skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China will surpass us? How does a country which was in China's position during Nixon's time we're talking about a country of farmers, create such thoughts. No the prevailing thought was that if we bring China in line with our power structure their elites and their children will join us at the top and help us exploit their population so that we can continue to make untold amounts of profit. Unfortunately, China's elites decided against that dream.
What’s stopping your PiHole or DMS adblocker from functioning as a MITM proxy? You’d just terminate HTTPS at the PiHole and perform the filtering there, right?

Regardless, it’s a tiny thing to give up for more privacy.
> The ISP has to act like it knows its obligations in law, and there are things ISPs have been doing to work with LEA for a long long time, which they won't be able to do as simply, or as well, or in some cases at all.

As I understand the current caselaw, whilst an ISP is required to make some efforts, they are not required to make efforts when a task is impossible or difficult.

If an ISP is required to create a porn filter, for example, they aren't also required to try and forward that blocker across Tor.

Rather a "best effort" is exactly what is legally required.

So when a new technology is adopted that makes their previous "best efforts" obsolete, then they will no longer be forced to attempt something that is no longer possible.

However, that whole conversation is mute when it comes to this particular instance.

Google will attempt to use the ISP's own DoH resolver. So the answer is simply to run one, or not. If Chrome can't find a DoH with the current DNS, it'll fallback to today's behaviour. This isn't changing the status quo at all.

It's only a problem if customers move wide-scale away from the ISP's own DNS servers. Which happens when the ISP's interests conflict with the user's already, so again, no change to the status quo.
Non-American here.

I have never witnessed the dynamics of reparation policies.
The closest thing we have in Portugal, if it could be so called, is the Jewish Law of Return, a bureaucratic shortcut for granting Portuguese nationality to descendants of 15th and 16th century Portuguese Jews that were forced to flee the country, escaping persecution.

In Portugal, the concept of race has been recognized on the fly, and only in terms of the Constitutional Rights of citizens in the case of discrimination.
This might change in the near future.
As such, I follow this subject in American politics and news, since the USA are an obvious case-study.

As I see it, the fact that the concept of race is meaningless in anthropological terms, as informative as it can be, is not helpful in fighting prejudice in general or racism in particular.
A bit like explaining basic geometry to a flat-earther: in most cases, it is pointless.
On the other hand, it seems to me that acknowledging the dynamics of the division of people by racial categories (self-reported or not) is a dead end, and one that might betray its very purpose.

At best, this strategy will sustain the social conscience of the issues of race, without eroding the poisonous constructs associated with it.
As in other areas of discrimination, like gender, strategies that favour outcome in detriment of opportunity might have some value to it, as this is a kind of social bailout that could just work.
In some European countries, positive discrimination works only as a temporary exception.

But unlike social concepts like gender, or nationality, whose fundamental aspects are less troublesome (there being, as far as I know, no equivalent of transgenderness in race) or whose arbitrariness (like geography) can be critically questioned in different fora, race has the problem of been deep rooted in physical appearance and prejudice.

I don't see how a humanist society can deal in a meaningful way with such a stratification without risking to reinforce racist preconceptions.
Am I missing something?
I think this points more to the root of the overall problem.
So, here's how to kill a few birds with one rock. Make jet fuel using nuclear energy. But nuclear energy is horribly expensive, right? No, civilian nuclear energy is horribly expensive. The US Navy churns out nuclear reactors at a steady pace, and operate them perfectly safely. They've never had any incident. If the Congress mandates the US Navy to become net zero carbon emitter, they can do it. And they also gain additional logistical simplification. They say that every gallon of fuel sent to the front line in Iraq costs the DoD $100. Yes, in the oil-soaked Iraq. If you shorten the supply line, maybe this price goes down to a more reasonable level. Can you imagine that, instead of getting a war for the exorbitant price of $10 trillion, you can get one for a paltry $1 trillion? We could get 10 wars for the price of one.
There’s a financial quiz embedded in one of the links in the article. To test my own false confidence, I decided to try it. So before taking the quiz, I decided I would describe myself as reasonably well informed amateur, nowhere close to expert. I got 6 out of 6, but they were fairly easy questions (except for one question about bond yields which I had to think about). After the quiz I’m more certain that I really don’t have the kind of deep knowledge that a quant or someone like that has. So yeah I’d rank myself as a layman.

I’m curious as to how some of the rest of us do? Rank yourself before and after?

http://www.usfinancialcapability.org/quiz.php
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Nope, never heard of it. Source?
the justification is that these classes are/have been historically discriminated against and constitutional admissions which take race into consideration are a temporary measure to right these historical wrongs

No, that is not the justification being used.

The argument used to justify this racism is that a rich education requires exposure to diverse people and ideas, and so the educational mission of the school requires that they bring in sufficient numbers of otherwise-underrepresented racial groups. If they can't do this, they say, they won't be able to give their students a good education.

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For now.

Google sneezes and this is gone.

We didn't think they'd take away extensions' abilities to block ads, and yet here we are.

We've seriously got to pursue breaking this company up. They're the absolute worst.
> The system isn't rigged if it's slightly harder (if even that!) to get into 1 school with a 4.7% acceptance rate.

