skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DoH to Cloudflare by default is only happening to US users. Their current DNS options via their ISP are also subject to the US government.
>If injustice is demonstrable, then we know where the injustice is and so where to focus our efforts, since presumably our goal ought to be eliminating injustice.

The central position taken by the authors comes from MacKinnon's Marxist Theory of the State which argues that such change cannot happen within the state as it exists, with all the relations which have constructed it - the argument being that sexist injustice exists prior to the law, and in the law's veneer of equality, it assumes that there is no fundamental injustice to be corrected - the dogma that justice is blind works against justice, not for it. A system in which justice isn't so poorly sighted, and which, according to the authors, starts from the recognition of injustice prior to the law of the state, would be a just one. I'm not convinced that it's fallacious to talk of being "more" or "less" just, since I'm comfortable saying that a Western European country's legal system is more just than Saudi Arabia's.

>as opposed to gradually evolving the buggy system to a better state

Critical legal theory takes the metalegal position that this gradual evolution is impossible given the totality of relations which determine the law. That is to say, the law is a reflection of the society it rules over, its relations of power, of property, of information, knowledge and other things.

>Laws should be hard to change.

It's hard for me to take that as a priori a good thing when laws as they exist in any system reinforce a likely unjust status quo. The law being hard to change seems like a bad situation to be in if you were a Saudi Arabian woman who wanted to drive five years ago. Nevertheless, it circles back to the main point: there are different standards for the law governing society and the law governing a university.
> The most recent attempt in August suggested the use of light in an "Optical Keyboard" to replace switches entirely, with key presses obscuring a light source and triggering a press.

Please no. I like key travel. This would virtually have none. Ok, a fraction.
Do you have some reasoning or evidence to back up that dismissal of a very plausible concern?

Or do you think it's coincidence, or due to economic structure, that the US and China dominate the tech scene?

This is a pretty widely understood hurdle for EU startups, and it's unclear why you dismiss it out of hand.
I usually provide an old phone number of my own, but with the exchange code replaced by 555.

(For example, if my phone number in 1995 was 123-456-7890, then I provide the fake number 123-555-7890.)
I like the way this Matt Stoller writes words. RSS feed subscribed.
The "easily find it" part is the bigger problem facing us in modern times. Companies are collecting all these scraps of info into huge databases on people. The problem isn't an old newspaper article in a basement.
Isolation on the individual level. Contact with outsiders could have led to previously close knit communities breaking down and other social ties weakening, even if there where more actual people around.
I moved recently and let my ex keep my network gear and went with the default Spectrum cable modem and WiFi access point.

The new modems not have user-facing access pages to check connection status and signal levels. Additionally the bundled WiFi access point let you change everything you want except for the DNS settings your routers local DHCP pushes out.

They are actively forcing users to use their DNS unless you buy your own equipment. Its too bad because its actually a pretty decent WiFi router (1+ Gbps AC, 4 gigabit ports, no crashes with excessive usage, etc)
There's no additional encryption layer if that's what you're asking. There will still be multiplexing and whatnot, but if you can recover a particular stream from that, it'll be the same stream that the endpoints see.
No, I don't see that. Either way your subsequent unencrypted requests are visible. Your encrypted requests are not. DoH is strictly better.
> We are now translating over 1,000,000 customer service messages a month

> The company told us it now has more than 100k registered translators providing translation services for its platform.

So... each human translator translates (on average) 10 messages per month. In fact, less than 10, because (presumably) some messages are also translated by AI.

Odd numbers.
These stories happen on local news usually and they're extremely common.

9to5Mac has links to various fall detection stories at the bottom of this post

https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/21/apple-watch-fall-detection-mo...
> Europe's language diversity is a trivial cost of business and does not impede tech companies.

Are you suggesting that the language diversity doesn’t impede tech companies from reaching English speaking markets the same as American tech companies do? Or that the language diversity doesn’t impede companies from reaching those language-diverse markets?
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I've no idea who Usain Bolt is (or what it is, if it is a thing), so no clue what you are attempting to tell me with that allegory. No rows returned from the database. To me, it looks like

"cats are furry. Your argument is invalid."

Now, is "Hacker News" supposed to be where the information technology elite gathers, or is that a gross misnomer these days?
I know several adults who vape, and none of them choose plain tobacco flavors. I understand that marketing to teens is horrible, but the argument that all flavored vapes should be banned doesn't make any sense to me. If Stoli decided they wanted to market blueberry vodka to teens, go after the company, don't ban all fruit flavored liquor!
There is absolutely no divide. The concept of a right to (almost) unrestricted freedom to criticize the government comes straight out of Western European legal norms that were in fashion around the founding of the United States, and have continued to remain in fashion since.

