skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the plain DNS makes you absolutely unable to control your DNS queries outside your network.

Nothing stops anyone in the middle intercepting your queries and returning whatever they want, including your provider.
Google Quantumcomputing Breakthrough Brings Blockchain Resistance into Spotlight
Yes, it is a modified version of it. That's why I wrote "also" :)
That's disturbing. Can any consumer grade filters remove plastics that small?
I don't disagree, but I don't think you can bring a legal case to a judge that a company can't exist.

But if every one of their threats resulted in someone dragging them into an expensive fight over whether or not that patent was valid, maybe eventually they'd just go bankrupt from the legal fees.

Essentially, use their own strategy against them. Whenever they sue someone, they have two choices: roll over and let the patent get invalidated, or fight an expensive lawsuit against a party that refuses to settle.
I've been trying to avoid groceries that come with single-use plastic and it's tough. Grapes and cherry tomatoes come in plastic bags or cartons, even at salt-of-the-earth type places. Meat or cheese from the deli gets a zip lock. There's no way to use the olive bar without grabbing a plastic carton, in various sizes.

I wouldn't have even suspected the tea bags themselves. I assume some of them are still made with natural fibers but how would you know?
Another way of looking at Europe's language diversity is that having to deal with it early on will make you better prepared to go global.

The American market is homogenous but crowded. World markets are increasingly open, but Americans aren't necessarily best positioned to take the lead.
Replacing those systems will happen faster if they can't find people willing to maintain that old stack.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with this comment; it supports my argument
I believe in the case of NY it was all flavors except menthol that were banned.
Much better to reset this ridiculous situation by tax than by war and guillotine. Being born poor into a society like this is slavery in disguise.
Hmm, what is not mobile-friendly with, say, Conversations ?
But can be a lot of difference on how is cultured and its origin.
FWIW, I've heard people say that Blender 2.8 is easier to use than 3DSMax or Maya.
Mozilla is not yet ready to even talk to non-US DoH providers as of now (I've tried, Quad9 tried from what I've heard, and I'm sure many others did).

Till this changes, Mozilla DoH rollout will be US-only.
The difference is that if all you ate was 4,000 calories of bacon a day, you’d lose weight. That many calories of soda and chips and you’d get ill fast.
I didn't notice either until my 30s. The reason for me is that I grew up on highly processed and packaged foods, and places like Chilis seemed to serve more "whole" foods in comparison to a lot of the junk I was eating. It wasn't until I did a lot of reading and cooking that I understood the difference.
Here in Germany we often jokingly say that the Berlin Wall was the last big public construction project that was completed within time and budget.

;-)
In Czechia, ISPs are forced to block certain websites, but exact method is not speficied. Today, they just block it on DNS level, as that is simplest and effective enough (although easy to circumvent). If ordinary users were using DoH, then ISPs would be forced to use IP based blocking
New York Fed Boosts Size of Repurchase Operations
The business model of these companies goes something like this...
In phase 1, sell $1 at deeply discounted rates of 50 cents. Sell a lot of them to show tons of revenue.

In phase 2, sell $1 at slightly less disconted rates of 40 cents and show growth in margins.

In phase 3, establish monopoly but still sell $1 at 80 cents and show both topline and bottom line growth.

Finally, go belly up after not able to overcome the fixed costs in their business.
No, I'm the ignorant American. Lipton is suitable only for iced tea. Then again, maybe Lipton is fine and I just don't like orange pekoe tea.
Reading patents is hard, but the patent in question is easy because it's so short, and the lawsuit is explicitly saying which claim they believe is in violation. Here is the claim in full:

> A method performed by an image-capturing mobile device, comprising:

> receiving a plurality of photographic images;

> filtering the plurality of photographic images using a transfer criteria wherein the transfer criteria is a subject identification of a respective photographic image within the plurality of photographic images, wherein the subject identification is based on a topic, theme or individual shown in the respective photographic image;

> and transmitting, via a wireless transmitter and to a second image capturing device, the filtered plurality of photographic images.

IANAL, and I am not sufficiently well-versed in patent law to know precisely how the terminology is to be interpreted in court, but that last element of the claim is really hard to substantiate. First, there's no evidence that it's transmitting via a wireless transmitter (if it doesn't, it can't violate the claim by definition!). Second, there is strong evidence that the destination is not a "second image capturing device." If that last clause is not violated, then the claim is not violated, and the patent is not violated.

