skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably should include what problem Archimedes has been stuck on until his realization of the principles of buoyancy gave him a solution.

The King had order a gold crown, and after receiving it suspected that the goldsmith may have replaced some of the gold with cheaper silver. The King asked Archimedes to figure out if the crown was pure gold.

Archimedes could do that by figuring out its density, but to do that he needed to get the weight of the crown and the volume of the crown. Weight was easy, but he had no idea how to get the volume, other than melting it down and reshaping it into a shape whose volume he could calculate. Naturally, the King wanted Archimedes to answer the question without destroying the crown.

His realization that the volume of water displaced by an object that is more dense than water is equal to the volume of the object gave him a way to get the volume of the crown without harming it.
> On Firefox I must save all history be to 'restore the current session'. Wish we had more control over this.

What do you mean by that? I have mine set to never remember history, and I often force-kill FF as a way to save a session. When I start it up again it prompts to restore the previous session.

> You can't disable Firefox from checking for updates (I wish this could be left to package managers on some systems).

Firefox's updater is disabled on Arch Linux and iirc also Ubuntu/Fedora/etc. The 'About' window says that it has been disabled by the system administrator. Presumably this is either an about:config setting (good) or a compile-time flag (sad).

> Why the fuck would I want "Recommmend features as I browse?" or "Recommend extensions as I browse?" I hate being advertised to.

These aren't ads; you can't pay to have your extension shown to users. Recommending features is done by the browser on your computer; iirc the addons recommendations are also computed locally based on anonymized data (don't quote me on that though).

I at least find the feature suggestions to have been helpful. Many normal people won't know about reader mode, and FF on Android also tells you that bookmarking a page will save it for offline use, which I would not have otherwise known.

> "Warn you about unwanted and uncommon software" - who is making this determination? Who is Firefox talking to about what I download?

Google is used; if a file seems suspicious only then are details sent to google to give the final word. I wish they were more upfront about that.

But FF is targeted at normal people, and this does help them not get malware. Advanced users like us can easily disable it. That doesn't excuse the lack of transparency though.

> Sucks that in hotels Firefox determines if there's a captive portal in effect by querying a Mozilla-hosted site (detectportal.firefox.com).

How else do you propose they do this? And better to have Mozilla host it than someone else. On Android you are forced to use Google's NTP servers, and I have no doubt their captive portal detection is also google-hosted. I'd bet the detection URL is exposed in an about:config flag on FF.

> I wish I could sync settings, open tabs, addresses, history, etc - to an simple archive on close or periodically. No online service to sync against with another account I have to worry about.

For what its worth, Firefox Sync is e2e encrypted with your password. If you log out of sync on all your devices and forget your password, the synced data is gone forever. To log back in you will have to reset the password, and since none of your devices are logged in (they act as backups for the data), it is gone forever.
As a practicing hypnotherapist (converted from former skeptic), I can confirm the thinking in this article is right on the money.

I constantly see people for all kinds of interesting medical issues that aren’t being solved by medicine.

Most people know about smokers quitting with ease and without withdrawals.

I had someone who would hear the word “cat” and break out in hives.

Another person who had irritable bowel go away after getting over some traumatic experience from their past.

Even my own experience with debilitating migraines gone with just a few minutes of work with a trained professional. They haven’t come back since.

It’s of course not a cure all. You probably won’t reverse blindness or anything. But it works for more than you’d expect.

Medicine is wonderful. So is the mind. Use both to get better.
Monopoly is a zero sum game. So perceiving it as such shouldn't be the bias that leads to poor strategy.

(edit: it seems that it may be possible to play monopoly in a way that generates infinite money and with no win condition)
Approximately: because browsers already have good HTTP parsers built in, and that seems safer than trying a new fast binary parser.
To read: AppleScript

To write: escript (part of Erlang)
We sort of live in a finite universe in terms of matter and energy right? Conservation laws seem to imply that. So at a large enough scale life would have to be zero sum. I guess what people may actually be arguing about is at what scale the finite aspects of the universe actually matter?

