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A responsibility is meaningless if most people have no practical means to exercise that responsibility.
Computer Vision in iOS: Determine the Best Facial Expression in Live Photos
I got a good laugh out of seeing all of Wisconsin marked as Yankeedom. Starting to think they did that because it would look weird to have the majority of Wisconsin being "The midlands" when it's a northernmost state.
It's bad that there are enough plain http connections for this to be possible.
Most of these sites offered a completely ad-free version for many years, then switched to an advertising model after they'd cornered the market.

There's no ethical reason for us to "pay" these scummy actors, including Google, Facebook, Reddit and Twitter, after they destroyed all viable alternatives by giving away their products free and THEN add advertising.

As you intimate, there's also nothing intrinsically necessary to the advertising model for it to be served by different domains, with 3rd party cookies and third party javascript. Nor is it necessary to have auto-play videos, popups, etc. Even someone fairly benign like the Guardian is now infested with up-sells and adverts if you look at it without an adblocker.

So the sites brought it on themselves.

You want to support their ads, go ahead, but don't ask us to come up with the alternative model. You have no moral high ground to preach to us from, all these sites used a bait and switch to get on top. Right now if I look at facebook every 2 or 3 stories are adverts, where 5 years ago it was far less, and for google a huge chunk of the top of the results page, up to three results worth, are adverts.

None of these are clearly marked imo, nor are they necessary, they're making billions in profit. They can do it because they monopolized the market.
the washington post is biased and they lie alot.

https://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2016/08/07/why-th...

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-washington-posts-anti-...

https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/the-washington...
IPC is _usually_ a good measure for the last phase of optimization. But it is only the local Δ that is meaningful, comparing IPC across different vendors is only useful as a gross measure.
Hostels aren't generally people's housing though they're temporary lodgings while travelling.
Are you saying that the products shown "sponsored" in the search results are paying amazon for every click I do?
How many devs are on the firefox devtools team?
Some of the most beautiful horse racing tracks in the world
One of the things I like about google chrome is the omnibar: i can search within a website directly from the bar. For example, I can type amazon.com<TAB> and then I can directly search. This also works for many of my company's internal websites. Can firefox do that?
I lived 3 months in Hong Kong in a cubicle bedroom of www.appledorm.com
4 years ago it costed something like 450 USD per month.
Serve content related ads and don't track. I'd be fine with that.
This is actually what happens, seen some articles pass by where people simply could not live with the burden.
The Internet of the early 2000s was consumed by greed. What changes would you make to its replacement to prevent the exact same pattern from repeating?
Realistic Girls Painting Compilation – Digital Art
For me tuples are a game changer. The code stays clean and easy to undestand.
> Western media is making it sound like Hong Kong is Syria. Protester private channels makes wild unfounded claims about mass-scale executions and rapes.

Yes, I was going to say I never got this impression listening to NPR.

https://www.npr.org/tags/352993831/hong-kong-protests
Not sure what's built in, but you can definitely make it do that by right-clicking on a search box and making a shortcut. I have 'wp' for wikipedia, 'yt' for youtube, etc.
https://outline.com/8BBX3b due to obnoxious header and footer
Also the Great Firewall isn't one box admin'd by a single actor. It's a set of network firewalls managed by different network entities to fulfill legal obligations. It could be one of them acting alone.

Then there's the question of how separate the operating company is from the Party..
If you click on the time next to the name, you will see the comment in un-greyed-out form.
In Russia a self-employed contractor would only pay 2%-6% in total as taxes depending on where they live.

Of course, for that they will only get minimal pension and standard medical insurance. They have an option of voluntarily contributing additional money to the state pension fund to get increased pension.
I guess they don't feel like they need to pay more if they have a big pool of potential interns all willing to live in a hostel for $15k/year
This is huge. There are a ton of mis-configured Apache and nginx reverse proxies out there that expose the primary domain name of the site being served. You can quickly test this for yourself by running "curl -vk https://your.ip.address" and see what pops up for the CN field or Location header.

Even worse is the pattern of requesting LetsEncrypt certificates for multiple domains on one certificate. Now all of a sudden you're leaking development server hostnames, peeling off the white label of multi-tenant, and making things easier for automated scanners.

I get it that security by hostname obscurity is a poor practice on its own, but there's also something to be said for cutting down a large amount of malicious traffic with some common best practices.
Because programming languages are just software products like anything else, where the customer base are the developers.

So you need an use case to keep your product on the market (programming language).

Corporations are the ones with deep enough pockets to push those use cases, even if initally they don't caught on.

For example, if Dart was a FOSS project it would have died by now, instead Google can keep throwing money at Flutter until Dart actually picks up.
Well, given that it's meant to be language research, I think there's a ton of value in it. We already have a bunch of popular existing languages with infix syntax, and Honu shows how a powerful hygienic macro system can be applied to those.