From the way the patent claims are constructed, it feels like the patent examiner narrowed the patent to cover specifically wireless point-to-point transmission of images. I don't think the court will look kindly on the broad interpretation being used here.
Even when dried and set? I'm having a lot of trouble finding info on the safety of it in food online, but it seems like egg whites have been used for centuries as a glue for a whole bunch of things.
You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Psychologists are one instance where medical confidentiality would help. Making people make a trip to their local clinic to hear the results of their X-ray of their broken leg because nurses can't tell you anything over the phone is fucking asinine. Surely, there are shades of gray here to be recognized.
Keeping the cost of compliance small isn't the same as doing as little work into compliance as possible. More often than not, it's the other way around.

Corner cutting doesn't work on any of the usual "cost centers", and most of them can be transformed into a differential.
Maybe markets would just correct themselves later, but in the meanwhile a lot of people went broke and a lot of businesses closed, because a company was giving out free meals (payed by someone else who is also going to lose money). In the end who profits? Only the "charlatans" who managed to convince others to give them absurd amounts of money. Everybody else comes out with a bloody nose.

And yes, of course the strategy might work if there is a substantial network effect. But if there isn't, such as in the case of Uber, or WeWork, or even maybe Netflix, then the whole operation can only end in losses.
Doing things "with a computer" should not be patent-able. The computer already has the inherent capability to do everything anyone could ever conceive of instructing it to do, because of mathematics.

Constructing new capabilities for a computer, or a novel physical device to interface with the computer to extend its capabilities, should be patent-able.

IMO, in what I see of this patent, the computer used is not novel, the wireless signal utilized to transmit data is not novel, nor are the cameras that communicate with the computer novel. Nothing of value was built.
Daimler Executes First Transaction on R3's Marco Polo Blockchain
I thought much of the post, if not the entire post, was full of garbage illuminated by this example.
My pet theory-without-evidence is that diets like keto or vegan succeed largely because they force people to radically reconsider every single thing they're eating. When you impose harsh restrictions like "no animal products" you have to pay very close attention to everything you consume, which likely leads to more mindful eating and less passive consumption/overeating.
If you can maintain a credible threat that you'd do it again (and win), competitors shouldn't be expected to enter the market even as you're extracting rent. This is amplified by any barriers to entry.
No, I have not done it.

I do know a lot of hiring managers put PMP cert on their PM roles as a requirement or "would like to have". I have hired people with a PMP and my feeling for it is that the cert checks a box for most companies and for people newer to PMing projects it does set a pretty solid foundation. It doesn't seem like it is a comprehensive training solution by itself, but it gets you the checkbox marked and does seem to have real world value. At least from the people I have talked to that did it, the cert wasn't "hard" necessarily but, at least their training centers, packed a lot of information in a fairly tight timeframe.

Some of the PMP training centers (and there are other PM certifications too) have extra training for specific project types and specific functions too, like finance.
The original comment had to do with whether we should trust Cloudflare more than Facebook. If they as a company want to make editorial decisions, that's fine, but the reality is that also means they are not content agnostic. Interestingly enough, they provide services for known spammers and other shady internet operations.

As to whether 8chan 'caused' those abhorrent crimes, I couldn't say, any more than 'violent video games' caused them. I view such crimes as having a root cause of some form of mental illness, which does not (imo) relieve the doers of culpability.

The point is that they are demonstrably not exactly what they claim to be, and thus some level of distrust is warranted.
Thanks, this is much more clear.
I agree that if we were to supply significant portions of our energy need with wind power, we would be taking that amount of energy out of the global climate system and therefore alter temperature/air pressure/wind in some combination (that is, alter currents). We could also look at it as a percentage of available energy in global wind (see http://www.wse.ie/how-much-wind-energy-is-there for a take on this).

That said, I don't think we can necessarily assume that 1% or 0.01% would have a small effect. Small perturbations can have large impacts in complex systems. It is possible impacts could be significant in localized ways as well (for instance low change in global average temperature but greater incidence of hurricanes).
Because with the rise of 401k and lately low interest rates a lot of people were forced into the market who simply don’t have skill or time to learn these skills to make investments in an unregulated market.
It seems like with a platform like extreme wealth taxation, the result will really speak to the power of money in politics. Will capital successfully defend itself? Will the people win back their place at the table? Or am I looking at this incorrectly?
It's not that private investors need protection, it's that legitimate businesses have to compete against their fountain of capital and that all of these companies employ a lot of people.
So, let's be clear about this--if Chrome detects your DNS server is on one those lists, it will automatically switch to using DoH with the same provider?
All the diets of exclusion manage to exclude the most calorie dense foods.
Suppose that you are the subject of a public interest story, where you randomly witch-hunted as, let's say, a 'pedo guy'.

Suppose that once the dust settles, the facts turn out to be entirely in your favor, and a the publications that ran hit pieces against you quietly issue retractions.

What will happen when I search Google for '6gvONxR4sf7o'? Maybe because you are interviewing to work for me?

