project, -1 reputation for IEEE
Thanks for the clarification. I see, so an owner can choose to resolve the top-level domain by itself, I didn't know that.

When I visit "com.", indeed it doesn't resolve and the browser falls back to "www.com" (which exists).

That makes me wonder, if I wanted a TLD by itself to resolve to my own site, is it even feasible for a "regular person"?

What's served on "http://pn/" looks like someone's experiment, but I guess they must own the TLD (or have connections to the owner)..?
Out of the box Does this support syncing audio from web streams like YouTube?

Also, is this trivial to set up and is there a web app I can use to test it out?
Kotlin announcement 2017/5/17: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/android-an...

Swift open source 2015/12/3: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=34
Ask HN: What are your gripes with customer support tools?
We’re working on a customer support product. It’s aimed at B2C clients (not SaaS). That said, I figure many of you already use these sorts of tools—and have thoughts on what doesn’t work as it should.
let fileContents = try? String(contentsOfFile: "file.txt")

That works perfectly fine.

In the context of an iOS or MacOS app, that of course won't work, because apps only have access to certain directories. That is why you typically use the FileManager object to get the path to the directory you'll need.
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If their response was replying to the previous comment (medical experiments on unacceptable citizens), then I just assumed the two sentences were meant to be connected.
I maintain that Trump has achieved zero in health care. His only achievement is undermining
Obamacare (“repeal and then having no idea what to do”). So far I haven’t seen any real effort to make health insurance any better (where is the “wonderful” plan he promised coming in?) other than bringing us back to the glory days before 2008 when people with preconditions couldn’t get insurance and plans would dump you whenever you got actually sick. He also didn’t “jumpstart” the economy as claimed on the site. I have no problem with you voting for Trump. Go ahead.
> so why allow them at all, if their disinformation has negative real-world implications? I don't buy Zuck's argument about free speech.

Why don’t you buy it? If you ban “political” ads you are going to start drawing a lot of arbitrary lines. Is an ad for a climate change organization a political ad? How about an ad for UBI? An ad for a local Catholic Church? An ad about farming subsidies? An ad for birth control?

All of these are one step away from direct advertisements for candidates and are very political topics for many people. Twitter hasn’t actually banned political ads, they’ve just used a definition that makes it easy for them to claim to have done so.
I don't know architecture, but is this the explanation for the increasingly ugly and soul-crushing building designs that have been getting built over the past decade or so? Particularly with apartment buildings.

They try to dress them up in wood and faded pastel colors, but none of that makes anything better. They're still huge, hideous boxes built right up to the edge of the sidewalks.
I wish people would spell out their "ethical concerns".

It makes sense me to question the idea of making monkeys with human-like intelligence just to experiment on. Is that any better than torturing humans?

But it seems like that is not the concern of Walker. If it was, then she wouldn't bring up the idea of enhancing human intelligence as though it were wrong in the same way.

To me, ethics involves some sort of framework for deciding what is moral. Saying "... is ethically dubious" is a conclusion, but where is the argument and what is its basis?
Yeah I agree there is a very strong incentive for certain groups to disprove climate change and they're backed by a lot of money and influence. Comparatively, there doesn't really seem like that big of an incentive to sell a "lie" that CO2 is fucking the climate. That being said, it does irk me a bit that I know so many people who smugly demean the moronic science-deniers who don't believe in climate change, even though they themselves don't know any of the data or figures that support climate change. Most people just follow whatever their talking-head of choice on tv tells them to believe.
Well, if it really is that hard to produce a green ink that doesn't involve harsh materials, or if Apple is spending extra to use such an ink over the cheaper nastier inks, then it's notable and something worth bragging about and putting on the tin.
Tesla delivers first China-made Model 3 sedans
You're right, I got it the other way around;
car/air deaths/h = 4.2x
So, if I were to make this request behind Carrier grade Nat no one from that provider can be tracked?

Conversely, if my DHCP lease renewal I can be tracked?
As a society, we like to focus on presumed "easy" fixes. It's not the sedentary lifestyle, chronic sleep deprivation, and massive amounts of caffeine we drink that disrupts our sleep, no, it's the color of light. Never mind that the effect is apparently so small that science has yet to prove conclusively that it even exists, this is the thing that is killing everyone.
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The point this paper is trying to make is that we should be using safety margins based on knowledge rather than perpetuating the numerology that's been in-place to-date. The very same argument you're making here can be made regarding switching to 512-bit keys. And heck, why not 1024-bit keys too. The fundamental point the paper is making is:

A) The key size & number of rounds aren't where the security issues are today
B) We have a sufficient margin of error and understand the space well-enough that we're likely OK to use existing symmetric encryption with fewer rounds & smaller key lengths.
C) If you're a target of an attack the encryption keys are unlikely to present a significant challenge as attackers will choose easier alternate vectors.

