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Sources: US to Question Ola Bini, Assange Pal Jailed in Ecuador
That is kind of depressing. My wife would swear I was joking if I told her that we could rent a house for $3,000 more than our mortgage that was less than half size and looks like something built in the 70s.

And people on HN wonder why software engineers living in other major cities in the US have no interest in going to the west coast.
While I was originally thinking about the finance space and not the technicals of shared DBs themselves, I feel like N nodes introduces a weakest-link problem where one trusted actor subverts the rest. A hypothetically perfect BFT protocol would prevent this, I suppose, but I know nothing about them or their current state today.

Are the resources guarding those seven nodes equally proportioned? How hard is it for a bad actor to potentially subvert one and cause it to pass bad-but-trusted data? Can these nodes be switched with other, potentially less-secure or hostile nodes? How are additional nodes added to the network; is there a credentialing process that could potentially be attacked? Who maintains each node, what is their level of sophistication, resourcing, and control?
In the event a primary care/urgent care doc disagrees with a hospitalist on the need for admission, why is sending them to the ED the right move? I was under the impression the ED is mostly for triage, and it seems like patients in this situation have already been triaged. It also seems like the sort of disagreement about the need for admission between urgent care and hospitalist is also going to happen sometimes between ED docs and hospitalists. How do those disputes get resolved?
You're thinking bigger rather than smaller. I learned my lesson about prying with screwdrivers after gouging a couple of PCBs I was trying to repair when my sharp metal "pry tool" slipped, so now I exclusively use nylon pry tools around my electronics. They are cheap and disposable in a good way. Get a 50 pack for $10 on Amazon :)
If you are not exposing any tcp ports or reaching out directly from those devices to a malicious host, then very unlikely. Either way, it's best to check the vendors site or open a ticket with them, if that is an option.

An alternate option would be to put the device behind another firewall or load balancer or proxy that you know is not vulnerable.
You are begging the question. What laws have been broken? Which CIA leader should have been charged? Nobody is impartial, but you have Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee who seem pretty hostile to the CIA who can fill that role.

The last big CIA scandal was Iran/Contra, and four from the CIA ended up indicted: Joseph Fernandez, Alan Fiers, Duane Clarridge, and Clair George. The CIA director, William Casey, probably would have been indicted but died.
> ...and I then fork it and makes some modifications as part of some non-commercial hobby project, and then the author of the original project sends a DMCA takedown notice against my non-commercial hobby fork, then legally I would not be in a very strong position.

In agreement with the pragmatic implications, but I still genuinely struggle to see the point. The financial constraints of legal defense is what strikes me as the killer of non-commercial hobby projects if the hypothetical scenario would arise; with or without appropriate licensing terms, there's really nothing to stop an original project with the financial means and intent from issuing a DMCA takedown and outspending an unfunded project in legal maneuvering. IANAL but at least it sure does feel that way in my limited experience.
Why Gibson Guitars Failed at Innovation – As Fender Thrived
You say it doesn’t matter, and then immediately say it was terrible. Which is it?

May have had an impact on those 6,286 African Americans who were excluded.
Why are you not a fan of adblockers, if I may ask?
I recently gave a talk at a local programmer meeting about free and open source licenses and how they affect revenue opportunities.

This led me to a more in-depth look at SSPL and at the Commons Clause.

My (amateur and shallow) analysis was about the same as what Kyle E. Mitchell writes (though mine was more amateurish and shallow).

I concluded that Fedora was wrong in arguing that SSPL was not open source because it "is intentionally crafted to be aggressively discriminatory towards a specific class of users"

This seemed to be a call out to the guideline that a FLOSS license could not, for example, prohibit its used in 'the military' or 'nuclear power facilities'.

However, at the broad level, the GPL 'is intentionally crafted to be aggressively discriminatory towards' the class of users who would further restrict software freedoms. So that along isn't enough justification.

Elsewhere it was clear that that class was meant to be "cloud providers".

