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This is famously an issue with Rockstar style missions, they are so adherent to a script that even minor Playstyle variations lead to logical deadlocks. Red Dead 2 had the same issue, players finding paths to the door they know stuff is happening behind only for them to literally not function until an NPC points them out to you.

I want a world where I can figure out what to do next and that still functions, not one where Character X has to tell me to move to the next room for the doors to work as doors.

ECN purely allows the sending CCA to modulate sending rate before packet loss. Buffers filling up does not change, what changes is how early the sender reduces their window sizes and whether packet loss occurs before then.

Urban Dictionary is split on the issue, so either a half-witted claim about globalism enforced homogeneity of thought (read: criticism of neoliberalism) or the tragically stupid alternative "globalist homosexual agenda" (read: being asked not to be *-phobic). Either way not a super constructive point with a hint of dog whistle.

One of the issues is that Mitchell is notoriously litigious and has made a cottage industry of promoting himself as "guy with game world records". He has literally sued people into submission, over this exact claim, which is now forensicly validated. See Karl Jobst for reference.

> living in Europe

> any sign of appeasing would be positive

...yada yada doomed to repeat yada yada...

In the end the only functional parts that worked algorithmicly are exactly those featured in the GlacierMD demo. What trials are running related to this indication, what compounds are being tested for the indication and what other indications are related.

That's the easy part, it's effectively a word association game, TF-IDF did this job admirably, scoring proper nouns by their uniqueness and then associating them with one another and searching for publications with similar words as the requested indication. Effectively a medical word cloud for each indication and compound. Parsing them into symptoms is the first nightmare, the second is numeric values associated with those symptoms and paper results.

There is a very good reason the demo only has one indication and a handful of symptoms, it's being done manually and then at best showing publications related to the words encountered.

It's not a matter of cost, although the author is all but doomed if they want to cover more than a few indications, it's a matter of not forcing publicly funded health publications to use an electronically parseable Format despite the simplicity of them being able to parse their paper by definition.

See the standards XKCD, the issue is getting many different academics and departments to agree on a set of schema to include alongside their publications. PubMed at least tries with their XML dumps but even those are inconsistent at best and non-syntactically interpretable at worst. The Japanese compound tracker is great to learn about a specific compound and their indications but stops there.

I worked for a company that tried to do exactly what this article is proposing, I was responsible for parsing the data from publications into exactly this sort of table.

The primary reason is that it is very hard to come up with a schema that even 5% of papers would adhere to. The vast majority of this knowledge is phrased as natural language.

There are databases that track compounds and the publications related to them, but those papers again are natural language and cannot be readily converted to tabular data. Our first basic approach involved POS tagging and then trying to associate proper nouns with numeric values. Again the issue became how do you interpret a sentence like "may lead to sudden death" as a symptom? Something like "may lead to symptom X in Y% of respondents" is a nightmare to consistently parse without heavy ML running over huge datasets of just text.

In the end we wound up having to shut down concluding that until papers are released with not only arbitrary XML tables/results we were not equipped to handle the task. And even worse, what if our models didn't interpret things correctly and a consumer got {symptom:"sudden death", chance:0%} and insisted on that compound for their indication only to later realize the paper stated "in lab setting 0% of animals didn't experience sudden death after being administered X after diabetes diagnosis". Paying a hundred students to work around the clock couldn't get the volume processed accurately for months, let alone getting a second army of validators to confirm each entry.

What a sad thing for my username to line up with...

Grandma's Wifi up the street -> Public Library Network -> VPN1 -> Tor -> VPN2 /s

At the end of the day, it's a DARPA project originally, I'm sure the US Gov't has been _heavily_ invested in monitoring it for a while. Still I'd argue when doing anything on the web the behemoth that is the US could probably flex some of that spending muscle to levy massive resources.

However FBI tracing bomb-threat is probably still not using NSA-level resources... given the whole not our citizens wink wink thing.

