skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the card network (MasterCard, Visa, AE) that sells your data. They each have their own op out:

* https://marketingreportoptout.visa.com/OPTOUT/request.do

* https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/what-we-do/....
how does "black foam" rot the pins off chips?
Free Software Foundations effort to make Windows 7 open source
Good news (rare) in Jan 2020 ;-)

Using WireGuard to establish a mesh network seems good to start with but it does not scale well (even with the help of subspace web UI). Nebula (from Slack) seems to be a better option which is simple, secure and scales well so far, docs are not that well at this stage but usable.

My main use case of WireGuard is to secure network traffic on Laptop/Workstations, replacing old-school complicated IPsec (strongSwan) and OpenVPN, can't be happier with its simplicity, user experience (seamless switching networks like strongSwan client for Android, per network on-demand, etc) and performance, battery life on mobile devices, etc. Anyway, non of the traditional VPN solutions (including WireGuard) work inside the Chinese GFW when travelling to China Mainland (won't go there until the 2019-nCoV is under control or a vaccine is available). So I am exploring V2ray (TLS + WebSocket + Web) and Trojan at this stage (working ones to my knowledge).

Gravitational folks even implemented a WireGuard based overlay network plugin for k8s, super excited to replace flannel with wormhole (I have to admit it is a bad name) in use cases where encryption is required for overlay networking, which flannel does not offer.

Many thanks to the WireGuard development team for the good work! Jason and many others, wow, I see the name of a long-time-no-see frined Herbert Xu (crypto subsystem maintainer).
2 projects at the moment:

- a graph-based task manager that incorporates dependencies between tasks and infinitely-nested subtasks - IE maps to how we actually think about tasks being related and broken down. Aiming to get this one shared with the world in early Feb.

- a visual programming environment that represents how we model software in our heads, not how it runs on the computer/s. This is my longer-term, much more experimental project.

Drop me an email (in my bio) if you're interested in either! I'll be commercialising the former quite soon and I'm putting a lot of effort into pleasant to use.
More like an extra 100,000 years http://www.daretothink.org/numbers-not-adjectives/how-long-w...
I remember reading a Feynman story where he was given the job of checking the calculations about that, and asking what if he made a mistake, was told not to worry, as no-one would ever find out. I googled for that but first found this article, which has a range of quotes about those fears from physicists, and some of the chemistry/physics of the actual fusion reactions people thought might happen. I hadn't read about that before - like the nitrogen in the atmosphere turning to magnesium! etc..

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/chung1/
> Swarm the size of Moscow - meaning it could contain up to 200 billion locusts. Could become 500 X bigger by June.

That's a biblical sized swarm.
Ohh sorry for that. You're right, my mistake. In the future, I will more closely look at rules.
Atmosphère: A free reimplementation of the Nintendo Switch operating system
> I'm sure some of this would have happened had the Internet possessed a payment mechanism and people willing to pay for stuff, but it would not have become the dominant model for everything nor as pervasive.

It would rather be inevitable. In the news media there were paywall-only news sites in the early days of the Net and this model has almost disappeared (even sites with payed content show ads to their paying members!) as free sites with ads get a lot more views and are more profitable than the ones having a fraction of paying members.
Technically, no. Legally, it means you haven't accepted their terms of service, so if/when (I hope) the political privacy landscape changes, it'll be more likely that you can sue, report a violation, request deletion, (or maybe they'd even preemptively delete it to cover their tracks / come into compliance with new laws).
I wouldn't mind one major thing from C++: A standard.
He's hiding the most obvious signs that it's a virtual machine to some degree. The scammers that in 99% of the cases fail to change a number with the browser developer tools because he added an invisible div on top of his fake bank page are just too incompetent to check for a VM, though some do or at least try to. Kitboga specifically also livestreams on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/kitboga for hours at a time, multiple days a week. I see don't really see a chance that's faked.
for the record: I'm taking screenshot of these comments :-)
One main barrier is API Keys, emails, secrets etc. It wouldn't be possible for me to stream my work because of this.

