skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely a feature I've also thought would be useful to have in DNS providers.

I've worked on managing thousands of (sub)domains and the administrative overhead of changing the TTLs for everything manually would be considerable. I'd certainly like an automated way to say "These records should gradually increase TTL up to <X> time over <Y> time" (e.g., gradually raise TTL to 2 days over 2 weeks if there are no changes).

There are downsides to high TTLs though: (1) you need to remember to preemptively lower them ahead of any planned changes (if you want those changes to take effect quickly), and (2) you can't change the records quickly in an emergency. But, fortunately, lots of record types are ones that you probably don't need to change in an emergency -- and for ones that you do, you can use a low TTL.

Anyway, I'd personally like to see automated TTL management as a feature in DNS software.
> the robber barons, although accused of using unscrupulous methods, did not.

That’s a bold claim that I don’t believe holds up. Even setting aside specifically illegal business practices (bribery, violence, fraud) - the robber baron industrialists exploited the rules of capitalism to concentrate wealth and enrich themselves on the backs of their workers and society. They got ludicrously rich, and everybody else got... what? Less competition in the oil industry? In that sense they robbed us all.

Even if you believe that capitalism is the right system for the world, you have to see extreme concentration of wealth as a problem. Put simply, what is better for society: 1 billionaire, or 1,000 millionaires? I believe that it’s pretty clearly the latter.
Is there a way to file GDPR complaints? Enforcement might be lacking but with enough data and support surely it would be possible or be sufficient to make Ubiquiti move to opt in.
> even if he doesn't claim it himself.

To be fair many people that are the single reason for success of a company do not claim it themselves.
>and companies should be forced to provide a great deal of leave to both parents.

No. The society should help you out, the company shouldn't be forced to do that.
The title seems misleading, the article specifically states this does not effect any current employees, presumably as they have none in China and Russia.

> As such we feel a country block is the most humane solution at this time--especially because it affects zero current employees
A parody for sure, but apparently not as "lulzy" as you're making it out to be.

It's all well and good that you believe you have the faculty to distinguish improperly prepared fish from properly prepared fish, but many people do not, and improperly prepared fish will be sold cheaper than the prepared variety, which means that people who want fish but can't afford to pay much for it will be the ones buying the improperly prepared stuff. You can already see this at some level today when poorer people tend to buy a lot of junk food that's cheaper (speaking in terms of opportunity cost here too) than healthier alternatives, and a variety of other unhealthy things (cigarettes, alcohol).

I'm not saying unhealthy things should be banned, I'm saying that deadly things absolutely should be. If you want to take the risk of killing yourself (it's absolutely absurd that you mention this) then there are probably more fun ways to do it than arguing the government should allow people to sell potentially deadly food.

Even then, you've selected a weird subset of dangerous food - everyone knows pufferfish is dangerous, far fewer people know which specific compounds that may be in food sold in an unregulated food market can lead to cancers and other diseases in the long term. You need to ask what the advantage of an unregulated food market is outside of a very specific conception of freedom which entails "I should be able to do anything I want to and you can't stop me.", which is (1) not the only conception of freedom around (2) is unworkable in a society with rich and poor, educated and uneducated, critical and uncritical, disabled and able bodied, etc.
Thinking is that which is left when you remove all pattern matching. Pattern matching is the bulk of our mental activity.
My thought exactly. JS devs have told me for years that the fact that their site uses >1Mb of JS script doesn't affect performance because almost all of it is already in the cache for 90% for users. Now there's a counter-argument and we'll get back to reasonable page sizes.
I've never been able to focus while doodling; I always get too sucked into the drawing and truly only focus on that, though I usually doodled faces and bodies, which maybe requires more bandwidth to do? Not sure. Either way, while I'm not surprised that doodling can aid in focus, I can totally see why people would take it to mean you aren't paying attention. Not saying you don't understand either, but its unfortunate that something beneficial to the exact goal of the meeting (transmitting knowledge) is read as exactly the opposite.
So let's say the company is 100,000 people, and 1% of births are still births, and 1% of employees will take the piss. And let's say 5% of employees have a baby in any given year (is this realistic? I honestly don't know, it seems high). Then on average you'll have one employee every two years take advantage of the situation (keeping in mind, the person "taking advantage" has also endured the death of a baby). I think a company the size of Microsoft or Google can absorb the piss-taking of one grieving employee every two years, to be honest.
True, but there's still a difference between abuse via a buffer overflow "mistake" and say the overly verbose Battery Status API.
Why cement emissions matter for climate change (2018)
Oh most definitely. I didn't want to imply they went about it in an even half reasonable way, just that the motivation of designing the interface like that had nothing to do with optimizing for time spent filling it in
Which is why it matters for the elites to make sure the ones who've been marginalized don't have money. Sure puts a different spin on not hiring someone for "culture fit".
Are you saying that’s more or less than usual?
Arguably true. Think of the war microsoft waged against Linux in the late 90s-early 2000s, or their attempts to co-opt and destroy the www using non-standards compliance in internet explorer. I see that as a company damaging the common good to increase their wealth. I.e. Robbing us, enriching themselves
The boy who cried wolf doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt that we’re willing to give to others.
I wrote a similar feature within Polar:

https://getpolarized.io

It can take full HTML files and internalize the CSS + HTML and compiles them into a .zip file.