I disagreed with that too. The GPL discriminates against "operating system vendors" too, before there were any operating system vendors who decided to include GPL'ed software.

This "class of user" argument against the SSPL seemed to conclude that it was impossible to be a cloud vendor without using proprietary software.

I'm glad then to read "That speaks directly to MongoDB’s history. MongoDB, Inc. began as 10gen, a startup attempting to offer a fully open source cloud." as it fit into my understanding.
> Whatever utility that feature may have is clearly outweighed by all the harm it's causing

I'm curious. What utility does spoofing a phone number have?
Phone gives you QOS, data does not. Until my zoom packets get prioritization, nothing beats POTSoIP
I ran into that, in an old house.

Some decades ago, the house had two meters. One was just for the hot water heater. But when they removed that one, they just connected the water heater to the main meter. Directly. Not through the breaker panel.

Damn. Almost killed me.
My advice works better for experienced candidates, but new grads definitely have code to share.

I do think that coding tests have more of a role for new grads, though.
Apple advancing stereoscopic vision tech for future AR glasses
Kinda ironic, since letting your bank/doctor/employer call from the same outbound number is literally the purpose of spoofing.
Are you talking the cost of putting it into a landfill?
I've taught pointers to multiple people who struggled. C makes pointers difficult by having some syntax oddities that seem to mainly be intended to save a few characters of source code. The biggest trouble is that C often gives you a free ampersand ("&") when you need one.

Consider that p=f and p=&f both can be used to assign the address of a function f to a function pointer p. To a beginner it could look like p takes either type, or that the & really serves no purpose.

Consider these four lines of code:

char *p1 = "hello";
char a1[] = "hello";
char *p2 = &"hello";
char a2[] = &"hello"; // only this one is junk

For the assignment to p1 you get an implied & effectively added into your source code. It may be convenient, but it leads beginners astray with muddled thinking about types.

A little-known limitation of C is that you can't really pass arrays to functions. You get that free & again, meaning that you end up passing a pointer. We should need to do printf(&"hello world\n") but that would be inconvenient, so instead we have a language that appears to behave in inconsistent ways.

Array dimensionality plays a role here. A real X by Y array, with two dimensions X and Y, can syntactically be used in the same way as an array of pointers to arrays. After being passed to a function, the sizeof operator breaks for both (since now you have just a pointer) but the 2-dimensional nature is lost for only one of the styles.

Even the bracket notation is trouble. It is why cute stuff like 4["foo"] can be used to mean 0. That seems harmless enough, but the oddities extend well beyond syntax that nobody should be using. Other issues are pointer arithmetic being surprising and some people being surprised that pointers have types beyond simply "pointer".

I find that the best hope for a clear understanding is to constantly remind the student of the above, right from the start. This is slower going, but it prevents serious misunderstandings from persisting and building on each other.
Optimize Call-To-Action buttons to boost conversions
Lead pollution hypothesis is one of many plausible explanations and shouldn’t be presented as fact.
My gut reaction to this claim is always that it seems wrong; that the metric we're using to measure productivity must be missing a big part of the story. Why is that reaction wrong?
Skid row isn’t the bottom 50% though. It’s the bottom 0.01%
In fact, if the suburbs were going to be sustainable without extra government funding in the long run, they would have been developed without the government's helping hand in the first place.

This is exactly the problem that finance exists to solve.
Do Not Disturb mode on more recent Androids (and I believe iOS too) effectively does this. I configured my phone to just not even ring for non-contacts, so I only see it if I have my phone open already. Otherwise I only find out when I see a voicemail later. It's been on for 3 months and I think 1 has been legitimate.
The Private Sector’s Role in Transit Innovation
my old mustang had 10 old fashioned buttons under the screen that i could use to dial a phone number. new jeep has a rectangular thingy that could swallow up everything, but somehow it didn't swallow 10 buttons, so i have to pull up the phone to dial a number while driving.
Exactly so. As I understand it, the Vermont plan was drinks in containers that weren't being refilled were going to be banned. So wash and reuse or you ain't selling that beer. :)

Reused glass milk and pop bottles here in the UK didn't seem different in weight or thickness to non-returnable bottles of the same era. They've all got thinner over the years. The oldest milk bottles I can remember, from the 70s, were indeed quite chunky but they'd mostly gone by the 80s. No idea how long they'd been around though.

