skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...unless you disable it. However you can configure firefox to use your pi-hole if you can get it serving dns over https. If that's not supported now I would expect it becomes supported very soon.
yup it does, just like contractor employees at amazon/google/tech company of choice don't get any of the nice benefits or perks of working at the client company, these guys won't get anything.

Those employees can't sue the client company, they can only sue contractor company - that suddenly goes poof and doesn't pay out anything when a dispute happens. Good luck forming a union coz then the company will go poof too

It basically just moves the onus onto the employee willing to sign up for a shit job with no perks and absolves the govt/client company.
What would the speed comparison be for all that storage via microSD vs internal?
It's a very ingenious way of fighting income inequality in the city: make well-off people leave and - bingo, everyone is equally poor!
Not really unrealistic? I have lived in an apartment. On weekdays off, I've had dealt with moving my car every few hours due to street parking time limitations. Having to move my car 30 minutes after plugging in to charge doesnt seem like a big ask.
The bill makes an exception for engineers, among other professions:

> An individual who holds an active license from the State of California and is practicing one of the following recognized professions: lawyer, architect, engineer, private investigator, or accountant.
Could be stupidity, or compulsive fomo. I think that to do what he did, stupidity is not enough, you have to have a big fear or insecurity inside to work as a sufficient motivator.
It seems The Guardian is trading on the reputation it built up in years gone by, but no longer lives up to its own high standards.

I respected The Guardian before, nowadays it just seems to be the left equivilent of Breitbart - at least as far left as Breitbart is far right.
I think in most countries, government can approach domestic companies to hand over data in case of illegal action.

The problem with the US is that data is being used against you, like recent events have shown.
Don't oversimplify the issue.

> it's trivial to change your DoH provider

Cloudfare is the default.

Cloudfare is the only provider listed.

Cloudfare will be On by default, so it will be that for 99.999% of Firefox users.

That ain't right no matter how well intended it is.
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Did you ever use the short lived social network site from Microsoft (I think)? It was designed as a room that people shared and you could post messages and photos and play music that everybody would hear.

I don't remember the name, but I think it had a number in it.
If they pledged that money to pay their employees properly, wouldn't it be a wash?
> Aka “very very” close.

No. AKA the same. When the precision of the cutting implements is lower than the difference between the spec and the idealised ratio you're there. 296.9848mm is not an actual paper dimension which makes any sense.
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It's not just traditionalism. It has some merit.

Let's use a computation metaphor. All external but easily accessible information is in the HDD. Nowadays it contains almost all human knowledge.

But the things that are in your mind to be retrieved instantaneously are in cache. A bigger and more utilized cache is better, but for humans it takes a lot of effort to move things into cache, and our HDDs are expanding ever larger, so now people keep their cache empty and unused.

Reading a poem will give you some joy and perhaps insight, but memorizing the poem will make it a part of you. It's only function is not just reciting and recalling. It makes your mind more beautiful because it has beautiful things in it. It's not about the poem. It's about you as a person.

Which take me to the memory palace or method of loci. It's a mnemonic device described by the Romans where you memorize information by visualizing it as a walk through a palace with many rooms and locations. I think it was more than just a mnemonic device because embedded in that metaphor is the implication that what you memorize exists physically in your mind.

If the ancient peoples tried to beautify and decorate their minds with beautiful knowledge, then the modern people have industrialized their minds and kept them brutally empty.
I think it's good Firefox are leading the way on DoH.

The ability to chose which DNS provider you query will be next on the feature list for Firefox I imagine.

Cloudflare have the same mindset to do something about the vulnerability of DNS to snooping (see their 1.1.1.1 app). Two companies with the same mindset. I'm hoping others follow them.

The article itself sounds paranoid and divides those that would rather trust private companies (with good intentions) against those that would rather trust their ISP/Government (also with good intentions).
Cost/Benefit.

Uber doesn't want drivers classified as employees so they don't have to pay minimum wage, provide employee benefits, pay payroll taxes, or otherwise comply with the law vis-a-vis employees.

Yet, it is one thing for Uber to hire drivers as contractors individually where Uber has full control over the terms, in other words no driver is in a position to negotiate their contract with Uber...it is an entirely different thing for the drivers to be organized and those organized drivers now be in a position to negotiate (almost like a union).

I think the last thing Uber would do is assist the drivers in organizing...its not just the ability for them to negotiate with Uber collectively either, at that point said driver contracting firm(s) would then be in a position to launch their own ride-share app to compete, unlike say these Amazon driver firms would can't just launch an Amazon competitor.
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In the UK it is usually 24-48 hours but both numbers gets texts about the impending switch to a new SIM.
Just in case anyone didn't spot it, yesterday Apple announced Research.app that will let Apple Watch users opt in to supplying data to research projects

https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2019/09/apple-announces-th...