No Western-style democracy observes a right to absolutely unrestricted freedom of speech, because it conflicts in obvious ways with other rights. We cannot, for example, incite people to a riot, or yell fire in a crowded theater, or go on the radio and accuse our boss of murdering children. The restrictions against Holocaust denial in Germany (for example) aren't different in kind. Europeans enjoy broad freedom to publish whatever they want about their government, critical or otherwise.

This is in stark contrast with China, Russia, most countries under some form of religious rule, and most dictatorships, where criticizing the government will get you tortured to death or sent to a labor camp at worst, and severely fined and blacklisted from government service at best.

The "median Western European" may have a more nuanced view on the right to free speech than the median citizen of the United States, but I'd attribute that to a superior education system and decades of trying to undo structural economic injustice rather than a cultural divide (which is complete nonsense, honestly).
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As a note, I believe Pi-hole is implementing the Canary domain to automatically disable Firefox's DoH support: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...

Though one wonders if ISPs and countries can use the same strategy to mitigate any benefit of Firefox's strategy here.
Well, my agenda is about reducing global CO2 emissions so that we can save the planet.

But, there is nothing wrong with you having your agenda... just don't go around pretending you are pushing it due to environmental concerns.
I'm still a bit dubious.

It's not clear how curtailed wind and solar is being accounted for here (does it count as "produced" in the first place?)

Or is the curtailment only being calculated for the Primary power chart? Seems odd that solar would reduce so much more than wind unless that is the case. Yet the curtailment rates of those are both low enough that they can't explain this difference.

Possibly the primary chart is using capacity factor for solar and wind? That would roughly explain the greater shrinking of solar compared with wind, but would basically be meaningless (as generally putting renewables on a primary power chart is).

I don't think the curtailment rates of German wind and solar support your contention so I still think you're incorrect.

A graph further up suggests that renewables together comprise a slightly higher share of consumption than production (37% to 34%) which doesn't match up with the primary power chart.
There was what I thought an insightful twitter thread on this license at https://twitter.com/chimeracoder/status/1175896685505056769?....
I have a T470 and I love it. Some say the keyboards aren't what they used to be, but overall, I absolutely love the machine. While I think it looks good, I consider it a tool, not a fashion statement. I just need it to work, all the time, and have a great keyboard. It has everything I personally need.
Milk was found to be more hydrating than plain water because it contains the sugar lactose, some protein and some fat, all of which help to slow the emptying of fluid from the stomach and keep hydration happening over a longer period of time.
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They make a lot of technical sense to most teams, not just to Google/Facebook. The problem is that there's a cost to everything but people don't take that into account.

You don't buy a car and say "I want those fancy wheels, yeah!" without considering the cost. But in IT, sure, management thinks most of that is easy or barely costs anything. I think that's the whole point of the article.
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States tend to increase per pack taxes because of the reduction in smoking. They don't engage in revenue maximization.
The others entering on this space are mostly repacking Oracle's work, in what concerns Java language and JVM specification.

From those listed by you, IBM and Azul have their own JVM implementations, and just like Oracle require enterprise contracts for the cool features.

Finally, everyone complains about Oracle, yet no one else bothered to make a counter offer to buy Sun.
Great article. I wonder if different people respond to this kind of a message differently though..

I firmly believe in taking personal responsibility for my behaviors and my actions - however I think that is because I'm inherently wired to avoid responsibility and try to find the easy way out. Because of this, the only conscious way for me to effect positive change in my life is to strive for taking responsibility and ditching thoughts of victimhood.

On the other hand, I've known people who seem to be hardwired for responsibility so much that it is overwhelming for them and causes all kinds of anxiety (control issues).

For these people, would it be beneficial to use that conscious effort on relinquishing control and adopting more of a "victim" mindset?
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No company at all, I'm determined to make it on my own like the contrarian I am!
> Come on IRC. Really.

Got it - thank you.
Likely your Apple Watch won't be able to call for help if you're injured trekking or climbing, unless there's a cell tower on the mountain.

Having personally been run over cycling, multiple passersby called 911 for me immediately, and I was in a ambulance in less than 10min.
Oh, interesting. Anything in particular I should be watching out for? (Though I've taken the job so I'm committed for now)
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From the experience of the parent post, it looks like a more streamlined way to extract money without providing a legitimate service.
I mean civil consequences. If someone says something I dislike, and I disassociate with them, that's a consequence. Nobody should ever be jailed for their speech and that's what it's designed to protect against.

