skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how this conversation changed to talk about police brutality, but I think the argument is that if there is a bystander watching or recording, the police officer can later be identified.

Compare to a situation in which identification is not required and the officer can't be identified even with video evidence.
"They lack the structure to make the data they contain readily accessed programatically, so step one is miserable screen scraping and data cleanup. That’s where a lot of people give up."

I've been contemplating the idea of curated data and data provenance. Some data sources are easy to use but some as mentioned need clean up and thus you run into the question of original source vs. "cleaned up".

Curated data where the original source is linked, any tools/scripts used to clean it up (harder when manual intervention is needed), are also included. Maybe even a pipeline setup where original + tools = cleaned outcome is a thought.

It's a pipe dream and many data sources are still too unstructured for such automation.
Ask HN: Please stop altering default browser behavior
Why do you mess with the back button, hyperlinks, right click, scroll, and many more? Is there a way to stop this?
Slightly OT: I've realized that CSVs are dramatically more information-dense than the equivalent JSON, and actually make a pretty reasonable API response format if your dataset is large and fits into the tabular shape. They can be a fraction of the size, mainly because keys aren't duplicated for every item.
I did not realize that TerraPower is actually a spin-off from Nathan Myrholt’s company Intellectual Ventures, widely viewed as a patent troll. Not sure it’s relevant to anything, but interesting.
Think they may soon ban voice recognition and voice signature ... body infrared signature ... body electromagnetic spectrum ... and eventually ban the electromagnetic force :-) ...
I think the downvotes on my comment show I have hit a nerve. I did not disagree with any of the points I listed, I am simply pointing out a fact. Downvoting this comment does disprove not my point.

The downvotes without engaging with my post are what is wrong with commodified community participation (comment/post points); exactly what harms Stack Overflow in the long run.
2.8 was game changer, i used to hate blender, i now love it! the UI upgrade changed everything!
Well, it's not everyday you're the victim of a terrifying digital pogrom and the only people willing to give you a cable news slot to talk about your horrifying experience is Fox Nows.
I don't disagree but the best cup of coffee I've ever had in my 49 years on this planet was from a French Press.

My wife and I walked into a random coffee shop in Salem, MA and ordered coffee. A Swiss teenager prepared it while reading a paperback (used to live in Zurich so I recognized the accent when he was conversing with his mother). It took forever and he didn't bring it over until it was ready to be pressed.

Never had a better cup in my life, I forget what beans and roast, have no idea what the place was called, etc (I was a tourist on my honeymoon from Canada and I didn't have a roaming plan so I had turned off my phone, forgot to bring a notepad, and I have a terrible me memory for nouns).

My wife thought it was "just ok". :)
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Ironically, the CFPB exerts the regulatory pressure that causes payment processors to close accounts. I'm not sure who you're reporting to who at the link above.

https://cfpbactions.com/2021/03/24/cfpb-files-lawsuit-using-...
Yeah, I've never been in the speedrun community but that guy puts so much passion in his videos that you feel like you belong in it.

It's incredible, you're completely engaged from the beginning to the end of the video.

I don't wanna give you spoilers, but really check his video about Super Mario sunshine speedrunning.
They just completed the spaceship a few years ago, can't just let it go sitting unoccupied now...
Anyone know why these things are taking so long to build? We’ve been hearing about them for many years now. Permits, materials, sure, but I would think the Department of Energy would help move things along.
I am clumsy so I am always terrified of breaking the press when I clean it.
Timnit Gebru is not a sincere researcher, in any respect.

She has proven to be willing to act in bad faith on numerous occassions when she is losing an argument. Not to say that a researcher is forbidden to hold any political opinions whatsoever - but her research is primarily political activism, and when political activism goes into research, what you get out is political activism, not research.

The whole Algorithmic Justice League concept is the process of overstating the impact of difficult-to-handle problems in order to secure laudable research positions and book deals.

Which - there actually should be someone willing to pose those arguments, but treating them as sincere researchers and not motivated
Or it’s just a misinformation campaign. Try to send your enemies searching down rabbit holes.
Except this is allowed in a narrow set of circumstances - to look for missing children. So they can probably dragnet everyone they see to find the missing children or abductors. Now the residents need a way to prevent the police misusing it by sneakily letting it find rapists and murderers.
My high school's district required students to read The of Lord of the Flies.

My freshmen English teacher hated the book so much he broke district requirements and told my class he was giving everyone A's on that assignment. He asked the class to read any substitute book in its place. To this day I still consider him to be a wise teacher.
This might be the worst possible schedule. Mandatory Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays? Terrible.