Three projects announced at the moment.

I feel fairly comfortable with these, since they are opt in and not aimed at users who are suffering a healthcare crisis while deciding whether to share their data.
Which equates to some 13,160 such individuals (329,000,000/25,000) just in the U.S.
I’d like to see the browser APIs prohibit this - and also disable interference with text selecting and copy/paste buffer. There is no legit reason for this functionality.
Can you give up your american passport and then stop or do you have to do it for the rest of your life?
Top 3 are way, way, way different than top 100...
As a sysadmin and a user i dont see any problems with DoH, i can easily set a DNS entry[0] so that FF respects my company configuration. And as a user I've been using DoH for months, just not from cloudflare but from CZ NIC because the latency was slightly better. You can easily set your custom DoH provider with 2 clicks in the Options menu. Also for most users I see benefits, because most of them don't use VPNs on free wifis.

edit: I also think OS maintainers are the main problem here, none of this would've happened if they supported DoT or DoH themselves.

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuring-networks-di...
Healthcare, Insurance, Repairs to machinery, Discrimination - There a TON of problems with the gig economy that are being "subsidized" by investors right now.
One of the advantages of lisp is REPL-driven development. I imagine you can't just edit a fn, eval it and then see the changes immediately. What is the workflow like when creating a NES game using co2?
As sibling comment hints, you have multiple concepts mixed together.

The monkeysphere is "how many people you can comprehend as people with their own full lives", and is on the order of 150-300.

"Critically important" in your life is a far higher bar, so 10 to 20 makes sense.

"Playing field" is a far lower bar where only the relevant metric matters, which widens the range to a far larger number of people.
That's ridiculous to suggest as a solution and that's why it won't be adopted. Better to work on an alternative solution that has a better chance of adoption.
> So a P < 0.05 means that there is less than a 5% chance that the null hypothesis is true. Conversely, this means that there is a 95% chance that what you’re testing is true.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value#Basic%20concepts
That is not an argument, it is clear that this is supposed to be deployed by default.
I'm going to 'recycle' an older comment of mine, pertaining to the comments about the book. The original comment can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583363

I was annoyed that someone called Ed Snowden a 'Traitor'. Hopefully it gets a bit more recognition in this thread

__________________________________

For me he made the Great Game of Privacy a lot fairer. You should read the excellent entry on Wikipedia about the aftermath of the leaks[0]. If the leaks meant that privacy-loving folk went 'dark' in light of the leaks, then this is a net plus. Snowden's actions possibly hindered NSA in catching undesirables, but it's a small price to pay for a bolstered Internet and privacy-respecting comms. And who's to say that the apparatus even worked that well in foiling the efforts of plotters? Bill Binney[1] consistently drives his message home that the NSA's surveillance apparatus is very inefficient at foiling plots, and I agree with him.

Even if it stopped one plot in all the time of its existence, it's still an enormous effort and an enormous amount of money spent just to foil one plot. Old fashioned police work is better at foiling plots because it doesn't have to rely on big data algorithms sifting through the noise of Internet traffic (most of which is innocuous). Old fashioned methods work because they employ simple detective work - it doesn't need the NSA at every choke point and decrypting countless crypto.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_Effect

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_%28U.S._intelli...
It chains you to your home and in case the charger is not in front of your home you have to walk too. If you have a tight schedule you often don't have that 30 min.
It's actually not, or am I somehow missing that this is a feature that Mozilla has announced as part of this move? Users who are not technical powerusers will not understand the real security implications of "Enable DNS over HTTPS", and right now I can't find a setting to change the provider anywhere in the settings dialogue, and about:config and enterprise policies are not something that regular users mess with.
The Independent is owned by Saudi/Russian investors now:

>Owner(s)

>Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel

>Alexander Lebedev

>Evgeny Lebedev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent

Related articles:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40762906

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/oct/19/independent-de...
Presumably you'd want DoH on the Pi-hole in the other direction, so that it's encrypting your DNS requests forwarded out to the Internet. But yeah, there'd be no reason to want to deal with certificates for your local network machines to do DoH from Pi-hole to PC.
It could be done remotely but only if the store had signed off that ID had been viewed and the port confirmed in person. Of course this could be gamed but an employee would need to put their name on the line to say they had met the person and viewed the ID
Just FYI: Your options are 64gb, 256gb, 512gb. It honestly doesn't seem likely that they'll change that anytime soon as I haven't heard a single person complain about storage in the last 3 years. While nobody felt that 8/16/32gb was enough.