The last fizzy pop refilling scheme I know of died about 5 years ago, leaving just a few dairies using it for milk.
Any business with multiple outbound lines might find it handy.

There’s probably a better solution.
Think of every company that wants all outgoing calls to show the same phone number. Not just call centers, but also doctor's offices, corporations, and even the mechanic down the street.
> To be sure, using the term "risk" in the context of licensing speaks quite clearly in my mind of interests aligned with commercialization (or the prohibition thereof).

There are other risks, like the risk of wasting time learning something that will one day be very expensive and proprietary, will disappear completely, etc.
Some of the Harbor Freight stuff is great. For wrenches and ratchets that get pushed to the limit though I'll exclusively use one of the more pricey brands just out of fear of slamming my knuckles after a tool snaps. Its one of my biggest fears working on anything even after having it happen with minimal damage enough times. For everything else I'll use whatever is closest.
That is exactly the argument of the paper the OP is promoting [1]: that the cost of education is due to the "Baumol Effect:" it is an industry dominated by the cost of human contact (the teacher's time) and human contact is not subject to productivity gains in the same way other goods are.

In other words, it isn't that education isn't unusually expensive, it's that everything else is unusually cheap. From the paper's conclusion:

"The Baumol effect is the best explanation for rising prices in education, healthcare, and other service sectors. In that sense, and only in that sense, is there something “wrong” with the service sector—namely, that it’s hard to increase productivity in services. Or we could equally well say that what’s right with the goods-producing sector is that it’s easier to increase productivity in goods. Whatever the explanation for this difference in productivity growth, however, it’s a difference, like the difficulty of domesticating huckleberries, that cannot be traced back to policy. We should neither ignore this difference nor make too much of it."

That's the paper's perspective. I'm not promoting it myself, but I did find it to be a sensible argument.

[1] https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/helland-tabarrok_why-a...
How big of a blacklist can you have? Say a billion, minus a few hundred? ;)
I just looked at my call log. It ranges from around 90% real calls to 90% spam. The net effect of all of this is that I never answer a call that isn’t a contact anymore. It’s kind of hilarious that my Smartphone is now mainly an answering machine.
LA City Councilman: Pull Permits for Uncooperative E-Scooter Companies
That's how they are designed, not how they work. There is little stopping manufacturers from doing voice analysis locally, they simply choose not to.
If they’re just media presenters then maybe they should let a “journalist” do the interviewing?
They're talking about net, not gross.
People calling from company phones, but wanting callbacks to the switchboard.

People with multiple phone cards, but wanting callbacks in one place.

People with phone numbers belonging to another country.

Doctors responding to out of hours requests, but not wanting to share their direct contact.
In the event anyone needs this, you can also override outbound mss in case someone is telling your client to use a low mss.

This goes in the mangle table. DO NOT use this example unless you know for sure what you are doing.

iptables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING -o eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST,ACK SYN -m tcpmss --mss 1:100 -j TCPMSS --set-mss 1360

This example should work for most use cases, but don't do this unless you for sure know the implications. Dropping bad inbound options is easy, but outbound can get more complicated. I am just showing this in case anyone asks and I am asleep. :-) Talk to your network admins and ask what is the highest mss/mtu your VPN's and 3rd party networks support.

