skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well... all of the benefit to the user. Google doesn't get to use your DNS requests to sell ads.

How do you envision this working on the product in question? When are you ever making arbitrary DNS lookups in a Chromecast?

Seriously take the tinfoil hat off for a minute and think rationally. Google owns the entirety of the software on the device, and all connections to & from it. There's nothing they gain in terms of data harvesting from hard-coding their DNS here. There is no user input in play at all here. What are they going to harvest from a device that only ever does DNS lookups for their own hostnames?

If this was happening on Chrome, or Android, or something where user input & interaction was actually a thing then sure. But this is a goddamn Chromecast. All it does is watch YouTube and similar. How in any way, shape, or form can those DNS requests in any way help sell ads?
Because I care about them.
Thanks a lot for your comment. The project is open source and everything needed to run the study comparisons is available as well there: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/adblocker/tree/master/bench/com...

We would be really happy to see people running the same benchmarks and try to reproduce the results!
Amazon Project Foundered on Labor Organizing, Debate Over Subsidies
But the organism needs to survive at least long enough to be able to propagate its genes into the next generation.
If it stops raining sometimes in the next year or two I'll give it a try!
For many students in Iran, getting a student visa for MS is difficult. They join a Ph.D program in flyover country.
Maybe some people have a deep-rooted fear dying might not be a final act of suffering?
Most interchange plus pricing is negotiated and covered by NDAs.

Generally, Interchange plus fees(not stripes) range fixed of 0.05 with 10bips settlement fee all the way down to fractions of a penny if you're doing millions of transactions per month. Authorized.net used to do 0.10 and 25bips settlement but I think they only do blended rates now.
> As improbable and out-of-reach the YC/FAANG bar might seem to the everyday HN reader

That's even more condescending than the previous one - and not the point I was bringing up. The majority of successes are based on product innovation, a new business model, market disruption, strategy, growing a niche. Not tech.

All major capitals around the world have hundreds of thousands of millionaires. London alone has more than 350k. With some luck your description might fit 0.01% of the world's successful entrepreneurs.
Maybe because I'm outside the unicorn bubble I can't see the magic, but I find something very warped about a business strategy that combines stratospheric valuation, intentional regulatory non-compliance, perpetual capital injections, service misrepresentation, and unprofessional corporate behavior... and results in massive financial losses year after year.

When I try to balance the elements, it frankly looks like an enormous grift. Some key early investors have probably made out really well, but at what cost to others involved?

Not that the taxi industry didn't need disruption - it desperately needed a modern ride calling and fare estimating feature. But being well regulated and having to compete with a maverick service that simply ignored rules meant that the taxi industry lost while Uber gained.

Drivers for Uber have come out losers as well, earning much less than expected.

Passengers did well at first, but surge pricing and eventual regulatory costs eroded that gain as well.

Late investors? The jury is still out on them, but likely they will be losers too.

Who won?
I found this sick and reprehensible as well.
I'm going to leave the lyrics of my favorite recent song here that deals with the issue in a manner I totally relate to, as a rebuttal to the article. Ghost by Badflower https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/badflower/ghost.html
Boats are holes in the water into which you throw money.
Yep. Sometimes I take a taxi from the airport because it’s right there and ready to go even though it costs more. Otherwise I will, within reason, use whatever gives me the best experiencr.
Thank you for sharing. I wish my words didn't escape me in this moment, but I wanted to post something so you know your comment was appreciated with more than an up-vote.
Cars cost more than that. If I had a choice between a second commuter car or $200/month of ubering, the ubering would be cheaper. Car ownership in the bay is something like this:

* $100-500/month car payment or depreciation

* +$100/month in gas

* $60-120/month in insurance

* $100/month in amortized maintenance costs

= $360/month minimum base cost

And if you work/live in SF or need to go over the bridge:

* $100-200/month in parking space rent

* $100/month in toll bridge costs

Plus adhoc parking costs as you use your car.
I made no claims about overall cost, but pointed out that it taking anywhere near 20 years to build a nuclear power plant is clearly off by an order of 4x at the very least.
NYC tax revenue ebbs and flows on the strength of the finance industry (e.g. recent news that market slowdowns are showing up as a billion dollar shortfall in tax revenue). Google and Facebook are both ad-tech. Amazon would have brought a third major industry to town, something that could have worked to smooth out those tax revenue swings.
Why would it? I lack the context to understand their problems. I may feel like I understand, since I've been suicidal myself, but that's from a perspective of not currently being suicidal.
Agree that it's no longer like it was back in 1998-early 2000 (where all you needed was a pulse it seemed), but I believe that competence and capability will generally overcome obstacles.

Would it be easier if you graduated 6-3 from MIT? Sure! Would it be easier if you already had 2 years at Netflix? Sure! You have to play the cards you're holding at the moment, though.

Side note: I've also heard the complaint recently that companies and recruiters are being too selective by asking about open source or personal projects, so there are definitely some out there. We don't have a set formula; I'm happy to talk about you, your goals, your skills and abilities, and anything else that comes up. If you've got a great personal project, let's talk about it.
Patience to live and die is the finest of arts.
I think you're right. PPP model works when the Government doesn't have avenues of raising funds. In less developed countries, Governments often cannot raise money by imposing taxes or issuing bonds (or they can't to the tune required to fund such things). In wealthier nations, the funding is usually not an issue, the Governments are well functioning. I agree with you that these projects must be scrutinized very closely.
Wow that sounds scary! can you link to any documentation/media coverage about this level of collection?
Haha. Just to offer some more insight, I started taking Uber everyday because it was cheaper than car ownership and I am happy with that decision so far. However, now the math has changed and therefore I am considering other options. My job has decent pay to be honest. Most of my colleagues drive a Tesla for example. But, I am trying out the whole FIRE thing and not escalating my lifestyle unnecessarily.
True and it's true the title is a clickbait overreach without direct evidence in hand, however it's still true that America's decline has been a mostly gradual one and the rich have captured politics and media to lower their own taxes and make regulations favorable to them. As it gets worse, privatization, including public-private partnerships as just the beginning, comes in and takes the valuable and vital parts of communities and society, and sell them off to semi-corporations to charge people for what their taxes already paid for. With time and worsening conditions, vampiric, cannibalistic strip-mining of parts of civilization needed to function ordinarily are sold off, destroyed or replaced with more expensive, substandard substitutes. Today, you're hard pressed to find a water fountain or apart from a library, find anywhere convenient for a public meeting that doesn't require commercial activity. Parks are fewer and farther (except maybe the mandatory public spaces in NYC, that are often in/on top of sterile buildings).

I don't want to sound like a sky-is-falling doomsdayist, but when/if it gets nearer to such a perceived fall of empire, there will likely be overt theft of public and government resources committed almost exclusively by the ruling class, as happend in the Soviet collapse.

Beware the era when the politicians in countries like Brazil or the US, who listen almost exclusively to their rich supporters, stop listening to average citizens and many people stop voting. The French Revolution was also itself a failure of empire due to extreme inequality, and the Yellow Vests are a modern, more mellow resurgence "relief valve" release of dissatisfaction that is by no means an isolated occurrence: Occupy, Brexit, Trump, etc. And as the world becomes "flatter," there will be more and more similar situations happening across countries, and far-right autocrats, rising nationalism, rising xenophobia and populist revolutions are currently some of the most widespread phenomena. Nationalism is especially concerning because it's a leading indicator of another global war.
Understanding the Central Limit Theorem
The justification for OP's position I've heard, and must say it kind of makes sense, is that the US's major benefit to running the empire was having a lot of nations buying its exports. But the US is no longer a net exporter, so the benefits of being the global hegemon are similarly in decline.
Somewhat unfortunate name clash with the now-back-burnered deep learning framework written in Clojure, also called Cortex: https://github.com/originrose/cortex
Sure, I should have been more clear. I meant that you can tell a therapist that you are having suicidal ideation (thoughts about suicide) without a problem, as long as it's clear you don't have any specific plans or timelines to act on them.

