skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never, in all my life of using hosting services or running my own virtualization clusters in colocated DCs, have had a provider eat my VMs.

They won't boot, won't start, won't shutdown- only answer I got was rebuild them and support won't help.

Internally at where I work, AWS is the least reliable datacenter we run workloads in.
You realize this is an allegory?
This isn't true since `go mod` in Go 1.12. It's as good as Cargo and Lein now (both of which are also excellent). I'd recommend Rust and Clojure as well but Golang seems like a good next step for Python devs since it's the most similar.
You'd be right about Firefox or IE, but that's not the case with Chrome, because Chromium OS is a thing. Google is building an OS, not just a browser.
I don’t hate it, kinda cool actually, but missing something. Perhaps text.
Excellent progress and a great credit to LetsEncrypt and others that brought free cents to the masses. There’s almost no excuse to not encrypt anymore. The “not secure” shaming of non https sites by major browsers also applied some needed peer pressure.
Wait till you see the Firefox Nightly logo:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firefox_Nightly_Logo...
Yeah I was using PMode for our demos since it came out in 94, but for my 1995 game I stuck with DOS4GW, and after Win95 and the GameSDK came out it was time to move to Win32.
> or is it uploaded only where a user activates the extension.

What if the extension is always running? Looking in every text field it finds? Because that would be convenient, but clearly we aren't "using the service" in all instances (as in ignoring what it suggests because it is easier than turning it off).
And with a different relationship:

* neverssl might be bought out, or re-registered, at some time in the future.

* example.com is a IANA reserved domain [0], which whilst it doesn't guarantee they'll never deploy SSL, does mean nobody else can register it, ever (RFC 6761) [1].

[0] https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761
No, I am pretty sure I would have got very fucking angry because the headline already struck pretty close to my heart.
Chrome is the prime driver of pushing all kinds of functionality into the Browser from the OS. The rest just follow.

They just want more people using their cloud/spending more time on the web (i.e. seeing google ads, using search etc), doing things users can easily can be doing offline on their device.

These motivations obviously have nothing to do with the utility of a network/web to normal users. It just so happens that Google has temporarily succeeded in having their way. And that their interests align with Facebook, Netflix, Big Telco etc

It really makes no sense (from a users perspective) when you see the gigabytes of cheap storage and fast compute available on devices these days. How long they can keep it up depends on how long they keep Chrome teams funded at their present levels, and what kind of backlash builds up against all the dark patterns/addiction/polarization/privacy issues on the web.

From Google's perspective its easy to ramp down Chrome and ramp up Android if required. So I would keep an eye on both those teams. Is Google treating them as equals (in terms of hiring/publicity/investment etc)? If it changes tomorrow for any number of predictable and unpredictable reasons you will know which way the wind is blowing.
Until Firefox and Chrome can take group policies Edge will have an edge in centrally managed office deployments.

I get the best of both worlds. Access to the dev extensions in the Chrome Store as well as Windows pass-through authentication.
More generally, it can lead to UI decisions made by clueless people misinterpreting the telemetry data, instead of opinionated leadership that decides how the classic google.com page or the iPhone should look like.
Or simply a mirrored Firefox Nightly logo without the globe in the middle.
Chicago does what it can during the winter months, and is doubtless pretty competent at what it does, but the streets are still often treacherous, and the city's ability to mitigate weather effects varies between arterial roads and smaller roads. A self-driving car in Chicago would need to be able to deal with inclement weather in all the ways you'd intuitively expect it to have to do so out in the countryside.
Indeed, "browser.urlbar.autoFill" option (enabled by default) would do that in Firefox.

There should be no forced https redirection if you fill in http:// prefix by hand though. At least for now, until example.com adds HSTS headers.
> Companies used to do this with focus groups and beta testers.

Even with beta testing, you still run into serious bugs that are completely unknown until the code hits production. There's far more diversity in the runtime environment among non-enthusiast regular users than you'll ever encounter in dedicated test efforts.
There are a couple ways in which HN's comment, scoring, flagging, and moderation model are broken. This is one of them.
So, sites like this are useful. (It's certainly better than memorizing the URL that various hotels use for their wifi portals, which I have done before, sadly.) But is there anybody working on solving this problem transparently to the end user? It seems user-hostile to require people to remember a non-HTTPS URL, especially as more and more sites move.
I think the only promise example.com has is that the domain will always exist.
It's not really about the technology but about what Microsoft did until someone finally managed to take them down.

Microsoft has a cool CEO and Bill Gates is just a tad short of an angel these days, however a history of suffering should not be forgotten. What Microsoft did was not benign.
Everyone seems to understand this but me... how does connecting to a non-ssl website disable ssl on other sites?
I’m not sure if it’s as black and white as that.