I was thinking of making a filter of the video stream which would blur out sensitive strings if it encountered them...

I suppose I could just use an offscreen terminal for environment variables and secrets, but it's bound to be leaked at some point.
We use sound effects to evacuate people from fires in tunnels when they can't see any direction in the smoke. Which involves detecting the fire in the first place, and establishing binaural effects that are directional and suggestive of the direction you should take.

Explaining the implementation would take a wall of text, just listed the aspects that make it interesting.
If you are running Android >=9 then you can block the trackers by changing your DNS settings to use one from https://nextdns.io/

Instructions on changing DNS settings https://joyofandroid.com/how-to-change-dns-on-android/
It would be good to name and shame every vendor that shares data with Facebook and have them in a searchable list, so people can check before engaging with them.
I built an "autonomous" remote-controlled car using an old iPhone: http://pyetras.com/car3
I wish people who told stories like this gave a little more context. Like where do you live? How chold does it get? Would you say your home is well insulated? Do you live in an apartment?

Top post in this thread is someone claiming they used only the coldest water to shower for 11 years. Where I live, in the winter, the water is barely above freezing, it hurts. I've read that 70f showers are cold enough for health benefits. 70f does not hurt.
They probably just didn't feel like calling in sick after a cold shower
I saw the same for Gap inc for a list of in-store purchases at Old Navy. Incredibly on the nose about how screwed privacy is going to be soon.
If you "own" 10 people, you call them slaves and call yourself their master, and you exploit them harshly by necessity, afraid that other slave owners will out-compete you and you'll go bankrupt.

If, collectively with other 1000 board members, "own" 1 billion people, you're part of an "elite power structure", and you can do a lot of things to make the lives of those people better - you'll still want your profits, but by having a monopoly on some things you know that no rival can put you out of business so you can relax a bit...

-archy's nature is changed by scale just like everything else, we're not fractals!
(I think you wanted to use "complicit")

Please update us as to how this happened!
Parliament Elections in Finland
You either need to control the mobile side of things and never connect to unrestricted Wi-Fi or use Apple Configurator to create a profile for an always-on VPN to a place you control where you can apply the restrictions.
C++ has not maintained backwards compatibility by doing automatic upgrades. I don't think that would even count.

Backwards compatibility for a language means that old source code still works without having to update it, even if you can do so automatically.

Also worth pointing out that C++ has broken backwards compatibility in a very small number of cases, e.g. the `auto` keyword has changed meaning. Nobody ever used it before so it wasn't a problem in practice.
I don’t think going green on electricity alone is enough to solve global warming.

We need cars to go electric, etc.

The point is that co2 generated over the last 16 years will stay with us for some time. We could have delayed the problem by doing more sooner.

A slow train wreck of decades that everyone sees coming.

At this rate, we’ll be saying the same thing in 2030.
I did the same for 3 years, but mostly for environmental reasons. It is a very effective strategy to shave off a fair amount of your personal carbon footprint (next to not flying).

As you say the rush after the shower is amazing! I stopped, because in winter (central European) there were days where I was cold all day and felt like I would never quite warm up again before going to bed. In summer, however, I still do it regularly and it really helped during the recent heat waves.
Hardest Job in Summer Time in Finland
Thought it also worth mentioning the Julia package, Query.jl, which supports LINQ-like syntax:

https://github.com/queryverse/Query.jl/blob/master/README.md

http://www.queryverse.org/Query.jl/stable/linqquerycommands/
I'm blocking Facebook DNS requests using DNS66. I'd also be interested in how to block their entire ASN, though.
I have an encrypted sparse bundle disk image (.dmg) that I use to keep all documents like that: tax, bank and investment statements, insurance policies, etc.

