skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a Noise messaging app on copperhead os that connected to everyone though, I'm not sure how it worked.
It’s also immoral to force bad pricing down customer throats. And yet that is the definition of the inflight wifi business.

EDIT: I’m fairly sure at current prices a single flight could pay for a month’s service for a single plane, probably several times over. The profit margins (& I imagine some the cut to the airline) must be enormous, & there is no pretense of fair terms at sale time because a single corporation can entirely monopolize your attention.
Yeah, just because something was either invented or first implemented in the military doesn't mean it's tainted forever. SQLite was originally designed to be used on ballistic missiles. Heck, the internet itself was first developed by the DoD (ARPA). A lot of technologies have military origins.
>Furthermore, that doesn't really apply in this case because not only was he not given "implicit permission to use it", the in-flight WiFi system explicitly bars you from using the internet without paying for it.

Then it should do so. If I connect and I can use the network without paying, that's not my fault.
What’s interesting about this is how poor the fan would have been on it’s own. Let’s say you set it up on day 1, now on day 200 you notice it’s off, and suddenly you have no idea how many empty boxes you just shipped.

However, as part of a redundant system it seems like a great idea.
What will it do to the taxi business model? In the US, traditionally, cab drivers are classified as contractors too, and they've also been suing companies in the last few years regarding this issue.
Building his pixel means as he gets visitors who are interested in his product to his website, facebook can start to link those people together on the backend. It makes his facebook campaign smarter and start showing to people who will actually be interested in his product. Instead of just throwing it to random people.

This is how all businesses advertise, it has nothing to do with malware.

Also in terms of building your pixel OP, posting here is not helping you. We are just going to give you data that is out of the norm for your customers
(2018)

And you don't need FOIA or "fact-checking" for this. Just check out the Wikipedia article. Here's the revision as of when this post was published:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tor_(anonymity_ne...

> The EFF acted as The Tor Project's fiscal sponsor in its early years, and early financial supporters of The Tor Project included the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau, Internews, Human Rights Watch, the University of Cambridge, Google, and Netherlands-based Stichting NLnet. From this period onward, the majority of funding sources came from the U.S. government.

Clicking the link about the International Broadcasting Bureau shows its affiliation with the various Radio Free organizations, which are a) definitely sponsored by the US government b) definitely in places the US wants "regime change" from, and c) definitely incentivized to be anti-surveillance instead of pro-surveillance.
I fear that this would be viewed thru the lens of “PR” & “brand”, thing companies are rightfully keen in protecting. Unfortunately there’s a legal component to all this also. The knowledge itself is cool & even actual instances of a handful of people getting “free” internet probably wouldn’t register on their radar. But the publicity from being on the top of HN... that might be of significant concern
If Tinder collects the payment, you're paying Tinder.

If Google or Apple collect the payment, you're paying Google or Apple, they take a cut, then a portion goes to Tinder.

Guess which one results in Tinder raising their prices?

You could argue that the app stores aren't a charity and don't operate for free - that they need money to exist. I'd argue that the app store model itself doesn't need to exist and that it's a form of greedy rent-seeking and power thirst. Besides, neither Apple nor Google are hurting from their phone monopoly.
But are they truly contractors? They don't set the price for their own labor and can be fired for declining too many rides.
>If I have a WiFi connection, leaving it without a password is implicit permission to use it. If I have a server that provides HTTP without authentication, that is implicit permission to access the contents.

If your door is open can I take a shower and cook a meal for myself in your house?
Pretty much likewise. Actually, I do away with the tabstop=4 these days too -- I've grown to like 8-width tabs.

When I started using vi on a Sun machine in ~1986 or so, I was an expert at 'edlin' (if there could be such a thing) because it existed on every DOS machine. I learned vi for the same reason: It not only ran on everything, it was pretty much guaranteed to be installed on everything.

I hated it, as I was used to many other 'visual editors' that were modeless, more like emacs. The first Apollo editor was my favorite.

But in those days, installing an editor was a real task, so I went with what was there. Now it's in my fingers.

Although on the (fairly frequent, because busybox) occasion I have to use REAL vi, I'm flustered when I type capital-V to get a visual line buffer...
I think some refer to this as 'case law'

</legal_humor>
Outlet shopping: The deal is in the details
Going to the moon just required a large number of people to chip in with a few dollars of tax money. Solving climate change will likely require most people changing how they live.
I'm seeing a lot of people say that airplane wifi is overpriced, and I'm kind of baffled. Yes, compared to terrestrial wifi it's expensive. But... you're in a fast moving object communicating with satellites (satellite launches are expensive!) and I don't really understand why people are so eager to call this bad pricing.
Are there general work practices of yours vs theirs which you can share that would give insight into why their pace was so much slower? Or was it all meetings :)
How hard have the Signal people tried? The article specifically says that a reproducible build could be signed by the originator:

>If Signal would be built reproducibly, everyone including F-Droid could check whether the app has been built straight from its source code and could then include it in F-Droid’s store
I can’t find any direct evidence now, but I remember hearing (probably in the 80’s) that one of the ideas suggested for assigning Ethernet MAC addresses was to use dollar bill serial numbers, to avoid having to set up and run a central registry forever. However, it’s technically illegal to destroy currency and the cost of $1 per address would eventually become uneconomic.
* the only members of the market are you and the landlord*

But that's not true. The landlord can increase the price of the rent, knowing that, as some point, you'll leave, because you, the buyer, consider it too high. The market around you, other possible renters, may not, and so the price the landlord sets will still be the market price.

Now, the landlord knows you're a good customer: no pets, no parties, always clean. He has an incentive to keep you as such: you're predictable, no unforeseen costs, and knowing that, there may not be many possible renters willing to pay more, according to his estimations, and so it keeps the price stable (+CPI). That's still the market price.

I can't understand why in HN, out of all places, people dismiss the superiority of a fully decentralized, uncoordinated, resilient information distribution system (free market prices), in favor of a centralized, brittle, obscure, arbitrary ruled one.
Even after writing substantial number of nix scripts and taking some weeks of break (because my job is not writing nix scripts 24/7), I struggle to remember all of that structure inheritance magic and have to reread the docs.
Not a good sign, usually happens with me with unnecessarily overengineered things.
Great read, but I couldn't help but think about how Twitter is the worst possible format for this, compared to literally anything else.

A blog post. A news article. Even a video.
It makes sense, but it is also a bad idea. If someone can't afford the cost of living, they should relocate to somewhere else where they can.

Western civilisation has had phenomenal results with the principle that when there isn't enough of something then the owner of that thing gets to decide who goes without. Housing is not so special that it deserves an exemption. Squeezing landlords is one of several ways to lock a housing shortage in for the long term. It has been established that letting people make big profits doing something is a great way to get more of the something - and that applies to renting out houses too. The only role for the government in making sure it is easy to build more houses and that everyone sticks to what they signed when it comes to contracts.
The wild goose chase part I see as a major exaggeration.

It's interesting, I use BOSH + Terraform all the time, wherein BOSH exposes GCP's CPU/memory flexibility, the various Azure NIC/LB/availability set options, AWS' different disk types, etc. Those differences can be modularized, so that 95% of your configuration templates are identical across clouds, and the last 5% maps to specifics.

I'm sure it's not all that different from Terraform w/ modules, though my main problem with Terraform is that it doesn't constrain you into a "do the right thing" path, it's too easy to create a mess.

Anyway, IMO these kinds of differences really aren't hard to handle and it's valid to prioritize cloud-independent configuration if that's what you want/need. It allows the main configuration and installable software to be cloud-independent, dramatically easing testing. We're seeing this drive with the flocking to Kubernetes which enables cloud-independent networking, storage, and compute.

I think differing opinions on this are normal/fine, but i have to wonder why the single-cloud proponents use words like "snake oil" as if to completely discredit a different set of priorities.
The thing about morals is that we can disagree. Just because this scenario fits your definition of "stole" does not mean it fits mine.

My perspective is that a fundamental aspect of the Internet and the digital world is that the software-codified rules are basically authoritative. While constructive behavior still does matter - eg knowingly turning off a hospital ventilator is still murder - the only gain here was temporarily obtaining some transit. The real remedy is for the provider to fix their systems.
So you're claiming that using a VPN makes correlation attacks impossible? Do you have any sources on this? I'd love to read up to better understand your thinking.
I could not figure out why this is not considered personal information. Is the data anonymized or has a phone number attached to it?
An 'oasis' for women? Inside Saudi Arabia’s vast new female-only workspaces
Nothing-burger ad piece. It's widely known that Tor was created by the U.S. Naval Research Lab and gets funding by various government arms, because allowing citizens in oppressive regimes unfettered access to the Internet is good for US foreign policy. Hell, the About page on the Tor home page mentions it was made by the Navy, or just reading the Wikipedia article for it.

The US govt isn't a monolith - of course there will be some arms going at "cross purposes" like supporting encryption while the NSA worries about the rise. That doesn't mean it poisons everything connected to government funding, or else I have some bad news about 90% of university research grants.
"Passion" is what you love and you are good at.

Ikigai is also what others need and others are willing to pay for. Ikigai requires empathetic understanding of others.
Morgan Beller, the 26-year old woman behind Facebook’s Libra
I thought that was interesting as well. It seems like a fair comparison, and permanent death for a mass-market game in 1996 would have been a big non-starter.