I happen to be using 50gb atm, on a 3.5 year old phone. But the new cameras have higher resolution photos which take up more space. Plus apps are only ever getting bigger, So I would likely have to pay the extra $100 for the 256gb.
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When you don't sleep enough, your sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) gets activated. Your heart beats faster, cortisol is increased.

If you spend most of your time in this state it seems normal to you. A return to good sleep might initially feel like you're stuck on a lower gear.
Yes, living with other low-income, unable-to-afford-to-survive-independently can drive up your expenses considerably.
Any device at home an go to http://nas and get on my nas, "http://desktop", "http://router", and "http://shed" and get on those.

How does that work in this bold new future? I'll have to register a domain name and add a bunch of A records for 192.168.0.1, but then it still won't work -- I'll have to do "http://desktop.mydomain.com".

Worse, while going to "shed" will work in chrome, it will fail in firefox. My guest network captive portal may well break too if someone visits with firefox.
The average internet user probably has no idea what DNS or HTTPS are, let alone DoH (which even I as a technical user had forgotten existed before I read this post). Defaults matter a whole lot. I haven't formed a definitive opinion on DoH but either way saying "you can configure it so it doesn't matter" is not reasonable in my opinion.
Sellers are neither contractors nor employees for eBay, they're customers, just like those who sell something at Christie's aren't an employee or contractor of Christie's but another type of customer.
To paraphrase, they're both software companies who happen to do rentals and cars. There's also nothing in that law which talks about core business. It's to do with work in the normal line of business, in other words - work which is regularly performed by the company, rather than specialist work for which a contractor is required.
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They're right. If the null hypothesis is true, then the probability of getting any p value is equal. Put it another way, the p value is the probability of getting the observed data (or more extreme) under the null. So, under the null, 10% of the time you will get data with a p value of 10% or less; 20% of the time, you will get data with a p value of 20% or less; and so on. And that's the uniform distribution!

Here's an R example to play with:

pvals <- replicate(10000, {
x <- rnorm(100)
y <- rnorm(100)
t.test(x, y)$p.value
})
plot(density(pvals))

That will plot you a nice uniform line on [0, 1].

(NB: I have no idea why OP talked about p values following a normal distribution. That doesn't make sense to me, and I think the post has been deleted.)
Thankfully, there's nothing mandatory about OO in C++. I mostly just use C++ as an incremental improvement over C - not "C with classes", but C with constexpr, a bit more type safety and a few other niceties. Nim is better in some ways, but often not really an option for me.
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Right on -- we're mostly in agreement.

Definitely a fair point about addressing the original question. IME, node _became_ popular in part because it allowed web developers to start solving problems themselves, directly, using a language they already knew [albeit a kind of terrible/problematic language at the time], to do things like CLI scripting for automation of tedious FE dev workflow tasks (a la Grunt and bower), or standing up dirt-simple web servers. At that point the floodgates had opened. With the concomitant (and ongoing) shift in architectures toward executing more and more of the application on the client side (with hugely popular services like gmail and google maps demonstrating the power of "Ajax"), the rest became almost inevitable. With Node, like Javascript in general, the quality followed the popularity, as world-class engineers set to fixing and improving what was available to work with, to shape it into something better-suited to the task. The process might even be ~akin to selective adaptation in biological evolution.
While it's indeed used for "ad tracking", this snippet is actually closer to a white-hat tool. This is from Integral Ad Science https://integralads.com/ which attempts to detect ad fraud. If you hate ads, it won't matter, but in the fight to make ads less invasive, potentially more useful, and still viable as an economic model for those who want to participate with it, Integral and WhiteOps (https://www.whiteops.com/) both do some great data work to try to stop disruptive bots.

If one hates all ads and tracking, of course, then none of this will matter, but just thought I'd point out the "why" for the fingerprinting in this case.
This is not speculation it's first hand opinion, I am from the UK, i distrust all UK ISPs, their DNS is filth and they are suspected of working with GCHQ... I agree US companies and US law in general are worse for data protection than the EU, but on per company basis CF is more trustworthy and half of the purpose of their DNS is to attempt to provide more privicy.
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Or how about from a library.

https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=edward...
Happy to see someone understands the real problem here!
> the only thing [browsers] should do is fetch exactly the page URL that was entered and display it.

I strongly disagree. Browsers deal with a hostile environment that poses countless threats to their users, and need to be safe. Arguing that browsers should be minimal and not protect privacy is like arguing that cars should be minimal and not have seat belts.

There is an argument that ensuring privacy in DNS could be done outside the browser. I think HTTPS is a good precedent for putting privacy in the scope of the browser; the browser should attempt to ensure that privacy expected by the user is established or it should refuse to operate.

