skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And ols can too. That doesn't make it machine learning. This implementation doesn't involve any regularization.
I hate that I basically can’t ever delete any of my accounts any more. Usually the only option is “deactivate.” I think hn uses that policy too actually
I think there is an Genuine Enterprise Need explosion at certain scales. It is not box ticking exercises or empire building but sometime after (my guess) 1,000 units of anything (users, servers, customers, whatever) you start finding that "simple as possible" does not help that much anymore. LDAP support becomes useful and so on.

Maybe, I hope maybe, it's not a real portal that we pass through, but it does seem so.
Maybe the author should have gone with the faces of a Disdyakis triacontahedron
I’m not so sure that nuclear weapons would help in these kinds of regional conflicts against Russia. It’s not that Russia officially invaded Ukraine (although in practice it did), but it stirred up local population (of largely Russian ethnicity) and then gave them logistical support and protection. So, if Ukraine had nuclear weapons, what would it do with it? Strike Russia, who has many more nuclear warheads, and stronger anti-nuclear protection? Nuclear weapons are for USA, China, Russia, and maybe France/Europe, because they are not going to use it. Maybe Israel, whic is so tiny and surrounded by rrivals, that it has no choice but to have something to scare the neighbors with. Maybe India, because it’s big enough. For everyone else, nuclear weapons are a liability, because if they ever use it, they are going to be wiped out by the big boys for not obeying...
Sorry you were downvoted. Here's an upvote on me because clarification is good.

The context you are missing is that there are some sibling comments here claiming that wikileaks has never posted info with questionable veracity. I believe the Steve Jobs leak is one such case.

I also was pointing out that sometimes certain types of information don't need to be leaked at all. I personally believe medical info should be very private unless perhaps you are running for the office of the President. But, as I said, there are probably multiple perspectives on the issue (particularly perspectives of people who would want Apple's stock price to go down, or might think of Steve Jobs as evil for the Foxconn scandals, for instance).

Hope that helps.
At least the data collection part is very easy to set up on Android and zero maintenance afterwards:

Use GPSLogger[1] to record the position. It can auto-upload to pretty much anything from DropBox to SFTP (FTP over SSH). It can auto-start on boot, run in background, and rotate files daily. (If you do SFTP, use ForceCommand internal-sftp in sshd_config to restrict the phone to file transfers.) No excessive energy usage.

Use GPSMapper[2] to visualize the GPX files on phone, or https://www.gpxsee.org/ on Linux (this tool works well even with hundreds of GPX files loaded, unlike all others I've tried).

None of the viewers are really "nice" unfortunately.

If someone needs a side project idea, a personal location history visualizer would be nice. All existing tools focus on individual tracks (eg day hikes), there's nothing that does much useful when you dump a few years worth of history into it. Actually most just freeze or crash. But there's so much that could be done (performance, filtering by time, exporting/sharing specific parts, postprocessing like removing outliers, correcting cut corners by matching against a map, detecting places/businesses and hyperlinking to services like AllTrails, visualizations like speed over time (this part is common) but auto-detecting and showing this for all traces along the same route (no software does this yet) (think "how fast was I on which part of my commute each day over the past year"), multi user eg. family capability, etc.)

Of course even if viewers are limited today, one can still collect the data in case someone writes a better viewer tomorrow ;-)

Google Takeout can export raw location history, and there are tools to convert that standard GPX.

Only issue I have with GPSLogger is that the accuracy filter is not adaptive. At a high value, you'll get outliers, at a low value, it won't record during flights.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mendhak.gp...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mendhak.gp...
When I open `av` in vim, shellcheck spits out 167 warnings. This is not written robustly.
> According to the rationalwiki link:

The Wikipedia link is way better and more credible:

> Upon its introduction in the Indiana House of Representatives, the bill's language and topic occasioned confusion among the membership; a member from Bloomington proposed that it be referred to the Finance Committee, but the Speaker accepted another member's recommendation to refer the bill to the Committee on Swamplands, where the bill could "find a deserved grave".[5]:385 It was transferred to the Committee on Education, which reported favorably;[6] following a motion to suspend the rules, the bill passed on February 6, 1897[5]:390 without a dissenting vote.

Honestly, it sounds like none of them understood the mathematics and the main effect of the bill had something to do with getting the state a license to use the copyrighted techniques royalty free. I'm speculating, but I wouldn't be surprised if many of those who voted for did so because they thought there'd be little harm in getting something for free.

If anything, the more embarrassing thing seems to be they didn't seem to understand copyrights or patents very well, which are creatures of law that legislators should better understand than mathematics. I don't know if the precedents existed 120 years ago, but you can't patent/copyright mathematical truth, so even if the crank was right they should have known they didn't need to to anything to avoid paying him royalties to use his results.
It's not quite as simple as GP implies, but why not? I work at a place running Docker in prod, and our only issues are with the swarm networking, not Docker itself.
My kids use it too. Looking forward to the new watercolor brushes.
Thanks! I Used the PushShift API for my data.
I lol'ed. (Full disclosure: I work for ScyllaDB.)

