skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because there are other also causes of death it doesn’t mean we should just give up trying to prevent obviously avoidable causes. By your logic we might as well give up trying to cure cancer because more people die in road accidents. It’s not an either/or scenario where we have to give up on one thing because of a completely unrelated other thing.

But yes, let’s look at the stats. America is the only developed country which has looked at said stats and not though “gee, wouldn’t it be smart to have gun control.” Australia, the UK, Northern Europe; they all went through the same statistics as yourself and realised gun control was needed.

Anyway, it’s a highly divisive topic (at least in America anyway. In Europe and Australia it’s pretty one sided) and I think we’ve reached a natural impasse so I begrudgingly concede that we might just need to agree to disagree.
but mostly old school art, say Van Gogh

I'm sure the irony isn't lost on you that not too long ago Van Gogh was decidedly "new school" and considered random colors and squiggly lines that most people didn't see the value in.
Ah, but does the real name appear together with the Nim name in some line of code that binds them together, which your editor can jump to if you want to know where that Nim name is defined?

If it's just some construct that defines a call to FooBar in the foreign library, with no mention of foo_bar, but elsewhere in the Nim code we call it as foo_bar, I'm afraid I cannot agree with this being a good technical decision in language design.

I wouldn't sign off on such a concealment ruse even if it were someone's macro, not being upstreamed into a language implementation at all.
Android phones these days don't expose the data over usb unless the user chooses to.
Switch to a language that emphasises functional programming (F#, Clojure, OCaml, etc) and it will happen naturally.
I've never hated Comic Sans, and still don't. But there's no question in my mind that it was overused, and -- worse -- often used inappropriately.
Here's one for you. It's not "in my field", but: We can take accurate, noninvasive pictures of almost all the blood vessels in the body, but not of those in the heart. Which, since so many people die from heart problems, is something we'd really like to be able to do.

Why can't we see them in the heart? Because the heart beats fast enough than it moves before a CT or MRI machine can complete the picture. And you can think about trying to take the picture at the same place in the heart's motion, but the lung's motion is not in phase, and messes you up.

We could fix it if we had a really fast CT or MRI machine.
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Yes but in this case caching proxies and other distributed approaches still would work out of the box as alternatives to cdns. I am not sure what I have gained. Nobody cares about end to end email encryption. This would be a real benefit, but Google could not build profiles so easily...
yeah, I noticed that too. the entire program cost about the same as a single B2 Spirit aircraft.
Somewhat related: The Youtube algorithm also recently lead me to this Japanese musician I wasn't familiar with:
(Ryo Fukui - A letter from slowboat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVV_z1lBNLo

Sounds like it would go really well with winter.
Google is terrible at anything hardware-related so this sounds like a big fat loss
This statement would be more meaningful had it been phrased something like this: "encrypted web traffic, which most adversaries cannot snoop on, exceeds 90%".

There will always be an adversary, far powerful than you, with an ability to snoop on your traffic - be it your ISP, the other endpoint, or owners of the infrastructure that you consume, but do not control.
Show HN: Block Brain – a rather tricky puzzle game
Ask HN: How can I make a post in my static website from phone? Options?
Hi,

I would like to host my custom domain website. I already have the website and it was previously hosted in github (long story, now I have forgotten the password and email id associated with the GitHub account)

I like to have the functionality of posting to website directly from mobile phone (Android). Could anyone suggest me how do I do it?

I know WordPress has this. Are there any better alternatives?

Thank you.
This has been a minor obsession of mine for the past few months. My first project in Unity .

I had a huge amount of fun building it. ANY advice on how to find a market of people who like to play puzzle games would be greatly appreciated. I have no experience in selling a product.
And that friction is innovation.

Something that adds value. That isn't a commodity. That would be hard to copy.

Innovation's biproduct is profit.
> I am curious as to what an art critic's view of such abstract paintings are. Like, in what way is Number 17a worth 200 million?

