skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The CIA is a disaster that needs to be dismantled.

Working for the CIA is like being a sysadmin. The world only knows you exist when you fuck up.

There was a great CCC talk recently that showed how one of the Vault 7 tools wasn't a remote assassination boogieman drone tool like Wikileaks framed it, but actually a control the CIA developed that allowed them to give anti-air weapons to friendlies in Syria and Ukraine with positive access control and strong time/geo scoping to prevent them from being used nefariously.
Coronavirus expert says he knows when the virus 'will burn itself out'
Often used to make unit testing easier. For that specific purpose, interpreted languages may have ways to monkey patch in mock objects and methods making it unnecessary.

Patterns are mostly useful as a well thought out way of solving some problem, and as a language to describe conceptually difficult things so that other programmers don't need to figure out what you are doing. If there is a way to solve the problem that you prefer, or no one around you understands the pattern, better choose another option.
Did this several times. Now in my dotage, looking back, I'd slightly lean against it. YMMV.

IMO, the biggest risk in switching jobs is the possibility that your new boss (or perhaps one of your close colleagues) will be a jackass/psycopath/etc. This can easily ruin a few years of your life and leave a good hole in your career.

I could double or triple my salary right now, but after having been burned a couple of times, I'm very nervous about risking it again.
It doesn't look like it was shut down? http://comma.ai
It's not rooted in belief, it's rooted in science <jessepinkman.gif>
Also that one of the founders shifted his support to Signal...
Not OP but it could be difficult learning two languages and frameworks at the same time. If you really want to use Python for the backend while learning React, perhaps try Flask? It's much simpler than Django, especially for tutorial-type projects.
> Finland

Weird. Transfers were instant when I moved over there almost 20 years ago, and you could already do them online if you wished (there was a system of codes on a paper or a card, on top of login+password). And that was in very traditional banks like the Postal Bank (Postipankki/Leonia/Sampo: it changed name at least 3 times during my stay). I cannot imagine it can have gone worse during the last 10 years.

Opening an account was no problem and quasi-immediate. The only annoying thing is that as a foreigner I had to stay 2 years before getting a regular credit card (I didn't care about the 'credit', since in my home country we don't use credit cards but only debit cards, but for 2 years I was only allowed the Visa Electron which was not well accepted or perhaps not accepted at all abroad, so it was limited even as a debit card).
where 'strict' is a secret court that accepts everything put in front of it?
What, specifically, are you referring to?
I don't use it very often. I just threw it up on a Linode with minimal effort so I could have a working live streaming setup. You'll note from the readme:

>This is the website for my self-hosted livestreaming platform (aka bag of hacks dumped into a server).

PeerTube is nice in theory but in practice it's been really really unreliable for me.
Try long-press on the link to get a context menu popup containing an entry "Open in New Tab".
Though NYC is incredibly backwards as far as payment technology goes

Stores in NYC are reluctant to make upgrades because the profit margins are much narrower in NYC than in lesser cities.
This is a great strategy for many employers. Also, if they'll let you max your 401k match for the year in January, grab that, too.
Despite that, I think it’s too late to rename this virus. People have called it “coronavirus” for weeks now and the name will likely stick, correct or not.
It's unfortunate that Apple Pay is tied to iCloud, so you can't use Apple's payment mechanism without also sharing a range of device data with Apple.
Does the app sync between different macOS computers though? My experience has been: no. Both computers are signed into the same Apple ID ...
Yesterday I submitted this but it didn't get many upvotes..

https://towardsdatascience.com/modelling-the-coronavirus-epi...

I think that reached this point is obvious that in our hyperconnected cities a containment is going to be very difficult if the R0 is 3+ and we don't shutdown commuting

PS: for those interested in real-time info from experts I recommended following:

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing
https://twitter.com/MackayIM
https://twitter.com/trvrb
I think the QR codes are usually an indication of AliPay or some other Chinese app. I'm sure someone here can elaborate or correct me.
Yuck - needs 10.15
To further your point, even Snowden didn’t have access to the documents that tell us precisely what BULLRUN is able to do, or how.

(The speculation is, of course, with reasonable circumstantial support, is that it is a ~$1B program that has brute-forced the most common 1024 DH group in use.)

We simply don’t have the hard data, it is (educated) speculation based on what information we do have.

Even the existence of the program is TS. Its capabilities remain secret, due to the exact system you describe.
Someone finally maxed out a Mac Pro with 6000 Google Chrome tabs
As someone who doesn't live in the US I'm not sure that that's not any different than the recent Crypto AG news, or the similar back doors that have been discovered in Cisco hardware over the years, including the ones provided for US 'law enforcement'.

