skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the dirty secret behind calls for "privatization", "let the market decide", and "small government". You have no rights against an oppressive corporation that you would against an oppressive government. You didn't have a strong financial advantage and upper head against a large multi-national corporation in getting them to agree to not violate your human rights? No? You lose.
I get the appeal, and I get it's a PITA. But, if the referenced CloudFlare support document is to be believed, then you'll be putting yourself at additional risk by whitelisting, or otherwise "turning down" the security related settings for Tor users.

Let's pretend for the minute the support article is accurate, and let's pretend CloudFlare's security checks are useful. (I don't have any opinions/knowledge myself if there are true/false, so let's assume they are true - as most CF customers will).

Why should I turn off the security CloudFlare is providing me? The appeal doesn't give me anything I can use to justify turning this off. Given the percentage of tor users vs not-tor users, I can't really call the "it bothers Tor users" statement justification for turning this off.

I know it shouldn't be needed, I know anonymous browsing should be taken for granted, however - reality is - it's not. For an appeal like this to succeed, or even make a measurable dent, you'll need more.

I do hope you find more, anonymous browsing should be the norm, not the exception - but I don't believe this appeal will make a dent.
We took "Show HN" out of the title. A list of resources doesn't count as something people can try out, as the rules describe at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
I have been using ThinkPads, exclusively, since the year 2000. I never had ANY failure of any kind of any of my 5 machines.

I currently use T440s which I bought immediately after it became available in 2013 and I wish it broke so I had a pretext to buy a new one, but the sucker will not die.

I had to hack firmware to get LTE modem to work and the screen probably aged and is not as bright as it was. Other than that everything works perfectly.
Tech is more deeply ingrained in people's lives than hollywood or any of the other examples ever were.
This seems less like a dialogue revolving around the post and more like a promotion of TOR
these folks were the first to push CASE tools, which are a footnote in software history because they failed rather completely in actual production usage. they invented COCOMO, which never gets used for the easy reason of routine order-of-magnitude margins of error (60% in studies, 600% in practice...). they were the biggest pushers or UML and graphical programming, which dies and lives again and again in increasingly zombified states...

have a dealie about cocomo specifically, I suppose.
http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2016/05/19/cocomo...
"Potato Paradox" just sounds so much better than "Water Balloon Paradox"
Very exciting! I made a simple bot to scrape lunch specials menus off Instagram and post them to my company's slack (http://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/projects/2018/05/07/Soup-Bot...).

One point point was making custom lambas to spin up/down the DB and everything that was needed to use it (a NAT on EC2, and an elastic IP since the default NAT aww provides is pricey). The bot only needs to run for an hour on weekdays so there's no point keeping everything running 24/7. Excited to try replacing all of that with this!
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> stellar observations that we use to claim that the sun will become a red giant and destroy the earth

No. We have never observed a star become a red giant. That process takes millions of years, and we have only been doing astronomy for a few hundred. The reason we know that the sun will become a red giant is not because we have ever observed this process happen, but because we have an explanatory theory of how stars work. Going into detail on how that process works is a little too long for an HN comment. If you really want to know, read David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality", particularly chapter 7. (Or go straight to the source and read Karl Popper.)
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What you describe is a teeny-tiny bit of a a spoiler. Erring on the side of cation, obfuscating my reply.

The book you're talking about was by Alastair Reynolds. It's the third book in the "Other" section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#Novels.
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Last I checked (a year ago), it is true that you have to be endorsed. This is definitely a barrier to someone outside of research, but not impossible.
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It is a fact that he said those words.

It is not a fact that "[He] was encouraging a foreign adversary to illegal hack into messages by a former Secretary of State...." That is an interpretation of the fact. Likely he is aware that Russia and other adversaries have already attempted such hacks.

One can disagree with him making such a statement without offering interpretations that are more complex than the obvious: a jab at Clinton. And one can offer more complex interpretations without resorting to obvious hyperbole.

The media "on both sides" is filled with hyperbole and rhetoric, and I am saddened that it is controversial to point this out, just because the underlying event is controversial.