It lives on an external drive that is backed up to Backblaze. Since it changes fairly infrequently, I'll also manually drop copies of it on other clouds occasionally.
I guess this also requires an organisation/business account? Because I can't get that either, because Apple doesn't allow sole proprietors like myself to get a business account. I can only get an individual account. Which means that I can't add my employees to my team.
Yeah, kind of blows my mind how many advanced features they add, but basic string handling stuff that you always use (split, join, startsWith, etc.) is never added.
Extrapolation: "Account" here means the Facebook account created by you and visible to you; probably distinct from "Profile" in their lingo, which is all the data they have on you, of which most is invisible to you. If this is true, that's not an opt-out for data collection, just a choice to keep that info from showing in your account while merrily continuing to build your profile.
> We need cars to go electric, etc.

Yes, and that creates massive extra demand for electricity generation, which seems very hard to achieve without nuclear power.
This could be a simple / cheap way to get a time-travelling debugger. Run your code through vardbg generating a video. If that run results in unexpected behaviour then you can step back and forward through the video and see where things went wrong.
> We need cars to go electric, etc.

Marketing is once again far from the truth, check how co2 expensive producing a battery is. Then couple that with the fact that you need let's say 20 years of normal use of a car to "paybacck" that co2 footprint (comparing to an oil car).

Last one is : are you going to keep that same electric car for 20 years?
I think I have a pixel on there for some reason? I don't recall why I put it there.

It really does hurt when you see how awful your own behaviour is, i.e. by spying on users. I'm sorry everyone!
Alternative hypothesis: The 79% who were able to complete the trial had already selected for 'grit', or folks who wouldn't skip a day's work for a minor ailment. To check, instead of just comparing the test group to the control group you would need to compare the test group to itself, before and during the cold shower period.
That doesn't make any sense. How does the existence of multiple solutions prove there aren't any solutions?
Didn't see that, thanks! Title updated.

And totally agreed on the rest. The crazy bit is that in order to make nuclear power as safe as possible, very strict standards were created. Laudable. Now those very strict safety standard are used to paint nuclear power as unsafe, when any realistic accounting of actual harm done shows it to be either the single safest or at least amongst the safest forms of power generation available.

And we could make it better still, by switching to reactor designs that weren't optimised for military use.
The proposals don't change the language, it's just a few very sensible warnings and the tiniest, sensible extension of constant expressions.
Some of the blame for this should lie at the feet of activists with good intentions like Jane Fonda.

I don’t think she realizes the damage she’s responsible for. Lots of the fossil fuel usage she is now against only happened because of her cause in the 70s.
Yeah the early return example is wrong. Demonstration code: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Try removing the `return` and the semicolon.
sure, but I imagine they have already removed those forks too.

Have a look at this list
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/01/2020-01-2...
Playing devil's advocate, why would I as an insurance company want to insure you if I don't have access to your medical records to verify preexisting conditions?

I say that because then a person could have a preexisting condition, sign up for insurance, then go on long term disability due to the preexisting condition.
If the only thing you want to do is pull really detailed tickets from a JIRA queue and work on that until they go to the QA, that's fine. But you're stuck on medior level.

As soon as you're going to be involved in designing or building back-end API's and features that cross a lot of layers not being able to run applications from Xcode and Android Studio and understanding the other platform no matter if you're an iOS developer or Android developer limits your career.

I need at least to see what my Android developer did for me before I can accept his or her work. That's what happens when you go up the ladder. That's why I have the full toolchain on my computer and obviously bought an Android phone.
> We need cars to go electric, etc.

Batteries making process is far from being carbon-free yet.
Your're mixing a non-GHG emmitting technology with waste. Apples and oranges.
What does it mean to “activate fat?”
Did you buy the binary, or a license key that you have to activate somehow? Or something else?
I cannot comment on tinc, but I use WireGuard to do the same thing as you, and it works brilliantly. It was “easy” to set up and use.

I wrote up what I did for my Raspberry PI server that I have at home [0].