This may not even help, as the packet has already been generated and we are too late in the process. I just figure someone might ask. There are probably use cases where this may help (for proxies, edge firewalls, hypervisors, docker hosts, maybe)

Or just log and drop the connections, or send yourself (your app) a tcp-reset.
not saying roads/infrastructure is not important. I’m saying that I would not want to pay extra for something that maybe is going to guide the cars. we already have something that does that: it’s called a railroad.

my bigger point is that we’ve fallen in love with the idea of having self driving cars. do we need self driving cars? who should shoulder the cost?

the things I gave as examples are not ordered. truly high-speed internet everywhere would be great as i believe can actually enable telecommuting and eliminate traffic. it can also enable access to education and drive us, as a society forward.
Fortunately I don't work with any electronics. I never had the patience for dealing with PCBs or even breadboards.
Ask HN: Does hobbyist-level C02 recapture make sense?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240

This post really interested me.

I asked a fellow HackerNews reader (Rod Fitzsimmons Frey) for his thoughts on the post. He kindly responded with the following outline of steps:

- Capture of CO2 from the atmosphere using a variety of techniques, usually adsorption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage). This takes quite a bit of energy.

- Conversion of the dissolved CO2 into alcohols. Reaction is 2CO2 + 9H2O + 12e- → C2H5OH + 12OH- so it's energy-uphill and needs an energy input. Maybe solar cells or a wind turbine. Requires a catalyst, often a variety of copper matrix. Catalysts are the major subject of research. To figure out whether you could do this in your garage you'd probably need to go to the literature.

- Distillation of the alcohols - usually done with heat, requires 800-900 deg C. Possible but hard and energy intensive. This is where Prometheus sits, they have a nanoscale membrane that does room-temperature separation of the alcohols using electricity input (more energy in!)

- Conversion of the alcohols into gasoline, diesel, kerosene etc. This is a pretty well-known process that uses a catalyst called ZSM-5 plus heat (mo' mo' energy!). I haven't looked into the chemistry or the availability of the catalyst.

I think it's pretty clear that... it's most likely not possible to convert C02 into gasoline without using more energy + money than it would take to just go buy a $2.69/gallon of 87 unleaded.

However, what is possible/makes sense at a consumer level? In a modern day society where more and more individuals are learning the impact of climate change, I feel like any form of CO2 recapture + distillation would be a solid business idea from a "demand" standpoint.
Inside China's 'thought transformation' camps [video]
IANAL either, but launching totally bogus lawsuits, without a shred of justification, in the hope of overwhelming defendants without the financial resources to defend them, is a legally risky strategy – there is a risk of disbarment, or even criminal prosecution, for lawyers who engage in such behaviour (see the Prenda Law case). A lawyer can get away with making flimsy arguments, but a lawyer who knowingly makes arguments totally ungrounded in law or fact is risking their own career.
I didn't assert tha the average person cares, just that the original claim about whatsapp is false.

And also: it doesn't matter whether end users care about encryption or not, it still benefits them, this is exactly why end-to-end encryption is a very good default.
Good one. So far i was only concerned about Facebook privacy issues. And now its everywhere. so as the popular saying goes the moment you connect to internet you privacy is gone
I know the proof is the simple fact that the robocalls exist, but I can’t imagine a situation where people gather in a meeting and say “I know how we can make money! We will set up a call center and sell fake car warranties!!!” When I think about it I hear Brian Regan’s voice. Probably the bit he did about kidnapping Russell Crowe.
Once you get used to Waze on the big screen, you'd never want anything else.
Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
Previous thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15451442
Well, it depends if they are speaking colloquially or not. If our “universe” is our Sun’s solar system, then yes...
Circuit Aging Becoming a Critical Consideration
Nobody wonders why. The Bay Area is clearly more expensive than anywhere else other than NYC. Nobody has ever argued that that isn't true. The salaries are also significantly higher, to compensate.

What is being argued here is whether you can live comfortably on a six figure net salary (after taxes).