The GP's point seems to be that we should attack things on merits rather than resorting to hyperbole and mischaracterization. In any other context, I think most of HN would agree with this idea, but whenever politics are mentioned, HN posters and voters seem to become a microcosm of American politics at large: anything is justified because the other side is wrong.
Great, now we are determining the merit of a statement based on grammar and choice of words... (Written on a phone, so your mileage may vary)

If you are in LA (Los Angeles) it’s easy enough to look me up.
Sounds like the Spacing Guild from Dune.
Many communities are double blind. Your lack of affiliation won’t hurt you in that case, because the reviewers won’t know. You will, however, probably get dinged for not knowing the standards, practices, and nuances of the community.
One use case would be Air conditioning, most needed when it's sunny/hot.
this, basically. I've been programming since I was 8 and professionally for decades. Shenzhen I/O was very cute at first and then just became an exercise that closely resembled work.
IMHO You're only a pawn if you're trading hours of your life for amounts of money that can't buy your freedom. So you're not a pawn if you run a company and you're not a pawn if you're an employee with enough equity to make FU money.

http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
Paper ballots are not the obstacle. (I like paper ballots with optical scanning, as in my main post.) The obstacle is that there are some who want there to be no machine involvement in tabulation of results.

Media is hyping the fear of 'election hacking' to the point where people I know personally want everything to be done manually, no machine or computer involvement at all.
For me it is the speed difference that makes handwriting so satisfying and good. I type faster then I think, writing however is slower. Handwriting gives me more time to consider the content and often leads to higher quality content.

Whether it be love letters or an important business message, handwriting it helps.
We vote entirely by paper ballots and additionally by mail in Oregon (Senator Wyden is OR). You have 2-3 weeks to read through the issues, candidates, and then make hopefully responsible and educated choices. And if you don't want to pay for a stamp, there's numerous dropboxes around town where you can deposit your ballot at your convenience.

There's no rush to the polls, nobody has to skip voting because they couldn't get to the polls, and for the outliers who aren't able to receive/send mail, they can pickup their ballots at the local county elections office.

Oregon was also the first state that instituted automatic voter registration.
Beyond that though, Lenovo has a track record of cramming pre-installed, hard-or-impossible-to-remove malware on its machines. On some models, it's even at the BIOS level [0].

At a minimum, I would be very suspicious of anything pre-installed on a Lenovo laptop and that includes the ones that ship with Ubuntu.

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...
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I faintly recall an anecdote about a writer who, when asked what writing they did yesterday, said "I put in a comma" -- "and what did you do today?" -- "I took it out again." Maybe some HNer will recognize the story and remind me who it was about :-)
If the conference is double blind, how could you even tell? Also, there are plenty of single author papers in compilers and PL that are considered seminal, actually most seminal papers are single author. Multi-author papers are typically student ones.
> This is what mkcert does

> Not sure the difference between it being an npm package or a Go project on GitHub is that large.

I know mkcert also does this. I also agree that other maintained projects are good too. My comment was in response was to it's parent, which reads:

> So you could use openssl commands and have actually less installation requirements.
Just spoke to the team at YC, they’ve extended the cut off time for us! You should be able to apply now. The deadline is 11:59pm PST, that’s tomorrow 7:59am GMT.

Let me know if you would like feedback on your answers. Happy to arrange help.
Have you tried the surface book one?
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What I find immoral is not putting them to sleep.

Some fur farms do literally skin foxes alive. This is because, __if I remember correctly__, ripping the pelt off in one go produces something of the highest quality/grade because the fox was standing on its feet while the skinning took place. I think if it's lying down it flattens the pelt out, and there's some risk of tearing.

At least, I think this is what I read. I'm not trying to editorialize/dramatize, but all I can vaguely remember from that one random webpage I found showed a skinned fox('s insides), so that's what got mentally filed away... it wasn't (that) horrible (well, if you basically switch your emotions off), but that impression kind of took precedence over remembering anything else from the webpage, which I (unfortunately) cannot possibly remember where to find now.

In any case, I remember there being a legitimate reason other than pure maliciousness, and I think it was something to do with pelt quality.

I think some places use a two-electrode stun/kill technique; one probe end goes in the, uh, back; and the other probe (perhaps it's a ball? I've never cared to find out) goes in the mouth. Bang. I have, for the purposes of simplicity, decided that this method is reasonably humane. (Hopefully it doesn't burn the tongue?) I wouldn't mind hearing others' opinions.

(Written very late, excuse tiredness)
I'm not sure about France, but it's rare to have air con in the UK because the summers aren't hot enough :) I think a lot of Europe is similar in this regard (with the exception being the south).