Coincidentally, I played Diablo II with a self-imposed permanent death rule several years ago. I made it to the... Desert, I think it was? and then got killed and never really got back into the game. It just wasn't designed for that.
The problem is airplane WiFi has a captive audience with no competition so they can charge unfair rates and there is no free market to balance it.
It seems like an incumbent app should would likely want app stores to suffer from a lack of policing and degradation, whether they are paying 3%, 5%, or 30%. The less app stores are trusted for safety, the lower the friction there is to just use the established Netflix, Tinder, or Spotify app.
I expect you were exposed using a heavily functional programming approach. That's a whole 'nother (larger) area to pick up along with the different language.

If Scala is used as a "better Java" to start with, and then the developers explore FP at their own pace, I think there's a better outcome. Granted Java 8+ has done some to close the gap with Scala as well.

I wonder if Scala-Native will absorb some Rustish features as other languages have or are attempting to...

(What I said above echoes Odersky's ideas about Scala developer levels: https://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/8610.html)
There is still the question of compensations. There are limits to how little you can pay an employee, and that will still be an issue in a situation like this unless, perhaps, we have something like universal basic income.
This feedback is terrific. Thank you for commenting.

I'm revising the article right now to incorporate more of the video.
Stated and revealed preferences are very different. In some ways this is the fundamental problem of media. It killed newspapers, too: once they could analyze readership at a per-article level, it became clear that people who say they value true, in-depth reporting are liars. No one reads that stuff. Content increasingly became shaped by what the data say people actually want, despite it being fashionable to talk about one's disgust for it.

I imagine Netflix is thinking along these lines. Ratings are performative; engagement metrics tell the truth.
It does work, with the appropriate modularization. I mean, you do you, but ARM/CF/etc aren't really my cup of tea.
> It’s also immoral to force bad pricing down customer throats. And yet that is the definition of the inflight wifi business.

In what bizarro world are people being forced to buy inflight wifi?
If you knowingly and with intent use that network without paying, even when knowing that the owner of the network wants all users to pay, it absolutely is your fault. The airline could literally put zero restrictions on their network access, but as long as they put up a sign that says "internet is only for those who pay for it", it would be both illegal and wrong for you to access that internet without paying.

I honestly can't believe we're even having this conversation. It is theft, period. Not only is it illegal, it's blatantly immoral.
This was a surprising read... JoAnn Morgan was also interviewed on NPR a few weeks ago on the same topic.

The tone was lighter... by Morgan’s own words she was accepted at NASA after the launch and continued to work there until after retirement.

> MORGAN: They got used to me, and they accepted me. And so by Apollo 11, them putting me out there to be there at liftoff was probably not that big a surprise. And after launch, the test supervisor, who happened to be the same one who'd told me I couldn't be at blockhouse 34, he came down and gave me a cigar when he was handing out cigars.

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/05/738860204/joann-morgan-the-on...
> It has no booleans [...] either succeeds and produces [...] result[s] or it fails.

That's a very interesting concept. I immediately thought, what if the question was whether a certain condition exists in the data or not. The answer would be any single instance found in the data.

This jives with how I always question putting booleans in database schemas. It's usually better to add a piece of data that the boolean represents like a date for when a predicate changed or an enum for the 'flavor' of true. Passing a false/true to a function gives no info unless the function name makes it clear.

=> booleans are a (premature) optimization.
> No because GPL does not require you to open your network to anyone.

I don't know what you meant by this, but MYEUHD is correct: you can't release software under GPL and then dictate the terms under which binaries may be distributed, beyond the relevant copyleft restrictions already imposed by the GPL.

I'm not convinced that Signal attempt any such prohibition though. There's a discussion over here [0] on this question. Someone rightly points out Stallman's Freedom 2.

[0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/282#issue...
I love these analogies, but that's wrong. A better analogy would be you use their raw ingredients to make your own food, bring your own utensils and plates, and sit at their restaurant to eat. Basically, you're leasing their bandwidth without payment. Airlines are paying viasat or some other company for access to their satellites and expecting customers to pay the cost for usage (and probably make some profit).
The Exploitation Time Bomb
There are no economic fixes, there are only fixes to growth. In that we reduce the growth of the economy and the growth of population and consume less... until such a point that our consumption of resources matches their production by the environment. Anything else is rhetorical bullshit meant to placate the masses... and make them feel better about being Bolsonaro which all you are.

I call it environmental austerity in order to pay the environmental debt accrued through economic development.
This is a level of probing anyone with a good understanding of HTTPS could do. It's not like mac spoofing or or setting up a honeypot (have fun stopping those). I think you set your bar one or two notches too low for what someone in tech can do. Practically, though, your bar is fine because this isn't actually a "security" vulnerability in the sense that something was leaked (worry more about honeypots), just that one or two people per flight might be mooching, and that's not worth engineering for.