On an anecdotal level, while thinking that everything is zero sum all the time probably isn't good, I find that the majority of the people I interact find it very difficult to imagine that anything is "zero sum." Since they associate "zero sum" with mean things like harsh competition. It seems like that's its own sort of "bias."
I wonder how software is engineered for those machines. Languages used, etc.
What do you mean by "rely"?
I have a side project that is using JS (typescript fwiw) for a data pipeline, a server, browser code and a tool to set up elastic search. Using the same lingo throughout the app is cool and there is even some shared libraries across the stack.
I am the owner of my network, as is everyone who has one at home, and you are saying that I can't be trusted. WTF!?
Derek explains the physics in a reasonably understandable manner in this video on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo
I've always wondered what a minimum viable public company would look like. If the books were open enough, could your shares trade OTC on day one? They talk about onerous reporting requirements.
criminally destroyed legco then fled justice. totally defined the movement that seeks to assist those fleeing justice.
Model 3 now starts at 39500 with Autopilot.

60k will get you the Performance Model with 0-60 in 3.2s and 11.6 1/4 mile
Fast-Track Drug Approval, Designed for Emergencies, Is Now Routine
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Men making games for men doesn't prevent women from making games for women, but somehow people always assume that the incumbents must adapt to serve the entire market. Why don't people see this as a great opportunity for women to carve out their own place in the industry? Literature already works like this, we have erotic romance novels with explicit descriptions of men's bodies catering to women and we have action novels with explicit description of women's bodies catering to men.
Firefox’s ad-free premium browser will cost $4.99 a month
Is that project OS or on github? I’m just about in love with typescript and would love examples of the things you are talking about. I’ve been playing around with setting up an example project that uses TS and a couple of tools I use regularly so I can just use it as a starter.
I've used TunnelBear for many years but just found out they sold out to McAfee. Why do they sell their souls to parasites such as McAfee?
FWIW, there's a standard being developed to allow network admins to maintain control over DNS on their networks, even after this is enabled.
It technically isn't, because if everyone forgives each other's expenses they can be infinitely rich as the bank never run out of money.
We all know OP didn't updated his server for 3 years+
If you're talking about the one at the North Park Village Nature Center, it looks like they were already shut down. :( https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/06/20/preschool-program-ki...
Here is an example of how one can use DOH "like ping or nslookup". This example uses HTTP POST and cloudflare-dns. Maybe check out "stubby" for "OS-level" DOH. Currently I think it only does DOT but future plans are for DOH.

test $# = 1|| exec echo usage: $0 query

# requirements: sed, wc, xxd, openssl, ldns, drill
# reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8484#section-4.1

a=$(drill -q /dev/stdout $1 |sed '1,2d;s/;.*//;s/ //g'|xxd -p -r|wc -m);

(printf "POST /dns-query HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: cloudflare-dns.com\r\nAccept: /\r\nContent-Type: application/dns-message\r\nConnection: close\r\nContent-Length: $a\r\n\r\n"; drill -q /dev/stdout $1|sed '1,2d;s/;.*//;s/ //g;3s/..../0001/'|xxd -p -r)|openssl s_client -no_tls1 -no_tls1_1 -no_ssl2 -no_ssl3 -ign_eof -no_ticket -host cloudflare-dns.com -port 443 -servername 1.1.1.1|sed -n \$p|xxd -p|drill -i /dev/stdin|sed '/^;; Data: \\#/d'
There's a reason for the phrase, "monkey see, monkey do"
Easy exit for $$$$
A likely opt-out [1] mechanism that will prevent Firefox from enabling DoH in any future update.

5 means explicitly disabled. 0 (default) is whatever is considered default for now.

