skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Confirming that we are not using Pi-hole, the title is just a catchy way of explaining the service.
I felt something amiss as well, and then I realized what it was, it was built to force compliance in a family dynamic
Any android plans?
Ask HN: Simplest Method to Monetize an API with Stripe?
Mashery, Azure and Apigee seem overly complex and “enterprisey.” I want a simple solution to manage API keys, users and billing.

There was a post about this in 2017 but looking for current answers.
There is a cost to curiosity. Lack of focus. I had a real challenge in my career- I continuously ranged far afield in learning well beyond the direct subject areas of my network engineering career.

That often took away time I 'should' have spent directly researching problem areas applicable to my day job. It finally led me to separating with a company I had been with for 8 years and had a lot of close relationships with.

But what it did was put me on a path to actually use that store of knowledge. Now I'm a Network/Enterprise Architect and a key cog for my current CTO. I wasn't being used optimally previously but I also didn't make sure I was in the correct position that those skills/tendencies could be recognized and not be a hindrance. So much in life is in the framing of things- control that story, and your success is much more likely.
An excellent piece of internet history, this 30 minute doc from 1972 features many of the creators of the internet. Amazing how far ahead the people involved were thinking, many of the concepts wouldn’t be fully realized until decades later.
Most, almost all animals are mostly water. About 2GHz you have a frequency that resonates with water, it's gets stopped by water, including rain. E.g. it's energy goes into the water, this is how the microwave operates.

For this reason it's traditionally considers useless as radio transmission. And turned into a global free frequency span. Making this radio space used by all kinds of devices that you have at home. Wifi, Bluetooth, etc. There is tons of research of how radio and other waves effect the human body.
> Sophisticated open source, IaaS, and SaaS offerings greatly lower the barrier of entry in this industry

I would question this assumption. In my view, the existence of these tools actually increases the barrier to entry because they represent additional skills that developers are expected to posses in order to be competitive in the job market. This is actually a common complaint among developers whenever a new technology gains viral popularity (e.g. AWS, react, k8s).

> That automation of labor runs counter to rising wages

Well of course it does, except for the people who are paid very well to build the automated systems (i.e. programmers). Fortunately for programmers there still isn't enough supply to meet demand, so senior developers on the frontiers of popular technologies can command outsized salaries but still can't do enough work to eliminate the need for their less sophisticated colleagues (yet).

> specialist steeped in closed source arcana

Sure, that doesn't really contradict what I'm saying, but I'd also note that whatever closed source project one might be working on is almost certainly benefiting from a gigantic open-source force multiplier in some form or another.

> When the demand is met and equilibrium reached, I expect salaries to normalize back to what other technical professionals command (e.g. aerospace and civil engineers).

On this we agree. I tell developers all the time that they should enjoy it while it lasts because this definitely won't last forever. I'm pretty bearish on things like AI programmers, but I think open-source and commodity B2B software solutions are rapidly approaching the point where the costs associated with running an engineering department will appear much less imperative.
Until the day that it doesn't.
I would love to try this, but I don't know if I can trust the Privacy Policy, as ignoramus brought up. Could you please explain what data you store and with whom and under what circumstances it would be shared?
What about client subnet?
Tensorflow Object Detection for Real World Problems
very cool! might i recommend creating a config for dnscloak?
That was part of it.

Part of it was also compatibility with existing technology. High speed rail trains in China can switch off of high speed rail lines onto classic rail trackage and provide one seat rides to cities not on a high-speed rail line. Maglevs can only run on maglev, necessitating a transfer, and travelers hate transfers. In Japan this compatibility is less important because the classic rail network is narrow-gauged unlike the standard-gauged Shinkansen, so they never really needed to care about this benefit.

It was also partially a marketing problem. High speed rail technology is very attractive to other countries because it it can benefit from a larger classic railway network, making it more exportable than maglev. There are also many HSR companies; China was able to use technology from Siemens, Bombardier, and Alstom. In contrast, only Siemens knows how the tech behind the Shanghai maglev works, and they've basically dropped the product due to lack of interest.
Because clean is only if you don't include the waste and you never have a disaster. Literally the only way nuclear is clean is in the best possible case scenario, which happens for the most part because of the training and safety that are in place in most countries, but when it doesn't it's bad and impacts huge chunks of the planet. We have had nearly 100 accidents, most occurring in the United States according to Wikipedia. That's not a small number of accidents considering how long nuclear power has been around, it's more than one a year with the majority within the last 40. Most aren't major events, but I'm not sure how minor you can really claim a nuclear event to be. This isn't too say the fossil fuel alternatives are better, but nuclear boosters aren't really doing themselves any favors by glossing over the negatives.
> Nuclear is clean energy

Except the biggest problems with nuclear has to do with extremely hazardous materials.
Yes, but the penis are erect not flaccid.
I tried using it. I'm in India, and while Cloudflare and Google DNS consistently resolve in 60-70ms, nextdns takes between 400-700ms for the first resolution and consistently 250ms for the same query repeated (I presume it caches the results?)