You may not want a powerful macro system in those languages, but I personally think it would far preferable to the existing mess of annotations and build-system hacks to generate code.
Do you have those repos?
How would a non-government entity achieve this?
Don’t monetize your users’ data, monetize their use. When you log in with a paid account the ads should be gone.

If users don’t need an account to get the content and they still get ads with the paid account, what exactly are you offering in exchange for the payment?
Startup failures are only a matter of point of view
Everyone has to be somewhere. I would not be surprised to find someone, who feels like the modern internet as it exists is terrible, on hacker news. I believe the sentiment is more common here than say, the comments section on CNN.

I like the approach taken by the folks at the dat project and beaker browser. Let's make the web a DHT already. If we can force consumers to share what they consume then a DDOS becomes impractical for censoring speech (the speech spreads all over the network, making it counterproductive).
> HTTPS is unnecessary for this site.

The Great Cannon enjoys your continued support.

https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/labs-research/the-great-...
Where are you finding these OPzS cells?
I've been thinking about this a lot and I think our car-focused construction patterns are to blame. In my state we have a grid of roads (whether paved or unpaved) that covers pretty much the entire state. It seems like where the roads go, people will go build. Everyone wants to have their own quiet area and when everyone does it (enabled by the automobile), we end up with incredibly fractured habitat. I think the only real solution is for governments to stop allowing sprawling, car centric, development and possibly get rid of some roads in rural areas. Doing that without impacting wealth might be tough. However, there are plenty of places where roads go that do not need roads. At a personal level though? People underestimate the impact they can have in their local government.
Why should they care, what's anyone going to do about it?
Freedom of expression is at a ten-year low globally, study says
Same for me but in case of search I prefer to use Ecosia.org over DDG. It plants trees from its revenues and privacy like ddg.
Don't forget that the power behind the CCP's lies and violence is economic clout, both abroad and domestically.
I checked out Epics page, it says it is always in "private browsing mode."

So you never stay logged into anything? Private browsing has a purpose, but I can't imagine being stuck always private browsing. That sounds painful.
This is not true, the traffic for the previous github incident with the great cannon was co located[0] with the great firewall (which is indisputably under the control of the chinese government).

[0] https://citizenlab.ca/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/
The title of the Hacker News post ("Honu: Lisp with Algol Syntax") is misleading. The real title of the paper is "Honu: Syntactic Extension for Algebraic Notation through Enforestation". It's a paper showing how to implement syntax-case in a language with infix notation.
Please. For it not to be the government would mean that there's an extra-governmental organization within the PRC with the resources and network access to conduct a massive DDoS attack, which the communist government would never allow.
US states had even more autonomy up to the Wickard vs Filburn[1] case, which paved the way for regulatory bodies at the federal level. That's why it took a full fucking amendment to prohibit alcohol in the 1920s whereas today the DEA can slap drugs on and off at whim.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
I think the GP was making a joke. What they suggested strongly implies the existence of perpetual motion machines, contradicting the laws of thermodynamics.
It's not a matter of excuses. Baidu, like almost all large Chinese companies, is effectively an arm of the Chinese Communist Party. They will do as they're told.
Block all traffic from China?
I would agree, I love the structure s-expressions bring, especially using smartparens in Emacs. At the same time I really enjoy some of the deviations from pure s-expressions that Clojure has made (like hash literals, using vectors for function arguments, using position instead of parentheses in binding forms). This suggests to me that there might be a sweet spot between Algol and s-expressions.

I'm quite interested to see where the whole Racket 2 thing goes in that regard. For example, the examples here all look quite clean to me: https://github.com/mflatt/rhombus-brainstorming/blob/shrubbe...
Same. But I think that once you've screwed the pooch this bad, you can't just take a single step backwards and expect everyone to be fine with that. The trust is gone. You've got to reboot and rebrand somehow.
Assertions aren't particularly helpful in this discussion. What reasons are there to think this is true?
I don't think the filter quoted in parent would stop this. In your example what it would stop is clients in 10.12.0.0/24 from connecting to the IP of the wireguard server itself (but not clients it routes to) on the 10.34.0.0/24 network (but not its IP on the 10.12.0.0/24 subnet).
Probably because the government asked them not to.
> But these folks still have no answer for how free websites they consume daily (e.g. news) are to be funded, they don't pay, and don't want to see ads either.

It's not a question they need to answer, that's the problem of the companies that caused this mess.

> Yet they still expect these websites to exist.

Not really, they just use what exists, not what they expect to exist.
> There are plenty of people on the mainland that hate what's going on in HK, and who are not the government.

