skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the need is for passively visiting a few handful of websites a week, I would recommend tor browsers. Takes a bit work to learn when to refresh routes, and how to handle websites that blocks public vpns, but easy to get started with. Pretty good when visiting websites that deal with medical information since tracing data from those are exceptional valuable to data brokers.

If it is for more regular use or if the occasionally slowness/vpn blocking is too much, I would likely pick mullvad but I have not used their services. They do seem to spend some money on pro-privacy activism, so that is at least a point in their favor.
Sun did actually approach Commodore to license its technology for low end work station. However the Commodore CEO at the time declined for unknown reasons.

I don't know what Sun had planned for this tech.

A even more interesting approach for Sun would have been to cooperate or acquire Acorn. The Acorn Archimedes was an almost perfect low end work station product. Its incredible weakness was its lack of OS and it total lack of applications.

Acorn spend an absolutely absurd amount of money to try to get the OS and application on the platform. They spend 3 years developing an new OS, and then realized that this was going nowhere. So they rushed out another new OS. And then they realized that nobody want to buy a machine with a compromise OS and no application. So they had to put up huge effort to try to fix that. The company simply couldn't sustain that kind of effort on the Software side while at the same time building new processors and new machines. Its surprising what they achieved but it wasn't a good strategy.

Had they just adopted SunOS (BSD) it would have been infinitely better for them. And for Sun to release new high and and low end RISC workstations at the same time would have been an absolute bomb in the market.

Even if you added all the bells and whistles to the system (Ethernet, SCSI, extra RAM), you could be very low priced and absolutely blow pretty much every other system out of the water.
I know a blind man who works at Google and sometimes does 3D graphics programming.
What the Venus flybys did was not add energy so much as remove angular momentum. The hard part about getting close to the Sun is that conservation of angular momentum prevents it.

Related to this: a minimum energy transfer between two circular orbits is normally the two-burn Hohmann transfer: an elliptical orbit that is tangent to each circular orbit. But if the radii of the two circular orbits have a sufficiently large ratio, it takes less delta-V to use three burns: go into an elliptical orbit that goes out to very large distance, do a small burn to lower (or raise) the periapsis to be at the other orbit, then circularize with a third burn. This is because doing a burn at large distance adds or removes a very large amount of angular momentum.
Not only does the sound from bikes not reduce traffic violence, the sound itself causes immense amounts of measurable and real harm in the form of noise pollution. Many studies are confirming that noise pollution causes way more damage to the health of human beings than we realized.

Obviously, some things in the world are necessarily loud, like a jet engine on a plane. Or they are loud with a meaningful purpose, like a big sound system at a concert. But some things are unnecessarily loud with no purpose. Mostly vehicles with modified exhaust and sound systems, but also some other things.

If the noise pollution studies are accurate, reducing or eliminating these sounds will extends the lives of untold numbers of people. People will be healthier thanks to getting better sleep not being woken up. People will have lower blood pressure, and therefore reduce heart disease. People will have less road rage, which will in turn reduce traffic violence.

How do we actually reduce these sounds? Our current policies are not working. Fining people, impounding vehicles, I don't believe any of that will work. It will simply create revenues for the government.

But what solutions does our current society offer that will work? The criminal justice system is not a solution, and will simply cause even more harms. Any solution I can think of that will work is ludicrous and unrealistic.

The best thing I can think of is to simply ban the import or manufacture of the exhaust pipes to begin with. If the supply of them is greatly reduced, and the prices go way up, that could go a long way. It's too much to enforce any restriction one by one. It has to be from the top.
I don't really understand the privacy concern here. To wit: insurers can demand actual inspection of your home when making underwriting decisions. The condition of your house is very much their business. Why is an aerial photograph of your roof, which everybody in the world already has on Google Maps, such a big deal?
Do car insurances pay the full price for crashed old cars? If roofs are designed with a similarly limited expected useful life lower payout would make sense like for cars?
US police buy almost exclusively domestic vehicles.
Well they can learn to use tor but most likely they’ll get sucked into shady free VPN services and suffer worse.
I don’t know why you got downvoted. I liked the joke!

I guess my fellow Californians can be a little touchy about taxes.
Also it is extremely common in middle and high school to use VPNs to get around school network restrictions.
“We are running a cloud platform that tracks tens of thousands of people and vehicles simultaneously”

…that’s not something to brag about.
In 2020 we had a pretty hard pivot due to COVID and worked with several state parties and organizations to coordinate mail-in voting registration drives and handle registration form OCR and phone validation before having them sent to the state. It was a chaotic year, and I know if we hadn't been there another company would have filled the role, but it was really meaningful work that had a direct impact on the elections that year.
iCloud private relay
I think you're mixing distinct things, because numpy, pandas, sklearn are NOT written primarily in Python, but generally in C, which is why they are highly optimized, relying on this underlying C code, for example, but with Python bindings for convenient ergonomic use from Python.
Right, but also porn is often a commercial engine for tech innovation (even if indirectly, as in this case), which in turn can be leveraged as a liberating force.
These are mostly VPS or single server management tools.

