skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the "points" of having kids, if there is any, is that you can impose on them, in some limited degree, the future you want to see.

Now, of course, they graduate and move out and then the real world starts repeatedly smacking them over the head until they learn to coexist with the current realities. But that happens with the current success-oriented parenting styles, too. Lots of kids work hard to succeed at the achievement markers, develop some notion of entitlement and self-import, and then graduate into being burnouts, addicts, and recluses - if they didn't already become anxious messes from the workload. It's not helped by driving that lesson harder and deeper.

Balance is more important. If they experienced balance as kids, they stand a chance of finding their way out of imbalance as adults and in turn fighting to bring about the world they want to see, instead of navigating blindly from a point of despair.

Developing kindness isn't the only thing to ensure balance, for sure, but it's one reasonable starting point.
There's a sense in which both systems tax ordinary folk to pay for science.

In the Bell Labs system, the tax is the monopoly price paid by folks on their phone bill. In the other system the taxes are collected by the government.

There's a lot of money to be made migrating such taxes to the private sector where private individuals can take a cut.

This is one of the reasons it's often profitable to campaign against things like the public funding of science (e.g. the recent attacks on the NSF).
Madness in Medicine
Dependencies of your dependencies! Imagine installing a library that depends on a couple dozen libraries in its own right. You may not have time to inspect every single node in the dependency graph.
I think the issue is one of pragmatism. CAFE standards are meant to be an average to allow some vehicles to be designed to meet very different end use needs. Same with the test beds. There's definitely room for improvement.

My point was that automotive manufacturers are not particularly incentivized to improve on areas that don't align with their bottom line. Are you advocating for more regulation in terms of performance parameters?
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e.g. Top 10 books for high-tech entrepreneurs
Is this doodling on an iPad or do you scan this in?
Looks amazing.
American business schools are reinventing the MBA
Do pro software devs memorize language syntax?
An article discusses cons of memorizing syntax and provides solutions to boost productivity after all
> While review is automated, I would like to believe that account deletion isn't.

I would like to believe that, too, but I don't.

> They literally tell you the symbols that you're not supposed to use: it's easy to check if your dependencies are using them.

Sure, if you have a better-than-average understanding of C (or Objective C), and know how to use the command line to grep strings out of a binary, and know all of the binaries you need to be searching.

This is a rejection for an Electron app, and I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the majority of Electron developers do not have the requisite skills. Hell, I've been programming for a couple of decades now, and I couldn't 100% guarantee that an app I wrote didn't call one of the forbidden APIs, even indirectly.

The rejection email doesn't bother to say where in the code the problem is, so it's apparently not so easy as to be part of an automated process. "Learn what these esoteric commands do, use them correctly on every upstream dependency your app has, make sure you don't call any of these symbols, and if you fuck up you're banned for life" is utter dogshit customer service.
NYT piece on the same book: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/books/susannah-cahalan-gr...
If your captive portal is implemented by intercepting your DNS queries, then having a short TTL should ensure that the captive portal actually has a query to intercept.

But sure, there are other implementation approaches (e.g. injecting HTTP redirects), which I imagine is one reason why Firefox doesn't literally inspect the DNS reply.
I thought that then looked at OscillatorNode and it allows you to essentially load a waveform into memory and/or generate your own. This means you can run a legit multitrack recorder or a synth from your web browser. I had a requirement for this 10 years ago, but Requires java extensions on the users browser
It's going to sound uncharitable, but if you're clearly being rejected for something that your dependencies is doing wrong you should make time to figure out which one it is.
The snark does not add much to the discussion. The preponderance of evidence has convinced most experts in the fields of immunology, infectious diseases, pediatrics, internal medicine, virology, microbiology, epidemiology, and many other scientists in related areas.
May just be a coincidence, but no one I've ever worked with who had "UX" in their title seemed to A) Know or B) Care about users as human beings and their experiences. Most were primarily concerned with turning whatever app/page in production into their personal art gallery, almost always at the user's expense and would respond with a blank stare if you tried to discuss, say, gestalt issues.
"May" is synonymous with "will", as far as complying with privacy regulations is concerned.
The Seattle Times estimated in the 1990s that Microsoft created 10,000+ millionaire employees in the city. This was before the anti-trust litigation.

In fact, most everyone I knew that worked for Microsoft in the 1990s became a millionaire.
Can anyone explain why ping.ring.com needs to have such a low TTLs?