Art criticism has almost nothing to do with how much a piece is worth at auction. The price of a painting essentially comes down to the "fine art" world being a popularity contest.
Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang don't sound very Californian to me.
The human tolerance has never really been a limiting factor. As catapult technology and jet technology has gotten better, we've used the additional thrust to launch heavier, more capable aircraft, rather than increasing the initial launch speed.
Anyone have recommendations on home routers that can run Wireguard?
Nope, this is pretty common. I found out the hard way that Delta doesn’t allow access to their servers from my cloud hosted VPN, which is shitty considering airports are pretty VPN-heavy locations for me. They don’t seem interested in reconsidering this stance either.
Seiko itself makes very high-end watches, especially under the 'Grand Seiko' moniker, some of which are as expensive as the well-known ones from the Swiss manufacturers, but at the same time incredibly understated unless you're really into the matter.

This can be a branding/marketing claim in itself, of course. There's an origin story around their Spring Drive mechanism that goes something like a lonely engineer-genius tinkering on it for 30 years until he had it perfected (don't quote me on that). In that way, Seiko appeals to the 'Japanese artisan/craftsmanship geek' who consciously chooses the non-mainstream brand. Not sure if that is intentional marketing or truly authentic company identity.
I have a plan! Can an individual class all personal information about them as: Trade Secret?

Companies can do this. Corporations can do this. If someone steals trade secrets, there are repercussions. Why isn't my personal info, which is valuable to me, and can harm me if used by the wrong people, not protected in the same way that information about a company would be?

AND

If that doesn't work, how do we get Trade Secrets for human beings? Why do companies and corporations have rights to protect information that human persons don't?
> So what?

The eighteenth-century ideal of free speech in a public forum has now become de-facto mediated by private companies acting in their own interest. Some may believe in free speech more rigorously than others (say Reddit, as compared to Facebook). The fact that the government cannot censor speech matters less and less nowadays, given how much speech now passes through private companies' control.
The Microsoft variant would be xing, I presume.
”I'll give it 10-20 years before there's a major decoupling even between the US and Europe.”

I am originally from Germany and I think the main obstacle for this decoupling will be the reluctance of Europe to take defense into their own hands. When things get tough they so far always have relied on the US. I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Google is banned in China along with almost all other US & European tech.
>Which is fine too, since not all communication needs to be secure (even on the internet).

There was just an article on the front page today about "I have nothing to hide" and why it's wrong.
Moving the goalposts.
In some cases, homeless people are given bus tickets to liberal cities by officials

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
We do need HTTP because sometimes public WiFi networks need you to agree to terms before any requests stop being redirected. I recently found http://neverssl.com

That being said those public WiFi’s shouldn’t be redirecting sites in the first place because for HTTPs sites browsers don’t even let you see the page.
Fairwashing in Machine Learning
Hi, Łukasz Langa here, author of PEP 602 which documents the change. I can answer questions if you have any.
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Yes, Emmy Noether was a pure genius (one of the greatest mathematician of all time), and was never named full professor (even though she had Hilbert support).
Maybe someone can explain this to me.

Why does Google want to compete in wearables? Why do companies feel the need to spend time/money investing in a product for no apparent reason besides the fact they aren't? Google (and tech) has always found its success in developing new markets, not chasing existing ones. That's some Balmer era Microsoft group-think.

Is it just investor pressure?
Aren’t static IPs now excluded from the GCP free tier?

https://github.com/rajannpatel/Pi-Hole-PiVPN-on-Google-Compu...

(I run OpenVPN and PiHole from a GCP micro instance)
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Yea, I recommend git-annex too.
And demonstrably false: what are numbers and arithmetic if not metaphors for acts performed on actual objects? “Get three apples, give away two, share what’s left with your sister” is encoded in the arithmetic analogy (3-2)/2.

Analogies... are more pernicious than you think.