Continuing the counter argument: who is liable if the phone you bought with faulty battery explodes causing life and property damage?
Xiaomi https://xiaomi-mi.com/mitu-watches/
Part time “HPC”. Lots of bandwidth in usbc and probably just enough compute to use it. Testbedding comes to mind.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwareba...
Loosing all benefit for other citizens while just mildly annoying those in power by putting pretend barriers in place? No, thanks.

I'd really like to know who owns those 4-5 scrap bicycles standing around near my home, so they can be removed and spots made available. For drones I feel similar... determining the owner of something close by should be possible without going through police.
It's the "c" of Chredge, isn't it?
Redirected me to https, I have not visited that site before (probably).
I agree - good leadership is hard, and there aren’t many that are good at it
"This website is for when you try to open Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc on a wifi network, and nothing happens. Type "http://neverssl.com" into your browser's url bar, and you'll be able to log on."

I don't get it. How does browsing to http://neverssl.com help you to log in to other websites?
I admire Grace Hopper, but she did not coin this phrase.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/06/19/forgive/
I too owned that IBM reference card, which I have since scanned and discarded, and I still have that flowchart stencil.
It gets you to the network's captive portal.
Nope. I can't imagine using such allegory for anything.
They already can?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/187202?hl=en
It doesn't, it gets you into the wifi network's login portal, from which you can log in and then ssl will start working.

[Edited to add] The problem is that websites that require ssl prevent you from getting into the login portals.

I have http://detectportal.firefox.com bookmarked on my phone for this exact reason.
Hammond Organ History (2010) [video]
If you want to go cheap (I do) go for netgear R6220.

https://www.netgear.com/support/product/R6220.aspx?_ga=2.213...

Where I live after lease router is around 20$. IMO that's great for AC router compatible with OpenWrt.
How do you burnout every week? Is that a new use of the word? As far as I know, burnout takes months if not years to recover from.
Some wifi networks will display a login/payment page to you by mitm'ing your connection & replacing the page you tried to load. But of course this only works for HTTP pages.
If the WiFi has a login portal, you might not get redirected to it when accessing an https site. If you go to this site, you’re more likely to get properly redirected.
This really disturbs me. What's the security model for this?

Even if the site never learns my Google identity, I hate having to close the signup window. If I misclick, they get my identity. It's so sick.
Most would vote Yes to independence. Most would rather have a different relationship with Spain and yes, a big chunk of people would have liked to remain in Spain with increased autonomy. Since this seems impossible and the direction Spain is taking is the opposite, with strong repression, people that were not pro independence would vote Yes in a referendum.

> Why is the tyranny of the majority wrong (this is what most people would call democracy) but you see no problem with the tyranny of a minority?

Tyranny of the majority is not what you think it is. It happens when a some minority is part of a larger group that limits their freedom because of its larger number. This minority is usually focused on a specific region, and one of the the tools used by the majority to restrict this freedom is centralization and uniformity.

A good example of this are the 32 laws the Catalan government tried to push that the Spanish government sent to the constitutional court to be banned [1]. As a reminder, members of the constitutional court are selected by the main Spanish parties.

[1] https://ca.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llista_de_recursos_o_sent%C3...
You can choose not to visit Apple.com if you don't like it?
Some WIFI networks require a login like airports or hotels. When you use https sites it wont redirect to the proper “wifi login” page as it should. This site being http should redirect you to that “wifi login” page
If I’m getting in a car I’m going to need to trust a lot more than a few curious engineers.
It lets you access the portal to connect to wifi by allowing the router to MITM the connection due to the lack of SSL and bypassing caching with the random subdomain. After successfully connecting through whatever custom router software you'll be able to log in to those other websites.
First good reply, no hand-waving, with real proof, thanks. Theres an actual picture of the possible damage a small bolt can cause on a helicopter turbine.
A debug port for an embedded device that looks like a UART and a MTP mount of the filesystem?
"We are also working on adding Rust support to the SDK". Rust developers would appreciate this! Onwards and upwards
تنزيل لعبة قناص سترايك Sniper Strike قناص العمليات الخاصة رابط مباشر
Might want to solve the content filtering/curation problem to keep general audiences interested. Cool idea, but I can see this quickly devolving into tumblr with NSFW content.
Here is another similar site i've been using for years: http://amionline.net/
Scrollbars serve three purposes:

- they offer an affordance (a control) for moving a viewport.

- they offer the indication that there is more to see than just the current viewport

- they can offer an indication of where your viewport is in the overall data window, and optionally what percentage of the overall data window is covered by your current viewport.
"A technical solution probably is required, but what that technical solution is I can't say."

