skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Once again, that is an extremely US-centric view.

It's a Canada-centric view, for me. :)

But seriously, does anyone care about VPNs outside of North America? Why would you, if your ISPs aren't awful? Do most VPN services even bother to advertise outside of the North American market?

> This means that said "reputation" is 100% reproducible under a new brand without ever having a single long-term customer vouching for you.

Why pay attention to word-of-mouth reputation, when survival under competitive pressure is a much more objective signal of reputation of its own?

If the bad actors need to restart with a new brand every few years, then why not just look for the oldest brands around (who must therefore have done this the least), and then sort those by the number of negative news articles you can find about them (which should exist, given that they haven't laundered their brand-identity much)?

It's the same thing you do to figure out who to order from on AliExpress: look at who's put themselves out there the longest while doing active business, without accruing negative ratings in the process.

Or, as well, it's the same thing you do when deciding whether it's worth it to try out a new restaurant in your neighbourhood: you give it a few months, and if it's still around, then it's probably good.
And generally more expensive luxury private hire services rather than cheaper-than-taxi hire services, as UberX typically is.
The reason glass bottles are prohibited at some workplaces are mostly because of situations in factories(or similar) where you let your bottle fall to the ground and the glass can hurt others unintentionally, disrupting the work, (maybe also insurance, I don't know), etc. It's just to prevent workplace injuries.

I could have made that clearer in my sentence, sorry.
"If you're not working with 36 bits, you're not working with a full DEC!" -DIGEX (Doug Humphrey) trolling the 32-bit VAX weenies at DECUS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514918
My understanding of Swiss neutrality (simplistic and very poor) is that the swiss mercenaries were too good and after they were finally defeated a ban on fielding mercenary companies was enforced and this lead naturally to the neutral stance Switzerland takes today.

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

Except the pope, being the pope got to keep his.
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This is silly. That's exactly what it means. If you tax an activity people do it less and the article is evidence of that.
Ok, so TechCrunch violated whatever agreement they had with Snap. What is the consequence?
Thanks @thatcat .. I need to credit micckey at Post Scarcity Robotics for the inspiration to collaborate, that's been my primary driver the last few months to find other people who are like minded and work with them.
https://github.com/limikael/ideas/blob/master/PostScarcityRo...

My primary focus is on the scale, implementing something that is both safe, easy to operate (idiot proof) and environmentally friendly (negative carbon footprint).

My goal is to be able to self realize an economy of scale as it pertains to my own AI/IA interests. Robotic assembly, etc. but not necessarily bringing it to foxconn -- at the same time secure enough that if you want to run it over tor and grow psychadelic cactus in the desert you can do that too -- although it will require loading your own custom software.

I'm a 3rd generation farming family (in general ornamental agriculture) and I've been designing these systems myself for years. I expect humans to screw up this planet in the next 10-20 years and so these are what we'll need to survive in our bunkers; I don't want any shitty drm or anything.

The AI is also a bit complex; but the goal is to allow the units to work together in a quorum for fault tolerance. I literally expect these devices to keep people alive, and hopefully eliminate food deserts at the same time.
With purely diesel trains - No, it wouldn't. There's still quite a bit of friction, plus there are turns (= even more friction to apply the turning force).

Only if it's a diesel/electric, but then you're not really turning off the engine.
Whats the killer feature that's missing from social networks right now that a 15 year old would care about?
I think this is because how it's implemented. In the USA I've mostly seen it implemented as a grid of bubbles because it's better for machines to process, and I found it pretty confusing at first (see https://www.fairvote.org/rcv_ballot_design), imagine this for 20+ candidates like Queensland often has.

I think the Australian system of writing the numbers in boxes is way easier to follow, though I don't know what happens if you fill them in wrong.

The ideal solution IMO is a touch screen machine with a list of candidates, you drag and drop your order of preference, then when you're done it prints out a paper ballot which you can double check is correct then drop in the ballot box.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191020022021/https://www.latim...
Containers. Better.
Make a deal with a reporter for early info in exchange for favourable coverage?
My bad, I guess I was confused earlier about something else.
I'll celebrate implementation diversity, but I'm not sure why I'd celebrate interface diversity. All it does is create pointless incompatibilities that users have to deal with.

I think it's great that many companies have their own implementation of open standards like Unicode, TCP/IP, and SMTP. Life was worse in every way when every company had their own special encodings for text files, and their own proprietary network protocols. I can type some text in Japanese and email it to a friend, in 2019, and it will just work. Excellent!

The continued survival of x86 and other proprietary instruction sets reeks to me of the days of the "Best Viewed with ${browser}" badges. It's purely a pain point for users, for what appears to be merely a battle of egos among the world's richest megacorporations.