Indeed, if one wishes to be extremely extreme, one might go as far as to argue that all language is ‘analogy’, insofar as it assigns symbolic monikers to real-world objects. Furthermore, phonetic encodings (alphabets) are a further level of analogy, as they posit that (for example) the “in” in “indeed” is “similar enough” to the “in” in “insofar” to be denoted with identical symbols. Those symbols are, themselves... you guessed it... analogies, metaphors, and other various kinds of abstractions.
> Like, in what way is Number 17a worth 200 million?

That's not a fair question to ask an art critic.

I mean, if you asked me why it's worth forty of your minutes to listen to Gyo:rgy Ligeti's Violin Concerto, I'd take a shot at it.

But if Ligeti's music happened to be tied to an international black market such that his scores were being bought and sold for a quarter of a billion dollars what could I possibly say?
I got a special deal at a VPS provider for $1/mo for 1vCPU and 256MB RAM. With only Wireguard running, I experience no issues whatsoever. RAM usage is minimal, sub 100MB, I forget the particulars. I added unbound with a huge DNS blacklist and unbound must do some odd indexing or something because that blew it to around 400MB which required a swap drive. But even with that, the performance is more than fine. I notice no discernible performance loss on my phone and from my 1Gbps connection at home, I see speeds that are comparable with saturating the network of the VPS (~200Mbps).
People have been saying for decades that China is going to collapse due to some variation of them not being creative, flexible, etc. It's mostly a fantasy generated due to an internal contradiction of seeing a country with very different principles do well.
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This is the correct answer. That feeling of empty pointlessness is because the drive to have kids is not being satisfied. User "volument" here is suffering an existential crisis.

I have 12 kids. They depend on me. There is always something going on. Even the bad things have an upside of removing boredom. There is no time for television. Tomorrow, on Saturday, I will be homeschooling AP Chemistry. Three kids have to go to college classes, and six kids need to sign up for spring semester. Little ones need to learn reading and math. The baby is extra cute and fun to play with. There is grocery shopping to do, sometimes 4 carts at a time.
I feel that you're really overselling the vulnerability of what is fundamentally a spec on a featureless ocean that can move at 50 km/h in any direction indefinitely. There's a pretty comprehensive summary of anti-carrier strategies in this series https://www.navalgazing.net/Carrier-Doom-Part-1
Great question!

I think you'll need to review whatever method Firefox uses to flag what extensions the user approved.

In general, the OS provides different ways to store data in an encrypted manner so that only your application can read it back. (Keychain on Mac, and DPAPI on Windows.)

Furthermore, modern OSes provide sandboxing so that your application can not be tampered with. I'm not sure if Firefox uses this.

Also, if you're able to figure out how to hide a private key, (perhaps in the Keychain or via DPAPI) you can then use things like digital signatures to know what the user really allowed, and know if your approval mechanism was tampered with.

Granted, these mechanisms aren't foolproof... They just make it harder for malware to see things it shouldn't.
Agree Snowden is significant because he was able to encourage enough people to INSIST on strong privacy/encryption. Then it all comes down to basic game theory. Why would a company ever want to release any product without strong encryption (end-to-end) when users never complain about their data being encrypted. The only reason companies don't encrypt is when they have a vested interest in spying, either in their own interest or the government's interest. Anytime I see something not have strong encryption, it is a red flag to me that something nefarious is up.
There's things like detectportal.firefox.com, which is used by Firefox to detect whether a captive portal is in effect.
It is hard for people to opt out.

Nah. It's not hard. Just don't buy stuff you don't need. Good ad blocking helps, too.

I know a couple who were way too much into bling. They blew through $15 million and ended up in crap jobs. The wife once told me I should get a Rolex. I said "Why?".

There are many people who have money but don't show it. Read "The Millionaire Next Door".
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I used this guide and finally got it working

https://github.com/rajannpatel/Pi-Hole-PiVPN-on-Google-Compu...
You forgot Play Fit.
I don't think the ACLU would have a problem with the FBI going to the secretary of state with a picture of someone from a security tape committing a crime. If the FBI has entered into a data sharing agreement around drivers license photos and has governance to keep the data set to a certain use case and there are rules around it I don't think the ACLU would much mind that either.