The only real answer though is not to worry about this stuff, use the cheapest switching hardware you can find (sure use Huawei if they're the cheapest) and own your own privacy, don't trust anyone and do your own end-to-end encryption.
I'm 90% sure that NFC on a card can't do any kind of dynamic token generation, so it'd be the same token every time. Even if it isn't your actual credit card number, that would mean you could at least use a copy of it at other contactless terminals.
Deserts are dry on average, but some parts are quite wet :-)

FWIW, Las Vegas water rates are lower than the average US city.

That could be because the cost is subsidised by gambling and perhaps it doesn't includes the cost of say building Hoover Dam.

But also the infrastructure is more modern than the typical US city.

For comparison, Atlanta's water rates are MUCH higher than Las Vegas despite it having 10 times the annual rainfall.
What kind of usecase do you imagine for blockchain in audit/security, given that sensitive information can't be put on a public blockchain and the security provided by proof-of-work consensus doesn't work in a smaller private blockchain?
Lubuntu?! xD Talk about lamenting the state of things.
>But there is some evidence — and we’re working on quantifying it — that coronaviruses do transmit less efficiently in the warmer weather. So it’s possible that we will get some help from that, but I don’t think that will solve the problem, as evidenced by the fact that there’s transmission in Singapore, on the equator.

There have been several research about seasonal influenza and how it correlates with weather, like temperature but especially humidity

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01634...

https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/173/2/127/99316
This is great, but I already use "shit" as an alias for "fuck".
That leads right down the slippery slope of corporate slavery, and/or indentured servitude. Right to work laws work both ways; by not signing a binding contract either party can quit for any reason.
When I back things up with BackBlaze, they leave my computer encrypted, so they're encrypted at rest with them.
It's funny to think about, I first used Gnome 2 in 2006 and I remember having to install XFCE on my laptop. My laptop only had 256 MB of RAM, so GNOME at the time was too resource intensive. My Desktop had 2 GB of ram (so it couldn't really run Vista when that came out), but it could run Gnome + Compiz extremely well.

I don't have that laptop anymore, but I now have a Thinkpad X200, which has 8 GB of RAM. So now Gnome 2 is "lightweight" since it can consume under 1 GB idling, and it is sitting at 1.7 GB with normal usage. I'm glad to see that some software hasn't been bloated up simply because the processing power exists.
Funny enough...I go to support groups (not really) for support, and I go to work for work.
From a quick search, it sounds like "EMV contactless" means the NFC circuit follows the same procedure as "the chip" instead of the same procedure as the magstripe? If so, that would indeed solve the problem
pulling my phone out > hold near reader > phone says get face closer > double tapping the lock screen button which is kind of out of the way on my iPhone 11

You're doing it wrong.

Pull phone out → double-click wallet button → Authenticate face → Hold next to reader → done.
That sounds troublesome, no?
When do we get to mob people we don't like? It's like covertly campaigning against tenure but without being passive aggressive! I'm just here for the ratio!
It's called abstract syntax tree because the concrete syntax is not a tree, it's an list of characters. Not because it makes semantic-invariant transformations.
There was a documentary about this company and other surveillance topics aired on Swiss TV in last November.

https://www.rts.ch/dossiers/la-suisse-sous-couverture/

It's in French and may not be accessible outside Switzerland but I highly recommend it.
Yes, I’ve had this happen and usually I just assent and pull out a card. Since I’ve just asked to avoid feeling rude, I’m probably not going to try Apple Pay in defiance of them.

When I’ve thought Apple Pay would have actually worked in that kind of situation, I try it next time I’m there (without asking first!)
Its actually been novel coronavirus, since day one.
If exceptions aren't used, the error case has to be handled somehow. The usual approach is to return two results, and callers have to check the error flag somehow. If exceptions are very rarely thrown, then even with their very high overhead the total cost could well be lower than the cost of returning a separate error result and having callers check that result, perhaps by pattern matching.
Exceptions being contrary to zero-overhead is not something that is just my opinion. Here's Herb Sutter's detailed white paper on the topic: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p070...

ETA: an uncontended mutex lock takes around 10-30ns depending on the machine. Any kind of exception is far more costly.
Interesting. I wrote the article a long time ago, but I still use the approach it describes to this day. I have this setup on Ubuntu MATE 18.04 without issue, running MATE 1.20.1.

When you say super key, do you mean the windows key? And hitting it opens up the main MATE menu? For me, it opens up as expected: https://i.imgur.com/dZzQt1t.png and choosing an item from it does the expected thing.