Hoy is targeting mid sized compaines looking to build a modern, highly available private cloud platform with distributed compute storage and networking.

- Load balancing across multiple servers

- Auto scaling instances as well as Nodes on demand.

- Fully managed Database & Replicas.

- S3 comptable storage

- Built in observability

- First class dev experience.
I can't find it anymore, but I remember seeing some article or infographic about how many 10 thousand people are loosing sleep whenever one person is driving with a loud pipe through an urban area at night. I get why you love your pipe and your car and driving and everything, but ultimately everything is broken when it comes to urban areas.
I once joined a team where I had a secondary responsibility for configuring and generating periodic reports. These were daily or weekly activity reports for the platform I was expanding and supporting. When I joined, each report required custom coding and it took about two weeks to turn around.

I got bored of coding these reports. Bit by bit, I built a templating system and a configuration-based way of building these reports. Users were able to get reports not only in CSV files, but also in HTML, plaintext, and Excel files. They could get them not only by email, but also via FTP and SFTP. Reports could be customized in a variety of ways. Most importantly, with the new system, I could turn a report around in about five minutes.

When I joined there were less than 20 reports in the system. When I left, there were hundreds. Our internal users found these reports valuable, but the emotional cost of requesting and waiting for one was a burden. Removing this burden was a pleasure.

No one ever said that this needed to be done. It was an itch that got scratched.
> I thought: In 2024, why aren’t officials investing in technology that makes it difficult to push someone in front of a train or prevents deaths by suicide on the tracks?

Is this really how we imagined 2024? I thought we were suppose to be vacationing on the moons of Jupiter in 2024. We probably made quite a few wrong turns to be posing questions like this in 2024. Perhaps instead of reaching for more whiskey as we start to feel the pain we could actually sober up.
Another use for emulators is accessibility. Using OCR, or iOS' image and screen recognition, I can more easily understand what's going on in a game. For example, since I am blind, I cannot see game menus, so in games which I can play, like Mortal Kombat, or the original Dissidia Final Fantasy. There are also games like Blazblue, which are mostly voiced visual novels, but with text describing what the characters do. So, OCR works great for that. I just hate the Blazblue character select screen, since it's a selection wheel you have to turn, and it doesn't just snap to a single character either, oh no. You have to turn it until you get to one, and then it has to be exactly on that one point. But that's okay.

My point is, if I didn't have emulation on a computer or device that has OCR and such, I wouldn't know much about the games I do play. Even tutorial messages are text, so in many cases I wouldn't even know how to play the game, especially in more complex fighting games like Dissidia Final Fantasy. So, running games on the one portable device I do have with accessibility, my iPhone, would honestly be great. And the DS has a few fighting games at least, so thanks to the person that shared that. Now we just need PSP! And PS1 does have MK, and Soul Blade, so that'll be really fun!
This article is exactly the type of empty handwavy thought leadership being pushed by every outfit seeking to capitalize on AI. I'm sure many lucrative consulting engagements will follow.
As a driver, the only times I've had near-accidents with bikes have been when they came up on me unexpectedly. Like left side shoulder when I'm stuck in traffic in the left lane.

I only got my license a few years ago, public transport works quite well here in Norway, seems I haven't yet learned all the sneaky ways bike riders can surprise ya.

That said, I see idiots behind the wheel causing near crashes several times a week so yeah I guess as a rider those scare you a lot more.
I can draw a generic face, but not a specific one unless I have a model or picture. If I had to give a description of someone, even family members or close friends, I would be hopeless other than very basic things like relative height, hair and skin color.
Exactly. It’s literally a barrier to entry. Have you been accepted and then credentialed by an institution? Your resume will then meet the checkbox of has a degree.
How do I control the volume of pipes in bash?
No way you’re streaming anything via Tor
I also advocate banning cars. The greatest mistake our society has made. Not too late to correct it.
6 Prompts You Don't Want Employees Putting in Microsoft Copilot
Didn't play Super Mario Odyssey I take it?
Porn also doesn't give you cancer. It's pretty transparent that the restrictions on it originate from hyper-religiosity and conservatism, rather than some genuine concern about public health.
https://github.com/lucidl/tededroid
Not even middle income. Copenhagen recently built a 10 mile long city circle line with 17 stations (opened 2019) for about $3.3 billion.
I don't normally condone body shaming, but as somebody who really struggles with sudden loud noises, I will always insinuate that those with loud cars and motorbikes are compensating for something.
These ones do: https://youtube.com/watch?v=64liF2VuLxI
Here ya go https://www.csoonline.com/article/567531/the-biggest-data-br...

