skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> DNS requests are routinely intercepted and monitored by ISPs in many countries, with the information available to the security services, who have very few restrictions on what they are allowed to do with this data. This is especially true in the country the author appears to be based (Germany).

Germany: Storing data for a limited period of time so that data pertaining to individuals can be requested on a case-by-case basis by law enforcement (we are talking Police, not all of government). Not a big deal.

U.S.: Highly developed and well resourced mass surveillance in operation on both the business side (surveillance capitalism) and government side (NSA). Privacy laws that protect only U.S.-based persons and declare data pertaining to foreign persons to be fair game. Big f*ing deal.
Wow, thats weak reasoning. They add the emissions of the stuff you statistically buy with the money instead of meat. Even then it still comes out as a reduction.

I'm not a vegetarian, but seeing the other ecological effects of requiring 5x agricultural land and fertiliser to get the same calories as not good is reasonable.

This is clearly propaganda.
Once more: the encoding is what's used to store the data, the font is what's used to render it. If your data is not encoded correctly, Zawgyi won't show it either. Of course, the fact that Zawgyi isn't properly standardized doesn't help.

Also, most of the technical content of the article is gibberish. Exhibit A: "It made use of the visual typing and encoding method as one would write it on paper, rather than using logical linguistics and computer encoding conventions of Unicode."
Mongo addresses this with partitioning and you can distribute partitions which serve local client applications anywhere. The database as a service for Mongo supports 66 regions across AWS, Azure, and GCP so write latency (regardless of where the client application is) doesn't become an issue.
I don't know about other states but in mine there is no medallion. You can start a T&L company today if you wanted to. You only need to read up on the state and local certifications, rates, livery, and vehicle requirements. Most of the taxi drivers I've used are actually employees of a T&L company.
Don't the debt collectors start with taking everything you own (money in bank, house, car etc.) first? And after that, they'll take most of your salary, leaving you only enough to physically survive. That's how it works in Poland, by law. The only available loophole is to work illegally till the end your life, so that the collectors can't get their hands on that money.
Mo, the facts say that Labour doesn't have an anti-semitism problem.

There has been absolutely no evidence provided by any source to prove institutional anti-semitism.

There is really no evidence at all that stands up to even the most basic common sense assessment.

For example - if Corbyn is an anti-Semite, he's been remarkably quiet about it. In fact he has somehow managed to stay friends with various Jewish individuals and organisations in spite of his alleged burning hatred for them. Perhaps someone should let them know?

If you compare Labour's record of "anti-semitism" with the many easy-to-find examples of outright unapologetic racism of the British (and US) Right, there's no comparison.

There have however been public statements by Israeli diplomats explaining that "anti-semitism" is used in a calculated and cynical way to undermine politicians who do not support Israeli nationalism. And also evidence of Israeli influencers working to "take down" - their words - British MPs.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/08/israeli-diplom...

Meanwhile the Labour MPs making the most noise about anti-semitism also happen to be the old Blairites who were horrified when Corbyn was elected leader.

As you say - let's try not to just believe everything we read on this topic, ok?
I can think of many different ways to interpret your first sentence, so I'm not clear what you're saying, but this does make me wonder if it's going to lead to any sort of licensing or certification for general industry programmers.

If workers in this field want to call themselves "software engineers" and gain the benefits of a professional title, like lawyers and architects, they're going to have to start following the other practices of professional fields. Just because a college dropout makes a popular webpage that sells a lot of advertising, that does not necessarily make him an "engineer".
> A4 is not a worldwide standard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#/media/File:Prevale...
Don't forget to change your birthday, mother's maiden name, fingerprint, and face regularly.
This is impressive. I appreciate you documenting the development of it and giving an overview of what's going on inside. I wish there were more blog posts like this. Have you reached out to the Racket community about the game and co2? Also, would you say this Lisp is geared more toward people who already know 6502 assembly, and not toward people who just want to write a NES game in a Lisp?
Your great achievements in science exclude all real world applications (engineering, pharmaceuticals, etc), where the critical details of a hypothesis don't fit on a t-shirt
This seems facetious. So, write down a dialog. Then distill that into what was learned from the dialog. Now you have written down a thorough understanding of the material.