The government could make drones that shoot down unauthorized drones.
It's not that aerial drops aren't effective. But the way they are used is sometimes more political than practical.
Monitoring user conversations about your product is absolutely critical, IMHO. Even if you don't directly interact with them, just seeing their chatter can be invaluable. Often times you, as the developer, will spot clues among their rambling that point to actual fixable issues. Meanwhile, these same clues will get completely filtered out and ignored if there's any sort of "user support layer" acting as an intermediary.

Sure, there's a lot of chaff to filter through. As such, its okay if you don't want to be the one interacting directly with the users 99% of the time. But simply paying regular attention to what they're saying is worthwhile.
This may be shocking to you, but natural languages aren't consistent and logical :-)

See also: http://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/arming_the_motors.html
What's wrong with wealth transfer from rich, willfully ignorant people to GOOP staff?
Car culture is so engrained in the US suburbs that people will insist that they need to keep driving themselves. You see it if you ever bring up bicycling or god-forbid walking.

Cities are the only place where alternative transportation is somewhat normalized in the United States.
I almost bought a Kinesis back in 2009 and in the end didn't because of the cost. I eventually got one in 2017 and now I greatly regret not buying one back in 2009. Best computer purchasing decision I ever made.
What year and what state? I was programming on an IBM 1620 at the local junior college in Van Nuys, California in 1965 while I was still a student at the high school across the street, and there were at least two other IBM 1620's at schools in the San Fernando Valley, and of course numerous computers at banks and other institutions throughout the state.
Doesn't really look like a fox to me. Maybe a tadpole?
Was your acquaintance jedberg?
In Finnish, it's an 'information machine'.

To use one is colloquially 'to data'; as in, a verb form of data :)
Personally, almost half of the Uber rides I've had (more than 30) were unsafe and I got a refund for reporting them. In one of them, an Uber employee reached forward from the back seat to distract the driver because the employee was concerned about being late to a party. I've seen an Uber mow over a bicyclist and then drive away as if nothing happened.

Never had any of those experiences with taxis. Love the idea of rideshare, but I'm deeply convinced that Uber does not care about public safety.
Since everyone is posting alternatives, here is Firefox's way:

detectportal.firefox.com
Ask HN: What do you use for diagramming?
Back in ye olde times everyone used Visio, which became Microsoft Visio. Presumably the world has changed since then.

What do you now use for diagramming of things like networks or application architecture?
There’s a hierarchy of problems: the worst thing is harshly disrupting everyone’s schedule — all three choices are better than the status quo.

I’d prefer the remaining energy go toward encouraging employers to offer more flexibility in schedules: time zones cover enough territory that every choice is going to inconvenience millions of people around the edges, and allowing more spread would also be a great way to make rush hour less pronounced.
Security teams are better about fixing bugs. If you can demonstrate an impact things can move faster. Of course, YMMV.
Is there any reason Microsoft isn't open sourcing EdgeHTML?
You might need to be further away (or try squinting).

Spatial frequency is often reported in cycles/degree. A cycle is one complete set of transitions (light->dark->light) and a degree is the angular distance (1/360th of a circle; about the size of your thumbnail at arm's length). These units are handy since they don't depend on the thing you're looking at or how far away it is.

Human spatial frequency sensitivity peaks between 1-10 cycles/degree, depending on how old you are, to see Ol' Abe, you ought to be far enough away that your thumbnail covers at least five of the tiles.
It should be an impossible liability to intentionally brick devices that people paid you for.
Is there a source that us with ad blockers can see?
because... he/she doesn't WANT to?
Would this allow for replacing of scar tissue? Essentially cut out the skin you want to remove and replace it with this? Or does it not quite work like that? Btw when I say scar I'm not talking about a cut line, since the will likely be a noticeable scar like between the new and old skin, I'm referring to larger ones like burn scars. Wondering if this could also be used to replace things like vitiligo patches.
An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your pocket
Huh, I've had that problem before but recently found that if you visit a local (non-routable, I guess) address then it picks up the captive portal.

For me that means type "1", the browser fills the rest, hit enter: boom, captive portal.

YMMV, of course.
Ask HN: How do you follow the latest research papers in a certain field?
I want to be informed of the most recent research papers in some broad field (say AI, or particle physics). More specific sub-category is also fine. However, I don't want to get notified about every single paper, but preferably only the high impact ones.

Tried Google Scholar Alerts. It only supports keywords or author and gives me an unsorted list of papers. But what I really want is a list sorted by say citation, which is not supported.

Any tools or websites you find helpful to follow the latest developments?
I don't think the IANA domains make use of HSTS or anything of the like.