Praising the growth of a third CPU opcode system sounds to me like wanting to bring back, say, the Scottish historical units of measurement, on the basis that we're "getting bored" with the SI/USCS duopoly. Bored is good! Bored means it works. I wish the USCS would die off, too, so I could be even more bored in that department.
> Wouldn't google disallow this? i.e. if you allow access, you can't brand it "Android".

Maybe if you're removing restrictions for all applications (this may make Android CTS to not pass). However I was mostly thinking of Samsung only giving elevated privileges for DeX, that is completely fine too (even some Google applications have those relaxed restrictions, i.e. Google Play).

In this later case I don't see Google disallowing this, because you're not effectively reducing Android security.
Google Chrome 77 and 78 both crashed on macOS.

Brave Browser didn't crash - it gets standard Google 404 page with a title "Error 404 (Not Found)!!1".
It's pretty surprising to see an issue like this. I've spent some time in the past tuning http caches/cdns. One key takeaway I recall is the importance of your "cache key". That is, which fields matter when deciding if requests match. If the cache key of two requests match, the requests are considered identical and thus the desired behavior would be to serve from cache.

Obviously, things like the request method, path and Host header matter a lot. Perhaps if you're A/B testing, the A/B cookie would make sense as part of the cache key too.

This seems like a simple misconfiguration at a very critical location. But an 'exploit' that warrants it's own domain? Hardly. This is a promotion for the authors and their upcoming presentation. It's a very nice gotcha.
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Linux gained support for little endian on IBM Power server CPUs in late 2013, in the lead-up to the release of the POWER8, where LE became the officially recommended option for running Linux. As you say, it's selectable at build time.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191021001623/https://www.nytim...

http://archive.is/FxU11
Two questions come to mind:

1) Is it really a such great idea to give a product a name that is so rich in potential for satire and parody?

2) Does it come in green?
'Stone-cold crazy' $1.7b golden parachute for ousted WeWork CEO Adam Neumann
But that would be insider trading right?
Presumably the health/safety improvement in high-tech greenhouses is that you can eliminate the need for pesticides and herbicides.
I'd prefer anonymity over control. Cause VPS box still has my name on it
Well if you are really after anonymity, you have to also keep in mind your isp and browser fingerprinting and the million other things that can expose you online. :)
I thought google started doing this years ago https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html
WOW this explains so much about why my experience with Firefox has felt like garbage.

Why are the defaults set this way???
How safe will they be when, 20 years from now, their classmate is arrested for political crimes, and this data shows that they were friends during school?
Ok, we took anonymity away. Happy to keep responding to suggestions, but if this is to stabilize you guys should agree on what's accurate and neutral.
I only had the general impression in passing that GGP was his big success that gave him the resources to engage the more recent nonsense. I first heard of him in connection with Valeant more than Herbalife.

It's like, maybe the order in which you have your life experiences is everything.
Even that is not the end line.

I knew a number of companies that had a Waterloo moments after very successful kickstarter campaigns with PCs and smarthones.

Seeing a company making $1m+ on kickstarter, successfully delivering, and then committing big to mass manufacturing only to see single digit orders per day is something I see often in Shenzhen
One point that the article doesn't make very clear is, Chinese fonts have Western characters that occupy the same space as the hieroglyphs—seemingly so that mixed-language text follows the hanzi grid. (Afaik Unicode even has wide-proportioned versions of some punctuation—dot and comma—specifically for embedding in hanzi text. But dunno if it had widespace Latin or other Western letters.)

Not sure, though, if monospace Latin characters are really a requirement for mixed-language texts in the Chinese market. If it is, then new fonts will have to incorporate it. However, typesetting on exported Chinese goods should follow Western practices, and that will probably mean convincing the designers that Western letters work differently.
I think Los Angeles with its myriad of personalities, neighborhoods, and cultures, makes an excellent setting for crime writing. I’m reading the latest Michael Connelly right now and it’s just fascinating learning more about Los Angeles.
A main purpose of a cdn is to protect your resources by using caching. Error pages still require server-side resources to create. Not caching error pages gives attackers an easy way to consume your server's resources a la "DoS".
For the Pi in particular it's been a mix of both, I think. Its sheer popularity means that there's less pressure on the package maintainers to ship working builds; for example, you can technically "apt-get install cura" but it won't run, it crashes during initialization for unclear reasons. I'm running an AppImage of it put together by a community member. It's both exciting that this is even possible, and frustrating that it took so much research and tinkering.

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, because this is a really legit angle to argue. Philosophies aside, I think the out of box experience is critical to adoption of a device like this, and it's a big risk for Slimbook to take when switching to a much less popular architecture. For the Pi it was acceptable because it was sold as a development board for education, so "batteries not included" is a feature. For a device poised as a workstation, I'm not sure how well the frustrations of early adoption will go.

