skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
70% of global farmland is used to produce fodder for beef. A significant share of strong greenhouse gas methane is produced by cattle.

You can start today by sacrificing your finger lickin bbq beef eating habit.
But you don't need to depend on cloudflare here. If you have a VPN you can also tunnel your DNS lookups to a custom resolver through the VPN.
Agreed, especially when their point is that something is self-evident in the comments section of an article that specifically goes into great length to argue otherwise.
I think it is meant to be an interesting clock, not a good clock in the timekeeping sense. There are many times that do not have an associated quote, so the time it shows if often off by several minutes.

If you just need a good clock, https://time.is/ is hard to beat.

I think it would be interesting to, say, look at the clock just before 5 PM, as I'm getting ready to knock off work and find something fun to do, to be told that it is five minutes to midnight at Hogwarts and Dumbledore is advising Hermione that three turns should do it.
Mastodon is basically like Twitter was 8 years ago. Except it’s also a really cool tech platform as well.
And you expect that to happen within the next month? Without any warning that it will happen with the 62 release? After they have just started an experiment intended to shake down the feature on both the server and the client side? Even after having it default off in nightly? With no practical experience of how a large-scale DoH setup behaves in a real-world environment? Breaking all setups that use an internal DNS to resolve internal names (such as any larger-scale corporate setup)?

If you intend to say “sometime in the unspecified future Mozilla will probably default to this.”, then I’d agree but this is not what’s being discussed. At that point in the future, the whole environment in which this is operating in will look different. More DoH-capable providers, a better understanding of the benefits and drawbacks, a config UI,...
Chemistry and Mechanics in Fireworks (2017)
CS may be the faster growing field in the arXiv over the last decade but it was relatively late to the party.
https://arxiv.org/help/stats/2017_by_area/index
> Figure out other energy sources. Nothing else will work.

Stop eating beef. that is something you can do today.
Google Is in China Cloud Talks with Tencent, Others
Not really. Loss aversion doesn't mean complete refusal to face loss or complete lack of interest in gains, it just means that we weight losses more heavily than gains. I also don't think anybody's claiming it's a dominant motivation, just a common characteristic.
Cloudflare agreed to having the DNS infrastructure audited, something that does set it apart from a lot of ISPs. So that seems to be working.
Well he did say

> Also disk encryption
What prevents them from selling aggregated DNS statistics?

For what was queried on their servers.
>the big advantage is that there would be no existing rules created for human driving

There are plenty of air traffic regulations to deal with
Searching for interesting patterns in Conway's Game of Life, and other cellular automata.

http://conwaylife.com/forums/
A knot is one Nautical Mile per hour. If hours make sense, and Nautical Miles make sense, then a knot is the obvious unit of speed.

One Nautical Mile is roughly 1852 metres, so 1 kt is roughly 2 km/hr. More accurately, 1 m/s is very close to 2 kts.
> And when you run your code on the iOS simulator you are also not running against the same code that’s is running on your phone...

> You aren’t running ARM code.

You are running the same framework by the same author, which certifies that they behave the same to some extent. It's the same way, that Gnustep is not an adequate replacement for Cocoa.

> When you run on your code on your desktop you run on a simulated environment - the Xamarin runtime on top of Windows. When you run your code on MacOS, you run on x86 version of the iOS runtime. By definition, you are running a simulator.

Are you still interested in arguing in circles? I'm not, it makes no sense and is a waste of time. You demonstrated that you are not willing to understand the point, you just want to win an argument on the internet. Go find someone else for that.

> You haven’t had to ship C binaries to various Linux distributions....

Now it is C binaries... It was just binaries before. You can move Go binaries with no problem, the crosscompiled ones too, because they do not have problem with importing symbols nilly-willy.

You can do that with C binaries too, but you have to take care. Just make sure you know what are you linking against, bundle it if it is not present on the target or just link statically. It no problem for a competent developer, who knows what a linker is and can maintain ABI hygiene.