1. about:config
2. network.trr.mode = 5

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20373444
In the past year, Facebook has significantly deprioritized article posts in the news feed and prioritized posts from friends (and ads). I wouldn't be surprised if the monthly active users stayed the same or increased over the past year, but the number of interactions (link clicks) fell.
Does such a thing exist? You ask for a key lookup from address A, that can be stored no matter what. You can obfuscate it through proxies I guess
Any fool can get a real estate license. The hard parts are joining a brokerage (owners usually don't want to take on random new agents) and then finding clients. In California the majority of license holders did zero transactions last year.
I made it to this quote:

> "We have a strong robocalling enforcement program"

...and literally could not make it further. The FTC may have legal or technological problems not of their making, and by some arcane measure may have a "strong" enforcement program, but whatever they are doing is by no means effective.
The space shuttle design is decently efficient if you actually use the huge payload bay to bring back something bulky or fragile. Nothing else even has that capability.

If you won't use that capability, then providing it is a huge waste.
I’ve been thinking about this man all night. He, alone among his peers, took an action with foreseeable and negative personal consequences. Whether spontaneous or planned, he made a choice that may well define the rest of his life, for good or ill.

I took the time to reflect on my own weekend, celebrating America’s independence against different totalitarian rule. I spent it with family, safe, free, and relaxed. I couldn’t help but wonder if i would have the fortitude of this man, even basking in the freedoms I now, blithely, take for granted. Base rates for humans show that amidst totalitarian regimes, most choose silence and going with the flow. While i like to imagine otherwise, I am a product of my culture - and self-protective.

Yet, this man, on one evening, said “here I am. And this is who I am.”

Knowing nothing else about him, he is a hero.
It reminded me of a quote from Stephen King [0] "life is not a support system for art; it's the other way around".

[0] beautifully rendered as a short comic here https://zenpencils.com/comic/king/
> As a parent, it feels impossible to know the right thing to do for your kids.

Being adequate is enough. Chose something that doesn't seem clearly harmful, pay attention for signs of harm, pay attention for signs that it's a bad fit and make a change if it is. Really all you need from preschool is socialization, and some exposure to germ warfare.

What I hoped for my child to get was familiarity and positive associations with the school concept. In my mind, it's more helpful if young people enjoy school and feel it is a place where they can do things well than if they have a lot more academic skills early and have developed a dislike of school.
Arguably yes - it's too early to tell as it's such a young species. It's just as likely it will prove to be short (if ecologically consequential) branch of the evolutionary tree that will prove unviable and come to a dead end.

But as humans are complex systems that are themselves outcomes of a wider complex system, there's not going to be a marker or essence (or 'definition' as the parent put it) of that uniqueness. Rather there's a one or more characteristically human emergent properties and capacities. No new version of 'tool-using' or 'bipedal' or related substitutes for the discarded Christian soul will win out.

No soul, no essence, no destiny. Just one amongst millions of evolutionary branches whose unplanned evolutionary future will play itself out.
If by the wealth you mean land, then yes it's finite.
But the ownership of man-crafted things is not. You can always create new apps or websites that generate values. Those man-crafted things can become useless someday as well. For example, a 3.5" floppy disk drive probably isn't worth what it used to be anymore.
Dissecting a Dweet – Spiral JavaScript Quine Explained
Mail-in-a-box user here. It's incredibly easy to set up your own email server these days, yes, but it's practically impossible to have your emails pass the Gmail/Outlook/etc spam filters and actually arrive at your recipient's inbox.
While there's probably a lot of truth to talking up one's book, I still much rather prefer foobar(s) freely published to move conversations and thinking forward for founders.
That's neat/interesting; any chance you could point me in the right direction to hear more? I'm curious how they'll make it respect that setting from the "local" network and not from ex. an ISP.
And also distance! It's a lot harder to see something that is 20,000 miles away than something that is only 200
It's hard to draw broad strokes about this. But I really really deeply like HK.

One thing about Hong Kong that's a lot to take in is how western-friendly the culture is. I think there was a western news channel playing while I was on the MTR last time.

I am guessing some may find the rallies annoying. They may view them as hooligans, but even the cynical still are happy with HK being HK.