The issue here is that the ACLU (and citizens) do not know whether the FBI has any of this governance in place or is using additional photo sources for this matching (like public security feeds, or other aggregated security feeds / image capture)

I completely agree that law enforcement agencies will always seek to [reduce barriers to getting what they believe they need] and that we should limit this as a society.

While it's easy to abuse and leads to dark conclusions, all I'm trying to suggest is that the FBI may have actually considered appropriate usage of facial recognition and deliberately NOT gone down the rabbit hole you're discussing. Because we don't know, we have to assume the answer might be yes, but those facts have not been established, which is why the ACLU is suing.
>Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police is where this quote supposedly originated. They had a country-wide spy network to monitor what people said.

The quote is attributed to cardinal Richelieu, and whether it's his or not, exists for at least 2 centuries, so before the Gestapo and modern surveillance.

>Data manipulation can't happen without data.

Which is neither here, nor there. I agree that privacy is important, and that surveillance offers all kinds of opportunities for that.

My point is that the quote wasn't intended originally as a comment on that, and it is out of place related to that, because it intends to emphasize the inverse: you don't need "data", just any 6 lines will do.

>The point is - A skilled manipulator won't find anything to hang me unless he's invading my privacy in the first place.

That's a point one can make. It might even be a point I agree with.

It's not however the point the quote was making. And it's only that which I'm pointing here, not the merits or not of privacy/surveillance.

The quote was making the inverse point: "Who cares for data and deep secrets, and notebooks, and spying, and so on. I just need any old 6 lines from someone and can have them hanged".

Might be too arrogant for Richelieu (or whoever said it) to think so. Might not even be realistic. But even metaphorically, it's purpose was to convey:

"Anything someone says can be used and misconstrued against them".
ASUS RT-AC86U with Koolshare firmware (derived from Merlin firmware) has Wireguard binaries, but no GUI configuration for it.

I expect that any Asus router that can run Merlin should allow you to ssh in to install Wireguard. But you might need to cross-compile it on another system, and obviously the lower end models might struggle with CPU usage.
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> your shortcomings stop mattering as much to your co-workers because you're, well, part of the furniture

Depends on the company culture. I've worked places where wins were quickly forgotten, but mistakes were held against people forever. The longer you worked there, the more you became known for your past mistakes. New employees arrived with a clean slate and therefore were more trusted than past employees.

Obviously, it's a toxic situation. The smart ones sit in the background and only surface when they can be the hero to fix other people's mistakes. Over time, the company loses the doers and risk takers.

So maybe becoming part of the furniture isn't such a bad thing.
> the "hate," if it can even be called that, is for the Chinese government and the CCP.

You may only hate the government, but you should be aware that many of those who seem to be on your side criticising the CPC do in fact hate everything Chinese. They think that not only the government, but all Chinese people are untrustworthy; that all Chinese companies are mere fronts for the government that should not be allowed to operate abroad; that Chinese people should be banned from Twitter/Facebook/Wikipedia/GitHub because they're brainwashed anyway and their viewpoints therefore invalid; and that their livelihoods don't matter because they stole American jobs.

I don't think a majority thinks like that, but these viewpoints are certainly present on HN. (Not as strong in this thread, but enough to be noticable in general.) So when someone complains about hate for China, don't think they mean your opinions, but be aware that the complaint is quite justified.
I did it. And it wasn't.

Doesn't matter though, the reality for him was that customers saw a Not Secure and that was a problem. All the crypto, certs, forms, probability of issue, technical things didn't matter, just the perception.
Several reasons:

- The good is not the enemy of the perfect.

- This eliminates an entire class of attacks, namely, man-in-the-middle.

- A lot of (most?) user interactions require the server to know what the user wants, and it's unclear how this can happen if the server can't view the user's data.
If it's biometric that's the only possible use of the bunker owner. Nevertheless, once he opens the door, there's no reason to let him in.