skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This just prompted me to cancel my Zoom subscription... I could live with all the security flaws (which were patched quite rapidly) but not with this kind of unethical behaviour.
In what state?

I've never seen minimums. Just the speed limit
The browser has no context for what it is rendering. Should it ban every element containing "promoted"? Even posts by people?

The word "promoted" might not even appear as text, it might be simply a series of divs with one letter each (out of order, of course) and then visually defined with CSS.

The browser doesn't know it's rendering a word, it only knows it's rendering a series of divs with one letter on each, and it absolutely can't know what the visual representation of the divs spell.

What you are proposing is another crazy AI solution, OCR.

Which would mean to render the document, using pattern recognition delimit the area with the sponsored post, then pass those coordinates to the browser in order to select the currently visible element, then delete it.

Even then I could think of a thousand ways to beat this, because OCR can't see invisible things and you can do all sorts of fun stuff with invisible styling, and it'd be the same game of cat and mouse the ad blockers are currently running but at a higher level of abstraction.
This article is about US hospitals. It is not about one singular US hospital.

> Mark McCarren, a New Jersey federal prosecutor involved in the case, said Rosenbaum indicated that the transplants he brokered took place at more than one U.S. hospital and that the hospitals were duped and were not in on the scheme.

If exclusively New York-Presbyterian were potentially involved in pushing the organ black market (for example), and the title still said "US hospitals", this would be a fair comparison.
>If a ring of doctors were caught illegally selling organs, we wouldn't title an article "Doctors have been selling organs for years". If bank tellers in a specific city were taking some money off the top of deposits, we wouldn't write "Bank tellers have been stealing money for years".

I see headlines like this daily. They're meant to be eye catching and make it seem like everyone is being hit by it, then a few lines into the article, they rapidly cut back on the scope because they've already got your ad money.

But the FBI and police departments around the country have used intimidation tactics for as long as they've been around. This author is writing about their personal experience in Memphis. It's possible that other people will come forward with similar experiences. We've already seen videos of police arresting/intimidating journalists around the country for no reason these past two weeks, so it's definitely not a problem confined to Memphis.
Bear in mind that not all companies are quite as big as this lot. I don't know the actual stats for any country but I think that small companies are quite important in terms of additive scale. In general your small company has a nasty habit of hiring people, abiding by the rules and paying taxes.

So, I happen to be a Managing Director of a small company (UK) - we have 20 odd employees and a t/o of ~£1.5M. We are a private company, not public (more later.) We as a board have simple duties, largely decided by ourselves. We also have responsibilities that are dictated by the country: we have to file accounts on time to a proscribed format, pay corporation tax regularly, pay VAT returns on a regular basis etc. We also have to have a certain structure (two directors minimum) and hold regular meetings such as the AGM. There's a few other requirements but in general you do it how you like.

We also have shareholders who are not directors. These are employees who have served long enough (>four or so years is the general rule.) These are Class B shareholders (Me and the other directors are Class A). The difference is Class A stakeholders can vote on stuff - ie run the company and Class B can benefit from company profits but don't get to run my company.

Just to be clear: me and my partners (2) run the company but quite a few people get to benefit via shareholdings. If the shit hits the fan, me and my partners get to be kicked in the bollocks, shareholders only get tickled.

Oooh, SARS-CoV-2: We'll be fine for a while longer.
Context: the new board seat was recently opened after co-founder Alexis Ohanian stepped down, while recommending the board nominate a black replacement.

https://alexisohanian.com/home/2020/6/5/what-did-you-do
The law in China mandated this and hence any firm based in China cannot be trusted for content. To be honest, it seems like fair if one respect that when traffic going in. But for that we start to have 2 commerical worlds. One China+world and one China. Hence, China can profit from the world but no one can touch China. With that, due to the weight of that market, gradually you will have self-sanction. Good luck humanity, if you think basic human rights have a world and a China standard. China standard will rule you ultimately.
The fact that I like configuration is the reason that I ditched Chrome at home and moved from it to Firefox to Waterfox to Palemoon, where I can use Pentadactyl to customize far beyond the limits of any browser I'd used before.

At work I have to use Chrome (and worse, Chrome OS), and I used the settings to disable syncing between the devices I switch between (because I don't want Google to have any extra excuses to handle my data). Some of them I only use for an hour, so I optimize my customizations to be made quickly. I switch the default search engine to get thousands of keywords in seconds, then load AdNauseum for ads, then depending on how long and what I'll use the browser for, I'll get Surfingkeys or a similar extension for general vim-bindings (I've switched between more of these than I have fingers on one hand because they're all inferior to Pentadactyl in somewhat different ways) and wasavi for more extensive vi-like bindings in text fields.
How much would the lack of AVX hurt performance apart from scientific computing? It's interesting to see Intel offering a chip with a clear focus on tablet computing, so the lack of AVX might not be so bad if the Tremont cores improve battery life significantly.
> I've read about so many instances where people used wall mounted iPads and Android tablets where the batteries would swell after a period of use.