I find the arguments pretty compelling especially when you consider A & C.
Lack of movement forward.

Looks good on paper (got a promotion) but I can feel I just drifted with the current.
You can easily mitigate that by making adjustments to your workplace (adjustable sitting/standing desk), as well as by avoiding spending a lot of time in a chair and being active outside of work. With trades, you cannot really do anything outside of work to successfully mitigate the damage done to your body, unfortunately.
Whilst Tesla's engineering is impressive, their customer service is terri-bad.

As just one example, I was unable to start my new model 3 on a cold morning after owning it for 3 months (which in itself is horrendous). The entire system shut down and would not start. This was particularly problematic for me as I am required to get into the hospital in under 30 minutes in order to treat stroke patients. As such I ended up having to use an uber to make it to my surgical list.

As is typical for uber, it was impossible to get hold of a human to resolve the situation and the replies (from whatever it is that replies to you on their app) refused to help me unless I waited at my car for their service to show up.

When I finally got hold of someone I was told that in order to prevent this, I should prewarm the car using the app prior to using the car. No-one ever explained this to me prior to this happening.

I would like to say this has been the only incident but there have been innumerable problems at every point as a new owner.
thanks for one of the most iconic and different entries in the Gundam universe.

Tomino, the primary creator of the series, has publicly regarded it (Syd's designs and hire) as a mistake, but i've always loved the different ultra-future aesthetic that Mead brought to the franchise.

[0]: https://www.cardesignnews.com/designers/the-lasting-appeal-o...

[1]: https://www.otakuusamagazine.com/gundam-creator-blasts-today...
MCAS is a critical system if it's present in its current form, and may very well require more than just a software fix (3rd alpha vane perhaps). At this point not a lot is publicly known about what Boeing is doing to remediate the issue and I don't want to engage in speculation.

But their ultimate fallback plan if all else fails, will be to remove MCAS and have this thing get its own type rating and dedicated pilots.
It's probably not that they can't classify fake accounts but that doing so at a scale requires too large resources and it's more economical to employ only simpler techniques that weed out most of the bots and live with the remaining few.

Then if they also happen to anyhow benefit from the existence of those fake accounts then it becomes even harder to justify costly filters and leads to a sufficient-enough-to-not-look-obviously-weak grade filtering
Thank you. I didn't even think of the logo variations, just the graph was confusing to me.
there are a lot of reasons why you probably couldn't come up with a better time standard, but the most compelling to me is this: no matter how elegant the new system is, everything would still need to be backwards compatible with "legacy" time. unless your calendar only needs to handle dates after the new standard was introduced, the implementation will be more complicated than just sticking with the shitty system we already have.
> It's quite plausibly physically impossible if the pilot happens to be less strong than this one, or if the aircraft's situation is worse than this simulator's.

That simulation would have ended in a crash if they didn't abort it.

So the pilots strength did not seem to matter and the situation was about as bad as it gets.
In what world is preventing 4% of serious accidents trivial? That’s likely hundreds or thousands of crashes per year given the numbers involved.
Yes. It is dirt simple, for dirt simple things. It's quite easy and discoverable from documentation for more complex things.

The method in my link (which changed rather drastically between versions):

- is very much iOS and MacOS specific

- requires knowledge of quite a few iOS/MacOS-related things (FileManager.SearchPathDirectory is probably 80% Apple-specific)

- even though it's a "FileManager", it doesn't even let you access/open a file. You have to perform additional operations on the resulting Directory type (.appendingPathComponent)

- even that doesn't give you a means of opening a file, because in order to read a file, you have to invoke a String constructor. In order to write to a file, you need to invoke a method on a String type. Talk about coupling entirely unrelated things

That is an example of objectively bad API design.

And it's clear from API evolution that it's not even Swift APIs. These are very thin wrappers for OS's existing Obj-C APIs. I think it's the first among languages: to provide OS APIs and call them a standard library for a language. I don't think even MS did that when they were creating .NET.
I doubt it's the fact that they're American flying American planes as egregious accidents happen even in those sorts of scenarios (cf. Air France 447, French pilots, French plane, French carrier).

There's the NY Times Magazine article that reminded everyone of the word 'airmanship' [1] although it wasn't terribly well-received [2], [3] by some other pilots.