Should I assume you've gotten a huge spike in traffic because of this HN post? If yes, I don't mind trying again in a few days, but unless things improve, I wouldn't be able to use it despite loving it in concept (the UI of your implementation is great too). I don't want to discourage you folks, since you've done a great job with the rest of it.

Thanks for your efforts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/science/5g-phone-safety-h...
So?

Symbolic signifiers are often stylized.

Edit: I will add the leashes are the big headline grabbing detail. I'm not seeing anyone harp on "Those can't be leashes! They are just simplified lines! Where are the dog collars? Where are the knots?"

It's a simplified figure.

It might be more interesting or pertinent to wonder why gender was signified at all. Does this imply some hunters were female? In a culture where hunter = man, would you bother to expend the energy to carve a penis as part of your petroglyph?
It's worth noting that the debt ceiling is not a brake on spending, which continues apace. It is a brake on paying back debt. The analogy to personal finance that debt hawks love would be to rack up a bunch of debt on your credit card, and then balk when the bill comes due.
"Principle: a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning."

These aren't 150 "principles" - more like "150 feel-good marketing statements". Or perhaps I should say, "virtue-signalling statements"

Taking just one example : "Make business human to human instead of b2b or b2c - let's build companies that have humans at the core"

Consumers are human, and businesses are made up of humans, so what exactly is this saying? It seems like "humanity" and "humans" are bing used as a synonym for "good", which makes the whole thing trivial.

If we were serious about something like this, we would try and find 1, 3 or 5 "principles" out of the 150, then we would actually be doing some real thinking in terms of what things mean, relative importance etc
> Would you say that there are material, qualitative differences in the way electronic communication increases an organizations ability to execute, vs, say, people hiding handwritten notes in their underwear?

Would you say that unmonitored electronic communication is an order of magnitude more dangerous to society than unmonitored postal mail?

50 years ago, would you have been this alarmist insisting that the government needs to open and examine every single letter that goes through the mail service in order to make sure that nobody is discussing anything illegal?

> What would you say about someone who claims that hiding notes written on parchment is the same thing as widespread, free untraceable electronic communication?

I don't know, I haven't seen such a person.

Instead, I'm someone who says that communication has, gotten easier and easier every generation, throughout history. Today's electronic communications are a small evolution past paper mail.

If the government really, legitimately suspects you of something, they're free to ask a judge for permission to install a keylogger, or arrest you and search your hard drive. These are things that happen, and they work, and it's fine.

And ya know, I'm really interested in hearing your answer to the questions I've already posed, instead of trying to further caricature my position by claiming the state of the art before the digital age was hiding hand-written notes in underwear.

Would you be willing to accept a police state where AI-controlled body cameras are required to be worn by all people at all times? What's the qualitative difference between the safety boost provided by that, and this world you're describing where we somehow re-bottle the pandora's box of cryptography?
"You can't play a torrented file until the download is 100% complete." Doesn't it depend on the file format in use? Some file formats are streamable, and in that case if the file is being downloaded in order then presumably it can be played (assuming the torrent software stores the file in a streamable way, and the playback software is capable of working with a file that is not yet complete but will get filled up over time).

(In the case of ZIP archives, 7-Zip can't open partial files, but bsdtar can. Although in my case it was from a damaged floppy disk rather than torrent, but the same thing would do, if you are downloading ZIP files from torrent. But if you are downloading music, then presumably bsdtar is irrelevant.)
So you're suggesting RT is behind a Swiss study?
I’m surprised a year of runway could mean a house...?
Our national implementation of the GDPR for the public sector prohibits cross-sectoral access to citizen data.

So while our teachers/nurses could legally use ML for planning as they have a legal right to use the data for planning, our digitisation department can’t build/train/support it and neither can a 3rd party supplier.

Since laws are very open to interpretation, at least until they are tested a few times in the courts, you could interpret them different than us. Which I’m guessing is what our neighbouring municipality is doing. They have the advantage of being 10 times bigger than us though, giving them much more influence, so much in fact, that they may end up paving the way for the rest of us.
> But those mmWaves for 5G are much higher frequency, and they get absorbed by more materials

4G is on the order of 10^9 Hz (1 GHz), and 5G is on the order of 10^10 - 10^11 Hz. Both are non-ionizing radiation, and in the overall scheme of things, relatively close in frequency.

Ionizing radiation causes cell mutation. It starts with UV radiation at 10^16 Hz. X-rays are around 10^18 Hz.