=-=-=-=-=
$ drill ping.ring.com @1.1.1.1
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NXDOMAIN, id: 36008
;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; ping.ring.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ping.ring.com. 3 IN CNAME iperf.ring.com.
iperf.ring.com. 3 IN CNAME ap-southeast-2-iperf.ring.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ring.com. 573 IN SOA ns-385.awsdns-48.com. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400
=-=-=-=-=

I've been trying to find out from Ring support for a few days, and while the support layer has been trying to find out, not much information seems to be getting back. To put this in perspective, in my house with two Ring devices (a doorbell and a chime), I am getting 10,000+ DNS un-cached requests a day, which easily is 20x more than the second most requested domain.
i think they are just trying to drag the overton window so that any tech will be called "extreme". If anything we live in the age of unambitious Technologists, they used to be much more radical in past decades.
> I'd immediately resign

You are assuming that is actually an option. There is nothing to suggest the current Australian government would not prevent you from resigning until the task had been completed. This is the same government currently attempting to make it illegal to boycott businesses that are damaging to the environment.
> Apple has no love nor concern for their developers anymore. It used to be the premier development platform in the world.

Wait a second. When was this exactly? Are you talking about the Apple II era?
Since National Security Letters exist, blocking all employees from the US would also be logical. Same for running anything on third-party hardware.

There needs to be a more effective response than Hari Kiri.
I'm up-voting in order to support dissenting opinion. My comments are based on what I know of teachers performing their mandatory reporting and frustration at the impotence of the system from their viewpoint.

There is room to argue against my point just based on the fact that if a kid is going to school, that implies a certain amount of 'care' by the parent / guardian already, so maybe my argument's subset is already flawed.

However, rape and kidnap are actual crimes whether against children or not, so these aren't really under the auspices of Child Services - that's precisely where police and detectives do come in.

It's not an easy area to work with, which is why politics probably tries to ignore it. Certain scales of abuse may actually be preferable, in the long term, to removing the child from the situation and putting them into the hands of the state. Removal from parents is psychologically damaging in itself. It's a very fine line, and one that pretty much all humans should be squeamish about.
Because of how Obj-C works, it’s not really possible to have completely hidden classes or methods. You can instantiate classes by name at runtime, and can similarly create a message (aka call a method) at runtime. This is basically the “concealed” option mentioned elsewhere. Because of this dynamism, it’s possible to recreate a header file from the compiled frameworks, and then just compile like normal.
Yep. My assumption is that paid VPNs are basically honeypots for bundling people together who think this is safer. A good target to recognize/attack many VPN users by one entity (the VPS provider as attack vector, see NordVPN). It starts with Netflix and ends with state authorities.
If you use a VPS both won't have you immediately as VPN user on the radar.
But there is also the question for what reason you do VPN... securing connection or thinking you get more anonymity (VPS is bad at the later one of course)
If you're talking about keep-alive this times out far before most of the DNS TTLs mentioned in this article and don't persist after a connection is closed anyways.
> the overwhelming amount of apps that are native beg to differ

the overwhelming number of indie apps that are cross platform? Let me just go ahead and try to use inkscape and gimp on my mac.
This is one strange company.

Imagine if governments worked like this? Holy hell. This is what Assange should have aimed for instead of getting involved in geopolitical intrigue.
Yeah! I wasn't trying to suggest keep columns that are not used for years. I was trying to suggest during that release cycle don't alter or drop columns.
We used Hasura for a while, but it was too easy for clients to write queries which would take it forever to complete.

Postgrest was better, but we had trouble getting it to work with JWT, and have a reasonable permissions model.

Postgrest was DAMN fast though, it was really nice to work with.

In the end we had to write our own.
The post shot to #1 because there are a lot of Javascript developers that see Electron as a gateway into apps they would otherwise be unable to develop. There's a lot of interest in whether or not that door closes.

Apple's policy towards private APIs has been known for years.
DIA is a HUMINT agency, so they should have been among the first organizations to go HTTPS-only. Instead they were among the last.
Reminds me of a story maybe ten years ago where a daughter had her pregnancy outed to her parents due to all the "you're pregnant!" spam being sent to everyone in the house all of a sudden.
Probably not the norm, but I have worked alongside a tech company that has 30+ million user accounts, and as such, has a pretty much constant stream of scammers wishing to take advantage of our user base.

The customer support dept. has a phone number to call, which is listed on the website. But you'd be amazed how many people are willing to call some random number so long as it shows up in a google result. Normally, it's older folks that fall for this type of scam.

The fraud dept. sends a handful of take-down requests to google per week; but it really doesn't do much to stem the incoming flow of support hotline scams. Once a number is taken down, they just create a new website and new fake number.

To reply to your comment more directly, I have no idea whether or not this scam type accounts for a significant portion of scams overall, but for my particular industry it sure is. In any account, the way people are scammed on our site changes all the time depending on what's available/easiest for the scammers, so the methods they use are constantly changing/adapting.
The people of certain states have thought it worthwhile to provide 18+ weeks to mothers and 12 weeks to fathers. The west coast WA/OR/CA and northeast from MA to NJ and DC are a little bit more civilized.
Gold is an asset I don't want to own because it's so useless, but I feel like I should own because people are so dumb.
You think your brain magically decodes digital signals? No, the DAC in your AirPods do that. Your AirPods are isolated since they are battery driven, but I’m sure it’s at the mercy of whatever noise is in your atmosphere.