No? Then the dialog wasn't enough either. One way or the other, a written account can be the best representation of an idea. Because it has all the dialog has. Even better: it can be organized and sensible, not a random walk thru the idea as a dialog often is.
It's really a shame that we are destroying or have destroyed so many sites like these for (relatively) short sighted dam building.
What are you implying, really?
Twitter is horrible - scroll down a few pages, click something interesting, hit back, and you’ve lost position, and have to reload and rescroll through everything again. Even worse because some clicks will open a modal that you can close and save position, but other clicks will reload the page.
Indeed. People keep saying Bayesianism will solve the replication crisis but as far as I can see it will make it worse: without a hard cut-off you have many more degrees of freedom to "hack" and can push ever more marginal "results".
It costs over a grand to quit the club known as "citizenship" you're going to want citizenship in wherever you reside first when you give up US citizenship (you could choose to be stateless, but that makes more problems than it solves). Doing this does not absolve you of existing debts in the eyes of the IRS. And finally, you'll be interviewed at the consulate and if your stated reason for giving up citizenship is "the overseas tax thing", you'll be denied a visa if you ever want to visit the US again.
Maybe people forget the elaborate system of lies in which commercial payors tell providers “I’ll pay .6 on the dollar” so providers say “ok I’ll ‘charge’ you (cost + margin) * 3” because I’ve gotta make a healthy margin this one to cross subsidize the patient with a government payor who will only pay .3 on the dollar.
Dark and Disturbing Origins of Popular Nursery Rhymes
I only wanted to address one thing you mentioned: polling varies widely on abolishing the private insurance system.

The Kaiser Family Foundation does extensive health care polling on a continual basis, and their recent poll suggests that 37% favor single-payer where private insurance is abolished.

Also, there certainly is room -- and I think even the staunchest advocate of socialized medicine acknowledges this -- for elective procedures to be covered by private insurance under a single-payer regime, so it's maybe inaccurate to say that one (single payer) necessitates the other (abolishing private insurance). Several countries I'm aware of split it up that way successfully.

Lots of other interesting information here:

https://www.kff.org/slideshow/public-opinion-on-single-payer...
Famously, imgur gets it wrong. After 10 images you can click "load more images" to see the rest of the album, but when you return to the album you have to click it again.
If p = np, what's the chance that n = 0.045 or 0.052?
With a high enough dose of LSD, your current models of the world break down. Maybe the CIA was trying to imprint new reality tunnels for people during this vulnerable point in the trip.
I made the mistake of staying at one company for close to ten years and then when it was time to leave, I found my skillset woefully out of date. That was 10 years ago.

As far as staying relevant, I’ve developed a network of trusted local external recruiters and I speak with them to see what companies want.

When I’ve been looking for a job, I’ve found jobs where I have the listed “must have” skills and I want the “nice to have” skills. Rinse and repeat.

I don’t do non work related side projects. I will work extra hours and volunteer for a low risk project using new to me technology just to learn.

I want to say that I would change jobs if I saw the technology that my current company is using is out of sync with the job market all other things being equal. But, every job change I’ve done in the past decade has come with both more pay and more resume building opportunities.

Now after job hopping and following my own advice for a decade, I’ve reached close to the local market (Atlanta) maximum unless I start working for a consulting company (not contracting/staff augmentation).
You can even turn it on, try it and then return it before 2 weeks for free in EU
then some "brave" company like apple/mozilla removes the option to disable it
Is a software engineer really a recognised proffesion in CA?

It's a proffesional level job, but reconisation usually means being a member of some sort of proffesional body - no idea what the software one of those would be?
> it can be configured to make things simple for users.

That is the same defense I constantly hear about Jira. And it proves the point - it requires custom configuration to make it easy to use. So people invest time and energy into their instance of it, and build skills on it, and then are in too deep to move away.

I'm fine with Jira improving, and fixing their UX. I'm fine with other products coming up and beating them out. I'd just like to see this industry move forward, and get back to the place where our tools assist us in our work, instead of frustrating it.
I'm fairly sure that most, even non-technical users understand fairly well that their ISP can snoop on their internet connection. On the other hand I doubt that my mom expects that when she connects to https://www.impots.gouv.fr/ her browser pings an american-owned server to get access.
Open-access megajournals lose momentum as the publishing model matures
There aren’t a whole bunch of companies that are able to provide a good DNS service world-wide. You’ll need high-reliability DNS servers co-located all over the world. Probably a multi-million dollar investment to get such a thing going, saying nothing of the running costs.
It s horrible. I constantly lose posts because of zooming in, open in new tabs, misclick etc. And its made even worse by the fact that the whole feed will change if i hit reload

I wish i could turn it off like tumblr
That interpretation makes the test basically useless because we know a priori that any two variable for things within each others light cone affect each other at least a little. More practically, since the test tells you nothing about size of effect, it will pick up on the tiniest of bias in your experimental procedure and always reject the null if you have enough data.