Libel is special because it's purely a civil matter and usually has to prove malicious intentions.
Regarding video, you should be fine as long as you avoid the Nvidia video cards.
It's a real shame how difficult politeness and sorta-kinda-deference can be to decouple. I'm super confrontation avoidant. It's a problem I work on, but I want to be kind and respectful and liked, so I'll go along with a lot. Being kind and respectful and liked and saying a solid no is really hard. Even sacrificing those to say a solid no is hard. Weird how difficult it is personally to reprogram. Props to the OP for growing.
This is kind of dangerous. The article is basically saying you should not demand more of society. I had problems in school and everyone brushed me off -- am I not right to be angry? Am I not right to demand I get the same consideration that others got? What do I need to do to do it, get back into school, and get the same free money?
“100k registered translators” probably means “5-10k active translators” (just a guess).

Either way, translating 1mm customer support messages per month sounds impressive regardless of the number of people translating.
The only restriction is that it is a s-expression: a possibly nested list of data. There is no particular programming language syntax it is parsed against - it's parsed as data.

For example this is a valid Lisp macro form

(loop for i below 10 and j downfrom 20
when (= (+ i j) 9) sum i into isum of-type integer
finally (return (+ j isum)))

It returns 10.

The LOOP macro parses it on its own - it just sees a list of data. Lisp has other than that no idea what the tokens mean and what syntax the LOOP macro accepts.

CL-USER 142 > (defmacro my-macro (&rest stuff)
t)
MY-MACRO

CL-USER 143 > (my-macro we are going to Europe and have a good time)
T

Works.
Really cool service. Using warp on my phone and it surprisingly makes a big difference in locations with spotty 4G. Couple of questions :

* I read that cloudflare generates a unique id for each install and the purpose was to track referrals. Consider adding an option to opt out of the unique id tracking since some users will be concerned about it.

* Any plans to add an option to use an ip from cloudflare instead of my ip address being visible to the websites I visit, at least on the paid plan? I know this opens a can of worms dealing with abuse of the service which could lead to certain ip addresses belonging to cloudflare being blacklisted.
Well it might have contributed to GDPR, which is a step in the right direction.
> It actually gets worse: Samal started the scam while still on probation for another crime. In 2009, he was found guilty of computer intrusion after he directed an employee to take down a client’s website. He then lied about it to the FBI. Samal reached a plea deal… and then started up Divensi and Azimetry in 2010 and 2011 while still on probation.
And your ISP and coffee shop do regular audits? What are you doing for DNS that's so much better right now?
Well, I've never heard about it.

Both of my parents worked their entire lives on the construction industry. It's a running joke that this never happens.
Abstract of the patent in question:

"A system and method for distributing at least one digital photographic image is presented, the system and method comprising at least one capturing device and at least one receiving device disposed in a communicative relation with one another via at least one wireless network. In particular, the capturing device is structured to capture the at least one digital photographic image via, for example, a capture assembly, whereas the receiving device is cooperatively structured to receive the digital photographic image via, for example, the at least one wireless network. In addition, the capturing device(s) and receiving device(s) may be disposed in a selectively paired relationship via one or more common pre-defined pairing criteria. Further, the at least one digital photographic image may be filtered via at least one pre-defined transfer criteria disposed on the capturing device and/or receiving device."
Ask HN: What's the best knowledge base / help center product for small startups
I want to have something similar to this https://help.descript.com/en/

Of course, there's Intercom, Zendesk, and many other companies providing such product. But they all bundle together a lot of tools that I don't need, thus their products are a bit pricey for a small startup.

Ideally, there's a knowledge base / help center SaaS under $20/month, and it supports custom domain (e.g., help.mycompany.com) and looks similar to https://help.descript.com/en/ :)
The first amendment doesn't condone hate speech, nor does it disallow it
It is also important to note most of Steve Jobs's worth were from Disney, and not Apple. But if you read anything about Steve Jobs, he probably doesn't care whether there is an extra digit for his wealth.
This looks like a patent troll. The functionality they have patented is quite basic for a modern photo program.
Some of these criticisms are just irrelevant personal abuse - like saying he doesn't think Neumann's t-shirt is fitted well.
Is the problem of alcoholism worse in Siberia than it is in the rest of Russia, where it is already pretty bad?
What he said there was they don't see, not they can't see.

What he also didn't say there was whether others routinely saw with Facebooks help.

Not saying they do, just saying he didn't strictly say they didn't.

He may of also being talking in the context of using content for advertising, not surveillance.

Finally a lot of intelligence gathering is just based on who has talked to who kind of networks in the first instance, rather than content because:

1. Content can be obfuscated, but not the connections

2. Easier to store and navigate

3. Less noise
I would like to see Firefox make the choice of which DoH provider to use as easy as they make changing addressbar search engines.