The major difference is that its an Electron app and not a web extension though we're about 80% of the way done porting all of it to a web extension.

In retrospect, I would have done this as an EPUB.

Our users have asked for other features like taking multiple pages and building them as one 'book' and this feature is supported in EPUB.

Also, it would mean Polar would support EPUB natively anyway which is another big feature we need as we only support PDFs right now.

I lot of people here mention MHTML and WebArchive formats.

I think my main criticism of these is that EPUB has more universal 'reader' support and EPUB 3.0 is basically just HTML in an enclosure anyway.
Oh boy, don't read up on the current president. You might be surprised.
> That's really nice but the problem is most of them are designed to suck up as much of that free no-strings-attached grant money as possible

How could you possible know that? Clearly you are making this up.
I think the bigger problem there is that they take themselves entirely too serious. It all comes across as bombastic and mostly based on wishful thinking. Nice intro material but you can't build a castle on a thin foundation like that.
> Here’s another example of a low-TTL-CNAME+low-TTL-records situation, featuring a very popular name:

> $ drill detectportal.firefox.com @1.1.1.1

Is captive portal detection not a valid use case for low TTL? The entire point is to detect DNS hijacking of a known domain, which takes longer when you cache the DNS results...
Anything that's systemic and collective rather than individual.

A few come to mind, but the primary intent was to indicate my list was not comprehensive.
Topology: IBM's Mathematica Peep Shows
was it this one? https://aeon.co/essays/how-european-sailors-learned-celestia...
Divorce Before Green Card Interview
I was on a murder trial about 15 years ago. So many people tried to get out of it by telling the judge "I can't be impartial because I don't like guns".

Every time, the judge said "so are you telling me you would convict someone of murder, that you don't think murdered anyone, just because you don't like guns?" Most people said no. Some would squirm and get squirrely and the judge would follow up with "you would ruin an innocent person's life just because you don't like guns?"

No one said yes, despite them obviously wanting to. She did a good job of calling them on their bullshit.
I've seen some that have a somewhat reasonable minimum time. You can go below it but it will reset to their minimum after a day or two.

But it's a risky play for providers. It reduces their DNS load (which is pretty cheap to handle), but increases the risk that a customer will come yelling why they couldn't fix their outage quickly because the algorithm increased their TTL to something large.
Git LFS is limited by your hosting solution. If you use Gitlab, for instance, your repository cannot exceed 10 Gb of storage space (including code and other ressources). And on Github I believe that limit is 1 Gb.

Many Deep Learning datasets that deal with pixel-data grow past the 10 Gb mark.
The block is on current non-residents of China or Russia from moving to those countries. <strike>Not on any present residents of those countries from having further access.</strike>

<BOLD>See self-reply below, not the case.</BOLD>

Though that is alluded to as a possibility, with complications.

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Update: My first read was incorrect.
If the idea is to track a browser, can't you just use DNS resolution time? Are they looking at per-host DNS caches?
> And it means employees can get closer to the work they love.

Wow these people are all in on the koolaid. Am I interpreting the meaning here correctly if I think they mean employees can work even longer hours to incorporate this?
good luck controlling what the baseband does behind the scenes

I actually have a lot of sympathy with that one, because radio transmission is one of those areas where one idiot who thinks he's clever and should have total control of his device can literally disrupt entire networks for everyone else over a wide area, with the obvious serious consequences. Modern wireless communications systems rely much more than most people realise on conventions and standards and everything playing nice, so regulating such that only licensed practitioners are authorised to make parts that transmit within prescribed specifications is not an absurd idea.