It's exciting that Slimbook is willing to take that risk, but it'll be up to the community to determine whether the devices (and their vendor support) are worth the cost of maintaining the packages in the long run.

EDIT: For clarity, the out of box experience on the Pi here refers to Raspian, which is a debian-based image put together by the vendor. There are lots of other distributions that can run on it, and some of them might have better luck with the edge cases I hit.
Who owns the telephone number? Same concept.

If I don't want Google to run my email, I just switch providers, let's say protonmail or fastmail, etc. But I don't have to give a new address to all my acquaintances.
There's nothing forcing someone to install the app, at least in a stalker situation. Secretly install... maybe, but check your damn phone permissions, people! As with many things, there are good and bad use cases.

For teens, it's a bit more complicated due to family dynamics, but frankly this seems like a parenting issue that has not changed significantly from how things worked before. Instead, it's just changed form slightly because parents can passively track rather than actively pestering their kids about where they were/are/will be. Bad parenting is not a technological creation.

Also, maybe Life360 is just a questionable example, but as far as I know everything there can be toggled in app. Permissions can be denied too. Unless parental controls can stop those options?
I don't know if Jackass was slapstick. The only parts I remember finding funny weren't the stunts. The stunts were more about shock, going over the top, and showing the real outcomes.
> Call it "Instant Round Robin" - if one candidate would beat every other candidate head-to-head, then that candidate should win.

And 90% of peoples eyes just glazed over, all to fix some almost entirely theoretical flaws with IRV, that's why condorcet isn't better in the real world.
Papadimitriou is older, but good, in that the Barak-Arora one is huge, I think.

Computers and Intractability is a class, it's from 1979. It's most famous for having "the list" of NP complete problems. Obviously not an exhaustive list, but it still merits the definite article :-)

Nowadays this is maintained on-line of course:

https://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/problemlist/compendium.html
reCAPTCHA v3 will actively block many genuine users with no recourse, in a way that is incompatible with various accessibility and disability legislation. In the US I believe it’d be illegal for any businesses to gate functionality on reCAPTCHA v3 failure alone, and in AU it would be for a government site but I’m not certain for businesses.

reCAPTCHA v2 kinda had this problem, but Google could scrape by because it wasn’t obvious that some users were being flat-out blocked, though it does seem to be the case.

In reCAPTCHA v3, Google get around that problem by putting the burden of supporting some alternative for such denied users onto you, rather than on them—so they recommend things like falling back to sending an SMS code to validate such users. (Given how they position the product, this is basically just a disclaimer of liability—“we told you to do something extra! (though not very hard)”. I have no idea how legally effective that approach is, but that’s what they’re going for.)

That’s how we do at Fastmail for signup (which is a substantial fraud target): we use reCAPTCHA v3 if we can (and only on the signup page, I may add), but if it won’t load or if it flunks the user, then we fall back to requiring SMS verification, so that real people should still be able to sign up.

So that’s the major problem with reCAPTCHA v3: you can’t, or at least shouldn’t, use it by itself.
Perhaps I'm confusing one kind of marketing spam with another kind of marketing spam.

It all makes me feel ill, to the very depths of my Soul.

"Order confirmations": not necessary. I should have a choice whether I use my email address to confirm an order.

"Transactional": I don't know what that means (I keep finding that term being used). I think it means that the email is being used as part of an agreed deal. Fine: if I've agreed to my email being used as part of a deal, no prob. Otherwise, leave me alone.

"Order confirmations": if I need my order confirmed, then I can opt for that, and give you my email. But in general, orders don't need confirming - you either order, or you don't.

"Password reset": My passwords are my business. I use a password manager. Please don't assume I'm a password slob. Passwords suck; they are an insane way to authenticate, they just don't work. So reset emails are not a good use-case for unsolicited email.

Next?
Thanks. There's been quite the resurgence of interest in salt since it just about disappeared in the 70s or 80s.

I hope you manage it - though I tend to think we'll have a mix of sources rather than making renewables irrelevant. That may be reserve from having heard the "too cheap to meter" slogan a time or two too often. :) Even properly competitive nuclear will make decarbonising far easier, as I'm not at all convinced by grid scale battery, so I hope someone manages...
Even if all of those big faceless entities have the ability to monitor my every moment, I simply can't imagine anyone finding time in the day to bother.

My mother, on the other hand...
Georgia court rules police need a warrant to get data from your car
Is it insider trading is if you don’t do anything with the information?
And I guess gate capacitance may cause signal-delays.
No, I'm not; I'm actually typing this from WebKit on Linux. I'd actually guess that WebKit runs on more platforms than Blink does…
My response to a Facebook recruiter today
In the last recession, unemployment in the US reached 10%. How big does unemployment have to reach before you take the quotes away from "impact"? 15%? 20%? Unemployment in Spain reached as high as 26% because Spain was unable to reduce the impact.
WeWork has always seemed like a Ponzi scheme to me. This reinforces my theory.
The git comment "duh" give perfect proof to the fact it's a 15 year old boy.
> what's a relevant incident in this context?

