skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I think a lot Darknet activity goes through Tor. The resulting drug purchases to and within the US will end up going through USPS. If I had Congressional funds to go after illegal drug shipments made through Darknet sites, I'd definitely be using Tor to make purchases from the biggest dealers on the most popular sites, and then investigating the source addresses, the types of packaging used to conceal the shipments, etc.

While I think it's immoral and a waste of taxpayer money to go after small time users buying personal quantities of drugs and controlled meds, it would be a satisfying and interesting job to help take down large suppliers of fentanyl laced drugs that are causing ODs all over the country.
What about 8chan? The culture of idolizing white mass murderers has produced several who have posted their manifestos shortly before going on killing sprees, and the 8chan culture is largely the same as voat and 4chan.
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- You can see some of the graphics features here, under "Engine": http://strlen.com/lobster/ (and new features are being added as needed).

- Yes, there's support for "Dear IMGUI" (see e.g. https://twitter.com/wvo/status/1092948776388485121) and there's also a simple GUI system written entirely in Lobster specifically for game menus/UI and such.

- Speed is still being improved, but in its compile-to-C++ mode it should be a lot closer in performance to C than Python :) It also has a "JIT" mode that goes thru libtcc, but is 3x slower. It's very fast as a game scripting language, but it does not compete with C/C++/Rust as an "engine" language just yet, you are still expected to write the absolutely most performance sensitive functions in C++ (as is the case with a lot of built-in functionality). The language has the potential to compete directly with C++ at some point, but getting there will be a lot of work.
Isn't that a non-issue if the cloud version is encrypted?
I think you'd find that medical technology (as an example) would be severely hindered by banning all plastics.

We should absolutely seek to reduce the impacts plastics have on the planet and our bodies, but outright bans are not the solution unless we want to regress technologically.

These issues require nuance, not pronouncements.
So you admit entire post is a lie, fabricated on information that is 10 years old. Gotcha.
This. When so many are caught cheating, "character" is not a sufficient explanation; there is something systemic going on.
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> After a "hard" day, I am completely exhausted and my mind is blank. After a "deep" day, I am satisfied and euphoric.

Maybe this is the reason for the ubiquity of over-engineering and other patterns of over-complication - quite a few people enjoy deep work, but the vast majority of jobs in software development, or writing, or even a fair few in science, turn out to be only hard work when done with optimal efficiency.
That’s good to hear! How do you envision it working?
Thanks! Based on your own experience is that how you handled it? How did it work out in your case?
Thank you for saying this, I have had the same concerns and been afraid to voice them. It surely depends on the plastic type for sure. The reason we used polypropylene beakers in our lab is because it is one of the most benign and unreactive substances on earth. Other plastics may not be as benign as that but on the whole that is one of the great things about plastic and why it builds up in oceans etc. Nothing can degrade it so the bacteria in your gut are probably just meh about it. I can’t think of a way it could cause a problem to have little bits of it in your digestive system along with all the other substances we eat.

Plasticizers that leach out from the micro plastics maybe, but I have to think that there are so many things we should be more concerned about in our food. The dose of plasticizer from the macro plastics we store and transport all our food in seems like it would be a much bigger issue. BPA and other xenoestrogens should have leached out of micro plastics long before they get micro right?
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Just wanted to chime in and say this looks awesome, and definitely will be following this project.
> Meanwhile, when the future "allocation of capital" is to spend $2m on a rap album, I think your argument falls apart.

He spent a tiny portion of his earned wealth to honor and support the Arts--in particular he supported struggling African American rap artists with a long history of strong performance and depth. Shkreli is a bona fide Rennaissance man, and I certainly do not hold this gesture against him. I am tempted even to call it charity.

> Besides, Shrkeli is in prison for securities fraud unrelated to his pharma shenanigans, so how does that work when he's actually a terrific person?

His "financial crimes" are nearly universally acknowledged even in this thread to have been contrived by his political enemies in retaliation for his more famous antics which were unambiguously legal. The case they brought against him was an absolute joke, and he would have been acquitted of all eight charges (instead of just five!) if he had been given a fair trial. Then, to further make the crooked lawfare obvious, they absolutely slammed him at sentencing with an outrageous ruling that departed dramatically from federal guidelines and rulings in similar cases, including those involving his "co-conspirators"! It was an unambiguous "f_ck you" to an American hero who deserves nothing but respect and admiration. He rose into wealth and prominence in a highly technical field despite coming from virtually nothing by the force of sheer talent and motivation, and the established powers that be were really rubbed the wrong way. This is all yet another sad case of feelings of inferiority by bug-souled racists clashing with pvre Albanian Excellence.
My organization has been slowly rolling out the use of Cisco Desk Pros which are hardware endpoints that connect to Webex but are in a practical sense essentially monitors with very nice camera modules and microphone arrays built into the bezel. Laptops connected to the monitor with USB C can use the camera/mic. These cost like $4000 though.