Of course, that doesn't mean a closed part of the system like radio control should have any access to any other part of the system. It ought to be essentially a firewalled client of the more open parts of the system. And if it's going to be regulated and controlled then the people licensed to develop those components should be required to have them only perform the defined function according to standardised specs, without anything else piggybacking on top.
Actually, what is supposed to be interesting and innovative in SingleFileZ is the fact that it produces self-extracting valid zip files in the form of HTML files. Thus, they can be read natively by any modern browser that supports JavaScript.
Hm, upon a re-read I think you are right. Thanks for clarifying.
Thanks. There seems be endless selection of kits, but not easy to judge quality or completeness (except if you trust the user ratings). Do you see any gaps in the emergency preparedness market?
So the memory of that film has led me to propose my own absurd DUI sliding scale: If you are caught above at or above that low-end legal limit, you are sentenced to drive your car through an obstacle course filled with clearly marked landmines at the same level of intoxication at which you were caught. Make it a PPV event and it'd be straight out of the world of _Pennyworth_.
Why bother? They've done pretty well so far just by making things up.
I’d prefer my car doesn’t get spooked by cyclists and loud noises.
We have another 10 years of evidence since this was posted in 2009 [1]. That article quotes Diane Harper quite bit, and has also been discussed since [2].

[1] https://infectagentscancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.118...

[2] https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/08/16/yet-another-an...
The one I get a kick out of is "It's terrible that a foreign government would meddle in our elections" when that is literally what we have been doing all around the world for the last century.
Diablo IV
> > "Oligarch" originally meant the post-soviet kleptocrats who were handed control over formerly state companies at discount prices.

> Aristotle already pioneered the use of the term as meaning "rule by the rich for the rich" aka plutocracy [0].

"Original" is a dangerous term which roywiggins shouldn't have used in this case. But roy is right about how the term got used in the Eastern European context. And while things happen in the west too, people complain as much or more billionaires who made it big as outsiders who (initially) had no such connections to political power.
See also:

https://github.com/cweagans/awesome-diy-software

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning
No data to back this up, but at least in my experience victims finding a phone number directly from a Google search is actually pretty uncommon. Although, sometimes you’ll see fake numbers posted in the comments of news articles or YouTube videos that rank highly for search terms like “fix virus iPhone.”

The most common way people get targeted is either via a pop-up while browsing (e.g. “Your iPhone has a virus! Call xxx xxxx now to fix”) or just random cold calls. Scammers also circulate lists of phone numbers/personal information of victims to previous scams, so once you end up as a victim of one you’re much more likely to be a target for new/more sophisticated scams.
On Oct 4 a friend (code name “Paul”) and I were at a viewing for our 25 year old friend who passed from falling while hiking. “Paul” and I both have boys born this year (5-6 months old). After attending the viewing, we both noted how sad it was to watch the father and mother in such a terrible situation. The worst for any parent, and somehow slightly more understandable now that we are parents ourselves.

That night his son passed away silently in his sleep - Not even 12 hours since we talked at the viewing about how surreal losing a child would be. Their baby simply stopped breathing. We’re all still in some level of shock.

Hug your little ones and appreciate the time you get with them. You never know when your life can go the other direction.
It’s not a “bold claim” to say that something that may or may not be undesirable (wealth concentration) is different than something that has been illegal under our laws going back to Biblical times (stealing).

Also, the whole “robber baron” thing is distorted: https://fee.org/articles/how-the-myth-of-the-robber-barons-b.... By and large they became wealthy because they provided an incredibly valuable new service that catalyzed vast amounts of new economic activity. I suspect 50 or 100 years from now, you’ll read similar revisionist histories about the dawn of the Internet age. The proponents of central planning are already working on it.
It does block them from moving to that country. So if a current employee was planning to move to either country soon they'd be prevented from doing that.

I've danced this dance at a previous company when we had an employee working from a country of interest for an extended period of time. They were air-gapped from our systems and it worked because they submitted everything by pull requests (the original way, sending git patches by email). They didn't have access to our CRM or any customer systems because several of our contracts - not just with governments but also major multinationals - prevented employees in certain countries from having access.

Even when I traveled to the same country I used a burner laptop that was decommissioned when I returned. When we EOL'd laptops in the office they'd go in the burner pile to have one last holiday abroad before they were wiped again and sent to a local charity.
Sasa ke beltalowda!
You are far too young.

The 601 based PowerPC's were the first to be able to do 3D graphics on the microprocessor well.

The G4 based titanium Powerbooks were sufficiently better that they became iconic at a time that Apple wasn't regarded that well.

Sure, the G5 and up were disastrous, but the writing was on the wall well before that. Chipsets on the G3 and G4-based systems used more power than the processor and that only became untrue because the G5 was quite so poor.
Don't drive unless you've had a solid 8 hours of restful sleep. Drowsy driving is actually more lethal.

Does is it still sound easy?

No. Most people would go easy on someone who stays up late studying or has some insomnia, and still drives the next day. Or a designated driver that got to bed late because they drove their friends home. But why? They are impaired and a threat to life as much or more than someone who has a glass of wine or two with dinner and then drives.
This link about Windows 95 crashing when it has too much RAM was posted on HN recently: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030814-00/?p=42...
If a deploy causes an outage, I don't trust that code, and we shouldn't assume we fully understand what's wrong with it. I want the known-good version out ASAP. I don't even want to spend the time to discuss what to do, not until after prod is up.
You can also say the search engine and operating system drive the ad network.