Made that mistake myself. I now have a wall mounted iPad with the charger plugged into a timer powerpoint that only switches on for 1hr a day. Been running like that for 5+ years now without issue. (I'd planned for that to just be a proof of concept, and to use a wifi powerpoint that'd turn on when the battery dropped to 20% and back off where it hit 80%. The easy solution has turned out to be "good enough" and has remained in production, like that cronjob perl script from 2004...)
this a thousand times
"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" is a Chinese proverb, if I'm not mistaken.
For one step beyond edit/save/refresh try repl development in Clojure where you get the benefits of the JVM without the startup penalty. After the initial boot, that is.
It looks like Just Eat currently has a market cap of 5.233B pounds, 6.645B USD.

How does an all stock acquisition of 7.3B USD work in this case?

Is this done via issuing more than an extra 100% of stock on the expectation the new asset will counteract the dilution to keep the stock price similar?
I picked up a 60s-era Singer secondhand many years ago and it has served me very well. It was clearly once built into a table, which is the only awkward thing about it. I keep meaning to build a box mount for it, but, well, projects....
People are acting like Seibel's about to assume the role of President of the Universe.

It's just the reddit board. If it's so awesome, can you name the other people who are on it, as of today?

Guaranteed that 95% of the people reading this did not know that this august institution also includes, and would not have known were it not for this comment:

Sam Altman (famous, not surprising)
Robert Sauerberg (probably less famous than Seibel before being named to this)
Porter Gale (ditto)

I'm sure these are good people, doing important work. But there's 4 of them in all, Seibel's just one, and the net effect may be less consequential than people here imagine.
Zoom is a US company founded by an American citizen.
Nor Jitsi, whether you self-host (which you can do) or use the first or a third party site.
What about in the UK? At the BLM protest, the police rub around with their camcorder on the stick to justify kettling people for 4+ hours and squash people's will to protest. They require you to show your face or arrest you. All because they want to use Rekognition to cross reference everyone's face.
Note that uBlock Origin is also "recommended by Firefox". In fact for some time now it's been the only supported extension on Firefox preview on Android.
Any good recommendations on which cities ahve great radio ? I mostly stick to London and surroudning area.
That's awesome. I'm glad you're able to get what you want there. That explains it. I'm all for this market segmentation happening.
I've worked briefly with order picker software. It wasn't a POS but used in the same environment (roaming around a warehouse). It was a terminal application accessed in an android app with some proprietary equivalent of mosh (just this mosh-like android client was licensed at ~$10/device month).

Using an app instead of a site makes it easier for the user and you probably don't even want a browser on the device.
The Floyd Protests Show That Twitter Is Real Life
> - They change you back to the new design every few days.

This is so annoying that I have to use this chrome extension to force it back to old.reddit.com:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
I’m so happy about this. Just a week ago it seemed like they would subsidies the purchase of cars with internal combustion engines. Now they subsidies battery electric vehicle purchases by 10,000 EUR and the Generation and use of H2 with 9 billion EUR. Also great that they decided to NOT support hydrogen cars and gas stations. These have always been alibi projects to distract from battery electric vehicles.
I think an important point the author is trying to make is that we don't know how this is going to play out, with "scenario planning" being a central theme of the article.

We have only experienced a few of the pandemic's direct effects a few months in, and in many parts of the globe the first wave is still in full swing. The second- and higher-order effects are largely unknown at this point, and many will only be fully understood by future historians.

While the direct comparison to WWI/II may be hyperbolic, I think it's a fair assessment to say that COVID is the biggest, truly global event since. During each war there were many turning points that may have ended them early, turning them into smaller, regional conflicts. The people who experienced the first six months of them weren't to know they would leave tens of millions dead and society changed forever after. Now I'm not suggesting that COVID will be on remotely this scale, however I believe the author's argument that it will likely trigger large societal change, and to try and prepare accordingly, is a good one.
I thought there was some kind of distinction, where they were required to use weapons that were "nonlethal".
Very cool. How did you cross paths?
I don’t know if it’s fair to call the cop here a racist, it’s possible sure, but it’s likely the officer didn’t know the guys race before pulling him over.

Police, especially in small towns, are notorious for targeting out of towners (the way a racist cop might target a race they don’t like).

Here you have to understand the training/experience of highway patrol. Here we have a rental and it was traveling below the speed limit...a highway cop might immediately think drug trafficking (again not knowing the race, something you probably never thought without the training and experience), And being under the speed limit gives him the right to make the stop (but what he really wants to do is check up on his suspicion). This would explain the questions about the job and where the driver was going to/coming from.