We can't say with certainty that 5G can't possibly have some negative effects, but so far, we have no reason to believe it.
Struggling with health issues? See how this can help
The taxpayer that foots the bill.
This is a service I've been looking for!

But...

Why do you need a shitton of javascript to load your main page?

I cannot see the main page with ublock origin + umatrix blocking 3rd party and firefox finger print resistant options turned on.
I don't see it anywhere. Where does it list your personal info?
It's crazy that we've know how to create carbon negative energy for a hundred years now but no one seems to be aware. We were running cars off of wood-gas during WW2. By gasifying unused woody biomass (wood chips, corn husks, walnut shells, pellets made from essentially trash, etc.) you can run an internal combustion, steam, Stirling or turbine engine and produce char ash (biochar a.k.a terra preta) which can be buried in the soil to enrich it, and also lock away the carbon for hundreds to thousands of years (depending on who you ask). This is carbon negative energy. Next time you go for a walk, look at all of the tree branches and burnable fuel all over. Think of all of the forests that went up in flames in Norther California. All fuel that could have been put to use. Plants are great solar accumulators. We should be putting them to work collecting energy and CO2.
You're right, I articulated my position extremely poorly. The needs of people and civilization should often win out over the needs of wildlife. But almost always in a way that sacrifices only wildlife within a confined spatial region and almost never in a way that threatens an entire species.

If there are species living around the globe that might not be able to continue their current role in the global ecosystem in a world where 5G is pervasive, then we should not allow the use of 5G in the vast majority of the world. The consequences, for humans, via trophic cascade or whatever, would be extremely uncertain. Are the benefits of 5G really compelling enough to brave them? Certainly they are not compelling enough to me.
Er, no, on all counts.

> But those are not science fiction.

Stories based on physics and maths are not science fiction? Are you feeling OK?

> If you tell a story that is within the limits of what we know to be possible with the knowledge that we have right now, you will end up with a very boring story.

Um. Most stories in general stay within reasonable limits of what we know to be possible - are most stories very boring? You basically seem to be arguing that all stories that aren't fantasy are boring, which is clearly untrue.

> Interstellar, which makes for a nice story

Interstellar is tediously boring rubbish :P

> For example, try to write a story where the entire premise is that someone manages to construct an Alcubierre drive. You'd get ...Star Trek: First Contact.

What... no? The phase-space of all possible Alcubierre-drive fiction is not "Vulcans come to visit", any more so than the phase-space of all possible stargate fiction is "Ra gets quite angry".
China’s HSR lines are hardly point to point, neither are japan’s. I can’t remember ever taking a Shinkansen without a transfer at the start, end, or both.

The pudong maglev would be much more useful if it came into shanghai core. Now you have to transfer to it via subway, and so it isn’t faster than a taxi while being similar in cost. The Changsha slow maglev is much better, as it actually goes between two places you might want to transfer between (between the airport and the HSR station). Having had to make that transfer by hired car several times before, I’m looking forward to a much smoother next time.
Many of these resonate with me, but I feel 150 is too many. I try to live by the following:

1. A corporation must equally serve the three groups that come together to make it possible: investors, customers and employees. Losing the long term goodwill of customers and employees for quarterly (or even annual) targets is ultimately unprofitable.

2. Technology is not an end in itself. Focus on solving problems. Don't use machine learning where a spreadsheet would suffice. Don't use Redux, GraphQL etc., unless you have the particular problem they try to solve. Don't cram blockchain into everything.

3. Don't use technology to solve human problems. Use it to make the solution easier. If your team is unhappy, talk to them. Don't create apps to manage their sentiment. But do create an app that helps them express themselves to you easier.

4. Question the prevailing view, especially if it's super-popular: "Fail fast", "Move fast, break things", "Fake it till you make it", "Premature optimization is the root of all evil", "Man days estimates are anti-agile", "Relational DBs constrain your ability to develop quickly" etc.
An aside: I highly recommend reading the grapes of wrath
Even if the setup is easy, production-grade hosting is not.
How about geoblocking? Have you considered adding a smart DNS like functionality?
Yeah, carbide blades will eat aluminum like butter. Just the other day I cut off a 3" x 3" slab of aluminum block with my table saw in 3/4" cuts. Wasn't sketchy, the saw didn't bog down at all, in fact ive cut woods that were far more difficult than that solid aluminum block.
Above 20GHz you mean.
Chris Hayes did a podcast that helps explain the difference. Basically, the government is the sole source of money. If it were to balance its books it would mean the entire economy was zero sum. The government being in debt means its leaving value out in the economy. There’s a surplus of money on the not-government balance sheet.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/debunking-deficit-hyst...
Decentralization. Although this term does not yet apply to the avenues through which this outreach occurs, but give it ten to twenty years and that too will change.
This is one of those things where if you have to ask, it's probably not useful for you. If you have used both WebGL and React, it's obvious why this is an interesting experiment.