Neither fish nor fowl. Shit, or get off the pot. But deliberately constructing the schedule to make actually getting to work remote impractical is mendacious at best.
"The exact location of the new reactor is still up in the air." Yah? Good luck. Siting these things is hard.

There are some papers about how experts are worse at predicting the success of a nuclear reactor than members of the general public. I have the impression that project timelines don't give the socialization phase enough time and then, when it is constricted, the phase will sprawl.

On one hand, there are a lot of folks who are quite sure they've settled on a set of good techniques to manage nuclear waste. On the other hand, individual communities that might host nuclear sites keep not being convinced that the selected techniques are 'safe.' The environment is such that the US has not been able to officially designate a site for waste[1] (or settled on a plan to reprocess waste or agree to a framework wherein it could participate in a coalition of nuclear states to...).

You can't make all the people happy all of the time but our inability to keep anyone happy any of the time distresses me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
Hopefully nobody flies a plane into it like on 9/11, otherwise the fallout will be larger than a few city blocks.
Either "Making JavaScript startup fast on WebAssembly" or "Making JavaScript fast to startup on WebAssembly".
Typescript monorepos with pnpm, typescript project references, esbuild ...
Hey HN

I found that most typescript monorepo guides are quite terrible in that they leave a lot of very important stuff out and only address the basics. This was a real pain when I was setting up my own monorepo and now that I have a better sense of wanted to try to mitigate this.

My guide is definitely esoteric and uses non conventional tooling but I found this works best.

There is also a repo to go with it https://github.com/CryogenicPlanet/typescript-monorepo-examp...
>All you know is they buy enough renewable to cover what you use.

And where is the problem with that? The coal plant you got your electricity from is the real sucker here because they didn't get paid and more people doing this is a real problem for them.
This looks a lot like what might happen due to a Suspicious Activity Report. [1]

> This section ensures that national banks file a Suspicious Activity Report when they detect a known or suspected violation of Federal law or a suspicious transaction related to a money laundering activity or a violation of the Bank Secrecy Act.

Note also this part [1]:

> No national bank, and no director, officer, employee, or agent of a national bank, shall disclose a SAR or any information that would reveal the existence of a SAR. Any national bank, and any director, officer, employee, or agent of any national bank that is subpoenaed or otherwise requested to disclose a SAR, or any information that would reveal the existence of a SAR, shall decline to produce the SAR or such information, citing this section and 31 U.S.C. 5318(g)(2)(A)(i), and shall notify the following of any such request and the response thereto: [...]

I don't know to what extent this applies to PayPal, but it seems to be happening more and more frequently that people are just essentially barred from having any kind of bank account because of some opaque reporting trigger ("could be money laundering"), during/after which no bank will probably want to do business with you. [2]

Let me also leave you with something whose sheer existence should be horrifying given the above. [3]

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/12/21.11

[2]: https://sperrinlaw.net/suspicious-activity-reports-would-you...

[3]: https://verafin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/suspicious-ac...
> Because twenty years ago computer security was an absolute and utter shambles. Exploiting a vulnerability today is orders of magnitude harder than it was twenty years ago. Massive strides have been made.

Yes but once an exploit is found it can be tried on a whole lot more systems and the weakest link becomes a target. There is also a lot more interest hence brains in hacking/ransomware.

I lot of critical systems should simply be airgapped
That's a wonderful story and and an uplifting rebuttal to Lord of the Flies.

But to be fair, six Tongan boys were probably far hardier and well equipped than the typical British schoolboy of that time would have been. It seems they thought nothing of stealing a fishing boat and heading to sea, and they most likely had abundant life skills already - they basically relocated from life on one pacific island to another.

So a great story but I don't know how much can be extrapolated from it about human behaviour in general.
if the Sun looses intensity over time, Venus is the perfect planet to teraform
The FBI and CIA don’t have to adhere to these rules so expect local police departments to dump more cases their way.
My initial misread was about classroom sizes, and I came to the same conclusion before I thought "huh, that's... not how you reference classroom size".
Low-code has been a success in my org, because it's driven by programmers with business analyst acumen. Its not for everyone, but for the right person, it just clicks and they can sit down with a client and come up with something great in very little time. It works very, very well as a rapid prototype or MVP tool.
When I was around the Bay, I felt like part of the implicit social contract was trading a luxurious office environment for meager, overpriced housing. A long-term WFH arrangement was never sustainable.

In my spacious but reasonable Midwestern house it's been amazing working from home (I'll keep drawing that Bay Area salary as long as possible!)
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For me, I just don't use it often enough to log back in. It's largely been supplanted by browsing issue trackers and reading the source.