MongoDB has definitely come a long way in terms of HA, but yes, they are still have a long way to go. A good primer talk on the differences can be found here: https://www.scylladb.com/tech-talk/mongodb-vs-scylla-product...
Advertising use is one of the uses I am least worried about, and yet is the only use that they promise to not pursue
On first glance this looks awesome. Certainly will be better than the bunch of scripts I've written to provision my laptops.
Speaking of changed watermelons check out these Japanese square watermelons. I almost want to try doing this in my garden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JNSpMhJLvg
Also renders terribly in Safari on iOS 13.5.1.
> Actually not only does Comcast say they don't do that...

Just like they said they didn't forcibly reset BitTorrent connections (until they did).

Just like they said they didn't silently institute bandwidth caps (until they did).

Just like they said they didn't hijack NXDOMAIN responses (until they did).

Just like they said they didn't intercept plain-text HTTP connections and inject their own traffic into them (until they did).

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With all due respect, I have personally had contracts with Comcast in the past and have experienced firsthand how well they honor those -- and I am certainly not the only one!

Surely you can understand why, to me and many others, their little agreement with Mozilla doesn't really mean a damn thing?

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(I know that none of this is your fault and it's obviously nothing personal! I'm sure you're a smart, decent person but I'm also sure that you are well aware of your employer's reputation, their past "misdeeds", and, of course, the generally unfavorable opinion that many, many customers have of them.)
Is quitting such companies out of good faith really a good idea? I am not sure. They will find someone else to do the job you had with "lower" morality standards and the wheel goes on.

Is it better to stay, unionize and make a difference from within by standing up against the morally corrupt policies? Maybe.
The Golden Tax Department and the Emergence of GoldenSpy Malware
As someone not overly into animals, I do really like this recurring feature in the LRB. My favorite recent one was on the Hedgehog. Among other great anecdotes:

"The 1566 debate led to the decision to put a tuppence bounty on hedgehogs: farmers believed they suckled milk from cows in the night, and as a result as many as two million were hunted and handed in. That was another of our mistakes: hedgehogs are lactose intolerant and milk can kill them."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n20/katherine-rundell/co...
I am not running Darwin in prod.

EDIT: I suppose I should clarify; I don't totally disagree. I personally run Ubuntu on my laptop and servers. But plenty of people are quite happy developing on Darwin and deploying to some sort of GNU/Linux.
oh, I didn't know that. thanks!!
‘Massive’ Forgery Helped Hide $3B Hole in Energy Trader’s Books
Thanks for the feedback, it's noted: https://gitlab.com/internet-cleanup-foundation/web-security-...
I did something along those lines once, but I used https://github.com/susam/mdme as the preamble so I could write the posts in markdown rather than html. The index was an extra line to add links to index.html.
There is zero market risk in this idea.

Not necessarily. Interest alone does not create a market. You need potential customers who have the means to buy what you're offering under conditions that make it worth selling to them.

For example, I might be interested in a time machine, but if it's going to cost you a trillion dollars to make one and I'd need 5kg of unobtainium to power each jump, I do not represent a (viable) market.

Your premise in this discussion seems to be that the best startups (in some sense that isn't entirely clear yet) are the ones that are aiming to be game-changers. However, I expect that in practice that vast majority of successful startups are not doing something truly profound, but rather something much more mundane that either has not been done before or can be done significantly better in some way by the startup.
Contrary to what some people are implying, support for mandatory decryption is not evidence of technological illiteracy.

From the perspective of these lawmakers, encrypted storage is like a safe. You have the right to store records in a safe to keep them away from prying eyes, but law enforcement has the right to order you to unlock that safe if they have a warrant. You have the same right to store those same records on an encrypted device, but law enforcement has the same right to order you to decrypt that device if they have a warrant.

Since people will sometimes refuse to decrypt a device, even when ordered to do so by a court, these lawmakers want to require OEMs and service providers to maintain control of the keys when they encrypt information on a user's behalf so as to increase the chances that lawful decryption can take place.

Is this a bad policy? Quite possibly. It has certain risks and makes certain tradeoffs, like any other policy. But it is arrogant to assume that anyone who supports it must be ignorant of how encryption works.
There is a whole lot of difference between actions and words.

US Presidents typically have a lot of problems with democracies/democratic movements in Iran, Venezuela, Haiti, Egypt etc but very much liked the dictatorships in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Chile, Brazil, El Salvador.