I disagree with the solution of trusting Cloudflare, but privacy should be considered crucial to user safety in modern browser design decisions.
Sources and uses of funds are a much more reliable indicator of who someone is, who their friends are, and what they believe than the stories they publicly vocalize to themselves and others.
In my country, working as an Uber driver gets you a good salary. I think it's around 1000€ (minimum wage being less than 500€). Is it different in USA? Do they get less than minimum wage for 8 hours?
Cloudflare has taken sites offline before, in response to legal requests (CP) and social pressure (8ch). Whether it’s right to do it or not, Cloudflare has proven that it is not a neutral party.
Neat, I quit Facebook over 5 years ago and never looked back.

JOMO saved my mental health when I realized I'd never be invited to every get-together. You learn who really cares about your once you dip out of the world's easiest connectivity network... when people actually have to put in just a bit more effort to get a hold of you.

Group SMS never gets old and I don't feel like big-brother is always watching, when in reality, they very well could be but it feels far less invasive.
Disagree. Most users haven’t chosen their DNS server, so replacing one unchosen DNS server with another makes no practical difference. And DoH means that people snooping on your network can no longer spy on you.

Cloudflare has committed themselves to not track users via DNS requests, and only log what’s strictly necessary.

And if you distrust Cloudflare, you have a much bigger problem. Half the Internet routes through Cloudflare these days. If they wanted to spy on you, they have (potentially clear-text) access to a good chunk of your HTTPS traffic.

And as many others have pointed out, it’s a much better recommendation to have people change the DoH server to something else.
It seems however that 2018 was a “record year” so maybe it’s just back to “normal”?
That statement surprises me. I have no experience of tech startup or big enterprise, and I would have expected large organizations to be more conservative. Granted, there may be a more research-oriented department in large orgs, but the boat is harder to sway.
TOTP (using Authy, Google Authenticator, or other apps) with a printed set of emergency recovery keys.

And please, people, stop saying that this is not good for people who do not have smartphones. To a first approximation, everybody has a smartphone.
Ahem... this three-eyed raven is causing serious trypophobia for me. Wonder how it passed Apple's usual aesthetic design standards.
Was wondering that and then told myself, come on, nobody would be that evil, the whole idea is nonsense. And you're suggesting there are websites out there that actually do that?
Great article.

I want to weigh in about this whole perceivable jitter thing.

I think it’s important when making music related programming decisions to recognize there’s a whole area of perception in between actually conscious “hey that metronome is off!” and actually being imperceptible. In that area the feel and impact of music can be altered while no one can pinpoint why.

For safety’s sake I think sub-millisecond timing in controllers and things like metronomes needs to be the standard.

The ideal should be audio rate accuracy, when it can be reasonably achieved.

It’s really bad to fall in the trap of thinking that just because no one can point out a problem, it isn’t having an effect. Especially with audio where people have trouble explaining what they are hearing.
Perhaps "Managing in the Whitespace"[1], where whitespace is an answer to, "how can companies act entrepreneurial when they are programmed to operate in environments with strict policies, focused strategy, and clear authority?" It is supposed to stand in contrast to the black space where formal responsibilities, rules and processes have been inked out.

[1] https://hbr.org/2001/02/managing-in-the-whitespace
Why does it matter? My brother in law lived in Costa Rica for 10+ years. He never had to pay a single bit of tax. I know a few people in Europe with higher salaries and they have never paid a cent either.

I’ve yet to meet anyone who lived overseas and had to pay the IRS.
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That would not apply to software developers, even if they call themselves engineers, software developers are not licensed professional engineers (i.e. civil engineers).

For example a Software Developer can't start a professional corporation in California like a lawyer, architect, civil engineer, accountant etc...
The other viable doh provider is google. Other’s timeout is simply not worth the request, in my experience. How does one choose from these two?
Please provide some proof that a US company would not have to respond to US government requests. The location of the servers doesn’t matter.
US presidential history is seemingly rich of examples. Not holding myself to the 4 year framing:

All the accusations Bush 43 made against the democrats for being Russian-leaning communists contradicts today’s politics badly.

The stimulus checks to stabilize the economy during descent into the Great Recession.

The interruption of Pres Obamas first state of the union. Just how abnormal that was seems to have simultaneously led to today’s lack of governmental progress and yet been not just forgiven but embraced and promulgated.
Paging should be incorporated into web standards. Imagine your browser indicating "you are on page 2 of 8". Imagine having browser hotkeys for "next page", "previous page" and "jump to page".

The browser itself could even provide a non-broken, customisable, universal-across-all-sites implementation of infinite scrolling.
Software "engineer" is not a (licensed) engineer, for the hundredth time.
How can you block it, if the browser itself is doing the communication, over https no-less?

DoH was made to stop censorship, which includes blocking; if you could just block it, then whats the point of DoH?