For the i3 mod key I use alt. Is it possible you have both MATE and i3 set to the same super/mod key?
Singapore is having 30ºC days, yet the epidemic is progressing and the city is already bracing for the worse...
Damn, I like the way that looks. I get why it's catching on! I think this could quickly go from "really awesome" to "super awful" pretty quickly if you didn't have a professional designer working on it, though. Overcrowding seems like it would be worse in this style than in others we've seen get popular over the years.
David Ackley's talks are amazing and mind expanding.

Public Lecture: Artificial Life for Bigger & Safer Computing

Talk presented October 8, 2014 as part of the John von Neumann Public Lecture series at the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation (C4) in Madison, Wisconsin. Video recorded by Alan Ruby of the Wisconsin Insitute for Discovery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqSnoJ-VGH4

He stakes out a bold iconoclastic position that the ridiculously successful deterministic approach to computing is a dead end that will not scale, but he's not just like Clifford Stoll predicting that nobody's going to ever shop over the internet (bless his heart for owning up to that ;), because he's taking a much longer term view, and his beliefs don't contradict von Neumann, but actually reflect what von Neumann predicted.

John von Neumann actually predicted that his own approach was going to fall down.

The future "...logic of automata will differ from the present system of formal logic in two relevant respects:

1. The actual length ... of the chains of operations will have to be considered.

2. The operations of logic ... will all have to be treated by procedures which allow exceptions (malfunctions) with low but non-zero probabilities."

"...natural organisms are constructed to make errors as ... harmless as possible. Artificial automata are designed to make errors as ... disastrous as possible ... We are ... much more 'scared' by the occurrence of an isolated error and by the malfunction ... behind it. Our behavior is clearly that of overcaution, generated by ignorance."

-John von Neumann, 1948
Welp, I'm a doomsday prepper now.
My #1 is HN then Daily Rotation http://www.dailyrotation.com/
Have used Skimfeed. Here's some others...

https://alltop.com https://devurls.com/
https://searx.me/ https://searchvoat.co/
http://theweblist.net/ https://www.zaqs.org/
Is there a list somewhere of companies who are known to have bought and installed Crypto AG devices?
I'm not thinking of it as "fixed" so much as written languages do most other potential jobs better/clearer/faster than emojis. It's not sufficiently complex/composable enough to pose as a real challenger for expression.

Any useful utility for emoji will be at best in addition to written language, not in replacement of it.

And the major blocker is definitely the lack of composability; you have a very strict and very limited set of options to work with (and without composition, the rule "limitation breeds creativity" doesn't apply), so I have little hope for significant creativity to appear
I like the idea, I'm wondering how it came to be? And whether it can be replicated.
Unfortunately it's not growing: look at Mozilla's own usage data at https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
I'm guessing it's a sanctioned leak because they want the world to understand the danger with Huawei. Now that others are playing the same game, they need to stop it!
All my credits cards(Amex and Chase) support contactless and work at most stores. Most people don’t know about it.
If it's open source, how does extinguish work?
Why not simply stream to somewhere live Twitch/YouTube and have them serve the recording offline later on?
> it is no better or worse than other words/phrases having the same meaning

It is demonstrably worse than phrases like "low latency" which clarify the desired property of the system being discussed.

I'm not a huge fan of "high performance" but at least I kind of know what "high performance computing" means (usually systems that are capable of processing massive data sets with high throughput.)

In contrast, "performant" as it is commonly (mis)used doesn't seem have a precise meaning other than "good according to some unspecified metric."
You're either misinformed or have an agenda (based on the snark, my guess is the latter), but LN is far from vaporware...

LND 0.4-beta was released March 15, 2018. Today there are 11k nodes, 35k channels, $9,000,000 network capacity:

https://1ml.com/statistics
Permian’s Gas-Burning ‘Black Eye’ Is 30% Worse Than Thought
Animation for infographics or statistics are really useful. Not for UI, I agree on that.
You are correct, it goes to the lab directly.
There's always been such allegations about Huawei. Backdoors are no surprise. LI is standardized by 3GPP.

But if Huawei can do it, so would be the case for NSN, ZTE, Ericsson and even samsung.

Besides backdoor access built in, these telecom equipment come with advanced diagnostic capabilities that are not accessible by anyone other then their own RND department.
I am just wondering if all these issues are not linked to a same error that would be: we loaded an old version of the software on the spacecraft.

It can be quite common in the space industry to load non-flight or old versions late in the AIT phase in order to test on other modules, or even just to officially close old actions. But before delivering everything we would check all the versions, and make sure that everything is as expected and most importantly, as described. If that step was screwed up, it is bad news for the QA, but that would explain why the errors could be found and fixed quickly: it meant just going through all the non-conformances and change logs and understand what was different between the version used, and the version that should have been used.
Those graphics are gorgeous. So crisp!
When you disable exceptions anything that throws calls std::terminate instead. It's actually great.
The only answer you would ever receive from me is "I'm great! This job is fantastic!" While I had the biggest Cheshire Cat smile on face.