That's disingenuous and given all the past responses you've given, leads me to believe you're responding in bad faith. That is clearly not the thrust of this lawsuit.

> It's rigged if a hard working daughter of an immigrant has limited paths to social mobility because their community college is underfunded or because their Cal State school has too few slots for her major. That's when I'll say it's "rigged".

That is not mutually exclusive with what this lawsuit is asserting.
Are all of your coworkers equally productive? Neighbors? Relatives?

The answer for all 3 for me personally is no. I have family members who make decisions based on different priorities which change their income. My coworkers differ radically in their abilities and work ethic. How can they have equal incomes in this scenario? There is a way to do this, and it hasn't worked any time it's been tried.
https://www.unz.com/article/why-harvard-is-right-to-discrimi...
This is an English speaking forum, so post in other languages are ignored of flagged unless the information is very interesting and it is not available in English.

This posts look borderline on topic if it were in English. Try to submit something with more technical details. And it would get more traction if it is in English.
We already know they do - they’ve injected ads + “suggestions” instead of dns failures in the past.

They’ve also injected permanently unique cookies in http requests.

ISPs can’t be trusted as dumb pipes, they’re closer to “clueless criminal” pipes.

But I agree with you, I don’t particularly trust google either.
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> doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols

So a jdbc interface and published schema would count?
> Everyone politely ignored him.

Which is exactly what's supposed to happen when you have adults interacting in public. This is fine.

> We can’t have a civilization if we tolerate the intolerant

This is a ridiculous statement. Western Civilization has tolerated intolerant groups for the entirety of its existence. Inviting one man to talk at a conference is clearly not a threat to the continuing existence of civilization.
That is a serious misrepresentation of what's happening with Manifest v3.
A Conversation with Elon Musk about Starship
Very cool seeing PlayCanvas on HN! I've been using[1] their framework for a several years and I have to say it's the best out there. Only babylon.js comes close for 3d game engines for the browser but PlayCanvas has the Editor[2] which makes a world of a difference.

[1] https://redka.games
[2] https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/user-manual/designer/
I was in the SF airport the other day and I tried an automated coffee dispensing machine that actually tasted really good. Way better than the old machines. I think it was called Briggo. You connected to it with your phone, and you made your own custom "barista" style coffee profile.

I can imagine this sort of thing replacing drive-through coffee shops, especially here in Canada where drive-through coffee is ridiculously popular, and the lines are notoriously long.
Oh damn you just reminded me. They tried to bring in "Robotics" (e.g. Blue Prism) here. For in-house apps.

Apparently it was so hard to deal with the developers that instead of exposing an API they would automate clicking around on Internet Explorer browser windows.

Thankfully I haven't heard much about it lately.
Going to school now is MUCH more expensive that it was when you were there. Students now are expected to pay ~3x what you paid to go to an in-state university. If there isn't an in-state one that's good enough though (not everyone has a UT Austin), then they have to pay many times that to go to a public school in another state or a private school.
It sounds more like you're better off with remote work because it allows you to escape a dysfunctional local market.

I prefer remote work too, but I'd get sacked before allowing some PHB to dictate my OS, or sit at some weird communal longdesk. It's so far from my experience as to seem like a joke.

You spent a _year_ at a place that made you sit at a fucking desk that doesn't fit you? My god.
I'm fine with encrypted DNS as long as it's from my router to the (encrypted) DNS provider of MY choice.

Interference from browsers with network level operations is my real worry. As far as I'm concerned, as long as the browser speaks HTTPS to my router, and my router speaks HTTPS to the servers, no problem. I'm worried about the "to protect the users we've hijacked their DNS directly via the browser" possibility though.

I know it used to be that using ISP DNS servers gave you access to some of their local caching and such. I don't hear that talked about much in these discussions. Is that no longer a thing, and thus we truly don't need ISP DNS?
PiHole supports DoH [0], via the cloudflared daemon. This won't change anything.

[0] https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/
Completely untrue. Those services just need to serve their own DoH endpoint and the user can add it in Firefox preferences. No harder than and arguably easier than the complicated procedure for changing system DNS, and it allows you to block things in your browser that you may not want blocked at the system level for all users.
Google's design doesn't ask you to trust Google more than you already do if you use Chrome. It doesn't default you to Google's DNS servers, will honor your current nameservers, and will upgrade you to DoH at any of those servers who support it. I'm honestly not sure what more you could ask for from Google on this particular issue.
Well, Stockfish probably exhaustively checks all moves ~4 or 5 ply forward.

But the move that Stockfish picks has been searched to depth 30 or even 50, depending on how easy or hard the position is. Its infeasible to actually search all possibilities, but Stockfish basically is searching "deep", to ensure that most obvious tactical patterns are accounted for (orderings of captures and stuff of that nature)

That's roughly the "shape" of Stockfish's search tree. Super deep for the moves it picks, but very shallow on its exhaustive search.
I believe Roberts would vote with Harvard.
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I don't agree with that statement, but even if it were true, it's off topic for this HN submission. The point of this demo isn't "use this instead of Unity if you want to ship a game". It's "look at this neat thing I made". I prefer to encourage that instead of being gratuitously negative.
IMO - This article is an over simplification. Data sheets need to be book worthy documentation due to the behavior of complex semiconductors. I believe Datasheets are law abiding documentation? If something is out of spec or out of characteristics is is considered faulty which means loss of money or competitors can get in.