AFAIK, those people are generally not capable of performing a MITM attack on traffic coming from sources inside China.
3 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13793549
I agree, most don't have the technical ability to administrate their devices although I'm not sure if that excuses basic competence. I like the idea that an ISP would disable the connection of a subscriber however that would depend on how they define malicious activity.
> Why does safe prerendering need to break URLs?

Think about how you would implement safe prerendering. Can you come up with any option where the link aggregator doesn't host the page? There's your answer.
If you are pro-interrupt-private-transactions then you are in no hurry to push https on everyone.
But do you hodl BAT?
TIL. So funny, I've been using Chrome since the beginning, and I've never noticed this feature, and I search all the time. I am now switching between Firefox and Chrome among various laptops, and I am impressed with Firefox. At some point, Firefox may become my dominant browser.
Which is exactly why Baidu should face the same consequences as other malware distributors. (i.e. safebrowsing block, dnsbl listings and so on)
Any well known physical shop would do, no need to go to Apple specifically. Last my wife went there, they were trying to charge £40 for one plastic protective film.
Hence I use Wildcard LE certs, it helps a lot as well as using bogus or non-CA'd certificates if no host name is supplied (or just sending 0 byte pages with no useful data)
Not saying coders are a non-negligible audience (although I’d say coders are a non-negligible segment of Firefox user base). My assumption is that the percentage of coders who value scroll bar highlighting is comparable to the percentage of those among all web users who read and search web pages of nontrivial length, since there’s hardly anything about this feature that’s specifically beneficial to coding.

This and the fact that I heard all the “switched to Firefox and nothing’s degraded” comments from coders, and upvoted by coders.
Can I interst anyone in a t-shirt or t-shirt concept?
If ISPs were basic utilities it would probably be a fairly safe responsibility to give them. But no, they're media corporations, so they have an inherent drive to abuse that power.
Don’t track. Serve ads in a designated space across all pages (sidebar). I personally would happily uninstall adblocker if those two things came true.
One of these will do the job: https://www.amazon.com/Garner-PD-5-Hard-Drive-Destroyer/dp/B...
This is one of the cyber attacks where the source is proven.
The problem is that the advertising companies wanted the offline marketing spend so much that they started selling the dream of tracking with specificity, which caused marketeers the world over to finally have an answer to the age old 'I don't know which half I spend wrong' question.
> Python simply has a richer syntax and semantics. (Too rich IMO!)

This is the core of the issue. If there were a Zen of Lisp, it might just be two lines extracted from the Zen of Python:

Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.

The reason why s-expressions are so great is because that simplicity makes metaprogramming manageable. I'm curious about how the new Racket syntax works out, but also mildly skeptical. . . I fear that a "lisp" where the ASTs don't look exactly like the text I see in the editor is a lisp that has had its soul amputated.
Do you need an estuary? Can't you just divert river water, put it next to salt water, and then you can produce power?

In fact, the only place "estuary" is used in the article is in the image caption, and I assume they used it because it's tangentially related and it's a pretty picture. Really you just need a pool of salt water and a pool of freshwater, and those two things are easy to get where rivers flow to the sea.
Pop_os uses the same AppCenter.
Is it? Do you have a source for this?
> but subtly prefers your stuff.

It prefers instant loading pages because that's what users want. If not, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Yahoo, or any of the other search engines that also use AMP would simply rank differently to beat Google.
They are one data point and imo too low. Six years ago in Barcelona as a senior engineer the bands were 50-80k euros. Now the top end engineers (think team lead) top out around 100k euros.
Yes, absolutely. The economic clout gives them the confidence and means. That needs to be dealt with. Declaw!
China is essentially carrying out humanitrian atrocities not entirely dissimilar to the holocaust and no one cares, or if they "care", don't care to do anything about it.

So no, no one is going to do anything about them DDoSing some sites.
What is the password even for ?

UK Residential water customers fall into basically two categories. Older residences that haven't converted are billed based on "rates" - a guess of what a residence like that uses on average. Newer ones, or if you opt in to have a meter fitted are billed for metered water usage plus (unless exceptionally they have water but no sewage provision) a proportional amount for sewage. There's a discount if you've at least set things up so that rain water doesn't get dumped into the sewer.

But none of this is controllable, so for anyone with financial stability the obvious thing to do is set up Direct Debit (in the UK the law lets you give your bank account details to approved businesses like the water utilities and then the bank just gives them whatever they ask for, the law includes a safeguard so you can retrospectively unwind this with no questions asked) and then forget about it.

If you're too poor for Direct Debit to be wise (residential water can't be shut off for non-payment since courts consider it essential, so if you've got £10 left in the account until the end of the month you don't want the water company taking that money which could otherwise buy food) you still can't do anything about that by having an account.