From the author of the article: "The general point reminds me of my dictum that statistical hypothesis testing works the opposite way that people think it does. The usual thinking is that if a hyp test rejects, you’ve learned something, but if the test does not reject, you can’t say anything. I’d say it’s the opposite: if the test rejects, you haven’t learned anything—after all, we know ahead of time that just about all null hypotheses of interest are false—but if the test doesn’t reject, you’ve learned the useful fact that you don’t have enough data in your analysis to distinguish from pure noise."

(https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/08/18/i-feel-lik...)
Modafinil is so really powerful stuff. It took me a second to realize you said you no longer take it. The whole time I was thinking of course you don't sleep, modafinil can make anyone survive on very little sleep for an extended period of time.
My Fairphone 2 got 4 (and will get 5) years of support from a small company (Fairphone). Tablet-wise, I agree, although the K1 refresh got less long updates. Also, I don't expect a new tablet from Nvidia for the reason you mentioned. However the setopbox line I expect updates from (don't have one but heard universal praise). Thing is, I use a Steam Link and don't have Nvidia graphics card so no GeForce Now (don't like such vendor lock in either).
I can verify that LSD does in fact work the next day, and the next, and the next. after 4 days, not so sure.
Show HN: Mistake that cost thousands (Kubernetes, GKE)
'A reduction' isn't the same as 'a big effect'. Meat is marginally more expensive, ecologically. But the other alternatives are not free either. So the total benefit of 'not eating meat' isn't realized to the bottom line. Its marginal.
Catalan minister, apologies. But my point stands.
Dell DES-6332 Certification
> fun and feels great to have the fastest phone and fanciest camera.

This is what the richest company in the history of humanity is here for: making feel good gadgets. What an achievement. Meanwhile: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/apple-foxconn-caught...
"lavish rewards programme" yeah I don't think so
Please don't shout when you see this.. For monsters are real
What you said it totally true. But to say that Apple is not forcing is a white lie. It's true that they're not pointing guns at us, but they are smoothly pointing us in that direction. There's a psychological pressure to have the latest tech, otherwise not only your phone, but also you yourself, are outdated and uncool. No kind of manipulation was ever forceful. That's what makes it a manipulation. You think you're doing it, but another person/company slowly brought you to do it.
A lot of people are intelligent and strong enough to resist this brainwash, but a lot of others are not.
> Of all the governments to worry about, the ones in the EU (as well as US, CA, AU, NZ), are the ones I'd least be concerned with, relatively speaking.

Completely wrong threat assesment in my opinion. You should always be concerned about your own government. It isn't only the axis of evil that imprisons people with leaks about heavy privacy invasions.

Russia and China have anything about you and you are a citizen of a western nation? Great, because that doesn't matter at all.

You know who poses the greatest threat in motorsports? It is the other driver on your team.
This has nothing to do with the topic. Chrome isn't replacing the OS's DNS resolver, and that bug is just that: a bug.

A bug that I cannot reproduce. Chrome follows my HOSTS file fine on Windows 10. But even if it didn't it would still be off-topic.
Oh you're discussing storing the seed, not the TOTPs themselves.
People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons”
You should try working at a car dealership. People do this with brand new vehicles, just multiply the euros by 20!
Depends on where. New York for example guarantees an hourly wage. But yes, in general they often make less than minimum wage: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/01/uber-lyft...
Just because something is unique to you and persistent over a lifetime doesn't make it genetic (there seems to be a huge lay misunderstanding about this). It can also be epigenetic, which is basically the programmable layer on top of your genome which causes certain genes to be expressed instead of others.
Why? If you're not a friend or family member, it's none of your business.
>I really hope I'm reading that wrong. I might want to do work for a California company one day ;-)

In theory this should be really good for software contractors, because in this should rip out the middlemen (i.e. the firms who get the contract to do the work and turn around and subcontract the work to you for pennys on the dollar). Now in theory these middlemen are gone and you as the software developer should be able to obtain the contract directly directly from the company.
If you generalize a bit it all makes perfect sense.

>30+ years of <pretending to actually be doing useful things>, high-profile failures, and maybe one or two useful <things> among the years of pointless impractical <wastes of time and money> "looks cool", all funded by <shady people of at best questionable morals>.

The above generalized form describes basically every "esteemed" public and quasi-public-nonprofit institution (higher education falling in the latter category here) in the greater Boston area (I'm sure there's a short list of exceptions but I can't think of any right now). This is a culture problem, not a problem with a particular institution.

Look at history. Cultural problems do not go away overnight and they certainly do not go away just by swapping out what's basically a department head. You have to slowly build the expectation that people will not do whatever the problem thing is. Unfortunately, the people of MA mostly just expect that the upper class (social class in this context) is a (ethically) dirty bunch and scandals like this are met with a shrug and a fatalistic "well what are you gonna do" by the general population. People in places of power doing highly unethical things (like accepting Epstein's money) is simply not a problem that society in MA cares much about or even feels it can solve (at present).