I agree that a partial plan could possibly trigger a "better safe than sorry" approach to putting you in emergency detainment.
> Again, it doesn't debunk it because the claim isn't "Current content blockers are not performant", it is that the API allows extensions to do things which cause performance issues, and there's a long tail of extensions that use this API and do create human noticeable delays.

Both of these arguments are easily rebutted and have already been in this thread. As others have pointed out, the modified API still allows extensions to do things which cause performance issues, just not in that particular path. (Also, preventing ad load can improve page load performance so much that even a "slow" adblocker may make up the difference anyway.)

> If you cherry pick performant examples

I don't think these examples are cherry-picked; they're among the most popular adblockers in the landscape:

* https://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/565-best-adblock...

* https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/best-ad-blockers-for-chrom...

As others have pointed out, you can measure and break or shame poorly performing blockers without punishing the ones that work well. So:

> and there's a long tail of extensions that use this API and do create human noticeable delays.

There's a long tail of extensions that are poorly behaved in general.
You can punish those ones without killing the ones that don't suck.
What if you believe there is something after death? Something much better than life now. Then life isn't everything
A HTTPS proxy can't rewrite the contents of your stream. If it redirects to the wrong host, the cert doesn't match.
They can't really raise prices because otherwise local taxi companies will start again.
For me the most interesting feature that PGP lacks is perfect forward secrecy. I use GPG for my email (Thunderbird + Enigma) but wish I had something more modern.
Introducing Cf-Terraforming
I would use only my own votes since quality is merely an opinion.
What? How do you know where OP lives or what is sold there? "Here" and "here" refer to different places depending on who is speaking.
I like the fact that Penn Station existed when it did; when it was needed and when it catapulted a couple of generations to profound success.
>The core intent behind all rational thoughts that a specimen can have is survival; either at the level of the organism or at a genetic level.

Not at all. Your genes aren't better than my genes (presumably) just because they're your genes. The instinct for self-preservation is simply self-replication, which is not rational, but actually mindless. There's nothing meaningful about the drive for copying your genes over and over, it's in some sense the least rational or meaningful thing around.

So when people decide to sacrifice their survival for higher ends, be it scientific discovery, humanity at large, or some other higher goal, that is arguably much more rational.
It’s not about some random $5 charges. It’s about money spending habits that, to use the current meme, don’t bring you joy and collectively can add up to a considerable amount of money.
Investor Steve Jurvetson talks about the allegations that derailed his career
Problem there is, this isn't easy and K8s doesn't do anything about that. You need a whole CI/CD pipeline to build Docker images first.

However, there is https://gitkube.sh/ that looks somewhat similar. Can't vouch for or against - haven't used it at all.
Amazon+Google should just team up and lease an uninhabited land somewhere. Max autonomy, max speed. No doubt they can create a singapore in < 5 years.
Can you email me at daniel@starskyrobotics.com? I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience - that does not match how we aim to recruit and no one should get lost in our process. I personally hate companies ghosting people - we don't do that.
Pressure mounts on Facebook and Google to stop anti-vax conspiracy theories
Like it or not, being a good scientist (read: getting tenure track and funding) is not just about good science, but also exciting, cutting-edge science.

If a scientist runs a couple experiments and find something truly remarkable, the guy who rushes to publish is going to win out over the guy that says “this needs another year of work before it’s perfect”.
Yes, in that case ok. All others, no.
I also wanted to mention that there is a direct correlation between income inequality and suicide rate, I'm also of the opinion that the 'opioid epidemic' in the United States is also a reflection of this. https://theconversation.com/why-is-suicide-on-the-rise-in-th...
"Lombardi’s ruthless focus on the fundamentals made him the winningest coach in the history of football, with more championships (5) than any other coach in history."