If you think that is something complicated, go setup apache with mod_wsgi on windows, you will run into the same problem. There you will have to align the right Visual Studio version (because each msvcrt version has its own ABI) with Apache version with Python version, otherwise the hell will break loose. Of course, all the native python extensions you are going to use will have to be compiled with the same Visual Studio version. Yet nobody is saying, that it is impossible to distribute binaries that run on all Windows releases, mainly because it has nothing to do with specific system, but with the apps you chose to run, how they are built, and also boils down to ABI hygiene.
You are refuting the statement I never made. There's no such thing as general threat. So who's data? If you are Julian Assange you should be afraid of US spying agencies, but if you are an Uzbekistani dissident it's your gov't repressive machine you should care about, and tracking possibilities of your direct adversary will be diminished with the discussed Mozilla's move. If you are an average Joe in a small town you may find it safer to trust faraway commercial entity rather then your neighbor's nephew who works in a local ISP.
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Project’s name conflicts with https://github.com/tox-dev/tox
And he doesn't ridicule people who don't use HTTPS, he ridicules people who spread BS about how it's not necessary.
That's the correct volume element, but not what you want.

The volume inside radius r grows as r^3. It's the inverse of this _cumulative_ density function which maps uniform-in-r numbers to uniform-in-volume ones.
Bangladesh Shuts Down Mobile Internet to Tackle Students' Protest
By that same logic, you might as well just use Fastmail and save yourself the hassle of running your own mailserver altogether - their cheapest plan is $3 a month (or $2.5 a month if you pay for a year at a time).
In that case one should stick to using vanilla git with no aliases, shortcuts, etc.
The reasoning:

"■ The companies on the market today are, on average, much larger than the public corporations of decades ago. Fast-rising upstarts are harder to find."

"■ Profits are increasingly concentrated in the cluster of giants — with Apple at the forefront — that dominate the market."
If you don't trust local ISPs the solution is not to put your eggs into the cloudflare basket which could then be plundered by the NSA fox.

Instead tunnel all traffic to some rented box in a jurisdiction of your choice and then run your own DNS resolver either in your home network or on that box.
Solar/wind are getting cheaper, battery powered flying is starting to be a thing like the existing Alpha Electro https://electrek.co/2018/04/27/all-electric-trainer-plane-ai... and proposed airliners https://www.dezeen.com/2017/09/28/easyjet-will-fly-electric-...
Such beautiful documentation!
You can disable it...

But for the majority of users, it's probably good to have Mozilla negotiate favorable terms with a DNS provider that can be subject to audits, etc.

Who audits your ISP? Does Mozilla do that?
Mastodon is what Twitter could have been without having to serve the interests of people shoveling millions into it. The interests of people shoveling ones and tens of dollars into Mastodon are well-aligned with the users because they're the same people.
"Academic politics is the most bitter and vicious form of politics, because the stakes are so low"
That would work. DoH is "just" a replacement for UDP in this context. However when Mozilla changes the default to DoH of Cloudflare, you will need to manually change all firefox installations.
The outflow of the Mississippi River is literally like six or seven times larger than from all our river systems combined

That's a fun bit of trivia. But I'm not sure what that has to do with the discussion. The sources of New York and Los Angeles water are up to a thousand miles away from the Mississippi River watershed. Neither gets its water from there.
The point is though that users won't change their defaults. When Mozilla sets the default to Cloudflare, > 99.9% of the users will use it.
Nice, it looks like they finally enabled the option [1] for G Suite users [2]. It wasn't available before [3].

[1] https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6156103

[2] https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/12/changing-how-yo...