Even if France does have a reasonable number of air con units installed, I would expect energy consumption to be higher in the winter due to shorter days etc. It would be good to see statistics though.
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double-blind review has not come to the biosciences, I'm sad to say. Or at least not my corner. I don't know who my reviewers are (though often enough i can guess); they do know who I am.
Yeah, I remember AMD's bulldozer architecture coming out much worse on Windows based benchmarks.
What I find with potential macbook replacements is that while specs can be higher, or even much higher, which is quite easy to achieve, it is the build quality that starts to drag behind, and even if something is comparable in that respect – cooling is what can easily spoil the entire picture.

Like Dells, for example, whose fans never stop event when you're just browsing. At leas the ones I've seen. Does anybody know a performant laptop that can compete with macs in terms of quietness?
I think the big difference is you didn't hear of heavy metal or rock bands hiring psychologists to engineer their product.

There was an element of TV and advertising to sell you a physical product. What is different with tech is the stimulation of the brain that it accomplished something or makes you feel good about something (likes on a social media pic).

Game and social media companies aren't just grabbing your attention to show you a cool new toy. They are grabbing your attention by hiring psychologists to help engineer their product (game, social media) so you don't want to put it down. Many mobile games are engineered like a heroin dealer - first one's free, you get to a certain level/time played and you have to pay to get ahead.

That is much different than seeing a commercial for a new Star Wars toy. And much more different than an older person not relating to new technology.
Hello HN, author here! :)

Something I would love to collect some feedback on is: how would mkcert have to change, if at all, to support a production CA (for stuff like internal machines talking to each other)? Should it even try, or does a tool like minica do the trick there?

And please open an issue if it doesn’t just work on your dev machine!
Installation of a binary is also a hoop.
> they just boldly say fuck you to net neutrality

That's not what "net neutrality" means: Cloudflare is a service the site operators choose to pay for.

An example of actually saying fuck you to net neutrality would be your ISP announcing that access to "premium web sites" will be slowed to 10kb/s unless you pay an additional fee.
To me, it's definitely not the "most credit-giving way" or the "most childish thing". The Russia angle is a really big deal, it goes to the core of the legitimacy of Trump's presidency. Not only that, it demonstrates the direction his authoritarian tendencies is likely to lead the country into, with his open admiration of strongmen and inexplicable questioning of the historic goodwill within the NATO alliance.

His guilt over Russia involvement can be inferred by his constant obsession and attempts to discredit typical law enforcement investigation practices. It is a big deal to have a sitting president acting similar to how a guilty defendant would with (1) a video inviting computer hacking, (2) documented lies or rewrites of "official" statements about a Trump tower meeting of senior Trump campaign officials with the representatives of the invitees, (3) an announcement of an upcoming press briefing about contents (emails) of the hacking target made at the time of the meeting, (4) news reports of surveilled increase in hacker activities at the time of the hacking invite.

All of the above are not credit-giving or childish. At the same time, an alternative of explaining government policies and trade numbers would likely not get through the electorate, and in my opinion unlikely to change hardened or media-saturated minds.
Another point here: in CS, there appears to be little to no difference between "conference paper" and "journal paper".

That is _not_ always the case. In the biosciences, "conference paper" means "an undergrad could do this half-asleep, and probably did; nobody actually cares much."
I'm curious about the LOCs. I believe (but haven't bothered to verify) that code swells and then contracts in cycles. Expansion is due to the drunken sailors walk thru the solution space, as everything is tried. Contraction is due to identifying best fit (good enough) paths, code deduplication, dead code (and feature) removal, generalizations hard earned thru experience.
I also recently left a MBP for a Lenovo T-series laptop. One of my favorite things is the keyboard. It doesn't compare to a mechanical keyboard or anything, but it's much nicer than anything Apple offers (Which seem to keep getting worse)
To put it simply, some things should make you angry.

To fail to distinguish between those and things where anger is ginned up to push an agenda, throw up your hands and say “I dunno, everyone is just angry now I guess” is not exactly a stellar bit of analysis IMO
Star Control II, one of the inspirations for Mass Effect, also had some very interesting cosmic-scale intrigue, between many different species interacting over eons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Control_II
Share a lede? I think you might mean "share a byline".
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For the last point, never put your name on a paper that isn’t yours, even if you help out with the editing. It isn’t your works, if someone asks you about it later it will be awkward. That isn’t even mentioning that the quality of the work still might not be up to your own standard. The only case where this doesn’t apply is adviser-student relationships, but in that case the adviser should really be more than just an editor.
You would do this at home because that is where residential PV is located. Of course it's more obvious to send the power back down the wire and, as you said, convert to hydrogen centrally.