At the same time, google search results are massively less useful now and if I don't get a hit, I'm going to reach out to the source.

To that extent, I think SO has the same problem as Google - it will regress to the mean.

This is also because google search results will be flooded with SO mirrors that rerender content but with more ads.
Ransomware – Unauthorized access to Fujifilm servers
I don't think calling it propaganda is quite right. "Muckraking" is probably more accurate.
Can you point to any planes flying into the many existing nuclear reactors? For that matter, can you point to any planes flying into any buildings other than 9/11?
Yeah this data is going to be open until dolthub decides to change up their monetization strategy. Whenever someone posts a link to "open" data that isn't just tar/zip/CSV/etc files -- essentially locked in to some jupyter notebook platform, or data discovery platform, or big data platform, it just looks like a money grab to me.

If I cared enough to really test their resolve, I'd extract all this data and put it out in a really open form and see how they react. I don't care enough to do that though.

The word "open" is rapidly degraded. Why couldn't the title be "Explore 100M hospital price dataset on DoltHub"?
> (Nor do I want to gain any clue)

OK! Duly noted.
Shutting down all coal plants before 2038 isn't the same thing as running them until 2038.
Regarding the "open source, if you like it buy me a coffee" thing, I am not against that. By saying "I'd like to turn this into a product", I don't rule that out. I already mentioned that in another comment.

To me at this stage it's more about making a living out of something I love doing rather than becoming the next big tycoon.
Baby talking at 3 months old
Yep. Too bad very few people figure this out in time. "The Millionaire Next Door" should be required reading in high school.
I'm disappointed. I wanted to see NASA go to Triton and Io.
> I'll keep drawing that Bay Area salary as long as possible!

Bay Area companies are really good stepping stones for anchoring your salary :D This was true for remote work even before the pandemic.

ty San Francisco!
Ok, but what is expected to be different in 3.0? That is left unsaid.
Clearly targeted at a certain class of Westerner (both men & women), I enjoyed the story and thought it was quite clever.

Is the world depicted in the story any more absurd and implausible than the world we already experience? Is the system in the story all that different from systems we encounter in our lives? Perhaps a bit more explicit, but not really that different. Just a small tweak that makes things normally taken for granted feel alien and uncomfortable, great art!
If by "this space" you mean RPA, then no. RPA platforms integrate with the target app's UI. Zapier (which typically is considered IPaaS, not RPA) integrates with the target app's API. It provides it's own UI to facilitate this, but it doesn't integrate with the target app's UI layer.

Companies will always confuse these terms as they fight the marketing wars. UIPath, for instance, refers to any RPA solution that includes API integration as "end-to-end RPA". But the substantive difference between RPA and IPaaS is whether or not the API or the UI is the point of integration.
I'm always amazed at how many people watch movies/TV like Blade Runner, Black Mirror, Terminator, Altered Carbon, Her, Ex Machina, Firefly, Cowbow Bebop, etc and think "Yeah, that looks like a future I want." Dystopian Sci-Fi is a warning, not a blueprint. Even the utopian Sci-Fis often reference a struggled past in transitioning to their societies. And a lot of these problems have to deal with surveillance or an adjacent technology (like Minority Report or the more realistic Psycho-Pass).
Any news about the LANPR renderer that has been built as a part of GSoC a few years ago? What are the blockers for merging it into master?
What do you mean future? Data brokers already have virtually all of this information.
Shouldn’t really matter too much if the response is being compressed.

If you’re rendering the table in the DOM, the response size is the least of your issues.
/The likelihood that attackers have some database of victims + passwords seems low./

My impression is that most of these start with phishing, and probably even tailored phishing for larger organizations. A particular phishing campaign then just needs to include an encryption key, while the decryption key is kept elsewhere; this process is still quite easy to automate.

Hell, you could even just let loose lots of malware with different encryption keys, with the decrypting keys stored in a spreadsheet. When one succeeds, display a hash of the encryption key to the victim, and have them read it back to you when they call in to negotiate. And then just look up the paired decryption key when it's needed. No need to track anything, or bother with command+control.
Muckraking implies at least a casual desire to stick to the facts, which is entirely absent from Sinclair-owned stations.
Same, I'm "top 0.20% overall" on askubuntu.com because of some simple questions I asked in 2010 (inactive since).
Fine, but if any company makes me wear a mask for 8 hours, I am out of there. Work remotely or come to a normal office sure.
Maybe not exactly futile, but too many security measures can become a serious problem in certain scenarios. Imagine you are being chased and need to get inside your front door as quickly as possible, the more locks you need to operate, the higher chances of not making it inside.