I judge governments and people by their actions and not their words.
Nokia had a chance with Meego. But internal politics killed it, and Symbain followed.
Recently, I was using Mikrotik Winbox for the first time under Ubuntu. I was shocked how easy it was to make it run (apt install wine-stable, wine winbox.exe) and how well it worked.
That’s great that they’ve said they don’t publicly and that they’re now going to be contractually obligated not to... but that’s kind of irrelevant if they are actually sniffing, tracking, and/or recording user DNS traffic.

And the fact that Comcast doesn’t allow users to change the DNS settings of xfinity routers leads me to believe they have some monetary incentive to go in and disable that functionality in their equipment.
Yes it works with https [ https://datapeek.org/ ]. There was a some instability when I updated it a couple of minutes ago but it should be fine now.
So, from experience squatting in the Netherlands... nobody bothers to check, unless you look like you might be from Eastern Europe or outside Europe, at which point they throw you in a foreigner detention centre until you can prove your identity or they can deport you to wherever they think you might be from.
The author of the article (in the hn story) I linked claims that the legislation in question bans https
*People who are used to work with bad tools don’t have spaces in their paths.
The State of Open Source Security 2020
This is of course is incorrect. I worked at Google as well, and I can tell you that for text-based ML services 90 days often is not enough.
This is indicative of a systemic culture of rule breaking. This is common in all government run systems. "The system is too arduous, doesn't reflect the 'real world.' We know better than the system, we know what really matters." Eventually you have a bunch of John Waynes playing fast and loose with the rules, eventually they become emboldened, and since the government is famously bad at policing itself, these attitudes are pervasive.

This happens at the highest levels, even. Consider Hillary Clinton and the communication of classified (and information that should have been considered classified regardless of markings) via her primary email server. It's a pervasive culture of rule breaking.
Nailed it. That must be it :-)
That may be true but it’s not accounting for the iPhone and iPad developers out there that will be able to easily target macOS after the switch.
Leveraging G2 Content
Wikimedia Foundation proposal for name change to just “Wikipedia”
Klubówka prints and book piracy in the 80s
Devil's advocate:

2 advantages to targeted advertising.

Targeted advertising if done correctly can connect people who want to buy stuff with people who produce stuff with a minimum of waste. People are able to waste less time and energy discovering what to buy and companies are able to waste less time and energy producing things that people don't want.

Targeted advertising can also enable companies to effectively communicate their value propositions more effectively to local communities, and will allow companies to resist the temptation to support efforts through laws/lobbying/etc. to 'flatten' culture; companies can now embrace rather than steamroll differences in communities.
Two examples:

1) I wanted to provide a Jupyter notebook with IBM DB2 support for a university course. (Why DB2? Because its optimizer can transparently use materialized views for query optimization which PostgreSQL can't AFAIK.) IBM provides a Jupyter magic which requires the Python package ibm_db. ibm_db requires a DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH hack which macOS doesn't support unless you disable System Integrity Protection. I don't want to disable SIP on my system and I can't ask our students to do that. A Docker image provides a convenient solution to the problem.

2) I do a lot of disparate project development using Flink and Hadoop. These get deployed on Linux machines. My preferred way to develop on my Macbook is to boot up a headless Ubuntu system inside VirtualBox, SSH into it, and then start a TMUX session. This has a number of advantages. a) The dev environment more closely resembles the production environment. b) I can setup my TMUX session, save the state of the VM, and then restore it months later to the exact state just by booting up the VM. c) I don't have to pollute my macOS environment with dev tools that I rarely use. It's not strictly necessary but it's actually quite convenient. I can even do development in IntelliJ on macOS, run the services inside the VM, and thanks to remote JVM debugging use the IntelliJ debugger on macOS to step through the code running inside the JVM.
Might be true, but that won't stop Pakistan from developing nuclear weapons.
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Once you are convicted, and are subject to one of the disproportionate sentences often given to black people, nothing short of a major change to how sentencing law works can provide legal recourse. See: https://www.sentencingproject.org/issues/racial-disparity/

If you survive violence at the hands of law enforcement and are not convicted of a crime, or if you don't and your family wants to hold law enforcement accountable, then the first option is to ask the local public prosecutor to pursue criminal charges against your attackers.

Depending on where you live could be a challenge, given the amount of institutional racial bias in the justice system, and how closely prosecutors tend to work with police departments. After all, if prosecutors were going after police brutality cases aggressively, there likely wouldn't be as much of a problem as there is.

If that's fruitless, you would need to seek the help of a civil rights attorney to push your case in the the legal system and/or the media. This is where a lot of higher profile cases like this end up - and often only because they were recorded on video.
> Hacking is an illegal activity

And it should not be

> that results in the disclosure of information that the hacker does not own

Good thing I do not believe in intellectual property/owning numbers.

> This is theft of information

Copying is not theft.