Also you should lower your audio expectations with AirPods, they are hardly audiophile quality
> I would like to believe that, too, but I don't.

I'll believe it up until the point that "Apple automatically deleted my account because of repeated app submissions" makes the front page of Hacker News. Until then, I have no reason to doubt it as I have never heard of this happening except in clearly malicious cases.

> The rejection email doesn't bother to say where in the code the problem is

I'd argue that any answer to this question would require the skills that you say Electron developers lack. I don't know what your solution to this is, because getting your app past review by claiming ignorance into what your dependencies is doing ("oh no, I totally didn't know this framework was literally malware, can you please let me be on the App Store anyways?") isn't going to work either.
> They do not ban you for removing some uses of private APIs, but missing others and resubmitting.

Maybe not -- maybe you know something about how Apple operates. But clearly they ARE sending responses threatening to do exactly that.
Assuming one step per day to rename a column: create new column, update code to write to new and old, update code to read from new, update code only write to new, rename old to something like xxx_del_pending, delete old column.

This process lets you validate and rollback/recover if needed.
And similarly, web tech wrapper apps for macOS that use WebKit instead of Chromium are not facing private API usage rejections.

WebKit on macOS doesn’t have the limitations that its iOS cousin does… cutting edge API support is a bit spotty but if one looks at how old the versions of Electron being shipped are, that clearly isn’t a problem. More web wrappers should opt for the locally available engine instead of bringing their own.
The IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence
> “My body delivered a baby."

Strange way to put it.
Alright, I also thought about Israel and AU at first but this thing is so political
that no way can they include US allies in there because gov wouldn't approve this sort of thing.

To my eye, american companies are becoming more and more like chinese companies in the amount of control governments can extort on them and that is highly troublesome.
That was 15 years ago. As polarized as the US is today, I have a feeling that many people would ruin an innocent person's life over ideological differences, though few would admit an intent to do so when questioned directly in public. We see many politically motivated firings/forced resignations these days, for example, as a part of "cancel culture" [1]. Depending on the person's financial stability, being fired may well ruin their life.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/obama-woke-ca...
2 out of 6 sounds like a QA problem
I am hesitant to say; we only target the local area, and our home page isn’t even available in English. Our main role is as a domain name registrar, also providing, in increasingly tangential order, domain name strategy planning, some trade mark strategy, DNS hosting, HTTP redirects, E-mail, and web hosting. Our main value proposition is support; call us and talk to us directly, or send an e-mail, and get an answer more or less immediately. We only very reluctantly provide self-service control panels, and we don’t mention its availability unless people directly ask for it, and we generally discourage its use, preferring that people simply tell us what they want done in their DNS. Some people, including some very large companies, prefer this arrangement, and if you are one of them, and you are part of our local market, I’m sure you’ll be able to find us.
You must be chugging the koolaid to believe developers LOVE Apple's policies, or enjoy getting their hard-work rejected by a bot, or getting shamed by an overzealous Apple employee on HN. Developers are homogeneously unappreciative of Apple's treatment of them. They just don't have any leverage, or opportunity to negotiate
> maybe you know something about how Apple operates

Anecdotally, I have never heard of this happening in non-malicious cases, ever. And I know a couple hundred Mac and iOS developers who would raise a lot of noise if this did happen, so I'm inclined to believe that it doesn't.
They should pay like it is
This sounds really interesting. Is there a good writeup/oral history about this?
Don't penalize GitLab too harshly for having public issues and discussion. The obvious fix will be to just not have all this public, which is what all other companies of non-trivial size do. I think the CFO's comment was illuminating, but not really worse than I would expect from any misc C-level in any industry.
This feels like a classic case of talking past each other.

First, I will acknowledge you answered precisely what I asked. Thank you.

I would like to get DST back in context, since it is in that context that I asked. The assertion seemed to be that solar noon being at local noon had some advantages. I agree that is begging the question to assume it, but I am just exploring the consequences.

So, assuming I was asking for drift of solar noon to local noon, we have to account for our messing with the clock. Because we do and did. Would there be advantage to us having a mechanism that more closely aligned them? More, what would that mechanism look like? I was guessing that it would look similar to DST, just with 30 minute swings, not 60.
> What kind of short-sighted psychopath boss would look at this any other way?

Well, she _did_ work in sales...
They don't have legal authority to prevent you from resigning.