This is also what bothers me about reading academic papers. Generally, the set of people who both need the introduction and who can make use of the contents of the paper is an empty set.
It seems odd to me that there are so many anti-5G stories. It almost comes off as deliberate and targeted. I would imagine that the science of what levels and frequencies of EM radiation are safe is settled.
Hard to say, since I'm in a very heavy wireless environment (my Macbook sees 30-40 different SSIDs). I still get 200-250 Mbps (real speed, to a device connected to the same network) with only 2x2 radios on both ends. More importantly, that's reliable too. I've never seen it drop to less than that, and I've never had even a single problem connecting to WiFi, random reconnects, etc.

Maybe I could get more out of it if I tried switching channels or something, but I'm pretty happy with it as it is. If my Internet speeds were anywhere close to that maybe I'd try their "AC-PRO".
Thanks!

> Auto-detect OS and suggest specific setup instructions right on the landing page?

It should already pre-select your OS tab on my.nextdns.io on the Setup page? If that's not the case, then it's probably a bug.

> The website goes blank when I block third-party JavaScript from loading. Can you please see if you can fix that?

Weird, we will have a look.

> simplednscrypt has been handy for me to DoT/DoH/DNSCrypt with AdGuard DNS on PC. You could include instructions in the Windows section for that? https://dnscrypt.info/implementations/

You can use your custom sdns:// endpoint listed on the Setup page, we assumed users using dnscrypt clients would know what this means. Good point, we will add setup instructions for it.

> Provide a generic DNS endpoint like AdGuard does?

We already have them, we decided to not show them on the website as it may confuse users. We may add them back.

> What's the backend that fronts DoH, DoT, and DNSCrypt queries? Is it simply relayed to Cloudflare underneath the covers? How do you do that?

It's a custom-made backend, and we recurse using unbound (we don't forward to cloudflare or anything like that).

> Re: Privacy Policy: "We store user data following modern security standards". What user data is stored using what modern standards? I like the terse policy document, but I feel there needs to be a fine print detailing data collection and data retention.

We will definitely improve that, we had to make some calls on priorities for the launch.
Blame a company to capitalize on cost saving through a completely reasonable approach?

Yeah fuck Google!
Just letting you know I saw this.

Back later when I can consider it properly. You dropped a lot. Great, but I have to plow through it and will.

We have a common interest apparently.
We know, unequivocally, that high-power radio waves in certain frequency bands can cause tissue heating (e.g. it isn't ionizing radiation like what you see in UV and beyond, where photons have enough energy to displace electrons and cause unfortunate events, but just that it slightly increases the energy state). This particular study put very high power outputs right beside rats from gestation in the womb to their death, and paradoxically saw that their average lifespan was increased, though there were other cited ailments (which could be simply due to higher lifespan tissue temperature). Ideally you don't have a cell transmitter right beside you from birth to death.

The average exposure is many magnitudes lower. And given that heating is the only scientifically possible outcome, it is a pretty well studied area, but we should surely keep doing more.
I wonder if KidSwitch violates this. I mean, it actually claims to track user behavior. Isn't that "data collection"?
I actually was just looking at it a few days ago. Interesting project, and looks designed exactly to produce academic books and texts. But it's not programmable in the TeX sense, where you can extend it to do new things within the language -- it's just that PreTeXt's base features include most of the things I want.

I'm trying to resist writing another book, since I know how much time it would suck up, but if I do, I'll probably look at PreTeXt and maybe Scribble as options.
Beyond Cookie Monster Amnesia: Real World Persistent Online Tracking
Sovereign currency issuers don't have debt the way non-sovereign entities do (or sovereign entities that use a currency they don't issue). The federal government can always coin money to pay its debts if it needs to. So the likely outcome of the democratic House trying to force a default is Trump ordering Mnuchin to mint a $1 trillion platinum coin with Trump's profile on the obverse and depositing it at the Fed. Which will then be enjoined by a 9th circuit district judge because Trump did it, even though back in the Obama years the exact same thing was acknowledged as entirely legal.

Remember the funds are already legally appropriated! So minting a coin isn't the executive violating separation of powers. It's just an accounting gimmick. The resulting funds can still only be spent as authorized by congress.

Another factor is that the Fed might just let Treasury overdraw it's account. Even normal commercial banks can allow demand account holders to spend into the negative as a courtesy. I imagine extremely wealthy private individuals with a private banking relationship can overdraw into the millions. The Treasury is obviously an extremely wealthy "person," not just because it can create money (by coining, I'm not sure if Treasury can still print US Notes, but I do know it doesn't), but also because of its taxing power, vast real estate holdings, and other assets.
I've been a diarist before logging my mood. I stopped because it was homework. Yet it was worth doing.