Its easy to change from Google to DuckDuckGo on that preference page. A similar user accessible option to change providers (or disable DoH functionality entirely) would go a long way to soothing the community.
"Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC"

Best company name.
and if you do want to trust CF with your traffic.

be careful what you wish for.
Yeah, I have no complaints about any part of this publication. This is typical of case reports.

If we lived in a world where we could go back and see the true causes, I would bet that the true cause was not the wasabi. If historical evidence says that P(takotsubo|wedding) is low but nonzero and P(takotsubo|wasabi) is virtually zero, then my money is still on the wedding being the cause, even if nobody else at the wedding got takotsubo. (It's not thought to be transmissible as if it were an infectious disease.) Happy to be wrong here.

But, like any case report, this case report is interesting (which is why it was published). And if more evidence accumulates that wasabi can lead to stress cardiomyopathy, that would, indeed, be interesting.
Pages of empty pretentious junk

"A recipe can be a mantra, a ritual, a symbolic stay against chaos in the psyche and in the world. A hybrid genre that some have called the “foodoir” combines memoir with recipes, inviting the reader to participate in culinary appreciation and preparation"

If there's an answer to the question I didn't notice it.
1) Freedom of the press is a subset of freedom of speech.

2) Verbal 'violence' is a fallacy. It doesn't exist.
because he's missing "lack of hope for the future" which is a key component. That's usually tied to economics.
AFAIK, the equivalent of IME is not present in all AMD processors, only (maybe) those with integrated graphic chips ?
But overall, yeah, Europe should just create their own chip industry, it's too critical to leave it to others...
Isolated in this case isn't necessarily talking about geographic isolation, but the social isolation individuals experience. And when it comes to alcohol, I don't know enough about the country to say whether it has a "problem" or not, but it is consistently listed among the top 3 countries by alcohol consumption.
It works just fine on Android. I'd be surprised if desktop clients behaved differently.
Exciting! We're a tiny company and have sponsored WireGuard two years in a row; you can see us on the WireGuard home page. Cloudflare is a gigantic company who just used the WireGuard design work to fork the project. Has Cloudflare given a cent to WireGuard? Why isn't their logo on the site?
Welcome to my world!

My real name is extremely common, and each time I've been assigned a new phone number, I get calls for months (sometimes years) from private investigators, collection agencies, etc., looking for someone else who shares my name.
Resizing the window is my go to method for trying to figure out how many bytes per vertex there are in the meshes of old video games. I agree that human pattern recognition is impressive.
Very good question.. I have most of it in directory folders "yyyy-mm-dd NAME OF THE EVENT" on dropbox, which I only sync on my macmini due to the amount of storage.

I'm trying to use icloud photos, because then I have them where they belong on my iPhone, but I just don't like the way it works. It's slow on my mac, but it's nice to have thumbnails locally, and originals available when needed. Althought that also doesn't work nicely when dragging. It's cool that photos groups things on event, but for me, I like to have my "camera roll", and manually make albums. That's possible, but it's ust easier to drag files around. Also, I'm looking for a solution to 'archive' photos (hide them, because I took 10 pictures of 1 thing).

There was a time I wanted to write an app/service for this. I might still do that if there's enough demand.

I also haven't figured out how to archive some video material. Recently I started shooting small clips, with the intention to make small 5 minute videos of my trips. As I don't want to delete the original material, I also need a place to store them, but I don't want to "browse" them.
Why even put the lock on the outside? All smart locks I've encountered just communicate wirelessly with a smart lock inside. Physical keys are used as a backup.
> I would expect quality technical managers to be relatively expensive

Now that I can fully agree with. I can count on one hand the number of technically competent _good managers_ that I know. They're few and far between.
This is amazing. I work in a law office and have nothing to do with tech but just change the examples and he has just described my typical day that replays over and over in matters both large and small.
What a bunch of assholes. Federal government really needs to stop enabling these people.
But that's just having a wifi webcam, isn't it? How in the world is that novel enough to get a patent?
Just my 2 cents, but the MBA isn't worth as much as just getting a PMP certification or something similar. That with your dev background would be more valuable than an MBA in practicality and in skillset. An MBA won't hurt you, but IMO is a waste of energy overall if you have more than a few years of experience. If you have < 3yrs of experience then an MBA would likely help you more and be worth the energy. But in reality it will take you 18-24 months to complete the MBA, which if you just did the PMP and kept working you'd be further ahead with less of a pain, and probably at a fraction of the cost.
Yeah, if you have a non-trivial big project that you don't know how to do yet, then the only thing you should be estimating is "Create a design for project X". After that, you might need new tasks "Create a design for sub-systems Foo and Bar". Until you have spent time on design, there's often no point estimating the total project.