> Anyone engaging is nefarious hacking should be

...given a monetary reward if they publish how they were able to gain unauthorized access.
This has resulted in an open letter against this name change:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_open_letter_on_ren...
Nauru is not a city, it's a country. Its largest city is Denigomodu

Tristan da Cunha also isn't a city. Though there is only one city there: Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
> Though when it comes to a buyer, hard to tell how they'll be able to get to a fair valuation given the fairytale numbers they have in their books.

I always pictured the court auctioning off assets in a firesale to the highest bidder. Is that not how it works?
Something like Pinboard?

https://pinboard.in/
I'd be curious to know how many "slapped it together in 3 weeks" products end up thriving. My experience has been that any time I've thought of something that could be done that readily, I've eventually found someone else that already tried it (usually unsuccessfully). The successes I've had have come from long, hard slogs. May MeetButter meet better fortune.
Can't say anything about this tool, but compared to ansible, bash is mostly fine. In my opinion ansible is a (and pardon my language) clusterf* of a tool compared to the alternatives. Certainly, if bash had the likes of inventories, roles and other features to make maintenance and reuse easier, I'd choose that over ansible.
FWIW shellcheck complains about many false positives.
How to Find the Frontier of Knowledge
Those were diseases already in humans moving to an untouched population of humans, not what I was talking about.

A bacterium that hasn't seem humans before is pretty unlikely to be able to do anything to us. One that hasn't even been in mammals before is even less likely, etc.
The ones I've watched seem to be higher quality than some of the same films on YouTube - the subtitles are certainly much better quality, which is the reason I was willing to pay and download several films for which I had a harder time finding accurate (not automatically generated) subtitles.
I do run PiHole. Any tips on how to do the `DoH` side of the equation?

edit: this looks to do the trick: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/
With just less than 10% of market share, do you really think it will change the whole thing? Unless Microsoft pushes for ARM too, I don't see any changes soon
> Closed ARM?

Is there any suggestion that the architecture that Apple is using is any different to what is being used by lots and lots of other licensees? If not then it's much more open than x86.

If you mean that you can't buy an ARM CPU today to plug into your own motherboard then understood but that's probably now a matter of time. At least making such a CPU is possible - no-one is going to make x86 more open.
I would go further. I would suggest demanding that all training of police officers be subject to auditing similar to how a college course can.

Now of course rules would be put in place to limit numbers, disallowing slots to be filled with affiliated persons, providing safety equipment should the course requirement for students, and a copy of all printed and electronically distributed material.

Rules to protect students and teachers from disruption could however include no electronic devices, phones, tablets, or such and professional dress and demeanor. Anyone auditing would not be allowed to interject during any class not interact with students. Observation is a powerful tool in itself.
Monitoring business performance data with ThirdEye smart alerts
The tools that were developed in the interim were designed not to scale.
I feel like you have removed so much nuance from the discussion that what you are saying is essentially meaningless.

Choose your words wisely, listen, react, respond.

It says nothing about the intent of the listener. A listener can intentionally take a statement in good faith or bad faith. If your statement is taken in bad faith and weaponized against you it's hard to respond over the chorus of the angry mob waiting to skewer the new victim. People enjoy being outraged. Usually, once your side of the story comes out they have moved onto their next cause and could care less what you really meant.

So, as others have said, it's better to just say nothing.
How did he put bees back into the hive? Looking at the attack it was not looking like they would go back by themselves.
"C:\Documents and Settings" still hurts after all these years.
I'm using Kubuntu, and I haven't had any driver issues yet, but I'm not doing anything crazy with hardware or using proprietary drivers. It's been a pretty pleasant experience.
I regret reading this article. Damn, its just constantly "But by site doesn't need HTTPS". So many of the responses to criticism don't address the response at all and just parrot "but I don't need it".

Make a valid argument and I'll listen to you, but parroting "but I don't need it" does nothing to add to the conversation at all.

Is adding HTTPS a 100% required critical sev0 ship-blocking bug on every site in the world? No. Is it a valuable improvement to add HTTPS? I'd argue that it is.
Do we know what the actual penalties are? I have trouble believing that they are of any substance.

Additionally, I think it's safe to say that Comcast has years and years of experience in finding "loopholes" and/or other "workarounds" in its agreements.

> I would say this Mozilla changing the overall ecosystem for the better.

You obviously have much more faith in Comcast than I do. Let's hope you're right.
Do they run their own metal? I thought they were on AWS.
Revolutionary Situation
> United States wants HTTPS for all government sites, all the time

But they want to backdoor the encryption so that foreign governments can spy on those encrypted connections. Genius.
> Sure, there's a difference between 440 and 442 but that's not considered an interval in western music theory.

Well that's just your 2 cents... I mean, 7.85 cents.
What over-engineered front-end framework? Stimulus?
That’s just objectively false.
Send the idea of a pear to friends
Tons of x86 code accesses misaligned addresses.