[3] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/hMeOfq...
I was looking at this yesterday and I also use a PW3. It seemed you actually have to open the case for physical access to jailbreak it. Did you do that? I punted.
You'd have the issue of the golf cart blocking the traffic on the way to the docs and possibly getting hit by cars / trucks.
Consolidation before the new era of company stocks being traded as digital assets.
This completely depends on your business. Are you running many cloud based workloads in a Dockerized manner? Are you having trouble orchestrating, monitoring and scaling those workloads? Then use Kubernetes. In most if not all other cases, Heroku will probably get you through the first couple of years.
+1

You'd think this would mean there was a healthy market for native client apps using the JIRA API with a more pleasant UI (as there certainly is for Git, e.g.), but strangely not.
One of my favorite (and most expensive) hobbies!
Could you post a link to the 59-page article you are referring to? Thanks
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultralight/

Ultralight backpacking. Gets you outdoors, can get quite nerdy though!
This proposal introduces a lot of complexity. It requires JSON parsing, HTTP and TLS. A bug in one of these components could is likely to occur.

In contrast, DNS is very simple and can be implemented with a lot less code.
It’s already happening: the DoH endpoint that Mozilla defaults
to on the CF-Side has a stronger privacy agreement as per https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/06/01/improving-dns-pr...
Ugh, please. At least use the right terminology. It's not "shrinking", it's "consolidating". It's also true that it's not only harder for smaller companies to list (with greater compliance) but it's also less necessary. The article mentions this. With the rise of venture capital, private equity, crowdfunding and even ICOs there just isn't as much need for a company to raise funds by going public.

Consolidation is also not unprecedented. Standard Oil? AT&T? The Sherman Act [1], which established antitrust, was passed in 1890.

As for not having much visibility into what a company is doing, well that was always true. Why do you think so much importance is placed on the reputation of executives? I would argue that it's far easier to find out what a company is doing today that at any previous time.

Take Apple, a now $1T company. Does anyone really not know what Apple is doing? Really?

If you want to talk about consolidation or transparency or compliance costs of publicly listing then sure, go ahead. Those are all topics worthy of discussion. But "shrinking" is not only inaccurate, it's arguably clickbait.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act
> The Domain Name System (DNS) is a service used in converting a computer’s host name or a Top-Level Domain (TLD) into an IP address

Hostnames and TLDs are different concepts in DNS. It is a mistake to conflate them.

TLDs are the top level (rightmost) part of domain names, such as specifically “com” in “example.com”.
> I have had enough of my /heroes/ supporting backdoors. Please stop it.

He specifically mentions that he is against backdoors and excludes them from the topic.
Kemento
They've been talking about peak oil since the late 1950s, and just about every single prediction about it has been wrong. I got caught up in the hype about it 5-10 years ago, and it took a while before I realized it was mostly a garden variety doomsday cult. [Yes there is such a thing as peak oil, and we may have even already hit it, but it's not going to destroy civilization as some have loudly declared.]

Gasoline consumption is not going up the way it used to, and there apparently is a whole lot more oil than a lot of people thought-- I'm guessing due to a combination of countries not providing correct numbers (it's a national security issue after all), new oilfield discoveries and new extraction techniques. Add in more efficient vehicles and alternative energy sources, and you quickly realize the worst that's going to happen is some gradually increased prices for products & services most closely tied to the current cost of fuel.
I think you're confusing two meanings of value. There's an intellectual assessment of market price, a "how much could I sell this for" calculation. But there's also the observed, behavioral notion of value, which is derived from the actions people take. What you call "preference" is what people often mean by "value".
It may be unfortunate, but it makes sense. Crony capitalism and faux-deregulation don't produce enduring marketplace competition -- they bring us back towards the state of nature: winner-take-all monopolies.
I wonder if ratio of (#of public companies on the markets to the population) is directly correlated with Gini coefficient.
The confusion, uncertainty, deeniability, and allegations possible make such attacks, or claims of them, particularly destabilising.