My question looks silly now in contrast, but it was thought up considering that grid buyback isn't going so well in the us, and focusing on a safe way to store and use hydrogen as a battery competing with flywheels or lithium battery cells, or centralized pumped hydro, etc. Just a hypothetical.
The trouble with this article is that’s not an “in-depth”. It is not based on scientific rigor, but rather on a certain assumption backed by the boasting of a certain B.J.Fogg.

Moreover, the observed behavior is certainly not something new to our present time.

If anecdotal evidences are of any use, then I can relate my own childhood experience. I was truly obsessed with computers in my teens, and avoided talking to my parents. The only difference is that this happened 25 years ago in post-Soviet Russia.
We've banned this account for continuing to use HN primarily for ideological warfare despite many requests to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We only have Thinkpads here and although it's an older model now, I've had to replace about 30 SSDs in the L460s. I don't know whether to say that's Lenovo's fault though, as they've all been Intel SSDs replaced with other brands.

Other than that all of our T series laptops are great, the new L470s are great, desktops are great, etc.
There are real reasons to have Ethernet. For one, many companies don't allow access to their resources over WiFi. I also do large part of my work on remote VM and lower latency of Ethernet makes it more smooth.
Summer is not usually a popular time to visit Vegas, so it's a tonne of business in the off-season when the rooms would otherwise not be booked. Also, hackers have money these days, it's probably pretty lucrative overall despite the shenanigans.
Not really. Macbooks have notorious build quality. Go watch some Louis rossman videos.
It's an argument for "why you should care", which is relevant to the post.
The exact same thing is true of any certified piston engine but on a shorter time table. Piston engine need to be removed and overhauled at the factory every 2000 hours and if a prop blade grazes the ground or hits a bush it needs to be removed, fully disassembled and have a die penetration test done at a minimum.

Also, a bush plane is, by definition, any logistics aircraft that doesn't need a runway which those very much fall into.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749712

Looks like it briefly hit #1 then plummeted, likely it was flagged (although that's just a guess):

http://hnrankings.info/17749712/
I would argue that psychological manipulation is at the heart of all 20th century media and advertising. If you haven't seen it, check out The Century Of Self. It covers the roots of 20th century marketing and individualism (psychology).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

Bands may not have hired psychologists but record labels were definitely manipulative to fans and artists alike.
OK, but what would that mean for us?

What does a "hot house" Earth look like?
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The Lepton modules you can buy are limited to 9fps, yes. They do seem to make some that are higher frame rate, but they aren't advertised anywhere.

FLIR and other companies like Seek[1] are selling 15/30fps imagers that are not much more expensive, though not in modules for DIY use.

The Seek Compact Pro[2][3] does a pretty good job for the ~$500 price tag

[1] https://support.thermal.com/hc/en-us/articles/208377803-What...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgyr-4u06FU

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybDpuFecruM
In another electronic voting thread last week, I had a highly upvoted comment describing the Minnesota paper voting system (credentials: I have been a MN election judge). Part of the beauty is that it's so easy to understand. You see all these interlocking checks, and how they work to make large-scale manipulation/fraud impossible.

I don't think my mom knows what a blockchain is.
That's an excellent article. Thanks for the link.
Even CS is diverse, but in my area journal papers are lower quality than conference ones.
It would be cool if you could set a header to Cloudflare when a user is logged in, perhaps with that user's ID. That could then trigger significantly decreased security.
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The way we fight this in programming is comments and documentation. Perhaps we need something similar for laws? I see the Federalist Papers mentioned quite often in constitutional law; are there other bodies of debate and paper that provide similar justification around other laws? There might also be room for "non-binding" clauses when writing the law.
It seems pretty directly relevant in response to the claim that "the Nazis came to power by opposing Socialists".

As far as the implication you mention, I wouldn't say that calling yourself a socialist automatically makes you one; I would say that to determine what "socialist" is supposed to mean it is informative to look at what people calling themselves "socialist" believe; but I would especially say that it's unlikely for the "national socialist workers' party" to have come to power by opposing "socialists".
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