It takes time.
I always want people to tell me what they think brutalism means. I feel like it's one of those words that people just use to mean a lot of different things, some that I would not expect. I'm not even saying you can't do that, just tell me what it means to you so I can calibrate.
They sued a friend's company as well. He wrote very vividly about what it's like to be on the receiving end.

I've stayed silent for too long. And I'm not going to stay silent anymore.

A few weeks ago we got sued by Momofuku. It was one of the most painful experiences of my life. After getting IBS, I decided to leave my six-figure job in Silicon Valley, to venture into the Biotech and Food-as-Medicine world in hopes of finding a solution. I gave up financial stability, relationships, and sanity to get Redbloom off the ground. I still remember the day Redbloom was 3 days away from dying, and on the day I was supposed to shut down the company, we went viral. Hundreds of orders flooded over the holidays and I had to juggle between pissed customers and fundraising. This was winter.. funds were closed, everyone told me we weren't going to close the round until march. We closed the round 1/15. From Thanksgiving all the way to Lunar New Year. I didnt' see my family, I didn't see my friends. I slept on the factory floor. I made my ops team work 15 hours a day to make the facility expansion deadlines. Redbloom has grown beyond my control to the point it became impossible to find a co-founder - I was a single parent. That legal letter from Momofuku felt like a knife being held to my kid's throat. The worst part about it was we couldn't even speak up about it - were we the only ones? do we have a target on our backs before we can even walk? Everyone close to me was like "what did you do?"

The funny thing is - we don't even compete against Momofuku. People with IBS can't eat Momofuku. I'm here trying to create medicine to reduce gut sensitivity, but instead of making a pressed pill, our medicine form factor is chili oil (for you science nerds, we microencapsulate capsaicin with oleic acid to provide a cushion for the TRPV1 receptors in your gut so prevent autoimmunity in the short run, allowing the capsaicin to reduce visceral hypersensitivity in the long run). Yet, David Chang still found a way to eat away from our R&D budget required for clinical studies...

Today, we found out that they are suing multiple asian food founders for various things. This has gone beyond a simple lawsuit. A hole is being torn in the AAPI community right now. AAPI founders are supposed to support each other, not fight each other over centuries of culture that spans beyond our generation. This is no longer about me, it's no longer about Redbloom. It's bigger than that now. The articulation of our asian heritage in the western world is at stake. And we will stay silent no longer.

Homiah - Michelle Tew
MìLà - Jennifer Liao, Caleb Wang
And all the other AAPI founders who we experiencing this. We are here to stand by you! We are here to speak up. and We are here to support the AAPI community.

Reposting from https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephanjpeng_trademark-bully-...
> if people feel restricted by having jump through hoops on unfamiliar operating systems and spend a lot of time and frustration fighting them... Then they're probably right

I completely agree with you!

I think all us people in the cybersecurity space are cranky ;)

But it also brings up a good point. I feel bad quality User Experience is a critical cause for bugs and misconfigurations. And UX isn't just "look pretty" - it's about optimized and simplified workflows.

> most "standard" big company security engineers just use ready made tools

I've worked for vendors and have funded vendors, so I might be biased, but ready-made tools can be helpful.

The issue is if you are using tools without understanding the underlying architecture or design of your platform.

If you're just a script-monkey and only concentrating on the what, security automation is going to take your job away (and is already in the pipeline in the IR world as we speak)

> Sorry for the rant

No worries. You yourself replied to my rant XD
My legal last name has a space in it and US airlines don't handle this well. Most eliminate the space in internal records, which can break name comparison logic. A common side effect is a broken check-in flow online or at the airport kiosk, forcing me to do it in person with an agent.

Airline IT systems look like a house of cards written in 1970's that everyone is too scared to touch, and this does not seem to be a competitive disadvantage because every airline in this highly regulated market is similarly dysfunctional.
I'd prefer that nearly all of us were off the road, but in practice we've not built a world that allows such a lifestyle.
Thanks for considering taking away the tool I need every day to get to my job
My First Open Source Contribution
The concept of state sovereignty wouldn't come about until (approximately) the Treaty of Westphalia, but Romans of this time period would have certainly understood what the government-prescribed religion is
Anecdote: I stayed in the Airbnb of an (obviously gay) couple in the South-Eastern very conservative Turkish city of Mersin many years ago.

The absolute joy they had when I showed them how to set up 1.1.1.1 on their Android TV, phones, and laptops… so they could watch unrestricted gay porn in their heavily censored and state-controlled slice of the World Wide Web…

I still get a virtual greeting card from them once in a while.
Well that's clearly false. GDPR fines for data breach (when there is enough negliglence) (or even inproper handling of data breach) can be pretty severe. At least in theory, in practice the enforcement depends on the country and the fines are usually nowhere near the legal limit. But there is a penalty.
I am keeping the stock pipe on my bike, the folks at Honda did a good job making it have a nice tone without being loud. Decent burble I can hear while riding but only just barely over the wind. I really don't need anyone else knowing what RPM I am at as long as I can hear it myself I can use it to guide my shifting. Plus the last thing I want is to wake the neighborhood when I leave early or arrive home late.