If you don't want to read all those, basically pilots in richer countries might be more likely to also be private pilots and more familiar with how an aircraft 'feels' that translates to a better sense of what's happening in larger aircraft. Combine a lack of that in poorer countries with the dumpster fire of Boeing's choices, crap replacement parts, and 'limited' training regimens and you have a fatal error chain forged.

The criticisms focus on the idea that heroic pilots who could recognize and avoid the situation probably aren't the norm. Further, there's often prejudice against pilots from developing countries even when they are competent; neither of these excuse the systemic failure and getting to the conclusion of "but for the pilots the crashes wouldn't have happened" is somewhere between insulting and reductive.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-c...
[2]: https://medium.com/@elanhead/the-limits-of-william-langewies...
[3]: https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/explosive-new-york-times-st...
My situation was very similar: I got some kind of sense of what the "real thing" was from my dad who was doing research in cognitive psychology and HCI while I was growing up.

That may be an ingredient in what creates perspectives like ours: you have to have some exposure to actual scientific thought processes to get a sense that you're being served something inferior when it comes up.

Edit: I guess one thing that was kinda weird about my situation was that my dad's area of research wasn't in the set of mainstream sciences taught in public schools, so the 'official' sciences always remained separate in my mind until much later. Meanwhile I assumed chemistry/physics/biology/math were all just extremely dull.
Sonos explains why it bricks old devices with ‘Recycle Mode’
>First of all, it is not like FB employees are pushing people into gas chambers in Dachau

I laughed at this way louder than I'm willing to admit
This is a good summary of Google.

Self-righteous, convinced to be the best. A page full of awards to themselves that barely loads making it de facto the worst design ever.
Not forgetting Arthur 1.2 OS the predecessor to RISC-OS!
No, that's a separate thing: you're thinking of "one-plus-five" apartments, which came about because of fire code changes that allow for wood frames on top of concrete bases, and have a limited number of styling options available because wood and concrete have different thermal/rain expansion behavior.

Unfortunately, while they're bland, they're also much cheaper to build than previous apartment styles, and so they're an urgently-needed part of fixing the housing issues in dense cities. Lower housing costs take priority over aesthetic considerations.
In the case of buboard's post, first he posted something wrong about Bitcoin (and plugged upvotes.club), then when corrected, backtracked to "then Monero". In the case of your post, first you posted something promoting Monero, then you claimed you found it "incredibly easy to understand private digital assets", but then criticized other people who "lack critical thinking skills".

What do you find so "incredibly easy to understand" about private digital assets that people who "lack critical thinking skills" don't get, and why are you more trustworthy than they are? "Incredible" literally means "not credible". Bragging about how "incredibly" clever you are and how dumb other people are doesn't make you sound trustworthy.
> was accused of being [an anti-vaxxer] because they blamed mercury.

What the fuck do those even have to do with each other?

Also, upvoted for actually posting object-level claims rather than whining about downvotes.
The price paid matters for the quality of the service. If you’re paying $60k you should expect a loaner or at lest help with a rental. Other brands provide that at that price range. Why doesn’t Tesla? Why is it ok for them to cheap out?
When a long distance girlfriend came to visit in SF, this feature would have been really handy. Instead, her first impression was the worst of the Mission and she ended up hating the city.
BMW has been using them for 20 years or more. When the Airbags are deployed the primary battery connection servers power to fuel pump, etc. leaves only the lights and some other accessories working.
> It’s tough for me to ever take content from a website like this seriously.

No need to worry, the content itself is hard to take seriously.

> "Do nothing: This is the advanced practice, the double-black diamond approach to developing the macro-mind."

Ah yes, double-black diamond, can't go wrong with that now can you?

Why do people (a) post something like this here and (b) upvote it? It implies a serious lack of critical thinking.
It will be a great day for individuals everywhere when we automate away 75% of MD/DO jobs. It won't be a great day for the AAMC, and I also look forward to seeing how they respond.
I'm sure they were think a few of the following

- this is more economical

- better them than us, let this small island deal with it

- nobody will ever find out about this (read as not enough people will find out for it to matter) and even if they do then we don't really need to deal with much of a consequence because it's a small island, what are they early going to do about it

- let's evacuate everyone off the island, throw some cheap concrete dome on it, and by the time it starts failing the world will have forgotten about this
Interesting part about Pinto considering himself a hacker or not:

> DER SPIEGEL: That makes it sound as though you might ultimately admit to hacking, after always telling us that you're not a hacker.

> Pinto: I fully accept that, from the standpoint of Portuguese law, some of my acts may be considered illegal and I will speak out on that. I maintain that many things that are mentioned were not illegally done. And I don't consider myself a hacker.