That housing is expensive in the bay area does suck, no doubt, and is super annoying. But it's far worse for non-engineers. Engineers are fine, and frankly, are the ones who are driving the prices up, by virtue of being capable of and willing to pay more, as companies continue to increase compensation.
Of course. And it's an just just as unjust if it only excludes one. And yet, it's a smaller injustice if it's only 0.8% than if it's 11%. As unjust, but a smaller injustice.
Check out mullvad.net

They are great. From Sweden and they are bunch of hackers. They helped pay for mullvad and working on their own clients. They were very early with supporting Wiregurad.

They also over tons of payment methods, including the ability to send them cash threw the post office.
You can enable the enterprise features which will allow this.
Germany has been better managing its human capital for generations with its apprenticeships, trade schools, and cheap universities. There are problems of course with switching lanes and with second tier universities, but on the whole it seems to work better.
My experience is that the state is very libertarian (See the state motto "live free or die" and the Free State Project). It's not so much "right-wing" as it is "not left-wing".
I’d argue both things are a concern.

Corporo-government overreach is a concern for obvious reasons.

But it’s also concerning that any individual rogue employee could have malicious intent toward you for no other reason than you have something you might not want publicly known.
But legality matters for the telco. I keep repeating this, but the solution is fairly simple: either you're responsible (in real money) for the call or you need to point at who sent you the call (and repeat). This would kill almost all domestic spam.

The international situation is harder, but if you apply the same rules, local telcos will have to start dropping foreign partners who don't filter their calls. No foreign telco will want to be in a situation where they're dropped so they'll be forced to comply too.
The last big CIA scandal was the Bush torture program, and nobody was indicted over that. They even burned tapes of the interrogations as part of a coverup and saw no consequences for it.
Paper cups for coffee and paper containers for food are lined which makes them difficult to recycle. Despite having a recycle logo on them they are often not recyclable.
These sources disagrees with you:

>Women veterans, it turned out, were even more interested than their male counterparts in obtaining a college degree; more than 19.5% of 332,178 eligible women veterans elected to attend college after the war as compared to 15% of 15 million eligible male veterans.

[0] https://www.womensmemorial.org/history-highlight

>African Americans and women were entitled to the same benefits as white men under the GI Bill, but often faced difficulty trying to claim their benefits due to discrimination.

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/postwarera...

To summarize:

1. Women veteran had the same education benefits as their male counterparts under the law.

2. However, women veteran faced discrimination when trying claim their benefits.

3. Despite the discrimination, women veterans still managed to attend college at a higher rate than male veterans.
Bitcoin’s carbon footprint is as big as the entire city of Las Vegas
India is now having a plastic recycling problem of its own. Most cities in India do not own landfills, and their surrounding villages do not want a landfill in their backyard, even if the city wants to purchase it. What's the alternative to landfilling? My ignorant guess would be to use an abandoned mine or something of the sort. Is there a sustainable waste management technique?
One legit use is for companies/organizations that have a PBX (Private Branch Exchange) where each desk has it's own external telno. They can make all the calls appear to come from the corporate main number. So instead of 415-555-9xxx for whoever's extension it shows up as "415-555-9000". This is useful for both not revealing a personal extension and for branding

Of course, why it was designed to allow spoofing of any number in the world, instead of only numbers in the same block...
They are.

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/cInTheAir-cAvionics-cMFDs-p1...
I know the government did many shit things. But, for this Hong Kong protest, can anyone tell me why they want to protest? Is the government doing the right on "controversial" extradition?
2M Hongkongers march against extradition bill again
A man ate 'expired' food for a year
People.kernel.org: collection of blogs authored by Linux kernel developers
This is called an IVR, and any company that uses one blocks 100% of spam calls. The robots simply cannot dial the extension to get through.

Almost any company can get one, and any person can get one on a VOIP line. (Yes, ironic.)
> I use the analogy of letting strangers record you using the restroom. Same questions: Do you lose anything? Why not let them do it?

There is a lot of cognitive dissonance in a society that is embarrassed to fart in public but claims they have nothing to hide. Somehow, "hide" became a bad word.