The only other component that may be necessary is Dynamic DNS if you have a dynamic home IP address, or at the very least a way to find out your home IP at any time.

[0]: https://qasimk.gitbooks.io/piserver-book/content/personal-vp...
Are these datas for sale in Europe as well?
I completely agree. I imagine using electricity to power everything paired with basically free nuclear power makes for a pretty sweet future. For whatever reason though, people and even “green” politicians generally seem opposed to nuclear.
Execution of idea and perseverance are two qualities of successful founders. Any investor or accelerator will only bet on founders based on these 2 qualities.
I must be missing something but this looks more complicated and confusing than plain PyTorch.
Art of Robotic Special Effects
Kayak?
Nice, that would be a big one for me to switch over for language learning as well
Mapping Power of Mozzila's Rebel Alliance
...wasn't that familiar with the gritty details this part of history, but from a simple skimming, I see that things sort of worked-out fine until BEIC shifted its focus from trade and profit to territory grabbing, waring around, and administration. And it started behaving as a nation, probably because it was... all its owners where British nobility, right? That seems to be also when things turned bad for them - they practically went bankrupt but were still artificially kept a float by the then British Empire?

Probably a good lesson to be learned from BEIC for future transnational megacorps: (1) keep your focus on making profit and growing (growing in the do-lots-of-R&D to increase your technological supremacy sense - you probably can't grow marketshare after you're already a monopoly), (2) let governments do the "drawing borders" and maintaining local civil order part, and (3) diversity, diversity, diversity - if all your owners are from one nation and one social-class / race / whatever, you'll be phagocytized or subverted by that nation and/or sub-group.
How long will our supplies of uranium and thorium last?

There's never been a commercially viable thorium reactor.
The code->AST is done of course at compile time (there is no reason to delay), but I believe the expression tree itself is processed by linq at runtime. You can build expressions programmatically at runtime as well (and then ask the runtime to optmize them to bytecode). I remember doing it years ago, it was surprisingly simple (and very powerful).
Anyone else thrown off that “Download Activity Details” (which seems to be the only way you can find out what interaction was sent) leads to the main Download Your Information page, and not to anything specific to that app or that interaction?
As a drawing hobbyist, this is the main reason I got an iPad. It's incredible to draw on and experiment with.

Another killer app for me is Nebo. The text recognition and UI is very good. I use it for regular, cursive writing and conversion to text. It's the least in-my-way handwriting recognition that I've used. I've played around with it in French and Czech as well, and it recognized the language and accent differences even though my handwriting is quite poor.

It will also recognize and solve some handwritten math problems and simple diagrams. I originally tried this back when PDAs were a thing, but that form factor and capability a decade and a half ago was awful.

I just wish it had something like windows subsystem for Linux so that I could do some programming in my normal environment as well, then I would pick up a decent keyboard cover and leave my laptops at home.
I have been taking cold showers for a couple of years now. Although I wouldn't claim any health benefits since none have been proven, I will claim some other obvious benefits that everyone should consider.

Cold showers are unheated. Cheaper and better for the environment.

Cold showers seldom last longer than a few minutes, whereas hot showers are so comfortable that many people make them last way too long. Cheaper, better for the environment and for your time management.

Cold showers wake you up, whereas hot showers are more like extended snooze time.

Cold showers make you feel like a bad ass.

Secret tip: eat some breakfast before the shower, to crank up your engine.
You would have to be an absolute fool to put your business on a Google messaging platform. If you hope your business lasts a decade you’ll likely be forced into a major platform switch 3-4 times.

Not to mention Google is essentially a spyware company and you shouldn’t trust them with your business data.
Indeed, and remember to add to that the additional £350 million a week to the NHS. It'll be better than living in Shangri-La
China produces half of world masks, why is there still shortages?
Battery research should probably be the single most well funded area of research.
Which features and why?
This conversation is about the iPad, as of yesterday iPad sales are down 11% YOY https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/28/aapl-q1-2020
Trying to make it easier to prove your identity online. Essentially by creating an ID for use on the web.