Admittedly from the article: "used two separate anonymity tools to cover his tracks — the routing service Tor, which covered his web traffic, and the temporary mail service Guerrilla Mail, which offered a one-time email"

Then they noticed that "that the originating IP address would have been revealed in the email header, which would have indicated Tor usage"

And from there "agents checked to see if anyone had accessed Tor through the local wireless networks. That led them to <culprit>, who promptly confessed."

Doesn't sound like they even had to engage with Tor infrastructure or Guerrilla Mail backends, just 'hmmm did a student use Tor, oh some did, let's check them out in full FBI livery' which freaked the kid out and he confessed.

It's easy to check if an IP is a Tor exit node, but unless you happen to also have egress logs it's still a thornier problem to de-anonymize without heavy resources.

I can think of at least one nation that disagrees: Germany.

To quote Wikipedia "In some other places like Germany and a number of other countries, it is considered human nature to want to escape from a prison and it is considered as a violation of the right of freedom, so escape is not penalized in itself (in the absence of other factors such as threats of violence, actual violence, or property damage)."

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_escape

You can beat me to a pulp, doesn't make me suddenly remember a specific N byte string any faster.

Passwords are to be remembered, private keys are to be stored. I suppose I'll tell you where it's stored, but often even that doesn't help. (E.g. It's on a USB key I didn't label and lost, or this is totally the admin pin to my smartcard, ok you got me these 3 are the real pins, uh oh it's physically wiped itself? Sad face for you)

The point isn't explicitly connecting the cash purchase directly to you. The point is there are plenty of ways to attach payment methods directly to you and once that's happened anything else related to you can allow inference of further purchase data.

For example, store POS system tracks nearby MAC addresses (simplest to do, very archaic). You always have your phone on you. Game Over. Even if you pay cash, if you've ever paid with a bank card connected to your identity next to that phone a logical inference can be made that the cash transaction XYZ is related to pseudonymous ID ABC if phone P's identifier was present at time of purchase.

That's what the entire point of things like Google Wallet/Pay is. Another means of directly attaching payment methods to your ID. Once that bank card is connected to you all transactions for that card from any source is also connected to you. From that every ID present at time of purchase is one step removed from you.

And so it goes...

I think he meant the blog post hosted by Michiel, not AliExpress the massive conglomerate…

I’ve never seen ads thank god, I sincerely hope they never take that step.

Well nevermind! The HN community just literally solved my complaints!

I’ll set up my users as managed and pay for them, that’s really perfect. Since all users are accessing via a vps I control I can just whitelist that and my home networks CIDR and might be back in business!

Thanks for the help folks!

I really really loved Plex, then suddenly my networks internet connection went down, no biggie I thought, I have my collection on Plex. Plex no longer worked offline at all. Not sure if that’s fixed, but I always saw it as a file server with a UI and webplayer.

Plex also doesn’t let me pay for one premium subscription for the server so my family can watch old family guy episodes longer than 30 seconds on a phone. They each have to buy a subscription.

I still use Plex because so much infrastructure investment to get my parents to use it but honesty I’m not sure I’d recommend it anymore.

It seems someone at Plex decided they wanted the project to finally make some serious cash and started removing functions and moved them behind a paywall (like basic analytics of if someone is currently using it or what they have watched) while shoehorning in bizarre not even B-Movies.

I never understood why they didn't expand the "did you maybe mean" section when they pushed into ML based query interpretation.

Let me search what I want to search the way pagerank trained me to. Keywords over sentences.

But if you want to start pushing in that direction why not just add a "you may find better results when phrased as" section which these models appear to be preferential towards.

From the examples, ngrok for example, search didn't even care to include the keyword in all searches, even if the page is more "popular" the fact you'd (and I have repeatedly had to) quote the term to insist it be included is nuts for a search engine.

Finding obscure bug solutions was already barely possible, but has become impossible when even explicit error messages are "interpreted" to 'why won't <unrelated program> do <unrelated keywords>' on StackOverflow because it noticed that the program uses the same library and has had some searches with the same process name in the error line.