Maybe I missed something but there are hundreds of thousands of stops everyday, many like this one are ridiculous...I’m not sure how much attention this really deserves nor if the officer (who shouldn’t have made the stop to begin with) deserves to be labeled a racist (especially because now a days that is tantamount to being fired and losing your livelihood as well as all the targeting him and his family would endure).

Maybe a potential policing solution would be something akin to jury duty where citizens are selected to shadow officers on every shift, maybe require a mismatch Of the officer/citizen pairing Based on race/sex.
Speculation: Chinese zoom users were required to switch to Chinese version of Zoom last September. There were probably mainland users using international version + VPN to participate in the event, probably some sort of local regulation that prevents users in CN from interacting with international meets, especially on no-no subjects. From 2nd link below:

>>Intensifying international tensions and the country’s upcoming 70th anniversary are cited as reasons for the block, according to Chinese media.

Some old articles:

Zoom suspends Chinese individuals users from hosting meetings due to ‘regulatory demand’
https://technode.com/2020/05/15/zoom-suspends-chinese-indivi...

China’s Zoom users switch to local version after blockage
https://technode.com/2019/09/19/chinas-zoom-users-switch-to-...

China blocks US video-conferencing tool Zoom
https://technode.com/2019/09/09/china-blocks-us-video-confer...
I find Narwhal for Reddit a superior experience on iOS, ESPECIALLY on iPadOS, FWIW.

http://getnarwhal.com/
Context matters, and context changes over time, making the whole process more difficult. When Apple was exploring how to build the Lisa (their first GUI system) they did user testing on both a single button mouse and a multi-button mouse. New users were confused by a multi-button mouse, so Apple went with a single button mouse. But as the years go by, and users get more sophisticated, it's clear that multi-button mice are better. There's no clear right choice that spans time. How fast are users going to come up to speed? What level of difficulty are you foisting on new users? Will they persist through that difficulty?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but good joke if you are.
You probably should get it looked at. Depending on what it is, it might be dangerous, or burning tons of gas.

Min speed limits are usually 45. These days, if I’m not in a hurry, I go slow (55-60) in the slow lane because CO2 (20-25% lower emissions than the normal 70MPH around here).

However, I also support ticketing for going below the rate of traffic in the fast lane. Examples: 64 in a 65, or even 70 in a 65, but only if there are a bunch of cars behind you, and a big gap in front.
Company Runway: The Flaw of Averages
This is a step in a good direction but is hard to scale.

A better approach would be to still extract data from websites like Google does (this works), but automatically attribute share (50%?) of search engine's profits proportional to the website's share of appearances in these results. This money would await the webmaster when they eventually verify domain ownership. This is fair for everyone and creates positive feedback loops.
Hot water systems in homes are generally set to not go hotter than 120F, because much hotter than that could burn somebody in seconds. 120F is a bit more than "lukewarm" (which I take to be an exaggeration), but is nevertheless cooler than anybody serves standard coffee at. 140F (60C) water can give you third degree burns in 5 seconds.
Nowhere in your source does it predict that this trace amount of water will compromise the storage. This study doesn't even contain results, only describing the process used to measure potential water infiltration.

And for the second time, Yucca mountain is a cave dug out of bedrock. In a desert. It's abandonment was done by politicians, not by scientists raising concern over safety. We're not using it because there's so little nuclear waste to store.

The concern over waste storage is laughable in comparison to environmental damage done by fossil fuels, solar power, and hydroelectricity. We're concerned about uranium buried deep underground, miles away from any population center. Despite the fact that uranium is a naturally occurring resource that we dug from out of the ground in the first place.

Think of it this way: right now there are veins of uranium unknown to us. We're taking this uranium and putting it in a known location. In between we use it as a carbon free power source.
Show HN: Create/share unit test based code challenges C#/Rust/Go/JS/Java/Python
There's a whole wiki for it: https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction...

To quote: Bufferbloat is the undesirable latency that comes from a router or other network equipment buffering too much data. It is a huge drag on Internet performance created, ironically, by previous attempts to make it work better. The one-sentence summary is “Bloated buffers lead to network-crippling latency spikes.”
> new redesign on mobile web is so bad

The funniest part is plenty of 3rd party apps had been doing an amazing job already. All reedit had to do was acquire one of them on the cheap or steal design cues from the ones that were most popular.

Instead they created this monstrosity which till date lags behind many 3rd party apps in features and fluidity.

> old.reddit

RES is the only way to use reddit, and they can pry it from my cold dead hands.
I’m sure they’ll argue whatever they can. AB5 makes it more difficult to not be an employee in California. And there are far more non-discrimination laws than “employee.”
So i have a schitzo view on subjects like this;

1. I am against places that say “photography prohibited - private property” — if i can see it, i should be free to photograph it.