Now I'm going to propose a more likely future scenario. Imagine you are on another planet and there is a software flaw that needs to be patched. Do you want to have to beg some billionaire millions of miles away for the privilege of modifying the code, or do you want the ability to fix it as soon as possible? If its a time-sensitive issue consider the consequences of having to fumble around with deploying signed patches, or installing a new key and updating everything to work with the new key.

None of these trust devices are perfect, they might leak data that can be used to infer keys through side channel, or can be physically inspected, etc, I think we can all agree they are not perfect. So if the security model breaks down with physical access then the only adequate solution is physical security. Putting your faith into some crypto function that will be obsoleted by time is not a winning defense. It's also possible the keys may have been obtained by a malicious adversary, rendering this mathematical security layer ineffective at best. If I can install new keys, then an attacker can also install new keys. If the imperfect security measure causes more problems than it solves, then its worth rethinking.

What problem would it ACTUALLY solve in this scenario? Maybe it could be used to mitigate a breakaway civilization by only allowing patches through remote update channels, keeping new outposts fully dependent on Earth. Potentially at the cost of real lives if that update channel is broken somehow. Though someone always figures out a way to break the lock :)

Please I don't want to hear about some hypothetical dissident of a tyrannical regime, they should have destroyed the device before capture if they had any wits. The regime would probably be forcing its citizens to run fully validated stack anyway and would be all up in their business for (red flag) installing their own key instead of government approved key... Corporate security? Lol do you think your petty secrets are worth restricting humanity by normalizing imperfect security measures? Some of these corporations need to be kept in check somehow, they have too much power already.

The only future I'm on board with is one with a robust well tested software ecosystem controlled by its users/operators/owners, not a careless conglomeration that prioritizes the well being of it's shareholders, or crushing its competition.
I wonder how many of those 10,000 views were from logged in users? I’m guessing there are a lot of people who use Stack Overflow without ever creating an account.
Sadly, I think you probably nailed it. Back in the day, “experts exchange” was the place to get answers to questions, and look where they’re at.

2 billion dollars. That’s a LOT of money even by 2021 standards. You better believe the investors will be looking for their ROI.
Hear me out. Mandatory Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays seems worse, no?
The odds of hitting the secondary are zero if you've got a hardware write enable switch!

One thing you could do is get one of those mechanical lamp timer clocks from the hardware store, and have it turn the power on/off the network card on schedule.
You should always worry when they stop fighting you on something. Odds are good they've already switched to something else.
What do you mean "implement this with a service account"? Aren't service accounts just a way to authenticate to APIs?
After learning the * trick never needed that stylesheet again.
You are making up a magical unicorn extreme example. Yes technically you cannot use deductive reasoning to prove there are no angels or gods or supernatural entities we cannot see. For our purposes an extraterrestrial intergalactic species that could reach our planet would be exactly what you just described. We cannot prove these entities are not out there. Just remember science and reason do not allow us say anything with certainty that cannot be calculated or measured, it’s just as much a fallacious religion to claim they don’t exist as they do, one real risk is what happens if either side is correct. If you are correct and aliens do not exist, it doesn’t matter at all however if you are wrong and they do, there are entire classes of possible dystopian and utopian realities that become actual possibilities. Moderate Preparation and risk minimization is really all anyone can do to address the unknown.
The "Russian" Twitter propagandists were identified based on a similarly specious methodology, and I only ever encountered one article (Wired) they even bothered to mention it. And in many, many internet conversations I've had, I've not once met a believer who had the ability to consider whether authenticity was important, even while they mocked their outgroup for believing whatever story pleases them.

People are funny.
I have the same machine and have learned I can get really good results but need to be precise. I even trained myself to do a consistent tamp (I mean I do my best).

What I wanted to say is a year or so ago I started doing a pre infusion. Run the pump for about 5 seconds until the first drip comes out. Then turn it off and let it sit until the heating indicator turns off again. Now pull your full shot. I get a much better result doing this.

Do you have a grinder that works well with it? I have just been buying Illy espresso as I find it gets the best result compared to any grinder I willing to buy (I love the cans, too). I'd like to get back into roasting and grinding but just haven't found the right grinder in my admittedly cheap price range.
The world has been remote for 15 months, that’s the new anchor. Lots of employers going fully remote who wouldn’t have before, raising the tide for everyone.

No full remote, start looking for your next gig in one of the best job markets in decades. Likely you’ll get a pay bump as well, as the labor market is tight.
I don't get it really but I think a lot of people have a similar experience. So while technically you are allowed to post an answer/question the moment you join there must be something else standing in the way. I don't know what that could be but so many people wouldn't complain if there wasn't something.
Smartphones don't have the resolution to pick up a badge number.