To understand more about HK system of government, check out the basic law: https://www.basiclaw.gov.hk/en/facts/index.html, https://www.basiclaw.gov.hk/en/basiclawtext/index.html. This effectively serves as the constitution of HK.

And it's a weird thing: Because it's effectively a client state constitution. heh. They have their own judiciary, they have their own case law, but the people of HK cannot amend their constitution.

P.S. I haven't read the latest part of the extradition law they're trying to pass (anyone have it?)
I'm running my own DNSoverHTTP instance at home. I have Apache, with HTTP/2 support, running, some self-signed certificates, and a CGI script that accepts the DNSoverHTTP request and makes a DNS call to my local version of bind. I found RFC-8484 to be quite easy to follow, and I've set network.trr.mode to 4 (use DNS, but also send DNSoverHTTP for testing) and network.trr.allow-rfc1918 to true (so local addresses can be resolved locally).

I will do the occasional tests with network.trr.mode to 3 (only use DNSoverHTTP) but I seem to have issues resolving github. I haven't looked that far into it.

EDIT: there do exist solutions to run locally.
What is spam filtering and deliverability like?
I assume you meant a lot _less_ romantic with the buckets... and yeah it mentions in the article that he removed the head and sink to plug any holes in the hull in an effort to make it less sinkable. luxuries I myself would prefer greatly over a bucket, but I am also amazed at the cleanliness and state of repair of the boat. All the clutter seems so unsafe to me on vessel of any size or type. Keeping things clean and in good working condition I think would do a great deal to make it less sinkable. I am impressed with the use of the raspberry pi and the unusual/free lifestyle the guy seems to lead.
I wonder if he'll be this generation's Tank Man. Ironically, the situations couldn't be more different.
Is performance really such a big concern here? How slowly can one possibly parse binary DNS responses in a native language?
Increasing the endpoints queried from 1 to greater than one would probably be a breaking change which is not allowed in graphql.
I have a landline for business reasons, and that thing gets a dozen robocalls a day. The telco's voicemail apparently has trouble understanding that two seconds of static followed by a hangup is not worth saving.

The cell spam is relentless. I even get three calls a week (always from new, different numbers) to my iPhone that leave messages in Mandarin. I don't speak Mandarin. I've never done business anywhere that would warrant that.

I needed a VM spam filter years ago.
Googling this man's name (Brian Leung Kai-ping) reveals a number of articles suggesting that he fled to the United States immediately after this event. However, I can't tell whether any of the web sites reporting this news are trustworthy. When I first read these reports I immediately dismissed him and his comments to the LA Times but now I wonder if the story of his flight is propaganda intended to negate his courage.
You’d better not look up driving safety statistics, then.
I bet 'lettergram knows.
Pretty close… I'd say it is between burgundy and maroon, closer to burgundy but with a slight purple/violet tint that makes it not exactly burgundy.

Edit: "maroon" can be confusing to French speakers since "marron" in French means brown.
The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present
Making promises he can't keep about things he doesn't properly understand to convince well-meaning but ultimately naive investors to keep coughing up the dough, as usual.
Could something like pieHole intercept all DNS and send it over a VPN or something, while providing a local DNS cache? Seems unnecessary to wait for all software to support it nativity.

Edit: Apparently they already thought of this and it's a feature!
children under 4 years and zero days weren’t allowed to begin learning numbers

ouch. someone hasn't been paying attention in their training.

there is no hard date to introduce any activity. if children are interested in an activity, they are introduced to it. or to a simpler one that leads up to it. applying a hard date shows lack of understanding of the different speed of childrens development.

if it's not to late i'd read up a bit on the montessori method and confront the teachers about it. they are clearly doing it wrong. i'd also check who certified that school, or where the teachers were trained.

unfortunately, the montessori name is not protected, and anyone school can claim to be montessori, even if they are not.
I think Jonnax meant ISPs, not you.
Rust and go as well.
Although I agree with your main point (it's closer to the truth that the point of economics is so that we can do mathematics, than the other way around), perhaps it can be refined to incorporate the fact that not all experience is cognitive; not all enjoyment is intellectual. The feeling of joy/bliss/whatever from being with friends and family, of doing a job well, of leaving a legacy, of having good health, dignity, curiosity, material comfort, relationships, spiritual growth, having a good “life story” for oneself / serving some higher purpose etc (everything on “Maslow's hierarchy“), are not always cognitive or even conscious in nature, though some (like curiosity) tend to be.