FYI I'm only speaking for the greater Boston area because that's what I know. I have no idea how they do things in Chicago or Moscow (but I like to think I could take a good guess).
Unicode doesn't define rendering:

https://unicode.org/standard/principles.html

> The Unicode Standard does not define glyph images. The standard defines how characters are interpreted, not how glyphs are rendered. The software or hardware-rendering engine of a computer is responsible for the appearance of the characters on the screen. The Unicode Standard does not specify the size, shape, nor style of on-screen characters
His point is that the whole point of the field of statistics is that cherry picking results or getting lucky once is not proof of anything, unlike nonstatistical mathematics where one example is enough to justify a claim.
That's what they do now.
Are these not available in the USA? Does Xiaomi make decent tablets?
Ukraine Russia
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So here's how the event went:

- Saving so many lives with the heart sensor

- PMS tracker

- Some autism spectrum boy that started to run

- Trial periods

- Compass

Now, I'm sitting there thinking, wait, why do I need to hear this boasting about the past? Do you have cool shit to show or not? It all just smells like they are trying to impress their own employees and this is something I see so often in other companies, that Apple just didn't do before.
Climate change is a story of excess. It's not just eating meat three times a day. It's not just having two cars per household or buying a new phone/laptop/TV/everything every two years.

This article is trying really hard to avoid one of the problems, which the author seems to have a personal interest in.
Model-Viewer: Easily display interactive 3D models on the web and in AR
Given that there are like... seven copies in U.S. libraries, I think that's probably terrible advice.
And you, IMHO, are not right. I read both the Telegraph & Guardian online. I find - at least with brexit - that there's a plurality of opinion in the Telegraph that the Guardian doesn't have (for example, regular articles from anti-brexit voices such as Irish senator Neale Richmond, or EU figures like Barnier). The Guardian is like an echo chamber in comparison, with only its Economic's editor Larry Elliot offering anything against the grain.

Honestly, if you think the Telegraph is hard-right, then you're much harder left than you're letting on.
I think they would argue they are an app company that connects drivers to people that need driving. Or food to people that need food. Etc. What about power sellers on ebay? Since they generate all their income from selling stuff on ebay should they be classified as employees of ebay?

Could uber work around this by having everyone form their own LLC to be an uber driver, and making that process painless for people? (or making it painful and not caring about the long term ramifications)
Although I agree that in some cases SMS 2FA provides a false sense of security, this argument misses the economy of the attacks here. It's not that black and white.

Any attacks on phone numbers are spearphishing, almost my definition. Some form of identity fraud - no matter how easy it is for an attacker - must be performed in phone number stealing. Even if it's very easy, that's a significant cost for an attacker and not an easily scalable attack. I agree that SMS 2FA must never be presented as an effective means to thwart spearphishing, where attackers are willing to put in this effort.

Now in the real world, password reuse attacks are far more common, and an commonly bigger concern for a random online accounts system. SMS 2FA can be of really big help there.
The point is that you need to replicate experiments and not cherry pick the one with the highest p-value.
The reporting here is so bad I'm honestly confused about whether anything at all is changing.

I wonder why this news outlet tried to report this specific piece of news at all, instead of leaving it to the specialist press.
This article essentially just makes the claim that if you do nothing magic will make climate change go away. He didn't disprove the claim that vegetarianism will help lower carbon emissions, doesn't provide any real information for people looking to lower their carbon emissions. He also doesn't disclose he's the author of books that specifically claim that global warming isn't happening.
My Public Keybase Phaze111
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/phaze; my proof: https://keybase.io/phaze/sigs/aWiWTrO8-1wFXOSYXIZqiFutGzVuNWEG5fxG0J-xgIU ]
I know it's off-topic but I appreciate so much when somebody hosts their own blog rather than using Medium or some nag-ware hosting service.

I didn't get any pop-up "pardon[ing] the interruption" or asking me to join a mailing list, or anything! To think this used to be the normal way of doing things on the web.
This is usually called "self employment" or "owning a business"
Any idea what the keypad device is called? Are you expected to carry it with you at all times? Is that feasible? Is there some sort of threshold for its use? For example, transactions under $X, even if fraudulent, might not be worth the inconvenience to the customer of having to go through the extra steps.

If you don’t mind my asking, is your banking institution geared towards HNW clients? The amount verification sounds very similar to what most banks in the US do for inter-bank transactions but I’ve never heard of something like that implemented on a bank account from the consumer’s side.