Until I find a new job.
Smooth as butter!
Transferring money using Zelle [0], between participating banks, is pretty much instantly, at least in my experience. The limit is up to 20,000 monthly for me. YMMV.

(0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelle_(payment_service)
I was involved with Level1 and SubSafe parts as a Machinist in the 80's.
First on a Sub Tender then at a Naval Shipyard.
I served as Controlled Materials Petty Officer and learned the nuances of material classification.
All laymen need to know is that every part of a submarine is engraved with a number that can be traced back to the site where the minerals were mined.
This includes every bolt, nut and washer.
A very impressive level of accountability.
I have dealt with alot of green tags in my day.
Generated quite a few as well from manufactured parts.
What I wonder is how much the price of a sub increased after SubSafe program was started. From a material point of view the cost was around 3X for roundstock.
I forgot to pack my traveling cards on a trip once and found myself on the Navajo Nation without any plastic.

Apple Pay on my Apple Watch saved my bacon. Hotel, restaurant, gift shop, trading post... every place that takes plastic there take Apple Pay.

I think the reason is that because of limited connectivity, they're a little late to the credit card game, so all of their terminals and processes are the new tech. There's no legacy gear or processes to upgrade from.

Which is similar for the whole credit card arena in general. People keep posting on here about America being backwards when it comes to credit cards and in the "civilized world" (Is there a more condescending Eurotrash phrase than that?) the banking system is more advanced. The fact is that America has had mass deployment of credit cards for far longer than other nations, so naturally it will take longer to upgrade. Greenfields are always easier to build on.
post-edit-window edit: the typo 时空 ("spacetime") for 失控 ("lose control") is mine, not my correspondent's.
I try to avoid proprietary services.
I'm definitely not the right person to ask, but:

Archival/storage of video shouldn't be that costly.

With 5400rpm drives (better for archival than more or less any other type of storage media, including faster hard drives), it looks like the going rate is about a United States cent per gigabyte. Two for 7200rpm drives from manufacturers that seem to produce the most reliable drives on the market, consumer-side.

A setup that could survive through a reasonable amount of drive failure, then, seems to be relatively inexpensive, so long as you're not trying to archive your video In The Cloud®.*

*Someone Else's Computer
.NET Interactive. .NET in Jupiter Notebooks
In contrast, I'm a scientist on Twitter.

It's helped my career. It's let me connect with senior colleagues who aren't at my institution, introduced me to several people I've invited as speakers, and I've written two papers with people I met over Twitter and who I've never met in real life.

The key is curation.
Strange, my old Thinkpad t460 starts blowing fans all over. Running this in firefox.
> RMS's opinions on the age of consent are well documented and within the realm of reasonable discourse.

Well documented, yes. Within the realm of reasonable discourse, no. Or more accurately, only reasonable among the circle of advocates who consider everything Richard Stallman says to be reasonable, by definition.

This[0] is a list of items from RMS' blog which speaks to his opinions more clearly. For further context, here[1] is the HN thread discussing it, and here[2] is my own comment therein which points out in each item, in RMS' own words, explaining why his opinion on the matter falls far outside what would be considered reasonable by most people.

It is not merely the case that RMS stated as simple mathematical fact that ages of consent differ from place to place, rather he has stated on multiple occasions his belief that children are capable of consenting to sexual relations that that sex between an adult and a child is not only normal, but healthy and should be encouraged by society.

[0]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-10/msg00...

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21285543

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006
Same here (Google Pay). I've tried a handful of times over the past 2 years or so and it has never worked for me.
If you download it and run `nm /Applications/Playgrounds.app/Contents/MacOS/Playgrounds | grep "_\$s"` from Terminal, you can see there is lots of Swift in there.
I think that this angle can't be stressed enough. People's emotional state is part of their health, and, like any other health-related issue, it is never appropriate for one's employer to ask about it.

I would honestly feel more comfortable with my employer taking everyone's vitals at the start of a meeting, because physical health is so much less stigmatized than mental health.
> Regardless of the terrible shit Trump has done, we would never accept him murdering journalists or critics

There is strong evidence that Turkish intelligence intercepted the telephone call between Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Bin Salman green-lighting the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, and used it as leverage to force the US drawdown in Syria. Turkish state media was the source of the audio recording of the murder inside the embassy, so it is not unreasonable to believe they have sufficient espionage capabilities against the Saudis to have phone recordings as well.
Your comment is unclear, and I can't tell if you're talking about any of the above happening in Australia or elsewhere.

In Australia signatures are not considered a valid form of identification for transactions.

It's PIN or nothing.