I'm going to be bombarded with three pages of search results that loudly proclaim you to be a criminal, a moral degenerate, and possibly even a horse thief.

Is it in the public interest for incorrect information about you to be an incredibly prominent part of your public record?

(Bonus points: You can run a lucrative business by poisoning someone's search results, by, say, including their name and alleged wrong-doings in a 'mugshot database', and then demanding that the target pay you money to get removed from this 'mugshot database'... Should search engines be allowed to play their part in this form of extortion?)
>You are part of the same system that vilifies assault / harassment victims

"I'm out of arguments, so you're just a ..."

Please don't do that.

>by saying accusations are "too old" / "he / she isn't remembering correctly".

It's been nearly a week now. That's a long time for people to come forward with police reports, official complaints, etc. So far there is "Knight for Justice (also: hot ladies)", and, "I hear people have spider plants in their offices to keep him away."

>You have the gall to call anyone who does care SJWs,

I do? Feel free to quote my stuff back at me. I know you won't, because you can't, so you resort to making stuff up about things you hope I would have said.

Please don't make stuff up, it's all there for you to read.

>I guess I didn't expect anything more from you.

I'm sorry if I disappointed you. But I can only start caring the moment someone presents me with something substantial to care about.
I think they are generally fine. There just needs to be a shorter window, say 3 years and they need to be non-transferable. This removes the patent trolls and people just buying patent portfolios (IBM) but still allows a new small company to invest in product without having their better funded competitor just stealing it the day of launch.
No one seriously claims that IPO stock is a "safe asset". The prospectus is crystal clear about the high level of risk.
This commentary is a bit humorous. Is there some purpose for which the alternative to using a wind turbine is using a herd of 3500 horses?

"Horsepower" as a unit made sense when it was being used to market steam engines as an alternative to horses, because it made the tradeoffs obvious: it's clearly cheaper and easier to maintain steam engine than the 20 horses needed to do the same work. It might still be relevant for something like tractors where horses would be a reasonable alternative, but something like "carbon tons" (the tons of carbon produced by fossil fuel production of the same electricity) might be a more useful comparison for wind power.
Probably not. Government granted monopolies only make sense when there are government forced delays as in drug approval. And even there, there are a lot of problematic cases.
IIRC, there's a theoretical limit to how much energy even the most efficient windmill can take from the wind. It's close to 50% - maybe 53%? That's one turbine taking energy from the cross-section of the wind that intersects the area of the turbine's blades. You'd have to look at what fraction of the air you care about intersects the turbines, and multiply that by that 50% (or whatever the real value is for the actual turbines in question).

That's if you care about energy. If you care about vortexes and disturbed flow... I have no information.
Drugs are dangerous even without the threat of being thrown into jail. They're not victimless either. If you become a junkie, you're a drain on everyone around you. Your family suffers, your ability to participate in society is wrecked. To say nothing of drinking and driving.

I don't do drugs recklessly. I don't have reckless sex. I do not think these things should be okay to do until and unless you take the proper care to do them without causing harm to others. If you don't take the proper care, then it doesn't matter whether the danger you run afoul of is "natural" or "artificial". Taking the proper care obviates both types of dangers.

Don't be reckless, or the life you ruin might not be your own.
Wake up.

Review calendar.

Check messages and emails.

Workout 5 days per week including cardio and HIIT.

Shower.

Take pills.

Work day starts.
Uber is a taxi company until it can show meaningful revenue from other business models on its platform.
Why people gain weight as they get older
Is caffeine addiction a serious public health crisis?

Nictoine on its own is no more harmful than caffeine.

https://news.sky.com/story/nicotine-no-worse-than-cup-of-cof...
It works on a set of programs, plus terminal interception that works on anything (more or less) that you spawn from the given terminal.

For that terminal interception, HTTP Toolkit injects a lot of environment variables, including adding some wrappers to your path, which allow it to inject into a _lot_ of places. It sets `SSL_CERT_FILE` for example, which reconfigures the default CA for any processes started from that terminal that use OpenSSL. Again, all scoped to just this one terminal window.

In the case where you specifically manage the trust store as you describe I suspect that'll break (the requests will fail, but they'll still appear in HTTP Toolkit as just 'Certificate rejected for ABC.com', without the full details). The vast majority of applications don't do that though; they rely on the environment to tell them who to trust, and HTTP Toolkit creates the environment. For specific cases that don't, I also include a bunch of extra overrides and injections, so if there's anything that comes up that doesn't fit it's fairly easy to work around it.

It's all open-source, so you can look through the specifics if you like. The core terminal interception setup logic is https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-server/blob/maste.... That spawns a terminal and injects the environment variables from https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-server/blob/maste..., which notably add a bunch of things from https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-server/tree/maste... to your PATH/PYTHONPATH/RUBYLIB/etc.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that.