Much as I hate everything he stands for, there is a certain hoodie-wearing punk that disproves this.
If I believed that was the case (with absolute certainty), I would probably no longer be here. I would have taken way more risks in my life.

I guess that's why religions have a lot of rules to prevent people from harming themselves and others; it's to offset the increased risk tolerance that comes with religion.
Here's a restatement of what I'm trying to say, the details seem to distract.

Grocery stores, restaurants, and taxis (especially without medallions) are famously low margin, highly competitive business. [1]

Single passenger ride hailing looks a lot like a low margin business.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2017/12/14/why-cant-...
Then DHCP isn't even used/required and this is all moot as clients are fully allowed (and even expected) to self-configure, including DNS if they want. Heck, DNS advertisement via IPv6-RA is still only even a proposed standard: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6106 it hasn't been ratified yet, and support isn't widespread.
Traffic light cameras / stop sign cameras / speed traps operate on the model (% of fines assessed). Judge that as you will.
I'm a bit surprised to see this at liberal Berkeley. It seems to be poised to wipe out scores of low-skilled retail/labor jobs, at the benefit of the business owners and maybe a mechanical engineer.

Reminds me of John Henry from the great Johnny Cash:

"Now did the Lord say that machines ought to take place of livin'?

And what's a substitute for bread and beans? I ain't seen it!

Do engines get rewarded for their steam?"

https://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/johnny+cash/the+legend+of+john...
Thoughts on hiring for startups
Pro tip: if you go to a Chinese restaurant that offers credit card payments, counteroffer with cash and you can get a discount as high as 10%.
Okay, so "gpg -c" is better than other commonly installed command line tools for encrypting a file with password?
Despite what the name may suggest, OpenDNS has always been a for-profit company, and they used to serve ads in the same way ISPs have been criticized for. Offering an alternative to OpenDNS was a good choice.
To suggest that Germany or any European country without oversea territories is threatened military by china is ludicrous scare mongering. China has barely any capacity to protect power much further than it's coastal waters.

And there is something similar to be said of Russia. The US wants to maintain a dependency that is being harder to justify.
Do you call Linux allowing you to specify a DNS server as "circumventing how the internet works at a pretty basic level", too?

There's a vast difference between "users can configure it to what they want" and "it's hardcoded and can't be changed".
> the taxi industry didn't need disruption - it desperately needed a modern ride calling and fare estimating feature

What about areas that had little to no taxi dispatch service before Uber/Lyft?

And what about regions where supply of cab driving licenses was artificially constrained?
Except in this case nobody is controlling your DNS, as Chromecast doesn't let you make arbitrary DNS requests via it.

So Google/Chromecast only knows what DNS lookups Chromecast makes, which changes nothing with regards to privacy or anything else. It can't watch what you're doing, it can't snoop on your web traffic, etc...
Yup, the "centralized" is what I meant by "modern take".
And if you ban unpaid internships, you’d likely have no intern positions at all.

Which is better? Giving the choice of an unpaid internship or no choice at all?
I imagine some people perhaps prowl 'new' and mostly do ground-level comments on stories with very few or no comments; others favour stories with already many comments and leave 4th or 5th level comments mostly, as on pages with hundreds of comments, most are at that height or higher. Early commenters vs late commenters.
And as far as SEO goes, ARM Cortex.

Really, if you want people to use your thing, make it easy for them to find.
Why not just go with plan B all along and save political capital?

Instead they did the dog and pony show of shopping their Decision around, commited to NY and had to backtrack. You can't spin this as a plus for Bezos.
People in Toronto don't have to look far to see PPP in action: The 407 toll highway. I take it a few times a year to bypass Toronto and just a section of it costs me over $30 per one way trip for my little sedan. It seems to be an absolutely enormous money maker with a 99 year lease.
Hypothesis: Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere
You need to pay taxes anyway, it's not a choice you can make.
In both cases the client software ignored the network's settings. It's identical in behavior to the network.