So I've never had such an account and can't imagine how I'd use it. When I have had a dispute with the water company in the past an account wouldn't have helped, I needed to argue with actual humans about why they were wrong.
> originally gave me a 50mg one for $9, then took it off the bill, then gave me 2x25mg ones for $250.

That sounds like straight up fraud. What the hell.
I'll check out Epic, but I think Brave has a neat solution for supporting websites with BATs.
VueJS Core Member Guillaume Chau Coming to Belgium
Hasn't Conway himself been known to say that he don't like the Game of Life since it doesn't give rise to that many interesting mathematical conclusions and how everybody is focusing on it above some of his other math axhievments? Maybe finally he can find the use case he wanted for it.
And maybe it also gives reason to all the hours people have spent researching and finding new structures in Game of Life.
Yeah even the Nine Nations, from the 1980's, is more accurate, with better names (though I'd like Ecotopia to be called Cascadia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_Amer...
consciousness requires some kind of underlying mental processes

Assuming you mean cognition, this is essentially the opposite of the idea of panexperientialism, or at least not compatible.
Inferring and hijacking [*nix] VPN-tunneled TCP connections
How aren't they equipped for it? Do you mean change of coordinates in its full generality? I'm talking about simple substitution of x' = x + k, connected with the intuition sketched below. They know how to perform simple substitution by then, and they can surely follow this logic:

x 0---1---2---3-->
x' 0---1---2---3---4-->

x' = x + 1
==>
x = x' - 1

y = f(x)
==>
y = f(x' - 1)

If you can talk about Napa being an hour north of San Francisco and San Francisco being an hour north of San Jose, this kind of student should be able to tell how far north of San Jose Napa is.

Can they not even do that? If not, I'd questioning why we teach them to solve quadratic equations before they can do substitution.
(WebDriver standard contributor and member of the team working on this in Gecko)

There is a plan to update the WebDriver standard to encompass the automation features that are currently only available via devtools protocols. There's agreement it should be possible to open up a bidirectional channel to the browser from within devtools and use it for things like listening to events, streaming logs, etc. However as so often happens reality dictates that implementing something compatible with CDP is needed today in order to interop with the range of existing tooling that's either CDP-only (e.g. Puppeteer) or WebDriver-with-CDP-extensions (e.g. SauceLabs, various WebDriver clients).

In the long term we hope that we end up with a "WebDriver 2.0" that will satisfy all the common use cases in a standard way. That bidirectional protocol will probably end up looking a lot like CDP just to ease the migration for existing implementations, but the details depend on work that hasn't yet been done.
I'm not even a business owner and I think this might be worth it just for personal use. I hate surveillance capitalism almost as much as I hate the twisty little maze of services each written in their own language with their own config file and their own suite of gotchas. $30/mo seems reasonable for someone to make all those headaches their own, but still let me keep control of my data and uptime.

The thing I haven't figured out is what happens to it if/when Cloudron goes away. Do I have/get the passwords somehow so I can hire someone else to take it over (or, heaven forbid, dive in there myself)?
And how is that any different? The end result is they're forcing publishers to use their format.
"Consciousness is god experiencing their creation, through themself"

Let the downvotes rolll.....
> Reactive programming is a directed graph underneath. Excel itself is a poster child of reactive programming.

And I'm no more able to debug an Excel spreadsheet I didn't write myself than I am to debug a reactive program I didn't write myself.
> We need more of the likes of "System.IO.File.ReadAllLines()", one liner

Funny part is VB.NET gas had that for a while
For a big company with training systems, SOPs and PPE, something even portable such as : https://www.amazon.com/Garner-PD-5-Hard-Drive-Destroyer/dp/B... will do the job to comply.
"Not just the 4th and 17th character - the whole thing"

If any company asks for the 4th character of your password, that means they are storing your password in a reversible fashion, and they should be dumped.

The online account should never be logged in by anyone other than the owner. The person on the phone, if their job requires it, should have read/write access to your account, but that should be audited as "Joe Bloggs" accedsing the account
And for me, $1200 a month is my entire mortgage payment, property taxes, insurance, and upkeep on a 1500 sqft house, in a pleasant neighborhood, surrounded by pleasant urban area. In an area that has a large number of corporate headquarters for companies that everyone has heard of, with access to a number of 6 figure jobs.
Write once, run everywhere.

I bet in few years we will run wasm natively on processor.
Because it already works like this in other regions/cultures, and it seems to be doing quite well.
It's it possible the USSR drew the boundaries of all the 'stans with this logic in mind? Creating diversity which they could argue needed Moscow to unite and supervise. I think Kazakhstan for example was largely nomadic prior to Soviet invasion? Though others e.g. Uzbekistan had a stronger identity already.