I once had a VW pickup truck, 70hp, which at one point had a broken header. I bring up the power and model just so you know how ridiculous it was to drive around at a Nascar sort of volume. I hated driving it for the week it took to get parts.

I don't mind nicely tuned exhausts, you can make a bike sound really nice compared to the near silence out of so many stock systems. Somewhere around 80-90db both sounds good and is auditory to the rider.

Tinnitus is no fun, the wind noise already aggravates mine as is. I wouldn't risk a ride on my neighbor's Harley for more than a couple minutes, must be something like 125db.
I wrote multiple systems that import most of the tax return data for the Finnish Tax Administration, a system that imports payroll data (and helped with the previous version of the system), and tax payer data extraction for other government agencies. Downstream process use this data to automatically fill out taxpayers' tax returns in Finland each year, and individuals only file tax return corrections. So if everything looks good, which happens for 90+% of taxpayers, there's nothing to do each year. We even won a few awards for the project.

https://www.pry.fi/en/activities/news/the_finnish_tax_admini...
Not a (big) project but as a student I worked in third level
support and we had to make sure that the service number was always available. The contract had harsh penalties in case we missed a call and so we had to reroute the number even for short breaks. This was done via a terrible, clunky and ancient Cisco web interface several levels deep. It took like a minute or more to log in, navigate to the right place and copy and paste the right number.

I think the 30 minutes I spent to automate this was the best return on investment I ever reached, because the script was used for years by many people and did not only help to prevent us from penalties but must have saved a considerable amount of time over the years.
Thanks for assuming there are no other possible alternatives.
And this is why we don’t have good transit in America. Because the rail fans are innumerate.
Fair enough, that does seem useful.
If your budget is tight, use your phone for video, and sort out the audio equipment first. Folks will watch mediocre video with excellent audio. They will not watch the reverse.
It's <$5 per month. The economics start to be more about the general cost of managing transactions, accounts, and customer service than about paying for how much VPN you actually use.
JetMoE: Reaching LLaMA2 Performance with 0.1M Dollars
People can say whatever they want about Thunderbird, but the reality is that it just lags behind web based solutions. It’s seriously 10 years behind what it should be, it’s getting better no doubt but still lagging behind…
I feel old reading that article. I guess it was all the "when I was a kid..." thoughts that popped into my head. I believe social skills are pretty important to learn in elementary school. "When I was a kid", recess and lunch were one of the best times where we could get to know and learn from each other. And it applied to classwork and playing games and hobbies.

It seems to me that taking kids away from socialization in school is just going to lead them to even more social media where they'll probably not learn the best social skills. But it could just be my weariness of social media make feel this way.
This is not true. You can apply for a redress number to prevent future exception handling. The TSA and DHS makes this an easy process, I have helped more than one person through it.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/travel-redress...

https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip
How did the industry get away with calling proxies "VPNs" anyway?
Mine has two spaces. xxx yyy zzzzzzz. I'm Chinese. It's not a middle name, all first name
After mullvad disabled port forwarding, I switched to AirVPN and it works fine. I trust it slightly less than Mullvad but I'm avoiding copyright trolls, not three letter agencies.
I know exactly what it is, and you should read my comment.
After shooting, MSU promised safety. It delivered surveillance
> They also missed an (earlier) boat with the Commodore 900 workstation

They didn't really miss the boat on that. The C900 wasn't really an attractive machine. They would have sold it at a pretty high price. At the same time you could buy a PC with Unix on it that was arguable better. It would have just been another market where they got clobbered by the PC. Not like Zilog was the right horse to bet on anyway.
I don’t know, drivers really really hate bicyclists.
Nope . It’s broken because all policy is normalised into box ticking and insurance.
Very fun little project. Nice =)
There is a saying that regulations are written in blood.

They may not have been well designed, or they may not wear well. But most of the time they are put in place because somebody got badly hurt, one way or another.

Industry could usually design itself better regulation. But unless it finds a way to mutually enforce compliance, the task will fall to government.
Hard to evaluate without seeing data. In particular I think this tool would have problems distinguishing autism from other developmental disorders.
Liberating force is a bit too far but it’s not the demon people seem to think. It’s about all things in moderation. Porn = dopamine. Fast food = sugars/fructose and the ilk. SM = dopamine. Loot boxes = dopamine. Ad nauseam…
By car: 30 mins. Public transport: 1 hour 30 mins. I'm not wasting 2 extra hours each day.