The Greeks used the word eudaimonia for this highest / all-encompassing utility function (the experience that everything is in service of: the “point”); in Indian thought it's called ānanda. But yeah, making money is only a means to it, and not the point. (Even this understanding can get clouded. In Indian thought, “religion” only posits a higher ānanda that can be obtained by experience of the divine, without denying the everyday sorts of joy that resemble it. In Western thought, influenced by the monotheistic religions with their opposition between true and false, the fact that neither money nor comfort is the highest good gets reflected in ideas like “money is the root of all evil” or “Happiness versus Meaning” that tend to vilify them in order to counter our impulses towards them, rather than recognize them as being partial means to some components of happiness. It's fine; whatever works I guess.)

PS: Totally offtopic, but thanks for your transcript of Knuth's Web of Stories interview!
Perhaps "Never use a VPN that is a startup" is s good rule of thumb.

(I might extend it to "for-profit," but if it's a for-profit company that has a clear revenue source other than the VPN, it might be fine.)
Even for webapps. V8's garbage collector was a huge problem when trying to get smooth animations on mobile phones.
Can we have a list?

That article is garbage.
The original article has a lot more details including lists of companies and how they figured this out.

https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-2...
Looking at the picture... does this mean we'll all be using mustache-shaped lenses someday?
I can think of lots of scenarios in which the situations are more different. Not sure what you mean by that.
Seems like a marketing opportunity for the non-meat industry. Call them Hamberders or Ham Burglars ;)

With love to Barbara Streisand
> Precedent is foundational to western law.

No, precedent is foundational to common law, not western law as a whole. There are two main forms of western law.
What does "secretly owned" mean?

The #2 company on the Fortune 500 is Exxon-Mobil. Who owns it? There are some limited disclosures in various places, but this is the same as Chinese firms. Exxon-Mobil is "secretly owned". What hypocrisy these western magazines have. Computer Weekly, owned by Reed Elsevier RELX makes a small fortune privatizing publication of publicly funded research. Who is behind that? Who knows? It is as much "secretly owned" as any Chinese company.
Is there any way to enable DoH by default but exclude certain domains that are managed by a local DNS server? (eg. intranet domains?)
I want something very similar. A language powerful enough to get almost everything done with very few and very well thought through escape hatches in form of DSLs. For example, Elm has a mechanism for writing shaders:

vertexShader : Shader { position:Vec3, coord:Vec3 } { u | view:Mat4 } { vcoord:Vec2 }
vertexShader = [glsl|

attribute vec3 position;
attribute vec3 coord;
uniform mat4 view;
varying vec2 vcoord;

void main () {
gl_Position = view * vec4(position, 1.0);
vcoord = coord.xy;
}

|]

I can think of at least a few other DSLs that would be useful: some logic/query languages (SQL/Datalog/GraphQL) and maybe a highly mathematical visual language like gezira (vpri). It would also be very useful to be able to write things in a lower level language for performance optimization (where needed).
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Yes.

Signal handlers allow C programs to respond to events outside of the normal control flow (see signal.h, etc.). This means that once a function, say fnc1, has returned, the memory on the stack that was used by fnc1 can end up being reused at any point in time. A signal, perhaps generated completely asynchronous to the program itself by a different process, causes a stack frame to be allocated (possibly on top of fnc1’s old stack frame) for use by the corresponding signal handler. This could happen at any time, even before fnc1’s caller gets a chance to use the pointer returned by fnc1.