The typical pattern should be to block the promotion but allow the operator to override the block manually. The automated process fails safe (not promoting).
Unless you're willing to be more concrete, I'm going to invoke one of my favorite aphorisms:

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." (Christopher Hitchens)
But one advantage of automated translations is that there shouldn't have to be a pivot language.

And in any case, for German->Japanese, going through English probably has a lower cost. But for Hindi->Nepali, you'll lose a lot of information as Hindi and Nepali are closely related and similar not only in terms of correspondences between vocabulary items, but also grammatical structures, which is effectively 'thrown away' if there's an English, or close-enough-to-English-to-effectively-be-English intermediate translation language. (Not to mention the inefficiencies of the equivalent of sending a package from Delhi to Kathmandu via London.....)
Surveilling your kids is not the complete answer, but it is certainly part of the answer.

I think there’s a false assumption that these kinds of apps are used by parents to replace communication and other methods, but it’s part of strong communication between kids and parents.
IBM has traditionally been a big-endian shop - mainframes are BE, AIX and IBM i on Power are BE. The Motorola 68K, which Apple was using before switching to PowerPC, was also BE.

LE support was in the original PowerPC chips from the 90s, and was used to support the Windows NT port that existed until NT4. Then switchable endianness disappeared for a while, and finally came back in POWER8 when IBM decided it wanted to expand the market for Power and that LE was helpful because it makes porting easier and is more familiar to x86 programmers.

It doesn't, AFAIK, have any overhead - remember that byte swapping can be done in combinational logic.
Cleanest Image of Mars
> it is a paradox to think a "murdering chef knife" can be discriminated from a "cooking chef knife" when the manufacturer creates it.

If I sell a two-handed sword made with authentic 16th-century metalworking techniques, and I call it a "chef's knife" and talk about how great it is for cutting meat and vegetables and how it should never be used for historical European martial arts, then I'm being dishonest about something.
Seems like this could have been better done in Iceland with access to lots of heat and power from renewable sources.
I suspect online learning - especially through established universities - is ready to grow in a big way.
One of the responses to that tweet stated that they are allowed to share their earnings to reporters early with a non-disclosure agreement[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1186768962362568704
I commented on your original post, but: this seems like a parenting issue, and doesn't really have a technological or regulatory solution.
The fatigue hitting influencers as Instagram evolves
How far we have strayed from the days where Unix tools were meant to be used as a stdlib, called through stdin and out. It makes me a little sad.

Classic HN comment on this topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530180
They might be proxying it, but it still only gets hit once you open the mail as I can remember after sending myself a testmail a while back, embedding an image and watching the webserver logs.
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This is outright stupid and sets dangerous precedence and example.

dear SoftBank I know you have a lot of money to throw around but don't waste it in this crap. Instead use this money to fund hundreds of companies that actually help in the evolution of technology and science.
UX Designer at Google with some front end chops interested in working on a practical project that solves a real user problem. Reply here and let's chat! Based in the Bay Area.
I agree with the content, but I would recommend dsvpn instead of the suggested solutions.

https://github.com/jedisct1/dsvpn
That's a very, VERY good start. I'm stealing it. ;-) Y'all should do the same when explaining what this crypto-thing is — and stay away from even mentioning 'coins', stay on "BlockChain" as it is the enabling tech (call it "distributed database" to make it even simpler and non-buzzy); whereas applying it to currency is but one application among many (and possibly not the killer-app that BC needs to emerge in the mainstream).
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The subscription system, as I mentioned upthread. Making a blog is easy. Making a blog with pay gated access to posts and downloads is not. The closest equivalent is Patreon + WordPress with the Patreon plugin. I already mentioned the issue with self-hosted WordPress. Managed solutions cost more than Ghost and provide less.
But it was not clear that it wasn't your intention. Intention doesn't explain itself, least of all on the internet where we don't have the nonverbal signals people mostly rely on for that. You can't assume that clarity of intention in your own mind translates into comparable clarity in the reader's mind. The opposite is more likely the case.

It gets worse actually. If you word your comment in a way that pattern-matches any highly-charged idea that people already have from elsewhere, they are sure to interpret you as meaning that, even if your intention was in a different place entirely. It is comparable to a smaller mass getting pulled toward a much larger mass, even if its intention was to fly elsewhere.

On a forum like HN, where we'll all responsible for taking care of the commons, the burden is on the speaker to disambiguate. To do otherwise is effectively to troll the community, and it turns out not to matter much whether someone did that intentionally or not; what matters is the effects it has.