When signing up for services that require real identities (banking, insurance, etc.) the standard currently is to require a picture of a passport, a video of yourself, or copies of some paperwork. These methods are all high-friction and provide dubious security and privacy. This is already a solved problem in some countries and I'm working on the equivalent on a larger scale, without the geographical restrictions.

If there is anybody else here working in this space then feel free to reach out!
Data logging satellite-relaying albatrosses locate illegal fishing vessels
Sure okay whatever.
What was her cause in the 1970s
Too bad there is no safe or easy way to get X-rays just by sending a home kit to customers.
Common blocks to starting on any creative task
While being better than coal and petroleum, nuclear is still based on non-renewable uranium.

How abundant is uranium compared with coal and petroleum? How destructive and energy intensive are the extraction and refinement processes compared with fossil fuels?
It is similar to flying an aeroplane. Lots if intrinsic risk that can only be mitigated by strict adherence to rules.
I do believe nuclear should have a role, but please don’t peddle the ‘basically free’ fantasy.
From fixed mindset to growth mindset: the complete guide
Smarter Delivery Hinges on Smarter Robots That Learn on Their Own
I use statistics and machine learning to study the physiology of human pain and stress.

This can lead to ai-suggested interventions that people can apply to themselves or to support someone else.
Clearly I need to step it up. I was (unsurprisingly) surprised at what I've observed they've managed to correlate. I run standard pi-hole, resist fingerprinting, and normally go through a VPN (mainly because I'm on public wifi half the time when travelling). I haven't logged into facebook in about four years, just did it for the first time today to see what's been correlated.

Aside the mountain of irrelevant notifications, here's what I've observed in this report that's concerning.

1. Albeit some data has been correlated properly (banking applications which is scary on it's own part it's sending data to facebook, imgur, Xbox, my telco provider, and a few misc blogs I've visited a handful of times per year), it's correlated a significant amount of data that may not belong to me (good thing, I suppose?)

2. Why the heck are banking applications sending data to Facebook as "CUSTOM", with no context? For example, RBC bank in Canada sends "CUSTOM" data (haven't been with them for over two years, but all interacts labelled CUSTOM) and Facebook will not give any more context on the exact data it received. Little scummy, Facebook.

Well, time to sweep this up and resist tracking more. Let's see how it works this time round.
Could you post a source or two? I read this claim a few times, but never seen a credible source to confirm the claim.
Which is annoying as hell once you are used to LINQ. I completely forgot how to write a for loop till .NET Core came up with Span<T> and friendly forced us to re-think about memory.

I hope they update LINQ in .NET to address these use cases.
A lot of hedge funds purchase credit card data to do exactly that.
I can't find a benchmark right now, but the specific issue with Python in this case was not dynamic dispatch, but memory allocation and GC.

And yes, that lead to having the model creation time dominate the solve time by an order of magnitude. So it was a large-but-easy problem. Happens in particular when you use LP or QP, as opposed to MIP.
Thank you. We fixed this unfortunate example, and added some more explanation.
Other commenters seem to have missed what you’re really saying here.

I’m on iPhone, and see apps listed where:

- I’ve never logged in on the web

- I’ve never clicked to open a link in a browser on-device

- Used a phone number to sign up that’s not associated with my fb account
- Didn’t use email at all
People are afraid of big "booms", slowly suffocating over a few generation is fine as long as we don't have a chernobyl 2
Oh take your sensationalism and shove it.

Damn near every country is like this to a large extent (and a great many are worse). If you do not have the resources to hire your own lawyer and the state accuses you of a crime you are usually screwed.

If you had said the prison system is pretty bad for a 1st world country or that the US incarcerates people for far too many crimes or that there are simply too many things that are illegal I'd agree with you but the legal system in the US is pretty par for the course.
If they're in the restaurant, why isn't the card present?