> DER SPIEGEL: What does hacking mean to you then?

> Pinto: To me, hacking means breaking into a system with brute force and exploiting it. I never did stuff like that.

> DER SPIEGEL: But the indictment says that hacking software was found on your laptop.

> Pinto: It's true but first of all, that computer was not only used by me. Second, just because the software is there doesn't mean that I actually used it. And third, the indictment never actually says that any of these programs were utilized to access data.

> DER SPIEGEL: You not only continually insisted that you weren't a hacker, but also that you weren't acting alone. Since your arrest, however, Football Leaks has gone silent. What happened to your supposed companions?

> Pinto: You have to be patient. It's true that I was the face of the project, but we'll see what happens in the near future.
This is simply amazing. Great job to anyone involved in that project!
See "probably much, much less" (since diagnostic systems have many false negatives, and only work on some subsystems) and my argument about wet conditions (which causes greater than 4% of accidents). Furthermore, the absolute number of accidents is not a sensible number to look at unless you're also totaling up the absolute number of drivers inconvenience. Both the absolute number of accidents and the absolute number of downsides (wasted time, driver frustration, unnecessary repairs) will be proportional to the number of cars, so you should divide out by the number of cars.
I built something similar to LibHunt without knowing about it. Someone on http://wip.chat pointed it out and I quickly shifted my focus to something else. It just doesn't seem like enough room in that space for two players and you already have the market cornered.
I pasted the only section speaking to handling the check engine light, it's not cherry-picked.

If you read my comment, it clearly states that few parts of the manual explicitly recommend towing. But some do, and none of them are surrounding CELs. Which makes it rather clear that a CEL condition doesn't warrant an immediate tow, unlike the brake system light or dangerous tire wear/damage where they do recommend a tow.

A charitable interpretation of my comment would accept that nowhere else was there a section about blinking lights recommending towing. Grasping at straws? Are you kidding? You suggested I look in an owners manual, that's precisely what I did, and you're unhappy with what it states.

Instead of making me do the legwork of disproving your claim, the onus is really on you to back it up so why don't you materialize an owners' manual explicitly recommending towing when a check engine light starts flashing?

> no wonder they had to add the blinking failure mode, there's truly irresponsible people out there

I don't appreciate your borderline personal attack, are you implying I'm an irresponsible person?
mr robot is uncommonly good about depicting technology and security practices. it also shows elliot booting into kali linux, despite most viewers having no idea what that is.
The same way they already respond to the fact that nurses/NP are capable of doing a large number of jobs reserved for MDs: lobby and regulate.
Nassim Taleb also ranted regarding this:

> The problem is architects building structures to impress other architects --but plumbers don't act on impressing other plumbers.

> 2- Ancestral architecture: no Euclidian geometry, high dimensionality. Even pyramids when close show rich micro-patters (Met in NYC). Today's architecture is "smooth", Eucledian, & of low dimensionality.

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1073918706663768065
It does in some industries. VDI is a thing, and ChromeOS is a really cool way to deliver it.

Chrome offers some really interesting use cases in enterprise now, and the pricing is competitive with traditional thin clients. You can still get Wyse devices for less money at scale.
My biggest failure in 2019 was getting utterly trapped in analysis paralysis.

Throughout the year, I explored many different side project ideas but I rarely took any action on most of them.

I didn't ask people for feedback on the ideas. I didn't cold email potential customers to see what they thought. I didn't build much.

Instead, I got stuck in a "research" mindset and consumed endless information on new industries or business models, often eventually talking myself out of most of my ideas -- without having any direct data on whether or not something would have worked out.

I think a more productive approach to 2020 will be defining specific actions or experiments I can run on new ideas, rather than remaining purely in the theoretical realm.

It's moderately depressing to look back at how little I really learned. Few of my theories ever made contact with reality.
Mapbox Marker Clustering in React
As far as I can tell, these letters are just a mark that a candidate has enough social hygiene to be able to find a few people to say nice things about them. (Or perhaps are psychopaths.)

This system is utterly broken and useless. My response is to write glowing recommendations for anyone that asks me.
Did you see this link, posted here a month ago? Opens a whole new world where 30,000 lumens per room is a reasonable option. https://www.benkuhn.net/lux
They make decisions about what money is available in the first place, and appoint the leaders of the organization that runs the grant selection process.
Article: https://www.leighhalliday.com/mapbox-clustering

Source: https://github.com/leighhalliday/mapbox-clustering
Y2K / Millennium Bug (20yrs On)