I find the video flattering (camera angle/focal length?)
I am not talking about pitfalls of microservices, I am talking about pitfalls of people trying to do microservices.

Microservices is not a single idea, but a point in a progression of maturity of various aspects of the application and the team developing it.

Think about this, you don't get to be F1 driver just because you decide to. You need to spend a considerable amount of time preparing to be an F1 driver. If your manager (ie. yourself) decides to sit in F1 driver seat but disregards advice to first get years of experience before doing so, this is only going to end in a disaster. And it will not be "a pitfall" of F1 car.

Obviously the problem are managers who misplace their focus. "Microservices" is a shiny object everyone wants to brag about but nobody wants to do the ground work necessary.

So I see teams that don't even have repeatable build/deployment procedure want to do microservices. Why not have repeatable builds and deployments first? This is already going to improve the situation a lot and be basis for further development which may culminate, at some point, with microservices-style environment.
I am an '04 grad, and there has been some system of second chances for a while. I have a friend that started a year ahead of me who was a "turn back" for an honor violation. The violation was in her first year and they decided she was still adapting to the honor code when it happened. The result was 5 years at West Point where she had an in between rank of Cadet PFC for her second year.

The idea of zero tolerance is a little crazy. Have you ever violated a software license, or streamed something with someone else's account? Those should technically be honor violations, but they aren't prosecuting those. It isn't 100% clear to me where to draw the line.
> EU countries together outpace Russian military spending with large marging.

And Russia gets 30 trained soldiers for the price of 1 NATO soldier

Feel the difference

> Russia has no capability to act outside it's borders in high intensity warfare

You are saying this about a country with the biggest tank armies anywhere in the world.

What you are saying is laughable to anybody with a dime of military education.
Is this actually true? I find it very hard to believe you can do anything at a bank with tens of thousands of dollars in cash without presenting ID.
Collabora announce their Wayland driver for Wine
IoT company picks FusionAuth to avoid getting distracted by auth
Why does a piece of software exist if it's not to implement business logic?
I think the main issue I've got with this law is the fact that current laws already seem to cover it. It doesn't make sense to me why we needed additional criminal enforcement around, of all things, media streaming.

I'm really not a fan of how much our government bends over backwards to protect Disney's IP.

Kim Dotcom is a great example for how much protection is already enjoyed by copyright holders. It's crazy to expand that.

The other thing that really concerns me about this is how easily it could go wrong. Music, in particular, seems to be filled with legal landmines. Imagine hosting your own webpage for your band covering pop songs. Do you now have to fear federal prosecution?

Cases like this

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/katy-perry-dark-horse-re...

Terrify me for what it'll mean for media. Why? because it wasn't a clear cut "No, don't be stupid, these are totally different songs".
Tradition and convenience maybe.

They got to have it both ways, official neutrality and yet they were closely tied to the west, NATO nations, and had assurances that they would be provided some level of protections as well.

For a close to border nation at that time I think that is a desirable position. Provides at least the idea that there may be some flexibility for them.
> we do a disservice to our students by confusing it as the same problem

Absolutely.

The simplest approach is to specify some hours for learning, starting at 9 AM, ending somewhere between 2PM and 5 PM depending on age. However, the school provides optional childcare starting at 6 AM and ending at 6 PM, where the parents can bring/take their child at any moment. So parents bring their kids to the playground whenever is most convenient for them; at 9 AM all kids are sent to classes; after classes kids are sent to playground again; and then parents pick them up whenever is most convenient for them.

When I see schools that try to implement this, the greatest mistake is when they insist that the morning and evening childcare needs to be provided by the same teachers who provide the education. And the teachers of course object, not only because this reduces their status from providers of knowledge to mere babysitters, but also because they want to be with their families. (Then the school says "dear parents, we honestly tried, but the teachers are uncooperative".) Instead, the school should hire extra babysitters for those morning and evening hours. For example, retired teachers would probably welcome the possibility to make little extra money in the mornings or evenings, in a familiar environment.

The babysitters can be fewer than teachers, because there is no need to separate kids by grades. For example, you could start with one babysitter at 6 AM, joined by another one or two at 7 AM, perhaps joined by a volunteer teacher at 8 AM; and then at 9 AM the babysitting is over. Similarly in the afternoon.
I think he meant open a bar on the same property as the bar that kicked him out, in order to siphon of some of the customers.
Android is not free software. AOSP is, but Google services and drivers are proprietary making users helpless against surveillance and lock-in.

Try to do that on GNU/Linux phones.

For the “cloud” we have AGPL.
I found the opposite to be true.