:-D
This is a big topic in business school - never compete on price for that exact reason.

Although things like Uber may be a different beast. They basically got big enough that cities were willing to push aside all of these special interest rules that kept the taxi industry crappy. So by dumping their product and acquiring customers, they were able to change the legal environment and infrastructure around them.

But they are also at a huge disadvantage because they changed it for everyone behind them as well. Lyft doesn't have to burn money as fast and gets all the same benefits for scale. Under their current market position, the minute Uber starts raising prices, they die.
Would there not only be a buzzing sound and lots of bubbles? I doubt there would be any sparks if the metal is submerged in water.
Google "jane harman alberto gonzales". George W. Bush's Attorney General was apparently "twisting Rep. Jane Harman's arm" over some moderately bad things that FBI or somebody caught Harman saying to some AIPAC people being surveilled.

That was in 2009. I remember being kind of stunned that nobody seemed to care that the executive branch blackmailed an elected Rep. Log rolling and pork barrelling is fine, but blackmail seems like a bridge too far.
For such cases, we should have the necessary legal tools to deal with them if the material is truly dangerous enough to be consequential. It is not the job of a corporation to decide, though I suppose they are not under any obligation to provide service, either.

I am generally against censorship, because for every case that is "obvious", there are many more that merely seem so on the surface. This is especially important in cases where you might simply disagree with how someone else thinks, since thoughts can never be allowed to become illegal or immoral; it is only actions where such judgements are applicable.

The proper approach to combating misinformation and dangerous ideas is education. By understanding why an idea is dangerous, you will also understand why it cannot inform your actions.
Looks like there’s little to nothing we can do to stop the effects of climate change these days. Might as well just give up and accept the inevitable, a lot less stressful that way.
Markets are more effective when there is truth and transparency, that's why the S-1 was so effective and derailing WeWork's IPO. Private investors don't necessarily need protection but if I was a big player in the private market I'd definitely be an advocate for more transparency.
What you're describing is known in Manufacturing Engineering as a Time Study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_study

Basically someone stands around with a stopwatch and monitors a process a few times and then gets a feel for the average time the process takes.

You can do the same thing in software with the caveat that you must be doing pretty much the same thing.

e.g., if the last 5 times you had to build the basic framework for a CRUD program in Ruby it took 10 hours, then it's likely that the 6th time it will also take roughly 10 hours. However, doing the same thing in C means that the estimate goes flying out the window.
If it's a business differentiator, there's usually a better understanding from upper management that these things are hard, that there's trial-and-error, that some of this is R&D which will not have immediate value but strengthen the long-term position (or buy a patent moat)... If not, then that business is probably about to be in trouble.
For pure insanity Operation Northwood still takes the biscuit.

Do we really think that they are any better 50 years later because I don't.
>After doing this for a while, you can use these relative effort estimates to project completion dates for new projects.

This doesn't work. The problem is that you get periods where the work is relatively easy overall so 5 points ends up being tasks that take 2 days. Then you pick up new difficult features and estimate everything relative to all of the new hard tasks and you end up with 5 points meaning 5 days.

Sure you can gauge relative difficulty of tasks between each other, but in a regular developer's day-to-day life the range should really be 1-100 or so rather than making stuff fit into 12 points or less.
Saudi attacks, high demand leaves U.S. short on oil tankers
Kevin Burns was only CEO for about 1.5 years, so I would put the blame on marketing to kids on his predecessor.
Are u able to browse blocked sites with it on? IE Gmail, Youtube, etc.
That may be (part) of the purpose, but the implementation details facilitate abuse. Also, software patents are somewhat controversial, with other countries banning them, so railing against them as something that shouldn't exist at all is a reasonable view to take.
They said in the article that this wind farm is the size of Malta.
That's the fault of Australia, not Apple[1]:

> "If Apple claims the ECG function in its Apple Watch has therapeutic benefit for wearers, the watch would need to be included in the [Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods] in order to be legally supplied in Australia," a TGA spokesperson said to Gizmodo Australia in a statement.

This could be fixed if Australia allowed unapproved devices to be sold with a warning instead of outright banning them.

1. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/09/why-apple-watch-series-5-...
I'm having problems recording the screen and playing back the video when reporting a bug.
You might find AWS SAM CLI worth looking at if you're finding that awkward : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/lat...

I used to have a Makefile to do the install dependencies in directory, test locally, zip the directory up, deploy to AWS jobs - but SAM is a really good replacement for that workflow. It uses docker containers too, and the other big thing it makes trivial if you need it is running an API gateway locally so you can test the Lambda as an HTTP API instead of just hacking events in as standard input/function inputs.