2. I am against ANY use of facial recognition ever anywhere. I own my face and i am allowed to keep it private if i choose to.

So,yes completely schitzo and i realize this.

But its not an evenly distributed spectrum of a problem. Its a weighted web of nuanced issues.

I just dont know how to balance it.

Id love to discuss this if anyone is open.
It's not one or the other. They already have the entire rest of the board focused on profit. All we're asking for is one person focused on social good.
> They're meant to be eye catching and make it seem like everyone is being hit by it, then a few lines into the article, they rapidly cut back on the scope because they've already got your ad money.

I'm not certain it's fair to compare standard clickbait to a title on NiemanLab - it seems like you agree with me that it's a not a positive thing. I think we've definitely seen increasing amounts of this behavior from more prominent publications, but I wish we wouldn't.

I'm sure other people will come forward with similar experiences, but they haven't yet. It seems like a dangerous approach to assume the worst until then.
Does anyone actually want that stuff?
iRiver 20gb mp3 player. Amazing device.
The other board members are

- Sam Altman, lead investor in Reddit's Series B and former president of YCombinator, the company that gave Reddit its initial funding

- Bob Sauerberg, former CEO and president of Conde Nast, the company that acquired Reddit while YC was the only investor

Unless you think "gave Reddit a bunch of money" is merit, the other board members didn't get their positions through merit alone either. Board seats are almost always purchased as part of an investment or given for political reasons, there's nothing different happening here.
Explain to me how using Zoom in the US indirectly supports the CCP?

Because I don't see it. A huuuge segment of the American economy is based on trade with China. Just like we use gasoline that comes from Saudi Arabia.

Unless you're arguing that we cut off all free trade with countries that abuse human rights, using Zoom is no different from buying a water bottle at REI in this particular instance.

Also, there's a well-known theory [1] that rising economic living standards ultimately promote greater democracy and human rights, as the people in a country reach suddenly have the ability to demand more. We've already seen that happening in the past 10 years in China, particularly when it comes to corruption and environmentalism. According to that, the more we do business with China, and the higher standard of living they therefore more quickly achieve, the sooner they can pressure their government for more human rights. Now I'm not saying this is an inevitability or anything, in fact it's a hotly contested theory particularly with regards to China -- but I am saying that "boycott companies that do business in China" isn't crystal-clear morally superior. The reality is complicated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernization_theory#Democrati...
Florida does...but I think most states have minimums on highways/interstates.
Glad to see there are others on HN that are keeping film alive. The great thing about film cameras is they aren't obsolete until the film is impossible to find. Even then there are work arounds and modifications that can be made. A local shop used to sand 120 roles to fit 620 cameras for example. They also cut film to fit Minox cartridges.
Super funny thought:

The reason why super heroes wear masks and capes is to avoid facial and gait recognition cameras!
Not sure. Apache always has several projects that do the same thing for one reason or another. Usually they're projects from competing organizations like Google and Facebook.
TL;DR:

Facebook saw they had issues with a child predator who used Tor via Tails, so the FBI tried to hack him, but their de-anonymization failed on Tails. Facebook gets more concerned and commissions an 0day (for $$$$) and hands it to the FBI to do the work the FBI should have done.

FB has no guarantee that the FBI didn't keep using the exploit for the last 3 years for any other purpose.
So requiring to pay for a position only for a specific skin color is not actual systemic racism, as long as color is not white, because white people are racists and this fights against that, or am I completely missing the mark?

I'm sure people here are also well versed in silicon valley HR hiring practices regarding skin color based quotas.
It's not that complicated. Start by working to deal with the platform being used to spread racism and hate speach and go from there.
This reads to me as simply “oops bad timing this year, let’s try again next year”. Yeah, sure, whatever Evilcorp.
If the CEO came in and was amazing, then she/he'd get paid the same amount.

I mean, it's the exact same with engineers. They get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars because they're "top talent", but experience and resume does not necessarily a good engineer make. You interview and make a guess, but it's not like the best engineers always get paid the most and the worst get paid the least. They all get paid roughly the same.

The only difference is that bad engineers generally don't get fired at the rate that bad CEOs do. But I guess that's because the scale of impact is a lot less, and they're not so easy to identify and blame.
My wire tracing kit consists of a tone generator I don't know the brand of because the lettering is worn off. It's black, the size of two decks of cards stacked, a slide switch for off/tone (two types of waveform)/continuity, clip leads or RJ-11, held together with electrical tape, and the battery lasts forever in it. I've sometimes forgotten to turn it off for days and still get about 5-7 years between changes.

On the other end, although I also have a newer inductive probe, I keep around a Radio Shack mini amplifier (#277-1008) with clip leads plugged in for input. It can be used as a tracer or monitor, has a headphone jack for noisy places, and packs a lot of gain in a small package.