Yes, generating the image isn't that complicated, but getting them to scale correctly so that your label printer will produce a printed barcode that will both fit on the label and be readable by a barcode reader is a nightmare.

Having to scale a font seem to be much easier to deal with, but I might be wrong.
If your implication is that suburbia is a blite on mine and the globe's health....

[C I T A T I O N N E E D E D]

I enjoy an hours walk with the dog daily, solid lifting program, about 20 miles a week of cardio, and a vegan diet.

Doctor thinks I'm the picture of health.
My favorite solution that I’ve seen was what my CS professor did: Zoom allows you to share the screen of an iPad, so my professor just pulled up notes and drew as he would on a normal whiteboard. It wasn’t collaborative, but we didn’t need that.
There’s a lot of cheating in college. When I was a TA I knew of a situation where about half of a large class cheated, and I felt very bad because I gave the honest half bad grades. I expect this for any large class, so if you wish to embrace humanity broadly you may have to do more than 2nd or 20th chance.

If what you say is a character test, then one should expect almost everyone in college to be dirty somehow.
It's hardly surprising that, with physical access to the device, the encrypted messages can be decrypted. Logic dictates that, for the app itself to be able to do so, the keys must be either stored locally or retrievable.

A more worrying attack would be something able to decrypt the traffic on the wire, or a man-in-the-middle.
> Turkey is effectively Europe's only policeman in the mediterranean

Italy? Greece? Spain? France?
Here is the actual reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/kg8cbx/aita_...

The top voted comment, with around 20K upvotes, rips into the father: "Instead of berating your son, you should be proud of what he did and support him by explaining that doing right is not always easy but necessary. You should be talking to administrators at his school about the culture they have inculcated."

In contrast, the top voted comment which defends the son has only around 2,400 upvotes.

Can't speak to "99% of people on twitter", but looks like only 10-15% of people on Reddit.
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The premise of this comment is absurd, and that meta-analysis is hilarious. "Testosterone level isn't closely linked to aggression, at least compared to being a man and a criminal." This is a case of common sense, and thousands of years of experience in the effects of castration on humans and animals, being more valuable than modern "science".
"if i can unlock the device, i can unlock the device!"

... yes?
Also, it seems another oversimplification of the popular mechanics article but it has been known for awhile that VLF causes electrons to scatter. [1] Also this seems to be more of an effect on why there is a gap between the inner and outer belts not that we have "pushed the belts back".

Earlier theiories were that the VLF waves were generated by turbulence within the radiation belt. More recently some of the VLF waves have been attributed to plasma discharges caused by lightning [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt#Cause...

[2] https://theinspireproject.org/downloads/pdf/RESEARCH%20ARTIC...
Criminal copyright infringement didn't cover streaming previously.
Cofounding a startup with a significant other you enjoy talking to, working with, and being with could be an interesting way of aligning your work with your family.

Paul Graham started YC with his wife who was his cofounder.
I encountered this problem in college when I worked on some custom motion-capture systems. My priority then was not sound, light, or necessarily video quality, but speed. Every prosumer webcam I tested from Best Buy or Amazon had horrible motion blur.

My solution was to buy a bunch of used Playstation Eye cameras, developed by Sony for Kinect-like games on the PS3. Sony had designed it from the ground up for low-latency motion-capture, and it performed remarkably well in this application. The PS3 Eye is still popular today with DIY mocap systems [0].

[0] http://ipisoft.com/support/
I guess we sort of need a p2p content sharing platform that uses some kind of technology to make things like DMCA's impossible or irrelevant.

We are at a point where laws are hindrance and nuisance.
100% just got it to mess around with. Cable for V2 seems to be about £20 nowadays (mine was official but most seem to not be, doubt it makes a difference), most stuff online seems to talk about it being multiples of that.
The step up in tracking ability and image quality from Kinect V1 is absolutely gigantic. However, you can very easily get a v1 plus adapter for under £20 in total and it probably covers most of what people would want to play with.

Dunno about built in functionality, I used a plugin. MaxMSP has Kinect functionality via a plugin too, which I haven't dabbled in but looks pretty fun. There's a node library for v2 as well I believe.
Could you elaborate on the suite of tools you used to do this kind of network traffic analysis?
Romania and Poland are militarily stupid places to put your nuclear assets. Turkey offers blindingly obvious geographically advantageous benefits. That's the reason NATO needs Turkey.

That would change if Russia is not your enemy, but the entire raison d'etre of NATO is to prevent war with Russia.
After ~8 years here, I tend to believe it's not so much "sabai sabai" as "mai pen rai" that is a contributing factor.

A relaxed attitude doesn't mean you ignore pretty basic concepts like.. I dunno. Stop signs. Red lights. Driving on the correct side of the road. Using a car seat for an infant. Cooking food properly.