What I'm really interested is in what peoples opinions are regarding the navigation of content and material of these large scale Semiconductor Sites. They have 50k plus products which are all very complicated and specific to a use-case. I find there is a constant struggle to route people to the right solution especially when engineers can use different parts in new creative ways. ADI, Texas Instruments, and Maxim all fall in this boat.
I was explaining how standard-version [0] works. Conventional Commits homepage doesn't mention anything about the '!' syntax. [1] I'm unsure if you're suggesting that's how you think it should work, or how it actually works. I haven't ever tried using the '!' syntax, so I can't say for certain.

In terms of release management, it makes configuring CI jobs simpler with one less parameter. If you automatically release merges to master, you can use standard-version with conventional commit syntax. On other projects, I've seen people use GitHub PR labels to mark 'major', 'minor', or 'patch' releases (the CI system reads this information when generating releases).

If you feel it's inappropriate for this information to live in your commit history, you'll need to specify it through one of these other options.

Since I don't have a dedicated team for this sort of infrastructure (I maintain my own Jenkins jobs), I find that Conventional Commits get the job done, so I can focus on other things. There could be better ways, but I have more pressing problems than demand my attention, with higher priority than optimizing my CICD configurations.

[0]: https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version

[1]: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/
ISO27001 (the main security one) has annual reviews which are more lightweight. After two years, the three-year cycle restarts.
My sentiments exactly.

If life was so common that it's spread over several planets in one star system, it would be evident in lots of star systems.

NASA's statement is akin to a statement from me that I'm close to reaching billionaire status. To be believable, I have to demonstrate lots and lots of evidence.

NASA does not demonstrate any credible evidence of life on Mars and has not done so in the past.
Chrome's design attempts to use your current DNS settings to access a DoH resolver and fallsback to the current behaviour if it fails.

The browser isn't interfering in any of your network operations.
> People disagree, people are rude, and you WILL be offended sometimes, in the real world. And learning to deal with it is part of being an adult.

This is a huge misunderstanding of the problem with "offensive".

Suppose that at a work meeting, I, the boss or a well-respected engineer, say, "French people are stupid, and their work is subpar; also, they're liars," or something of the sort. At the meeting none of the French employees are present and no one tells them about it. They are not offended personally at all. However, the damage of this offense is not diminished in the least by their absence. It creates a certain dynamic where their colleagues will disrespect them. They're feelings aren't hurt, but the harm against them is real. How are they supposed to "learn to deal with that," being adults and all?

This is what we SJWs mean when we say "offensive," or, more precisely, this is the main issue for us. Not that someone's feelings are hurt, but that they are diminished by the social dynamics that certain statements and behaviors set in motion.
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Ah yes, Google and CloudFlare, those well-known bastions of privacy.
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You might be interested in Gazette (https://github.com/gazette/core). It presents durable, append-only, transactional byte streams ("journals") while delegating all actual storage to S3/GCS/Azure etc. Brokers themselves are fully ephemeral. Written journal content ends up in predictably-named "fragments" in a configured bucket path, where each fragment holds only raw written bytes (eg, if you write JSONL messages, your fragments are also just JSONL).

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If you're on a mainstream US ISP, interference from your browser with your ISP's "network level operations" is a privacy necessity. They're passively monitoring DNS to collect data on their customers and hijacking it to send users to advertising sites. ISP DNS is manifestly untrustworthy.
Actually everyone should prefer the other guy do it rather than host it themselves. Either way the bits have to be transported to the same colocated facilities it's a matter of who has to pay for and operate the servers.

At least Cloudflare has KPMG audit them on their privacy claims. Better than nothing.
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I hate to respond to low-effort snark but will do so here to remind people that Google's plan doesn't default you to Google's servers, will honor your own nameservers, and will upgrade you to DoH if any of those servers support it. It's really hard to see what more you could ask for.
Can anyone with legal experience comment on the strength of Elastic's case?
Will the next version be called Josef? (to continue line of the famous authors from Prague)
Only the unencrypted traffic, which is increasingly becoming just DNS. But even if all DNS was encrypted, the default DNS servers you hit are those of your ISP so they’d still have access in the common/default case
I’ve been waiting for this comment just so I can point out it is in fact, literally, the same :P
I've occasionally pitched SPC as a source of concepts to mine, starting with XmR charts and the Nelson or Western Electric rules.

I think that actually, observability has always been one of the weakest areas in tech -- we reinvent a lot of it ourselves while the wider world abounds in rich concepts of measurement, inference and control. SPC, control theory, inference engines, classifier systems, measurement theory, design of experiments, fuzzy sets, Dempster-Shafer theory, avionics, system dynamics, cybernetics and frankly a bajillion other disciplines that I've never heard of and never will.

Sometimes in R&D, the R is much more profitable than the D.

Which point, I should say, the article makes reasonably well.