Also, the proposed anti-boycott rules have been widely criticized as unconstitutional, unworkable and ludicrously against the conservatives free speech pronouncements. Unlikely they would get support from Senate cross bench.
While I acknowledge the pragmatic approach taken by the company to protect their user's data, I am curious as to how this will play out over time. Factors such as longer term travel or working vacations to these countries by their employees?

Or, What about if one of their employees is married (or wants to get married) to a legal resident of one of these countries? How far removed does the employee have to be from this risk? And how much of an impact on their (and their family's) civil liberties could this have?
FWIW, I tried using Ros on Windows as recently as the summer but IMO the biggest issue is that 3rd party packages like those listed on the Github repo are predominantly coded for Linux. So I'd have issues with builds failing to compile if they weren't tuned to work on Windows.

I ended up just installing Ubuntu and dual booting to save me a lot of hassle.
They can't. It seems that the only way to do this would be if AU and US wasn't close allies and the US gov sanctioned it.
It absolutely is warranted, just stop going above the speed limit, and all your speed trap problems go away.

You're acting like you have no choice but to speed, but you do have a choice, you always can decide to go the speed limit.
Rubber is a latex or elastomer, not the substance described here. The original article used rubbery in the title, an adjective that means tough and elastic. Better not to have been changed.
The command output has the answer, it's a CNAME to whatever random AWS instance happens to be up and running. They probably let the instances autoscale to load and don't guarantee they'll be around for any amount of time and rather than configure an additional service for heatbeating they just used DNS.

There are caching nameservers that allow you to override the minimum TTL but be aware the device is likely relying on this being immediately up to date and may not work during a change with an extended TTL set.
Opt in is only one way to justify data collection and be in compliance with GDPR.

They may be basing their collection on ‘legitimate interest’ for instance.

I don’t think anyone is in a position to predict these things but I’d bet they have a pretty good justification there for IP collection given the product they provide.
How Trump Reshaped the Presidency in over 11,000 Tweets?
Literally none of that matters if you don't exceed the speed limit.
We think personal blogging should be affordable, and it doesn’t cost much to serve static cached HTML. In the future we may raise prices, but we’re bootstrapped so there’s no pressure to make millions hosting blogs.

We use Lets Encrypt to provide certificates, which is entirely automated.
where did you find this ?
It seems really concerning that Startpage is still recommended on privacytools.io. Instead the forum post discussing the delisting is hung up on getting a statement from the new CEO and giving them a chance, which seems insane to me. Either being owned by an advertising company is a problem for all privacy-focused services or it isn’t a problem for any of them. In which case they might as well redo the entire site. I don’t see why this CEOs word would be worth any more than nothing nor why he should be treated any differently from the owners or CEOs of other questionable businesses/services/addons/programs/etc.

This questionable judgment on their part seriously puts their reputation at risk in my eyes.
In which universe is it good for Apple to roadblock JavaScript (or any other language) developers?
It's unclear from the post, does this impact the firmware on my unifi devices, or is this part of the controller software? ie. is my raspi phoning home, or are my wireless APs phoning home?
…you're replying to a comment where I state that I don't fully agree with Apple's policies.
No. Apple is responsible for their platform, not the ecosystem.
In the article you referenced it says" 1627 billion spent on health care in 2011, we estimate that approximately 13%, or $205 billion, was devoted to care of individuals in their last year of life."

It says 13% but the dollar figure still says over 200 billion, and that's 2011 figure.

It's difference between total health expenditure vs. medicare.
Wasn't that caused by Target physical mail spam? At least that's what I remember.
Vaccines are like the most cost effective medical device we have ever invented.

A typical jab costs like £50 and lasts a decade
iOS Chrome isn't Chromium. It's wrapped mobile Safari.
Yikes. That's a problem when people conflate visual design and UX. Happens constantly. It's very easy to judge "good" visual design, so good visual designers tend to rocket into the ranks of UX/Product design without real knowledge of how to best design for user needs and goals.
> And then the site totally fails.

That's ok. Then I have the option to weigh whether the risk is worth it or rather not. 9 out of 10 times it is not, in rare cases I will allow the js to execute.
Does anyone know if they've announced the same thing for their EdgeMAX gear?

This is really dumb, these are the kind of shenanigans that people buy non-consumer gear to get away from.
They could compel your employer not to accept the resignation before the correct procedures are done and you have completed the task.
There doesn't have to be. All it takes is to extract a few more bits. When combined with all the other bits it isn't all that long before you have 33 of them an that is enough to uniquely identify you.
That's a shame.

You wouldn't be able to get away with that in most large companies where there are large and established ux practices. They, like other orgs have to justify their existence through value they deliver.
I can't eat productivity improvements and neither can my parents. I know that this sounds absurd but that is the reality we live in.