HTTP/2.0 304 Not Modified
cache-control: max-age=604800
date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 22:22:19 GMT
etag: "3147526947+gzip"
expires: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 22:22:19 GMT
last-modified: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:18:26 GMT
server: ECS (sjc/4E71)
vary: Accept-Encoding

If you type "example.com" into the URL, both Firefox and Chrome will try HTTPS first. If you want plain HTTP, you just need to ask for it: "http://example.com"
This is why I always worry when some company thinks its okay to launch a v1.0 product directly to a massive userbase, starting from entirely internal testing. There are so many cases you simply cannot or will not adequately test internally, that its a disaster waiting to happen.

Internal users have a known system configuration, and a predictable set of usage patterns, that will not be duplicated by the real world.
On some public wifi networks, you need to load a captive portal page and hit a button (usually to accept terms and conditions) before network to route you to any actual sites. The network often enforces this by redirecting you to that page whenever you try to visit something else. However, this doesn't occur properly when accessing a page with HTTPS. The easiest way to to directly to to the captive portal is to try to go to a non-HTTPS site, but fewer and fewer sites provide this (for obvious securityv reasons). The purpose of this site is to provide an easy-to-remember domain that the owner guarantees will never use HTTPS so that users of such networks can type it in as a way to load the captive portal. I've used it a number of times when using wifi on Amtrak trains.
I don't like it. I makes me feel that a miss-tap will cause me to send my details to a site
Thanks for the Answers!
Dfinity Canister SDK and Motoko
The article links https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/dqpaak/new_m... as its own source
It would be nice to have an interface to calibre search of your ebook metadata. This can be done by wrapping calibredb.

Example use case. Run M-x calibre-search , prompt appears type title:space tags:scifi search is populated with the titles and metadata of matching books and you type to narrow hit enter book opens.

Also open-last-book and open-recent-books. I could probably add this to my existing wrapper.
This always differs by people. I thought Samsung pretty clearly swiped the Apple look with the early versions of Android. Even beyond the rounded corners. Sure, it isn't a pixel perfect copy. But I do think inspiration was drawn, even if not intentional.

I have a bunch of icons in my dock and the only two that look similar are browsers. (I hacked up a copy of the Edge logo from the article and slapped it on a applescript to put it in my dock)

https://i.imgur.com/fu8zmiQ.png
I think this would take care of a lot of low hanging fruit, but probably not much more. Just like in HAM it is hard to find someone abusing the airwaves unless they are constantly broadcasting (and you can go on a fox hunt. But it is a hunt). So you get the people that are just flying to see the fire and you can ring them up or knock on their door.

The real problem though is that this doesn't fix the major concerns with drone DOS attacks. It is not hard to set up a repeater to control the drone (adding an extra level of difficulty to your fox hunt) or by just programming the drone to take certain actions (even basic AI can do some disastrous things). That seems, to me, to be more what the FAA is after and why more effort is being put in to take down drones instead of tracking the operators. This also has the effect of stopping the DOS attack immediately instead of just fining the person later. This being much more important considering that peoples' lives are at risk.
What does "iso-power" mean?

A quick search didn't bring anything.
Do you actually think she should be in prison?
Walking around a city today, I saw a bunch of different shop opening times, from 7am to 11am in half hour increments. I don't think 9am is that important.
You can have your opinion, but to answer some of your questions, I use vscode and it works amazingly with python, so yes it does know what environment and python version you are using and can show source code, do type checking (if you use the "typing" module, and tons of other nice things that just work out of the box).

As far as the CI-system knowing, there is not much difference in installing a particular version of rust/cargo say in a docker container and having a particular version of python installed in a container, so I don't really know what you are getting at.

Could it be better? Sure, I do some programming in rust and IMHO the best build tool I've ever used is cargo. But compared to some of the other stuff you mentioned which I've used on projects as well (npm, lein specifically) I would say python is on the same level, and I prefer python over them but that's probably just my bad experience with package-lock/caching and long jvm load times speaking.
I've seen these before; it feels way too intrusive and out of place on the page. If I'd clicked a "sign in with Google" button, then okay fine, but a big dialog covering the corner of the page? No thanks.

Checking out that page, the traditional signup button (which is what I'd use as I'd rather not use Google login) is actually under that dialog. You can't see it until you dismiss the dialog.
hhm, how did they do that? I thought the google oauth flow required that it redirect to a google page (and show the info/permission the oauth flow is asking for).

Unless there's a security leak somewhere in cookies, which exposed your email address to this site (which doesn't belong to google i presume).
> Has anyone tried doing something like this?

Yes, lots. There's active and open gov solicitations for solutions. It's enough of a problem that the major news media have been covering it for a few years. Talking about solutions like eagles, RF jammers, net guns, etc.