It's interesting that you and your team thought of legal consequences before asking if this is an edge case that's not worth engineering for.
Translation is inherently a leaky pursuit (and I'm no native Japanese speaker, so I can't unequivocally translate the word 'ikigai'), but I can say as a lover of language that the value of such a word to a foreigner is it's beautiful concision.
You can’t deny delivery of drugs this way.
Research into real wages in Silicon Valley has found that 90 percent of jobs in the region are paying less than 20 years ago.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/tech-companies-blamed-for-20-y...
Does Egypt have the best falafel in the world?
That boxplot shows both the C and the C++ programs ahead of the Rust programs, so why do you say "Rust already beat C" ?
Where do you live?

Open WiFi is like a water fountain, or a bench, in a pubic place to me. There's no explicit sign telling you to use it but who'd put it there of it were not to be used? I'm in the UK.

So, for example if I'm out and about and there's an open WiFi I'll connect to it without seeking permission .. in fact I think it would be weird to go and ask (if you could work out who to ask).
More fun facts: www.popsci.com/brief-history-pooping-in-space/
Why does she need to be listed as a "female engineer" instead of an "engineer"?
I agree, except that housing right now isn’t a free market precisely because of zoning rules that artificially limit what can be built and where. Until existing land owners lose the right to rig the market, markets should be rigged in favour of tenants who have less power.

Where it’s easy to build new housing supply I’m in favour of looser rent control or removing rent control because it’ll be redundant.
> The sheaths came in small, medium, and large. It turns out, the men were all saying that they needed a Large sheath. They did not. Subsequently, the astronauts called the sheaths were called "Extra-large," "Immense," and "Unbelievable."

This is a really similar story to one from Trojan condoms, IIRC, whereby everyone was buying the Large size, so the Magnum was born.

I'd believe it in a heartbeat for Trojan, but I have a hard time believing it in the context of a NASA aerospace program. Maybe they joked about it, and the larger size names were born out of that joke, but I can't believe that NASA didn't have doctors and engineers sizing the sheaths for each astronaut, or at least making the decision for the astronauts from the sizes they had. This isn't like they were walking into a walmart and had to decide on their own; this was a multi-million dollar first-of-its-kind space program.
The problem is that we need it to just barely break even and then a little bit more. Having a tremendously energetic fusion device is both useless and a solved problem: we already know how to light one off, but it only lasts a millisecond and it destroys everything for miles around.

For what it is worth, fission also suffers this problem. A promptly critical fission reaction is possible, indeed quite easy to achieve, and very undesirable. All fission technology is dedicated to keeping the reaction just barely critical.
I was confused as to why this was a link to Twitter as opposed to a direct link. The over-dependence on platforms like Twitter has reached the point of parody.
After man says dog dewormer cured his cancer, researchers look into treatment
The old colloquial term for this is "phreaking."
The worst place to be bitten by a black widow?
You don’t need a machine you need someone to observe your feet as you run. Then based on your roll, buy shoes that support your feet. This is not rocket science, you need new running shoes every year or two. Protect your shins, get proper shoes, if it’s a minute to analyze on a treadmill (“machine”) then take the minute. If you have a friend, have them take a minute..
The Apollo 11 Computer Error
Got the job with a firm handshake, and then everybody clapped.

This is the most Boomer thing I've read in a while, and is remarkably tonedeaf.
Ask HN: Courses or books on solar system and orbital navigation techniques?
I'm interested in better understanding how to navigate the solar system.

Via articles and random searching, I'm vaguely familiar with things like the Hohmann transfer, gravity assists, etc. But I'm curious if there is a comprehensive course or book that gives layman definitions of the various techniques NASA and others use to drive satellites and spacecraft to various locations.
Judging by signals history of apathy and hostility towards other open source projects and distributions, my guess would be "they haven't tried at all".
I use taxis in Manhattan over Uber due to them being even more on demand and convenient, for the same price
Many Americans who live paycheck to paycheck blame debt
> Why does Amazon not put more bathrooms in the warehouses, so it doesnt take 10 minutes just to walk there and back?

Not my industry, but I wonder if building code requirements for contracted facilities construction has anything to do with this. Would be interesting to hear perspective of civil engineers on this, in particular, those involved with standing up fulfillment centers.

For example, a few observations from the 2017 Florida Building Code[1]:

Minimum 1 lavatory per 100 and 1 drinking fountain per 1,000 in occupancies classified for storage (per Table 2902.1). Natural inquiry that arises in my mind is what the specified occupancy of the fulfillment center in question is.

In occupancies other than malls, lavatories normally located not more than 1 story above/below the target space, path of travel not to exceed 500 feet (per 2902.3.2). However, there's a possible exception for factory and industrial occupancies which allow this requirement to be waived with approval. I wonder if Amazon has pursued this exemption when contracting the construction of their fulfillment centers.

[1] https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/FBC2017/chapter-29-plumbin...