The root of "war" is the German verwirren:

"to confuse, perplex"), from PIE wers- (1) "to confuse, mix up". Cognates suggest the original sense was "to bring into confusion."*

https://www.etymonline.com/word/war

Mission accomplished.
Much of what’s shown in the video is doable today with some effort. The effort required will decrease exponentially over time.
TFA is wrong.
Elements is an old card game, http://elementscommunity.org is a community I enjoyed for years, enough to create an open source offshoot of the game https://etg.dek.im since its developer went AWOL
Paper notebooks and wood cased pencils. Writing with natural things knowing they’re not 1’s and 0’s and they will likely be around for a long time is fascinating.
You mean Subways?
This indiehacker scene is getting weird. People copying Pieter Levels to the pixel chasing some passive income dream.

Some of this junk leaks to HN because the style is literally targeted to the crowd. But these little projects lack depth under the emojis and the cool attitude.

Think for yourself too. You are literally copying everything Levels and the cult are doing. Sprinkling it with emojis, the ridiculous button in the footer. You don't have to do that.
If you have a paid G Suite subscription, you'll have access to their phone/email/chat support [1], and you can call them to find out if your Gmail's linked.

I think the OP's problem was upgrading to G Suite via a new "Gmail for Business" option [2], which I still can't find on my personal Gmail accounts.

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/1047213

[2] https://support.google.com/work/mail/answer/6236599
1. Increase competitive opportunity and capital at the bottom (give easier chances for small upstarts to compete and win)

2. Relax the barrier to entries that only allow big players to compete and win at the top (IPO)

3. Incentivize more people to participate by broadening investor classification.

4. Decrease capital gains taxes.

5. Break up monopolies.
How are ICOs absorbing a considerable share of this 'consolidation'?
thinking about all the nonsense some so called scientists are spreading: lets stop this research until all the ethical questions are answered.
Increased regulatory burden in combination with rise of significant alternative sources for raising capital prob. played a role too.
What can you do with a jailbroken Kindle?
> You say you don’t reveal the prize, but one can remove six cups at random without revealing their contents.

One can, but one cannot guarantee it.

Actually, one can. One can choose 6 at random from the ones that are neither selected, nor hide the prize.

My point is that my phrasing is, I believe, sufficient to allow the listener to determine that I will turn six cups without revealing the prize. In particular I say that I will remove 6 of the other cups and ... will not reveal the prize.

I honestly don't see how that can be interpreted in any way other than to say that I will deliberately not turn a cup that reveals the prize.
This is my personal opinion: The stock market system is obsolete and needs to be revamped for the online world where the world's population is always on, and connected.

I have been looking for other ways to invest than putting my money in the stock market. Luckily today there are new ways to invest that were not available 20 years ago.
I think way too many stocks' prices are disconnected from their actual value (or even future value). To some extent, the stock market has become a legal gambling platform.
Also the market is biased towards the professional traders and it's not serving the average person that worked hard for their small money and it's way too easy to loose a big chunk of your $$$.

Also, i would have loved to see the article talk about the increase in private investments (ie VCs and Angels)
Elon Musk said it himself: he tried his hardest to keep Tesla private but he just couldn't, he had to let go and IPO.
He swore to not make that mistake again with SpaceX (more here: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Elon-Musk-make-Tesla-go-IPO-bu...)
Cryptocurrency Schemes Generate Big Coin
I have always wanted to be part of something like this, but didn't know it existed! Thanks for sharing, you might see me there :)
It's amazing what can be achieved with an Android browser these days.

http://nphysics.org/demo_trimesh3/

Hundreds of objects with gravity and collision-detection falling on uneven terrain.
It does not require rooting on android, the wireguard app[0] falls back to the userspace implementation if the kernel module is not available.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wireguard....
I used to diss imperial units until I’ve started doing a lot of DIY and I can see some advantages using them.

Everything is essentially always divided by two 1 inch, 1/2 inch, 1/4 inch etc, or by 1000 when very fine precision is required.

You never get numbers that are hard to add up, divide or multiply when this especially comes into play when calculating derived units like PSI, clamping torque etc.