Either that's circumventing how the internet works or it isn't.

Sounds like you agree that it's not, in fact, circumventing how the internet works?
TLS and SSL before it has always prevented MITM from working without configuring your own certificates --- that's the whole point of the security it provides, after all. AFAIK TLS 1.3 doesn't change that.
A few thoughts
1) Why doesn’t PayPal lower fees
2) Use our transit/metro cards as a digital cash equivalent like in many other highly developed cities/countries.
I agree with you and the parent comment. I run a data science department and we rely on SQL. We even embed SQL queries into R scripts to pull the latest data. It isn't worth working with ORM for an analytics project when a few dozen lines of SQL can get you everything you need.
Ask HN: Tools for rational decision making?
Someone stole my phone 2 weeks ago.

I could have walked across the street and purchased any of the 50+ models the store had on display, in under an hour. But I had specific requirements (USB-C, NFC) and didn't want to spend over $200.

I spent over 10 hours searching for a replacement online. I found a good candidate, and a store in my city appeared to have it in stock. So I spent 15 minutes trying to memorize how to get there, walked for over an hour to get there (didn't want to pay $2 for a ride), waited 30 minutes until an employee became available, asked if they had the phone in stock, and learned they they didn't. I then walked back home, got lost, and eventually arrived 2 hours later. I then started my search over, slightly tweaking my criteria.

After 2 weeks without a phone, over 20 hours of research, and visiting 5 different stores, I finally bought a replacement. It's second hand, not exactly state of the art, and I just just found out the vibration motor is broken. But it's too late to return it, as I already left the country. I probably would still be searching for a phone if I didn't have a flight yesterday as a hard deadline.

I'm now looking to buy a case for it. I must have spent 4 hours on this already. Today, I'll visit a few different stores to see if they have it. I found a few online, but shipping makes it expensive and inconvenient.

I do this all the time. Every decision, big or small, is treated as if it's a matter of life or death. I can't seem to make a decision without a non-arbitrary external deadline. I'm doing 99% exploration and 1% exploitation. I value my time at 0.

How do you make rational decisions? What if they're complex? When do you stop? Do you use any tools?
I don't think HN has a depth limit. Sometimes I find the reply link doesn't show up under a comment, but I can usually see it if I refresh the page or click the permalink.
Oh boy, get ready to be awake.
The sad reality of modern "decentralized" software is that organizations, people behind it don't even have any intentions to make it decentralized, to give up control, like BitTorrent did. Nobody cares about the main thing that decentralization is all about - making rule/law enforcement on others practically impossible.

There was a great series of posts about decentralization from BitTorrent people recently:

https://medium.com/@simonhmorris/why-bittorrent-mattered-bit...

https://medium.com/@simonhmorris/if-youre-not-breaking-rules...

https://medium.com/@simonhmorris/intent-complexity-and-the-g...

https://medium.com/@simonhmorris/decentralized-disruption-wh...
Regarding this particular question, my opinion is that context, in the form of problems that suicidal people face, is often a separate issue from the suicidal impulse itself. Lots of people face problems that might make them consider killing themselves, and perhaps rightly so. But in the moment of attempting it, the thoughts that go through most people's minds-- the thoughts that either permit or motivate them to actually carry it out-- tend to be "irrational." Suicide as anger/punishment, for example, is "irrational," as is (usually) the belief that people who love you would be better off without you.
Agreed, and the cult it perpetuates surrounding FAANG companies is annoying and off-putting. I get that it's their marketing gimmick but it still comes across as out of touch and shitty.
But maybe he wants to live on a yacht? Nothing wrong with that, since it can effectively be a house on the water (albeit a very expensive one).