Mai pen rai attitude is visible everywhere you look in Thai society.

Should I turn off the breaker before futzing with this outlet? Mai pen rai.

Should I use the tongs to grab some (raw) chicken out of a pile at the supermarket/cash-and-carry, or should I just stick my hands in there? Mai pen rai, who needs tongs?

Should I wear a helmet when I ride my motor scooter? Mai pen rai. How about after I'm hit by someone, and end up in a coma in hospital? Mai pen rai.
This is the beauty of Android, you can just grab the apk and you're good to go.
>I wish the idea of generating passwords when needed rather than storing and retrieving them was more popular. Traditional password Managers are just flawed.

Why?

Password generators have flaws of their own and have been discussed extensively on hn eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016132 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22580719
You realize that this means the US responds via war if Sweden is attacked, right?
All involvement of all military aircraft in any capacity wears them down. This is a tactic China is currently using to wear down Taiwan's aircraft[0].

Russia has tactical nuclear weapons to supplement their ability to act outside their borders in high intensity warfare.

Having a robust deterrent is the best way to prevent high intensity warfare in the first place.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/hongkong...

>By increasing the tempo of these operations, the PLA can inflict disproportionate stress on Taiwan’s much smaller force. The Chinese military has more than 2,000 fighters, bombers and other warplanes, compared with Taiwan’s 400 fighters, according to the Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power, published in September. Over time, fuel costs, pilot fatigue and wear and tear on Taiwanese aircraft will threaten the readiness of the island’s air force if this pressure continues, according to Taiwanese and U.S. military analysts. The constant threat is also designed to exact a psychological toll on the defenders, they say.
Running Kubernetes on Ubuntu is a bad idea especially if it is multitenant. You can have a lot of security issues there as users can run anything on those nodes.
This exercise is far from production
> We found that acquiring the key requires reading a value from the shared preferences file and decrypting it using a key called “AndroidSecretKey”, which is saved by an android feature called “Keystore”.

I'm not familiar with Android, but is this an easy step, or a "draw the rest of the fucking owl" step?
Unfortunately policy tends to be corrupted by lobbyists. One thing I can assure you is that profiteers are gonna keep profiteering. If your plan in any way shape or form relies on people volunteering reducing their income, profits, or revenues, fat chance.
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For whatever reason, the stance toward academic dishonesty has changed everywhere in higher education for reasons that aren't clear to me.

The two other institutions I taught at used to have very strict policies about it and then at some point they became laxer in a similar way. It used to be a no warnings policy, and then became more wishy washy.

I always assumed it was to be more realistic, in that many students were being granted exceptions of sorts. There also can be a lot of grey area with cheating. Overall my impression was that some lawyers recommended the change to avoid liability. But I really don't know.
People arguing for socialized medicine are arguing for bringing down the absurd costs, by virtue of having a very strong negotiating position and economies of scale.

Canada's single payer system is an example of that.

In a free market, employment status would still be related to your healthcare, eg. through credit checks to see if you're moral enough to get surgery. Theres no reason companies would stop providing healthcare coverage, and for providers to bump costs to match the extra spending power
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They call the themselves nationalist, the party was born out of old nazi parties and many of their prominent members express deeply racists in miscellaneous web forum. I think this is more than enough evidence to call them far right. Just because you don’t agree with reality it doesn’t mean that it is biased.
Someone has no choice but has to work hard, man...
Yeah, to match the dot pitch apple is designing for, the 4K monitor would have to be more like 22 inches instead of 27. We know this since the 4K iMac is a 21.5 inch screen.
Information is infinite, but creating it is still not free. Creating the media that people consume via these streaming services costs millions of dollars and manhours. You are right that media companies have to adapt to the changing times, but simply saying that it should all be freely available is not a solution. I can imagine a future where this may be a feasible solution, but we are not there yet.

What is also a problem is that prosecuting copyright infringement presents a nasty threat to privacy protections.
I agree though it's one of the most genuinely unpopular opinions on the internet. People will contort themselves into knots explaining why it's perfectly OK to consume a product without paying for it - in fact, they assure us, they are doing the producers a favor.

I find it pretty disheartening. Pirating is a minor vice in the grand scheme of things but something about the self-righteous defense of it suggests how easily people throw out considerations of right and wrong in order to save a few bucks.
I'm pretty sure s/he's just suggesting that Thai people find at least a single fuck to give about road safety. I'd probably just say safety in general, but road safety is a good start.
If you look at excess deaths by country, Sweden doesn't seem to be doing that bad compared to other EU countries.
It's all illegal. Even this.
Logs are not transferred to new devices either. Presumably disappearing messages are not left in the encrypted db file(?).