And more importantly it makes calculating squares which are often used quite easy it’s much easier to square 3/16th of an inch than 4.7625.... mm

Metric only really allows for easy conversion between magnitude of scale but when it comes to other calculations you get numbers which are hard to accurately calculate in your head and irrational numbers much more often than when using imperial units.

And irrational numbers can’t be measured.
It’s very easy to make a measurement tape that does 1/16th of an inch increments and measuring 3/16th of an inch is a breeze measuring 4.76251784744823823... mm on the other hand is eyeballing it.
I agree without all the smugness. The stockmarket isn't shrinking (or consolidating) because there are less American companies; it's shrinking because it's easier for companies to receive funding while staying private.
Apple is literally the most notoriously secretive of the tech giants.
I'm very impressed with your skill of justification using:

> "Yes, a small cadre of extremists did this"

Also where's the source for "they were kicked out of the Japanese Communist Party"?

Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party#Post-...

> Then after the Korean War broke out, the party staged some acts of terrorism or sabotage, which resulted in a loss of popular confidence.

the plane kidnapping wasn't the only one - it's one of many
I’d say it’s not profitable enough to justify the R&D costs. You can’t sell a $50,000 golf cart and expect the government to give additional incentives.
I do materials research and I'm more blown away by the novelty that Disney is doing basic science.

Am I misunderstanding something?
A strange phone number crept into Indian contact lists, and no one knew why
Ask HN: Is PERT dead?
How do you estimate how many people and time do you need to start and finish a new project from the development side?
Any tools/concepts/ideas are welcome
Does this work on iPhone?

It only changed once for me.

Would be cool to fade between times so I can use an old iPhone as a clock.
You may be thinking of this thread:

https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/issues/121

I couldn't find any evidence of an audit.

There is an actively developed Rust implementation of the core library here:

https://github.com/tox-rs/tox

Of course, any flaw in the specification (for example with respect to key exchange) will still apply if they've faithfully implemented it.
The JSON/HTTP protocol may be more complex than DNS, but Firefox is likely to already have a very good implementation. TLS is new, but important.
Time for some 21st century trustbusting.
"get other sweat deals at ..."

sweat deals? ;)
How do you imagine smart scale investors to participate then? The rich getting even richer by keeping all successful startups private? I don’t wanna live in that world
It may as well be anti-correlated in certain parts of the spectrum. Take a socialist / communist government redistributing wealth and thus dis-incentivizing most people to run anything larger than a food truck, and nationalizing a few large key companies, like transport, mining, etc.
This is awesome and really helpful!

As a piece of feedback, having a large section of concrete Cloudformation examples (both JSON and YAML) would be really, really helpful. There are a lot of examples in AWS' documentation, but they are often somewhat contrived or limited and don't show exactly how disparate services would necessarily fit together and interact. Newer services are often lacking examples, or have only very simple and contrived examples.

And there's very little out there on what the best approach to architect and organize cloudformation is. We're left to kind of take a guess and make it up as we go along. So a section on syntax, architecture, and organization best practices would also be awesome.
I just released a tool for switching between different versions of commands
I truly appreciate Wireguard's simplicity but what's the best way to handle key management and peer address assignment in larger deployments?
This can be done autologously, if mechanical or biological redundancy is available: heart, kidney, liver, etc. lungs are hard, but the talk from old colleagues at UTMB are near-primate & primate donors. There are significant ethical issues with the latter.
Cell phone "phreaking" and ESN/MEID/IMEI crew, they're fun but it's now gotten to the point where it's for profit vs how Qualcomm doesn't care.

Half the people are privacy adverse, the other half just profitters.

Still, interesting to modify and manipulate hardware and software on cell phones, although the scene is very different (and more complicated) then 05 (where you could replace the $SYS.ESN file in Hex and checksum to get a new valid ESN)
It alright, that's why we have HN - not to be always right first and fastest, but to go deeper.
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