Google the search engine could charge an ad network a lot for the right to show sponsored results and provide analytics.

Android/Chrome could charge a lot for user data, analytics, have their own mobile ad network and app store. Android could also start charging a licensing fee to vendors

Etc etc
They need to link these on the project readme as a demo.
Is this an attempt by Apple to increase robustness by reducing dependencies on unsigned binaries?
I was reading up on ROS the other day when the thought occurred that Erlang is, in many ways, similar to some of the core functionality of ROS, and might be a good substitute for [parts of] it.
It takes a whole different kind of reasoning to ponder the big picture. I'm not sure if anyone can do it. All I have is the clue that thinking from your own perspective never works. You get something like: I have money and kids, inheritance tax is bad. I lack money, the tax is good.

But to answer your question: Technical "disruption" is every instance of a thing making your job easier. It will require less skill/training and come with lower pay. Jobs with few, sometimes hard, decisions will benefit from technology. At some point the hard stuff is gone.

Perhaps your job was affected 0.1% in the last decade and the average is 5%. It would be just like 1 in 20 "jobs" vanished without anyone noticing it.
You clearly mean this as a bad thing, but...why?

The vaccine actually works. If it lowers your risk of fairly nasty cancers (and other less debilitating—-but embarrassing—-conditions), while earning them a few bucks, isn’t that a solid win-win scenario?

At least it’s not the usual trope about how Big Pharma is hiding all the cures....
Somewhat related discussion from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21362190
Compressive strength probably.

It says it seals on its own... suitable for bunkers. if true, regular basements need to be made from this stuff in the future.
Can this be easily setup on Windows?

Was my biggest obstacle to using ROS in the past.
There is https://www.lattepanda.com/products/3.html as a single board Win 10 computer, but the Amazon UK reviews are 1 glowing and 3 broken hardware and bad support, so YMMV.
They're correct in that the production of crude is not possible without the physics. It is a necessary input, ergo physics unlocks that economic activity.

It sounds like your concern is that all three fields of Physics, Engineering, and Chemistry could claim this output, which would be odd, because if every field did this, their combined 'value added' would be many times the total GDP, since their contributions overlap, like you mentioned. That doesn't matter, because we're not concerned about measuring the GDP with this method (if we were, we would have to divide credit like you mentioned) just the objective contribution of a single field.
> grant money as possible rather than build a successful product.

You are not thinking the right way. Machinery for writing good grant applications is a successful product.

This is why research universities are such great training grounds.
Well, why the hell is electron/chromium using private APIs? That seems like the real problem here...
completely covered by insurance if within the CDC guidelines for recommended age groups (around 11-21 for both males and females, but double check first!)
>Just speed up the mouse...
>make it look faster...

This is the type of fixer that is the bane of my existence. Half the time if there actually is a slowdown, it's because the latest and greatest in programs have gotten so bloated that it actually drags down performance, or you end up with OS devs making stupid decisions that end up breaking things for Users.

If I'm providing support, there's a workflow they need, and I'm damned well going to make sure they find out how to get it.

My mom has become a bad IT guys worst nightmare, because I've managed to get her to internalize 90% of the common everyday fault tree, and she's been surprisingly good at working out new edge cases to the point she actually got her IT person replaced because he kept feeding her B.S.

The nice thing is, I don't usually get calls that often anymore, because I train people, and help them become as comfortable as possible with the machine.

Heck, had a teacher back in High School who went from "hopeless" to "the department knowledge base" because every time we encountered/solved a problem, it'd get written down, and added to a growing pile of sticky notes.

It's not hard, and is definitely worth your time.
Churchill was not an ordinary politician
> I discovered that the average person on a jury has a great deal of trouble with evidence.

I am, sadly, increasingly convinced that trial by jury hinges on getting a single person on the jury who actually understands evidence and has the guts to stand his ground.

So many people simply are "You're in the defendant's chair. You're guilty."

It makes me want to cry.
Re: your second point... I just removed an unplugged switch today. Maybe it’s a new feature?
The reason for speed traps being banned is that they don’t help with road safety. What helps is cops being visible and patrolling the roads for dangerous drivers, not hiding in alleys or on overpasses.

Traffic enforcement should only be about safety and not revenue. But at as we saw red light cameras, cities places them at lights with the most traffic and not the most dangerous intersections. They lowered the yellow light times and in some cities it was so low that you couldn’t safely stop the car in time. Cities always try to skirt the rules to make more money and traffic court is a good example. Government shouldn’t be able to deprive people of property (money) without a jury trial.
That is a very specific question.